How to "hide" C extension module with nanobind & sphinx?

[thomthom]

I have a python library that includes a Python C extension. This C extension is an implementation detail and I'd like the lib users to now have to refer to it explicitly.

Given such a setup, say the lib is named mylib and the C extension is mylibex;

Instead of writing import mylib.mylibex I want to simply write import mylib In mylib/__init__.py I re-export the C extension module:

from .mylibex import *

But when I then use sphinx with automodule it then emits references to the internal module; mylib,mylibex.MyType

Anyone has any experience with such a setup? Anything I can do on the side of nanobind make it all appear to be in one flat module?

[thomthom]

I found that I could use Sphinx's autodoc-process-signature event to do a string place on the signature. (With the current caveat that currently Sphinx only emits a match for the first overload.)