Merge branch 'master' into develop

evennia/prototypes/protfuncs.py

@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ def objlist(*args, **kwargs):
 def dbref(*args, **kwargs):
     """
     Usage $dbref(<#dbref>)
-    Returns one Object searched globally by #dbref. Error if #dbref is invalid.
+    Validate that a #dbref input is valid.
     """
     if not args or len(args) < 1 or _RE_DBREF.match(args[0]) is None:
         raise ValueError('$dbref requires a valid #dbref argument.')

evennia/prototypes/spawner.py

@@ -673,8 +673,10 @@ def spawn(*prototypes, **kwargs):
         prototype_parents (dict): A dictionary holding a custom
             prototype-parent dictionary. Will overload same-named
             prototypes from prototype_modules.
-        return_parents (bool): Only return a dict of the
+        return_parents (bool): Return a dict of the entire prototype-parent tree
-            prototype-parents (no object creation happens)
+            available to this prototype (no object creation happens). This is a
+            merged result between the globally found protparents and whatever
+            custom `prototype_parents` are given to this function.
         only_validate (bool): Only run validation of prototype/parents
             (no object creation) and return the create-kwargs.
 

evennia/typeclasses/attributes.py

@@ -383,7 +383,9 @@ class AttributeHandler(object):
 
         """
         ret = []
+        category = category.strip().lower() if category is not None else None
         for keystr in make_iter(key):
+            keystr = key.strip().lower()
             ret.extend(bool(attr) for attr in self._getcache(keystr, category))
         return ret[0] if len(ret) == 1 else ret
 
@@ -605,7 +607,8 @@ class AttributeHandler(object):
         Remove attribute or a list of attributes from object.
 
         Args:
-            key (str): An Attribute key to remove.
+            key (str or list): An Attribute key to remove or a list of keys. If
+                multiple keys, they must all be of the same `category`.
             raise_exception (bool, optional): If set, not finding the
                 Attribute to delete will raise an exception instead of
                 just quietly failing.
@@ -623,7 +626,11 @@ class AttributeHandler(object):
                 was found matching `key`.
 
         """
+        category = category.strip().lower() if category is not None else None
+
         for keystr in make_iter(key):
+            keystr = keystr.lower()
+
             attr_objs = self._getcache(keystr, category)
             for attr_obj in attr_objs:
                 if not (
@@ -634,10 +641,11 @@ class AttributeHandler(object):
                     try:
                         attr_obj.delete()
                     except AssertionError:
+                        print("Assertionerror for attr.delete()")
                         # this happens if the attr was already deleted
                         pass
                     finally:
-                        self._delcache(key, category)
+                        self._delcache(keystr, category)
             if not attr_objs and raise_exception:
                 raise AttributeError
 
@@ -655,6 +663,8 @@ class AttributeHandler(object):
                 type `attredit` on the Attribute in question.
 
         """
+        category = category.strip().lower() if category is not None else None
+
         if not self._cache_complete:
             self._fullcache()
         if accessing_obj: