Constants are always showned in alphabetical order, no matter the value of members_order

[ghost]

Describe the bug

No matter what value I set for members_order (alphabetical vs source), I always get alphabetical order when documenting constants.

To Reproduce
Please run this google colab

index.md :

::: code
    selection:
      filters:
      - "!.*"
      - "^[A-Z][A-Z_0-9]*$"
    rendering:
      show_if_no_docstring: True
      show_root_heading: False
      show_root_toc_entry: False
      members_order: "source"

Expected behavior
I expected the constants to be displayed in the same order as they are declared in the source code. (B_CONST first)

Screenshots

Information (please complete the following information):

• OS: Linux
• Browser: Brave
• mkdocstrings version: 0.16.2

[matthewwardrop]

I also observe this behaviour.

[yhtang]

Is this fixed by 0.17.0?

[pawamoy]

Probably not. I didn't get the time to try and fix it. My intuition is that inspect cannot get the source line numbers for regular attributes, therefore all attributes can only be sorted alphabetically. A new Python handler is on its way and will probably fix this.

[pawamoy]

By the way, sorry for the late answer 🙇
I've been focusing real hard on the new handler which should solve a lot of the current pain points 🙂

[pawamoy]

The new handler is now available, and should fix this issue for code that can be visited. It still won't be able to "source"-order attributes/constants for which we can't get the source lines though (for example compiled modules without the source available), and there's no workaround for that, but I don't think it matters much. Closing, feel free to further comment on this.