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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def do_memberdef(self, node):
 """Handle cases outside of class, struct, file or namespace. These are now dealt with by `handle_overloaded_memberfunction`. Do these even exist??? """

        prot = node.attributes['prot'].value
        id = node.attributes['id'].value
        kind = node.attributes['kind'].value
        tmp = node.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode
        compdef = tmp.getElementsByTagName('compounddef')[0]
        cdef_kind = compdef.attributes['kind'].value
        if cdef_kind in ('file', 'namespace', 'class', 'struct'):
            # These cases are now handled by `handle_typical_memberdefs`
            return
        if prot != 'public':
            return
        first = self.get_specific_nodes(node, ('definition', 'name'))
        name = self.extract_text(first['name'])
        if name[:8] == 'operator':  # Don't handle operators yet.
            return
        if not 'definition' in first or kind in ['variable', 'typedef']:
            return

        data = self.extract_text(first['definition'])
        self.add_text('\n')
        self.add_text(['/* where did this entry come from??? */', '\n'])
        self.add_text('%feature("docstring") %s "\n%s' % (data, data))

        for n in node.childNodes:
            if n not in first.values():
                self.parse(n)
        self.add_text(['";', '\n'])