[Numpy-discussion] Docstring page, out of date?

[Charles R Harris]

On Jan 21, 2008 11:27 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:

> Charles R Harris wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Jan 21, 2008 6:09 PM, Jarrod Millman <millman at berkeley.edu
> > <mailto:millman at berkeley.edu>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Jan 21, 2008 2:03 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:matthew.brett at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >      > Search for the docstring standard, I hit this:
> >      >
> >      > http://www.scipy.org/DocstringStandard
> >
> >     Good catch, I didn't know this page existed.  If I recall correctly,
> >     Keir Mierle showed up on the mailing list around the time we were
> >     discussing the docstring standard.  He proposed to do some work, but
> >     then must have gotten busy with something else.  In particular, I
> >     believe he was interested in seeing a unified docstring standard for
> >     numpy, scipy, and matplotlib.  I guess he put this page up during
> that
> >     period.  I went ahead and deleted it, since it conflicts with the
> >     official docstring standard.
> >
> >      > but I think the current thinking is this:
> >      >
> >      > http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/CodingStyleGuidelines
> >     <http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/CodingStyleGuidelines>
> >      >
> >      > Is that correct? Does the first page apply to matplotlib in some
> way?
> >      > Should we change the first page to match the second now?
> >
> >     Yes.  That page is autogenerated from the official coding standard
> >     that is in the numpy trunk.  One of the nice features of trac is
> that
> >     it can render restructured text from the svn repository.  This helps
> >     us keep from having duplicate information that needs to be kept in
> >     sync by hand.
> >
> >
> > If I hit the source code link in the generated  html, it looks like that
> > page was generated from the old document format. The new document format
> > doesn't produce output that looks anything like that and epydoc
> > generates a couple of warnings:
> >
> > | File /home/charris/workspace/numpy/numpy/doc/example.py, line 19, in
> > | example.foo
> > |   Warning: Line 24: Wrong underline character for heading.
> > |   Warning: Lines 27, 30, 32, 37, 39, 41, 43, 48, 50: Improper
> paragraph
> > |            indentation.
> >
> > The new document format requires a preprocessor that has yet to be
> written.
>
> epydoc from SVN works just fine once the following line is added at the
> top.
>
> __docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"
>

So it does, sorry for the noise. Does it work with the docstrings for the C
code also?

Chuck
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