[Numpy-discussion] numpydoc: "Other Parameters" section

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Michael Droettboom <mdroe at stsci.edu> wrote:
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>> We're having trouble using numpydoc formatted docstrings for one of our
>> own project.  It seems that the "Other parameters" section is not
>> getting included in the output.
>>
>> A grep across Numpy's own source code (git master) reveals that this
>> kind of section is used in only one place -- the docstring for
>> "recarray".  Curiously, the "Other Parameters" section is displayed in
>> the documentation editor here:
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>>   http://docs.scipy.org/numpy/docs/numpy.core.records.recarray/
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>> But not in the generated Numpy docs online here:
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>>   http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.recarray.html
>>
>> Is this a bug?
>>
>
> Probably. The Other Parameters section is one of those ideas that sounded
> good at the time but didn't end up used in practice. I expect that nobody
> noticed its absence before.

http://code.google.com/p/pydocweb/issues/detail?id=45

and scipy-dev mailinglist around March 18

Josef

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