[SciPy-Dev] Please remind

David Goldsmith d.l.goldsmith at gmail.com
Thu Apr 1 21:43:33 EDT 2010


On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:32 PM, David Goldsmith <d.l.goldsmith at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:33 AM, David Goldsmith <d.l.goldsmith at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> What do we call the feature of pydocweb whereby it automatically finds
>>> the internal link for a function reference when we surround its name w/ back
>>> ticks (e.g., in numpy.polynomial.chebyshev, `chebdomain` is sufficient for
>>> "chebdomain" in the rendered docstring to be a link to
>>> http://docs.scipy.org/numpy/docs/numpy.polynomial.chebyshev.chebdomain/#chebdomain)?
>>> It's broken below numpy.polynomial.chebyshev.Chebyshev, e.g., in
>>> numpy.polynomial.chebyshev.Chebyshev.deriv, `chebder` is insufficient to
>>> find numpy.polynomial.chebyshev.chebder (I had to use the full reference to
>>> get the link to appear in the rendered docstring).  I'll file a ticket, but
>>> I want to refer to the feature properly and succinctly.  Thanks!
>>>
>>> I don't think it's broken.Both pages have errors in the header (the ':'
>> in Parameters, and '__init__'  in the header respectively). Before you
>> report a bug, please fix the markup errors reported by the wiki first.
>>
>
> Thanks Ralf, what a PITA, sorry for the noise everyone.
>
> DG
>

But for the record, what do we call this feature?

DG
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