[Doc-SIG] epydoc reST markup for stdlib docstrings

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Wed Apr 14 01:30:19 CEST 2010


On 14/04/2010 01:25, Georg Brandl wrote:
> [snip...]
>> A PEP might be necessary to make this a firm decision.  What do you think
>> about adopting epydoc reST markup for documenting the stdlib API?
>>      
> > From me, +1.
>
> (Also for this reason: Many projects pull docstrings into their Sphinx docs
> via autodoc these days, and some also document inherited APIs.  When these
> inherited APIs come from the stdlib, the markup is often confusing or not
> even valid reST.)
>    

Definite +1 from me on adopting reST in docstrings as a standard. I 
haven't looked at the Epydoc convention for parameters (etc) well enough 
to have an opinion on that.

Michael Foord

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