[Doc-SIG] epydoc reST markup for stdlib docstrings

[Nick Coghlan]

Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2010, at 01:30 AM, Michael Foord wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> The thing I like about them is that the rules are very simple, and once
> learned are easy to remember.

Did you look at the NumPy guidelines Ralf posted?:
http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/wiki/CodingStyleGuidelines

Those look very clean to me, and fairly similar to what we already do in
the ReST docs.

Because epydoc works with tags rather than sections, it looks a lot
"noisier" to me when reading the plain text version.

Cheers,
Nick.

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