[Numpy-discussion] Numpy Example List proposals

[Gary Ruben]

I want to thank Joris for this fantastic resource. Well done.
Further to Bill's suggestion, perhaps the first example(s) in each box 
could be the docstring example. For functions/methods already with 
docstrings, we could paste that into the wiki page. Those without could 
be pasted back the other way.
Maybe we could convince the developers to add an example() function to 
numpy and scipy which takes the function name as an argument and 
accesses a file containing these examples and spits it out. This way we 
could have many examples in the documentation without polluting the 
docstrings with pages of text.
The Maxima CAS package provides help, example() and apropos() functions. 
In this case example() actually executes the example input to generate 
the output which we could do with numpy/scipy as well. apropos() returns 
similar sounding functions. I contacted Fernando Perez the other day 
because I discovered a neat recipe for this functionality in the python 
cookbook here:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/409000
so we could do this in numpy/scipy too.

Gary R.

joris at ster.kuleuven.ac.be wrote:
> Newsflash
> 
> The Numpy Example List has now passed its 100th example,
> and has now its own wikipage: http://scipy.org/Numpy_Example_List
> 
> Thanks to Pau Gargallo for his contributions.
> 
> Joris