[SciPy-dev] Module level docstrings

[Robert Kern]

Tim Leslie wrote:
> Looking through the code for both numpy and scipy, there are lots of
> cases where modules have header comments of the form:
> 
> #
> # This is the foobar module for doing stuff. <insert useful information
> about foobar here>
> #
> 
> Rather than having these blocks as comments, would it be worth changing
> them to be docstrings so they could be parsed by tools like pydoc and
> doxygen?

Yes! Thank you!

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