[SciPy-dev] Doc-ing classes and data attributes

Ralf Gommers ralf.gommers at googlemail.com
Mon Jun 22 17:42:26 EDT 2009


On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 16:32, Ralf Gommers<ralf.gommers at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:41 PM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> How do we treat other class specific headers?
> >> e.g "Internal Methods" in
> >> http://docs.scipy.org/scipy/docs/scipy.stats.kde.gaussian_kde/
> >
> > Internal Methods is not a part of the documentation standard. Was this
> > discussed on the list last year? I thought the consensus was that methods
> > that are part of the API go under Methods, the rest is not listed in the
> > class docstring.
>
> It's just an incredibly old docstring from long before we bothered to
> standardize anything.
>

Great, thanks. I guess in that case the answer to Josef's question is:
There should be no other class-specific headers, if you come across any,
remove them.

Ralf


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