[SciPy-dev] Documenting data attributes

[Robert Kern]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 15:49, David Goldsmith<d_l_goldsmith at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hi!  For the purposes of meeting the documentation standard, are data attributes regarded has "returning" something, i.e., should ndarray.itemsize, for example, have a Returns section?

I would describe them in an Attributes section of the class's
docstring. See MachAr for an example I did some time ago.

  http://docs.scipy.org/numpy/docs/numpy.lib.machar.MachAr/

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Robert Kern

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