[SciPy-dev] Documenting data attributes

[Ralf Gommers]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 15:49, David Goldsmith<d_l_goldsmith at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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/
>

Robert, that docstring references Numerical Recipes in C++, is that okay? Is
it just Numerical Recipes in C that has license issues or the whole series?

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