[SciPy-Dev] Status of scipy.* docstrings

[David Goldsmith]

OK, so, should I stop adding autosummaries to module docstrings and revert
the ones I did?

DG

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Scott Sinclair
<scott.sinclair.za at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 2 August 2010 13:24, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:
> > Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:34:24 +0200, Scott Sinclair wrote:
> > [clip]
> >> Maybe the http://docs.scipy.org/scipy/docs/scipy.<subpackage>/
> >> docstrings should also be marked as unimportant to warn people that the
> >> situation is a little tricky to unravel..
> >
> > A valid alternative is just to put all of the documentation to the
> > info.py, and just put
> >
> >        .. automodule:: scipy.optimize
> >
> > to the optimize.rst.
>
> This is the approach I prefer as well. I tried to suggest it the last
> time we had this discussion
> (http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/scipy-dev/2010-June/015075.html).
> Then there is only one place to keep the docs up to date, the downside
> being that a bit of Sphinx markup will be seen in the terminal help
> for sub-packages.
>
> The question is whether there actually is a strong aversion to seeing
> Sphinx markup in the terminal help at the top-level of the
> sub-packages. If it doesn't bother too many people, then your
> suggestion is the right way to go for all of the Scipy sub-packages.
>
> Cheers,
> Scott
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