[SciPy-Dev] Status of scipy.* docstrings

[Scott Sinclair]

On 5 August 2010 14:20, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:
> Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:03:30 +0200, Scott Sinclair wrote:
> [clip]
>> Just a note that all the edits made at
>> http://docs.scipy.org/scipy/docs/scipy.<sub-package> result in patches
>> from the doc-editor that target scipy/<sub-package>/__init__.py in the
>> source tree. If the patch is applied as is, the work from the doc-editor
>> won't appear in the terminal because the <sub-package>.__doc__ is
>> overwritten with the content of scipy/<sub-package>/info.py on import of
>> the sub-package. I expect that Sphinx will also end up with the
>> docstring from info.py for the same reason, but don't have time to check
>> right now.
>
> Correct. Since the __init__.py do
>
>        from info import __doc__
>
> it's not possible to find out by introspection where the __doc__ actually
> came from. To get the patches to the correct place would need some extra
> smartness and special casing in pydoc-tool.py

Or some extra cut-and-paste work from whoever applies the patches to
trunk, which is why I brought it up.

Cheers,
Scott