[SciPy-Dev] Function of the :mod: wiki function

Jason Grout jason-sage at creativetrax.com
Sat Jul 10 13:07:21 EDT 2010


On 7/9/10 6:48 PM, David Goldsmith wrote:
> In docstrings like that for numpy.fft, which in edit mode begins:
>
> Discrete Fourier Transform (:mod:`numpy.fft`)
> =================================
>
> what's the function of the :mod:?  All it seems to do on being 
> rendered by the Wiki is generate a link back to it's own document.
>

For reference, here is a list of things like :mod:

http://sphinx.pocoo.org/markup/inline.html

(you probably already knew that, though)

Jason




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