[SciPy-Dev] {True, False} should be replaced w/ bool, correct?

[David Goldsmith]

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net>wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Ralf Gommers
>> <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> >
>> > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:04 PM, David Goldsmith <
>> d.l.goldsmith at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
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>> >> Just checking; see, e.g., scipy.io.matlab.mio.savemat appendmat
>> >> parameter.  (Or is it possible that the function really needs to see
>> either
>> >> the word True or the word False?)
>> >
>> > Correct, {True, False} should always be changed to bool in the docs.
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>> I didn't see how the "defualt" should be noted on bool options. I
>> think in most cases it should be clear but it might be nice is it was
>> explicit.
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>> In the description of the parameter, for example:
> cap : bool, optional
>     Whether to return this string in capital letters. Default is True.
>
> Noting defaults should be done not only for bool args, but for everything
> that has a default.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>

Thanks, Ralf.  Let me just add that if the default isn't clear in the
existing docs, it may be necessary, as the editor, to look at the source.
Thanks again.

DG
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