[SciPy-Dev] examples for scipy

[Ralf Gommers]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Gael Varoquaux <
gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 12:14:56AM -0500, josef.pktd at gmail.com wrote:
> > I would be a happy user for examples of other scipy subpackages instead
> > of RTFC.
>
> I was actually thinking that they were many places of scipy where I felt
> that my most useful contribution would probably be examples rather than
> docs.
>

Agreed. Both simple docstring examples as well as longer ones.

>
> In scikit-learn and scikits.image we use a script that scans the example
> directory and builds a gallery in rst for sphinx in the sphinx Makefile:
> http://scikit-learn.org/dev/auto_examples/index.html
> It's packaged as a sphinx extension, but it really is nothing more than a
> script
>
> https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/blob/master/doc/sphinxext/gen_rst.py
>
> Do people think that it is a good idea to add something like this to
> scipy?
>

+1

Would need data sets to be interesting probably.

Ralf
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