On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Anne Archibald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I frequently use functions like np.add.reduce and np.add.outer, but > their docstrings are totally uninformative. Would it be possible to > provide proper docstrings for these ufunc methods? They need not be > specific to np.add; just an explanation of what arguments to give (for > example) reduce() (presumably it takes an axis= argument? what is the > default behaviour?) and what it does would help.
Sure. The place to add them would be in the PyMethodDef ufunc_methods array on line 3953 of numpy/core/src/ufuncobject.c. Just extend each of the rows with a char* containing the docstring contents. A literal "string" will suffice. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion