2008/5/8 Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Anne Archibald > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/5/8 Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> If anyone knows enough to explicitly request a docstring from >>> __call__, they already know what it does. >> >> How exactly are they to find out? It does take additional arguments, >> for example dtype and out - I think. > > That should be recorded in the ufunc's main docstring, e.g. > numpy.add.__doc__, since that is what people will actually be calling. > No one will explicitly call numpy.add.__call__(x,y). > >> Also, help(np.add) displays the the object, its docstring, its >> methods, and all their docstrings. So it provides a way to get a >> docstring out of __call__ without having to know what it is. > > Meh. All it can usefully say is "Refer to the main docstring." Which > is more or less what it currently says.
So is the custom that double-underscore methods get documented in the class docstring and normal methods get documented in their own docstrings? Anne _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
