Re: epydoc reST markup for stdlib docstrings

Fred Drake <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Michael Foord
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Right - and included in the contract can be details like what exceptions an
> API raises. We don't necessarily need a standard to specify that (?) but it
> is the sort of information that ought to be in docstrings where relevant.

Yep.

I was really just wanting to emphasize that extracting information
from the signature is likely to be wrong.  Unless there's a way to say
explicitly that it's right.  (Which would require a known
interpretation, which isn't really as easy as it sounds.)


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.    <fdrake at gmail.com>
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