Hi David,

This is great. Thanks for making our docs better.

Looking at your PR, seems like we can either do
 :class:`~apache_beam.pvalue.PCollection` or ``PCollection`` for
highlighting, right ? In Java I think people usually give the link for the
first reference in long doc comments and just highlight for the remaining
occurrences. Should we follow a similar pattern for Python ?

Thanks,
Cham

On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 12:10 PM David Cavazos <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Changes introduced in [BEAM-2655
> <https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/3613/files>] will make the pydoc tool
> (sphinx) be stricter when checking cross references whenever a cross
> reference is written.
>
> Here are some examples with the type syntax highlighted in bold:
>
> """ One line description
>
> This is a cross reference to *:class:`~apache_beam.pvalue.PCollection`*
>
> Note that the name has to be the absolute name of the identifier,
> something like :class:`beam.PCollection` won't work.
>
> Args:
>   pcoll (*~apache_beam.pvalue.PCollection*): Note that the argument type
>     does not require the :class:``, but any type within the description
>     have to be like *:class:`~apache_beam.pvalue.PCollection`*
>
> Returns:
>   *~apache_beam.pvalue.PCollection*: The return type also does not require
>   the :class:``, but again, types within this description do require it.
>   Note the indentation for long lines in "Returns", it is indented to the
>   same level to where it is defined. It is different than the indentation
>   from "Args" and "Raises" since this is always one element, the other
>   sections are lists. If we don't follow this, it won't render correctly.
>
> Raises:
>   *~exceptions.Exception*: These follow the same format as "Returns:". For
>     long lines, we have to further indent.
> """
>
> David
>

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