On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Eric Firing<efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
> Jouni K. Seppänen wrote:
>> The current pyplot wrappers all have an argspec of (*args, **kwargs),
>> which means that any interactive tools that show the possible arguments
>> will not be able to show anything very useful for the wrapped functions.
>> Also, since the docstrings are generated dynamically, any static code
>> analysis tools will not see them.
>
> Jouni,
>
> This looks like a very good idea.

I agree -- the presence of *args and **kwargs in the pyplot
docstrings, the interface most people use, is a major wart.  I suggest
committing this to HEAD when you are ready to go.  Once that is done
we can remove all the redundant pyplot docstrings from axes.py which
will make Eric very happy.

JDH

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