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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel