docutils is the library that supports the format (restructuredtext) that these docstrings are written in. It *may* (I haven't looked) contain functionality to render as clean plain text.

Mike

On 08/05/2013 09:57 AM, federico vaggi wrote:
Hi,

SciPy (and NumPy) docstrings are written with a special kind of mark up:

For example, the docstring for the russellrao distance function looks like this:

'\n Computes the Russell-Rao dissimilarity between two boolean 1-D arrays.\n\n The Russell-Rao dissimilarity between two boolean 1-D arrays, `u` and\n `v`, is defined as\n\n .. math::\n\n \\frac{n - c_{TT}}\n {n}\n\n where :math:`c_{ij}` is the number of occurrences of\n :math:`\\mathtt{u[k]} = i` and :math:`\\mathtt{v[k]} = j` for\n :math:`k < n`.\n\n Parameters\n ----------\n u : (N,) array_like, bool\n Input array.\n v : (N,) array_like, bool\n Input array.\n\n Returns\n -------\n russellrao : double\n The Russell-Rao dissimilarity between vectors `u` and `v`.\n\n '

What's the most efficient way to turn this into a format where you can format it nicely as a matplotlib text object?

I tried:

    fig = plt.figure()

ax = fig.add_subplot(111)

props = dict(boxstyle='round', facecolor='wheat', alpha=0.5)

textstr = dist_fcn.__doc__

textstr = textstr.replace('math:',' ')

textstr = textstr.replace('`', '$')

textstr = textstr.replace('\n\n where', '$\n\n where')

ax.text(0.05, 0.95, textstr, transform=ax.transAxes, fontsize=14,

verticalalignment='top', bbox=props)


Which does an 'ok' job, at best, since fractions aren't converted properly. Is there a way to do it nicely short of using some horrendous regular expressions?


Federico



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