On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:23 AM Gael Varoquaux < gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org> wrote:
> > The one thing I worry about is maintenance burden, where numpydoc is > already > > spread a little bit thin -- would any of the Pandas developers be > willing to > > maintain it? > > Any reason that this is not done in sphinx, with the napoleon extension? > https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/extensions/napoleon.html > > I would hope that this can increase the number of people likely to help > maintaining. > Just history. Numpydoc came first, most projects rely on it. Napoleon came way later and then did its own numpy docstring support rather than contribute to numpydoc or propose a merge. If someone wants to figure out how compatible these two implementations are and whether they can be merged, that would be really welcome. Cheers, Ralf
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