Pauli Virtanen wrote: > Travis E. Oliphant kirjoitti: > >> Pauli Virtanen wrote: >> > [clip] > >>> I think this is a good idea: full-namespace docstring search à la Matlab >>> lookfor. I wrote a quick implementation for numpy here: >>> http://scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/734 >>> >>> >> Cool. I started scipy.misc.info a long time ago to try and do this. I >> didn't advertise it well enough ;-) >> >> scipy.misc.info('eigvals') >> >> I'm happy to move this functionality into numpy (but it might be better >> in IPython). >> > > Aha! I was wondering if something this simple was already present, but I > didn't notice that numpy.lib.utils.info also accepted strings as > parameters. Btw, the info function is already in numpy and the code is > duplicated in scipy.misc. > > However, "info" is a bit different from "lookfor" in that it finds > documentation by the exact function name, not by looking into the > docstrings. > > So, should info and lookfor be combined, or kept separate? > > combined --- i.e. info should be replace by lookfor
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