On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Anne Archibald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/8 Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Anne Archibald >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Thanks! Done add, reduce, outer, and reduceat. What about __call__? >> >> If anyone knows enough to explicitly request a docstring from >> __call__, they already know what it does. > > How exactly are they to find out? It does take additional arguments, > for example dtype and out - I think.
That should be recorded in the ufunc's main docstring, e.g. numpy.add.__doc__, since that is what people will actually be calling. No one will explicitly call numpy.add.__call__(x,y). > Also, help(np.add) displays the the object, its docstring, its > methods, and all their docstrings. So it provides a way to get a > docstring out of __call__ without having to know what it is. Meh. All it can usefully say is "Refer to the main docstring." Which is more or less what it currently says. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
