Re: [Matplotlib-users] Rendering SciPy docstrings as markup text within matplotlib

2013-08-05 Thread Michael Droettboom
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 s

[Matplotlib-users] Rendering SciPy docstrings as markup text within matplotlib

2013-08-05 Thread federico vaggi
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: '\nComputes the Russell-Rao dissimilarity between two boolean 1-D arrays.\n\nThe Russell-Rao dissimilarity between two boolean 1-D