On 14/04/2010 16:48, Ralf Gommers wrote:

The vertical whitespace vs tags is a taste issue, I agree, from a developer perspective. From a user perspective however, the numpy standard is clearly more readable in a terminal. That's why it looks the way it does. And reading docstrings in a terminal is not a fringe use case by the way.

I would say that reading docstrings in a terminal is the *main* use case - but that is why I tend to value the vertical space highly and personally prefer the less verbose way.