On Dec 27, 2007 9:41 PM, Fernando Perez fperez.net@gmail.com wrote:
Care to make the Example section mandatory, instead of optional? I really think it should be mandatory. We may not do a good job of it initially, but at least we should express that it's of critical importance that every function contains at least one small example, whenever feasible.
+1
I also think that the above wiki page should have a minimal, self-contained example of a proper docstring with all 8 sections implemented. I'm honestly not sure at this point what the actual changes to epydoc are (in ipython we use regular epydoc with reST), and I think for many it would be much easier to get started by reading a small example rather than trying to abstract out what the exact markup should be from reading the description and the various documents linked to (doctest, reST, epydoc...).
I think we already have that. Take a look at the example at the bottom: http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/CodingStyleGuidelines#example
It points to a plain text example: http://svn.scipy.org/svn/numpy/trunk/numpy/doc/example.py and what it looks like rendered: http://www.scipy.org/doc/example
It also explains how to check the example code out of svn and generate the html using epydoc.