[Numpy-discussion] docstring suggestions

[Pierre GM]

On Feb 12, 2010, at 4:24 PM, David Goldsmith wrote:
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> OK, OK, Ok, it's not worth getting into a flame war over.  We ask people who are going to be working on the docstrings to subscribe to scipy-dev; this is not the same thing as being an "innocent bystander" asking a question or making a comment - I retract the request.
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> Now, does anyone have anything useful to say about OP's original second problem?

Yes: write a proper docstring, or find me a better way to automatically create the docstring of a function from the docstring of the corresponding method (or vice-versa) than we have now for numpy.ma. I agree that the current method is not ideal, but at least you get some kind of info.