[Python-Dev] Best practice for documentation for std lib

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 13:13:04 +1000
Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a question about how I should manage documentation for the 
> statistics module for Python 3.4. At the moment, I have extensive 
> docstrings in the module itself. I don't believe anyone has flagged that 
> as "too much information" in a code review, so I'm going to assume that 
> large docstrings will be acceptable.

Related question: do the extensive docstrings make "help(stats)"
painful to browse through?

Regards

Antoine.