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authorRalf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com>2020-05-29 17:04:32 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-05-29 17:04:32 +0200
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Merge pull request #16428 from bjnath/add-style-guide
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A Guide to NumPy/SciPy Documentation
====================================
+User documentation
+*******************
+NumPy text documents should follow the `Google developer documentation style guide <https://developers.google.com/style>`_.
+
+Docstrings
+**********
+
When using `Sphinx <http://www.sphinx-doc.org/>`__ in combination with the
numpy conventions, you should use the ``numpydoc`` extension so that your
docstrings will be handled correctly. For example, Sphinx will extract the