Set __docformat__ such that epydoc knows it's looking at reST instead of epytext.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/doc/example.py b/numpy/doc/example.py
index 0ae83d2bb..32a7e6602 100644
--- a/numpy/doc/example.py
+++ b/numpy/doc/example.py
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ extend over multiple lines, the closing three quotation marks must be on
 a line by itself, preferably preceeded by a blank line.
 
 """
+# Make sure this line is here such that epydoc 3 can parse the docstrings for
+# auto-generated documentation.
+__docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"
 
 import os                      # standard library imports first