DOC: regex-assisted fixes of definition list formatting

8 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/core/arrayprint.py b/numpy/core/arrayprint.py
index fa91a4799..17eeef0b3 100644
--- a/numpy/core/arrayprint.py
+++ b/numpy/core/arrayprint.py
@@ -399,7 +399,8 @@ def array2string(a, max_line_width=None, precision=None,
 
     Raises
     ------
-    TypeError : if a callable in `formatter` does not return a string.
+    TypeError
+        if a callable in `formatter` does not return a string.
 
     See Also
     --------
diff --git a/numpy/lib/_iotools.py b/numpy/lib/_iotools.py
index aa3744204..dc07c3cd9 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/_iotools.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/_iotools.py
@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ def has_nested_fields(ndtype):
 
     Raises
     ------
-    AttributeError : If `ndtype` does not have a `names` attribute.
+    AttributeError
+        If `ndtype` does not have a `names` attribute.
 
     Examples
     --------
@@ -267,7 +268,7 @@ class NameValidator(object):
         * If 'lower', field names are converted to lower case.
 
         The default value is True.
-    replace_space: '_', optional
+    replace_space : '_', optional
         Character(s) used in replacement of white spaces.
 
     Notes
diff --git a/numpy/lib/format.py b/numpy/lib/format.py
index 9a558f40c..724125f1d 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/format.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/format.py
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ def read_array_header_1_0(fp):
 
     Raises
     ------
-    ValueError :
+    ValueError
         If the data is invalid.
 
     """
diff --git a/numpy/lib/npyio.py b/numpy/lib/npyio.py
index ca410a24a..b6ae7ba01 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/npyio.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/npyio.py
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ def load(file, mmap_mode=None):
     file : file-like object or string
         The file to read.  It must support ``seek()`` and ``read()`` methods.
         If the filename extension is ``.gz``, the file is first decompressed.
-    mmap_mode: {None, 'r+', 'r', 'w+', 'c'}, optional
+    mmap_mode : {None, 'r+', 'r', 'w+', 'c'}, optional
         If not None, then memory-map the file, using the given mode
         (see `numpy.memmap` for a detailed description of the modes).
         A memory-mapped array is kept on disk. However, it can be accessed
diff --git a/numpy/lib/polynomial.py b/numpy/lib/polynomial.py
index de83016e9..0720f7345 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/polynomial.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/polynomial.py
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ def roots(p):
 
     Raises
     ------
-    ValueError :
+    ValueError
         When `p` cannot be converted to a rank-1 array.
 
     See also
diff --git a/numpy/ma/core.py b/numpy/ma/core.py
index 5ab12e219..5f3c33dcc 100644
--- a/numpy/ma/core.py
+++ b/numpy/ma/core.py
@@ -1530,7 +1530,7 @@ def make_mask_none(newshape, dtype=None):
     ----------
     newshape : tuple
         A tuple indicating the shape of the mask.
-    dtype: {None, dtype}, optional
+    dtype : {None, dtype}, optional
         If None, use a MaskType instance. Otherwise, use a new datatype with
         the same fields as `dtype`, converted to boolean types.
 
@@ -5650,7 +5650,7 @@ class mvoid(MaskedArray):
 
         Returns
         -------
-        filled_void:
+        filled_void
             A `np.void` object
 
         See Also
diff --git a/numpy/ma/extras.py b/numpy/ma/extras.py
index 857d72249..279f1e7e4 100644
--- a/numpy/ma/extras.py
+++ b/numpy/ma/extras.py
@@ -1296,7 +1296,7 @@ def cov(x, y=None, rowvar=True, bias=False, allow_masked=True, ddof=None):
 
     Raises
     ------
-    ValueError:
+    ValueError
         Raised if some values are missing and `allow_masked` is False.
 
     See Also
diff --git a/numpy/polynomial/polyutils.py b/numpy/polynomial/polyutils.py
index 8861328c4..d4490aafc 100644
--- a/numpy/polynomial/polyutils.py
+++ b/numpy/polynomial/polyutils.py
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ def as_series(alist, trim=True) :
 
     Raises
     ------
-    ValueError :
+    ValueError
         Raised when `as_series` cannot convert its input to 1-d arrays, or at
         least one of the resulting arrays is empty.