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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 06:18:25PM +0200, Kristian Ølgaard wrote:
> On 26 August 2010 18:04, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What is the role of the docstrings module?
>
> This is the module that contains all the docstrings for the dolfin module.
> We use it to dynamically asssign to __doc__ and in the hand written
> Python layer, we will use it as:
>
> class Foo(object):
>     __doc__ = docstrings.Foo.__doc__
>
> >
> > It seems strange that DOLFIN should install a module named
> > 'docstrings' in the global Python namespace.
>
> I'll delete the docstrings module in the dolfin.__init__ file such
> that it is not present when doing:
>
> >>> import dolfin
> >>> dir(dolfin)
>
> Kristian

My point is that it is now in the same directory as the modules
'dolfin' and 'dolfin_utils' so it looks like we are providing a module
named 'docstrings'.

Can't we place it inside the dolfin directory?

--
Anders