Move class documentation to class docstrings #2525
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Description
By default Sphinx uses class docstrings when building documentation pages, instead of docstrings from special functions like
__init__
(see the sphinx variableautoclass_content
1 for more details). We had a few instances of valuable documentation hiding in__init__
docstrings that was never being displayed in the API-doc! This PR remedies that by ensuring it is picked up by sphinx.Footnotes
One can set this variable to look at both the class docstring and the
__init__
function, but it then creates duplicated sections specifying the arguments to the class. ↩