> but as I look through patches, I notice there are a number of places > (eg RegularPolygon) where hidden methods w/o docstrings are used. I > assume Michael wrote most of these in the transforms refactorring. > Was this a conscious decision to hide them from the doc proprty > introspection mechanism? > I don't think so. IIRC, most of what are now properties were raw attributes at one time, and the hidden methods was just to avoid adding more things to the public namespace. But I don't see any compelling reason they couldn't be public. Mike -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA