{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/geopandas/geopandas/issues/107","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/geopandas/geopandas/issues/107/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/geopandas/geopandas/issues/107/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/geopandas/geopandas/issues/107/events","html_url":"https://github.com/geopandas/geopandas/issues/107","id":37621279,"number":107,"title":"Improve docstrings","user":{"login":"kjordahl","id":499079,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/499079?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/kjordahl","html_url":"https://github.com/kjordahl","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kjordahl/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kjordahl/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kjordahl/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kjordahl/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kjordahl/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kjordahl/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kjordahl/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kjordahl/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kjordahl/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/geopandas/geopandas/labels/Good%20as%20first%20PR","name":"Good as first PR","color":"009800"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/geopandas/geopandas/labels/scipy2015%20sprint","name":"scipy2015 sprint","color":"5319e7"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2014-07-11T01:43:38Z","updated_at":"2015-11-05T20:44:17Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Some docstrings are missing, some are fairly rudimentary.  All modules, classes, methods and functions should have useful [docstrings](http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257)."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/geopandas/geopandas/issues/comments/154184871","html_url":"https://github.com/geopandas/geopandas/issues/107#issuecomment-154184871","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/geopandas/geopandas/issues/107","id":154184871,"user":{"login":"jorisvandenbossche","id":1020496,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1020496?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche","html_url":"https://github.com/jorisvandenbossche","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-05T20:44:17Z","updated_at":"2015-11-05T20:44:17Z","body":"@souravsingh For how docstring should look like, you can look at existing docstring, and also take a look at the specification of the Numpy docstring standard: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/HOWTO_DOCUMENT.rst.txt for an explanation of the syntax and the different sections.\r\n\r\nThen I would say, go through the different methods/classes of geopandas and see if there are ones were a full docstring is lacking, and try to add an explanation of the parameters, add an example, .."}}