first set of checkins from the doc editor

numpy/compat/__init__.py

@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
-"""Compatibility module.
+"""
+Compatibility module.
 
-This module contains duplicated code from python itself or 3rd party
+This module contains duplicated code from Python itself or 3rd party
 extensions, which may be included for the following reasons:
-    - compatibility
-    - we may only need a small subset of the copied library/module
+
+  * compatibility
+  * we may only need a small subset of the copied library/module
+
 """
 import _inspect
 from _inspect import getargspec, formatargspec

numpy/core/arrayprint.py

@@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ def get_printoptions():
           - edgeitems : int
           - linewidth : int
           - suppress : bool
-          - nanstr : string
-          - infstr : string
+          - nanstr : str
+          - infstr : str
 
         For a full description of these options, see `set_printoptions`.
 
@@ -253,9 +253,9 @@ def array2string(a, max_line_width = None, precision = None,
     suppress_small : bool, optional
         Represent very small numbers as zero. A number is "very small" if it
         is smaller than the current printing precision.
-    separator : string, optional
+    separator : str, optional
         Inserted between elements.
-    prefix : string, optional
+    prefix : str, optional
         An array is typically printed as::
 
           'prefix(' + array2string(a) + ')'