#129 - Added docs and renamed a class

Author: shacharoo

docs/release_notes.rst

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ New Features
 * Decorator-based skipping via ``--ignore-decorators`` has been added (#204).
 * Support for using pycodestyle style wildcards has been added (#72, #209).
 * Superfluous opening quotes are now reported as part of D300 (#166, #225).
+* Support for ``numpy`` conventions verification has been added (#129).
 
 Bug Fixes
 

src/pydocstyle/__init__.py

@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 from .utils import __version__
 
 # Temporary hotfix for flake8-docstrings
-from .checker import PEP257Checker, tokenize_open
+from .checker import ConventionChecker, tokenize_open
 from .parser import AllError

src/pydocstyle/checker.py

@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ def decorator(f):
     return decorator
 
 
-class PEP257Checker(object):
-    """Checker for PEP 257.
+class ConventionChecker(object):
+    """Checker for PEP 257 and numpy conventions.
 
     D10x: Missing docstrings
     D20x: Whitespace issues
@@ -642,8 +642,8 @@ def check(filenames, select=None, ignore=None, ignore_decorators=None):
         try:
             with tokenize_open(filename) as file:
                 source = file.read()
-            for error in PEP257Checker().check_source(source, filename,
-                                                      ignore_decorators):
+            for error in ConventionChecker().check_source(source, filename,
+                                                          ignore_decorators):
                 code = getattr(error, 'code', None)
                 if code in checked_codes:
                     yield error