From 3fd9c29bd7ef91853476ba5bdfb41994e5e302f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joris Van den Bossche <jorisvandenbossche@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 14:58:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] DOC: remove docstring of flags attribute during doc building
 process (#5331)

---
 doc/source/conf.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index a500289b27ab1..695a954f78cfb 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -246,3 +246,12 @@
                       'GH'),
             'wiki': ('https://github.com/pydata/pandas/wiki/%s',
                      'wiki ')}
+
+# remove the docstring of the flags attribute (inherited from numpy ndarray)
+# because these give doc build errors (see GH issue 5331) 
+def remove_flags_docstring(app, what, name, obj, options, lines):
+    if what == "attribute" and name.endswith(".flags"):
+        del lines[:]
+
+def setup(app):
+    app.connect("autodoc-process-docstring", remove_flags_docstring)