How to include math in the sphinx?

Question

I use sphinx with pngmath to document my code that contains a lot of math expressions. Doing this in the *.rst file works fine.

a \times b becomes:

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However, if I try to do the same inside the *.py file, for example, in the module documentation, for example:

 """ a \times b """ 

The end result

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In addition, the amsmath function does not work.
What do I need to do to also have math formulas in my *.py documents?

Answer 1

Try putting the lowercase "r" in front of your docstring - like this:

 def multiply(a,b): r""" returns a \times b """ return a*b 

I have never seen the original literal string for docstring before, but this will not allow your \ t to be interpreted as the <TAB> character.