The docstring changes ought to be easier to review since I'll only be making the Python and C docstrings mostly identical (with some minor changes here and there). I'll also (hopefully) need fewer pointers now that I've been through one review process (thanks @haypo!).

To answer your question, the changes in this PR are completely orthogonal to the changes in the docstring needed. 

Hence, I'm counting one more vote towards making the docstring changes in a separate PR.

Thanks! :-)

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