From 9c7752eecf384a3b7c5c417b0ed28c50f393e560 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:44:10 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] DOC: Fix outdated docstring.

---
 skimage/color/colorconv.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/skimage/color/colorconv.py b/skimage/color/colorconv.py
index 3f0f4fb8..36165d68 100644
--- a/skimage/color/colorconv.py
+++ b/skimage/color/colorconv.py
@@ -104,7 +104,10 @@ def convert_colorspace(arr, fromspace, tospace):
 
 
 def _prepare_colorarray(arr):
-    """Check the shape of the array, and give it the requested type."""
+    """Check the shape of the array and convert it to
+    floating point representation.
+
+    """
     arr = np.asanyarray(arr)
 
     if arr.ndim != 3 or arr.shape[2] != 3: