def inherit_docstring_from(cls):
    """
    This decorator modifies the decorated function's docstring by
    replacing occurrences of '%(super)s' with the docstring of the
    method of the same name from the class `cls`.

    If the decorated method has no docstring, it is simply given the
    docstring of cls method.

    Extracted from scipy.misc.doccer.

    """
    def _doc(func):
        cls_docstring = getattr(cls, func.__name__).__doc__
        func_docstring = func.__doc__
        if func_docstring is None:
            func.__doc__ = cls_docstring
        else:
            new_docstring = func_docstring % dict(super=cls_docstring)
            func.__doc__ = new_docstring
        return func
    return _doc