updated docstring of raw

scverse · Aug 13, 2018 · a77fa97 · a77fa97
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@@ -980,6 +980,15 @@ def raw(self):
         Its content can be deleted by setting it back to ``None``::
 
             adata.raw = None
+
+        Upon slicing an AnnData object along the observations (row) axis,
+        ``.raw`` is also sliced. Slicing an AnnData object along the variables
+        (columns) axis, leaves ``.raw`` unaffected. Note that you can call::
+
+             adata.raw[:, 'orig_variable_name'].X
+
+        to retrieve the data associated with a variable that might have been
+        filtered out or "compressed away" in ``.X``.
         """
         return self._raw