From a77fa97b29bc4dcc26d7b820b1276506d6878673 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: falexwolf <f.alex.wolf@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 23:36:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] updated docstring of raw

---
 anndata/base.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/anndata/base.py b/anndata/base.py
index 5d1499e8d..32d2b1af0 100644
--- a/anndata/base.py
+++ b/anndata/base.py
@@ -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