Section breaks are also implicitly created anytime a new section starts. Attributes: module_level_variable1 (int): Module level variables may be documented in either the …

Mar 31, 2017 · I suggest using Vladimir Keleshev's pep257 Python program to check your docstrings against PEP-257 and the Numpy Docstring Standard for describing parameters, …

Oct 12, 2013 · Sure enough you could add a docstring to almost anything. Actually you can, indeed, add anything to almost anything, as this is the way python was designed. But it is …

Python has a PEP that defines Docstring Conventions. Regarding documentation of attributes, it states: Regarding documentation of attributes, it states: String literals occurring immediately …

I would recommend getting familiar with the Sphinx markup, since it is widely used and is becoming the de-facto standard for documenting Python projects, in part because of the …

Python specifically documents it's acceptable conventions in PEPs. There are different Python source tools that extract properly formatted documentation. In fact Python actually has an …

Feb 22, 2012 · def my_long_doc_function(arg1, arg2): """This docstring is long, it's a little looonger than the 80 characters limit. """ Is like a one-line docstring, meaning that is for really …

May 7, 2025 · PEP 257 describes good docstring conventions. Note that most importantly, the """ that ends a multiline docstring should be on a line by itself, and preferably preceded by a blank …

Jul 10, 2017 · But Python is just now, in its mid- to late-Python 3 era, defining a richer type notation. The typing module defines an evolving new grammar for such types independent of …

Mar 30, 2017 · It inherits a parent class docstring if the child class docstring is empty. It can inherit the docstring from any class in any of the base classes's MROs, just like regular attribute …