Top "Docstring" questions

A docstring is a string that occurs as the first statement in a module, function, class, or method definition, and is used to document the object in which it occurs.

Docstrings vs Comments

I'm a bit confused over the difference between docstrings and comments in python. In my class my teacher introduced something …

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How can I print a Python file's docstring when executing it?

I have a Python script with a docstring. When the parsing of the command-line arguments does not succeed, I want …

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python "help" function: printing docstrings

Is there an option to print the output of help('myfun'). The behaviour I'm seeing is that output is printed …

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Python Docstring: raise vs. raises

I use the PyCharm IDE which assists with crafting PEP0257-compliant docstrings. It provides two attributes I don't entirely understand …

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How to view a Python class docstrings using jupyter notebook?

In the spyder IDE it is possible to press ctrl+i when instantiating a class to bring up the docstrings …

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How do I programmatically set the docstring?

I have a wrapper function that returns a function. Is there a way to programmatically set the docstring of the …

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How to put a variable into Python docstring

So I'm trying to create a "dynamic" docstring which is something like this: ANIMAL_TYPES = ["mammals", "reptiles", "other"] def func(…

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How to find annotations in a PHP5 object?

I would like to be able to implement custom annotations in my PHP5 objects, and I'd like to learn how …

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How to auto-generate the type of a field in a docstring in PyCharm?

When I create a function with parameters, PyCharm offers me to create the docstring with :param param_name: field, which …

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Formatting python docstrings for dicts

What's the recommended way of adding a docstring for a dictionary parameter? I can see multiple line docstring examples here. …

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