Also note that my example will cause the documentation for the attributes to appear in the class's docstring. I actually would prefer to put the documentation in docstrings of the attributes …

Jun 18, 2020 · The class docstring needs to just describe the class and the docstring of individual methods then handle describing themselves. Also the wording in the PEP to me means that …

The docstring for a class should summarize its behavior and list the public methods and instance variables. If the class is intended to be subclassed, and has an additional interface for …

May 4, 2016 · The docstring for a class should summarize its behavior and list the public methods and instance variables. If the class is intended to be subclassed, and has an additional …

Jul 21, 2020 · Assuming you would like to use napoleon to render your docstrings into docs, the sphinx developers are working towards a way to add custom sections to class-level docstrings …

Dec 23, 2022 · I'm trying to do some class inheritance in Python. I'd like each class and inherited class to have good docstrings. So I think for the inherited class, I'd like it to: inherit the base …

The Google style guide contains an excellent Python style guide. It includes conventions for readable docstring syntax that offers better guidance than PEP-257. For example:

Mar 30, 2017 · It can inherit the docstring from any class in any of the base classes's MROs, just like regular attribute inheritance. Unlike with a class decorator, the metaclass is inherited, so …

5 Document freely accessible attributes in the class docstring or make them into properties. You're documenting properties properly, the problem might be in 2.x and old-style classes, …

Jul 2, 2018 · It seems dataclasses automatically generate a docstring for the class that include the type hints from the class definition, for example 'C(name: str, number: int)', but the docstring …