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 themselves, …

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 class …

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 subclasses, …

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 interface for …

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 (see Issue …

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 class docstr...

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 you only …

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, which don't …

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 for the …