Docstrings in Python

Published: 24 July 2023
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In Python we prefer docstrings to document our code rather than just comments. Docstrings must be the very first statement in their function, class, or module. Python's help function uses these.

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00:00 What is a docstring
00:20 Docstrings must be the first statement in a function
01:28 Triple quotes: convention or requirement?
01:51 PEP 257: the docstring style guide
02:42 The ‍_doc_‍ attribute
03:09 Docstrings in classes
03:39 Modules have docstring too
04:18 Summary


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