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pydocstyle is a static analysis tool for checking compliance with Python docstring conventions.
pydocstyle supports most of
PEP 257 <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/>
_ out of the box, but it
should not be considered a reference implementation.
pydocstyle supports Python 3.6+.
Install ^^^^^^^
.. code::
pip install pydocstyle
Run ^^^
.. code::
$ pydocstyle test.py
test.py:18 in private nested class `meta`:
D101: Docstring missing
test.py:27 in public function `get_user`:
D300: Use """triple double quotes""" (found '''-quotes)
test:75 in public function `init_database`:
D201: No blank lines allowed before function docstring (found 1)
...
Develop ^^^^^^^
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Before submitting a PR make sure that you run make all
.
Read the full documentation here <https://pydocstyle.org/en/stable/>
_.
Fork pydocstyle on GitHub <https://github.com/PyCQA/pydocstyle>
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PyPI project page <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pydocstyle>
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Python docstring style checker
We found that pydocstyle demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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