We might adopt the conventions promoted by the Sphinx autodoc extension: http://sphinx-doc.org/ext/autodoc.html#directive-autofunction
Example: class Foo: """Docstring for class Foo.""" #: Doc comment for class attribute Foo.bar. #: It can have multiple lines. bar = 1 flox = 1.5 #: Doc comment for Foo.flox. One line only. baz = 2 """Docstring for class attribute Foo.baz.""" def __init__(self): #: Doc comment for instance attribute qux. self.qux = 3 self.spam = 4 """Docstring for instance attribute spam.""" -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com