On Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 6:08 AM Simão Afonso <simao.afo...@powertools-tech.com>
wrote:

> On 2021-12-09 12:47:28, Paul Bryan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2021-12-09 at 19:01 +0000, Simão Afonso wrote:
> > > I'm using docstrings bellow the attributes (analogous to functions
> > > and
> > > classes), I think it works well.
> > > It helps with distinguishing the class docstring from the arguments.
> >
> > I think you'll find on close inspection that those strings don't "go
> > anywhere" (i.e. they're not in help documentation, they're not
> > introspectable.)
>
> Wow, that's right, I stand corrected.
>
> They do appear on Sphinx auto-generated documentation, so I assumed it
> was a regular annotation, like classes and functions.
>

Very very interesting that Sphinx already treats a bare string under the
parameter as documentation! I had no idea. Does it do the same thing at the
module level?

>
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