Hello everyone,

I started using again spyder after a long interval of using the ipython 
notebook, and I found that the improvement are incredible since the last 
time I used it.
The cell block feature (not sure if it is new or I simply didn't noticed it 
at first) is especially nice, and is one of the things that persuaded me to 
insert spyder again in my workflow.

The only thing that I find missing is the possibility of the object 
inspector to understand that a string can be a docstring even outside the 
definition of a class or a function.
A prime example is the documentation of modules, that right now is not 
visualized correctly (or at least I didn't found how to visualize it 
properly).

One thought lead to another, and I started wondering how hard would it be 
for the object inspector to understand a docstring for each cell block.
That would allow to express the comments for each code in a very expressive 
way, that could compete with the expressivity of an ipython notebook,
while maintaining a normal plain format (the friction of doing version 
control with a notebook is what lead me to try again spyder in the first 
place).

In short, given a code as:

#%%
"""
some very cool docstring in here
"""

myvariable = 42




the object inspector could recognize the block documentation as valid and 
show it properly.
Would it be possible to include also images? in the restructured text is 
formally possible, but I couldn't manage to do it,
and I'm not sure if it's a limit of the inspector or of my ability.

I tried to take a look at the inspector to understand what was going on and 
implement it myself, but I got lost and gave up...

thank you very much for your work, I hope to be able to contribute soon 
with something!
Enrico

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