Hello,

Sphinx comes with a special extension called Napoleon: 
http://sphinx-doc.org/latest/ext/napoleon.html

Once enabled (normally in conf.py, when docu are generated) it makes Sphinx 
understand Google and Numpy docstrings.

Best,
Nikolay

On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 3:49:06 PM UTC+3, Colin Marquardt wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> we are trying to select a default docstring style in my company, which 
> means to decide between NumPy-style (
> http://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.org/en/latest/example_numpy.html#example-numpy)
>  
> and Google-style (
> http://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.org/en/latest/example_google.html#example-google)
>  
> docstrings..
>
> Personally, I like the Google style better since it's more concise. 
> Someone mentioned though that Spyder would support only the NumPy style, 
> and indeed the few references I can find point towards that (like 
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/24557076 and 
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/29636242). However, since Sphinx (Spyder's 
> rendering backend) needs an extension to understand NumPy style anyway (the 
> numpydoc extension, or Napoleon), it may not be so hard to support both 
> styles?
>
> Does anybody have experience with this?
>
> TIA
>   Colin
>

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