Tutorial by Examples: docstrings

Docstrings are - unlike regular comments - stored as an attribute of the function they document, meaning that you can access them programmatically. An example function def func(): """This is a function that does nothing at all""" return The docstring can ...

A docstring is a multi-line comment used to document modules, classes, functions and methods. It has to be the first statement of the component it describes. def hello(name): """Greet someone. Print a greeting ("Hello") for the person with the given name. &...