pydocstyle - docstring style checker

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pydocstyle is a static analysis tool for checking compliance with Python docstring conventions.

pydocstyle supports most of PEP 257 <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/>_ out of the box, but it should not be considered a reference implementation.

pydocstyle supports Python 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8.

Quick Start

Install ^^^^^^^

.. code::

pip install pydocstyle

Run ^^^^

.. code::

$ pydocstyle test.py
test.py:18 in private nested class `meta`:
        D101: Docstring missing
test.py:27 in public function `get_user`:
    D300: Use """triple double quotes""" (found '''-quotes)
test:75 in public function `init_database`:
    D201: No blank lines allowed before function docstring (found 1)
...

Links

• Read the full documentation here <http://pydocstyle.org/en/stable/>_.

• Fork pydocstyle on GitHub <http://github.com/PyCQA/pydocstyle>_.

• PyPI project page <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pydocstyle>_.