pydocstyle’s documentation

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

pydocstyle supports most of PEP 257 out of the box, but it should not be considered a reference implementation.

pydocstyle supports Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and pypy.

Quick Start

  1. Install

    pip install pydocstyle
    
  2. Run

    $ 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)
    ...
    
  3. Fix your code :)

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Credits

pydocstyle is a rename and continuation of pep257, a project created by Vladimir Keleshev.

Maintained by Amir Rachum.