Hi all, I have seen discussion of docstrings for class attributes before on this list, but not with this exact proposal. My motivation is that I have a dataclass for which I want to write docstrings that can be accessed at runtime. In my specific case, the docstrings would be used to create a help message. Sphinx supports a syntax to document class attributes. It looks like this: @dataclass class A: """Docstring for class A.""" x: int """Docstring for x""" y: bool = True "Docstring for y" It is a bit awkward that the docstring is *below* the definition of the attribute, but it can't be put above because it could be confused for the class docstring. My proposal would be to just enshrine this syntax as the syntax for attribute docstring, and to make them available at runtime. They would be stored in a dictionary like the type annotations. For example like this: A.__attrdoc__ == {"x": "Docstring for x", "y": "Docstring for y"} Best, Thomas