Could this be a use case for typing.Annotated? In [6]: from dataclasses import dataclass In [7]: from typing import Annotated In [8]: class A: ...: """Docstring for class A.""" ...: x: Annotated[int, "Docstring for x"] ...: y: Annotated[bool, "Docstring for y"] = True In [9]: A.__annotations__ Out[9]: {'x': typing.Annotated[int, 'Docstring for x'], 'y': typing.Annotated[bool, 'Docstring for y']} The syntax is a bit arduous; I'd be in favor of thinking through ways to make it easier to write. But the basic functionality already exists; there's no reason to duplicate it with another language feature. Rick. --- Ricky. "I've never met a Kentucky man who wasn't either thinking about going home or actually going home." - Happy Chandler On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 5:50 AM <tmkehrenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
@standard_class_docstring_parser class A: """ Class docstring. x: Docstring for x y: Docstring for y """ x: int y: bool = True
Oh, this is actually a nice idea. You could have a decorator that parses reST and then according to some conventions extracts the attribute docstrings. I think I will try to write something like that.
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