docstrings

[Keith F. Woeltje]

I think

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/04/18/pydoc.html

may approach what you are looking for.
>K

Laura Creighton wrote:
> 
> Where is the most up to date documentation for how to use them, with
> all the conventions, all the itty bits that most people don't use
> and you don't really have to,  and every sort of other really precise
> stuff?  We don't want to invent something if there is already a
> convention, even if it is not that well known. Common-Practice
> but-not-a-real-standard yet counts here as well. Gratuituous
> non-conformity is vile.
> 
> Laura