Python Coding/Documenting Style Question
Mahrt, Dallas
dallasm at aiinet.com
Sun Jan 19 02:08:50 EST 2003
I would look into the Docutils project (http://docutils.sourceforge.net).
This project is attempting to provide a pluggable framework for documenting
Python code (including support for attributes). I believe they support
dcstrings for attributes. So the comment would be a string following the
definition of the attribute. (not sure about that). The docutils project has
also refined the suggested format for comments (PEP 257 (and 256 for
docutils specific))
> -----Original Message-----
> From: llothar at web.de [mailto:llothar at web.de]
> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 6:28 PM
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> Subject: Python Coding/Documenting Style Question
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>
> Is there any common coding style for commenting variables
> like the following:
>
> ====================================
>
> globalVar = 666 # here comes a comment from hell
>
> class foo:
> "This is the class comment"
>
> ClassVar = 10 # comment about this
>
> def __init__(self):
> self.objectVar = "foo" # description of objectVar
>
>
> =====================================
>
> It seems quite common to add the comments on the same line but.
> But what should i do when i want to use longer comments and/or
> document the type of a variable.
>
> Is there any tool that can
> automatically generate documentation from such annotations ?
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