[Tutor] Docstring

Sunil Tech sunil.techspk at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 10:09:01 CEST 2015


Thanks Alan Gauld

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> On 08/06/15 10:34, Sunil Tech wrote:
>
>  what is the standard way of using docstrings?
>>
>
> As Steven said there are several "standards".
>
> Yet another option is to use the format required
> by doctest. For your example:
>
> def test(x):
>       """
>       A dummy method
>       >>> test(5)
>       True
>       >>> test(-5)
>       False
>       """
>
> Or whatever test cases make sense.
>
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