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NAME

       pydocstyle - pydocstyle Documentation

       pydocstyle  is  a  static  analysis  tool  for  checking  compliance with Python docstring
       conventions.

       pydocstyle supports most of PEP 257 out of the box, but it  should  not  be  considered  a
       reference implementation.

       pydocstyle supports Python 3.7 through 3.11.

       Although pydocstyle is tries to be compatible with Python 3.6, it is not tested.

       1. Install

                 pip install pydocstyle

       2. Run

                 $ pydocstyle test.py
                 test.py:18 in private nested class `meta`:
                         D101: Docstring missing
                 test.py:27 in public function `get_user`:
                     D300: Use """triple double quotes""" (found '''-quotes)
                 test:75 in public function `init_database`:
                     D201: No blank lines allowed before function docstring (found 1)
                 ...

       3. Fix your code :)

       Contents:

USAGE

   Installation
       Use pip or easy_install:

          pip install pydocstyle

       Alternatively, you can use pydocstyle.py source file directly - it is self-contained.

   Command Line Interface
   Usage
          Usage: pydocstyle [options] [<file|dir>...]

          Options:
            --version             show program's version number and exit
            -h, --help            show this help message and exit
            -e, --explain         show explanation of each error
            -s, --source          show source for each error
            -d, --debug           print debug information
            -v, --verbose         print status information
            --count               print total number of errors to stdout
            --config=<path>       use given config file and disable config discovery
            --match=<pattern>     check only files that exactly match <pattern> regular
                                  expression; default is --match='(?!test_).*\.py' which
                                  matches files that don't start with 'test_' but end
                                  with '.py'
            --match-dir=<pattern>
                                  search only dirs that exactly match <pattern> regular
                                  expression; default is --match-dir='[^\.].*', which
                                  matches all dirs that don't start with a dot
            --ignore-decorators=<decorators>
                                  ignore any functions or methods that are decorated by
                                  a function with a name fitting the <decorators>
                                  regular expression; default is --ignore-decorators=''
                                  which does not ignore any decorated functions.

            Note:
              When using --match, --match-dir or --ignore-decorators consider
              whether you should use a single quote (') or a double quote ("),
              depending on your OS, Shell, etc.

            Error Check Options:
              Only one of --select, --ignore or --convention can be specified. If
              none is specified, defaults to `--convention=pep257`. These three
              options select the "basic list" of error codes to check. If you wish
              to change that list (for example, if you selected a known convention
              but wish to ignore a specific error from it or add a new one) you can
              use `--add-[ignore/select]` in order to do so.

              --select=<codes>    choose the basic list of checked errors by specifying
                                  which errors to check for (with a list of comma-
                                  separated error codes or prefixes). for example:
                                  --select=D101,D2
              --ignore=<codes>    choose the basic list of checked errors by specifying
                                  which errors to ignore out of all of the available
                                  error codes (with a list of comma-separated error
                                  codes or prefixes). for example: --ignore=D101,D2
              --convention=<name>
                                  choose the basic list of checked errors by specifying
                                  an existing convention. Possible conventions: pep257,
                                  numpy, google.
              --add-select=<codes>
                                  add extra error codes to check to the basic list of
                                  errors previously set by --select, --ignore or
                                  --convention.
              --add-ignore=<codes>
                                  ignore extra error codes by removing them from the
                                  basic list previously set by --select, --ignore or
                                  --convention.

       NOTE:
          When  using  any  of the --select, --ignore, --add-select, or --add-ignore command line
          flags, it is possible to pass a prefix for an error code. It will be expanded  so  that
          any  code  beginning  with  that  prefix  will  match. For example, running the command
          pydocstyle --ignore=D4 will ignore all docstring content issues as  their  error  codes
          beginning with "D4" (i.e. D400, D401, D402, D403, and D404).

   Return Code
                                 ┌──┬──────────────────────────────────┐
                                 │0 │ Success - no violations          │
                                 ├──┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                                 │1 │ Some code violations were found  │
                                 ├──┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                                 │2 │ Illegal   usage   -   see  error │
                                 │  │ message                          │
                                 └──┴──────────────────────────────────┘

   Configuration Files
       pydocstyle supports ini-like and toml configuration files.  In order for pydocstyle to use
       a configuration file automatically, it must be named one of the following options.

       • setup.cfgtox.ini.pydocstyle.pydocstyle.ini.pydocstylerc.pydocstylerc.inipyproject.toml

       When  searching  for  a configuration file, pydocstyle looks for one of the file specified
       above in that exact order. ini-like configuration files must have a  [pydocstyle]  section
       while  toml  configuration files must have a [tool.pydocstyle] section. If a configuration
       file was not found, pydocstyle keeps looking for one up the directory tree  until  one  is
       found or uses the default configuration.

       NOTE:
          toml  configuration  file  support  is  only  enabled  if  the  toml  python package is
          installed. You can ensure that this is the  case  by  installing  the  pydocstyle[toml]
          optional dependency.

       NOTE:
          For  backwards  compatibility  purposes,  pydocstyle supports configuration files named
          .pep257, as well as section header [pep257]. However, these are  considered  deprecated
          and support will be removed in the next major version.

   Available Options
       Not all configuration options are available in the configuration files.  Available options
       are:

       • conventionselectignoreadd_selectadd_ignorematchmatch_dirignore_decoratorsproperty_decoratorsignore_self_only_init

       See the Usage section for more information.

   Inheritance
       By default, when finding a configuration file, pydocstyle  tries  to  inherit  the  parent
       directory's configuration and merge them to the local ones.

       The merge process is as follows:

       • If  one  of  select,  ignore  or  convention  was specified in the child configuration -
         Ignores the parent configuration and set the new error codes to check. Otherwise, simply
         copies the parent checked error codes.

       • If  add-ignore  or  add-select were specified, adds or removes the specified error codes
         from the checked error codes list.

       • If match or match-dir were specified - use them. Otherwise, use the parent's.

       In order to disable this (useful for configuration files located  in  your  repo's  root),
       simply add inherit=false to your configuration file.

       NOTE:
          If  any  of  select,  ignore or convention were specified in the CLI, the configuration
          files will take no part in choosing which  error  codes  will  be  checked.  match  and
          match-dir will still take effect.

   Example
          [pydocstyle]
          inherit = false
          ignore = D100,D203,D405
          match = .*\.py

   In-file configuration
       pydocstyle  supports  inline  commenting  to skip specific checks on specific functions or
       methods. The supported comments that can be added are:

       1. "# noqa" skips all checks.

       2. "# noqa: D102,D203" can be used to skip specific checks. Note that this  is  compatible
          with skips from flake8, e.g. # noqa: D102,E501,D203.

       For example, this will skip the check for a period at the end of a function docstring:

          >>> def bad_function():  # noqa: D400
          ...     """Omit a period in the docstring as an exception"""
          ...     pass

   Usage with the pre-commit git hooks framework
       pydocstyle can be included as a hook for pre-commit.  The easiest way to get started is to
       add this configuration to your .pre-commit-config.yaml:

          -   repo: https://github.com/pycqa/pydocstyle
              rev: 0.0.0  # pick a git hash / tag to point to
              hooks:
              -   id: pydocstyle

       See the pre-commit docs for how to customize this configuration.

       Checked-in python files will  be  passed  as  positional  arguments  so  no  need  to  use
       --match=*.py.   You  can also use command line arguments instead of configuration files to
       achieve the same effect with less files.

          - id: pydocstyle
            args:
            - --ignore=D100,D203,D405
            # or multiline
            - |-
                    --select=
                    D101,
                    D2

ERROR CODES

   Grouping
                     ┌─────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┐
                     │Missing Docstrings       │                                  │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D100                     │ Missing  docstring   in   public │
                     │                         │ module                           │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D101                     │ Missing   docstring   in  public │
                     │                         │ class                            │
                     └─────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘

                     │D102                     │ Missing  docstring   in   public │
                     │                         │ method                           │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D103                     │ Missing   docstring   in  public │
                     │                         │ function                         │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D104                     │ Missing  docstring   in   public │
                     │                         │ package                          │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D105                     │ Missing   docstring   in   magic │
                     │                         │ method                           │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D106                     │ Missing  docstring   in   public │
                     │                         │ nested class                     │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D107                     │ Missing docstring in __init__    │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │Whitespace Issues        │                                  │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D200                     │ One-line docstring should fit on │
                     │                         │ one line with quotes             │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D201                     │ No blank  lines  allowed  before │
                     │                         │ function docstring               │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D202                     │ No  blank  lines  allowed  after │
                     │                         │ function docstring               │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D203                     │ 1  blank  line  required  before │
                     │                         │ class docstring                  │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D204                     │ 1   blank  line  required  after │
                     │                         │ class docstring                  │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D205                     │ 1 blank  line  required  between │
                     │                         │ summary line and description     │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D206                     │ Docstring   should  be  indented │
                     │                         │ with spaces, not tabs            │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D207                     │ Docstring is under-indented      │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D208                     │ Docstring is over-indented       │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D209                     │ Multi-line   docstring   closing │
                     │                         │ quotes  should  be on a separate │
                     │                         │ line                             │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D210                     │ No      whitespaces      allowed │
                     │                         │ surrounding docstring text       │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D211                     │ No  blank  lines  allowed before │
                     │                         │ class docstring                  │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D212                     │ Multi-line   docstring   summary │
                     │                         │ should start at the first line   │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D213                     │ Multi-line   docstring   summary │
                     │                         │ should start at the second line  │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D214                     │ Section is over-indented         │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D215                     │ Section       underline       is │
                     │                         │ over-indented                    │
                     └─────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘

                     │Quotes Issues            │                                  │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D300                     │ Use """triple double quotes"""   │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D301                     │ Use r""" if any backslashes in a │
                     │                         │ docstring                        │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D302                     │ Deprecated: Use u""" for Unicode │
                     │                         │ docstrings                       │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │Docstring Content Issues │                                  │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D400                     │ First  line  should  end  with a │
                     │                         │ period                           │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D401                     │ First   line   should   be    in │
                     │                         │ imperative mood                  │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D401                     │ First    line   should   be   in │
                     │                         │ imperative mood; try rephrasing  │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D402                     │ First line  should  not  be  the │
                     │                         │ function's "signature"           │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D403                     │ First  word  of  the  first line │
                     │                         │ should be properly capitalized   │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D404                     │ First  word  of  the   docstring │
                     │                         │ should not be This               │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D405                     │ Section  name should be properly │
                     │                         │ capitalized                      │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D406                     │ Section name should end  with  a │
                     │                         │ newline                          │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D407                     │ Missing  dashed  underline after │
                     │                         │ section                          │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D408                     │ Section underline should  be  in │
                     │                         │ the line following the section's │
                     │                         │ name                             │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D409                     │ Section underline  should  match │
                     │                         │ the length of its name           │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D410                     │ Missing blank line after section │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D411                     │ Missing    blank   line   before │
                     │                         │ section                          │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D412                     │ No blank lines allowed between a │
                     │                         │ section header and its content   │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D413                     │ Missing  blank  line  after last │
                     │                         │ section                          │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D414                     │ Section has no content           │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D415                     │ First line  should  end  with  a │
                     │                         │ period,    question   mark,   or │
                     │                         │ exclamation point                │
                     └─────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘

                     │D416                     │ Section name should end  with  a │
                     │                         │ colon                            │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D417                     │ Missing argument descriptions in │
                     │                         │ the docstring                    │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D418                     │ Function/ Method decorated  with │
                     │                         │ @overload  shouldn't  contain  a │
                     │                         │ docstring                        │
                     ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                     │D419                     │ Docstring is empty               │
                     └─────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘

   Default conventions
       Not all error codes are checked for by default.  There are three conventions that  may  be
       used by pydocstyle: pep257, numpy and google.

       The  pep257  convention  (specified in PEP257), which is enabled by default in pydocstyle,
       checks for all of the above errors except for D203, D212, D213, D214,  D215,  D404,  D405,
       D406, D407, D408, D409, D410, D411, D413, D415, D416 and D417.

       The numpy convention added in v2.0.0 supports the numpydoc docstring standard. This checks
       all of the errors except for D107, D203, D212, D213, D402, D413, D415, D416, and D417.

       The google convention added in v4.0.0 supports the Google Python Style Guide. This  checks
       for all the errors except D203, D204, D213, D215, D400, D401, D404, D406, D407, D408, D409
       and D413.

       These conventions may be specified using --convention=<name> when running pydocstyle  from
       the  command  line or by specifying the convention in a configuration file.  See the Usage
       section for more details.

       NOTE:
          It makes no sense to check the same docstring for both numpy  and  google  conventions.
          Therefore,  if  we successfully detect that a docstring is in the numpy style, we don't
          check it for google.

          The reason numpy style takes precedence over google is that the heuristics of detecting
          it  are  better,  and  we  don't  want  to  enforce  users to provide external hints to
          pydocstyle in order to let it know which style docstrings are written in.

   Publicity
       The D1xx group of errors deals with  missing  docstring  in  public  constructs:  modules,
       classes,  methods,  etc.  It is important to note how publicity is determined and what its
       effects are.

   How publicity is determined
       Publicity for all constructs is determined as follows: a construct is considered public if
       -

       1. Its immediate parent is public and

       2. Its name does not start with a single or double underscore.

             a. Note,  names  that  start  and  end  with  a  double  underscore are public (e.g.
                __init__.py).

       A construct's immediate parent is the construct that contains it. For example, a  method's
       parent  is  a  class  object.  A  class'  parent  is usually a module, but might also be a
       function, method, etc. A module can either have no parent, or it can have a parent that is
       a package.

       In  order  for  a  construct  to  be  considered public, its immediate parent must also be
       public. Since this definition is recursive, it means that all of its parents  need  to  be
       public.  The  corollary  is  that  if  a  construct is considered private, then all of its
       descendants are also considered private. For example, a class called  _Foo  is  considered
       private.  A  method  bar  in _Foo is also considered private since its parent is a private
       class, even though its name does not begin with a single underscore.

       Note, a module's parent is recursively checked  upward  until  we  reach  a  directory  in
       sys.path  to  avoid  considering the complete filepath of a module.  For example, consider
       the module /_foo/bar/baz.py.  If PYTHONPATH is set to  /,  then  baz.py  is  private.   If
       PYTHONPATH is set to /_foo/, then baz.py is public.

       Modules  are  parsed to look if __all__ is defined. If so, only those top level constructs
       are considered public. The parser looks for __all__ defined as a literal list or tuple. As
       the parser doesn't execute the module, any mutation of __all__ will not be considered.

   How publicity affects error reports
       The  immediate  effect  of  a construct being determined as private is that no D1xx errors
       will be reported for it (or its children, as the previous  section  explains).  A  private
       method, for instance, will not generate a D102 error, even if it has no docstring.

       However,  it is important to note that while docstring are optional for private construct,
       they are still required to adhere to your style guide. So if a private module _foo.py does
       not  have a docstring, it will not generate a D100 error, but if it does have a docstring,
       that docstring might generate other errors.

       pydocstyle is a rename and continuation of pep257, a project created by Vladimir Keleshev.

       Maintained by Amir Rachum and Sambhav Kothari.

AUTHOR

       Amir Rachum

COPYRIGHT

       2023, Amir Rachum, Sambhav Kothari