Documenting Python Code: A Complete Guide

Andrew Stephen 7 Lessons 32m
best-practices intermediate python

In this course, you’ll learn how to document your Python code! Documenting your code is important because it can help developers and users fully understand its usage and purpose.

You’ll learn about:

The reasons that documenting your code is so important
The differences between commenting and documenting
Best practices for docstrings

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Documenting Python Code: A Complete Guide

7 Lessons 32m

1. Documenting Python Code: A Complete Guide (Overview) 00:44

2. Why Documenting Your Code Is So Important 01:57

3. Documenting vs Commenting Code 05:19

4. Documenting With Docstrings (Part 1) 07:48

5. Documenting With Docstrings (Part 2) 08:50

6. Documenting Your Python Projects (Part 1) 04:35

7. Documenting Your Python Projects (Part 2) 03:41

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About Andrew Stephen

Andrew is an avid Pythonista and creates video tutorials for Real Python. He is a qualified robotics and mechatronics engineer who works for an engineering firm as a production engineer and loves his sport, music, gaming and learning.

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Participant Comments

aniketbarphe on Sept. 22, 2021

Very informative course!

Thomas on Feb. 10, 2020

Thanks for this concise tutorial on documentation. Especially Epytext makes my life as a Java developer a lot easier writing Python documentation. I find this topic dead boring, but this tutorial made it a lot easier to get started:)

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