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Author pabouk
Recipients 4-launchpad-kalvdans-no-ip-org, John Parejko2, docs@python, eric.smith, pabouk, taleinat
Date 2021-11-05.09:19:09
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Note that John Parejko is right that  the active PEP 257 clearly specifies attribute docstrings. Here is the excerpt:

String literals occurring immediately after a simple assignment at the top level of a module, class, or __init__ method are called "attribute docstrings".

They are being supported by various software like Sphinx, vim, VS Codes's Pylance.
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