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Author eric.araujo
Recipients eric.araujo, ethan.furman, jaraco
Date 2021-12-24.22:29:09
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> I presume I don't need to explain why docstrings are nice and preferable over comments.

Actually, can you?

Docstrings to document regular modules, classes or functions are a fine tool, especially with tools that extract them (pydoc, sphinx).  I don’t see the same need for test functions.
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