Python Jumpstart by Building 10 Apps Transcripts
Chapter: App 4: Journal app and file I/O
Lecture: Core concept: Docstrings
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Docstrings are a core concept of this application, let's look at it in detail. So here we have some method,
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and we saw that if you just put a string at the beginning of a method on its own line without assigning it to a variable, that becomes the docstring.
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The recommendation is to use three double quotes and separate this so it's nice and readable onto new lines
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we saw that there is actually a format to talk about the various parameters as well as the return value.