pep257 is a static analysis tool for checking compliance with Python PEP 257.

The framework for checking docstring style is flexible, and custom checks can be easily added, for example to cover NumPy docstring conventions.

pep257 supports Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, pypy and pypy3.

pip install pep257

$ pep257 test.py
test.py:18 in private nested class `meta`:
        D101: Docstring missing
test.py:22 in public method `method`:
        D102: Docstring missing
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