Python docstrings can be written following SEVERAL FORMATS as the other posts showed. However the default Sphinx docstring format was not mentioned and is based on reStructuredText (reST).

This is a minor-mode for Emacs for editing Python docstrings. It provides syntax highlighting for docstrings in both reStructuredText and Epydoc formats, as well as an override for the fill-paragraph ...

Multi-Step Automated Generation of Parameter Docstrings in Python: An Exploratory Study Documentation debt hinders the effective utilisation of open-source software. Although code summarisation tools ...

Docstrings Docstring is short for documentation string. These are somewhat different from comments. According to PEP 257 A docstring is a string literal that occurs as the first statement in a module, ...