docformatter vs pyment

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docformatter		pyment
	Project
1	Mentions	2
504	Stars	876
3.0%	Growth	-
6.9	Activity	1.9
2 months ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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docformatter

Posts with mentions or reviews of docformatter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-31.

[Python] No docstring formatters?
2 projects | /r/vscode | 31 Mar 2022

I can't find any decent automatic docstring formatter. The only two I stumble upon so far are docformatter and pyment, but none of them wraps long lines. I heard PyCharm has a formatter, but I would rather stick with VSCode.

pyment

Posts with mentions or reviews of pyment. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-31.

[Python] No docstring formatters?
2 projects | /r/vscode | 31 Mar 2022

I can't find any decent automatic docstring formatter. The only two I stumble upon so far are docformatter and pyment, but none of them wraps long lines. I heard PyCharm has a formatter, but I would rather stick with VSCode.
Change docstring style for a project's entire codebase
1 project | /r/pycharm | 17 May 2021

Ah - I was thrown off by 'type' vs 'style'. You might want to take a look at https://github.com/dadadel/pyment

What are some alternatives?

When comparing docformatter and pyment you can also consider the following projects:

black - The uncompromising Python code formatter [Moved to: https://github.com/psf/black]

pdoc - API Documentation for Python Projects

py-doq - Docstring generator

pydocstyle - docstring style checker

numdoclint - Numdoc Lint provides features such as NumPy style docstring code checking.

mkdocstrings - :blue_book: Automatic documentation from sources, for MkDocs.

black - The uncompromising Python code formatter

httpie - 🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.

glacier - :snowflake: Building Python CLI using docstrings and typehints :snake:

reloadr - Hot code reloading tool for Python

documented - Templated docstrings for Python classes

HTTP Prompt - An interactive command-line HTTP and API testing client built on top of HTTPie featuring autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and more. https://twitter.com/httpie