Meaning

1 senses
  1. A string literal specified in source code that is used, like a comment, to document a specific segment of code, but remains available at run-time.

Origin

From doc + string; see doc (“documentation”).

From doc + string; see doc (“documentation”).

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Forms

plural: docstrings
Singulardocstring
Pluraldocstrings

regular

Word family

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