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+layout:    "post"
+title:     "Add Python docstring to the beginning of anything in Emacs"
+date:      2016-11-30 07:52:37
+tags:      [development, python, emacs]
+published: true
+author:
+    name: Gergely Polonkai
+    email: gergely@polonkai.eu
+---
+
+Now that I write Python code for a living, I write a lot of functions,
+classes, and modules.  What I still tend to forget, and also find tedious,
+is adding docstrings.  Unlike many developers, writing documentation is not
+an enemy of mine, but it usually comes to my mind when I finish
+implementation.  The procedure, roughly, is this:
+
+* Decide where I am (in a function, in a class but not in one of its
+  methods, or not inside such a block at all)
+* Go to the beginning of the thing
+* Insert `"""`
+* Leave a blank line
+* Insert `"""`
+
+One of my mottos is if something takes more than one step and you have to do
+it more than twice, you should automate it after the first time.  This puts
+a small(ish) overhead on the second invocation (when you implement the
+automation), but it usually worth the time.
+
+Since I use Emacs for pretty much everything coding-related (and many more,
+but that’s the topic of a different post), I wrote a small function to do it
+for me.
+
+{% gist gergelypolonkai/7b062a00d3b8a2555024521273cecfee python-docstring.el %}
+
+There are still a lot of things to improve:
+
+* it always inserts double quotes (althoug I couldn’t show a use-case when
+single quotes are preferred)
+* it doesn’t check for an existing docstring, just happily inserts a new one
+(leaving the old one alone, but generating a syntax error this way)
+* it would also be nice if I could jump to the beginning of a file even from
+a class method.  I guess I will use prefix keys for that, but I’m not sure
+yet.
+
+You can bet I will implement these features, so check back soon for an
+updated version!