docformatter1

positional arguments:

files

files to format or '-' for standard in

options:

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-i, --in-place

make changes to files instead of printing diffs

-c, --check

only check and report incorrectly formatted files

-d, --diff

when used with `--check` or `--in-place`, also what changes would be made

-r, --recursive

drill down directories recursively

-e [EXCLUDE ...], --exclude [EXCLUDE ...]

in recursive mode, exclude directories and files by names

-n [NON-CAP ...], --non-cap [NON-CAP ...]

list of words not to capitalize when they appear as the first word in the summary

-s style, --style style

the docstring style to use when formatting parameter lists. One of epytext, sphinx. (default: sphinx)

--rest-section-adorns REGEX

regular expression for identifying reST section adornments (default: [!"#$%&'()*+,-./\:;<=>?@[]^_`{|}~]{4,})

--black

make formatting compatible with standard black options (default: False)

--wrap-summaries length

wrap long summary lines at this length; set to 0 to disable wrapping (default: 79, 88 with --black option)

--wrap-descriptions length

wrap descriptions at this length; set to 0 to disable wrapping (default: 72, 88 with --black option)

--force-wrap

force descriptions to be wrapped even if it may result in a mess (default: False)

--tab-width width

tabs in indentation are this many characters when wrapping lines (default: 1)

--blank

add blank line after description (default: False)

--pre-summary-newline

add a newline before the summary of a multi-line docstring (default: False)

--pre-summary-space

add a space after the opening triple quotes (default: False)

--make-summary-multi-line

add a newline before and after the summary of a one-line docstring (default: False)

--close-quotes-on-newline

place closing triple quotes on a new-line when a one-line docstring wraps to two or more lines (default: False)

--range line line

apply docformatter to docstrings between these lines; line numbers are indexed at 1 (default: None)

--docstring-length length length

apply docformatter to docstrings of given length range (default: None)

--non-strict

don't strictly follow reST syntax to identify lists (see issue #67) (default: False)

--config CONFIG

path to file containing docformatter options

--version

show program's version number and exit