Generate Python docstrings With ChatGPT - gpt4docstrings

gpt4docstrings is a Python library that leverages OpenAI’s GPT AI models to generate docstrings for your Python code.

It scans your codebase and suggests high-quality docstrings based on the function and variable names, parameters, and logic. This saves time and enforces docstring conventions.

GitHub Repo

How to use it:

1. Install the gpt4docstrings library.

$ pip install gpt4docstrings

2. After installation, it can be used in two different ways – as a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool or as a pre-commit hook in your project.

gpt4docstrings [OPTIONS] [PATHS]

repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/MichaelisTrofficus/gpt4docstrings
    rev: v0.0.6
    hooks:
      - id: gpt4docstrings
        name: gpt4docstrings
        language: python
        entry: gpt4docstrings
        types: [python]

3. Available options.

-h: Show help text.
-v: Verbosity parameter
-e: Exclude PATHs. Multiple -e invocations are supported.
-k: OpenAI API key. If not provided, the library will try to access OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable.
-s: ‘google’, ‘reStructuredText’, ‘epytext’, ‘numpy’
-m: Specify the model. Defaults to gpt-3.5-turbo.