How to document a method with parameter(s)?

Question

How to document methods with parameters using Python\'s documentation strings?

EDIT: PEP 257 gives this example:

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Answer 1

Docstrings are only useful within interactive environments, e.g. the Python shell. When documenting objects that are not going to be used interactively (e.g. internal objects, framework callbacks), you might as well use regular comments. Here’s a style I use for hanging indented comments off items, each on their own line, so you know that the comment is applying to:

def Recomputate \
  (
    TheRotaryGyrator,
      # the rotary gyrator to operate on
    Computrons,
      # the computrons to perform the recomputation with
    Forthwith,
      # whether to recomputate forthwith or at one's leisure
  ) :
  # recomputates the specified rotary gyrator with
  # the desired computrons.
  ...
#end Recomputate

You can’t do this sort of thing with docstrings.