This PEP talks about how to use/frame docstrings for consistency with the rest of the community. Some noteworthy points are:
- docstring should be in command language – do this, return that – rather than descriptive – does this, returns that
- Use triple double quotes even for single line docstring
- Multiline docstrings have summary in the first line, a blank line and then an elaborate explanation of the object in hand
More such conventions mentioned, worth noting…