Doxygen end of line comments on declarations in Python

Question

In C/C++, you can force doxygen to recognize that a comment applies to the text preceding it on a line. Any of these:

int my_variable;                 /*!< This is my variable */
int my_variable;                 /**< This is my variable */
int my_variable;                 //!< This is my variable
int my_variable;                 ///< This is my variable

adds the string to the documentation for my_variable . Trying the equivalent in Python doesn't seem to work. This works:

## This is my variable
my_variable = None

This:

my_variable = None               ## This is my variable
my_other_variable = None

attaches the documentation to my_other_variable , as you'd expect, but both of these:

my_variable = None               ##< This is my variable
my_variable = None               #!< This is my variable

seem to just discard the documentation. Is there a way to do the equivalent of //!< in Python?

Answer 1

No, at the moment this is not supported.

The parser for Python was provided by a couple of students. While they did a good job overall, they did not implement all the features that are available for C/C++.

Two most notable features that are missing are:

• support for documenting stuff after the definition
  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361813
• support for cross-referencing and call graphs
  http://old.nabble.com/Python-callgraph-td24224054.html

Hopefully I get around to add these in the future, but any help is welcome.