Is there a way to add docstring to user defined functions in databricks?

[pvignesh92]

@Hitesh Agarwal​ Hi. AFAIK, I don't see any examples with docstring in udf. We just add the comments using typical comment way. Is there anything in particular, you want to achieve using docstring?

[hitesh22]

@Vigneshraja Palaniraj​ Hi, normal VS Code we can add docstring to python code but I was unable to do the same in databricks. After the latest updates in databricks we get auto-completion feature, also, when you hover over a system defined function there's a dialog box which gives you function definition, basic info and function return type. I wanted to achieve the same with user defined functios using docstring

[pvignesh92]

Hi @Hitesh Agarwal​ Yes I get that. I don't see anything like that available yet. Let us see if any new feature is available for the same in upcoming releases.

[Debayan]

Hi, I am not sure if this helps: https://www.databricks.com/blog/2020/12/15/python-autocomplete-improvements-for-databricks-notebooks...

Also, please tag @Debayan​ with your next response which will notify me. Thank you!

[hitesh22]

@Debayan Mukherjee​ I have gone through this article and this doesn't helps as it mentions how to see docstrings for a system defined function but not how to add docstrings to user defined functions.