Docstring review

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -54,6 +54,13 @@ jobs:
       - name: Format with Ruff
         run: ruff format --check .
 
+      - name: Lint with Flake8 (for docstrings)
+        if: ${{ contains('3.12,3.13', matrix.python) }}
+        # Flake8 crashes on Python < 3.12, so we exclude those versions.
+        # Flake8 is primarily here to lint the docstrings, which
+        # does not need to happen under multiple versions.
+        run: flake8 src
+
       - name: Test with pytest
         run: pytest --cov=src --cov-report=lcov
 

.readthedocs.yaml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ version: 2
 build:
   os: ubuntu-22.04
   tools:
-    python: "3.11"
+    python: "3.12"
 
 # Build documentation in the "docs/" directory with Sphinx
 sphinx:
@@ -24,4 +24,5 @@ sphinx:
 # See https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/reproducible-builds.html
 python:
   install:
-    - requirements: docs/requirements.txt
+    - requirements: dev-requirements.txt
+    - path: .

README.md

@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@
 
 # labthings-fastapi
 
-A FastAPI based library to implement a [Web of Things] interface for laboratory hardware using Python. This is a ground-up rewrite of [python-labthings], replacing Flask 1 and Marshmallow with FastAPI and Pydantic. It is the underlying framework for v3 of the [OpenFlexure Microscope software].
+A FastAPI based library to implement a [Web of Things] interface for laboratory hardware using Python. This is a ground-up rewrite of [python-labthings], based on FastAPI and Pydantic. It is the underlying framework for v3 of the [OpenFlexure Microscope software].
+
+Documentation, including install instructions, is available on [readthedocs].
 
 Features include:
 
@@ -18,7 +20,7 @@ Features include:
     - Dependency injection is used to manage relationships between Things and dependency on the server
 * Async HTTP handling
     - Starlette (used by FastAPI) can handle requests asynchronously - potential for websockets/events (not used much yet)
-    - `Thing` code is still, for now, threaded. I intend to make it possible to write async things in the future, but don't intend it to become mandatory
+    - `Thing` code is still, for now, threaded. It may become possible to write async things in the future, but won't become mandatory
 * Smaller codebase
     - FastAPI more or less completely eliminates OpenAPI generation code from our codebase
     - Thing Description generation is very much simplified by the new structure (multiple Things instead of one massive Thing with many extensions)
@@ -28,11 +30,11 @@ Features include:
 
 ## Installation
 
-You can install this repository with `pip install labthings-fastapi`. It may at some point be renamed to `labthings` v2. For the latest development version, either clone it and run `pip install -e .[dev]` to work on it, or just `pip install https://gitlab.com/rwb27/labthings-fastapi.git`.
+See [readthedocs] for installation instructions that are automatically tested. You can install this package with `pip install labthings-fastapi`. It may at some point be renamed to `labthings` v2. For the latest development version, either clone it and run `pip install -e .[dev]` to work on it, or just `pip install https://gitlab.com/rwb27/labthings-fastapi.git`.
 
 ## Developer notes
 
-The code is linted with `ruff .`, type checked with `mypy src`, and tested with `pytest`. These all run in CI with GitHub Actions. The codebase is not even `v0.1` yet so it's still subject to summary rearrangement. We recommend a [pre-commit hook] to ensure `ruff` passes on every commit.
+The code is linted with `ruff .`, type checked with `mypy src`, and tested with `pytest`. These all run in CI with GitHub Actions. The codebase is not even `v0.1` yet so it's still subject to summary rearrangement. We recommend a [pre-commit hook] to ensure `ruff` passes on every commit. `flake8` is also run in CI, primarily to enable stricter checks on docstrings. It is run as `flake8 src`. `ruff` and `flake8` are both configured from `pyproject.toml`.
 
 Dependencies are defined in `pyproject.toml` and can be compiled to `dev-requirements.txt` with:
 ```
@@ -44,9 +46,10 @@ All changes to the codebase should go via pull requests, and should only be merg
 
 ## Demo
 
-See the [examples folder](./examples/) for a runnable demo.
+See [readthedocs] for a runnable demo.
 
 [Web of Things]: https://www.w3.org/WoT/
 [python-labthings]: https://github.com/labthings/python-labthings/
 [OpenFlexure Microscope software]: https://gitlab.com/openflexure/openflexure-microscope-server/
 [pre-commit hook]: https://openflexure.org/contribute#use-git-hooks-for-ci-checks
+[readthedocs]: https://labthings-fastapi.readthedocs.io/