Sphinx Napoleon Extension

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verified May 23, 2026

Sphinxcontrib-napoleon is a Sphinx extension that acts as a pre-processor, enabling Sphinx to parse and convert both NumPy and Google style docstrings into reStructuredText. This allows developers to write more legible and less verbose docstrings in their Python code. The standalone `sphinxcontrib-napoleon` package is currently at version 0.7, with its last release in 2018. While this package is maintained for compatibility with older Sphinx versions (<=1.2), its core functionality has been integrated directly into Sphinx as `sphinx.ext.napoleon` since Sphinx 1.3, making the `sphinx.ext.napoleon` path the modern standard for newer Sphinx projects.

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