Auto generate docstring

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From @DonJayamanne on June 16, 2016 2:9

Copied from original issue: DonJayamanne/pythonVSCode#165

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Suggestions for #183

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From @diazgilberto on March 9, 2017 18:5

Is this feature working yet? If so, I can't find in VSC how to make it work.

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From @mcepl on March 17, 2017 18:25

PyCharm has it, so when I define a new function, it gives me at least this:

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From @changkun on May 28, 2017 5:59

looking forward for this feature..

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From @robodair on June 11, 2017 3:22

@DonJayamanne I'd like to have a crack at this, at the moment I'm fixing unit tests on master.

Any pointers on where to start? I'm new to vscode extensions.

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@robodair have a look at the following. My suggestion is to first get it working as a stand alone JavaScript piece of code, then try to plug into vscode using typescript.
https://packagecontrol.io/packages/AutoDocstring

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If you need a some more info, let know and I'll try to put something together.

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From @robodair on June 18, 2017 4:16

Javascript really doesn't seem like the tool for the job here, I feel like I'm fighting with it constantly just to extract arguments (albeit with regex) and there's no way I'm writing a python parser.

I'm thinking of doing something similar to what you've done with Jedi - so I can call out to some python code to actually work out the docstrings and just tie it into the extension more loosely, possibly adapt or generalise SublimeAutoDocstring to support both VSCode and Sublime.

Any reason that's a Bad Thing^TM?

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From @gandhis1 on June 18, 2017 4:56

That's how the entire extension is designed. None of the syntactical components are in JS. It's all Python components.

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From @robodair on June 18, 2017 5:23

Neat, I'll work on adding this as a completion provider then.

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From @Marcos-Barranquero on August 29, 2017 0:25

Would be awesome.

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From @Odame on September 2, 2017 8:21

Looking forward to this feature