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This document assesses the quality and completeness of docstrings for all API items referenced in the expanded API documentation.
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This document assesses the quality and completeness of docstrings for all API items referenced in the expanded API documentation.
Overall, the docstring quality is good to excellent for most items. Many classes and functions have comprehensive docstrings with usage examples, while some core classes could benefit from class-level docstrings.
These have detailed docstrings with usage examples and clear descriptions:
from_provider - Comprehensive docstring with Args, Returns, Raises, and Examples sections. Includes multiple usage examples showing basic usage, caching, and async clients.llm_validator - Good docstring with usage examples, parameter descriptions, and error message examples showing how validation errors are formatted.CitationMixin - Excellent docstring with complete usage examples showing how to use it with context, and result examples showing the output structure.IterableModel - Good docstring with usage examples showing before/after transformation, Parameters section, and Returns description.Maybe - Good docstring with usage examples and result structure showing the generated model fields.BatchProcessor - Good class-level docstring explaining the unified interface. Methods like create_batch_from_messages and submit_batch have clear Args and Returns sections.Instructions - Good docstring with parameter descriptions. The distil method has usage examples showing decorator usage patterns.Hooks - Excellent class-level docstring explaining the purpose. Methods like on(), get_hook_name(), emit(), etc. have comprehensive docstrings with Args, Returns, Raises, and Examples sections.generate_openai_schema - Good docstring with Args, Returns, and Notes sections explaining how docstrings are used.generate_anthropic_schema - Has docstring explaining the conversion process.Audio - Good class-level docstring. Methods like autodetect() and autodetect_safely() have clear docstrings with Args and Returns.InstructorError - Excellent docstring with Attributes section, Examples showing error handling, and See Also references.IncompleteOutputException - Good docstring with Attributes, Common Solutions, and Examples.InstructorRetryException - Comprehensive docstring with Attributes, Common Causes, Examples, and See Also.ValidationError - Good docstring with Examples and See Also.ProviderError - Good docstring with Attributes, Common Causes, and Examples.ConfigurationError - Good docstring with Common Scenarios and Examples.ModeError - Good docstring with Attributes, Examples, and See Also.ClientError - Good docstring with Common Scenarios and Examples.AsyncValidationError - Good docstring with Attributes and Examples.ResponseParsingError - Good docstring with Attributes, Examples, and backwards compatibility notes.MultimodalError - Good docstring with Attributes, Examples, and backwards compatibility notes.These have adequate docstrings but could benefit from more examples or additional detail:
Instructor - No class-level docstring. Methods have type hints but lack comprehensive docstrings. The class is well-documented through usage in examples, but a class-level docstring would help.AsyncInstructor - Similar to Instructor, no class-level docstring.Response - No class-level docstring. Methods like create() and create_with_completion() lack docstrings.from_openai - No docstring. Only has type overloads. The implementation exists but lacks documentation explaining usage, parameters, and return values.OpenAISchema - Good method docstrings for openai_schema, anthropic_schema, gemini_schema, and from_response(). The class itself could use a class-level docstring explaining its purpose and usage.openai_schema - Decorator function, but the docstring is on the class method, not the decorator itself.Partial - Minimal docstring. Has Notes and Example sections but could benefit from more comprehensive usage examples showing streaming scenarios.Image - No class-level docstring. Methods have good docstrings (autodetect(), autodetect_safely(), from_gs_url(), etc.), but the class itself lacks documentation.Mode - Good class-level docstring explaining what modes are and how they work. Individual mode values lack docstrings but the enum docstring is comprehensive.Provider - No class-level docstring. Just enum values without explanation.patch - Good docstring explaining what features it enables (response_model, max_retries, validation_context, strict, hooks). Could benefit from usage examples.apatch - Need to check if it has similar docstring quality.
- Should have a class-level docstring explaining:Instructor
- Should have a class-level docstring explaining:AsyncInstructor
Instructor
- Should have a class-level docstring explaining:Response
- Should have a class-level docstring explaining:Image
- Should have a class-level docstring explaining:Provider
- Needs comprehensive docstring with:from_openai
- No docstring. Only has type overloads. Similar to from_litellm
from_openai, needs comprehensive docstring.
Partial - Could add more streaming examplespatch - Could add usage examples showing before/afterapatch - Has docstring but marked as deprecated ("No longer necessary, use patch instead"). Docstring is adequate but the deprecation should be more prominent.openai_schema - Has minimal docstring. Could expand with usage examples showing how to use the decorator.Instructor and AsyncInstructor - These are the core classes users interact withfrom_openai - Important client creation functionResponse - Helper class that needs explanationImage - Commonly used multimodal classProvider - Enum that could use explanationPartial docstring with more streaming examplespatch docstringopenai_schema docstring with examplesapatch deprecation message to be more prominentGrade: B+
The documentation is generally good with many excellent examples, but the core classes (
Instructor, AsyncInstructor, Response) would benefit significantly from class-level docstrings. The DSL components and utility functions are well-documented, and the exception classes have comprehensive docstrings.
The mkdocs autodoc plugin will generate API documentation from these docstrings, so improving them will directly improve the generated API reference pages.