How to spell check python docstring with emacs?

docstring, emacs, python, spell-checking

Solution

I recommend you to try `flyspell-mode`. You could use something like:

(add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode)

in your Emacs configuration.

Problem

I'd like to run a spell checker on the docstrings of my Python code, if possible from within emacs. I've found the ispell-check-comments setting which can be used to spell check only comments in code, but I was not able to target only the docstrings which are a fairly python-specific thing.

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