doxygen syntax in python

Question

Can somebody please help me to figure out how to comment python code correctly to get parsed by doxygen?

Somehow it ignores the tags. The output (HTML) shows the tags:<

Answer 1

For doxygen to recognize the special commands in Python comments you have to use the following comment form:

class Hello: 
    ## \brief Short description.
    # Longer description. 
    # \param self
    # \param name
    def __init__(self, name):         
        dosomething(12)

    def dosomething(x):         
        dosomethingelse

See http://www.doxygen.nl/manual/docblocks.html#pythonblocks

Answer 2

Doxygen has also undocumented feature (or bug): It parses Doxygen syntax in docstring if you start docstring with an exclamation mark:

class Hello: 
    def __init__(self, name):
    """!@brief Creates a new Hello object.

    This Hello Object is being used to...

    @param name The name of the user.
    """
    self.name = name
        dosomething(12)

    def dosomething(x):         
        dosomethingelse

Note that in Python docsting, you need to use @ instead of \ to start Doxygen commands (backslash works as an escape character in docstring).