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How to document properties parameters?

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Description

I'm wondering how to porperly document property getters and setters. Until now, I've been documenting everything in the getter, leaving the setter without docstring. That way, the generated HTML documentation shows the whole property documentation. However, I get a PR02: Unknown parameters warning on my getters since they have a Parameters section documenting the parameters of the setter. What am I doing wrong?

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Review the documentation for property getters and setters and the PR02 parameter validation behavior. Reproduce the warning described in the issue, then determine and document the supported convention so generated HTML retains the property documentation without reporting unknown parameters.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
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