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Consider adding sphinx-autodoc-typehints to requirements.txt

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Description

@pauleveritt suggests the use of sphinx-autodoc-typehints to auto-document docstrings and typehints. In addition to the nice formatting, the return type of one class can be hyperlinked to another in the documentation.

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Research direction

Start by locating requirements.txt and checking how documentation dependencies are declared. Confirm that sphinx-autodoc-typehints is included there and that the documentation setup recognizes it; the work is done when the dependency is recorded and the documentation build remains functional.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
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1/5
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Under an hour
Activity status
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Newbie friendliness
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