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 Doc strings are preferred on all new modules, functions, classes, and methods, as they help others understand your code.
 We use the `sphinx` formatting style, which for pycharm users is the default.
 
+Lack of docstrings, or them not passing some checks, *will* cause a flake8 
+failure in our setup.
+
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