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Generate Beautiful Project Documentation from Python Source Code Automatically

Automatically generate a markdown summary of function docstrings from any Python source file using the AST module.

ast automation documentation
Python 
import ast
import inspect
from pathlib import Path

def extract_docstrings_from_file(filepath):
    """Parse a Python file and collect function docstrings."""
    source = Path(filepath).read_text()
    tree = ast.parse(source)

    docs = []
    for node in ast.walk(tree):
        if isinstance(node, (ast.FunctionDef…
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