Docstrings provide documentation for user-defined functions

__doc__ and help() both provide documentation of the object instance or the function respectively
The syntax of a multi-line docstring goes into the body of a function

'''
Summary of function in this line
 
Parameters:
	param1 (type) -- what is this parameter?
	param2 (type) -- what is this parameter?
 
Returns:
	type -- what is returned?
'''