doxygen syntax in python

Question

Can somebody please help me to figure out how to comment python code correctly to get parsed by doxygen?

Somehow it ignores the tags. The output (HTML) shows the tags:

@brief Creates a new Hello object.
This Hello Object is beeing used to ...

@param name The name of the user.

---

Both variants I tried do not work:

class Hello:
    """@brief short description...

    longer description
    """
    def __init__(self, name):
    """@brief Creates a new Hello object.

    This Hello Object is beeing used to ...

    @param name The name of the user.
    """
        self.name = name

---

class Hello:
    """\brief short description...

    longer description
    """
    def __init__(self, name):
    """\brief Creates a new Hello object.

    This Hello Object is beeing used to ...

    \param name The name of the user.
    """
        self.name = name

Answer 1

Doxygen has also undocumented feature (or bug): It parses Doxygen syntax in docstring if you start docstring with an exclamation mark:

class Hello: 
    def __init__(self, name):
    """!@brief Creates a new Hello object.

    This Hello Object is being used to...

    @param name The name of the user.
    """
    self.name = name
        dosomething(12)

    def dosomething(x):         
        dosomethingelse

Note that in Python docsting, you need to use @ instead of \ to start Doxygen commands (backslash works as an escape character in docstring).