Can I turn on missing-docstring for "private" functions?

[red8888]

Question

missing-docstring is not being applied to my functions staring with "_".

Related to this closed issue: #3177

I'm really confused about this behavior. I want docstrings for all my functions including my functions starting with "_". Why wouldn't I want that? Is there a way to turn this on?

Documentation for future user

Setting to apply missing-docstring on functions starting with "_".

Additional context

No response

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

I guess the reasoning is that you want docstrings for your API, so only on public function. If a function is private then you're not showing it in your doc, and it does not need a docstring. (As an aside, this check is already annoying as is, most of the time the name of the arguments should be descriptive enough and we want to deactivate by default, see #3512),

If we want to permit to check private function and inner function then we should add an option like check-private_function-for-missing-docstring that would be False by default.