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docstrings are inconsistent making Sphinx documentation not display properly

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Issue type
Documentation
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Mostly clear
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Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation

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Start by comparing the docstrings in azure-devops/azure/devops/v7_0/build/build_client.py (around lines 14–18) with azure-devops/azure/devops/v7_0/build/models.py (around lines 12–26). Build the Sphinx documentation to identify the formatting failures, then check the affected module docstrings and confirm the documentation compiles successfully.

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Description

Related to Issue: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-devops-python-api/issues/349

When using Sphinx to build documentation for this Python module, it appears that there are some modules that do not have appropriate spacing between the summary and the parameters docstrings causing Sphinx to not compile properly.

Some of the docstrings do not have spaces like:

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https://github.com/microsoft/azure-devops-python-api/blob/b2d0009b2cc457452bc1f8c79b134de877680b06/azure-devops/azure/devops/v7_0/build/build_client.py#L14-L18

But the functional lines that display properly have space around the description, like:

image

https://github.com/microsoft/azure-devops-python-api/blob/b2d0009b2cc457452bc1f8c79b134de877680b06/azure-devops/azure/devops/v7_0/build/models.py#L12-L26

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