Is there a way to make Eclipse (with pydev) insert an empty docstring at the start of every class or def statement?

Question

I'm trying to get in the habit of writing docstrings, and one way I think I could force myself to do that would be by automatically having Eclipse insert an empty docstring when I type a class or a def statement. It's only 8 key presses but it seems handy to me. Would creating my own Eclipse plugin be the best method? Just for reference, I'd like it to look something like this (yes I know the function is silly, it's just a demo):

def timeInit():
    '''

    '''
    return ti.time()

Answer 1

PyDev doesn't do that automatically, but you can do Ctrl+1 in the def line and select the option for it to generate the docstring for you (it'll include all params in the docstring).

Another option is creating a template (in preferences > pydev > editor > templates) which automatically comes with the docstring and then use it to create the method (or you can edit the existing def template.