<p>Is there a way to describe the module's data in a similar way that a docstring describes a module or a funcion?</p>

<pre><code>class MyClass(object):
    def my_function():
        """This docstring works!"""
        return True
    my_list = []
    """This docstring does not work!"""
</code></pre>

To my knowledge, it is not possible to assign docstrings to module data members.
PEP 224
suggests this feature, but the PEP was rejected.
I suggest you document the data members of a module in the module's docstring:
```
```
# module.py:
"""About the module.

module.data: contains the word "spam"

"""

data = "spam"
```
```