Fix attrs incompatibility of pydoclint

* Pin pydoclint to version 0.5.1 (now also in pre-commit)
* Deactivate incompatible `check-class-attributes` option

For details, see: jsh9/pydoclint#140

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ repos:
   rev: 7.0.0
   hooks:
     - id: flake8
-      additional_dependencies: [pydoclint]  
+      additional_dependencies: [pydoclint==0.5.1]  
       args: [--select=DOC, --config=pydoclint.toml]
 - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
   rev: v0.1.6

pydoclint.toml

@@ -1,10 +1,17 @@
 # The following are options that are used for pydoclint
 # Note that we need to use pydoclint as a flake8 plugin as we cannot have the
 # in-line noqa exclusions otherwise
+
 [flake8]
 # Use google docstring style 
-style=google
-# We do not have the type hints in the docstrings
-arg-type-hints-in-docstring=False 
-# We do not have the return types in the docstrings
-check-return-types=False
+style=google  
+
+# We do not repeat parameter type hints in docstrings
+arg-type-hints-in-docstring=False
+
+# We do not repeat return types in the docstrings
+check-return-types=False 
+
+# As of 0.5.2, pydoclint breaks with attrs classes
+# https://github.com/jsh9/pydoclint/issues/140
+check-class-attributes=False  

pyproject.toml

@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ examples = [
 lint = [
     "flake8==7.0.0", # see DEV TOOLS NOTE
     "pre-commit==2.19.0", # see DEV TOOLS NOTE
-    "pydoclint==0.2.1", # see DEV TOOLS NOTE
+    "pydoclint==0.5.1", # see DEV TOOLS NOTE
     "ruff==0.1.6", # see DEV TOOLS NOTE
     "typos==1.16.23" # see DEV TOOLS NOTE
 ]