A simple example and cheat sheet for using Sphinx to document small Python modules.
reStructured Text cheat sheet: https://davidstutz.github.io/sphinx-example/#index
Python documentation cheat sheet: module/__init__.py
$ sudo apt-get install python-sphinx
$ sudo pip install sphinx
# Depends on which version you prefer ...
$ sudo pip3 install sphinx
Sphinx offers an easy quickstart:
$ mkdir docs
$ cd docs
# Quickstart, select yes for apidoc and mathjax and for splitting build and source.
$ sphinx-quickstart
$ sphinx
Choose to separate source and build directories, choose project name and version and the autodoc extension.
If the code/module to be documentation is accessable from the root directory, edit docs/source/conf.py as follows:
import os
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('../../'))
Then the modules can be automatically documented using:
$ sphinx-apidoc -f -o source/ ../
$ make html
For modules or dependencies not supporting Python 3, docs/Makefile can ba adapted:
SPHINXBUILD = python -c "import sys,sphinx;sys.exit(sphinx.main(sys.argv))"
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