The documentation in html, pdf or epub format is generated from text files written using the restructuredtext format and contained in the cpython git repository. Using unicode with sphinx, restructuredtext, and pdf output. A simple tutorial on how to document your python project using sphinx and. Doctest blocks are interactive python sessions cutandpasted into docstrings.
Broken reference to label in included file pdf output. It also offers plaintext, pdf, epub, and latex builders. There are several different docstring formats which one can use in order to enable sphinxs autodoc extension to automatically generate documentation. Weve written a few for the matplotlib documentation, some of which are part of matplotlib itself in the matplotlib. The documents to include are given as document names, which in short means. The autodoc extension allows you to include restructuredtext in your docstrings, and will build an api reference automatically for your module from the. All the content is extracted from stack overflow documentation, which is written by many hardworking individuals at stack overflow. Automatic python documentation with sphinx autodoc and. After installing atlassian confluence builder for sphinx, a sphinx project can be configured to support the confluence builder. You can also build it as a single page html document. It is neither affiliated with stack overflow nor official pythonsphinx. This section provides an overview of what pythonsphinx is, and why a developer might want to use it. The answer by vimalkumar velayudhan is really helpful, but, on the other hand, its too advanced to use for a common technical writer.
To get an idea of the syntax, click on the show source link in the right side bar, in any page the advantage of the rest syntax resides in its humanreadable nature, which makes it useful to include inside your source code e. In your docsource directory is now a python file called conf. Sphinx can be installed usinghomebrew4,macports5, or as part of a python distribution such asanaconda6. Problem labels in files included using include file.
Standard rest literal blocks are started by at the end of the preceding paragraph and delimited by indentation. Sphinx provides a nice entry point via the sphinx bootstrap theme. The generated pdf will be in the buildpdf directory. It is unclear, on any given system, if the usrbinsphinx tools will be using python2 or python3, however projects which depend on sphinx must be able to assert that sphinx is installed for their python version, and have an api stable way of. Build latex sources that can be compiled to a pdf document using pdflatex. Sphinx is a documentation tool that creates html, css, and javascript files from restructured text files. In my project, ive got a doc subdirectory with the. Ill be using sphinx and rinohtype to produce an html and pdf documentation. By properly documenting your source code, sphinx will be able to generate nice looking documentation i like html for your project. This tool provides an alternative by producing pdf directly using the reportlab library. Documenting python packages with sphinx and readthedocs. This post is mostly a summary of the fantastic guide by sam nicholls found here, but with one important addition see the section on mocking. It contains generic code to convert pythondocstyle latex markup to.
Enables a builder to generate confluencecompatible markup documentation. Build manual pages in groff format for unix systems. Sphinx also adds a few custom directives the prefixed functions like the toctree which allows you to embed the table of contents and link to another document. Sphinx not parallel installable for python2 and python3. Sphinx works with either major versions of python active today, python 2 and python 3. Python documentation using sphinx patricks software blog. Sphinx is far and away the most popular python documentation tool.
Since the updated version covers python 3, and one of the key benefits of python 3 is better unicode support, i want to include some characters outside of the normal ascii set in my examples. Thus a data package transferred to or from the module will include a header, address, package identifier, package length, package content and checksum. Custom sphinx directives are used to show jupyter notebook code cells and of course their results in both html and latex output. Built with sphinx using a theme provided by read the docs. Generating python documentation for packagesmodules can be quite time consuming, but theres a way to generate it automatically from docstrings. Documentation style guide style guide for sphinxbased. One of sphinxs main objectives is easy documentation of objects in a very general sense in any domain. The getting started guide is a good place to start. I have a pdf that has some in depth explanation for an example in the sphinx documentation for a package i have.
Install either python3sphinx python 3 or pythonsphinx python 2 using. Sphinx with markdown how to use markdown with sphinx including markdown tables that sphinx does not handle by default for pdf and html. A simple tutorial on how to document your python project using. The references are displayed as the name of the label in the pdf output instead of a clickable lin.
This tutorial will walk you through the initial steps writing restructuredtext and sphinx, and deploying that code to read the docs. Python 3 is the current and recommended version, and python 2 is an unsupported python version. Sphinx extensions for embedded plots, math and more matplotlib. Sphinx is written in python, and supports the ability to write custom extensions. For this tutorial we will use the sphinx format, since, as the name suggests, it is the standar format used with sphinx. For sphinx actually, the python interpreter that executes sphinx to find your module, it must be importable. Sphinx is much like python in this regard, but without a strong. How to create a pdf out of sphinx documentation tool. If that is what is at stake, it can be achieved using a suitable \addtocontents, at a. I have projects i generated with an older version of sphinx not sure what version, but it was 2016, that generated a much larger make. You can also embed external dot files, by giving the file. It was originally created for the python documentation, and it has excellent facilities for the documentation of software projects in a range of languages. For converting the old python docs to sphinx, a converter was written which can be found atthe python svn repository6. Using unicode with sphinx, restructuredtext, and pdf.
Since the documentation for pythonsphinx is new, you may need to create initial versions of those related topics. A domain is a collection of object types that belong together, complete with markup to create and reference descriptions of these objects. Sphinx, along with tox, makes it easy to write and beautiful to look at. Documentation using a custom theme or integrated in a website. Api project i wrote that manages a list of teacher records github project link. Sphinx uses this to provide semantic markup and crossreferencing of. Python code can include documentation right inside its source code. The restructuredtext book documentation, release 1.
The default way of doing so relies on docstrings, which are defined in a triple quote format. Is there a way to easily include the pdf in my project and have it copy over when i. Is there a way to easily include the pdf in my project and have it copy over when i build the docs. Jupyter notebook tools for sphinx nbsphinx version 0. Sphinx has come a long way since this tutorial was. It contains generic code to convert pythondocstyle latex markup to sphinx. Be aware that there are at least two other packages with sphinxin their name. If a techcomm team is unable to easily export documentation to pdf using the existing tool, then it doesnt prop. Welcome to my sphinx tutorial, which is now in its fourth year at pycon. Including external files in sphinx reinout van rees. Writing docstrings sphinxrtdtutorial documentation. It converts restructuredtext markup language into a range of output formats including html, latex for printable pdf versions, manual pages, and plain text there is also great, free hosting for your sphinx docs. The documentation in html, pdf or epub format is generated from text files written.
Read the docs is a documentation hosting service based around sphinx. For converting the old python docs to sphinx, a converter was written which can be found atthe python svn repository. You can configure it with commit hooks to your source. The usual way of creating pdf from restructuredtext is by going through latex. This is relevant for only directives that only include their content if this tag is set. This document describes the style guide for our documentation as well as the custom restructuredtext markup introduced by sphinx to support python documentation and how it should be used. This extension uses the javascript package mathjax to transform. Sphinx extensions for embedded plots, math and more. Sphinx with markdown how to use markdown with sphinx. Work on rst2pdf has restarted on github, with the goals of supporting python 3, addressing outstanding issues, and not breaking. Of course, this site is also created from restructuredtext sources using sphinx. Whats the best way to include a pdf in my sphinx documentation. That means that the module or the package must be in one of the directories on sys. They will host sphinx documentation, along with supporting a number of other features including version support, pdf generation, and more.
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