I have been working on this inhouse and before i leave soon i want to leave behind detailed documentation accessible by the new devsadmins for the site. Sphinx domain to mark up restful web services in rest. A domain is meant to be a group of object description directives for objects of a similar nature, and corresponding roles to create references to them. Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful. For python, there is only one required configuration option that we need to set. One of sphinx s main objectives is easy documentation of objects in a very general sense in any domain. However, for general amusement and digital archaeologists, we also offer all the previous versions in the archive section, too. A domain is a collection of object types that belong together, complete with markup to create and reference descriptions of these objects. The same source code archive can also be used to build the windows and mac versions, and is the starting point for ports to all other platforms. For example, say we have a package and we have used sphinx quickstart to create a sphinx project in a docs folder. Setting up sphinx to document python projects david stutz.
Browse other questions tagged python documentation python sphinx docstring or. If youre not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages. This article gives a brief overview of setting up sphinx on ubuntu. It is up to the domains how specific a match must be. Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation for python projects or other documents consisting of multiple restructuredtext sources, written by georg brandl. Domains can also provide custom indices like the python module index. How to generate sphinx documentation for python code running in an embedded system edit here is a stepbystep list.
Bsd and public domain and python and mit or gplv2 maintainer download size. It is an easy way to include doxygen information in a set of documentation generated by sphinx. The aim is to produce an autodoc like support for people who enjoy using sphinx but work with languages other than python. This package contains the sphinxcontribgolangdomain sphinx extension.
Using sphinx for python documentation shuns vineyard. Be aware that there are at least two other packages with sphinx in their name. See sphinx build configuration file docs for more information on the settings below. It does not automatically extract anything from the python sources without these files. Contribute to djungelorm sphinx csharp development by creating an account on github.
This file was originally created by sphinx quickstart, then modified by hand. The suggested downloads are the current version plus the dictionaries. This can either be absolute, or relative to sphinx s conf. You can also download pdfepub versions of the sphinx documentation from pop up. Chapter one introduction this is the documentation for the sphinx documentation builder. This tutorial uses a simple python project sample project to demonstrates how to use sphinx to generate htmlbased documents. Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by georg brandl and licensed under the bsd license.
Sphinx has more information about referencing python objects on their website. Your next sphinx domain could be a specific programming language sphinx was developed to create python s documentation. Then, it looks for objects targets in all loaded domains. Allows you to annotate php objects in your sphinx docs. The sample project is a simple binary search tree and binary tree traversal implementation.
You can document it with a custom domain, adding directives and indexes along the way. Be aware that there are at least two other packages with sphinxin their name. Sphinx domain to mark up restful web services in rest 0. How to document python packages using sphinx stack overflow. Sphinx uses this to provide semantic markup and crossreferencing of. This is very rudimentary and experimental code at the moment. The domain name portion of the address should be lower case.
Or you might have a command line tool that implements the same command pattern e. See the chapel domain reference for a description of directives and roles provided by this domain. This sphinx extension provides a domain for documenting scala apis. The documentation can further be complemented using restructuredtext a markup language similar to markdown.
If no other default is selected, the python domain named py is the default one, mostly for compatibility with documentation written for older versions of sphinx. Sphinx docfx yaml is an exporter for the sphinx python domain into docfx yaml format. Sphinx is a tool that translates a set ofrestructuredtext3 source. Using sphinx for php project documentation sitepoint. Most linux distributions have sphinx in their package repositories.
How do i reference a documented python function parameter using sphinx markup. The main purpose of the sample project is not only to be a sample code for this sphinx tutorial, but also to. I wrote a guide to use sphinx for python code used in embedded systems, but the first steps of the guide might be useful to you as well. Building custom documentation workflows with sphinx. Usually the package is called python3 sphinx, python sphinx or sphinx. Latest pypi version documentation status build status. From the doc directory make sure to install sphinx, blurb and pythondocstheme packages from pypi. For most unix systems, you must download and compile the source code. How do i reference a documented python function parameter. Install either python3sphinx python 3 or pythonsphinx python 2. Examples would be python modules, classes, functions etc. It is well documented by following numpy style docstrings. Directive and role names in a domain have names like domain.
After this sphinx apidoc o does generates documentation for me. Alternatively, you can clone the sphinxcontrib repository. I am currently writing some extensive documentation using sphinx for a rather complex django web site. Sphinx is a python documentation tool that allows to automatically create clear documentation by parsing python docstrings. For tips on developing the chapel domain as opposed to using the directives, see the developer documentation. Custom objects added to the standard domain by extensions see sphinx. This extension can be installed from the python package index. It will enable other language support except python and c language.