An idiots guide to python documentation with sphinx and readthedocs sam nicholls 15th june 2016 17th january 2018 no comments yet documentation, python this is the third occasion that ive come to set up a python package with all the trimmings, including nice looking sphinxbacked documentation hosted on readthedocs. Fix failure of the cpp domain parser to parse a const type with a modifier. When it is used at the end of a sentence, sphinx is smart and displays one. Most items can be left to their default value, but here we highlight some convenient ones to edit. Assuming that during sphinxquickstart you said yes to enabling the autodoc extension. Sphinx is published on pypi and can be installed from there. You can see this concept with our codeblock directive above. Setting up a sphinx example project and scaffolding real. Problem is that usrbin sphinx quickstart is from the old package, not from the new one. To verify that sphinx is installed, run the sphinxbuild command with the help. The sphinxquickstart script generates a sphinx documentation set. Generate sphinx documentation python documentation generator. Here is a list of the default used in this project. Problem is that usrbinsphinxquickstart is from the old package, not from the new one.
The sphinxquickstart command will ask you some questions. If any modules have side effects on import, these will be executed by autodoc when sphinx build is run. To ease the process of getting started, sphinx provides a tool, sphinxquickstart, which will generate a documentation source directory and populate it with some defaults. Type which sphinxquickstart to check if the installation was successful. To check if you already have python installed, open the command prompt. Try to run sphinxquickstart or other sphinx commands actual results. Once sphinx is installed, you can proceed with setting up your first sphinx project. As ive mentioned in part 1, sphinx as an automatic documentation generator for python is neither convenient nor simple. Make sure you have sphinx installed, then set the sphinxbuild environment variable to point to the full path of the sphinxbuild executable. Apr 26, 2020 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. Oct 15, 2015 thats seems not enough for the install using pip to set things up and for a proper build of the sphinxquickstart command.
Sphinx project configuration file when you create a new project with sphinxquickstart, the projects main configuration file, conf. If it not already present, this will install python for you. If i run the command on the bash command line it is found as usrbinsphinxquickstart. This command automatically generates a basic file structure and configuration you will need to create documentation. Rebuilding cause crash unexpectedly when source files were added. May 23, 2015 if i run the command on the bash command line it is found as usrbinsphinxquickstart. Report bugs, suggest features or view the source code on github. You can also give one or more filenames on the command line after the. Installing sphinx is as easy as pip install sphinx on linux and windows.
If you wish to install sphinx for development purposes, refer to the contributors guide. If everything worked fine, you will see the version number for the sphinx package you just installed. Aug 14, 2015 test documentation master file, created by sphinx quickstart on sat aug 8 20. If it is not present, add a new variable called path. Were going to use the sphinxquickstart tool here, though its use is by no means necessary. The main function of the master document is to serve as a welcome page, and to contain the root of the table of contents tree or toctree. Quiet mode that will skip interactive wizard to specify options. Setting up a sphinx example project and scaffolding. Nov, 2017 getting started with sphinx documentation master file, created by sphinx quickstart on mon nov 11.
The sphinx python documentation generator was originally created to build python documentation, and then it evolved into a good generalpurpose documentation creator. Turn a hard copy book into a webbased version with sphinx. Just upgraded from f23 to f25 and found that sphinxquickstart is not working. Sphinx master file has been generated by sphinxquickstart command. Install and use sphinx documentation generator on centos 7. A thorough syntax guide for restructured text rest and how it is used within sphinx can be found here. Locally i use windows, and sphinx installation works fine. When sphinx is installed, you can go to your code folder and start sphinx by typing in the command window. To get started, cd into the documentation directory and type. Installing sphinx installing sphinx is as easy as pip install sphinx on linux and windows. Nov 10, 2015 the sphinx python documentation generator was originally created to build python documentation, and then it evolved into a good generalpurpose documentation creator. Actually i am using the sphinx which is installed with the system rpms. Using sphinx for python documentation shuns vineyard. Easy and beautiful documentation with sphinx ibm developer.
In short, the underline is used to denote page titles in this case we have two, since it is our index, but it is good practice to have one title per. Just upgraded from f23 to f25 and found that sphinx quickstart is not working. From sphinx it is not possible to rename these folders, but there is a possibility to disable jekyll in github. Sphinx includes an html generator which can create a simple, attractive html version of your documentation.
Apr 09, 2011 sphinx master file has been generated by sphinxquickstart command. Document your django project using sphinx documentation. This is a python file holding configuration values for sphinx, including the ones selected when sphinxquickstart was executed in the terminal. I created a make alias for mingw32make and used the sphinxquickstart command to get started. You should use the suitable command on windows for using this make.
Sphinx configuration sphinxrtdtutorial documentation. The initial default in the makefile was sphinxbuild sphinxbuild. If python is installed, you will see the version of python printed. Have your packages toplevel directory sit right next to your sphinx makefileand conf. After running the sphinxquickstart command, there should be files in the working directory resembling those in listing 5. Well also integrate this process into a cmake build system so that we have a unified workflow. Getting started with sphinx documentation master file, created by sphinxquickstart on mon nov 11. Jun 09, 2018 when sphinx is installed, you can go to your code folder and start sphinx by typing in the command window. I also recommend using sublime text to edit the source files.
Lets take a look at it dycapo server documentation master file, created by sphinxquickstart on tue jul 27 17. See also sphinxbuild1 author georg brandl, armin ronacher et. Jun 03, 2019 i couldnt quite get this to work when following along. If i run the command on the bash command line it is found as usrbinsphinx quickstart. Blocks of content are structured based on the indention level they are on. You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least contain. The run the following to create the initial configuration and index file. Jul 22, 2016 in the result above you can see that sphinx found 2 matches from our test1 index for our test sentence. It is especially wellsuited to creating technical documentation, with support for images, crossreferencing, automatic indices, flexible tables of contents, citations, and footnotes. Note that buildhtml does not exist just yet, but will be autogenerated when we call make.
I personally use sphinx on windows, with mingw and powershell. Installation from pypi also allows you to install the latest development release. Requires hiutil and codesign, which are not open source and presently only. Fix sphinxquickstart asking again for yesno questions because input returns values with an extra r on python 3. The jenkins pipeline fails with command was not found, and then it works on a second attempt probably a pathenvironment thing. Autodocumenting your python code with sphinx part 2 roman. The sphinxbuild and sphinxquickstart not found stack overflow. Populating our documentation sphinxrtdtutorial documentation. Documenting python packages with sphinx and readthedocs. Specifically, when running sphinxquickstart, the defaults want to place everything directly in docs and overwrite the makefile generated by cmake, but it appears that for the author, it created a docssphinx subfolder. Does anybody have a suggestion for me how i can fix this. I answer all the questions and everything works fine. Next open a command prompt and navigate to the docs directory that was just created. If you are running the sphinxquickstart command from the directory you want to store your files in, you can press enter on your keyboard to accept the default value.
Sphinx works with either major versions of python active today, python 2 and python 3. Tools cant solve this problem in themselves, but they can ease the pain. Before you run the quickstart command, switch to the user account that will be editing the sphinx documents, for example. You should get something that looks like the following. When i generate documentation for my new project using sphinxquickstart3, the generated makefile does not work. To set up the executable paths, use the port select command. Any help resolving this will be highly appreciated. Sphinx is a powerful, free, open source documentation generator. Write documentation once, output multiple formats with sphinx. This is a python file holding configuration values for sphinx, including the ones selected when sphinx quickstart was executed in the terminal.
Setting up a sphinx example project and scaffolding real python. If you want to store your project in a subdirectory of your current working directory, enter a name for that subdirectory at the prompt and sphinx will create the directory and. You may install using this command if you use debianubuntu. Test documentation master file, created by sphinxquickstart on sat aug 8 20. Mar, 2012 next open a command prompt and navigate to the docs directory that was just created. This file contains the settings that control how your project is generated. Makefile generated by python3 version of sphinxquickstart3 is not usable out of the box.
You are not reading the most recent version of this documentation. Assuming that during sphinxquickstart you said yes to enabling the autodoc extension, there should be a variable in conf. Most windows users do not have python installed by default, so we begin with the installation of python itself. In either case, both commands sphinxbuild and sphinxquickstart cannot be found.
An idiots guide to python documentation with sphinx and. I modified the default html theme into the nature one by modifying the appropriate line in the conf. An alternative way to invoke sphinxquickstart is to explicitly load sphinxs quickstart module. I was able to execute all the commands till make html. With the virtual environment still activated, run sphinxquickstart, which. Feb 24, 2016 autodocumenting your python code with sphinx part 1.
For example, here i run the command in the location of my code folder, which names python and has a test code file. Even though python3 m pip freeze shows installation. Once the command prompt is open, type python version and press enter. Any files that are not part of the source code like images are placed here, and later linked together in the build directory. After installation, type sphinxbuild version on the command prompt. Sphinx quickstart sphinx includes a quickstart tool for beginners. You will not generally need or want to do this, but it can be useful if you see a possible bug in the latest stable release. This is one of the main things that sphinx adds to restructuredtext, a way to connect multiple. A format is selected by specifying the builder name on the command line. Thats seems not enough for the install using pip to set things up and for a proper build of the sphinxquickstart command. Next we can call sphinxquickstart to initialise our sphinx project. Enter a makefile and a windows command file can be. Using sphinx for php project documentation sitepoint. Sep 19, 2019 sphinx provides two command line tools.