[Tutor] A doxygen-like tool for Python ?

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Sun Feb 11 19:14:55 CET 2007


Hilton Garcia Fernandes wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> i've been using doxygen for quite a time to document softwares written in
> C and C++, but could not found a similar tool for Python software.
> 
> Could you please point me to a suitable tool ? As we could see in a
> previous thread, Python exposes its parsing in publically available APIs.
> So, source documentation tool should be easier to write than languages
> that don't have such a facility. 

Many choices here:
http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/relatedprojects.html

I think pydoc, epydoc and maybe pythondoc are the most popular. Search 
comp.lang.python for epydoc, etc for lots of discussion.

Kent



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