[Doc-SIG] alternatives to epydoc?

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Thu Oct 7 14:12:12 CEST 2010


  On 07/10/2010 13:08, INADA Naoki wrote:
> bzr [#1] uses pydoctor [#2] for api reference [#3].
>
> [#1] http://bazaar.canonical.com/
> [#2] http://codespeak.net/~mwh/pydoctor/
> [#3] http://people.canonical.com/~mwh/bzrlibapi/

These days all the cool kids* are using Sphinx and the autodoc extension:

http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ext/autodoc.html

All the best,

Michael

* I'm not one of the cool kids unfortunately... I still tend to think 
that documentation and docstrings are two different things.

> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Bill Janssen<janssen at parc.com>  wrote:
>> I've been documenting UpLib with a combo of ReST for the standalone
>> docs, and epydoc for the API documentation.  But epydoc seems to be
>> dying a slow death of non-maintenance.  It won't work with docutils 0.6
>> or 0.7, and Python 2.6 seems to crash when running it.
>>
>> So, I'm looking for an alternative to epydoc.  Preferably something
>> easy to convert to...  Any pointers?
>>
>> Bill
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