sphinx
The Sphinx documentation generator (by sphinx-doc)
mkdocstrings
:blue_book: Automatic documentation from sources, for MkDocs. (by pawamoy)
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sphinx | mkdocstrings | |
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31 | 9 | |
5,982 | 1,533 | |
1.5% | 3.2% | |
9.8 | 8.3 | |
about 6 hours ago | 5 days ago | |
Python | Python | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | ISC License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
sphinx
Posts with mentions or reviews of sphinx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-24.
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5 Best Static Site Generators in Python
Sphinx is primarily known as a documentation generator, but it can also be used to create static websites. It excels in generating technical documentation, and its support for multiple output formats, including HTML and PDF, makes it a versatile tool. Sphinx uses reStructuredText for content creation and is highly extensible through plugins.
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User Guides in Code Documentation: Empowering Users with Usage Instructions
Sphinx a documentation generator or a tool that translates a set of plain text source files into various output formats, automatically producing cross-references, indices, etc. That is, if you have a directory containing a bunch of reStructuredText or Markdown documents, Sphinx can generate a series of HTML files, a PDF file (via LaTeX), man pages and much more.
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MdBook – Create book from Markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
Notable mentions to [Sphinx](https://www.sphinx-doc.org/). It's workflow is more tuned to the "book" format rather than the blog, forum or thread format.
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best packages for documenting the flow of logic?
Currently trying out Sphinx (https://www.sphinx-doc.org) and the trying to get the autodocgen feature to see what that can do.
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Introducing AutoPyTabs: Automatically generate code examples for different Python versions in MkDocs or Sphinx based documentations
AutoPyTabs allows you to write code examples in your documentation targeting a single version of Python and then generates examples targeting higher Python versions on the fly, presenting them in tabs, using popular tabs extensions. This all comes packaged as a markdown extension, MkDocs plugin and a Sphinx, so it can easily be integrated with your documentation workflow.
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dictf - An extended Python dict implementation that supports multiple key selection with a pretty syntax.
Honestly, I think it's just an issue of documentation. For example, if there was an easier way to document @overload functions, that would help (cf. https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/7787)
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Minimum Viable Hugo – No CSS, no JavaScript, 1 static HTML page to start you off
I like Sphinx [0] with the MyST Markdown syntax [1]. There is a related project, Myst NB [2], which enables including Jupyter notebooks in your site. There is also a plugin for blogging [3].
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Marketing for Developers
Sphinx is the go-to tool for documentation. It took me a while to understand how to use Sphinx, but I now have a decent workflow with MyST which allows me to write all the docs in markdown. My sphinx-markdown-docs repo shows an example of what I do.
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In One Minute : Pandas
Rich User Documentation, using Sphinx
- Why Is Markdown Popular?
mkdocstrings
Posts with mentions or reviews of mkdocstrings.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-10.
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Starlite development updates January ’23
Mkdocs has the mkdocstrings plugin, offering limited automated API documentation capabilities. It is however nowhere near as capable as Sphinx' autodoc, missing granularity in its configuration, limited intersphinx-like cross-referencing support, and essential features like documentation of inherited members, or the ability to manually describe objects if needed.
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what's a good documentation platform that you guys would recommend?
mkdocstrings works well, although it is not as powerful as the API documentation in Sphinx.
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Stripe Open Sources Markdoc
Author of Materia for MkDocs here. MkDocstrings [1] implements automatic generation of reference documentation from sources. It's language-agnostic, actively maintained and currently supports Python [2] and Crystal [3]. It also integrates nicely with Material for MkDocs.
- Technical documentation that just works
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Python tutorials building large(r) projects
Write proper docstrings as you go along (every time you write a new class/method/function you can document what it’s doing as you’ll know why and what from the pattern you chose). Using a tool like mkdocstrings makes maintaining documentation for larger projects automatic.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing sphinx and mkdocstrings you can also consider the following projects:
MkDocs - Project documentation with Markdown.
pdoc - API Documentation for Python Projects
Pycco - Literate-style documentation generator.
fastapi - FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
mkdocs-material - Documentation that simply works
Python Cheatsheet - All-inclusive Python cheatsheet
Read the Docs - The source code that powers readthedocs.org
documentation.js - :book: documentation for modern JavaScript
pydocstyle - docstring style checker
furo - A clean customizable documentation theme for Sphinx
docco - Literate Programming can be Quick and Dirty.