I'm trying to use sphinx
(in conjunction with autodoc
and numpydoc
) to document my module, but after the basic setup, running make html
produces just the basic html with nothing from the docstrings included. I'm running Python 3.3, the outline of the project structure is as follows:
Kineticlib
|--docs
| |--build
| |--source
| | |--conf.py
|--src
| |--kineticmulti
| | |--__init__.py
| | |--file1.py
| | |--file2.py
|--setup.py
__init__.py
is empty, and in conf.py
in the docs/source
directory I've added sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('../..'))
Running make html
in the docs
directory gives the following output:
sphinx-build -b html -d build/doctrees source build/html
Running Sphinx v1.2.2
loading pickled environment... done
building [html]: targets for 0 source files that are out of date
updating environment: 0 added, 0 changed, 0 removed
looking for now-outdated files... none found
no targets are out of date.
Build finished. The HTML pages are in build/html.
So, what am I doing wrong?
Did you run sphinx-apidoc in the docs/source directory? This will generate the .rst files used to make the html. From man sphinx-apidoc
,
sphinx-apidoc [options] -o <outputdir> <sourcedir> [pathnames ...]
You'll need to include (at a minimum) the outputdir
(where the .rst files will go, ./ should work) and the sourcedir
which should point to your package (looks like ../../src/kineticmulti should work)