[SOLVED] Automatically document all modules recursively with Sphinx autodoc

Automatically document all modules recursively with Sphinx autodoc

I'm trying to use Sphinx to document a 5,000+ line project in Python. It has about 7 base modules. As far as I know, In order to use autodoc I need to write code like this for each file in my project:

.. automodule:: mods.set.tests
    :members:
    :show-inheritance:

This is way too tedious because I have many files. It would be much easier if I could just specify that I wanted the 'mods' package to be documented. Sphinx could then recursively go through the package and make a page for each submodule.

Is there a feature like this? If not I could write a script to make all the .rst files, but that would take up a lot of time.

Solution

~~You can check this script that I've made. I think it can help you.~~

This script parses a directory tree looking for python modules and packages and creates ReST files appropriately to create code documentation with Sphinx. It also creates a modules index.

UPDATE

This script is now part of Sphinx 1.1 as apidoc.