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What are the best Python documentation generators?
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Best Python documentation generators
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Sphinx
FREE
BSD license
2 and 3
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Doxygen
FREE
GPL v2
2 and 3
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PyDoctor
Free
BSD license
2 only
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Sphinx
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Sphinx
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Sphinx
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Cons
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Output comes with different format
It supports reStructuredText in docstrings and produces an HTML output with a clean visual style. Automatic links for functions, classes, citations and glossary terms. It has a hierarchical structure and automatic indices.
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Too complex for a beginner
It requires a bit of configuration. It introduces using Makefile. It can also be run using a quickstart script but also requires a bit of steps to begin.
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License:
BSD license
Python version compatibility:
2 and 3
OS:
Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
Output formats:
HTML, LaTeX (for printable PDF versions), ePub, Texinfo, manual pages, plain text
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Good documentation and lots of examples listed on their website
Sphinx documentation is well written and very detailed. From beginner to advanced user can easily navigate through their navigation.
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Doxygen
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Doxygen
My Recommendation for
Doxygen
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Cons
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Cross-platform
Doxygen is compatible with multiple languages. Including but not limited to: C, Objective-C, C#, C++, Java, Python, PHP etc...
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Not that neat
Its interface is crowded and not that clean too. Sphinx or Pydoctor output style is a little bit neat compared to Doxygen.
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Kuklin István's Experience
Thanks to Doxywizard it is very easy to quickly get started, even if I haven't used it for a long time.
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Specs
License:
GPL v2
Python version compatibility:
2 and 3
Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
Output Format:
HTML, RTF (MS-Word), PostScript, hyperlinked PDF, compressed HTML, and Unix man pages
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Generates documentation from comments
Doxygen can generate documentation from formatted comments in the source code. This is extremely useful when writing detailed man pages.
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Not only Python
Supports other popular programming languages such as C, Objective-C, C#, PHP, Java, Python, IDL (Corba, Microsoft, and UNO/OpenOffice flavors), Fortran, VHDL, Tcl, and to some extent D.
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Common
Many teams already know this tool from its wide use in multiple languages. Since Doxygen was known for its versatility on many different kind of languages. Many teams of programmers used this for documentation generator.
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PyDoctor
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PyDoctor
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PyDoctor
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Created for improvement
Pydoctor was created to improve more from Epydoc. So it is even more better that Epydoc. For the purposes of the Twisted project as epydoc has difficulties with zope.interface. Puts a fair bit of effort into resolving imports and computing inheritance hierarchies and, as it aims at documenting Twisted, knows about zope.interface's declaration API and can present information about which classes implement which interface, and vice versa.
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Poor documentation and small size of community
Documentation is little and there isn't too much about Pydoctor references. Unlike Sphinx or any other documentation generators.
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Specs
License:
BSD license
Python version compatibility:
2 only
OS:
Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
Output format:
HTML, Can be same as Sphinx output
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Pro
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Output can be pass to Sphinx
PyDoctor can pass object model to Sphinx to output style same as Sphinx. So from Pydoctor you could still pass the object model to Sphinx if you still prefer Sphinx look.
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Works on Python 2 only
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Outstanding clean look
Pydoctor has more neat look compared to other documentation generator.
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