[Python-Dev] python sphinx install?

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 15:18:29 CEST 2007


Georg Brandl wrote:

> Neal Becker schrieb:
>> I'm interested in trying out new style (python 2.6) documentation.  I see
>> we're using docutils + sphinx?
>> 
>> I did: svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/doctools/trunk/
>> 
>> How can I install this to try it with python-2.5?
> 
> What do you want to try with Python 2.5?
> 
> If you want to build the Python 2.6/3.0 docs, it's easiest to check the
> Python sources out from http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk, go to
> the Doc directory and do "make html". This will checkout sphinx and all
> other needed libraries into Doc/tools and build the docs.
> 
> Georg
> 

I want to document my own python code.  I figured I might as well start
using the new documentation system - but I'm using python-2.5.  I intend to
use epydoc.  I thought maybe I could just add sphinx to my docutils, but
maybe not?



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