pydoc index file?

[Martin Franklin]

On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 10:36 pm, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
> I've recently started using pydoc, and I'm happy with the results I
> get for individual files.  It's nice to be able to generate clean
> documentation with so little effort.
>
> This doesn't seem to quite work the way I expected, though.  Here's an
> example:
>
>    .../projects/cvs/cback> ls
>    cback*  cback.1  cback.conf  cback.conf.5  CedarBackup/  CVS/  notes.txt
>
>    .../projects/cvs/cback> ls CedarBackup/
>    cdr.py  config.py  CVS/  exceptions.py  filesystem.py  functional.py
>    __init__.py
>
>    .../projects/cvs/cback> pydoc -w CedarBackup.cdr
>    wrote CedarBackup.cdr.html
>
>    .../projects/cvs/cback> pydoc -w CedarBackup/filesystem
>    wrote CedarBackup/filesystem.html
>
> Ok, so far so good.  I think I understand how this works.  Now, pydoc's
> help says:
>
>     If <name> contains a '/', it is treated as a filename; if
>     it names a directory, documentation is written for all the contents.
>
> so I expected this to work:
>
>    .../projects/cvs/cback> pydoc -w CedarBackup/
>    wrote __init__.html
>    no Python documentation found for 'cdr'
>    no Python documentation found for 'config'
>    wrote exceptions.html
>    no Python documentation found for 'filesystem'
>    no Python documentation found for 'functional'
>
> but, as you can see, it doesn't.
>
> Am I misunderstanding how this is supposed to work?
>
> Is there a good way to generate pydoc documentation for an entire
> package, including some sort of index file for the package (I'm
> imagining Javadoc here)?
>
> Thanks!
>
> KEN


Ken,


I coudn't get pydoc to do this either, however I use pydoc as more of a man 
type thing....  for static html documentation you could try HappyDoc:-

http://sourceforge.net/projects/happydoc/

Regards
Martin