[Tutor] Questions about the formatting of docstrings

[Mats Wichmann]

On 07/27/2018 11:23 AM, boB Stepp wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 12:50 AM Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 11:34:11PM -0500, boB Stepp wrote:
> 
>>> (1) The author claims that reStructuredText is the official Python
>>> documentation standard.  Is this true?  If yes, is this something I
>>> should be doing for my own projects?
>>
>> Yes, it is true. If you write documentation for the Python standard
>> library, they are supposed to be in ReST. Docstrings you read in
>> the interactive interpreter often aren't, but the documentation you read
>> on the web page has all been automatically generated from ReST text
>> files.
> 
> What tool is being used to generate the documentation from the ReST text files?

I'm not sure if Python is still using it, but Sphinx is a popular
choice, originally written to handle the Python docs.