sphinx-build使用

The sphinx-build script builds a Sphinx documentation set. It is called like this:

$ sphinx-build [options] sourcedir builddir [filenames]

where sourcedir is the 资源目录, and builddir is the directory in which you want to place the built documentation. Most of the time, you don’t need to specify any filenames.

The sphinx-build script has several options:

-b buildername

The most important option: it selects a builder. The most common builders are:

html

Build HTML pages. This is the default builder.

dirhtml

Build HTML pages, but with a single directory per document. Makes for prettier URLs (no .html) if served from a webserver.

singlehtml

Build a single HTML with the whole content.

htmlhelp, qthelp, devhelp, epub

Build HTML files with additional information for building a documentation collection in one of these formats.

latex

Build LaTeX sources that can be compiled to a PDF document using pdflatex.

man

Build manual pages in groff format for UNIX systems.

texinfo

Build Texinfo files that can be processed into Info files using makeinfo.

text

Build plain text files.

gettext

Build gettext-style message catalogs (.pot files).

doctest

Run all doctests in the documentation, if the doctest extension is enabled.

linkcheck

Check the integrity of all external links.

xml

Build Docutils-native XML files.

pseudoxml

Build compact pretty-printed “pseudo-XML” files displaying the internal structure of the intermediate document trees.

See 构建器 for a list of all builders shipped with Sphinx. Extensions can add their own builders.

-a

If given, always write all output files. The default is to only write output files for new and changed source files. (This may not apply to all builders.)

-E

Don’t use a saved 环境 (the structure caching all cross-references), but rebuild it completely. The default is to only read and parse source files that are new or have changed since the last run.

-t tag

Define the tag tag. This is relevant for only directives that only include their content if this tag is set.

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-d path

Since Sphinx has to read and parse all source files before it can write an output file, the parsed source files are cached as “doctree pickles”. Normally, these files are put in a directory called .doctrees under the build directory; with this option you can select a different cache directory (the doctrees can be shared between all builders).

-c path

Don’t look for the conf.py in the source directory, but use the given configuration directory instead. Note that various other files and paths given by configuration values are expected to be relative to the configuration directory, so they will have to be present at this location too.

0.3 新版功能.

-C

Don’t look for a configuration file; only take options via the -D option.

0.5 新版功能.

-D setting=value

Override a configuration value set in the conf.py file. The value must be a string or dictionary value. For the latter, supply the setting name and key like this: -D latex_elements.docclass=scrartcl. For boolean values, use 0 or 1 as the value.

在 0.6 版更改: The value can now be a dictionary value.

-A name=value

Make the name assigned to value in the HTML templates.

0.5 新版功能.

-n

Run in nit-picky mode. Currently, this generates warnings for all missing references.

-N

Do not emit colored output. (On Windows, colored output is disabled in any case.)

-v

Increase verbosity. This option can be given up to three times to get more debug output. It implies -T.

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-q

Do not output anything on standard output, only write warnings and errors to standard error.

-Q

Do not output anything on standard output, also suppress warnings. Only errors are written to standard error.

-w file

Write warnings (and errors) to the given file, in addition to standard error.

-W

Turn warnings into errors. This means that the build stops at the first warning and sphinx-build exits with exit status 1.

-T

Display the full traceback when an unhandled exception occurs. Otherwise, only a summary is displayed and the traceback information is saved to a file for further analysis.

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-P

(Useful for debugging only.) Run the Python debugger, pdb, if an unhandled exception occurs while building.

-h, --help, --version

Display usage summary or Sphinx version.

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You can also give one or more filenames on the command line after the source and build directories. Sphinx will then try to build only these output files (and their dependencies).

Makefile选项

The Makefile and make.bat files created by sphinx-quickstart usually run sphinx-build only with the -b and -d options. However, they support the following variables to customize behavior:

PAPER

The value for latex_paper_size.

SPHINXBUILD

The command to use instead of sphinx-build.

BUILDDIR

The build directory to use instead of the one chosen in sphinx-quickstart.

SPHINXOPTS

Additional options for sphinx-build.

使用sphinx-apidoc

The sphinx-apidoc generates completely automatic API documentation for a Python package. It is called like this:

$ sphinx-apidoc [options] -o outputdir packagedir [pathnames]

where packagedir is the path to the package to document, and outputdir is the directory where the generated sources are placed. Any pathnames given are paths to be excluded ignored during generation.

The sphinx-apidoc script has several options:

-o outputdir

Gives the directory in which to place the generated output.

-f, --force

Normally, sphinx-apidoc does not overwrite any files. Use this option to force the overwrite of all files that it generates.

-n, --dry-run

With this option given, no files will be written at all.

-s suffix

This option selects the file name suffix of output files. By default, this is rst.

-d maxdepth

This sets the maximum depth of the table of contents, if one is generated.

-l, --follow-links

This option makes sphinx-apidoc follow symbolic links when recursing the filesystem to discover packages and modules. You may need it if you want to generate documentation from a source directory managed by collective.recipe.omelette. By default, symbolic links are skipped.

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-T, --no-toc

This prevents the generation of a table-of-contents file modules.rst. This has no effect when --full is given.

-F, --full

This option makes sphinx-apidoc create a full Sphinx project, using the same mechanism as sphinx-quickstart. Most configuration values are set to default values, but you can influence the most important ones using the following options.

-H project

Sets the project name to put in generated files (see project).

-A author

Sets the author name(s) to put in generated files (see copyright).

-V version

Sets the project version to put in generated files (see version).

-R release

Sets the project release to put in generated files (see release).