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sphinx-autogen - Generate autodoc stub pages

sphinx-autogen [options] <sourcefile> ...

sphinx-autogen is a tool for automatic generation of Sphinx sources that, using the autodoc extension, document items included in autosummary listing(s).

sourcefile is the path to one or more reStructuredText documents containing autosummary entries with the :toctree:: option set. sourcefile can be an fnmatch-style pattern.

Directory to place the output file. If it does not exist, it is created. Defaults to the value passed to the :toctree: option.

Default suffix to use for generated files. Defaults to rst.

Custom template directory. Defaults to None.

Document imported members.

Given the following directory structure:

docs
├── index.rst
└── ...
foobar
├── foo
│   └── __init__.py
└── bar


    ├── __init__.py


    └── baz


        └── __init__.py


and assuming docs/index.rst contained the following:

Modules
=======
.. autosummary::


   :toctree: modules


   foobar.foo


   foobar.bar


   foobar.bar.baz


If you run the following:

$ PYTHONPATH=. sphinx-autogen docs/index.rst


then the following stub files will be created in docs:

docs
├── index.rst
└── modules


    ├── foobar.bar.rst


    ├── foobar.bar.baz.rst


    └── foobar.foo.rst


and each of those files will contain a autodoc directive and some other information.

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March 8, 2021 3.4.3