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Extending your autodoc API docs with a summary

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Welcome! This sphinx extension provides some useful extensions to the Sphinxs autodoc_ extension. Those are

1. It creates a Table of Contents in the style of the autosummary_ extension with methods, classes, functions and attributes 2. As you can include the __init__ method documentation for via the autoclass_content_ configuration value, we provide the autodata_content configuration value to include the documentation from the __call__ method 3. You can exclude the string representation of specific objects. E.g. if you have a large dictionary using the not_document_data configuration value.

See the Documentation on Readthedocs_ for more details.

Installation

Simply install it via pip:

$ pip install autodocsumm

Local development

Use pip on the source on GitHub_:

$ pip install .

Requirements

The package only requires Sphinx_ to be installed. It has been tested for versions higher than 1.3.

Quickstart

In order to activate the autodocsumm extension, you have to list it in your conf.py:

extensions = [
    'sphinx.ext.autodoc',
    ...,
    'autodocsumm',
]

Once this is done, you can use the option for autodoc directives to generate a table at the top, e.g.:

.. automodule:: my.awesome.module
    :autosummary:

Optionally, you can make autodocsumm active by default for all autodoc directives by adding in conf.py:

autodoc_default_options = {
    'autosummary': True,
}

Disclaimer

Copyright 2016-2019, Philipp S. Sommer

Copyright 2020-2021, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.