Sphinx
2.2.2
About: Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation for Python (and C/C++) projects (or other documents consisting of multiple reStructuredText sources). Features: Different output formats (incl. HTML), extensive cross-references, automatic indices, code highlighting and more.
![]() ![]() |
Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation for Python projects (or other documents consisting of multiple reStructuredText sources), written by Georg Brandl. It was originally created for the new Python documentation, and has excellent facilities for Python project documentation, but C/C++ is supported as well, and more languages are planned.
Sphinx uses reStructuredText as its markup language, and many of its strengths come from the power and straightforwardness of reStructuredText and its parsing and translating suite, the Docutils.
Among its features are the following:
For more information, refer to the the documentation.
Sphinx is published on PyPI and can be installed from there:
pip install -U sphinx
We also publish beta releases:
pip install -U --pre sphinx
If you wish to install Sphinx for development purposes, refer to the contributors guide.
Documentation is available from sphinx-doc.org.
Continuous testing is provided by Travis (for unit tests and style checks on Linux), AppVeyor (for unit tests on Windows), and CircleCI (for large processes like TeX compilation).
For information on running tests locally, refer to the contributors guide.
Refer to the contributors guide.
Releases are signed with following keys: