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Python Documentation README
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This directory contains the reStructuredText (reST) sources to the Python
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documentation. You don't need to build them yourself, `prebuilt versions are
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available <https://docs.python.org/dev/download.html>`_.
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Documentation on authoring Python documentation, including information about
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both style and markup, is available in the "`Documenting Python
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<https://devguide.python.org/documenting/>`_" chapter of the
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developers guide.
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Building the docs
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=================
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The documentation is built with several tools which are not included in this
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tree but are maintained separately and are available from
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`PyPI <https://pypi.org/>`_.
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* `Sphinx <https://pypi.org/project/Sphinx/>`_
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* `blurb <https://pypi.org/project/blurb/>`_
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You could manually create a virtual environment and install them, but there is
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a ``Makefile`` already set up to do this for you, as long as you have a working
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Python 3 interpreter available.
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Using make
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----------
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A Makefile has been prepared so that (on Unix), after you change into the
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``Doc/`` directory you can simply run ::
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make html
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By default, if the virtual environment is not created, the Makefile will
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look for instances of sphinxbuild and blurb installed on your process PATH
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(configurable with the SPHINXBUILD and BLURB variables).
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On Windows, we try to emulate the Makefile as closely as possible with a
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``make.bat`` file.
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To use a Python interpreter that's not called ``python3``, use the standard
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way to set Makefile variables, using e.g. ::
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make html PYTHON=python
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On Windows, set the PYTHON environment variable instead.
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To use a specific sphinx-build (something other than ``sphinx-build``), set
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the SPHINXBUILD variable.
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Available make targets are:
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* "clean", which removes all build files.
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* "venv", which creates a virtual environment with all necessary tools
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installed.
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* "html", which builds standalone HTML files for offline viewing.
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* "htmlview", which re-uses the "html" builder, but then opens the main page
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in your default web browser.
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* "htmlhelp", which builds HTML files and a HTML Help project file usable to
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convert them into a single Compiled HTML (.chm) file -- these are popular
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under Microsoft Windows, but very handy on every platform.
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To create the CHM file, you need to run the Microsoft HTML Help Workshop
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over the generated project (.hhp) file. The make.bat script does this for
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you on Windows.
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* "latex", which builds LaTeX source files as input to "pdflatex" to produce
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PDF documents.
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* "text", which builds a plain text file for each source file.
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* "epub", which builds an EPUB document, suitable to be viewed on e-book
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readers.
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* "linkcheck", which checks all external references to see whether they are
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broken, redirected or malformed, and outputs this information to stdout as
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well as a plain-text (.txt) file.
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* "changes", which builds an overview over all versionadded/versionchanged/
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deprecated items in the current version. This is meant as a help for the
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writer of the "What's New" document.
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* "coverage", which builds a coverage overview for standard library modules and
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C API.
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* "pydoc-topics", which builds a Python module containing a dictionary with
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plain text documentation for the labels defined in
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`tools/pyspecific.py` -- pydoc needs these to show topic and keyword help.
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* "suspicious", which checks the parsed markup for text that looks like
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malformed and thus unconverted reST.
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* "check", which checks for frequent markup errors.
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* "serve", which serves the build/html directory on port 8000.
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* "dist", (Unix only) which creates distributable archives of HTML, text,
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PDF, and EPUB builds.
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Without make
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Install the Sphinx package and its dependencies from PyPI. In this situation,
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you'll have to create a virtual environment manually, and install Sphinx into
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it. Change into the ``Doc`` directory and run ::
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$ python3 -m venv venv
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$ source venv/bin/activate
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(venv) $ pip install Sphinx
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(venv) $ sphinx-build -b<builder> . build/<builder>
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where ``<builder>`` is one of html, text, latex, or htmlhelp (for explanations
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see the make targets above).
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Contributing
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============
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Bugs in the content should be reported to the
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`Python bug tracker <https://bugs.python.org>`_.
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Bugs in the toolset should be reported to the tools themselves.
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You can also send a mail to the Python Documentation Team at docs@python.org,
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and we will process your request as soon as possible.
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If you want to help the Documentation Team, you are always welcome. Just send
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a mail to docs@python.org.
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