# Documenting Python Code with Sphinx

DevFeed: [Documenting Python Code with Sphinx](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/documenting-python-code-with-sphinx-40680.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://radek.io/posts/documenting-python-code-with-sphinx/>)

Published: 2011-07-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Radek Pazdera](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/radek-pazdera.md>)

Topics: [Documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/documentation.md>), [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>)

Tags: [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [html](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/html.md>), [installation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/installation.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [rst](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rst.md>), [setup](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/setup.md>), [software-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-development.md>), [sphinx](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sphinx.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on documenting Python code with Sphinx. It explains why documentation belongs near source code, how to install Sphinx, set up its documentation directory, enable autodoc, and write content in reStructuredText.

## Source excerpt

I build software products and write on the Internet.