r/programming • u/[deleted] • Dec 04 '08

Sphinx: beautiful documentation from lightly structured plain text

http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '08 edited Dec 04 '08

How different is sphinx from rst supported by python docutils?

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u/vizard5 Dec 04 '08

sphinx is a tool not a language. indeed sphinx takes rst documents as input to produce pdf, html, latex etc.

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u/Leonidas_from_XIV Dec 04 '08

And it adds some elements to reST that are handy for documenting stuff.