On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Lisandro Dalcin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Stefan Behnel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Martin Gysel wrote:
>>> Can anybody recommend a code documentation tool which works good with
>>> cython.
>>
>> Sphinx is good in generating documentation. It's not that satisfying for
>> generating API docs from sources or through module introspection.
>>
>
> Indeed.
>
>>> Is there something which can analyze cython code and do what
>>> doxygen does with c or java?
>>
>> Nothing I know of. Epydoc can read the embedded signatures, as long as you
>> stick with Python 2.x syntax and avoid fancy default values. It will fail
>> hopelessly (reg-exps, that is) for type annotations in whatever form.
>>
>
> However, take a look at the script in the below (works as a cmd line
> replacement for epydoc)
> Of course you have to remove stuff at the very beginning and at the
> end (the 'epydoc.cfg' rc file stuff) ...
> Moreover, this script also monkeypatch the issue of Epydoc trying to
> generate GIF files in favor of PNG, as Linux distros (Fedora, in my
> case) disable that format for the famous patents problems

This is off topic, but for the record "all the relevant patents have
expired."  This is according to both Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format and FSF
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html

William

>
> http://code.google.com/p/mpi4py/source/browse/trunk/conf/epydocify.py
>
> Wait a minute... I've pushed something to Cython a long time ago
> (Tools/cython-epydoc.py)... But it is likely outdated...
>
>
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