https://github.com/anntzer/sphinx-exhibit

Showcase examples in Sphinx-generated documentation.
https://github.com/anntzer/sphinx-exhibit

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Showcase examples in Sphinx-generated documentation.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/anntzer/sphinx-exhibit
• Owner: anntzer
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-08-25T14:53:44.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-12-22T12:43:20.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-07T19:20:04.640Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
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• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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Showcase examples in Sphinx-generated documentation

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This Sphinx extension introduces a ``.. exhibit::`` directive that can be used

to generate one page per example in a Sphinx-generated documentation.

Activate by adding ``"sphinx_exhibit"`` in the list of extensions in your

``conf.py``.  Then, in one of your rst sources, add e.g.

.. code-block:: rst

   .. exhibit::

      :srcdir: ../examples

      :destdir: examples

      this_example_comes_first.py

      *.py

This will look up examples in ``srcdir`` (here, ``../examples``; relative to

the directory of the rst source), and create a rst example file for each of

the files listed, in ``destdir`` (again relative to the directory of the rst

source; defaults to ``.`` if not given). Globbing syntax can be used, and

examples listed before the glob will not be duplicated (but stay in front).

Multi-block examples can use Sphinx-Gallery's syntax ("special comments"); or,

later blocks can just be introduced as top-level strings (i.e., as if they were

mid-program docstrings).  The latter format is the default; Sphinx-Gallery's

format can be activated with the ``:syntax-style: sphinx-gallery`` option, or

globally in ``conf.py`` with ``exhibit_syntax_style = "sphinx-gallery"``).

Note that this option depends on Sphinx-Gallery being installed (we reuse its

parser in that case).

By default, output images are named ``{filename}-{block_idx}-{figure_idx}.png``

(both indices start at zero).  Sphinx-Gallery-style numbering can likewise be

activated with ``:output-style: sphinx-gallery`` / ``exhibit_output_style =

"sphinx-gallery"``.

The *topmost* docstring can contain the ``.. exhibit-skip::`` directive (which

takes no arguments and generates no output); if it is found there, the code

will not be run.

The list of examples that use a specific API element can be output using the

``.. exhibit-backrefs::`` directive, whose syntax is

.. code-block:: rst

   .. exhibit-backrefs:: role qualified.name

      :title: ...

where the optional ``:title:`` is printed before the list if there is at least

one of them.

Development notes

-----------------

Sphinx-Exhibit uses its ``__version__`` (which comes from ``git describe

-a``) as the environment version reported to Sphinx.  To prevent invalidation

of an environment generated with a previous ``__version__``, set the

``SPHINX_EXHIBIT_ENV_VERSION`` environment variable to the desired value.  Of

course, things may not go so well if the format of the data stored internally

by Sphinx-Exhibit *did* change.