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https://github.com/whynothugo/sphinx-autorun

Sphinx extension to execute the code output it into a document.
https://github.com/whynothugo/sphinx-autorun

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Sphinx extension to execute the code output it into a document.

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sphinx-autorun
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sphinx-autorun is an extension for Sphinx_ that can execute the code from a
runblock directive and attach the output of the execution to the document.

.. _Sphinx: https://sphinx.readthedocs.io/

For example::

.. runblock:: pycon

>>> for i in range(5):
... print i

Produces::

>>> for i in range(5):
... print i
1
2
3
4
5

Another example::

.. runblock:: console

$ date

Produces::

$ date
Thu 4 Mar 2010 22:56:49 EST

Currently autorun supports ``pycon`` and ``console`` languages. It's also
possible to configure autorun (from `conf.py`) to run other languages.

Installation
------------

Installing via pip (recommended)::

$ pip install sphinx-autorun

Install from source::

$ git clone https://github.com/WhyNotHugo/sphinx-autorun/
$ pip install .

To enable autorun add 'sphinx_autorun' to the ``extension`` list in
`conf.py`::

extensions.append('sphinx_autorun')

The documentation is in the doc/ folder.

About this fork
---------------

sphinx-contrib/autorun was abandoned and broken for several months. Since it
did not even work, this fork was created as a continuation of it with mostly
critical fixes.