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sphinx-click

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sphinx-click is a Sphinx__ plugin that allows you to automatically extract
documentation from a Click-based__ application and include it in your docs.

__ http://www.sphinx-doc.org/
__ http://click.pocoo.org/

Installation

Install the plugin using pip:

.. code-block:: shell

$ pip install sphinx-click

Alternatively, install from source by cloning this repo then running pip
locally:

.. code-block:: shell

$ pip install .

Usage

.. important::

To document a Click-based application, both the application itself and any
additional dependencies required by that application must be installed.

Enable the plugin in your Sphinx conf.py file:

.. code-block:: python

extensions = ['sphinx_click']

Once enabled, you can now use the plugin wherever necessary in the
documentation.

.. code-block::

.. click:: module:parser
:prog: hello-world
:nested: full

Detailed information on the various options available is provided in the
documentation <https://sphinx-click.readthedocs.io>_.

Alternative

This plugin is perfect to document a Click-based CLI in Sphinx, as it properly
renders the help screen and its options in nice HTML with deep links and
styling.

However, if you are looking to document the source code of a Click-based CLI,
and the result of its execution, you might want to check out click-extra.
The latter provides the .. click:example:: and .. click:run:: Sphinx
directives so you can capture and render, with full colors, the result of your CLI in your documentation.

__ https://github.com/kdeldycke/click-extra/
__ https://kdeldycke.github.io/click-extra/sphinx.html

Dependencies of sphinx-click (3).
Dependency	Optional
click	false
docutils	false
sphinx	false

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