Automatically Generating Documentation for All Python Package Contents

Question

I\'m trying to auto-generate basic documentation for my codebase using Sphinx. However, I\'m having difficulty instructing Sphinx to recursively scan my files.

I have

Answer 1

From Sphinx version 3.1 (June 2020), if you're happy to use sphinx.ext.autosummary to display summary tables, you can use the new :recursive: option to automatically detect every module in your package, however deeply nested, and automatically generate documentation for every attribute, class, function and exception in that module.

See my answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/62613202/12014259