What is the relationship between docutils and Sphinx?

Question

There seems to be a plethora of documentation tools for Python. Another one that I\'ve run across is epydoc. It seems like Sphinx is the de facto standard, because it\'s used to

Answer 1

It seems like Epydoc is, if not dead, at least pining for the fjords.

Sphynx with the sphinx-apidoc command and the autodoc extension looks to be the most popular option for API docs at this time.

Good examples are:

• requests (src)
• boto (src)

See: Should we use Epydoc, Sphinx or something else for documenting Python APIs? (SO5579198)

Sphinx encourages a more narrative style than tools in the javadoc mold, but maybe this is a good thing?