Pdoc is a software package for generating

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documentation for

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. Built as a successor to

Epydoc Epydoc is a documentation generator that processes its own lightweight markup language Epytext for Python documentation strings. As opposed to freeform Python docstrings, reStructuredText (both also supported) and other markup languages for docst ...

, Pdoc uses

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to extract documentation from source code docstrings and allows programmers to generate

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documentation for chosen Python modules. It is thus functionally similar to

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and

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. It supports identifier cross-linking and Markdown for its doc string format.

Forks

A lack of original project activity in 2018-2019 spurred several

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