Sphinx (Documentation generator) Sphinx is a tool that translates a set of reStructuredText source files into various output formats, automatically producing cross-references, indices etc. The focus is on hand-written documentation, rather than auto-generated API docs. Though there is support for that kind of docs as well (which is intended to be freely mixed with hand-written content). If you need pure API docs have a look at Epydoc, which also understands reST. This requires pysetuptools, docutils, and Jinja2. Pygments is an optional runtime-only dependency.