如何使用 Sphinx autodoc 在不同目录中为 Python 模块文档使用多个路径？

Question

I am using Sphinx autodoc to document Python modules in multiple directories. I already have the rst files for each Python module and can use autodoc when declaring a path to one directory with the Python modules but I am trying to document Python modules from two different directories. In the conf.py file, I used:

sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath("../python_modules_A"))

but would like to have a path to both python_modules_A and python_modules_B , since my modules are in both directories.

Given the structure of my project team, I would like to avoid having to restructure the modules into one directory since they are separated by helper functions in python_modules_A and main objects/classes in python_modules_B

Below is how my directories are configured:

sphinx_documentation_setup
  conf.py
  index.rst
  a1.rst
  b1.rst
  a2.rst
  b2.rst
python_modules_A
  a1.py
  b1.py
python_modules_B
  a2.py
  b2.py

Answer 1

Just figured out a solution. I was able to fix the problem by specifying the path in the automodule directives. For example, beforehand my automodule directives were as follows:

.. automodule:: a1
.. automodule:: a2

but when I switched it to

.. automodule:: python_modules_A.a1
.. automodule:: python_modules_B.a2

and declared the pathway in the conf.py as:

sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(".."))

sphinx was able to find my python modules in both directories.