Get docstring from script by Sphinx

Question

I have classical Python package structure:

bin/
    my_script
docs/
my_package/
   ...

and I create docs with Sphinx.

I would like to take docstring from my_script automatically. Is there any way to do it?

Why want I to do it? I have usage information in this script and I would like to show it in documentation.

Answer 1

My solution - I don't think it's the best.

I created __init__.py in bin directory and symlink my_script.py to my_script . Into conf.py (config of sphinx) I added:

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

Now I can use automodule:

.. automodule:: bin.my_script