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Style checker for Sphinx (or other) RST documentation

Project description

Doc8 is a opinionated style checker for sphinx (or other) rst documentation.

Features

  • Ability to parse and validate rst files.

QuickStart

pip install doc8

To run doc8 just invoke it against any doc directory:

$ doc8 coolproject/docs

Usage

Command line usage

$ doc8  -h

usage: doc8 [-h] [--config path] [--allow-long-titles] [--ignore code]
            [--no-sphinx] [--ignore-path path] [--max-line-length int]
            [-e extension] [-v]
            [path [path ...]]

Check documentation for simple style requirements.

What is checked:
    - invalid rst format - D000
    - lines should not be longer than 79 characters - D001
      - exception: line with no whitespace except in the beginning
      - exception: lines with http or https urls
      - exception: literal blocks
      - exception: rst target directives
    - no trailing whitespace - D002
    - no tabulation for indentation - D003
    - no carriage returns (use unix newlines) - D004

positional arguments:
  path                  path to scan for doc files (default: os.getcwd())

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --config path         user config file location (default: doc8.ini, tox.ini,
                        pep8.ini, setup.cfg)
  --allow-long-titles   allow long section titles (default: False)
  --ignore code         ignore the given errors code/codes
  --no-sphinx           do not ignore sphinx specific false positives
  --ignore-path path    ignore the given directory or file (globs are
                        supported)
  --max-line-length int
                        maximum allowed line length (default: 79)
  -e extension, --extension extension
                        check file extensions of the given type (default:
                        .rst, .txt)
  -v, --verbose         run in verbose mode

Ini file usage

Instead of using the CLI for options the following files will also be examined for [doc8] sections that can also provided the same set of options. If the --config path option is used these files will not be scanned for the current working directory and that configuration path will be used instead.

  • $CWD/doc8.ini

  • $CWD/tox.ini

  • $CWD/pep8.ini

  • $CWD/setup.cfg

An example section that can be placed into one of these files:

[doc8]

ignore_path=/tmp/stuff,/tmp/other_stuff
max_line_length=99
verbose=1

Note: The option names are the same as the command line ones but instead of dashes underscores are used instead (with the only variation of this being the no-sphinx option which from configuration file will be sphinx instead).

Option conflict resolution

When the same option is passed on the command line and also via configuration files the following strategies are applied to resolve these types of conflicts.

Option

Overrides

Merges

allow-long-titles

Yes

No

extension

No

Yes

ignore-path

No

Yes

ignore

No

Yes

max-line-length

Yes

No

sphinx

Yes

No

Note: In the above table the configuration file option when specified as overrides will replace the same option given via the command line. When merges is stated then the option will be combined with the command line option (for example by becoming a larger list or set of values that contains the values passed on the command line and the values passed via configuration).

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