NAME

       pydoctor - API documentation generator for Python

SYNOPSIS

       pydoctor [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Pydoctor is an API documentation generator that works primarily by static analysis.

       It  was  written  primarily  to  replace epydoc for the purposes of the Twisted project as
       epydoc has difficulties with zope.interface, but can be used for non-Zope Python  code  as
       well.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              show this help message and exit

       -c CONFIGFILE, --config=CONFIGFILE
              Use  config  from  this  file  (any  command lineoptions override settings from the
              file).

       -p INPUTPICKLE, --input-pickle=INPUTPICKLE
              Load the system from this pickle file (default: none, a blank system is created).

       -o OUTPUTPICKLE, --output-pickle=OUTPUTPICKLE
              Save the system to this pickle file (default: none, the  system  is  not  saved  by
              default).

       --extra-system=SYS:URLPREFIX
              Look  for  objects  in  this system to.  Links to these objects will have URLPREFIX
              prepended to them.

       --system-class=SYSTEMCLASS
              A dotted name of the class to use to make a system.

       --project-name=PROJECTNAME
              The project name, appears in the html.

       --project-url=PROJECTURL
              The project url, appears in the html if given.

       --project-base-dir=PROJECTBASEDIRECTORY
              Absolute path to the base directory of the project.  Source links will be  computed
              based on this value.

       --testing
              Don't complain if the run doesn't have any effects.

       --pdb  Like py.test's --pdb.

       --make-html
              Produce html output.

       --server
              Serve HTML on a local server.

       --server-port=SERVER_PORT
              The port for --server to use.

       --local-only
              Bind the server to localhost only.

       --facing-path=FACING_PATH
              Set up a VHostMonster, with all the confusion that implies.

       --edit When serving HTML, allow editing.

       --no-check
              When serving HTML and allow editing, don't check all docstrings first.

       --add-package=PACKAGEDIR
              Add a package to the system.  Can be repeated to add more than one package.

       --add-module=MODULE
              Add a module to the system.  Can be repeated.

       --prepend-package=PREPENDEDPACKAGE
              Pretend  that  all packages are within this one.  Can be used to document part of a
              package.

       --resolve-aliases
              This updates references to classes imported from a  module  into  which  they  were
              imported to references to where they are defined.

       --abbreviate-specialcase=ABBREVMAPPING
              This  is a comma-separated list of key=value pairs.  Where any key corresponds to a
              module name and value is the desired abbreviation.  This can  be  used  to  resolve
              conflicts  with abbreviation where you have two or more modules that start with the
              same letter.  Example: twistedcaldav=tcd.

       --docformat=DOCFORMAT
              Which epydoc-supported format docstrings are assumed to be in.

       --html-subject=HTMLSUBJECTS
              The fullName of object to generate API docs for (default: everything).

       --html-summary-pages
              Only generate the summary pages.

       --html-write-function-pages
              Make individual HTML files for every function and method. They're not linked to  in
              any pydoctorgenerated HTML, but they can be useful for third-party linking.

       --html-output=HTMLOUTPUT
              Directory to save HTML files to (default 'apidocs')

       --html-writer=HTMLWRITER
              Dotted  name of html writer class to use (default 'pydoctor.nevowhtml.NevowWriter',
              requires Divmod Nevow to be installed).

       --html-viewsource-base=HTMLSOURCEBASE
              This should be the path to the trac browser for the top of the svn checkout we  are
              documenting part of.

       --html-use-sorttable
              Use  the  sorttable JS library to make tables of package, module and class contents
              sortable

       --html-use-splitlinks
              Generate (unobstrusive) JavaScript to allow class methods to be shown either in one
              table per base class or in one big table.

       --html-shorten-lists
              Generate  (unobstrusive)  JavaScript  to  hide some of the entries in long lists of
              e.g. subclasses.

       --livecheck
              Import and examine the modules too.  XXX not working right now

       -v, --verbose
              Be noisier.  Can be repeated for more noise.

       -q, --quiet
              Be quieter.

       --auto Automagic mode: analyze all modules and packages in the current  working  directory
              and run a local server that allows examination and editing of the docstrings.

       --verbose-about=stage
              Be noiser during a particular stage of generation.

SEE ALSO

       Homepage: http://launchpad.net/pydoctor

       Other Python API documentation generators: epydoc(1), pydoc(1)

LICENSE

       pydoctor is licensed under the simplified BSD license.

AUTHORS

       pydoctor was written and is maintained by Michael Hudson.

       This  manual  page  was  written  by  Jelmer  Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org>, for the Debian
       project (and may be used by others).