About this documentation
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How to generate this documentation
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* Install Sphinx
* change dir to project main dir
* create symlink: ``ln -s src pyi2ncommon``
* change dir into doc
* run ``sphinx-apidoc -o ./ ../pyi2ncommon``
  (you may have to add a -f if you added a new module)
* run ``make html``
  (this will create one .rst file for each python file in pyi2ncommon directory)


Good to know
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* lots of example documentation can be found in the docu of template.py (:py:mod:`template`)
* this Documentation was initialized using sphinx-quickstart
* doc/conf.py can be used to configure lots of the documentation
* the autodoc extension is responsible for creating .rst files from documentation in .py files
* you should not have to change the my_module_name.rst files or modules.rst since they are auto-created
* by including modules.rst in the toctree of index.rst, all modules' source doc is included in this help
* in conf.py, there is a setup() function in the end which can be used to influence the doc strings
* sometimes, adding . to the end of list items is required (not always as in this example)


TODO
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* before committing run pylint and pep8 (--> check.sh)
* automatically get classes and exceptions (and free functions?) into sidebar when opening module doc
* automatically set module name as title for module doc