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
$ ./doc8 -h
usage: doc8 [-h] [--config path] [--allow-long-titles] [--ignore code]
[--max-line-length int] [-e extension]
[path [path ...]]
Check documentation for simple style requirements.
What is checked:
- 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
--max-line-length int
maximum allowed line length (default: 79)
-e extension, --extension extension
check file extensions of the given type (default:
.rst, .txt)
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