Minimalistic Python documentation for dendrophiles.

treedoc prints minimalistic Python documentation in a tree structure, aiming to hit the sweet spot between detailed information about a single object and superficial information about object attributes.

treedoc is great for:

• Getting an overview of a package without endlessly scrolling through a website.
• Searching through documentation.
• Printing essential information about different Python objects.

Installation

Install from Python Package Index (PyPI) using pip install treedoc.

Usage

treedoc can be used directly through the command-line interface, or interactively in a Python shell or Jupyter notebook. For more information about arguments, see treedoc --help or help(treedoc).

Command-line interface

Python shell and notebooks

treedoc can be imported and used just like any other package, e.g. in an interactive Python interpreter session or a Jupyter notebook.

Interpreter

Jupyter notebook

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. If you wish to work on a problem, please create a draft pull request to get feedback. We aim for:

• Zero dependencies, but dependencies for testing are ok.
• Idiomatic, clean Python code. Readability matters.
• Thorough testing and code formatting, see .travis.yml for commands run by continuous integration.