Style checker for sphinx (or other) rst documentation.
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README.rst

Doc8

Doc8 is a opinionated style checker for rst (with basic support for plain text) styles of documentation.

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] [--default-extension extension]
            [--max-line-length int] [-e extension] [-v] [--version]
            [path [path ...]]

Check documentation for simple style requirements.

What is checked:
    - invalid rst format - D000
    - lines should not be longer than 79 characters - D001
      - RST exception: line with no whitespace except in the beginning
      - RST exception: lines with http or https urls
      - RST exception: literal blocks
      - RST exception: rst target directives
    - no trailing whitespace - D002
    - no tabulation for indentation - D003
    - no carriage returns (use unix newlines) - D004
    - no newline at end of file - D005

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)
  --default-extension extension
                        Default file extension to use when a file is found
                        without a file extension.
  --file-encoding encoding
                        Override encoding to use when attempting to determine
                        an input files text encoding (providing this avoids
                        using `chardet` to automatically detect encoding/s)
  --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
  --version             Show the version and exit.

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
default-extension Yes No
extension No Yes
ignore-path No Yes
ignore No Yes
max-line-length Yes No
file-encoding 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).