sphinx.setup_command.BuildDoc

Distutils command to build Sphinx documentation. The Sphinx build can then be triggered from distutils, and some Sphinx options can be set in ``setup.py`` or ``setup.cfg`` instead of Sphinx's own configuration file. For instance, from `setup.py`:: # this is only necessary when not using setuptools/distribute from sphinx.setup_command import BuildDoc cmdclass = {'build_sphinx': BuildDoc} name = 'My project' version = '1.2' release = '1.2.0' setup( name=name, author='Bernard Montgomery', version=release, cmdclass=cmdclass, # these are optional and override conf.py settings command_options={ 'build_sphinx': { 'project': ('setup.py', name), 'version': ('setup.py', version), 'release': ('setup.py', release)}}, ) Or add this section in ``setup.cfg``:: [build_sphinx] project = 'My project' version = 1.2 release = 1.2.0