This generates `:canonical:` option for `:py:class:` directive if the
target class is imported from other module. It allows users to refer it
using both the new name (imported name) and the original name (canonical
name).
It helps a library that implements some class in private module (like
`_io.StringIO`), and publish it as public module (like `io.StringIO`).
To make directives' behavior consistent, the :file: option for
csv-table directive now recognizes an absolute path as a relative
path from source directory.
Add a new extension `sphinx.ext.autodoc.preserve_defaults`.
It preserves the default argument values of function signatures in source code
and keep them not evaluated for readability. This is an experimental
extension and it will be integrated into autodoc core in Sphinx-4.0.
Add a new config variable: python_use_unqualified_type_names. If enabled,
it goes to suppress the module name of the python reference if it can be
resolved.
To describe the purpose more accurately, the `master_doc` is now renamed
to `root_doc`. The old name is still available. But it is recommeneded
to use new one from now on.
Unintentionally, uninitialized attributes defined at superclasses are
recognized as undocumented in the filtering step. Therefore, they are
filtered if `:undoc-members:` option given.
This is cosmetic as the blank line starting varwidth environment used
for merged table cells in latex output changed nothing to PDF.
Nevertheless I extended a unit test to have a multi-paragraph merged
cell using varwidth. What is important is that \sphinxAtStartPar line
itself is never followed by blank line.
autodoc crashed when a decorator in mocked module takes arguments
because mock system returns the first argument for the decorator as a
decorated object.
This changes the approach for mocking decorators that remembers
arguments for each decoration, and fetch the latest argument on
generating document.
So far, linkcheck scans all of references and images from documents, and
checks them parallel. As a result, some URL would be checked twice (or
more) by race condition.
This collects the URL via post-transforms, and removes duplicated URLs
before checking availability.
refs: #4303
As a well-known idiom, mypy recommends to use ellipsis ("...") for
default argument values as a elided style. This allows to write the
style and helps to document it with copying the default argument
values from actual implementation.
Note: This does not copy the default argument value when the argument
of overloaded function has its own default value.
The default values for overloaded functions are rendered as string
literal unexpectedly because autodoc extracts code snippets from
the source code, not actual value (ex. int, ellipsis, and so on).
This introduces a simple wrapper class; `DefaultValue` to render these
code snippets like actual values, not string literals.
This changes the structure of `highlight_options` to a dictionary that
maps language names to option dictionary. It allows to setting pygments
options for multiple languages at once.
An empty `__all__` should be represented as "there is no public items".
But autodoc considers all items on the module are public. This changes
the behavior to correct one.
