pydoc – Tarik Billa

Relative imports require the ‘package’ argument

September 23, 2023 by Tarik

I came to this question via Google, so I’ll answer what helped me (not directly related to the question). I use importlib to dynamically import sub-packages given by a string. import importlib module_name=”subpackage.i.import” special_module = importlib.import_module(module_name, package=None) This simply has to be adjusted to import importlib module_name=”subpackage.i.import” special_module = importlib.import_module(module_name, package=”my_current_pkg”)

How do I create documentation with Pydoc?

January 27, 2023 by Tarik

Another thing that people may find useful…make sure to leave off “.py” from your module name. For example, if you are trying to generate documentation for ‘original’ in ‘original.py‘: yourcode_dir$ pydoc -w original.py no Python documentation found for ‘original.py’ yourcode_dir$ pydoc -w original wrote original.html