circuitpython/docs
Damien George d87f42b0e5 examples/usercmodules: Simplify user C module enabling.
It's a bit of a pitfall with user C modules that including them in the
build does not automatically enable them.  This commit changes the docs and
examples for user C modules to encourage writers of user C modules to
enable them unconditionally.  This makes things simpler and covers most use
cases.

See discussion in issue #6960, and also #7086.

Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2021-04-01 16:27:38 +11:00
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develop examples/usercmodules: Simplify user C module enabling. 2021-04-01 16:27:38 +11:00
differences docs/differences: Clarify the differences are against Python 3.4. 2019-01-11 12:11:02 +11:00
esp32 esp32/machine_hw_spi: Use default pins when making SPI if none given. 2021-03-12 10:56:25 +11:00
esp8266 docs/esp8266/quickref: Add warning block about NeoPixel timing. 2021-01-30 14:36:30 +11:00
library esp32: Add basic support for Non-Volatile-Storage in esp32 module. 2021-02-19 15:05:19 +11:00
pyboard docs: More consistent capitalization and use of articles in headings. 2020-01-06 22:17:29 +11:00
readthedocs/settings docs: Add RTD local_settings file, to add custom templates. 2014-12-21 11:21:06 +00:00
reference tools: Add filesystem action examples to pyboard.py help. 2021-02-13 14:37:28 +11:00
static docs: Add M-logo as favicon. 2017-02-07 20:04:40 +11:00
templates docs: Fix Sphinx 3.x warnings, and enable warnings-as-errors on build. 2020-06-05 21:42:17 +10:00
unix windows: Improve default search path. 2020-02-11 13:34:35 +11:00
wipy docs: Remove spaces on lines that are empty. 2019-12-04 15:02:54 +11:00
conf.py all: Bump version to 1.14. 2021-02-03 00:59:07 +11:00
index.rst docs/unix: Add a new new quickref page for the UNIX port. 2020-02-04 17:53:06 +11:00
license.rst docs/license: Update copyright year. 2017-06-23 21:48:27 +03:00
make.bat docs: Fix Sphinx 3.x warnings, and enable warnings-as-errors on build. 2020-06-05 21:42:17 +10:00
Makefile docs: Fix Sphinx 3.x warnings, and enable warnings-as-errors on build. 2020-06-05 21:42:17 +10:00
README.md docs/README: Add short paragraph about using readthedocs. 2020-01-12 11:45:55 +11:00

MicroPython Documentation

The MicroPython documentation can be found at: http://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/

The documentation you see there is generated from the files in the docs tree: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/tree/master/docs

Building the documentation locally

If you're making changes to the documentation, you may want to build the documentation locally so that you can preview your changes.

Install Sphinx, and optionally (for the RTD-styling), sphinx_rtd_theme, preferably in a virtualenv:

 pip install sphinx
 pip install sphinx_rtd_theme

In micropython/docs, build the docs:

make html

You'll find the index page at micropython/docs/build/html/index.html.

Having readthedocs.org build the documentation

If you would like to have docs for forks/branches hosted on GitHub, GitLab or BitBucket an alternative to building the docs locally is to sign up for a free https://readthedocs.org account. The rough steps to follow are:

  1. sign-up for an account, unless you already have one
  2. in your account settings: add GitHub as a connected service (assuming you have forked this repo on github)
  3. in your account projects: import your forked/cloned micropython repository into readthedocs
  4. in the project's versions: add the branches you are developing on or for which you'd like readthedocs to auto-generate docs whenever you push a change

PDF manual generation

This can be achieved with:

make latexpdf

but require rather complete install of LaTeX with various extensions. On Debian/Ubuntu, try (500MB+ download):

apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-extra