Autorun

Autorun is an extension for Sphinx that can execute the code from a runblock directive and attach the output of the execution to the document.

For example:

.. runblock:: pycon

    >>> for i in range(5):
    ...    print i

Produces:

>>> for i in range(5):
...    print i
1
2
3
4
5

Another example:

.. runblock:: console

    $ date

Produces:

$ date 
Thu  4 Mar 2010 22:56:49 EST

Currently autorun supports pycon and console languages. It's also possible to configure autorun (from conf.py) to run other languages.

Installation

Installing from sources:

$ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx-contrib/
$ cd sphinx-contrib/autorun
$ python setup.py install

To enable autorun add 'sphinxcontrib.autorun' to the extension list in `conf.py`:

extensions.append('sphinxcontrib.autorun')

The documentation is in the doc/ folder.