While thorough documentation is necessary, it’s often put on the back burner and looked upon as a chore and a low-priority task. As a developer, it’s easy to fall back on the mindset of “why document the code when you, the author, know exactly what it’s doing?” When the code is rapidly changing, keeping the docs up to date becomes an even more substantial burden.

Luckily, manually writing out documentation is not required due to the capabilities of Sphinx, a tool that automatically generates documentation from the docstrings in your code.

Below is a step-by-step guide to easily auto-generate clean and well-organized documentation from Python code using Sphinx.

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