How to build sphinx documentation for django project

I have a django project, which I document using reST in docstrings to do the following:

1. Help diagloags within IDE
2. Later on to build HTML documentation using Sphinx

My documentation shows up properly within IDE (P开发者_开发技巧yCharm), however I can't configure Sphinx to generate HTML documentation for me.

Here is the structure of my project

+--------------------------------------------+
|  /saassapp         # django project path   |
|     /docs          # dir for sphinx        |
|        conf.py     # sphinx config file    |
|        ...                                 |
|     settings.py    # django settings       |
|     /studyview     # django app            |
|        ...
|     ...                                    |
+--------------------------------------------+

Any ideas? An examle of the conf.py file would be very useful. Thank you.

EDIT

My project name is saassapp and the module I am trying to make a doc for is called studyview.

• Sphinx conf.py file: http://pastebin.com/HTYdc1rR
• Sphinx index file: http://pastebin.com/bu1r38TQ
• Result of make html: http://pastebin.com/MWJj94EE

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The migration features introduced in Django 1.7 prevents the previous answers from working on newer versions. Instead you will have to do a manual setup. Analogous to all previous answers you'll first have to make sure Django can find your settings, and then call django.setup() which will load the settings and setup your models. Add this to your Sphinx project's conf.py:

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'projectname.settings'
import django
django.setup()

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Add the following to your conf.py and you will not need to set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE each time:

import sys, os

sys.path.append('/path/to/your/project') # The directory that contains settings.py

# Set up the Django settings/environment
from django.core.management import setup_environ
from myproject import settings

setup_environ(settings)

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With Django 1.6, I couldn't use the answer by @MikeRyan since from django.core.management import setup_environ has been deprecated. Instead, I went to my conf.py file and added the following:

import sys
import os

sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..'))
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'dataentry.settings'
from django.conf import settings

Let me explain each line:

1. I used a relative path (two directories up), but you can go ahead and put an absolute path if you'd like
2. My project name is dataentry and the settings.py file is inside that folder; change the name (dataentry) to your project name

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I think you have to make Sphinx aware of the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable. So do

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=mysite.settings

(or whatever is the right value for you)

Then execute

make html

in the same terminal session.

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Late but using Django>=1.9 and sphinx>=1.6.4 set the path equivalent to the project BASE_DIR in the conf.py

import django
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))))
os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] = "project.settings"
django.setup()

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You actually don't need a separate settings module. It's sometimes easier to have one (when tests and doc share settings) but not required.

This is how dj-stripe sets up django for sphinx. The key here is the settings.configure call with INSTALLED_APPS as it is the only one setting key required (if your app does not require more of course):

import django
from django.conf import settings
from django.utils.encoding import force_text
from django.utils.html import strip_tags

import djstripe  # noqa


# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
# sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
cwd = os.getcwd()
parent = os.path.dirname(cwd)
sys.path.append(parent)


settings.configure(
    INSTALLED_APPS=[
        "django.contrib.admin",
        "django.contrib.auth",
        "django.contrib.contenttypes",
        "django.contrib.sessions",
        "django.contrib.sites",
        "jsonfield",
        "djstripe",
    ],
    SITE_ID=1,
    STRIPE_PUBLIC_KEY=os.environ.get("STRIPE_PUBLIC_KEY", ""),
    STRIPE_SECRET_KEY=os.environ.get("STRIPE_SECRET_KEY", ""),
)


django.setup()