Class Hierarchy

• docutils.SettingsSpec: Runtime setting specification base class.
  • docutils.Component: Base class for Docutils components.
    • docutils.writers.Writer: Abstract base class for docutils Writers.
      • epydoc.markup.restructuredtext._DocumentPseudoWriter: A pseudo-writer for the docutils framework, that can be used to access the document itself.
    • docutils.readers.Reader: Abstract base class for docutils Readers.
      • docutils.readers.standalone.Reader
        • epydoc.docwriter.xlink.ApiLinkReader: A Docutils standalone reader allowing external documentation links.
          • epydoc.markup.restructuredtext._EpydocReader: A reader that captures all errors that are generated by parsing, and appends them to a list.
• docutils.TransformSpec: Runtime transform specification base class.
  • docutils.Component: Base class for Docutils components.
    • docutils.writers.Writer: Abstract base class for docutils Writers.
      • epydoc.markup.restructuredtext._DocumentPseudoWriter: A pseudo-writer for the docutils framework, that can be used to access the document itself.
    • docutils.readers.Reader: Abstract base class for docutils Readers.
      • docutils.readers.standalone.Reader
        • epydoc.docwriter.xlink.ApiLinkReader: A Docutils standalone reader allowing external documentation links.
          • epydoc.markup.restructuredtext._EpydocReader: A reader that captures all errors that are generated by parsing, and appends them to a list.
• docutils.nodes.Body
  • docutils.nodes.General
    • docutils.nodes.image
      • epydoc.markup.restructuredtext.dotgraph: A custom docutils node that should be rendered using Graphviz dot.
• docutils.nodes.Inline
  • docutils.nodes.image
    • epydoc.markup.restructuredtext.dotgraph: A custom docutils node that should be rendered using Graphviz dot.
• docutils.nodes.Node: Abstract base class of nodes in a document tree.
  • docutils.nodes.Element: Element is the superclass to all specific elements.
    • docutils.nodes.image
      • epydoc.markup.restructuredtext.dotgraph: A custom docutils node that should be rendered using Graphviz dot.
• docutils.nodes.NodeVisitor: "Visitor" pattern [GoF95] abstract superclass implementation for document tree traversals.
  • docutils.writers.latex2e.LaTeXTranslator
    • epydoc.markup.restructuredtext._EpydocLaTeXTranslator
  • docutils.writers.html4css1.HTMLTranslator: This HTML writer has been optimized to produce visually compact lists (less vertical whitespace).
    • epydoc.markup.restructuredtext._EpydocHTMLTranslator
  • epydoc.markup.restructuredtext._SplitFieldsTranslator: A docutils translator that removes all fields from a document, and collects them into the instance variable fields
  • epydoc.markup.restructuredtext._TermsExtractor: A docutils node visitor that extracts the terms from documentation.
  • epydoc.markup.restructuredtext._SummaryExtractor: A docutils node visitor that extracts the first sentence from the first paragraph in a document.
• docutils.utils.Reporter: Info/warning/error reporter and system_message element generator.
  • epydoc.markup.restructuredtext.OptimizedReporter: A reporter that ignores all debug messages.
• epydoc.apidoc.DocIndex: [xx] out of date.
• epydoc.apidoc.DottedName: A sequence of identifiers, separated by periods, used to name a Python variable, value, or argument.
• epydoc.apidoc._Sentinel: A unique value that won't compare equal to any other value.
• epydoc.checker.DocChecker: Documentation completeness checker.
• epydoc.cli.TerminalController: A class that can be used to portably generate formatted output to a terminal.
• epydoc.docbuilder.BuildOptions: Holds the parameters for a documentation building process.
• epydoc.docbuilder._ProgressEstimator: Used to keep track of progress when generating the initial docs for the given items.
• epydoc.docintrospecter._DevNull: A "file-like" object that discards anything that is written and always reports end-of-file when read.
• epydoc.docstringparser.DocstringField: A simple docstring field, which can be used to describe specific information about an object, such as its author or its version.
• epydoc.docwriter.dotgraph.DotGraph: A dot directed graph.
• epydoc.docwriter.dotgraph.DotGraphEdge
• epydoc.docwriter.dotgraph.DotGraphNode
  • epydoc.docwriter.dotgraph.DotGraphUmlModuleNode: A specialized dot grah node used to display ModuleDocs using UML notation.
  • epydoc.docwriter.dotgraph.DotGraphUmlClassNode: A specialized dot graph node used to display ClassDocs using UML notation.
• epydoc.docwriter.html.HTMLWriter
• epydoc.docwriter.html_colorize.PythonSourceColorizer: A class that renders a python module's source code into HTML pages.
• epydoc.docwriter.latex.LatexWriter
• epydoc.docwriter.plaintext.PlaintextWriter
• epydoc.docwriter.xlink.UrlGenerator: Generate URL from an object name.
  • epydoc.docwriter.xlink.VoidUrlGenerator: Don't actually know any url, but don't report any error.
  • epydoc.docwriter.xlink.DocUrlGenerator: Read a documentation index and generate URL's for it.
• epydoc.gui.EpydocGUI: A graphical user interace to epydoc.
• epydoc.log.Logger: An abstract base class that defines the interface for loggers, which are used by epydoc to report information back to the user.
  • epydoc.cli.HTMLLogger: A logger used to generate a log of all warnings and messages to an HTML file.
  • epydoc.cli.ConsoleLogger
    • epydoc.cli.UnifiedProgressConsoleLogger
  • epydoc.log.SimpleLogger
• epydoc.markup.ConcatenatedDocstring
• epydoc.markup.DocstringLinker: A translator for crossreference links into and out of a ParsedDocstring.
  • epydoc.docwriter.latex.LatexWriter._LatexDocstringLinker
  • epydoc.docwriter.html._HTMLDocstringLinker
• epydoc.markup.Field: The contents of a docstring's field.
• epydoc.markup.ParsedDocstring: A standard intermediate representation for parsed docstrings that can be used to generate output.
  • epydoc.markup.restructuredtext.ParsedRstDocstring: An encoded version of a ReStructuredText docstring.
  • epydoc.markup.javadoc.ParsedJavadocDocstring: An encoded version of a Javadoc docstring.
  • epydoc.markup.epytext.ParsedEpytextDocstring
    • epydoc.markup.pyval_repr.ColorizedPyvalRepr
  • epydoc.markup.plaintext.ParsedPlaintextDocstring
• epydoc.markup.doctest.DoctestColorizer: An abstract base class for performing syntax highlighting on doctest blocks and other bits of Python code.
  • epydoc.markup.doctest.LaTeXDoctestColorizer: A subclass of DoctestColorizer that generates LaTeX output.
  • epydoc.markup.doctest.HTMLDoctestColorizer: A subclass of DoctestColorizer that generates HTML output.
  • epydoc.markup.doctest.XMLDoctestColorizer: A subclass of DoctestColorizer that generates XML-like output.
• epydoc.markup.epytext.Element: A very simple DOM-like representation for parsed epytext documents.
• epydoc.markup.epytext.Token: Tokens are an intermediate data structure used while constructing the structuring DOM tree for a formatted docstring.
• epydoc.markup.pyval_repr.PyvalColorizer: Syntax highlighter for Python values.
• epydoc.markup.pyval_repr._ColorizerState: An object uesd to keep track of the current state of the pyval colorizer.
• object: The most base type
  • epydoc.apidoc.APIDoc: API documentation information for a single element of a Python program.
    • epydoc.apidoc.VariableDoc: API documentation information about a single Python variable.
    • epydoc.apidoc.ValueDoc: API documentation information about a single Python value.
      • epydoc.apidoc.RoutineDoc: API documentation information about a single routine.
        • epydoc.apidoc.StaticMethodDoc
        • epydoc.apidoc.ClassMethodDoc
      • epydoc.apidoc.NamespaceDoc: API documentation information about a singe Python namespace value.
        • epydoc.apidoc.ModuleDoc: API documentation information about a single module.
        • epydoc.apidoc.ClassDoc: API documentation information about a single class.
      • epydoc.apidoc.PropertyDoc: API documentation information about a single property.
      • epydoc.apidoc.GenericValueDoc: API documentation about a 'generic' value, i.e., one that does not have its own docstring or any information other than its value and parse representation.
  • exceptions.BaseException: Common base class for all exceptions
    • exceptions.Exception: Common base class for all non-exit exceptions.
      • epydoc.markup.pyval_repr._Linebreak: A control-flow exception that is raised when PyvalColorizer generates a string containing a newline, but the state object's linebreakok variable is False.
      • exceptions.StandardError: Base class for all standard Python exceptions that do not represent interpreter exiting.
        • exceptions.EnvironmentError: Base class for I/O related errors.
          • exceptions.OSError: OS system call failed.
            • epydoc.util.RunSubprocessError
        • exceptions.LookupError: Base class for lookup errors.
          • exceptions.IndexError: Sequence index out of range.
            • epydoc.docwriter.xlink.UrlGenerator.IndexAmbiguous: The name looked for is ambiguous
        • exceptions.ValueError: Inappropriate argument value (of correct type).
          • epydoc.apidoc.DottedName.InvalidDottedName: An exception raised by the DottedName constructor when one of its arguments is not a valid dotted name.
      • epydoc.markup.pyval_repr._Maxlines: A control-flow exception that is raised when PyvalColorizer exeeds the maximum number of allowed lines.
      • epydoc.docparser.ParseError: An exception that is used to signify that docparser encountered syntactically invalid Python code while processing a Python source file.
      • epydoc.markup.ParseError: The base class for errors generated while parsing docstrings.
        • epydoc.markup.epytext.StructuringError: An error generated while structuring a formatted documentation string.
        • epydoc.markup.epytext.TokenizationError: An error generated while tokenizing a formatted documentation string.
        • epydoc.markup.epytext.ColorizingError: An error generated while colorizing a paragraph.