Heditor is a powerful tool to manage documentation. It supports extracting docstrings from the source code.

Download from releases.

The Windows executable installer will add the installation directory into the environment variable Path.

heditor help

The following example shows how to extract docstrings from a Python project.

heditor extract {PATH_TO_YOUR_PYTHON_PROJECT} in Python

To save the output as a single .hexpr file:

heditor extract {PATH_TO_YOUR_PYTHON_PROJECT} in Python to example.hepxr

To save the output as a file tree:

heditor extract {PATH_TO_YOUR_PYTHON_PROJECT} in Python to example

Heditor recognizes the docstrings as Markdown by default. To specify the comment type, use as ....

heditor extract {PATH_TO_YOUR_PYTHON_PROJECT} in Python as HTML to example

The following example shows how to open a .hexpr file.

heditor read example.hexpr

Hephaestus imports and exports in a strange way by default considering compatibility. Normally structured documents cannot be read directly. To construct from original directories, you can use initialize command.

heditor initialize example

Add --debug anywhere after the third argument to enable debug mode. This gives you a full stack trace that indicates where the error occurs. Report the bug with the command leading to the error and the stack trace.