Parse 2 Docs

parse2docs is a Python library that allows you to automatically generate usage documentation in Markdown format from Python scripts using the argparse module.

Features

• Scans the Python script for instances of argparse.ArgumentParser.
• Generates a Markdown file with usage documentation based on the ArgumentParser object.
• The generated documentation includes a table of contents, descriptions of each command line argument, and examples if provided.
• Works with ArgumentParser instances declared at the module level or returned by functions.

Installation

parse2docs can be installed via pip:

pip install parse2docs

Usage

There are two ways to use parse2docs, either as a Python module in your script or directly from the command line using the provided command.

As a Python module

import parse2docs

# Path to the Python script
script_path = 'path_to_your_python_script.py'

# Generate markdown documentation
markdown = parse2docs.generate_md_from_py_script(script_path)

# Save the markdown to a .md file
with open('output.md', 'w') as f:
    f.write(markdown)

This will generate a output.md file with the usage documentation in Markdown format.

From the command line

Description

The following usage section was generated using parse2docs 😉:

## Overall Usage Example

`example.py <file_path>`

## Table of Contents

* [file_path](#file_path)

## Options

### file_path

Path to the Python script file containing the ArgumentParser.

**Type**: `Path`

**Required**: Yes

This will print the usage documentation in Markdown format to the console.

Testing

We use pytest for testing. Run the tests with the following command:

python -m pytest tests/

Contributing

Contributions to parse2docs are welcome and awesome! Please submit a pull request or open an issue to discuss potential changes or improvements.