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sphinxcontrib-pyexec

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# PyExec

A sphinx extension for running python code and displaying both the input and
output [sphinx documentation](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/).

In the conf.py add `PyExec` to your extensions.

In the ReStructuredText file, use the `exec` environment

```
.. exec::
print 2 + 2
```

To output python code & the results in your documentation.

```
>> print 2 + 2
4
```

Note that you need to include the `print` statement for the output to be shown. To see it in action, checkout the [Properties documentation](http://propertiespy.readthedocs.io/).

Based on

- https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/blob/master/sphinx/directives/code.py
- http://stackoverflow.com/a/18143318/6086999

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