---
id: sphinx
version: "9.1.0"
license: BSD-2-Clause
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# Sphinx — Python documentation generator

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install sphinx
uv add sphinx
poetry add sphinx

## Description

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 Sphinx
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**Sphinx makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation.**

Sphinx uses reStructuredText as its markup language, and many of its strengths
come from the power and straightforwardness of reStructuredText and its parsing
and translating suite, the Docutils.

Features
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* **Output formats**: HTML, PDF, plain text, EPUB, TeX, manual pages, and more
* **Extensive cross-references**: semantic markup and automatic links
  for functions, classes, glossary terms and similar pieces of information
* **Hierarchical structure**: easy definition of...

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Sphinx is a documentation generator that converts reStructuredText markup into multiple output formats (HTML, PDF, EPUB, and more) with automatic cross-references, code highlighting via Pygments, and extensible support for multiple programming languages.

Verdict: Sphinx 9.1.0 is a production-stable documentation framework with no known vulnerabilities, permissive BSD-2-Clause licensing, and low installation friction. It is suitable for projects of any scale requiring professional technical documentation.

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