Make a docs directory, and copy docs.py into it. Open a command prompt. sphinx-quickstart Root path for documentation[.]: Separate source and build directories(y/n)[n]: Name prefix for templates and static directories[_]: Project name: docstest Author: Your name Project version: 1 Project release: Project language [en]: Source file suffix [.rst] Name of your master document (without suffix)[index]: Do you want to use the epub builder (y/n) [n]: autodoc: automatically insert docstrings from modules (y/n) [n]: doctest: automatically test code snippets in doctest blocks (y/n) [n]: intersphinx: link between Sphinx documentation of different projects (y/n) [n]: todo: write "todo" entries that can be shown or hidden on build (y/n) [n]: coverage: checks for documentation coverage (y/n) [n]: pngmath: include math, rendered as PNG images (y/n) [n]: mathjax: include math, rendered in the browser by MathJax (y/n) [n]: ifconfig: conditional inclusion of content based on config values (y/n) [n]: viewcode: include links to the source code of documented Python objects (y/n) [n]: Create Makefile? (y/n) [y]: Create Windows command file? (y/n) [y]: Make a directory _source Copy in docs.py sphinx-apidoc -o _source _source Copy index.rst into _source sphinx-build -c . -b html _source _build