A cookiecutter template for a Sphinx extension within the sphinxcontrib namespace.

This template focuses on setting up the scaffolding of the project: for information on actually writing your plugin, refer to the Sphinx documentation.

• pbr for simple packaging.
• pytest for testing.
• tox for automation of test runners and other stuff.

Other stuff we include:

• Travis CI support for unit tests (using the tox-travis plugin).
• mypy integration for type annotations.
• yapf-based automatic Python code formatting.

Install `cookiecutter`:

pip install cookiecutter

Generate a Python package:

cookiecutter https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/cookiecutter.git

Next steps:

• Create a GitHub repo for your project and push your code.
• Read CONTRIBUTING for information on submitting the package to the sphinx-contrib organization.

Apache License, Version 2.0