Top 15 Sphinx Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license.

It was originally created for the Python documentation, and it has excellent facilities for the documentation of Python projects, but C/C++ is already supported as well, and it is planned to add special support for other languages as well.

1. Read The Docs

Read The Docs Read the Docs hosts documentation for the open source community. It supports Sphinx docs written with reStructuredText, and can pull from your Subversion, Bazaar, Git, and Mercurial repositories. The code is open source, and available on github.The documentation for the site is organized into two different sections below. One is......

2. PyDev

PyDev PyDev is a third-party plug-in for Eclipse. It is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used for programming in Python supporting code refactoring, graphical debugging, code analysis and many other features.FeaturesBelow there are some of the features available : CPython, Jython and IronPython support Code completion Code completion with auto-import Code......

3. WinPython

WinPython The easiest way to run Python, Spyder with SciPy and friends out of the box on any Windows PC, without installing anything!......

4. Twisted

Twisted Twisted is an event-driven network programming framework written in Python and licensed under the MIT License. Twisted projects variously support TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, IP Multicast, Unix domain sockets, a large number of protocols (including HTTP, XMPP, NNTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC, FTP, and others), and much more. Twisted is based on......

5. PEP8

PEP8 pep8 is a tool to check your Python code against some of the style conventions in PEP 8.......

6. Stackless Python

Stackless Python Stackless Python is an enhanced version of the Python programming language. It allows programmers to reap the benefits of thread-based programming without the performance and complexity problems associated with conventional threads. The microthreads that Stackless adds to Python are a cheap and lightweight convenience which can if used properly, give......

7. PEP 257

PEP 257 pep257 is a static analysis tool for checking compliance with Python PEP 257.The framework for checking docstring style is flexible, and custom checks can be easily added, for example to cover NumPy docstring conventions.pep257 supports Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, pypy and pypy3.......

8. PyPy

PyPy PyPy is a fast, compliant alternative implementation of the Python language (2.7.1). It has several advantages and distinct features:- Speed: thanks to its Just-in-Time compiler, Python programs often run faster on PyPy.- Memory usage: large, memory-hungry Python programs might end up taking less space than they do in CPython.- Compatibility:......

9. FIFE

FIFE The Flexible Isometric Free Engine (FIFE) is an open source, cross-platform game engine written in C++ with Python scripting abilities. Inspired by the isometric view found on Fallout and Fallout 2, it can nonetheless be used to create about any 2D game, as the flexible on the name implies. The......

10. Pulpo

Pulpo Pulpo is a free visualization command-line tool for ORM Frameworks: Doctrine, Doctrine2 and Propel ORM. Tool allows to automatically generate visual schema from the ORM schema definition files. This schema is automatically formatted in the form of easily understandable Enhanced ER diagram. Main advantages of Pulpo are: -......

11. Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow Airflow is a platform to programmaticaly author, schedule and monitor data pipelines.Use Airflow to author workflows as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks. The Airflow scheduler executes your tasks on an array of workers while following the specified dependencies. Rich command lines utilities makes performing complex surgeries on DAGs a......

12. CallerPy

CallerPy Truecaller Name Retriever. The simplest method for accessing truecaller's database is through CallerPy's online service.......

13. rietveld

rietveld rietveld shows how to create a somewhat substantial web application using Django on Google App Engine. In addition, it will serve as a practical tool for the Python developer community, and hopefully for other open source communities.......

14. NuPIC

NuPIC NuPIC Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing......

15. Boa Constructor

Boa Constructor Boa Constructor is a cross platform Python IDE and wxPython GUI Builder. It offers visual frame creation and manipulation, an object inspector, many views on the source like object browsers, inheritance hierarchies, doc string generated html documentation, an advanced debugger and integrated help. Zope support: Object creation and editing. Cut,......