---
name: "eric4_doc"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "eric"
version: "4.5.3-1"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/eric4_doc"
---

# eric4\_doc(1)

eric4 documentation generator

## NAME

eric4\_doc - eric4 documentation generator

## SYNOPSIS

**eric4\_doc** \[*options*\] *files*...

where files can be be either Python modules, package directories or ordinary directories.

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **eric4\_doc** command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation provided in the file /usr/share/doc/eric/README-eric4-doc.txt.gz in plain text format.

**eric4\_doc** is the documentation generator of the eric4 IDE. Source code documentation may be included as ordinary Python doc-strings or as documentation comments. For Quixote Template file (PTL) only documentation comments are available due to the inner workings of Quixote. Documentation comments start with the string ###, followed by the contents and ended by ###. Every line of the documentation comments contents must start with a # (see example below).

## OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

- **-p prefix or --prefix=prefix**

  Prepend given prefix to file names.

- **-o directory or --outdir=directory**

  Generate files in the named directory.

- **-R, -r or --recursive**

  Perform a recursive search for Python files.

- **-x directory or --exclude=directory**

  Specify a directory basename to be excluded. This option may be repeated multiple times.

- **-i or --noindex**

  Don't generate index files.

- **-e or --noempty**

  Don't include empty modules.

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-v, --version**

  Show version of program.

## SEE ALSO

[**eric4**(1)](/eric4/1.md), [**eric4\_api**(1)](/eric4_api/1.md), [**eric4\_compare**(1)](/eric4_compare/1.md), [**eric4\_configure**(1)](/eric4_configure/1.md), [**eric4\_diff**(1)](/eric4_diff/1.md), [**eric4\_editor**(1)](/eric4_editor/1.md), [**eric4\_helpviewer**(1)](/eric4_helpviewer/1.md), [**eric4\_iconeditor**(1)](/eric4_iconeditor/1.md), [**eric4\_plugininstall**(1)](/eric4_plugininstall/1.md), [**eric4\_pluginrepository**(1)](/eric4_pluginrepository/1.md), [**eric4\_pluginuninstall**(1)](/eric4_pluginuninstall/1.md), [**eric4\_qregexp**(1)](/eric4_qregexp/1.md), [**eric4\_re**(1)](/eric4_re/1.md), [**eric4\_sqlbrowser**(1)](/eric4_sqlbrowser/1.md), [**eric4\_tray**(1)](/eric4_tray/1.md), [**eric4\_trpreviewer**(1)](/eric4_trpreviewer/1.md), [**eric4\_uipreviewer**(1)](/eric4_uipreviewer/1.md), [**eric4\_unittest**(1)](/eric4_unittest/1.md), [**eric4\_webbrowser**(1)](/eric4_webbrowser/1.md)\

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Torsten Marek \<shlomme@gmx.net\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).