Hippogriffe

This is a set of tweaks on top of the MkDocs + mkdocstrings[python] + griffe documentation stack. In particular, we:

• Add [source] links to GitHub to each top-level class or function.
• Pretty-format type annotations:
  • Fixes unions/generics/etc. to display as e.g. int | str rather than just Union, or tuple[int, str] rather than just tuple.
  • Respects your public API: if a type is declared in your documentation as ::: yourlib.Foo then its usage in type annotations will match: some_fn(foo: yourlib.Foo).
• Show base classes inline after the class.
• Drops the -> None return annotation from __init__ methods.
• Attributes display as [attr] somelib.someattr instead of [attr] somelib.someattr = some_value [module]. (I don't find usually-long default values to be useful documentation, nor the 'module' tag to be informative.)

Before	After

Installation

pip install hippogriffe

Requires MkDocs 1.6.1+ and mkdocstrings[python] 0.28.3+

Usage

In mkdocs.yml:

...

plugins:
    - hippogriffe
    - mkdocstrings:
        ...

Configuration

Hippogriffe supports the following configuration options:

plugins:
    - hippogriffe:
        show_bases: true/false
        show_source_links: all/toplevel/none
        extra_public_objects:
            - foo.SomeClass
            - bar.subpackage.some_function

show_bases:

If false then base classes will not be displayed alongside a class. Defaults to true.

show_source_links:

Sets which objects will have links to their location in the repository (as configured via the usual MkDocs repo_url). If all then all objects will have links. If toplevel then just ::: somelib.value will have links, but their members will not. If none then no links will be added. Defaults to toplevel.

extra_public_objects:

Pretty-formatting of type annotations is done strictly: every annotation must be part of the known public API, else an error will be raised. The public API is defined as the combination of:

• Everything you document using ::: yourlib.Foo, and all of their members.
• Anything from the standard library.
• All objects belonging to any of extra_public_objects.

For example,

plugins:
    - hippogriffe:
        extra_public_objects:
            - jax.Array
            - torch.Tensor

List each object under whatever public path somelib.Foo that you would like it to be displayed under (and from which it must be accessible), not whichever private path somelib._internal.foo.Foo it is defined at.