Including dynamic content in documentation created by python-sphinx

Question

I use sphinx to create documentation for my project and create documentation as part of the product installation process. I would like to dynamically include the hostname in the text and / or code blocks. I did not see any explanation in the documentation of any means to enable the output of a shell command or anything but specific lines from a specific file. Does this ability exist?

Answer 1

Here are two Sphinx extensions that can do this:

• autorun : executes Python code in runblock directives, captures the output, and inserts it into documents.
• programoutput : executes arbitrary commands using the program-output directive and inserts output into documents.