Using Sphinx's `BuildDoc` on `setup.py`

Question

I am picking up a Python project that has the following in a setup.py script:

from sphinx.setup_command import BuildDoc

commands["build_sphinx"] = BuildDoc
cmd_opts["build_sphinx"] = {
    "project": ("setup.py", NAME),
    "version": ("setup.py", about["__version__"]),
    "release": ("setup.py", about["__version__"]),
    "source_dir": ("setup.py", "docs"),
}

And this is to pass to setup() from setuptools. Now this gives me an import error, since it can't find the module. From the Sphinx documentation we have:

# this is only necessary when not using setuptools/distribute
from sphinx.setup_command import BuildDoc

http://code.nabla.net/doc/sphinx/api/sphinx/setup_command/sphinx.setup_command.BuildDoc.html

So my question is if I can import this BuildDoc from somewhere, or should I just use setuptools in another way like suggested by the docs, and if so how do I do it?

I will also add Poetry in the project so if there is a "Poetry with Sphinx thing", I might want that instead.

I tried looking for the BuildDoc import.

I now get that Sphinx integration with setuptools was deprecated in Sphinx 7.0.0, is there a way to integrate still?

Answer 1

BuildDoc was a python counterpart of the command line sphinx-build. I solved this by getting rid of the setuptools at all, and just add in the makefile:

poetry run sphinx-build

Just like sinoroc mentionend! Thanks