#549: Great Docs

Your documentation has two audiences now - humans reading the rendered HTML, and AI agents trying to make sense of your library. Rich Iannone and Michael Chow from Posit are back on Talk Python with a brand new Python documentation tool called Great Docs that takes both seriously. Rich is the creator of Great Tables, and before that the R package GT, the man has a serious eye for design, and he's pointed that energy at the Python docs ecosystem. We'll talk about how Great Docs spins up a polished site in three commands, why every page ships as Markdown for your favorite LLM, how it leans on Quarto for executable code blocks and tabbed install sections, and where it lands against Sphinx, MkDocs, and Zensical. Plus, you'll meet Tablin. Here we go. Episode sponsors Sentry Error Monitoring, Code talkpython26 Temporal Talk Python Courses Links from the show Guests Michael Chow: github.com Rich lannone: github.com Python Web Security with OWASP Top 10 and Agentic AI Course: talkpython.fm Great Docs: posit-dev.github.io/great-docs Great Tables: posit-dev.github.io GT Episode: talkpython.fm Sphinx: www.sphinx-doc.org mkdocs: www.mkdocs.org Zensical: zensical.org Hugo: gohugo.io Ghost: ghost.org Rs pkgdown: pkgdown.r-lib.org Quarto: quarto.org quickstart: posit-dev.github.io llms.txt file: llmstxt.org llms.txt: talkpython.fm mcp: talkpython.fm cli: talkpython.fm Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com Episode #549 deep-dive: talkpython.fm/549 Episode transcripts: talkpython.fm Theme Song: Developer Rap 🥁 Served in a Flask 🎸: talkpython.fm/flasksong ---== Don't be a stranger ==--- YouTube: youtube.com/@talkpython Bluesky: @talkpython.fm Mastodon: @[email protected] X.com: @talkpython Michael on Bluesky: @mkennedy.codes Michael on Mastodon: @[email protected] Michael on X.com: @mkennedy