Sphinx uses old module code

Question

I use Sphinx to document my code, which is a collection of Python modules. The autogenerated documentation that's made by scrubbing my source code is fine, but when I click on the "code" link that links directly to the HTML pages containing my package's sources that Sphinx generates, an older version of my code is shown.

I've tried deleting my Sphinx generated documentation, uninstalling the package from my own site-packages folder, and deleting everything in my build folder. I can find absolutely no files that match Sphinx's output - it's old, and I'm not sure where it's coming from. Does anybody know how to get Sphinx to put my new code in the documentation?

As I said, the autodocumentation works fine, so it's obviously parsing my code on some level. So why is the pure text different from the autodocumentation?

Answer 1

Sphinx caches (pickles) parsed source files. The cache is usually located in a directory called .doctrees under the build directory. To ensure that your source files are reparsed, delete this directory.

See http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/man/sphinx-build.html#cmdoption-sphinx-build-d.