This pull request fixes multiple Sphinx documentation warnings in the pyperf docs.

doc/api.rst

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 API
 ===
 
+.. module:: pyperf
+
 The module version can be read from ``pyperf.VERSION`` (tuple of int) or
 ``pyperf.__version__`` (str).
 
@@ -193,10 +195,13 @@ Benchmark class
 
       Format values including the unit.
 
-   .. method:: get_dates() -> (datetime.datetime, datetime.datetime) or None
+   .. method:: get_dates()
+      Return (datetime.datetime, datetime.datetime) or None.
 
       Get the start date of the first run and the end date of the last run.
 
+      Return ``(datetime.datetime, datetime.datetime)`` or ``None``.
+
       Return a ``(start, end)`` tuple where start and end are
       ``datetime.datetime`` objects if a least one run has a date metadata.
 
@@ -222,7 +227,7 @@ Benchmark class
 
       Get the total number of values.
 
-   .. method:: get_nwarmup() -> int or float
+   .. method:: get_nwarmup() -> int | float
 
       Get the number of warmup values per run.
 
@@ -244,7 +249,7 @@ Benchmark class
       Use the ``duration`` metadata of runs, or compute the sum of their
       raw values including warmup values.
 
-   .. method:: get_loops() -> int or float
+   .. method:: get_loops() -> int | float
 
       Get the number of outer loop iterations of runs.
 
@@ -253,7 +258,7 @@ Benchmark class
 
       .. versionadded:: 1.3
 
-   .. method:: get_inner_loops() -> int or float
+   .. method:: get_inner_loops() -> int | float
 
       Get the number of inner loop iterations of runs.
 
@@ -262,7 +267,7 @@ Benchmark class
 
       .. versionadded:: 1.3
 
-   .. method:: get_total_loops() -> int or float
+   .. method:: get_total_loops() -> int | float
 
       Get the total number of loops per value (outer-loops x inner-loops).
 
@@ -649,7 +654,7 @@ Runner class
       Return a :class:`Benchmark` instance.
 
       See the :ref:`bench_time_func() example <bench_time_func_example>`.
-
+   
    .. method:: parse_args(args=None)
 
       Parse command line arguments using :attr:`argparser` and put the result
@@ -686,7 +691,7 @@ The :class:`Run` class collects metadata by default.
 Benchmark:
 
 * ``date`` (str): date when the benchmark run started, formatted as ISO 8601
-* ``duration`` (int or float >= 0): total duration of the benchmark run in seconds (``float``)
+* ``duration`` (int | float >= 0): total duration of the benchmark run in seconds (``float``)
 * ``name`` (non-empty str): benchmark name
 * ``loops`` (``int >= 1``): number of outer-loops per value (``int``)
 * ``inner_loops`` (``int >= 1``): number of inner-loops of the benchmark (``int``)
@@ -733,14 +738,14 @@ System metadata:
 * ``boot_time`` (str): Date and time of the system boot
 * ``hostname``: Host name
 * ``platform``: short string describing the platform
-* ``load_avg_1min`` (int or float >= 0): Load average figures giving the number of jobs in the run
+* ``load_avg_1min`` (int | float >= 0): Load average figures giving the number of jobs in the run
   queue (state ``R``) or waiting for disk I/O (state ``D``) averaged over 1
   minute
 * ``runnable_threads``: number of currently runnable kernel scheduling entities
   (processes, threads). The value comes from the 4th field of
   ``/proc/loadavg``: ``1`` in ``0.20 0.22 0.24 1/596 10123`` for example
   (``596`` is the total number of threads).
-* ``uptime`` (int or float >= 0): Duration since the system boot (``float``, number of seconds
+* ``uptime`` (int | float >= 0): Duration since the system boot (``float``, number of seconds
   since ``boot_time``)
 
 Other:

doc/changelog.rst

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 Changelog
 =========
+.. module:: pyperf
+  :noindex:
 
 Version 2.9.0 (2025-03-03)
 --------------------------
@@ -180,7 +182,7 @@ a Python binding called "perf" as well.
 Version 1.6.0 (2019-01-11)
 --------------------------
 
-* Add *teardown* optional parameter to :class:`Runner.timeit` and ``--teardown``
+* Add *teardown* optional parameter to ``Runner.timeit`` and ``--teardown``
   option to the :ref:`perf timeit <timeit_cmd>` command. Patch by **Alex
   Khomchenko**.
 * ``Runner.timeit(stmt)`` can now be used to use the statement as the benchmark
@@ -561,8 +563,8 @@ Version 0.7.10 (2016-09-17)
 Version 0.7.9 (2016-09-17)
 --------------------------
 
-* Add :meth:`Benchmark.get_unit` method
-* Add :meth:`BenchmarkSuite.get_metadata` method
+* Add ``Benchmark.get_unit`` method
+* Add ``BenchmarkSuite.get_metadata`` method
 * metadata: add ``nohz_full`` and ``isolated`` to ``cpu_config``
 * add ``--affinity`` option to the ``metadata`` command
 * ``convert``: fix ``--remove-all-metadata``, keep the unit
@@ -614,7 +616,7 @@ Version 0.7.4 (2016-08-18)
 
 * Support PyPy
 * metadata: add ``mem_max_rss`` and ``python_hash_seed``
-* Add :func:`perf.python_implementation` and :func:`perf.python_has_jit`
+* Add ``perf.python_implementation`` and ``perf.python_has_jit``
   functions
 * In workers, calibration samples are now stored as warmup samples.
 * With a JIT (PyPy), the calibration is now done in each worker. The warmup
@@ -711,7 +713,7 @@ Changes:
   and TextRunner.
 * A single JSON file can now contain multiple benchmarks
 * Add a dependency to the ``six`` module
-  :meth:`Benchmark.add_run` now raises an exception if a sample is zero.
+  ``Benchmark.add_run`` now raises an exception if a sample is zero.
 * Benchmark.name becomes a property and is now stored in metadata
 * TextRunner now uses powers of 2, rather than powers of 10, to calibrate the
   number of loops
@@ -725,9 +727,9 @@ Changes:
 * The ``hist`` command now accepts multiple files
 * ``hist`` and ``hist_scipy`` commands got a new ``--bins`` option
 * Replace mean with median
-* Add :meth:`perf.Benchmark.median` method, remove ``Benchmark.mean()`` method
+* Add ``perf.Benchmark.median`` method, remove ``Benchmark.mean()`` method
 * ``Benchmark.get_metadata()`` method removed: use directly the
-  :attr:`perf.Benchmark.metadata` attribute
+  ``perf.Benchmark.metadata`` attribute
 * Add ``timer`` metadata. ``python_version`` now also contains the architecture
   (32 or 64 bits).
 
@@ -774,23 +776,22 @@ Version 0.3 (2016-06-10)
 * If TextRunner detects isolated CPUs, it sets automatically the CPU affinity
   to these isolated CPUs
 * Add ``--json-file`` command line option
-* Add :meth:`TextRunner.bench_sample_func` method
+* Add ``TextRunner.bench_sample_func`` method
 * Add examples of the API to the documentation. Split also the documentation
   into subpages.
 * Add metadata ``cpu_affinity``
-* Add :func:`perf.is_significant` function
-* Move metadata from :class:`~perf.Benchmark` to ``RunResult``
-* Rename the ``Results`` class to :class:`~perf.Benchmark`
-* Add :attr:`~TextRunner.inner_loops` attribute to
-  :class:`TextRunner`, used for microbenchmarks when an
-  instruction is manually duplicated multiple times
+* Add ``perf.is_significant`` function
+* Move metadata from ``perf.Benchmark`` to ``RunResult``
+* Rename the ``Results`` class to ``perf.Benchmark``
+* Add ``TextRunner.inner_loops`` attribute to
+  ``TextRunner``, used for microbenchmarks when an
 
 Version 0.2 (2016-06-07)
 ------------------------
 
 * use JSON to exchange results between processes
 * new ``python3 -m perf`` CLI
-* new :class:`TextRunner` class
+* new ``TextRunner`` class
 * huge enhancement of the timeit module
 * timeit has a better output format in verbose mode and now also supports a
   ``-vv`` (very verbose) mode. Minimum and maximum are not more shown in

doc/conf.py

@@ -24,7 +24,14 @@
 # Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
 # extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
 # ones.
-extensions = []
+extensions = [
+    'sphinx.ext.autodoc',
+    'sphinx.ext.intersphinx',
+]
+
+intersphinx_mapping = {
+    'python': ('https://docs.python.org/3', None),
+}
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
 templates_path = ['templates']

doc/runner.rst

@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
 
 Runner CLI
 ==========
+.. module:: pyperf
+  :noindex:
 
-Command line options of the :class:`Runner` class.
+Command line options of the :class:`pyperf.Runner` class.
 
 Loop iterations
 ---------------