How to build psycopg documentation ---------------------------------- Building the documentation usually requires building the library too for introspection, so you will need the same prerequisites_. The only extra prerequisite is virtualenv_: the packages needed to build the docs will be installed when building the env. .. _prerequisites: http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/install.html#install-from-source .. _virtualenv: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/ Build the env once with:: make env Then you can build the documentation with:: make Or the single targets:: make html make text You should find the rendered documentation in the ``html`` dir and the text file ``psycopg2.txt``.