The documentation has to be built with Sphinx. You can get Sphinx at http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ Once you installed it, you can build the documentation with: cd docs sphinx-build . ../docs_html The reason why you have to move in 'docs' is because hscommon.io conflicts with the builtin 'io' module. The documentation is also available online at http://www.hardcoded.net/docs/hscommon