Added an "htmlview" target to open docs after building them.

This is helpful if you build and test documentation updates in
your development env.

Copied from CPython's and Django's Doc/Makefile.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/Makefile b/docs/Makefile
index 0b97bf7c..e9ee5af0 100644
--- a/docs/Makefile
+++ b/docs/Makefile
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #
 
 # You can set these variables from the command line.
+PYTHON        ?= python
 SPHINXOPTS    =
 SPHINXBUILD   = sphinx-build
 PAPER         =
@@ -14,11 +15,12 @@ ALLSPHINXOPTS   = -d $(BUILDDIR)/doctrees $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) sou
 # the i18n builder cannot share the environment and doctrees with the others
 I18NSPHINXOPTS  = $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) source
 
-.PHONY: help clean html dirhtml singlehtml pickle json htmlhelp qthelp devhelp epub latex latexpdf text man changes linkcheck doctest gettext
+.PHONY: help clean html htmlview dirhtml singlehtml pickle json htmlhelp qthelp devhelp epub latex latexpdf text man changes linkcheck doctest gettext
 
 help:
 	@echo "Please use \`make <target>' where <target> is one of"
 	@echo "  html       to make standalone HTML files"
+	@echo "  htmlview   to open the index page built by the html target in your browser"
 	@echo "  dirhtml    to make HTML files named index.html in directories"
 	@echo "  singlehtml to make a single large HTML file"
 	@echo "  pickle     to make pickle files"
@@ -46,6 +48,9 @@ html:
 	@echo
 	@echo "Build finished. The HTML pages are in $(BUILDDIR)/html."
 
+htmlview: html
+	$(PYTHON) -c "import webbrowser; webbrowser.open('build/html/index.html')"
+
 dirhtml:
 	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b dirhtml $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/dirhtml
 	@echo