I've tried probably half a dozen times to learn how to generate simple sphinx docs for my side projects. I start reading tutorials, then half a weekend goes by, and I give up because I'm knee deep in templates and rst. Either I'm reading the wrong tutorials or the learning curve for sphinx is much higher than you assume. Where are the tutorials that make it as simple as you say? All I want is something like:

    pip install sphinx
    sphinx autogen_html_docs --output /path/to/folder --input /path/to/mymodule_folder