Shorter references in a Sphinx documentation for a single-package project

Question

I am writing a Sphinx documentation for a Python project with a single top-level package my_package. To reference modules/classes in this package, I currently use

:mod:`my_package.my_module`
:class:`my_package.MyClass`
:class:`my_package.my_module.MyOtherClass`

These references are then generated as

my_package.my_module
my_package.MyClass
my_package.my_module.MyOtherClass

My question is: Is there a way of configuring Sphinx so that I can use shorter references, like

:mod:`my_module`
:class:`MyClass`
:class:`my_module.MyOtherClass`

which generate the references as

my_module
MyClass
my_module.MyOtherClass

In other words, can I make the top-level my_package implicit?

Answer 1

Include

.. currentmodule:: my_package

at the top of your rst files, then you can leave this out in references.