diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index b2fb7654d..46a793fe3 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ language = None
 # List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
 # directories to ignore when looking for source files.
 # This patterns also effect to html_static_path and html_extra_path
-exclude_patterns = ['_build', 'Thumbs.db', '.DS_Store', 'python_api', 'sphinx_exts']
+exclude_patterns = ['_build', 'Thumbs.db', '.DS_Store', 'sphinx_exts']
 
 # The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all
 # documents.
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index dd4f29134..3003e71d2 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Table of Contents
    introduction
    in_application_api
    credits_acknowledgements
+   python_api/index
    getting_started/index
    behind_scenes/index
    how/index