Re: [matplotlib-devel] Question about sphinx doc extensions

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Ted Drain <ted...@jp...> wrote:
> Mike,
> Thanks for the info.  I noticed in plot_directive.py that ipython seems to
> be required to build the docs.  Is that absolutely needed or is it a
> holdover from doing something else?  I'm asking because we would like to
> build the docs locally but don't currently install ipython.  I could change
> that but it's just an artifact of something else it might be better to
> remove that dependency.

I replaced the ipython shell magic_run functionality with the basic
code.InteractiveConsole.runsource function.  This works fine -- we may
lose some of ipython's nice traceback functionality so if we want we
can have a switch that uses ipython if available and falls back on the
default code module, but for now I have simply removed the ipython
dependency.

For some reason runsource prints the intro docstring to the console
from files passed to runsource -- not sure how suppress this but it is
a minor nuisance.

JDH