Could not import extension matplotlib.sphinxext.ipython_directive

[shimizukawa]

Hi Georg,

My sphinx documentation stopped working with matplotlib after I upgraded my ubuntu to version 12.10. I am not sure what happened. Here is the error message it produced after I ran "make html":

make html
sphinx-build -b html -d _build/doctrees . _build/html
/usr/local/bin/sphinx-build:5: UserWarning: Module dap was already imported from None, but /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages is being added to sys.path
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
Running Sphinx v1.1.3

Extension error:
Could not import extension matplotlib.sphinxext.ipython_directive (exception: No module named ipython_directive)

make: *** [html] Error 1

Hope this will help the development.

Thank you!

Jinbo Wang

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/issue/914
• Originally reported by: Anonymous
• Originally created at: 2012-04-28T04:48:31.017

[shimizukawa]

From Marc Schlaich on 2012-05-08 12:36:50+00:00

This is not a bug in sphinx. This error is due to the changes of matplotlib, they removed the {{{matplotlib.sphinxext.ipython_directive}}} module. It can be found at https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/master/docs/sphinxext/ipython_directive.py.

See these issue for further details:

• remove deprecated ipython_directive (get it from ipython src) and release dir matplotlib/matplotlib#428
• sphinxext/ipython_directive.py no longer in matplotlib matplotlib/sampledoc#1