sphinx-gallery 0.0.11

Sphinx extension to automatically generate an examples gallery

Sphinx extension for automatic generation of an example gallery. It is extracted from the scikit-learn project and aims to be an independent general purpose extension.

Getting the package

You can do a direct install via pip by using:

$ pip install sphinx-gallery

Install as developer

You can get the latest development source from our Github repository. You need setuptools installed in your system to install.

You will also need have installed:

• Sphinx

• matplotlib

• pillow

To install:

$ git clone https://github.com/sphinx-gallery/sphinx-gallery
$ cd sphinx-gallery
$ python setup.py develop

Setting up your project

After installing you need to include in your Sphinx conf.py file:

import sphinx_gallery
extensions = [
    ...
    'sphinx_gallery.gen_gallery',
    ]

you need to have a folder called examples in your main repository directory. This folder needs

• A README.txt file with rst syntax to present your gallery

• plot_examples.py files. Python scripts that have to be executed and output a plot that will be presented in your gallery

• examples.py files. Python scripts that will not be executed but will be presented in the gallery

Your python scripts in the examples folder need to have a main comment. Written in rst syntax to be used in the generated file in the example gallery.

You can have subfolders in your examples directory, those will be recursively scanned by the gallery extension and presented in the gallery. Subfolder have to respect the same structure of the main examples folder.

If these instructions are not clear enough, this package uses itself, to generated its own example gallery. So check the directory structure and the contents of the files. That is all, our module shall take care of the rest.

Building the documentation locally

In your sphinx documentation directory, usually doc execute:

$ make html

This will start the build of your complete documentation including the examples gallery. Once documentation is build, our extension will have generated a auto_examples directory and populated it with rst files containing the gallery and each example. Sphinx gives this files its regular processing and you can enjoy your generated gallery unde the same path. That means you will find the gallery in the path:

_build/html/auto_examples/index.html

that you can open under your favourite browser.

Extending your Makefile

Once your gallery is working you might need remove completely all generated files by sphinx-gallery to have a clean build, or you might want to build the gallery without running the examples files. For this you need to extend your Makefile with:

clean:
        rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)/*
        rm -rf auto_examples/
        rm -rf modules/generated/*

html-noplot:
        $(SPHINXBUILD) -D plot_gallery=0 -b html $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/html
        @echo
        @echo "Build finished. The HTML pages are in $(BUILDDIR)/html."

Remember that for in Makefile whitespace is significant and the indentation are tabs and not spaces