Perhaps this may help:
http://sphinx-doc.org/config.html#confval-exclude_patterns
2013/6/18 Eustache DIEMERT <eusta...@diemert.fr>
> Ok, I found the error and it is all mine :(
>
> Actually Sphinx 1.1 actually works fine on master.
>
> The error was sphinx trying to build doc for a directory that was created
> locally by an example script.
>
> Does anyone know how to tell sphinx to ignore a directory ?
>
>
>
>
> 2013/6/18 Andreas Mueller <amuel...@ais.uni-bonn.de>
>
>> Hi Eustache.
>> The intention of the docs is to use _at least_ v1.0 afaik.
>> Maybe we should correct that.
>> I have no idea where the error comes from, though :-/
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> On 06/18/2013 09:03 AM, Eustache DIEMERT wrote:
>>
>> Hi Sklearners,
>>
>> I wanted to test an addition to the narrative docs but I'm currently
>> unable to build it (exception occurred blablah).
>>
>> I'm on a ubuntu 12.04 laptop with Sphinx v1.1.3 (1.1.3+dfsg-4ubuntu3).
>>
>> The "how to contribute" section clearly states that we should use v1.0
>> to build the docs.
>> http://scikit-learn.org/stable/developers/index.html#documentation
>>
>> I did a quick search to find a 1.0 package for ubuntu but failed.
>>
>> So my question is : how do you guys do to build the docs on a
>> reasonably recent linux distro ?
>>
>> Thanks !
>>
>> Eustache
>>
>> ==> Here is the stack trace <==
>> """
>> ~/sources/oss/scikit-learn/doc$ make
>> sphinx-build -D plot_gallery=False -b html -d _build/doctrees .
>> _build/html
>> Making output directory...
>> Running Sphinx v1.1.3
>> loading pickled environment... not yet created
>>
>> Exception occurred:
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sphinx/cmdline.py", line 188, in
>> main
>> warningiserror, tags)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sphinx/application.py", line
>> 134, in __init__
>> self._init_builder(buildername)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sphinx/application.py", line
>> 195, in _init_builder
>> self.emit('builder-inited')
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sphinx/application.py", line
>> 314, in emit
>> results.append(callback(self, *args))
>> File
>> "/home/ediemert/sources/oss/scikit-learn/doc/sphinxext/gen_rst.py", line
>> 460, in generate_example_rst
>> generate_dir_rst(dir, fhindex, example_dir, root_dir, plot_gallery)
>> File
>> "/home/ediemert/sources/oss/scikit-learn/doc/sphinxext/gen_rst.py", line
>> 522, in generate_dir_rst
>> src_dir)
>> File
>> "/home/ediemert/sources/oss/scikit-learn/doc/sphinxext/gen_rst.py", line
>> 494, in line_count_sort
>> return np.array(unsorted[index][:,0]).tolist()
>> IndexError: invalid index
>> The full traceback has been saved in /tmp/sphinx-err-3IMY3a.log, if you
>> want to report the issue to the developers.
>> Please also report this if it was a user error, so that a better error
>> message can be provided next time.
>> Either send bugs to the mailing list at <
>> http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-dev/>,
>> or report them in the tracker at <
>> http://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/issues/>. Thanks!
>> make: *** [html-noplot] Erreur 1
>> """
>>
>>
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