Thread: [Matplotlib-users] Unable to generate html docs

I'm using matplotlib 0.40 from CVS and am trying to generate the html
docs as described in matplotlib/htdocs/README. This is the error I get:
$ python process_docs.py
 Converting matplotlib.cbook.html to template
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "process_docs.py", line 20, in ?
 s = file('../docs/' + fname).read()
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'../docs/matplotlib.cbook.html'
The problem seems to be that process_docs.py is expecting to read many
"matplotlib.*.html" files, but these files do not exist.
Steve
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>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Chaplin <ste...@ya...> writes:
 Steve> The problem seems to be that process_docs.py is expecting
 Steve> to read many "matplotlib.*.html" files, but these files do
 Steve> not exist.
Yep, this is a doc bug in the README file. You need to first build the
class docs from the matplotlib root
 > make htmldocs
This will build all the matplotlib html class docs in the 'docs'
subdir, which process_docs.py assumes are there. If all you want are
the class docs, this is all you will need to do. process_docs and the
rest of the files in htdocs build the matplotlib web site.
I've updated the README file -- thanks for letting me know.
JDH

Hi
Great to see another release with lots of improvements. Motivated by your 
new FAQ and the web page about interactive usage, I tried interactive.py 
again.
The good news is I got it to work and it looks very handy indeed. It has 
autocomplete! Yay!
The bad news is it didn't work first go (and I think this is why I didn't 
try it out earlier):
~/downloads/matplotlib/examples$ ./interactive.py
: No such file or directory
The above fails, but the below works. I tried changing the first line from
#!/usr/bin/env python
to
#!/usr/bin/python
But it didn't help, even though that works on other scripts of mine. But 
the below works:
~/downloads/matplotlib/examples$ python ./interactive.py
['./interactive.py']
Welcome to matplotlib.
 
 help(matlab) -- shows a list of all matlab compatible commands 
provided
 help(plotting) -- shows a list of plot specific commands
 
>> plot([1, 2, 3])
[<matplotlib.lines.Line2D instance at 0x8399054>]
Interactive use easily justifies me wrapping this with a script so I can 
jump into it easily form the command line, but I thought this might affect 
other people trying interactive.py for the first time. I'm not quite sure 
how to debug the problem. I'm using bash under Linux by the way.
m.