format in plot_direcitive sphinx>=1.0.6 compatible patch

[ddale]

Original report at SourceForge, opened Wed Jan 26 01:07:52 2011

Since Sphinx version 1.0.6, sphinx-build try decoding -D and -A command-line arguments with the locale's preferred encoding.
Due to this change, documentation build using "sphinx-build -D plot_formats="[('png', 80)]"" fails because plot_formats wll be decoded and interpreted as unicode string.
Therefore python make.py --small html latex in doc will fails with "ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack".

To evade this problem, this patch is presented.
This patch replaces checking str to checking str or unicode.

SourceForge History

• On Wed Jan 26 01:07:53 2011, by auchida: File Added: 399819: format-in-plot_directive.patch

[pelson]

Running sphinx-build -D plot_formats="[('png', 80)]" -b html -d build/doctrees . build/html on the mpl docs now works fine. Assuming this has been fixed at some point.