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README.md

@@ -58,6 +58,17 @@ If you get compiling errors, make sure that [pybind11](https://github.com/pybind
 
 Note that a C++11-compiler has to be installed on the system before installing `tacoma`.
 
+## Packages not installed during installing
+
+The following packages are not installed during installation with `pip` since they're only required
+for drawing and drawing is not essential. If you want to use `tacoma.drawing`, please install
+
+    matplotlib
+    networkx
+    python-louvain (community)
+
+
+
 ## Examples
 
 Check out the [sandbox directory](https://github.com/benmaier/tacoma/tree/master/sandbox]).
@@ -88,3 +99,4 @@ visualize(temporal_network, frame_dt = 0.05)
 ```
 
 ![visualization example](https://github.com/benmaier/tacoma/raw/master/img/tacoma_example.gif)
+

docs/conf.py

@@ -15,6 +15,22 @@
 import sys
 import os
 
+from mock import Mock as MagicMock
+
+class Mock(MagicMock):
+    @classmethod
+    def __getattr__(cls, name):
+            return Mock()
+
+MOCK_MODULES = ['numpy', 'scipy', 'matplotlib', 'matplotlib.pyplot', 'matplotlib.collections',
+                'lmfit', 'networkx', 'community', 
+                'scipy.optimize', 'scipy.stats', 'scipy.special', 'scipy.integrate',
+                'numpy.polynomial', 'numpy.polynomial.polynomial', 'wget',
+                'lmfit',
+               ]
+
+sys.modules.update((mod_name, Mock()) for mod_name in MOCK_MODULES)
+
 # If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
 # add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
 # documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.

docs/requirements.txt

@@ -1,6 +1 @@
 pybind11==2.2.3
-python-louvain==0.10
-scipy==1.1.0
-wget==3.2
-numpy==1.14.5
-lmfit==0.9.11

setup.py

@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ def build_extensions(self):
             'wget',
             'numpy',
             'scipy',
-            'python-louvain',
             'lmfit',
             ],
     include_package_data = True,