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This package serves two purposes: it provides a default Sphinx configuration and set of extensions specific to the Astropy project, and it acts as a meta-package by installing all required Sphinx extensions for the core Astropy package and other packages.

Sphinx configuration

The default Sphinx configuration can be imported by putting:

.. code-block:: python

from sphinx_astropy.conf import *

at the top of your conf.py file. You can then override specific settings from this default configuration, such as adding extensions or intersphinx packages. To give a clearer error messages for users, you can instead write:

.. code-block:: python

try:
    from sphinx_astropy.conf import *
except ImportError:
    print('ERROR: the documentation requires the sphinx-astropy package to be installed')
    sys.exit(1)

Dependencies/extensions

Installing sphinx-astropy will automatically install (if not already present):

• Sphinx <http://www.sphinx-doc.org>_

• astropy-sphinx-theme <https://github.com/astropy/astropy-sphinx-theme>_ - the default 'bootstrap' theme use by Astropy and a number of affiliated packages. This goes with sphinx_astropy.conf.v1.

• sphinx-automodapi <http://sphinx-automodapi.readthedocs.io>_ - an extension that makes it easy to automatically generate API documentation.

• sphinx-gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>_ - an extension to generate example galleries

• numpydoc <https://numpydoc.readthedocs.io>_ - an extension to parse docstrings in NumpyDoc format

• pillow <https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>_ - a package to deal with images, used by some examples in the astropy core documentation.

• pytest-doctestplus <https://github.com/astropy/pytest-doctestplus/>_ - providing the 'doctestplus' extension to skip code snippets in narrative documentation.

pydata-sphinx-theme (confv2) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

To use the new pydata-sphinx-theme with sphinx_astropy.conf.v2, you have to install the optional [confv2] dependencies::

pip install sphinx-astropy[confv2]

That would pull in the following as well:

• pydata-sphinx-theme <https://github.com/pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme/>_ - a clean, three-column, Bootstrap-based Sphinx theme by and for the PyData community <https://pydata.org/>_.

• sphinx-copybutton <https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-copybutton>_ - a small Sphinx extension to add a "copy" button to code blocks.

astropy-unified theme (confv3) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

To use the new astropy-unified theme, which is a derivative of pydata-sphinx-theme and sunpy-sphinx-theme with sphinx_astropy.conf.v3, you have to install the optional [confv3] dependencies::

pip install sphinx-astropy[confv3]

This would pull in the following as well:

• astropy-sphinx-theme >=3.0
• All confv3 dependencies.