removed sphinx files which are now in plotly-sphinx-gallery

+ changed name of renderer sphinx -> sphinx-gallery, and changed wording
of documentation

Author: emmanuelle

doc/Makefile

@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ def show(fig, renderer=None, validate=True, **kwargs):
 renderers['chrome'] = BrowserRenderer(config=config, using='chrome')
 renderers['chromium'] = BrowserRenderer(config=config, using='chromium')
 renderers['iframe'] = IFrameRenderer(config=config)
-renderers['sphinx'] = SphinxGalleryRenderer()
+renderers['sphinx_gallery'] = SphinxGalleryRenderer()
 
 # Set default renderer
 # --------------------

doc/api.rst

@@ -1,23 +1,24 @@
 # This module defines an image scraper for sphinx-gallery
 # https://sphinx-gallery.github.io/
 # which can be used by projects using plotly in their documentation.
-# This module monkey-patches plotly.offline.plot, so we do not
-# import it in __init__.py
 import inspect, os
 
 import plotly
 from glob import glob
 import shutil
 
-plotly.io.renderers.default = 'sphinx' 
+plotly.io.renderers.default = 'sphinx_gallery' 
 
 
 def plotly_sg_scraper(block, block_vars, gallery_conf, **kwargs):
-    """Scrape Plotly figures.
+    """Scrape Plotly figures for galleries of examples using
+    sphinx-gallery.
 
-    Since the monkey-patched version of plotly.offline.plot generates
-    both html and static png files, we simply crawl these files and give
-    them the appropriate path.
+    Examples should use ``plotly.io.show()`` to display the figure with
+    the custom sphinx_gallery renderer.
+
+    Since the sphinx_gallery renderer generates both html and static png
+    files, we simply crawl these files and give them the appropriate path.
 
     Parameters
     ----------