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Expand Up @@ -37,17 +37,22 @@ This happens because our build system doesn't have the dependencies for building
You can mock out the imports for these modules in your ``conf.py`` with the following snippet::

import sys
from unittest.mock import MagicMock as Mock
from unittest.mock import MagicMock

class Mock(MagicMock):
@classmethod
def __getattr__(cls, name):
return Mock()

MOCK_MODULES = ['pygtk', 'gtk', 'gobject', 'argparse', 'numpy', 'pandas']
sys.modules.update((mod_name, Mock()) for mod_name in MOCK_MODULES)

Of course, replacing `MOCK_MODULES` with the modules that you want to mock out.

.. Tip:: The library ``unittest.mock`` was introduced on python 3.3. On earlier versions install the ``mock`` library
from PyPI with (ie ``pip install mock``) and replace the above import with::
from PyPI with (ie ``pip install mock``) and replace the above import::

from mock import Mock
from mock import Mock as MagicMock


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