fix sphinx error caused by limitation of cbook.deprecated

efiring · efiring · commit 53cf94006474 · 2016-10-23T12:46:11.000-10:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/animation.py b/lib/matplotlib/animation.py
@@ -573,8 +573,10 @@ def output_args(self):
         return args
 
 
-mencoder_dep = """Support for mencoder is only partially functional,
-and will be removed entirely in 2.2.  Please use ffmpeg instead."""
+# The message must be a single line; internal newlines cause sphinx failure.
+mencoder_dep = ("Support for mencoder is only partially functional, "
+                "and will be removed entirely in 2.2. "
+                "Please use ffmpeg instead.")
 
 
 @writers.register('mencoder')
