applied Gael's sphinx patch

jdh2358 · jdh2358 · commit 6f5d4620ac54 · 2009-03-27T18:11:18.000Z
svn path=/trunk/matplotlib/; revision=7006
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/sphinxext/plot_directive.py b/lib/matplotlib/sphinxext/plot_directive.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 """
 
 import sys, os, glob, shutil, hashlib, imp, warnings, cStringIO
+import re
 try:
     from hashlib import md5
 except ImportError:
@@ -33,7 +34,10 @@
 import sphinx
 
 sphinx_version = sphinx.__version__.split(".")
-sphinx_version = tuple([int(x) for x in sphinx_version[:2]])
+# The split is necessary for sphinx beta versions where the string is
+# '6b1'
+sphinx_version = tuple([int(re.split('[a-z]', x)[0]) 
+                        for x in sphinx_version[:2]])
 
 import matplotlib
 import matplotlib.cbook as cbook
