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I try to create documentation for a project written with Python 3.x. Sphinx is the tool I want to use and, according to the official site, its last version 1.1.2 is compatible with Python 3.1+. My OS is Archlinux, a Linux distribution which uses Python 3.2+ as the default Python package.
The installation and configuration is straight forward (easy_install -U Sphinx then sphinx-quickinstall) and I was never asked to choose between the 2.x or 3.x Python interpreter. But when I ask Sphinx to create the documentation of my project, my code is analyzed as if I wrote it for Python 2.x.
and then running sphinx-quickstart in a directory where you want to build the auto-doc will work. However, it will use Sphinx 1.6.7 (at the time of writing the latest Sphinx version is 3.0.3), since the repo is apparently not maintained. Then if you want to use some Sphinx extensions (like sphinx-js, which was my case) then you may be in for a bit of a surprise.
in the root of your documentation's directory. This will act much like sphinx-quickstart. If you want the more features, you may need to add extensions to the newly created conf.py. For exemple (see Sphinx's doc for details):
I guess the problem could be a number of different things, but the solution for me was that I had the Python 2 version of the python-distribute package installed and therefore had easy_install-2.7 not easy_install-3.2.
I believe in my case the wrong version of python-distribute was installed by my attempt to previously install Sphinx from pacman (which installs version 1.0.8), so uninstalling Sphinx and all subsequently unneeded dependencies pacman -Rsu python-sphinx and then installing python-distribute got me the right version of easy_install, then reinstalling Sphinx with easy_install and the Sphinx installation works as expected.
Scrap that last part. It's too early in the morning and I wasn't thinking straight! python2-distribute and python-distribute are seperate packages which I believe can co-exist. So, if this is your problem all you need to do is check you have python-distribute (not "2"), if not install it, and then ensure you use easy_install-3.2 to install Sphinx.
The sphinx-generated "User-friendly check for sphinx-build" block of code fails then so I just removed it. This solution was preferable to me since it didn't require a separate script nor the removal of any python installation or sphinx module.
It seems that Sphinx is installed only with Python-2 support. Although there are various ways to install Sphinx for python3, just use virtualenv to create a custom environment that uses python3 by default.
When I searched for an answer, this is the site that came up over and over. I'm thinking the answer is not easy to find because everyone else understands sphinx better than I can figure out. But if any is still searching for an answer, this is what eventually I ended up with:
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I would like to get your opinion about a doubt regarding the symmetry region. I have done a simulation using the symmetry region by activating beta options in order to get a full body graphical visualization in the stress output. However I was wondering if the releted stress value refers to half of the model or to a full model. Each half is the mirror copy of the other so they share the same contour and values, but should I double the values of the stress?
Thank you for the attention.
If you applied a non-zero displacement to a face that was cut in half by symmetry, you don't apply half the displacement, but when you request Reaction Force, you double that to find the full model Reaction Force because the other half of the force is coming from the missing half.
Hi, I understand the explanation but have a doubt about the particular case of the force being applied through a joint-force scoped to a traslational joint on a body cut in half by the symmetry plane (meaning that the joint free DoF and, therefore, the force line direction are aligned with/contained in the XZ symmetry plane), does the same reasoning still apply? Should the applied joint-force be also half of that in the full model?:
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