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BUG Check "backreferences_dir" is str or None

See original GitHub issue

All builds for PyVista’s docs are failing on the CIs with the new v0.5.0 of sphinx-gallery. I confirmed this locally by upgrading sphinx-gallery and get the following error (from https://github.com/pyvista/pyvista/pull/451#issuecomment-555255085)

I’m not sure exactly where this error is coming from… seems to be only when using PyVsita’s scraper - can you all help me track this down?

# Sphinx version: 2.2.1
# Python version: 3.7.3 (CPython)
# Docutils version: 0.15.2 release
# Jinja2 version: 2.10.3
# Last messages:

# Loaded extensions:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/bane/anaconda3/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sphinx/cmd/build.py", line 275, in build_main
    args.tags, args.verbosity, args.jobs, args.keep_going)
  File "/Users/bane/anaconda3/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sphinx/application.py", line 269, in __init__
    self._init_builder()
  File "/Users/bane/anaconda3/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sphinx/application.py", line 330, in _init_builder
    self.events.emit('builder-inited')
  File "/Users/bane/anaconda3/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sphinx/events.py", line 103, in emit
    results.append(callback(self.app, *args))
  File "/Users/bane/anaconda3/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sphinx_gallery/gen_gallery.py", line 284, in generate_gallery_rst
    seen_backrefs)
  File "/Users/bane/anaconda3/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sphinx_gallery/gen_rst.py", line 328, in generate_dir_rst
    fname, target_dir, src_dir, gallery_conf, seen_backrefs)
  File "/Users/bane/anaconda3/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sphinx_gallery/gen_rst.py", line 777, in generate_file_rst
    fname, intro)
  File "/Users/bane/anaconda3/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sphinx_gallery/backreferences.py", line 248, in _write_backreferences
    '%s.examples.new' % backref)
  File "/Users/bane/anaconda3/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/posixpath.py", line 94, in join
    genericpath._check_arg_types('join', a, *p)
  File "/Users/bane/anaconda3/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/genericpath.py", line 149, in _check_arg_types
    (funcname, s.__class__.__name__)) from None
TypeError: join() argument must be str or bytes, not 'bool'