'make html' does not attempt to run examples

I’m trying to get started with sphinx-gallery. As far as I can tell I followed the instructions exactly. The issue is that sphinx does not even try to execute the example scripts, so no previews or images are being generated.

$ LC_ALL=C make html
Running Sphinx v1.8.1
loading pickled environment... done
generating gallery...
generating gallery for gallery... [100%] project.py                                                                                  
computation time summary:
        - test.py: 0 sec
        - project.py: 0 sec
        - dos.py: 0 sec
        - bz_plot.py: 0 sec
        - band_plot.py: 0 sec
building [mo]: targets for 0 po files that are out of date
building [html]: targets for 6 source files that are out of date
updating environment: [] 0 added, 6 changed, 0 removed
reading sources... [100%] gallery/test                                                                                               
looking for now-outdated files... none found
pickling environment... done
checking consistency... done
preparing documents... done
writing output... [100%] index                                                                                                       
generating indices... genindex
writing additional pages... search
copying images... [100%] gallery/images/thumb/sphx_glr_project_thumb.png                                                             
copying downloadable files... [100%] gallery/test.ipynb                                                                              
copying static files... done
copying extra files... done
dumping search index in English (code: en) ... done
dumping object inventory... done
build succeeded.

The HTML pages are in _build/html.
embedding documentation hyperlinks...
embedding documentation hyperlinks for gallery... [100%] bz_plot.html

This generates all the galleries, code snippets, etc. just fine, but as you can see from the zero-second computation time, the example scripts aren’t touched. I can literally add a raise Exception at the start of an example file and nothing will change.

The relevant parts of my conf.py:

extensions = [
    'sphinx_gallery.gen_gallery',
]

sphinx_gallery_conf = {
        'examples_dirs': '../examples',
        'gallery_dirs': 'gallery',
}

The versions I’m running are

Sphinx==1.8.1
sphinx-gallery==0.2.0

[choldgraf]

by default, SG will only run examples that begin with plot_…is that true in your case? I’ve been burned by this before…

[choldgraf]

@mueslo agreed - we should definitely do this.

Actually, maybe a controversial statement, but I’d think that it’s more important to use a regex to define examples to skip rather than examples to plot. Wouldn’t most people assume what @mueslo did, which is that SG will by default run all of the examples in a folder that you specify?

(as one personal data point, most of the projects I work with that use Sphinx-Gallery ended up defining a regex to match everything that doesn’t have something like “noplot” in it)