When trying to build API documentation to be hosted on Read the Docs, the Sphinx config imports the __version__ string. But since it resides in foca/__init__.py, together with a convenience import, it tries to import pretty much the entire app ... and fails.
When trying to build API documentation to be hosted on Read the Docs, the Sphinx config imports the
__version__string. But since it resides infoca/__init__.py, together with a convenience import, it tries to import pretty much the entire app ... and fails.To resolve the issue, store the
__version__string outside offoca/__init__.pyalong the lines described here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/458550/standard-way-to-embed-version-into-python-package