From 71cff2af1f2a3731fe351b32a6199cb21ca4afc3 2013-08-10 17:17:25
From: MinRK <benjaminrk@gmail.com>
Date: 2013-08-10 17:17:25
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #3960: Don't make sphinx a dependency for importing nbconvert

Just move the import so it doesn't fire unless sphinx is used.

Even though it's trivial, probably not for 1.0.

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diff --git a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/sphinx.py b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/sphinx.py
index 6d16f61..b585818 100755
--- a/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/sphinx.py
+++ b/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/sphinx.py
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ process.
 from __future__ import print_function, absolute_import
 
 # Stdlib imports
-# Used to find Sphinx package location
-import sphinx
 import os.path
 
 # Used to set the default date to today's date 
@@ -123,6 +121,8 @@ class SphinxTransformer(Transformer):
             Additional resources used in the conversion process.  Allows
             transformers to pass variables into the Jinja engine.
         """
+        # import sphinx here, so that sphinx is not a dependency when it's not used
+        import sphinx
          
         # TODO: Add versatile method of additional notebook metadata.  Include
         #       handling of multiple files.  For now use a temporay namespace,