On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 8:57:24 AM UTC-8, John H Palmieri wrote:
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> On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 3:59:41 AM UTC-8, E. Madison Bray wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 8:30 PM John H Palmieri <jhpalm...@gmail.com> 
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>> > Here is the situation: I've been playing around with new versions of 
>> Sphinx. If I've installed a new version and then go back to an old version, 
>> the directory local/lib/python2.7/site-libraries/sphinx/ is not removed and 
>> then recreated, but instead the changed files are reinstalled, leaving 
>> remnants of the previous version there. Is this how things are supposed to 
>> work? 
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>> That is definitely not how anything is supposed to work, nor is it how 
>> it does work normally.  You'd have to describe exactly what you did 
>> though.  
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> I checked out #26451 (which updates Sphinx) and ran "make". Played around 
> with it for a while, then checked out "develop" and ran "make". Frequently, 
> but maybe not every time, math.py remains and I get an import error when 
> Sage uses Sphinx to build the documentation.
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It's also possible that I ran "./sage -f sphinx", too, in case that makes a 
difference.

 
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>> FWIW pip keeps its own manifest of what files it installed, 
>> so when you remove/upgrade a package it will normally remove all those 
>> files first. 
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