in 75522ec I removed all the transformations between graph_objs and graph_objects because this seems to be the cause of the problem (I initially suspected the lazy import but apparently it's something else). Therefore we'll have the doc artifact as a reference to check that everything's ok with graph_objs. In the next commit I'll try to make it work with graph_objects

@nicolaskruchten still WIP but you can already take a look at the artifact to see if everything's ok (the problems mentioned in #2652 seem to be solved I think).
There were several problems:

• probably one related to a lazy import problem. I switched to py 3.7 to build the doc.
• one needs to pip install -e . plotly to be sure that the hacks done to the source files (graph_objs/graph_objects are taken into account). With this change the apidoc looks now correct to me, but in the doc_prod branch where plotly is the released version this won't work. I plan to uninstall plotly and install from the local version just before the build of the API doc, this should not be a problem. (in fact I'm not even sure why we need to use the released version of plotly when in doc-prod because the code should be up to date with the last release, just the doc can be different). This will be for tomorrow, it's already late here :-).

OK great! Thank you :)

I plan to uninstall plotly and install from the local version just before the build of the API doc, this should not be a problem

I think we used to do this, so that's not a problem for me.

Also note I merged doc-prod into master today which contains the new look'n'feel for the apidoc so if you rebase onto master you'll get the new look.

OK, I think this one is ready now. Is it worth a changelog item (as a bug fix? Not sure we want to explain all the graph_objs/graph_objects problems :-))

No need for a changelog item, nope! Should this target doc-prod instead of master so it gets out immediately?

💃 for a squash-and-merge rather than a normal merge please :)

We can probably close this one out now, thanks for merging the other one. This stuff will get back-merged into master naturally at some point soon.