hack to get sphinx-apidoc to run in readthedocs build

docs/conf.py

@@ -152,3 +152,32 @@
 
 # Example configuration for intersphinx: refer to the Python standard library.
 intersphinx_mapping = {"https://docs.python.org/": None}
+
+
+def run_apidoc(_):
+    ignore_paths = [
+        ...
+    ]
+
+    argv = [
+        "-f",
+        "-T",
+        "-e",
+        "-M",
+        "-o", ".",
+        ".."
+    ] + ignore_paths
+
+    try:
+        # Sphinx 1.7+
+        from sphinx.ext import apidoc
+    except ImportError:
+        # Sphinx 1.6 (and earlier)
+        from sphinx import apidoc
+        argv.insert(0, apidoc.__file__)
+
+    apidoc.main(argv)
+
+
+def setup(app):
+    app.connect('builder-inited', run_apidoc)