Check if Sphinx doc called the script

Question

I am currently trying to generate sphinx documentation for scripts which use the ArcGIS arcpy library.

I am running into an issue when sphinx tries to run the scrip

Answer 1

The solution I came up with, while probably no-where near ideal, is to simply check

if 'sphinx' in sys.modules:
    in_mxds = [r"C:/test.mxd"]
else:
    in_mxds = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)

This will ensure the script is not trying to get a parameter from the GUI which isn't set when generating sphinx documents.