Error of `make html` to build API reference

I was following the guide to build the API reference. Took me a while to debug the make html to build api reference in apidoc folder on macOS. Error message:

sed -i 's/:class:`plotly.graph_objects/:class:`plotly.graph_objs/g' ../../packages/python/plotly/plotly/graph_objs/*.py
sed: 1: "../../packages/python/p ...": invalid command code .
make: *** [html] Error 1

The problem was that the sed commands in the apidoc/Makefile don't work on macOS. You'll need to edit the Makefile to replace commands like

sed -i 's/:class:`plotly.graph_objects/:class:`plotly.graph_objs/g' ../../packages/python/plotly/plotly/graph_objs/*.py

with

sed -i '' -e 's/:class:`plotly.graph_objects/:class:`plotly.graph_objs/g' ../../packages/python/plotly/plotly/graph_objs/*.py

Why?

On the OSX version of sed, the -i option expects an extension argument so your command is actually parsed as the extension argument and the file path is interpreted as the command code.

See this thread for details.

Commencez dans apidoc/Makefile et examinez les commandes sed utilisées par la cible html. Exécutez make html sur macOS pour reproduire l’échec, puis vérifiez que la référence de l’API se construit correctement avec les commandes compatibles avec macOS.