DOC/BLD: unpin sphinx to use sphinx 1.7 (#19687)

jorisvandenbossche · web-flow · commit 4ddbcb8afc9f · 2018-02-26T09:46:25.000+01:00
diff --git a/ci/requirements-3.6_DOC.run b/ci/requirements-3.6_DOC.run
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ipython
 ipykernel
 ipywidgets
-sphinx=1.5*
+sphinx
 nbconvert
 nbformat
 notebook
diff --git a/ci/requirements_dev.txt b/ci/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ pytest>=3.1
 python-dateutil>=2.5.0
 pytz
 setuptools>=3.3
-sphinx=1.5*
+sphinx
diff --git a/doc/sphinxext/numpydoc/numpydoc.py b/doc/sphinxext/numpydoc/numpydoc.py
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
     raise RuntimeError("Sphinx 1.0.1 or newer is required")
 
 from .docscrape_sphinx import get_doc_object, SphinxDocString
-from sphinx.util.compat import Directive
 
 if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
     sixu = lambda s: s
