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Add an extra script in `Contributing` to install some of the extra `Doc` requirements i.e. to make it easier to dev & QA

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
jupyter-notebook, python
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with contributing.md's “Install requirements — non-windows” section and the existing packages/python/plotly/requirements.txt and optional-requirements.txt files. Review the documentation examples under doc/python and identify the extra modules used there, including wget and datashader. Done means an optional-doc-requirements.txt file and updated contributor instructions allow the examples to be tested with jupyter-notebook doc/python.

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Description

feature infrastructure P3

Using these commands from Contributing

(plotly_dev) $ pip install -r packages/python/plotly/requirements.txt
(plotly_dev) $ pip install -r packages/python/plotly/optional-requirements.txt

won't install modules e.g. wget, datashader, etc. that are used in docs.
I suggest we add optional-doc-requirements.txt to help install some of these modules so that we could more efficiently test the examples using:

jupyter-notebook doc/python
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Python
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  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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