openmicroscopy/ome-documentation — pull request #306 by sbesson (2013-03-28 11:09:32+00:00)
Title: Allow to build documentation offline (rebased onto develop)

This is the same as gh-304 but rebased onto develop.

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This PR was initiated on a train with no Internet connection. In this case, our use of `urllib.urlopen()` fails to read the broken list from GitHub.

This commit fixes this bug by embedding the url lib call in a `try, except` block and printing a warning message if no URL is found.