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   :description: The Google Analytics extension from does not work on Sphinx 1.8. When I run it, I get the following error Could not import extension sphinxcontrib.googleanalyti

Fix sphinxcontrib-googleanalytics on Sphinx 1.8
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.. post:: 5, Jan, 2019
   :category: Sphinx
   :author: me
   :nocomments:

The Google Analytics extension from

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   python -m pip install  sphinxcontrib-googleanalytics

does not work on Sphinx 1.8. When I run it, I get the following error

   Could not import extension sphinxcontrib.googleanalytics (exception:
   cannot import name 'ExtensionError' from 'sphinx.application'
   (c:\\python37\\lib\\site-packages\\sphinx\\application.py))

Fix is to change

   C:\\Python37\\Lib\\site-packages\\sphinxcontrib\\googleanalytics.py 

Line 4

from

.. code-block::
   
   from sphinx.application import ExtensionError

to

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   from sphinx.errors import ExtensionError

After that I get another warning

   WARNING: extension 'sphinxcontrib.googleanalytics' returned an
   unsupported object from its setup() function; it should return None or a
   metadata dictionary

Fix is to change the last line from

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   return app

to

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   return {'version': '0.1'}