old_contents: #!/usr/bin/env python
  """
  %prog MODE FILES...
  
  Post-processes HTML and Latex files output by Sphinx.
  MODE is either 'html' or 'tex'.
  
  """
  import re, optparse
  
  def main():
      p = optparse.OptionParser(__doc__)
      options, args = p.parse_args()
  
      if len(args) < 1:
          p.error('no mode given')
  
      mode = args.pop(0)
  
      if mode not in ('html', 'tex'):
          p.error('unknown mode %s' % mode)
  
      for fn in args:
          f = open(fn, 'r')
          try:
              if mode == 'html':
                  lines = process_html(fn, f.readlines())
              elif mode == 'tex':
                  lines = process_tex(f.readlines())
          finally:
              f.close()
  
          f = open(fn, 'w')
          f.write("".join(lines))
          f.close()
  
  def process_html(fn, lines):
      return lines
  
  def process_tex(lines):
      """
      Remove unnecessary section titles from the LaTeX file.
  
      """
      new_lines = []
      for line in lines:
          if re.match(r'^\\(section|subsection|subsubsection|paragraph|subparagraph){(numpy|scipy)\.', line):
              pass # skip!
          else:
              new_lines.append(line)
      return new_lines
  
  if __name__ == "__main__":
      main()
  
new_contents: #!/usr/bin/env python
  """
  %prog MODE FILES...
  
  Post-processes HTML and Latex files output by Sphinx.
  MODE is either 'html' or 'tex'.
  
  """
  import re, optparse
  
  def main():
      p = optparse.OptionParser(__doc__)
      options, args = p.parse_args()
  
      if len(args) < 1:
          p.error('no mode given')
  
      mode = args.pop(0)
  
      if mode not in ('html', 'tex'):
          p.error('unknown mode %s' % mode)
  
      for fn in args:
          f = open(fn, 'r')
          try:
              if mode == 'html':
                  lines = process_html(fn, f.readlines())
              elif mode == 'tex':
                  lines = process_tex(f.readlines())
          finally:
              f.close()
  
          f = open(fn, 'w')
          f.write("".join(lines))
          f.close()
  
  def process_html(fn, lines):
      return lines
  
  def process_tex(lines):
      """
      Remove unnecessary section titles from the LaTeX file,
      and convert UTF-8 non-breaking spaces to Latex nbsps.
  
      """
      new_lines = []
      for line in lines:
          line = unicode(line, 'utf-8').replace(u"\00a0", u"~").encode('utf-8')
          if re.match(r'^\\(section|subsection|subsubsection|paragraph|subparagraph){(numpy|scipy)\.', line):
              pass # skip!
          else:
              new_lines.append(line)
      return new_lines
  
  if __name__ == "__main__":
      main()
  
subject: convert utf-8 nbsp's to form that Latex accepts