[Doc]: Sphinx gallery links mispointed for Axes3D methods

[scottshambaugh]

Documentation Link

https://matplotlib.org/devdocs/gallery/mplot3d/lines3d.html#sphx-glr-gallery-mplot3d-lines3d-py

Problem

The Axes3D methods which are automatically linked in example code in the docs all incorrectly point towards the Axes methods instead.

For example ax.plot here links to matplotlib.axes.Axes.plot instead of mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.axes3d.Axes3D.plot

Suggested improvement

Not sure if there's a way to type hint this in all the example code, or somehow make Sphinx recognize this.

[story645]

Hmm wonder changing the config to prefer full module names might work? https://sphinx-gallery.github.io/stable/configuration.html#resolving-module-paths

Far as I can tell we're not doing that right now
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/main/doc%2Fconf.py#L252

[scottshambaugh]

Good find @story645 I'll give that a shot!

[scottshambaugh]

Did not work unfortunately

[story645]

So after I couldn't get any configuration to work, I went down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out how sphinx-gallery is parsing this and uh link to collab I'm not sure if it's parsing down to the chaining -> pandas doesn't use sphinx gallery and seaborn doesn't seem to have the code linking feature enabled.

Uh @larsoner any ideas?

[larsoner]

Unfortunately not. It is a bit of a rabbit hole and I have to spend a lot of time to figure out why it does the wrong thing sometimes. In theory it should look at the __class__ of the instance and resolve mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.axes3d.Axes3D properly, not sure why it wouldn't. Maybe becaues of the mpl_toolkits namespace instead of matplotlib or something?