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+# Production requirements. This is what readthedocs.com picks up
+
+# Required to build the docs on 3.12 due to pkg_resources deprecation
+setuptools>=70.0.0
+
+# Syntax highlighting
+Pygments==2.20.0
+
+# Sphinx
+sphinx==7.3.7
+sphinx-click==5.1.0
+sphinx-copybutton==0.5.2
+sphinxemoji==0.2.0
+sphinx-jsonschema==1.19.1
+sphinx-sitemap==2.5.1
+sphinxcontrib-redoc==1.6.0
+sphinx-remove-toctrees==0.0.3
+sphinx_design==0.5.0
+sphinx-autobuild==2024.4.16
+pydata-sphinx-theme==0.14.1
+autodoc_pydantic==2.2.0
+appnope
+sphinx-docsearch==0.0.7
+
+pydantic==2.5.0
+
+# MyST
+myst-parser==2.0.0 # Needed to parse markdown
+myst-nb==1.0.0rc0 # Most recent version of myst-nb; pin when new release is made
+# Jupyter conversion
+jupytext==1.15.2
+
+# Pin urllib to avoid downstream ssl incompatibility issues
+urllib3 < 1.27
+
+# External dependencies such as ML libraries should be mocked out, not added here.
+# See doc/source/conf.py for examples of how to mock out external dependencies.
+click==8.1.7
+boto3==1.34.69
+requests==2.32.3