docs: add auto_examples to excludes

Fixes problem where nbsphinx executes the notebook files inside.

docs_src/conf.py

@@ -63,7 +63,14 @@
 # List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
 # directories to ignore when looking for source files.
 # This pattern also affects html_static_path and html_extra_path.
-exclude_patterns = ["_build", "Thumbs.db", ".DS_Store"]
+exclude_patterns = [
+    "_build",
+    "Thumbs.db",
+    ".DS_Store",
+    # auto_examples needs to be added due to nbsphinx executing the ipynb
+    # files inside otherwise
+    "auto_examples",
+]
 
 
 # -- Options for HTML output -------------------------------------------------