New submission from Russell Stuart: .. topic:: http://docs.python.org/2.7/objects.inv doesn't support :func:`repr` or :exc:`Exception` A bug report for Python 2.7's docs. .. _intro: Bug === Running:: sphinx-build -c conf2.7 -n -b html -E . html Produces:: Running Sphinx v1.1.3 loading intersphinx inventory from http://docs.python.org/2.7/objects.inv... building [html]: targets for 1 source files that are out of date updating environment: 1 added, 0 changed, 0 removed reading sources... [100%] bug looking for now-outdated files... none found pickling environment... done checking consistency... done preparing documents... done writing output... [100%] bug /home/rstuart/zzz/bug.rst:1: WARNING: py:exc reference target not found: Exception /home/rstuart/zzz/bug.rst:1: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: repr writing additional files... genindex search copying static files... done dumping search index... done dumping object inventory... done build succeeded, 2 warnings. Note the ``WARNING`` lines. They should not be there. Running:: sphinx-build -c conf3.2 -b html -n -E . html Produces:: Running Sphinx v1.1.3 loading intersphinx inventory from http://docs.python.org/3.2/objects.inv... building [html]: targets for 1 source files that are out of date updating environment: 1 added, 0 changed, 0 removed reading sources... [100%] bug looking for now-outdated files... none found pickling environment... done checking consistency... done preparing documents... done writing output... [100%] bug writing additional files... genindex search copying static files... done dumping search index... done dumping object inventory... done build succeeded. I presume this means something is wrong with http://docs.python.org/2.7/objects.inv it downloads. ``conf2.7.py``: .. include:: conf2.7/conf.py :literal: ``conf3.2.py``: .. include:: conf3.2/conf.py :literal: ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: bug.rst messages: 186697 nosy: docs@python, ras priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: http://docs.python.org/2.7/objects.inv doesn't support :func:`repr` or :exc:`Exception` versions: Python 2.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29794/bug.rst _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17709> _______________________________________