[docs] [issue28710] Sphinx incompatible markup in the standard library docstrings
R. David Murray
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Jun 18 12:38:34 EDT 2018
R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:
No, it is (somewhat) unique to tex. If you write `word' tex would turn that into a pair of opposing quotes in the typeset document, as opposed to 'word' (the convention in regular text/emails/posts/etc) where you'd just see ascii quotes. tex would render 'word' as a closing quote both before and after word, which looks weird in typeset text.
There's no bug here; as you say we aren't interested in making the docstrings parseable as restructured text (at least, I'm not). For me, this is about getting rid of the now-odd-looking tex leftovers and making the ascii styling consistent with the bulk of our docstrings.
It's not a big deal, though.
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