[issue10008] Two links point to same place

Terry J. Reedy report at bugs.python.org
Sun Oct 10 21:55:19 CEST 2010


Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

When I initially wrote "I have no idea what ', [1]' is supposed to mean.
", you should have believed that and explained ;-). I now understand that most index entries have one link, which we might call the [0] link. When the entry should have more than one link, the index entry text is followed by '[1]' and, if needed, '[2]', '[3]', and so on. These place-holder labels should each have different links, or should not be there at all.

So "ZipFile (class in zipfile" and "[1]" are two separate texts that should have two different links, but the two links are the same, and that, I agree, is wrong. Another example with duplicate links:
  tracer() (in module turtle), [1]

3.1.2 and 3.2a2 indexes have Zipfile error but not tracer error (because '[1]' is not present).

Doc people: the attached patch is a diagnostic patch rather than a fixup patch. I do not know whether the problem is in .rst sources or Sphinx.

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assignee: docs at python -> 
keywords: +patch
nosy: +georg.brandl
stage:  -> needs patch
type:  -> behavior
versions: +Python 3.1, Python 3.2

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