[New-bugs-announce] [issue16236] Doc/Makefile should have $PYTHON=python2

[Michele Orrù]

New submission from Michele Orrù:

On Arch/Linux, running `make html` fails with

$ make html
mkdir -p build/html build/doctrees
python tools/sphinx-build.py -b html -d build/doctrees -D latex_paper_size=  . build/html 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tools/sphinx-build.py", line 27, in <module>
    from sphinx import main
  File "/..../cpython/Doc/tools/sphinx/__init__.py", line 44
    except ImportError, err:
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
make: *** [build] Error 1

That is because sphinx needs python version 2 to run; but `python` is symlinked to python3 on my platform. We should replace $PYTHON with python2, which AFAIS here[0], it would point to the correct version.

[0] http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/5fc6f47974db/Makefile.pre.in#l808

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 172931
nosy: maker
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Doc/Makefile should have $PYTHON=python2
versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5

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