[New-bugs-announce] [issue19248] sphinx is not py3k compatible

[Nick Guenther]

New submission from Nick Guenther:

I'm running Arch. I just checked out python's hg and tried to build the docs, and found that I couldn't:

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

I edited the Makefile to say PYTHON       = python2
and then it worked. Is the assumption that python2 is still supposed to be the default python everywhere? Is python 3 not able to build itself yet?



[kousu at galleon Doc]$ pacman -Qi python
Name           : python
Version        : 3.3.2-2
Description    : Next generation of the python high-level scripting language
Architecture   : x86_64
URL            : http://www.python.org/
Licenses       : custom
Groups         : None
Provides       : python3
Depends On     : expat  bzip2  gdbm  openssl  libffi  zlib
Optional Deps  : tk: for tkinter [installed]
                 sqlite [installed]
Required By    : cython  ipython  ktoblzcheck  libreoffice-common  python-cairo  python-dateutil  python-dbus  python-markupsafe
                 python-numpy  python-pyparsing  python-pytz  python-pyzmq  python-setuptools  python-sip  python-six  python-sympy
                 python-tornado  python-xdg  ranger  youtube-dl
Optional For   : systemd
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : python3
Installed Size : 86980.00 KiB
Packager       : Bart
Build Date     : Fri Sep 6 03:31:57 2013
Install Date   : Tue Sep 17 10:29:36 2013
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By   : Signature

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 199764
nosy: docs at python, kousu
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: sphinx is not py3k compatible
versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5

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