[New-bugs-announce] [issue35033] Column or row spanning cells are not implemented.

[Julien Palard]

New submission from Julien Palard <julien+python at palard.fr>:

Recent tables introduced in Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst are using columns spanning.

But columns spanning is not implemented in the sphinx text builder, resulting in:

$ cd Doc
$ sphinx-build -b text -d build/doctrees -W -D latex_elements.papersize= -Ea -A daily=1 -A switchers=1 . build/text
Running Sphinx v1.8.1
building [mo]: all of 0 po files
building [text]: all source files
updating environment: 475 added, 0 changed, 0 removed
reading sources... [100%] whatsnew/index                                                                                                           
looking for now-outdated files... none found
pickling environment... done
checking consistency... done
preparing documents... done
writing output... [ 12%] c-api/typeobj                                                                                                             
Exception occurred:
  File "/home/mdk/.venvs/mdk/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sphinx/writers/text.py", line 623, in visit_entry
    raise NotImplementedError('Column or row spanning cells are '
NotImplementedError: Column or row spanning cells are not implemented.
The full traceback has been saved in /tmp/sphinx-err-3q24uv89.log, if you want to report the issue to the developers.
Please also report this if it was a user error, so that a better error message can be provided next time.
A bug report can be filed in the tracker at <https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues>. Thanks!

we could either try to remove our column spannings (but they're usefull, first table, 2nd header line), either implement it sphinx-side.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 328159
nosy: docs at python, mdk
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Column or row spanning cells are not implemented.
versions: Python 3.8

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