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@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 ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 199764 nosy: docs@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 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19248> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com