On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:10:26 +0100
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> wrote:
> I see a few alternatives:
>
> 1) fix automarkup.py for it to work again with python 2.7;
>
> 2) conf.py could gain some logic to disable automarkup with
> Python < 3;
>
> 3) scripts/sphinx-pre-install already detects Python version.
> It should likely be easy to ask the user to use python 3.x,
> if an older version is detected.
>
> Doing (1) or (2) will require an additional step when we raise
> the bar for Python version.
We haven't dropped support for Python 2 yet, so this constitutes a
regression. My own approach would be something like this at the top of
automarkup.py:
if python2:
ascii = 0
else:
ascii = re.ASCII
...then s/re.ASCII/ascii/ throughout. I can probably put together
something later this morning.
jon
