On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 08:14:40AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > 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.
Could we have a warning somewhere that python 2.7 is going to produce inferior docs? Alternatively, https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html suggests using "The third-party regex module".
