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Drop special cross reference helper for exceptions, functions and methods #7246

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tk0miya opened this issue Mar 3, 2020 · 2 comments
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tk0miya commented Mar 3, 2020

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

So far, :py:exc: role automatically searches exception classes under exceptions module. But, since python3, exception classes has been moved into builtins module. So this fallback works fine only for python2 docs.

.. py:exception:: exceptions.Exception

:py:exc:`Exception` can refer `exceptions.Exception` automatically even if no ``py:module::`` given.

In addition, this fallback is a part of python domain, not intersphinx. So it only works for a document contains descriptions for standard exceptions. It does not work for a document only refers python standard exceptions.

Side note: python domain also has another special support for :py:func: and :py:meth:. It also automatically searches functions and methods under object.

.. py:method:: object.__str__()

:py:func:`__str__` and `:py:meth:`__str__` can refer `object.__str__()` automatically even if no ``py:class:`` given.

I don't know why python domain searches them on object.* namespace. I can understand if it searches under builtins module. Anyway, this is also meaningless.

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Drop these special treatment from python domain.

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@tk0miya tk0miya added type:enhancement enhance or introduce a new feature domains:py labels Mar 3, 2020
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+1 to drop special cross reference helper

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tk0miya commented Mar 7, 2020

Note: python-docs declares exceptions classes as root item (not under builtins package):

$ python -m sphinx.ext.intersphinx https://docs.python.org/3/objects.inv
...
py:exception
    ArithmeticError                          library/exceptions.html#ArithmeticError
    AssertionError                           library/exceptions.html#AssertionError
    AttributeError                           library/exceptions.html#AttributeError
    BaseException                            library/exceptions.html#BaseException
    BlockingIOError                          library/exceptions.html#BlockingIOError
    BrokenPipeError                          library/exceptions.html#BrokenPipeError
    BufferError                              library/exceptions.html#BufferError
    BytesWarning                             library/exceptions.html#BytesWarning
    ChildProcessError                        library/exceptions.html#ChildProcessError
    ConnectionAbortedError                   library/exceptions.html#ConnectionAbortedError
    ConnectionError                          library/exceptions.html#ConnectionError
    ConnectionRefusedError                   library/exceptions.html#ConnectionRefusedError
    ConnectionResetError                     library/exceptions.html#ConnectionResetError
    DeprecationWarning                       library/exceptions.html#DeprecationWarning
    EOFError                                 library/exceptions.html#EOFError
    EnvironmentError                         library/exceptions.html#EnvironmentError
    Exception                                library/exceptions.html#Exception
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Close #7246: Drop special cross reference helper for exceptions, functions and methods
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