Running "make htmldocs" on a newly installed Sphinx 7.3.7 ends up in a build error: Sphinx parallel build error: AttributeError: module 'docutils.nodes' has no attribute 'reprunicode' docutils 0.21 has removed nodes.reprunicode, quote from release note [1]: * Removed objects: docutils.nodes.reprunicode, docutils.nodes.ensure_str() Python 2 compatibility hacks Sphinx 7.3.0 supports docutils 0.21 [2]: kernel_include.py, whose origin is misc.py of docutils, uses reprunicode. Upstream docutils removed the offending line from the corresponding file (docutils/docutils/parsers/rst/directives/misc.py) in January 2022. Quoting the changelog [3]: Deprecate `nodes.reprunicode` and `nodes.ensure_str()`. Drop uses of the deprecated constructs (not required with Python 3). Do the same for kernel_include.py. Tested against: - Sphinx 2.4.5 (docutils 0.17.1) - Sphinx 3.4.3 (docutils 0.17.1) - Sphinx 5.3.0 (docutils 0.18.1) - Sphinx 6.2.1 (docutils 0.19) - Sphinx 7.2.6 (docutils 0.20.1) - Sphinx 7.3.7 (docutils 0.21.2) Link: http://www.docutils.org/RELEASE-NOTES.html#release-0-21-2024-04-09 [1] Link: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/changes.html#release-7-3-0-released-apr-16-2024 [2] Link: https://github.com/docutils/docutils/commit/c8471ce47a24 [3] Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/sphinx/kernel_include.py | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_include.py b/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_include.py index abe768088377..638762442336 100755 --- a/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_include.py +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_include.py @@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ class KernelInclude(Include): # HINT: this is the only line I had to change / commented out: #path = utils.relative_path(None, path) - path = nodes.reprunicode(path) encoding = self.options.get( 'encoding', self.state.document.settings.input_encoding) e_handler=self.state.document.settings.input_encoding_error_handler base-commit: fcb5bcefdbfbd939bf4edfa71182df0b56d20a49 -- 2.34.1