Am 06.09.2016 um 15:34 schrieb Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 06 Sep 2016, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:29:30 +0200 >> Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> + if major >= 1 and minor < 4: >>> + # indexnode's tuple changed in 1.4 >>> + # https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/commit/e6a5a3a92e938fcd75866b4227db9e0524d58f7c >>> + self.indexnode['entries'].append( >>> + ('single', indextext, targetname, '')) >>> + else: >>> + self.indexnode['entries'].append( >>> + ('single', indextext, targetname, '', None)) >> >> So this doesn't seem right. We'll get the four-entry tuple behavior with >> 1.3 and the five-entry behavior with 1.4...but what happens when 2.0 >> comes out? >> >> Did you want maybe: >> >> if major == 1 and minor < 4: >> >> ? >> >> (That will fail on 0.x, but we've already stated that we don't support >> below 1.2). > > Is there a way to check the number of entries expected in the tuples > instead of trying to match the version? Sadly not, the dissection of the tuple is spread around the source :( Sphinx has some more of these tuples with fixed length (remember conf.py, the latex_documents settings) where IMHO hash/value pairs (dicts) are more suitable. -- Markus -- > BR, > Jani. > -- > Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
