On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:10:26 +0100 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
