Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] docs: automarkup.py: Use new C roles in Sphinx 3

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Fri Oct 30 2020 - 10:00:59 EST


On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 14:33:52 +0100
Dafna Hirschfeld <dafna.hirschfeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > +RE_struct = re.compile(r'\b(struct)\s+([a-zA-Z_]\w+)', flags=re.ASCII)
> > +RE_union = re.compile(r'\b(union)\s+([a-zA-Z_]\w+)', flags=re.ASCII)
> > +RE_enum = re.compile(r'\b(enum)\s+([a-zA-Z_]\w+)', flags=re.ASCII)
> > +RE_typedef = re.compile(r'\b(typedef)\s+([a-zA-Z_]\w+)', flags=re.ASCII)
>
> I use ubuntu 18.04, my default python is 2.7,
> when running 'make htmldocs' with that fix I get:
>
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ASCII'

Argh...it seems that re.ASCII is Python3 only.

For the short term, I guess we'll need to hack in some sort of workaround.
The not-so-long-term intent, though, is to leave Python 2 behind.

Thanks for the report,

jon