Hi Chris! On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 11:59:07AM +0000, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi, > > Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that > sphinx could not be built reproducibly. > > This is because a default argument for a method uses the path in > which that method is implemented (ie. it uses Python's __file__) > and then that (non-deterministic) default argument is included in > Sphinx's documentation. > > Patch attached that uses the typical; "fn(arg1=None) // if arg1 is > None: arg1=defaultval" pattern to avoid this.
Can you please forward your patch upstream to [1]? [1]: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/pulls -- Dmitry Shachnev
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