Sphinx Lint

Sphinx Lint is based on rstlint.py from cpython.

What sphinx-lint is, what it is not?

sphinx-lint should:

• be reasonably fast so it's comfortable to use as a linter in your editor.
• be usable on a single file.
• not give any false positive (probably an utopy, but let's try).
• not spend too much efforts finding errors that sphinx-build already find (or can easily find).
• focus on finding errors that are not visible to sphinx-build.

Known issues

Currently sphinx-lint can't work with tables, there's no understanding of how linesplit work in tables, like:

   +-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------------+
   | Method                                  | Checks that                 | New in        |
   +=========================================+=============================+===============+
   | :meth:`assertEqual(a, b)                | ``a == b``                  |               |
   | <TestCase.assertEqual>`                 |                             |               |
   +-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------------+

as sphinx-lint works line by line it will inevitably think the :meth: role is not closed properly.

To avoid false positives, some rules are skipped if we're in a table.

License

As this script was in the cpython repository the license is the PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION LICENSE VERSION 2, see LICENSE file for a full version.