Missing and incorrect link to a command line option.

[KyleSimpson]

BPO	12825
Nosy	@birkenfeld, @merwok

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title = 'Missing and incorrect link to a command line option.'
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[KyleSimpson]

The documentation for the runpy module has a link to the -m command line option. In version 2.7.2 of the docs, the link doesn't exist.

http://docs.python.org/release/2.7/library/runpy.html
http://docs.python.org/release/2.7.2/library/runpy.html

If you run

touch library/runpy.rst
make html

then the link is created, but with an anchor of "cmdoption-unittest-discover-m" instead of "cmdoption-m".

http://docs.python.org/release/2.7.2/using/cmdline.html#cmdoption-unittest-discover-m

[merwok]

It’s weird that the docs under /release/2.7 has the link but not the one under /.

[KyleSimpson]

I can't reproduce this issue for v2.7.2 anymore, and none of the other versions have this problem.

Is it possible to regenerate the online docs for v2.7.2 before closing this issue?

[merwok]

Thanks for the update. The docs under /release/x.y.z are snapshots from that release, so they are not continuously regenerated. If the current /2 and /2.7 docs are good, this can be closed.