autodoc strips spaces from values

[hansonap]

If I define a module level data as:

INDENT: str = '    ' 
"""
: Defines the single level indentation that will be used in the generated stubs /  wrapper. Default is four spaces. 
Can be overridden if necessary.
"""

and in my .rst file

.. autodata:: INDENT

It is rendered as as a single space

Expected result is four spaces as defined in .py file.

Same result if defined with .. data:: directive.

[tk0miya]

It is converted to the following HTML:

<code class="sig-prename descclassname">example.</code><code class="sig-name descname">INDENT</code><em class="property">: str</em><em class="property"> = '    '</em>

The four spaces are kept as is. But HTML browsers consider them as one space. It should be escaped on generating HTML.

[hansonap]

Got it, thanks for the explanation.

I can probably tackle this if no one has started working it yet. Looks like HTMLTranslator in sphinx/writers/html.py is a logical starting point?

[tk0miya]

I still don't have time to investigate this yet. So I don't have an answer for your question. But it and sphinx/domains/python.py would be related to this problem, I suppose.