[issue18284] Doc make html: KeyError: 'howto/advocacy'

R. David Murray added the comment: Automating it could be a sphinx enhancement request. Or maybe a bug report. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue18284] Doc make html: KeyError: 'howto/advocacy'

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Nuking build worked. So did, with less re-work, deleting the advocacy doctree and html files ;-). Too bad this is not somehow automated. -- status: pending -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue18284] Doc make html: KeyError: 'howto/advocacy'

R. David Murray added the comment: Oh, right, the advocacy howto was deleted recently. So it is almost certainly your stale pickles in the build dir that are the issue. -- resolution: -> invalid stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> pending ___

[issue18284] Doc make html: KeyError: 'howto/advocacy'

R. David Murray added the comment: I just did a clean doc build on 2.7 (on linux) on 2.7 head without error. Maybe you need to do a 'make clean' and rebuild? Our Makefile ought to have a target that just throws away the build dir, instead of throwing away the checked out software as well, bu

[issue18284] Doc make html: KeyError: 'howto/advocacy'

New submission from Terry J. Reedy: Win 7, make html, 2.7 and 3.3. writing output... [ 20%] howto/advocacy Exception occurred: File "F:\Python\dev\py33\Doc\tools\sphinx\environment.py", line 1063, in get_toc_for toc = self.tocs[docname].deepcopy() KeyError: 'howto/advocacy' and process