That turned out to be the problem. Some people on the project for got the if name equals main bit.
For future reference, using the "-N" option causes sphinx-build to print a line for each source file that its reading so that you can tell which file it bombed on. I wish I had tried it before I checked each file manually. Thanks for the help, ntroutman On Aug 5, 8:25 am, Georg Brandl <ge...@python.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am 04.08.2010 23:56, schrieb ntroutman: > > > > > > > I've been working on a building using sphinx to document a project of > > mine. I recently started getting the following error: > > > $ sphinx-build -a -E -b html source build/html > > Running Sphinx v1.0.1 > > building [html]: all source files > > updating environment: 94 added, 0 changed, 0 removed > > usage: sphinx-build [-h] [-xml] [-pkl] [-typ] [-chk] [-dir > > DIR] > > sphinx-build: error: unrecognized arguments: -a -E -b html source > > build/html > > > I tried a really simple test set of rst files and they work, so my > > install of sphinx is good. I assume one my rst files is bad in someway > > but without an error i'm not sure which one and renaming 94 files by > > hand to check each one doesn't seem like fun. > > > Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this error? > > Hi, > > it seems that you have a module that is imported by sphinx (probably > because of autodoc), and that unconditionally considers itself a > script (that's where the arguments come from -- they are definitely > not Sphinx arguments). This is bad and indicates a problem: > > * Either the script is imported instead of a module with the same > name, then something is wrong with your sys.path setting > > * Or the script is meant to be imported, then its "script" parts > need to be inside an > > if __name__ == '__main__': > > block. > > (I understand it looks like a Sphinx problem, because "sphinx-build" > is mentioned, but that is simply sys.argv[0] inserted by the script.) > > cheers, > Georg > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxau9EACgkQN9GcIYhpnLCvEgCfT2eJALpKl9v5pA3J07Gwo3rs > 9lEAoJL9rqoBUOoqY2SakFFonMMhySbI > =yIDL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to sphinx-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sphinx-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-dev?hl=en.
