Make epydoc work with docutils-0.6. Patch created by Engelbert Gruber (grubert) and adjusted by Martin von Gagern. References: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2895197&group_id=32455&atid=405618 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.text.docutils.devel/4888/focus=4924 http://bugs.gentoo.org/287546 Index: epydoc-3.0.1/epydoc/markup/restructuredtext.py =================================================================== --- epydoc-3.0.1.orig/epydoc/markup/restructuredtext.py +++ epydoc-3.0.1/epydoc/markup/restructuredtext.py @@ -304,10 +304,11 @@ class _SummaryExtractor(NodeVisitor): # Extract the first sentence. for child in node: if isinstance(child, docutils.nodes.Text): - m = self._SUMMARY_RE.match(child.data) + data = child.astext() + m = self._SUMMARY_RE.match(data) if m: summary_pieces.append(docutils.nodes.Text(m.group(1))) - other = child.data[m.end():] + other = data[m.end():] if other and not other.isspace(): self.other_docs = True break