Sphinx: Error in "currentmodule", autosummary extension

[keleshev]

I'm getting the following error on latest Sphinx from PyPI on Python 2.7, both Mac and Linux:

/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/wiki-cb1805f95166/workspace/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sphinx/ext/autosummary/templates/autosummary/class.rst:4: ERROR: Error in "currentmodule" directive:
maximum 1 argument(s) allowed, 3 supplied.

.. currentmodule:: {{ module }}

Looks like it interprets {{ module }} literally, as 3 arguments, instead of interpolating it first.

[tk0miya]

It's strange. It seems Sphinx processed a template file of autosummary module.
How did you invoke sphinx-build? I guess Makefile or build scripts are not good.

[tk0miya]

Any comment? If none, I'll close this later.

[tk0miya]

I'm closing this now.
Please feel free to reopen if you still get same error.
Thanks,

[convoliution]

I encountered this same error; I determined that for me, it was because Sphinx was finding the venv/ I created in my package directory and was unsurprisingly unable to parse any Python source code from it.

Moving venv/ out of that directory resolved my case. I suspect that adding 'venv' to exclude_patterns in conf.py would have also resolved my case.

[Caster]

I had the same problem as @convoliution and can confirm that adding the virtual environment directory to the exclude_patterns in conf.py solves the issue.

[tk0miya]

Thank you for reporting. I understand what happened. If you put venv directory under sphinx project, Sphinx searches source files from it. And it considers a template file of autosummary module as a source file.

As you commented, please mark the venv dir as excluded. Then it will be resolved.
Thanks,