Sphinx: Could not import extension sphinx.builders.latex (exception: cannot import name 'EscapeFormatter')

[manojYenni]

I'm documenting my project using Sphinx and upon build I get the following error

I get the error

Running Sphinx v1.6.5

Extension error:
Could not import extension sphinx.builders.latex (exception: cannot import name 'EscapeFormatter')
make: *** [html] Error 1

• OS: Linux Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit
• Python version: 3.4.3
• Sphinx version: 1.6.5

Is there any workaround or do I've to install any extentions manually?

PS: I even tried adding the sphinx.builders.latex extention in the conf.py file, it still didnt work.

[tk0miya]

It says exception: cannot import name 'EscapeFormatter'.
It is a part of markupsafe library which Sphinx depends on. How did you install Sphinx?
I guess this is an issue of installing.

[manojYenni]

sudo -H pip3 install Sphinx

[tk0miya]

Please let me know the result of pip3 list and python3 -c 'from markupsafe import EscapeFormatter'

[manojYenni]

Output of pip3 list

alabaster (0.7.10)
apturl (0.5.2ubuntu4)
Babel (2.5.1)
Brlapi (0.6.1)
certifi (2017.7.27.1)
chardet (2.2.1)
checkbox-ng (0.3)
checkbox-support (0.2)
colorama (0.2.5)
defer (1.0.6)
docutils (0.14)
feedparser (5.1.3)
friends (0.1)
html5lib (0.999)
httplib2 (0.8)
idna (2.6)
imagesize (0.7.1)
Jinja2 (2.9.6)
language-selector (0.1)
louis (2.5.3)
lxml (3.3.3)
Mako (0.9.1)
MarkupSafe (0.18)
oauthlib (0.6.1)
onboard (1.0.1)
oneconf (0.3.7.14.04.1)
pip (1.5.4)
piston-mini-client (0.7.5)
plainbox (0.5.3)
pycrypto (2.6.1)
pycurl (7.19.3)
Pygments (2.2.0)
pygobject (3.12.0)
pyparsing (2.0.1)
python-apt (0.9.3.5ubuntu2)
python-debian (0.1.21-nmu2ubuntu2)
pytz (2017.2)
pyxdg (0.25)
requests (2.2.1)
setuptools (3.3)
six (1.5.2)
snowballstemmer (1.2.1)
software-center-aptd-plugins (0.0.0)
Sphinx (1.6.5)
sphinx-rtd-theme (0.2.4)
sphinxcontrib-websupport (1.0.1)
typing (3.6.2)
ubuntu-drivers-common (0.0.0)
unattended-upgrades (0.1)
unity-scope-audacious (0.1)
unity-scope-calculator (0.1)
unity-scope-chromiumbookmarks (0.1)
unity-scope-clementine (0.1)
unity-scope-colourlovers (0.1)
unity-scope-devhelp (0.1)
unity-scope-firefoxbookmarks (0.1)
unity-scope-gdrive (0.7)
unity-scope-gmusicbrowser (0.1)
unity-scope-gourmet (0.1)
unity-scope-guayadeque (0.1)
unity-scope-manpages (0.1)
unity-scope-musique (0.1)
unity-scope-openclipart (0.1)
unity-scope-texdoc (0.1)
unity-scope-tomboy (0.1)
unity-scope-virtualbox (0.1)
unity-scope-yelp (0.1)
unity-scope-zotero (0.1)
urllib3 (1.7.1)
usb-creator (0.2.23)
wheel (0.24.0)
xdiagnose (3.6.3build2)
xkit (0.0.0)

Output of python3 -c 'from markupsafe import

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name 'EscapeFormatter'

[tk0miya]

Jinja2 (2.9.6)
MarkupSafe (0.18)

It seems version mismatch. Jinja2 requires MarkupSafe>=0.23.
https://github.com/pallets/jinja/blob/2.9.6/setup.py#L72

Please upgrade MarkupSafe or downgrade Jinja2.
Anyway, this is not a bug of Sphinx. So I'm closing this now.

If you still have problem, please post to sphinx-users forum.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sphinx-users

Thanks,

[shuLhan]

What about this one,

buildworker 2 % pip list
DEPRECATION: The default format will switch to columns in the future. You can use --format=(legacy|columns) (or define a format=(legacy|columns) in your pip.conf under the [list] section) to disable
this warning.
alabaster (0.7.10)
appdirs (1.4.3)
asn1crypto (0.23.0)
attrs (17.3.0)
autobahn (17.10.1)
Automat (0.6.0)
Babel (2.4.0)
backports.ssl-match-hostname (3.4.0.2)
boto (2.45.0)
buildbot (0.9.14)
buildbot-console-view (0.9.14)
buildbot-grid-view (0.9.14)
buildbot-waterfall-view (0.9.14)
buildbot-worker (0.9.14)
buildbot-www (0.9.14)
certifi (2017.11.5)
cffi (1.11.2)
chardet (3.0.4)
Cheetah (2.4.4)
cloud-init (0.7.9)
configobj (4.7.2)
constantly (15.1.0)
cryptography (2.1.2)
decorator (4.1.2)
docutils (0.13.1)
enum34 (1.1.6)
future (0.16.0)
hyperlink (17.3.1)
idna (2.6)
imagesize (0.7.1)
incremental (17.5.0)
iniparse (0.4)
ipaddress (1.0.18)
IPy (0.75)
Jinja2 (2.10)
jsonpatch (1.2)
jsonpointer (1.9)
kitchen (1.1.1)
Markdown (2.4.1)
MarkupSafe (1.0)
packaging (16.8)
pbr (3.1.1)
perf (0.1)
Pillow (2.0.0)
pip (9.0.1)
policycoreutils-default-encoding (0.1)
prettytable (0.7.2)
pyasn1 (0.3.7)
pyasn1-modules (0.1.5)
pycparser (2.18)
pycurl (7.19.0)
Pygments (2.2.0)
pygobject (3.22.0)
pygpgme (0.3)
PyJWT (1.5.3)
pyliblzma (0.5.3)
pyOpenSSL (17.3.0)
pyparsing (2.2.0)
pyserial (2.6)
python-dateutil (2.6.1)
python-linux-procfs (0.4.9)
pytz (2017.2)
pyudev (0.15)
pyxattr (0.5.1)
PyYAML (3.10)
requests (2.18.4)
rsa (3.4.1)
schedutils (0.4)
seobject (0.1)
sepolicy (1.1)
service-identity (17.0.0)
setuptools (38.2.5)
six (1.11.0)
snowballstemmer (1.2.1)
Sphinx (1.6.2)
sphinx-rtd-theme (0.2.4)
sphinxcontrib-websupport (1.0.1)
SQLAlchemy (1.2.0)
sqlalchemy-migrate (0.11.0)
sqlparse (0.2.4)
Tempita (0.5.2)
treq (17.8.0)
Twisted (17.9.0)
Twisted-Core (12.2.0)
txaio (2.8.2)
typing (3.6.1)
urlgrabber (3.10)
urllib3 (1.22)
yum-metadata-parser (1.1.4)
zope.interface (4.4.3)

Python version 2.7.5
OS Centos 7

[yapale]

pip uninstall markupsafe
pip install markupsafe==0.23

solved the problem