Re: Question about binary sphinx inventory files

[Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi@mithrandi.net>]

On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 00:20 W. Martin Borgert <debacle@debian.org> wrote:

I believe that a small number of Python module doc packages use
binary Sphinx inventory (.inv) files during build, that are just
downloaded from python.org by the package maintainer. I don't
know anything about Sphinx nor how to encode/decode .inv files.
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphobjinv is not in Debian, is it?
How would I create e.g. https://docs.python.org/objects.inv
from which sources?

In the case of Python's documentation inventory specifically, this is built and distributed in the python*-doc packages, and there should be no need to download it from python.org.