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Sphinx seems to need tabs expanded in reST, but the autodoc extension
doesn't do so. The following patch is very small, and fixes the issue on
my system.
Oddly, I can reproduce this on a Linux system with doctools and docutils
trunk, but not on a Mac with doctools and docutils trunk vOv.
Index: ext/autodoc.py
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--- ext/autodoc.py (revision 62140)
+++ ext/autodoc.py (working copy)
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@
 """
 if not s or s.isspace():
 return ['']
- nl = s.expandtabs().rstrip().find('\n')
+ s = s.expandtabs ()
+ nl = s.rstrip().find('\n')
 if nl == -1:
 # Only one line...
 return [s.strip(), '']