error showing all links of an Intersphinx mapping file

[Ron Stone]

Hi,

I am not able to dump the contents of an objects.inv file as described at https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/extensions/intersphinx.html:

$ python -msphinx.ext.intersphinx build/html/objects.inv

(snip) Error while finding module specification for 'sphinx.ext.intersphinx' (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sphinx')

I get the same module not found error on two machines

- sphinx on macOS installed via:

brew install sphinx

- sphinx on Win10 installed via:

pip install -U sphinx

Sphinx otherwise works as expected.

Any help with this appreciated.

[Nick Volynkin]

Hi Ron

It's best to install Python modules for some particular project in a virtual environment. Try this:

brew install pyenv-virtualenv

cd your-project-directory

# create a subdirectory for virtual environment

virtualenv .venv

# activate it in current terminal session

source .venv/bin/activate

# check that we're now using local Python:

which python

python --version

# if you have your project's requirements in a file, install them from it:

pip install -r requirements.txt

# or just install sphinx

pip install sphinx

# now it should work

python -msphinx.ext.intersphinx build/html/objects.inv

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Best regards,

Nick Volynkin

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