Fixed docstring dedenting and made the html writer more configurable in the sense that it doesn't change behavior based on the builder name any longer.

CHANGES

@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ New features added
 * The `automodule` directive now supports the ``synopsis``,
   ``deprecated`` and ``platform`` options.
 
+* The HTML builders have two additional attributes now that can be used
+  to disable the anchor-link creation after headlines and definition
+  links.  EXPERIMENTAL
+
 
 Release 0.4.1 (Jul 5, 2008)
 ===========================

sphinx/builder.py

@@ -301,6 +301,8 @@ class StandaloneHTMLBuilder(Builder):
     supported_image_types = ['image/svg+xml', 'image/png', 'image/gif',
                              'image/jpeg']
     searchindex_filename = 'searchindex.json'
+    add_header_links = True
+    add_definition_links = True
 
     def init(self):
         """Load templates."""
@@ -810,6 +812,10 @@ class HTMLHelpBuilder(StandaloneHTMLBuilder):
     copysource = False
     supported_image_types = ['image/png', 'image/gif', 'image/jpeg']
 
+    # don't add links
+    add_header_links = False
+    add_definition_links = False
+
     def init(self):
         StandaloneHTMLBuilder.init(self)
         # the output files for HTML help must be .html only

sphinx/ext/autodoc.py

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 """
 
 import re
+import sys
 import types
 import inspect
 import textwrap
@@ -158,17 +159,25 @@ def prepare_docstring(s):
     of nested_parse().)  An empty line is added to act as a separator between
     this docstring and following content.
     """
-    if not s or s.isspace():
+    lines = s.expandtabs().splitlines()
-        return ['']
+    # Find minimum indentation of any non-blank lines after first line.
-    s = s.expandtabs()
+    margin = sys.maxint
-    nl = s.rstrip().find('\n')
+    for line in lines[1:]:
-    if nl == -1:
+        content = len(line.lstrip())
-        # Only one line...
+        if content:
-        return [s.strip(), '']
+            indent = len(line) - content
-    # The first line may be indented differently...
+            margin = min(margin, indent)
-    firstline = s[:nl].strip()
+    # Remove indentation.
-    otherlines = textwrap.dedent(s[nl+1:])
+    if lines:
-    return [firstline] + otherlines.splitlines() + ['']
+        lines[0] = lines[0].lstrip()
+    if margin < sys.maxint:
+        for i in range(1, len(lines)): lines[i] = lines[i][margin:]
+    # Remove any trailing or leading blank lines.
+    while lines and not lines[-1]:
+        lines.pop()
+    while lines and not lines[0]:
+        lines.pop(0)
+    return lines
 
 
 def get_module_charset(module):
@@ -441,8 +450,8 @@ def generate_rst(what, name, members, options, add_content, document, lineno,
         # unqualified :members: given
         if what == 'module':
             # for implicit module members, check __module__ to avoid documenting
-            # imported objects
+            # imported objects if __all__ is not defined
-            members_check_module = True
+            members_check_module = not hasattr(todoc, '__all__')
             all_members = inspect.getmembers(todoc)
         else:
             if options.inherited_members:

sphinx/htmlwriter.py

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ class HTMLTranslator(BaseTranslator):
         if node.parent['desctype'] in ('class', 'exception'):
             self.body.append('%s ' % node.parent['desctype'])
     def depart_desc_signature(self, node):
-        if node['ids'] and self.builder.name != 'htmlhelp':
+        if node['ids'] and self.builder.add_definition_links:
             self.body.append(u'<a class="headerlink" href="#%s" ' % node['ids'][0] +
                              u'title="Permalink to this definition">\u00B6</a>')
         self.body.append('</dt>\n')
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ class HTMLTranslator(BaseTranslator):
 
     def depart_title(self, node):
         close_tag = self.context[-1]
-        if self.builder.name != 'htmlhelp' and \
+        if self.builder.add_header_links and \
                (close_tag.startswith('</h') or
                 close_tag.startswith('</a></h')) and \
                node.parent.hasattr('ids') and node.parent['ids']: