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Author barry
Recipients alex, barry, eric.araujo, jwilk, r.david.murray, terry.reedy
Date 2014-03-13.13:29:59
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On Mar 13, 2014, at 05:15 AM, Éric Araujo wrote:

>The source contains :meth:`self.gettext`, and Sphinx adds the parentheses
>when creating markup for a function, probably because it’s common to say
>things like “the len() function”.  There is a Sphinx config value to control
>that.  If one wants to keep the parens for most functions but not have them
>in a few cases, other markup than :meth:/:func: has to be used.

The defaults should definitely be kept for :meth: and :func:
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