BUG Wrong pandas intersphinx URL

Master is failing due to:

Warning, treated as error:

failed to reach any of the inventories with the following issues:

intersphinx inventory 'https://pandas.pydata.org/objects.inv' not fetchable due to <class 'requests.exceptions.HTTPError'>: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://pandas.pydata.org/objects.inv

Indeed https://pandas.pydata.org/objects.inv gives 404 error. I think the correct link is: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/objects.inv

Will file a Sphinx issue.

[larsoner]

for most Sphinx documentation sets, if you provide a URL to any page in the docs

This is the key part. pandas.pydata.org is no longer a Sphinx documentation page, and it’s not the Sphinx docs. It’s a landing page. The Sphinx docs live elsewhere under a subdirectory, so you have to at least point at that. I don’t think that it means that, given a non-Sphinx-generated URL, it will crawl all of its subdirectories to search for objects.inv files.

Our intersphinx mappings for other packages is just the base URL e.g., ‘sklearn’: ('https://scikit-learn.org/stable

I suspect the comparable base URL in this case would actually be https://scikit-learn.org, and I would expect this to also fail if it were also a landing page and not a redirect to stable

No idea why the current url worked fine previously

My guess is that it was formerly a sphinx-generated page, and they changed it to be a landing page with Sphinx docs under a subdirectory

[lucyleeow]

Makes sense. Thanks!