gh-101100: Fix Sphinx warning in references with asterisks (#113029)

Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <[email protected]>

Author: hugovk

Doc/library/bdb.rst

@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ The :mod:`bdb` module also defines two classes:
    .. method:: set_quit()
 
       Set the :attr:`quitting` attribute to ``True``.  This raises :exc:`BdbQuit` in
-      the next call to one of the :meth:`dispatch_\*` methods.
+      the next call to one of the :meth:`!dispatch_\*` methods.
 
 
    Derived classes and clients can call the following methods to manipulate

Doc/library/cmd.rst

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ A :class:`Cmd` instance has the following methods:
 
    This method will return when the :meth:`postcmd` method returns a true value.
    The *stop* argument to :meth:`postcmd` is the return value from the command's
-   corresponding :meth:`do_\*` method.
+   corresponding :meth:`!do_\*` method.
 
    If completion is enabled, completing commands will be done automatically, and
    completing of commands args is done by calling :meth:`complete_foo` with
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ A :class:`Cmd` instance has the following methods:
    :meth:`help_bar`, and if that is not present, prints the docstring of
    :meth:`do_bar`, if available.  With no argument, :meth:`do_help` lists all
    available help topics (that is, all commands with corresponding
-   :meth:`help_\*` methods or commands that have docstrings), and also lists any
+   :meth:`!help_\*` methods or commands that have docstrings), and also lists any
    undocumented commands.
 
 
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ A :class:`Cmd` instance has the following methods:
    This may be overridden, but should not normally need to be; see the
    :meth:`precmd` and :meth:`postcmd` methods for useful execution hooks.  The
    return value is a flag indicating whether interpretation of commands by the
-   interpreter should stop.  If there is a :meth:`do_\*` method for the command
+   interpreter should stop.  If there is a :meth:`!do_\*` method for the command
    *str*, the return value of that method is returned, otherwise the return value
    from the :meth:`default` method is returned.
 
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ A :class:`Cmd` instance has the following methods:
 .. method:: Cmd.completedefault(text, line, begidx, endidx)
 
    Method called to complete an input line when no command-specific
-   :meth:`complete_\*` method is available.  By default, it returns an empty list.
+   :meth:`!complete_\*` method is available.  By default, it returns an empty list.
 
 
 .. method:: Cmd.columnize(list, displaywidth=80)
@@ -209,14 +209,14 @@ Instances of :class:`Cmd` subclasses have some public instance variables:
 .. attribute:: Cmd.misc_header
 
    The header to issue if the help output has a section for miscellaneous  help
-   topics (that is, there are :meth:`help_\*` methods without corresponding
-   :meth:`do_\*` methods).
+   topics (that is, there are :meth:`!help_\*` methods without corresponding
+   :meth:`!do_\*` methods).
 
 
 .. attribute:: Cmd.undoc_header
 
    The header to issue if the help output has a section for undocumented  commands
-   (that is, there are :meth:`do_\*` methods without corresponding :meth:`help_\*`
+   (that is, there are :meth:`!do_\*` methods without corresponding :meth:`!help_\*`
    methods).
 
 

Doc/library/configparser.rst

@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ ConfigParser Objects
    When *converters* is given, it should be a dictionary where each key
    represents the name of a type converter and each value is a callable
    implementing the conversion from string to the desired datatype.  Every
-   converter gets its own corresponding :meth:`get*()` method on the parser
+   converter gets its own corresponding :meth:`!get*()` method on the parser
    object and section proxies.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.1

Doc/library/csv.rst

@@ -309,6 +309,8 @@ An example for :class:`Sniffer` use::
        # ... process CSV file contents here ...
 
 
+.. _csv-constants:
+
 The :mod:`csv` module defines the following constants:
 
 .. data:: QUOTE_ALL
@@ -432,8 +434,8 @@ Dialects support the following attributes:
 .. attribute:: Dialect.quoting
 
    Controls when quotes should be generated by the writer and recognised by the
-   reader.  It can take on any of the :const:`QUOTE_\*` constants (see section
-   :ref:`csv-contents`) and defaults to :const:`QUOTE_MINIMAL`.
+   reader.  It can take on any of the :ref:`QUOTE_\* constants <csv-constants>`
+   and defaults to :const:`QUOTE_MINIMAL`.
 
 
 .. attribute:: Dialect.skipinitialspace

Doc/library/http.server.rst

@@ -65,10 +65,10 @@ provides three different variants:
 
    The handler will parse the request and the headers, then call a method
    specific to the request type. The method name is constructed from the
-   request. For example, for the request method ``SPAM``, the :meth:`do_SPAM`
+   request. For example, for the request method ``SPAM``, the :meth:`!do_SPAM`
    method will be called with no arguments. All of the relevant information is
    stored in instance variables of the handler.  Subclasses should not need to
-   override or extend the :meth:`__init__` method.
+   override or extend the :meth:`!__init__` method.
 
    :class:`BaseHTTPRequestHandler` has the following instance variables:
 
@@ -187,13 +187,13 @@ provides three different variants:
 
       Calls :meth:`handle_one_request` once (or, if persistent connections are
       enabled, multiple times) to handle incoming HTTP requests. You should
-      never need to override it; instead, implement appropriate :meth:`do_\*`
+      never need to override it; instead, implement appropriate :meth:`!do_\*`
       methods.
 
    .. method:: handle_one_request()
 
       This method will parse and dispatch the request to the appropriate
-      :meth:`do_\*` method.  You should never need to override it.
+      :meth:`!do_\*` method.  You should never need to override it.
 
    .. method:: handle_expect_100()
 

Doc/library/locale.rst

@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ The :mod:`locale` module defines the following exception and functions:
 .. function:: getlocale(category=LC_CTYPE)
 
    Returns the current setting for the given locale category as sequence containing
-   *language code*, *encoding*. *category* may be one of the :const:`LC_\*` values
+   *language code*, *encoding*. *category* may be one of the :const:`!LC_\*` values
    except :const:`LC_ALL`.  It defaults to :const:`LC_CTYPE`.
 
    Except for the code ``'C'``, the language code corresponds to :rfc:`1766`.

Doc/library/os.rst

@@ -4170,7 +4170,7 @@ to be ignored.
    The "l" and "v" variants of the :func:`exec\* <execl>` functions differ in how
    command-line arguments are passed.  The "l" variants are perhaps the easiest
    to work with if the number of parameters is fixed when the code is written; the
-   individual parameters simply become additional parameters to the :func:`execl\*`
+   individual parameters simply become additional parameters to the :func:`!execl\*`
    functions.  The "v" variants are good when the number of parameters is
    variable, with the arguments being passed in a list or tuple as the *args*
    parameter.  In either case, the arguments to the child process should start with
@@ -4708,7 +4708,7 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program.
    command-line arguments are passed.  The "l" variants are perhaps the easiest
    to work with if the number of parameters is fixed when the code is written; the
    individual parameters simply become additional parameters to the
-   :func:`spawnl\*` functions.  The "v" variants are good when the number of
+   :func:`!spawnl\*` functions.  The "v" variants are good when the number of
    parameters is variable, with the arguments being passed in a list or tuple as
    the *args* parameter.  In either case, the arguments to the child process must
    start with the name of the command being run.
@@ -4758,7 +4758,7 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program.
           P_NOWAITO
 
    Possible values for the *mode* parameter to the :func:`spawn\* <spawnl>` family of
-   functions.  If either of these values is given, the :func:`spawn\*` functions
+   functions.  If either of these values is given, the :func:`spawn\* <spawnl>` functions
    will return as soon as the new process has been created, with the process id as
    the return value.
 
@@ -4768,7 +4768,7 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program.
 .. data:: P_WAIT
 
    Possible value for the *mode* parameter to the :func:`spawn\* <spawnl>` family of
-   functions.  If this is given as *mode*, the :func:`spawn\*` functions will not
+   functions.  If this is given as *mode*, the :func:`spawn\* <spawnl>` functions will not
    return until the new process has run to completion and will return the exit code
    of the process the run is successful, or ``-signal`` if a signal kills the
    process.

Doc/library/resource.rst

@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ These functions are used to retrieve resource usage information:
 
    This function returns an object that describes the resources consumed by either
    the current process or its children, as specified by the *who* parameter.  The
-   *who* parameter should be specified using one of the :const:`RUSAGE_\*`
+   *who* parameter should be specified using one of the :const:`!RUSAGE_\*`
    constants described below.
 
    A simple example::
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ These functions are used to retrieve resource usage information:
    Returns the number of bytes in a system page. (This need not be the same as the
    hardware page size.)
 
-The following :const:`RUSAGE_\*` symbols are passed to the :func:`getrusage`
+The following :const:`!RUSAGE_\*` symbols are passed to the :func:`getrusage`
 function to specify which processes information should be provided for.
 
 

Doc/library/socket.rst

@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ Exceptions
    The accompanying value is a pair ``(error, string)`` representing an error
    returned by a library call.  *string* represents the description of
    *error*, as returned by the :c:func:`gai_strerror` C function.  The
-   numeric *error* value will match one of the :const:`EAI_\*` constants
+   numeric *error* value will match one of the :const:`!EAI_\*` constants
    defined in this module.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.3
@@ -1517,7 +1517,7 @@ to sockets.
 .. method:: socket.getsockopt(level, optname[, buflen])
 
    Return the value of the given socket option (see the Unix man page
-   :manpage:`getsockopt(2)`).  The needed symbolic constants (:const:`SO_\*` etc.)
+   :manpage:`getsockopt(2)`).  The needed symbolic constants (:ref:`SO_\* etc. <socket-unix-constants>`)
    are defined in this module.  If *buflen* is absent, an integer option is assumed
    and its integer value is returned by the function.  If *buflen* is present, it
    specifies the maximum length of the buffer used to receive the option in, and
@@ -1937,8 +1937,8 @@ to sockets.
    .. index:: pair: module; struct
 
    Set the value of the given socket option (see the Unix manual page
-   :manpage:`setsockopt(2)`).  The needed symbolic constants are defined in the
-   :mod:`socket` module (:const:`SO_\*` etc.).  The value can be an integer,
+   :manpage:`setsockopt(2)`).  The needed symbolic constants are defined in this
+   module (:ref:`!SO_\* etc. <socket-unix-constants>`).  The value can be an integer,
    ``None`` or a :term:`bytes-like object` representing a buffer. In the later
    case it is up to the caller to ensure that the bytestring contains the
    proper bits (see the optional built-in module :mod:`struct` for a way to

Doc/library/unittest.rst

@@ -390,8 +390,8 @@ testing code::
            widget = Widget('The widget')
            self.assertEqual(widget.size(), (50, 50))
 
-Note that in order to test something, we use one of the :meth:`assert\*`
-methods provided by the :class:`TestCase` base class.  If the test fails, an
+Note that in order to test something, we use one of the :ref:`assert\* methods <assert-methods>`
+provided by the :class:`TestCase` base class.  If the test fails, an
 exception will be raised with an explanatory message, and :mod:`unittest`
 will identify the test case as a :dfn:`failure`.  Any other exceptions will be
 treated as :dfn:`errors`.
@@ -1940,14 +1940,14 @@ Loading and running tests
       String giving the prefix of method names which will be interpreted as test
       methods.  The default value is ``'test'``.
 
-      This affects :meth:`getTestCaseNames` and all the :meth:`loadTestsFrom\*`
+      This affects :meth:`getTestCaseNames` and all the ``loadTestsFrom*``
       methods.
 
 
    .. attribute:: sortTestMethodsUsing
 
       Function to be used to compare method names when sorting them in
-      :meth:`getTestCaseNames` and all the :meth:`loadTestsFrom\*` methods.
+      :meth:`getTestCaseNames` and all the ``loadTestsFrom*`` methods.
 
 
    .. attribute:: suiteClass
@@ -1956,7 +1956,7 @@ Loading and running tests
       methods on the resulting object are needed.  The default value is the
       :class:`TestSuite` class.
 
-      This affects all the :meth:`loadTestsFrom\*` methods.
+      This affects all the ``loadTestsFrom*`` methods.
 
    .. attribute:: testNamePatterns
 
@@ -1969,7 +1969,7 @@ Loading and running tests
       so unlike patterns passed to the ``-k`` option, simple substring patterns
       will have to be converted using ``*`` wildcards.
 
-      This affects all the :meth:`loadTestsFrom\*` methods.
+      This affects all the ``loadTestsFrom*`` methods.
 
       .. versionadded:: 3.7
 
@@ -2003,7 +2003,7 @@ Loading and running tests
 
       A list containing 2-tuples of :class:`TestCase` instances and strings
       holding formatted tracebacks. Each tuple represents a test where a failure
-      was explicitly signalled using the :meth:`TestCase.assert\*` methods.
+      was explicitly signalled using the :ref:`assert\* methods <assert-methods>`.
 
    .. attribute:: skipped