PythonDomain.resolve_xref incorrectly matches ivars to class methods

[paulromano]

This issue was originally described in a stackoverflow post and has gone unanswered for a while. If an :ivar: has the same name as a method in a different class, a cross reference is incorrectly created. Furthermore, if two classes have methods of the same name as the :ivar:, a warning is raised saying:
WARNING: more than one target found for cross-reference ...

[nicoddemus]

I'm having the exact same problem, is there a known workaround for that? I'm trying to build pytest's documentation with -W, and this is the only warning that I couldn't get rid of...

[paulromano]

I still haven't found a workaround.

[nicoddemus]

I had to change from ivars in the dosctring to inline comments as can be seen here, in case others find this useful.

[b1naryth1ef]

Bump, also having this issue.

[rouge8]

I'm getting this same error with :param:

[riccardomurri]

me too -- seeing the issue also with :param list foo:

[rouge8]

Still no good workaround for this 😕