Re: [Docutils-users] (I'm not subscribed) Fwd: traceback error report for `KeyError: 'refid'`

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

Thank you for your report,

On 2015-06-09, Jeroen Wiert Pluimers wrote:

> File having issues:
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jpluimers/OpenSuSE.Tumbleweed.Server-Install/master/README.rst

The current version of this file (2015-06-15) compiles without problems here
(rst2html (Docutils 0.13 [repository], Python 2.7.10, on linux2))

> $ rst2html.py README.rst readme.html
> README.rst:292: (ERROR/3) Too many autonumbered footnote references: only 0
> corresponding footnotes available.

It seems the footnote-text/footnote-reference mismatch was solved in the
meantime.

> KeyError: 'refid'
> Exiting due to error.  Use "--traceback" to diagnose.
...

This seems to be an aftereffect.
I did not encounter this in a minimal test, though.
Do you still have a file that exhibits the KeyError on compiling?

...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
...
>   File
> "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/docutils/writers/html4css1/__init__.py",
> line 986, in visit_footnote_reference
>     href = '#' + node['refid']
>   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/docutils/nodes.py", line 567, in
> __getitem__
>     return self.attributes[key]
> KeyError: 'refid'

Unfortunately, I don't know how we landed here with a footnote-reference
node without refid. and what should/could be done to it.

Thanks,
Günter