Consider inheritence when resolving :meth:foo

[shimizukawa]

In the below, it would be great for B.bar to resolve the reference to A.foo:

#!python
class A(object):
    def foo(self):
        """foo doc"""

class B(A):
    def bar(self):
        """Calls :meth:`foo`."""
        self.foo()

If 'B' explicitly adds 'foo' or uses :inherited-members:, it will resolve to B.foo, but pulling down the inherited member doc text into B's isn't always desired. Many times I want to reference a single, canonical definition of 'foo', the one on A.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/issue/272
• Originally reported by: jason kirtland
• Originally created at: 2009-10-26T23:19:38.447

[shimizukawa]

From Georg Brandl on 2009-11-08 15:33:23+00:00

While this requires a bit of work (and won't scale to non-autodoc docs), I think it should be possible to implement.

Setting milestone to 1.1 for now.

[shimizukawa]

From Georg Brandl on 2011-01-06 20:03:32+00:00

Not yet.