From dcb101e7f078f12fc3d2bf1730410798a880bfe3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ned Deily <nad@python.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:39:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Exclude VENVDIR in Doc builds (#3977)

---
 Doc/Makefile | 2 +-
 Doc/conf.py  | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/Makefile b/Doc/Makefile
index da3274396eb5..7f3e216c70e8 100644
--- a/Doc/Makefile
+++ b/Doc/Makefile
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ dist:
 	cp -pPR build/epub/Python.epub dist/python-$(DISTVERSION)-docs.epub
 
 check:
-	$(PYTHON) tools/rstlint.py -i tools
+	$(PYTHON) tools/rstlint.py -i tools -i $(VENVDIR) -i README.rst
 
 serve:
 	../Tools/scripts/serve.py build/html
diff --git a/Doc/conf.py b/Doc/conf.py
index b3f26d5a6921..4145fd5a90a7 100644
--- a/Doc/conf.py
+++ b/Doc/conf.py
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ highlight_language = 'python3'
 needs_sphinx = '1.2'
 
 # Ignore any .rst files in the venv/ directory.
-exclude_patterns = ['venv/*']
+venvdir = os.getenv('VENVDIR', 'venv')
+exclude_patterns = [venvdir+'/*', 'README.rst']
 
 
 # Options for HTML output
-- 
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