shrink mypy whitelist for sphinx.builders (#11396)

Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+aa-turner@users.noreply.github.com>

pyproject.toml

@@ -307,7 +307,6 @@ disallow_any_generics = true
 
 [[tool.mypy.overrides]]
 module = [
-    "sphinx.builders",
     "sphinx.builders.html",
     "sphinx.builders.latex",
     "sphinx.builders.linkcheck",

sphinx/builders/__init__.py

@@ -32,10 +32,6 @@
 # side effect: registers roles and directives
 from sphinx import directives  # noqa: F401  isort:skip
 from sphinx import roles  # noqa: F401  isort:skip
-try:
-    import multiprocessing
-except ImportError:
-    multiprocessing = None
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from sphinx.application import Sphinx
@@ -60,7 +56,7 @@ class Builder:
 
     #: default translator class for the builder.  This can be overridden by
     #: :py:meth:`~sphinx.application.Sphinx.set_translator`.
-    default_translator_class: type[nodes.NodeVisitor] = None
+    default_translator_class: type[nodes.NodeVisitor]
     # doctree versioning method
     versioning_method = 'none'
     versioning_compare = False
@@ -135,15 +131,15 @@ def create_template_bridge(self) -> None:
             from sphinx.jinja2glue import BuiltinTemplateLoader
             self.templates = BuiltinTemplateLoader()
 
-    def get_target_uri(self, docname: str, typ: str = None) -> str:
+    def get_target_uri(self, docname: str, typ: str | None = None) -> str:
         """Return the target URI for a document name.
 
         *typ* can be used to qualify the link characteristic for individual
         builders.
         """
         raise NotImplementedError
 
-    def get_relative_uri(self, from_: str, to: str, typ: str = None) -> str:
+    def get_relative_uri(self, from_: str, to: str, typ: str | None = None) -> str:
         """Return a relative URI between two source filenames.
 
         May raise environment.NoUri if there's no way to return a sensible URI.
@@ -296,7 +292,10 @@ def build_update(self) -> None:
                        len(to_build))
 
     def build(
-        self, docnames: Iterable[str], summary: str | None = None, method: str = 'update',
+        self,
+        docnames: Iterable[str] | None,
+        summary: str | None = None,
+        method: str = 'update',
     ) -> None:
         """Main build method.
 
@@ -509,15 +508,15 @@ def write_doctree(
     ) -> None:
         """Write the doctree to a file."""
         # make it picklable
-        doctree.reporter = None
-        doctree.transformer = None
+        doctree.reporter = None  # type: ignore[assignment]
+        doctree.transformer = None  # type: ignore[assignment]
 
         # Create a copy of settings object before modification because it is
         # shared with other documents.
         doctree.settings = doctree.settings.copy()
         doctree.settings.warning_stream = None
         doctree.settings.env = None
-        doctree.settings.record_dependencies = None
+        doctree.settings.record_dependencies = None  # type: ignore[assignment]
 
         doctree_filename = path.join(self.doctreedir, docname + '.doctree')
         ensuredir(path.dirname(doctree_filename))
@@ -532,7 +531,7 @@ def write_doctree(
 
     def write(
         self,
-        build_docnames: Iterable[str],
+        build_docnames: Iterable[str] | None,
         updated_docnames: Sequence[str],
         method: str = 'update',
     ) -> None:

sphinx/builders/gettext.py

@@ -254,7 +254,10 @@ def _extract_from_template(self) -> None:
                 raise ThemeError(f'{template}: {exc!r}') from exc
 
     def build(
-        self, docnames: Iterable[str], summary: str | None = None, method: str = 'update',
+        self,
+        docnames: Iterable[str] | None,
+        summary: str | None = None,
+        method: str = 'update',
     ) -> None:
         self._extract_from_template()
         super().build(docnames, summary, method)

sphinx/builders/html/__init__.py

@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ class StandaloneHTMLBuilder(Builder):
     format = 'html'
     epilog = __('The HTML pages are in %(outdir)s.')
 
+    default_translator_class = HTML5Translator
     copysource = True
     allow_parallel = True
     out_suffix = '.html'
@@ -372,10 +373,6 @@ def add_js_file(self, filename: str, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
 
         self.script_files.append(JavaScript(filename, **kwargs))
 
-    @property
-    def default_translator_class(self) -> type[nodes.NodeVisitor]:  # type: ignore
-        return HTML5Translator
-
     @property
     def math_renderer_name(self) -> str:
         name = self.get_builder_config('math_renderer', 'html')

sphinx/registry.py

@@ -327,12 +327,16 @@ def add_translation_handlers(
                 ) from exc
 
     def get_translator_class(self, builder: Builder) -> type[nodes.NodeVisitor]:
-        return self.translators.get(builder.name,
-                                    builder.default_translator_class)
+        try:
+            return self.translators[builder.name]
+        except KeyError:
+            try:
+                return builder.default_translator_class
+            except AttributeError as err:
+                raise AttributeError(f'translator not found for {builder.name}') from err
 
     def create_translator(self, builder: Builder, *args: Any) -> nodes.NodeVisitor:
         translator_class = self.get_translator_class(builder)
-        assert translator_class, "translator not found for %s" % builder.name
         translator = translator_class(*args)
 
         # transplant handlers for custom nodes to translator instance

sphinx/transforms/post_transforms/__init__.py

@@ -236,8 +236,9 @@ def run(self, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
         def has_visitor(translator: type[nodes.NodeVisitor], node: type[Element]) -> bool:
             return hasattr(translator, "visit_%s" % node.__name__)
 
-        translator = self.app.builder.get_translator_class()
-        if translator is None:
+        try:
+            translator = self.app.builder.get_translator_class()
+        except AttributeError:
             # do nothing if no translator class is specified (e.g., on a dummy builder)
             return