gh-101100: Fix Sphinx warnings from PEP 3108 stdlib re-organisation

[hugovk]

PEP 3108 "Standard Library Reorganization" lists a number of modules that were removed and renamed in Python 3.

This fixes 124 warnings from those modules, plus some neighbouring warnings in affected paragraphs:

Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst:1037: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: httplib Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst:1046: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: httplib Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst:1046: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: httplib Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst:1111: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: robotparser Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst:1132: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: _winreg Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst:1132: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: _winreg Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst:1132: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: _winreg Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst:52: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: UserList Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst:52: WARNING: py:class reference target not found: UserList Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst:70: WARNING: py:meth reference target not found: __getattr__ Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst:936: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: xmlrpclib Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst:959: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: SimpleXMLRPCServer Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst:965: WARNING: py:attr reference target not found: tm_year Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst:965: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: fstat Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst:965: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: statvfs Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst:965: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: fstatvfs Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst:965: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: localtime Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst:965: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: gmtime Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst:965: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: strptime Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst:1084: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: httplib Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst:1221: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: rfc822 Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst:1221: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: email.Utils.formatdate Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst:1221: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: rfc822.formatdate Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst:1311: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: xmlrpclib Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst:1326: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: cookielib Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst:1326: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: Cookie Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst:1338: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: urllib2 Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst:1338: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: cookielib Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst:1481: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: cPickle Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst:1481: WARNING: py:meth reference target not found: __reduce__ Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst:1522: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: SimpleXMLRPCServer Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst:1522: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: DocXMLRPCServer Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst:1653: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: xmlrpclib Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst:1653: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: loads Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst:1653: WARNING: py:class reference target not found: Unmarshaller Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst:2256: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: cPickle Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst:2256: WARNING: py:meth reference target not found: __reduce__ Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst:2261: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: SimpleXMLRPCServer Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst:2261: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: DocXMLRPCServer Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:1083: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: StringIO Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:1083: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: cStringIO Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:1809: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: urlparse Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:1898: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: Cookie Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:1898: WARNING: py:class reference target not found: Morsel Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:1898: WARNING: py:attr reference target not found: httponly Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:1989: WARNING: py:class reference target not found: httplib.HTTPConnection Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:1989: WARNING: py:class reference target not found: HTTPSConnection Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:2374: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: SocketServer Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:2374: WARNING: py:meth reference target not found: handle_timeout Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:2374: WARNING: py:attr reference target not found: timeout Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:2374: WARNING: py:meth reference target not found: serve_forever Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:2481: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: test.test_support Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:2481: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: EnvironmentVarGuard Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:2579: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: urllib.urlopen Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:2579: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: urllib2.urlopen Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:2607: WARNING: py:class reference target not found: SimpleXMLRPCServer Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:2607: WARNING: py:class reference target not found: DocXMLRPCServer Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:2624: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: xmlrpclib Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:2624: WARNING: py:class reference target not found: xmlrpclib.DateTime Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:2624: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: xmlrpclib Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:3277: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: xmlrpclib Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:3277: WARNING: py:class reference target not found: xmlrpclib.DateTime Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst:3277: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: xmlrpclib Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:917: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: Cookie Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1015: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: cPickle Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1020: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: cPickle Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1166: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: cookielib Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1309: WARNING: py:class reference target not found: httplib.HTTPResponse Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1309: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: httplib Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1313: WARNING: py:class reference target not found: httplib.HTTPConnection Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1313: WARNING: py:class reference target not found: httplib.HTTPSConnection Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1521: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: SocketServer Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1521: WARNING: py:class reference target not found: SocketServer.TCPServer Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1521: WARNING: py:attr reference target not found: SocketServer.TCPServer.disable_nagle_algorithm Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1521: WARNING: py:attr reference target not found: SocketServer.BaseServer.timeout Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1521: WARNING: py:meth reference target not found: SocketServer.BaseServer.handle_timeout Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1521: WARNING: py:meth reference target not found: SocketServer.BaseServer.handle_request Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1651: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: urlparse Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1651: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: urlparse.urlsplit Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1678: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: urlparse Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1700: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: xmlrpclib Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:1700: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: SimpleXMLRPCServer Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:2337: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: _winreg Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:2337: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: _winreg.CreateKeyEx Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:2337: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: _winreg.DeleteKeyEx Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:2337: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: _winreg.DisableReflectionKey Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:2337: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: _winreg.EnableReflectionKey Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:2337: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: _winreg.QueryReflectionKey Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:2511: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: urlparse Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:2511: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: urlparse.urlsplit Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:2714: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: httplib Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst:2714: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: urllib2 Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:340: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: StringIO Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:340: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: cStringIO Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:566: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: bsddb3 Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:588: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: cPickle Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:588: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: cPickle Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:588: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: StringIO Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:606: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: anydbm Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:606: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: dbhash Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:606: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: dumbdbm Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:606: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: gdbm Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:606: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: whichdb Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:609: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: HTMLParser Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:609: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: htmlentitydefs Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:611: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: httplib Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:611: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: BaseHTTPServer Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:611: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: CGIHTTPServer Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:611: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: SimpleHTTPServer Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:611: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: Cookie Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:611: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: cookielib Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:620: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: urllib2 Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:620: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: urlparse Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:620: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: robotparse Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:623: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: xmlrpclib Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:623: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: DocXMLRPCServer Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:623: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: SimpleXMLRPCServer Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:645: WARNING: py:mod reference target not found: thread Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:645: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: acquire_lock Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:645: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: release_lock Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:645: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: acquire Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst:645: WARNING: py:func reference target not found: release Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst:2420: WARNING: py:meth reference target not found: HTMLParser.error Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst:2420: WARNING: py:exc reference target not found: HTMLParserError 

• Issue: Fix all Sphinx reference warnings in the documentation #101100

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[AlexWaygood]

Looks good! Some minor nits below:

[hugovk]

Thank you for the suggestions!

And resolved the merge conflict. Which was caused by my own changes in another PR! But this PR mostly had better changes (except one bit, which I kept).

[AlexWaygood]

Thanks!

[AlexWaygood]

(spotted one more thing, sorry!)

[miss-islington-app]

Thanks @hugovk for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.11, 3.12.
🐍🍒⛏🤖

[miss-islington-app]

Sorry, @hugovk, I could not cleanly backport this to 3.12 due to a conflict.
Please backport using cherry_picker on command line.

cherry_picker 848c86786be588312bff948441929816cdd19e28 3.12 

[miss-islington-app]

Sorry, @hugovk, I could not cleanly backport this to 3.11 due to a conflict.
Please backport using cherry_picker on command line.

cherry_picker 848c86786be588312bff948441929816cdd19e28 3.11 

[bedevere-app]

GH-114988 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.12 branch.

[bedevere-app]

GH-114989 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.11 branch.