This is the way to build the documentation now:

$ python setup.py build_sphinx

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/mailman/__init__.py b/src/mailman/__init__.py
index ed51320ba..2c34e0971 100644
--- a/src/mailman/__init__.py
+++ b/src/mailman/__init__.py
@@ -41,8 +41,11 @@ except ImportError:
 # however, we'll initialize it differently for tests.  We have to do it this
 # early so that module contents is set up before anything that needs it is
 # imported.
-if sys.argv[0].split(os.sep)[-1] == 'test':
-    from mailman.testing.i18n import initialize
-else:
-    from mailman.core.i18n import initialize
-initialize()
+#
+# Do *not* do this if we're building the documentation.
+if 'build_sphinx' not in sys.argv:
+    if sys.argv[0].split(os.sep)[-1] == 'test':
+        from mailman.testing.i18n import initialize
+    else:
+        from mailman.core.i18n import initialize
+    initialize()