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Reproducible Example

python make.py html

Issue Description

The following error prevents doc/build/html/index.html from getting created. Here are the steps to reproduce.

  1. Pulled down from upstream/original Pandas
  2. Created an environment using Option 2 (pip) from https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/dev/development/contributing_environment.html
  3. Followed steps for building the documentation locally from https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/dev/development/contributing_documentation.html
  4. After running python make.py html, received a 'Sphinx parallel build error', 'Runtime unexpected exception' error in file /doc/source/getting_started/comparison/comparison_with_sas.rst line 135`

Screenshot of error

Image

Machine: 2020 Macbook Pro 1.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5

Expected Behavior

I expected the docs to be built and for doc/build/html/index.html to be created.

Installed Versions

pandas 3.0.0.dev0+2267.ge4a03b6e47 INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit : e4a03b6e47a8ef9cd045902916289cbc976d3d33 python : 3.12.0 python-bits : 64 OS : Darwin OS-release : 23.1.0 Version : Darwin Kernel Version 23.1.0: Mon Oct 9 21:27:27 PDT 2023; root:xnu-10002.41.9~6/RELEASE_X86_64 machine : x86_64 processor : i386 byteorder : little LC_ALL : None LANG : en_US.UTF-8 LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8 pandas : 3.0.0.dev0+2267.ge4a03b6e47 numpy : 2.2.6 dateutil : 2.9.0.post0 pip : 23.2.1 Cython : 3.1.2 sphinx : 8.1.3 IPython : 9.4.0 adbc-driver-postgresql: None adbc-driver-sqlite : None bs4 : 4.13.4 bottleneck : 1.5.0 fastparquet : 2024.11.0 fsspec : 2025.7.0 html5lib : 1.1 hypothesis : 6.136.4 gcsfs : 2025.7.0 jinja2 : 3.1.6 lxml.etree : 6.0.0 matplotlib : 3.10.3 numba : 0.61.2 numexpr : 2.11.0 odfpy : None openpyxl : 3.1.5 psycopg2 : 2.9.10 pymysql : 1.4.6 pyarrow : 21.0.0 pyiceberg : 0.9.1 pyreadstat : 1.3.0 pytest : 8.4.1 python-calamine : None pytz : 2025.2 pyxlsb : 1.0.10 s3fs : 2025.7.0 scipy : 1.16.0 sqlalchemy : 2.0.41 tables : 3.10.2 tabulate : 0.9.0 xarray : 2025.7.1 xlrd : 2.0.2 xlsxwriter : 3.2.5 zstandard : 0.23.0 qtpy : None pyqt5 : None

Comment From: jeffersbaxter

I tried to troubleshoot with:

python make.py clean python make.py html

Comment From: jeffersbaxter

I'm willing to resolve and open a PR if a team member decides that a PR is necessary. Let me know!

Comment From: jeffersbaxter

take