Values instance has no attribute 'default_reference_context'
I was just editing some reStructuredText content for my website when Django threw a strange error at me.
Values instance has no attribute 'default_reference_context'
What was really bizarre is that exactly the same rst content could be published as HTML just fine in a test script:
from docutils.core import publish_parts rst = 'real content here' print publish_parts(rst, writer_name='html')['html_body']
I couldn't find anything relevant anywhere on the internet either. After some trial and error I managed to find the source of the problem:
`hyperlink <http://example.com>`
Did you spot the error? The trailing underscore is missing, a valid link would look like:
`hyperlink <http://example.com>`_
I still have no idea why the same code would raise an exception inside Django but work stand-alone (but of course generate unwanted markup). Anyway, problem solved for me.
Updates: other sources for the error
`foo`
Renders as <cite> outside of Django.
Solved
The problem has existed for five years in Django core, see #6681. A simple solution is to disable the admindocs app. Yes, the app messes with the docutils settings project-wide.
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