[1.9.x] Fixed #26483 -- Updated docs.python.org links to use Intersphinx.

Backport of f5ff5010cd74500785a707ac70b51d292403cddc from master

3 files changed, 4 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/docs/releases/1.3.txt b/docs/releases/1.3.txt
index 18f87fc0fd..fc6fe1acb2 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.3.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.3.txt
@@ -149,13 +149,11 @@ Transaction context managers
 ----------------------------
 
 Users of Python 2.5 and above may now use transaction management functions as
-`context managers`_. For example::
+context managers. For example::
 
     with transaction.autocommit():
         # ...
 
-.. _context managers: https://docs.python.org/glossary.html#term-context-manager
-
 Configurable delete-cascade
 ---------------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.4.txt b/docs/releases/1.4.txt
index a1087768ab..91530d3b68 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.4.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.4.txt
@@ -1304,14 +1304,12 @@ Wildcard expansion of application names in `INSTALLED_APPS`
 Until Django 1.3, :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS` accepted wildcards in application
 names, like ``django.contrib.*``. The expansion was performed by a
 filesystem-based implementation of ``from <package> import *``. Unfortunately,
-`this can't be done reliably`_.
+this can't be done reliably.
 
 This behavior was never documented. Since it is unpythonic and not obviously
 useful, it was removed in Django 1.4. If you relied on it, you must edit your
 settings file to list all your applications explicitly.
 
-.. _this can't be done reliably: https://docs.python.org/tutorial/modules.html#importing-from-a-package
-
 ``HttpRequest.raw_post_data`` renamed to ``HttpRequest.body``
 -------------------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.6.txt b/docs/releases/1.6.txt
index 9b7a17e95a..3443123875 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.6.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.6.txt
@@ -422,7 +422,8 @@ support some types of tests that were supported by the previous runner:
   found and run. Move them to a file whose name begins with ``test``.
 
 * Doctests will no longer be automatically discovered. To integrate doctests in
-  your test suite, follow the `recommendations in the Python documentation`_.
+  your test suite, follow the :ref:`recommendations in the Python documentation
+  <doctest-unittest-api>`.
 
 Django bundles a modified version of the :mod:`doctest` module from the Python
 standard library (in ``django.test._doctest``) and includes some additional
@@ -435,8 +436,6 @@ If you wish to delay updates to your test suite, you can set your
 to fully restore the old test behavior. ``DjangoTestSuiteRunner`` is deprecated
 but will not be removed from Django until version 1.8.
 
-.. _recommendations in the Python documentation: https://docs.python.org/library/doctest.html#unittest-api
-
 Removal of ``django.contrib.gis.tests.GeoDjangoTestSuiteRunner`` GeoDjango custom test runner
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