add the extra sphinx annotations to refer to Path instances

doc/en/conf.py

@@ -21,9 +21,11 @@
 from textwrap import dedent
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
-from _pytest import __version__ as version
+from _pytest import __version__ as full_version
 
 
+version = full_version.split("+")[0]
+
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     import sphinx.application
 
@@ -169,7 +171,6 @@
 nitpick_ignore = [
     # TODO (fix in pluggy?)
     ("py:class", "HookCaller"),
-    ("py:class", "Path"), # figure how to map to interpshinx
     ("py:class", "HookspecMarker"),
     ("py:exc", "PluginValidationError"),
     # Might want to expose/TODO (https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7469)

src/_pytest/hookspec.py

@@ -321,6 +321,7 @@ def pytest_ignore_collect(
     Stops at first non-None result, see :ref:`firstresult`.
 
     :param collection_path: The path to analyze.
+    :type collection_path: pathlib.Path
     :param path: The path to analyze (deprecated).
     :param config: The pytest config object.
 
@@ -354,6 +355,7 @@ def pytest_collect_directory(path: Path, parent: Collector) -> Collector | None:
     Stops at first non-None result, see :ref:`firstresult`.
 
     :param path: The path to analyze.
+    :type path: pathlib.Path
 
     See :ref:`custom directory collectors` for a simple example of use of this
     hook.
@@ -386,6 +388,7 @@ def pytest_collect_file(
     The new node needs to have the specified ``parent`` as a parent.
 
     :param file_path: The path to analyze.
+    :type file_path: pathlib.Path
     :param path: The path to collect (deprecated).
 
     .. versionchanged:: 7.0.0
@@ -507,6 +510,7 @@ def pytest_pycollect_makemodule(
     Stops at first non-None result, see :ref:`firstresult`.
 
     :param module_path: The path of the module to collect.
+    :type module_path: pathlib.Path
     :param path: The path of the module to collect (deprecated).
 
     .. versionchanged:: 7.0.0
@@ -1026,6 +1030,7 @@ def pytest_report_header(  # type:ignore[empty-body]
 
     :param config: The pytest config object.
     :param start_path: The starting dir.
+    :type start_path: pathlib.Path
     :param startdir: The starting dir (deprecated).
 
     .. note::
@@ -1069,6 +1074,7 @@ def pytest_report_collectionfinish(  # type:ignore[empty-body]
 
     :param config: The pytest config object.
     :param start_path: The starting dir.
+    :type start_path: pathlib.Path
     :param startdir: The starting dir (deprecated).
     :param items: List of pytest items that are going to be executed; this list should not be modified.
 

src/_pytest/main.py

@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ def from_parent(  # type: ignore[override]
 
         :param parent: The parent collector of this Dir.
         :param path: The directory's path.
-        :type path: :ref:`python:pathlib.Path`
+        :type path: pathlib.Path
         """
         return super().from_parent(parent=parent, path=path)
 

tox.ini

@@ -92,7 +92,11 @@ commands =
     # the '-t changelog_towncrier_draft' tags makes sphinx include the draft
     # changelog in the docs; this does not happen on ReadTheDocs because it uses
     # the standard sphinx command so the 'changelog_towncrier_draft' is never set there
-    sphinx-build -W --keep-going -b html doc/en doc/en/_build/html -t changelog_towncrier_draft {posargs:}
+    sphinx-build \
+      -j auto \
+      -W --keep-going \
+      -b html doc/en doc/en/_build/html \
+      -t changelog_towncrier_draft {posargs:}
 setenv =
     # Sphinx is not clean of this warning.
     PYTHONWARNDEFAULTENCODING=