Closes #22537: Make sphinx extensions compatible with Python 2 or 3, like in the 3.x branches
diff --git a/Doc/tools/pyspecific.py b/Doc/tools/pyspecific.py
index 30178eb..8f0d090 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/pyspecific.py
+++ b/Doc/tools/pyspecific.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
     Sphinx extension with Python doc-specific markup.
 
-    :copyright: 2008-2013 by Georg Brandl.
+    :copyright: 2008-2014 by Georg Brandl.
     :license: Python license.
 """
 
@@ -14,11 +14,10 @@
 
 from docutils import nodes, utils
 
-import sphinx
 from sphinx.util.nodes import split_explicit_title
+from sphinx.util.compat import Directive
 from sphinx.writers.html import HTMLTranslator
 from sphinx.writers.latex import LaTeXTranslator
-from sphinx.locale import versionlabels
 
 # monkey-patch reST parser to disable alphabetic and roman enumerated lists
 from docutils.parsers.rst.states import Body
@@ -27,18 +26,6 @@
     Body.enum.converters['lowerroman'] = \
     Body.enum.converters['upperroman'] = lambda x: None
 
-if sphinx.__version__[:3] < '1.2':
-    # monkey-patch HTML translator to give versionmodified paragraphs a class
-    def new_visit_versionmodified(self, node):
-        self.body.append(self.starttag(node, 'p', CLASS=node['type']))
-        text = versionlabels[node['type']] % node['version']
-        if len(node):
-            text += ': '
-        else:
-            text += '.'
-        self.body.append('<span class="versionmodified">%s</span>' % text)
-    HTMLTranslator.visit_versionmodified = new_visit_versionmodified
-
 # monkey-patch HTML and LaTeX translators to keep doctest blocks in the
 # doctest docs themselves
 orig_visit_literal_block = HTMLTranslator.visit_literal_block
@@ -88,8 +75,6 @@
 
 # Support for marking up implementation details
 
-from sphinx.util.compat import Directive
-
 class ImplementationDetail(Directive):
 
     has_content = True
@@ -140,41 +125,6 @@
         return PyClassmember.run(self)
 
 
-# Support for documenting version of removal in deprecations
-
-from sphinx.locale import versionlabels
-from sphinx.util.compat import Directive
-
-versionlabels['deprecated-removed'] = \
-    'Deprecated since version %s, will be removed in version %s'
-
-class DeprecatedRemoved(Directive):
-    has_content = True
-    required_arguments = 2
-    optional_arguments = 1
-    final_argument_whitespace = True
-    option_spec = {}
-
-    def run(self):
-        node = addnodes.versionmodified()
-        node.document = self.state.document
-        node['type'] = 'deprecated-removed'
-        version = (self.arguments[0], self.arguments[1])
-        node['version'] = version
-        if len(self.arguments) == 3:
-            inodes, messages = self.state.inline_text(self.arguments[2],
-                                                      self.lineno+1)
-            node.extend(inodes)
-            if self.content:
-                self.state.nested_parse(self.content, self.content_offset, node)
-            ret = [node] + messages
-        else:
-            ret = [node]
-        env = self.state.document.settings.env
-        env.note_versionchange('deprecated', version[0], node, self.lineno)
-        return ret
-
-
 # Support for building "topic help" for pydoc
 
 pydoc_topic_labels = [
@@ -231,13 +181,14 @@
             document.append(doctree.ids[labelid])
             destination = StringOutput(encoding='utf-8')
             writer.write(document, destination)
-            self.topics[label] = str(writer.output)
+            self.topics[label] = writer.output
 
     def finish(self):
-        f = open(path.join(self.outdir, 'topics.py'), 'w')
+        f = open(path.join(self.outdir, 'topics.py'), 'wb')
         try:
-            f.write('# Autogenerated by Sphinx on %s\n' % asctime())
-            f.write('topics = ' + pformat(self.topics) + '\n')
+            f.write('# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n'.encode('utf-8'))
+            f.write(('# Autogenerated by Sphinx on %s\n' % asctime()).encode('utf-8'))
+            f.write(('topics = ' + pformat(self.topics) + '\n').encode('utf-8'))
         finally:
             f.close()
 
@@ -295,7 +246,6 @@
     app.add_role('issue', issue_role)
     app.add_role('source', source_role)
     app.add_directive('impl-detail', ImplementationDetail)
-    app.add_directive('deprecated-removed', DeprecatedRemoved)
     app.add_builder(PydocTopicsBuilder)
     app.add_builder(suspicious.CheckSuspiciousMarkupBuilder)
     app.add_description_unit('opcode', 'opcode', '%s (opcode)',