let people using SVN Sphinx still build the docs
diff --git a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py
index 22ecaa2..00190f2 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py
+++ b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py
@@ -48,7 +48,11 @@
from docutils.io import StringOutput
from docutils.utils import new_document
from sphinx.builder import Builder
-from sphinx.writers.text import TextWriter
+
+try:
+ from sphinx.writers.text import TextWriter
+except ImportError:
+ from sphinx.textwriter import TextWriter
class PydocTopicsBuilder(Builder):
name = 'pydoc-topics'