Linklint is a Sphinx extension to suppress excessive links in the Python documentation.

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Linklint is a new Sphinx extension created to suppress excessive hyperlinks in Python documentation. It targets two specific cases: links within a section pointing back to the same section, and repeated links to the same target within a single paragraph. The extension works by analyzing the Sphinx doctree during the build process without modifying source .rst files. It is already running in the CPython documentation, where it eliminated 3,612 redundant links. The author also considered suppressing 'obvious' links (e.g., every mention of 'str' linking to its docs) but held off due to disagreements on what counts as obvious and the lack of a Sphinx syntax to force-keep a link when the extension would otherwise suppress it.