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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+    sphinx.util.compat
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+    modules for backward compatibility
+
+    :copyright: Copyright 2007-2018 by the Sphinx team, see AUTHORS.
+    :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details.
+"""
+
+import sys
+
+
+if False:
+    # For type annotation
+    from typing import Any, Dict  # NOQA
+    from sphinx.application import Sphinx  # NOQA
+
+
+def register_application_for_autosummary(app):
+    # type: (Sphinx) -> None
+    """Register application object to autosummary module.
+
+    Since Sphinx-1.7, documenters and attrgetters are registered into
+    applicaiton object.  As a result, the arguments of
+    ``get_documenter()`` has been changed.  To keep compatibility,
+    this handler registers application object to the module.
+    """
+    if 'sphinx.ext.autosummary' in sys.modules:
+        from sphinx.ext import autosummary
+        autosummary._app = app
+
+
+def setup(app):
+    # type: (Sphinx) -> Dict[unicode, Any]
+    app.connect('builder-inited', register_application_for_autosummary)
+
+    return {
+        'version': 'builtin',
+        'parallel_read_safe': True,
+        'parallel_write_safe': True,
+    }