BUG: Under Py27 use the UTF-8 for ZERO WIDTH SPACE

Author: pvanmulbregt

numpydoc/docscrape.py

@@ -251,6 +251,11 @@ def _parse_param_list(self, content):
                            r"`(?P<name>(?:~\w+\.)?[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+)`|"
                            r" (?P<name2>[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+))\s*", re.X)
 
+    if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
+        zerowidthspace = '\u200B'
+    else:
+        zerowidthspace = '\xE2\x80\x8B'
+
     def _parse_see_also(self, content):
         """
         func_name : Descriptive text
@@ -484,7 +489,8 @@ def _str_see_also(self, func_role):
                 last_had_desc = True
             else:
                 last_had_desc = False
-                out += self._str_indent(['\u200B'])
+                out += self._str_indent([self.zerowidthspace])
+
         if last_had_desc:
             out += ['']
         out += ['']

numpydoc/tests/test_docscrape.py

@@ -332,7 +332,12 @@ def _strip_blank_lines(s):
 
 
 def line_by_line_compare(a, b):
-    a = textwrap.dedent(a).replace(u'\u200B', '')
+    if sys.version_info.major >= 3:
+        zerowidthspace = '\u200B'
+    else:
+        zerowidthspace = '\xE2\x80\x8B'
+
+    a = textwrap.dedent(a).replace(zerowidthspace, '')
     b = textwrap.dedent(b)
     a = [l.rstrip() for l in _strip_blank_lines(a).split('\n')]
     b = [l.rstrip() for l in _strip_blank_lines(b).split('\n')]