Avoid using the default reST role. Makes Doc/tools/rstlint.py happy.

Doc/documenting/building.rst

@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ installed Python and Subversion, you can just run ::
    cd Doc
    make html
 
-to check out the necessary toolset in the `tools/` subdirectory and build the
-HTML output files.  To view the generated HTML, point your favorite browser at
-the top-level index `build/html/index.html` after running "make".
+to check out the necessary toolset in the :file:`tools/` subdirectory and build
+the HTML output files.  To view the generated HTML, point your favorite browser
+at the top-level index :file:`build/html/index.html` after running "make".
 
 Available make targets are:
 
@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@ Available make targets are:
 
  * "pydoc-topics", which builds a Python module containing a dictionary with
    plain text documentation for the labels defined in
-   `tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py` -- pydoc needs these to show topic and
+   :file:`tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py` -- pydoc needs these to show topic and
    keyword help.
 
-A "make update" updates the Subversion checkouts in `tools/`.
+A "make update" updates the Subversion checkouts in :file:`tools/`.
 
 
 Without make

Doc/library/struct.rst

@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ structs and the intended conversion to/from Python values.
    alignment is taken into account when unpacking.  This behavior is chosen so
    that the bytes of a packed struct correspond exactly to the layout in memory
    of the corresponding C struct.  To handle platform-independent data formats
-   or omit implicit pad bytes, use `standard` size and alignment instead of
-   `native` size and alignment: see :ref:`struct-alignment` for details.
+   or omit implicit pad bytes, use ``standard`` size and alignment instead of
+   ``native`` size and alignment: see :ref:`struct-alignment` for details.
 
 Functions and Exceptions
 ------------------------

Doc/library/unittest.rst

@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ as the start directory.
 
     Test discovery loads tests by importing them. Once test discovery has
     found all the test files from the start directory you specify it turns the
-    paths into package names to import. For example `foo/bar/baz.py` will be
+    paths into package names to import. For example :file:`foo/bar/baz.py` will be
     imported as ``foo.bar.baz``.
 
     If you have a package installed globally and attempt test discovery on
@@ -905,11 +905,11 @@ Test cases
    +---------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+------------+
    | Method                                                  | Checks that                          | New in     |
    +=========================================================+======================================+============+
-   | :meth:`assertRaises(exc, fun, *args, **kwds)            | ``fun(*args, **kwds)`` raises `exc`  |            |
+   | :meth:`assertRaises(exc, fun, *args, **kwds)            | ``fun(*args, **kwds)`` raises *exc*  |            |
    | <TestCase.assertRaises>`                                |                                      |            |
    +---------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+------------+
-   | :meth:`assertRaisesRegexp(exc, re, fun, *args, **kwds)  | ``fun(*args, **kwds)`` raises `exc`  | 2.7        |
-   | <TestCase.assertRaisesRegexp>`                          | and the message matches `re`         |            |
+   | :meth:`assertRaisesRegexp(exc, re, fun, *args, **kwds)  | ``fun(*args, **kwds)`` raises *exc*  | 2.7        |
+   | <TestCase.assertRaisesRegexp>`                          | and the message matches *re*         |            |
    +---------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+------------+
 
    .. method:: assertRaises(exception, callable, *args, **kwds)
@@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ Test cases
    | <TestCase.assertItemsEqual>`          | works with unhashable objs     |              |
    +---------------------------------------+--------------------------------+--------------+
    | :meth:`assertDictContainsSubset(a, b) | all the key/value pairs        | 2.7          |
-   | <TestCase.assertDictContainsSubset>`  | in `a` exist in `b`            |              |
+   | <TestCase.assertDictContainsSubset>`  | in *a* exist in *b*            |              |
    +---------------------------------------+--------------------------------+--------------+
 
 

Doc/library/urllib2.rst

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ The :mod:`urllib2` module defines the following functions:
    :mimetype:`application/x-www-form-urlencoded` format.  The
    :func:`urllib.urlencode` function takes a mapping or sequence of 2-tuples and
    returns a string in this format. urllib2 module sends HTTP/1.1 requests with
-   `Connection:close` header included.
+   ``Connection:close`` header included.
 
    The optional *timeout* parameter specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking
    operations like the connection attempt (if not specified, the global default