Revert "Doc: Show object descriptions in the table of contents (#125757)"

[hugovk]

This reverts commit 91ddde4.

Revert PR #125757 from October.

Re: https://discuss.python.org/t/summary-tables-as-an-api-overview/68474/37, https://discuss.python.org/t/summary-tables-as-an-api-overview/68474/53 etc.

The changes are a bit too extensive, so let's revert so this can be reworked later.

Before:

• https://docs.python.org/3.14/library/index.html
• https://docs.python.org/3.14/library/datetime.html

After:

• https://cpython-previews--128406.org.readthedocs.build/en/128406/library/index.html
• https://cpython-previews--128406.org.readthedocs.build/en/128406/library/datetime.html

cc @AA-Turner @willingc @pfmoore

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[AA-Turner]

Sorry for not managing to get to this -- we would like to include objects descriptions in the 'local toc' (per-page) but not the 'global toc'.

A

[miss-islington-app]

Thanks @hugovk for the PR, and @AA-Turner for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.12, 3.13.
🐍🍒⛏🤖

[bedevere-app]

GH-128413 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.13 branch.

[bedevere-app]

GH-128414 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.12 branch.

[jnrbsn]

Sorry for not managing to get to this -- we would like to include objects descriptions in the 'local toc' (per-page) but not the 'global toc'.

A

@AA-Turner I would also like to see object descriptions on pages for individual modules. Is anyone working on that, or did this just get abandoned? I really liked having all the functions/methods listed in the sidebar. It made it easy to quickly find something, especially if I didn't know the exact name of the thing I was looking for. Here are some examples that are definitely worse without all the objects listed:

With object descriptions:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20241231220845/https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20241231125150/https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html

Without object descriptions:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20250102181732/https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20250102224233/https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html