--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -286,4 +286,4 @@
 
 
 # Example configuration for intersphinx: refer to the Python standard library.
-intersphinx_mapping = {'http://docs.python.org/': None}
+intersphinx_mapping = {'python': ('http://docs.python.org/', None)}