diff --git a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py
index 185fffb60d3..e4727e3a656 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py
+++ b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py
@@ -45,7 +45,11 @@ def issue_role(typ, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner, options={}, content=[]):
 from pprint import pformat
 from docutils.io import StringOutput
 from docutils.utils import new_document
-from sphinx.builder import Builder
+
+try:
+    from sphinx.builders import Builder
+except ImportError:
+    from sphinx.builder import Builder
 
 try:
     from sphinx.writers.text import TextWriter