Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment:
This issue is essentially a duplicate of #12092. For the OP there, the stall
happens because something on Gnome pops up a configuration GUI and, I presume,
waits for response. I am thinking now that 'modules' is simply a bad idea and
should be removed or severely changed to only list and not execute. There is no
telling *what* might be on the search path.
I noted there that there are two issues: documenting help() better, and
changing the behavior of help('modules') and that there is least a behavior
bug. I am only leaving this issue open because of the report of IDLE crashing -
which does not happen on Win7, 3.2. I know nothing of how IDLE executes on *nix
and whether there is anything that might be done to at least exit more
gracefully.
We might make this the 'change code' issue, though if code is change, some of
the proposed doc change will become obsolete.
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superseder: -> Clarify sentence in tutorial
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