[issue15175] pydoc -k zip throws segmentation fault

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Yeah, pydoc will walk and import all installed Python modules, which may trigger various kinds of issues with buggy third-party stuff. Note that in 2.x, extension modules compiled with different fundamental options (such as debug/non-debug) aren't differentiat

[issue15175] pydoc -k zip throws segmentation fault

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[issue15175] pydoc -k zip throws segmentation fault

R. David Murray added the comment: Ned: since it is a core dump, I doubt the patch for ignoring exceptions during import will fix this. Note that 'pyg_register_boxed' is not a string that appears in the python source, so it is pretty certainly a third party extension module that is segfaulti

[issue15175] pydoc -k zip throws segmentation fault

Ned Deily added the comment: Which version of Python 2.7.x are you running? If it is less than Python 2.7.3, this is likely a duplicate of Issue7425, the fix for which improved the robustness of pydoc -k as of 2.7.3. -- nosy: +ned.deily ___ Python

[issue15175] pydoc -k zip throws segmentation fault

R. David Murray added the comment: This works fine for me. It is almost certain to be a case of something on your pythonpath crashing when pydoc imports it while looking for things that match the keyword. There is unfortunately no way to bullet proof pydoc against this. -- nosy: +r.

[issue15175] pydoc -k zip throws segmentation fault

New submission from Shanker : user@test:~/learn/python$ pydoc -k zip zipimport - zipimport provides support for importing Python modules from Zip archives. gzip - Functions that read and write gzipped files. lib2to3.fixes.fix_itertools - Fixer for itertools.(imap|ifilter|izip) --> (map|filter|z