[issue28908] pydoc getdocloc() is broken

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[issue28908] pydoc getdocloc() is broken

R. David Murray added the comment: It is possible that we only care about this for release builds. I don't think maintain a hard-coded, hand-coded list is a good idea, regardless. There might be some way to generate it at build time, though. -- nosy: +r.david.murray

[issue28908] pydoc getdocloc() is broken

Neil Schemenauer added the comment: Attached is a first pass at the idea of just keeping a list of standard modules that have docs. I generated the list with: $ (cd Doc/library; ls *.rst | sed 's/.rst//') Probably that should be incorporated into the Doc/Makefile somehow. Perhaps instead of

[issue28908] pydoc getdocloc() is broken

New submission from Neil Schemenauer: The getdocloc() method in pydoc.py is supposed to return the doc location for modules. It uses a 'basedir' parameter that is supposed to point to the location of the standard library modules. That logic is broken for a number of different scenarios, I thi