New submission from Ben Okopnik :
Long-standing problem (happens in every Python version I've tested). The usual
situation is when invoking Python (and then "help('modules')") or "pydoc
modules" in /tmp, but also happens when located anywhere with unreadabl
Ben Okopnik added the comment:
Here's a test that should exercise every version of "pydoc" installed on the
system:
mkdir -p /tmp/foo/bar; cd /tmp/foo; chmod 0 bar
for n in `whereis -b pydoc`; do echo " $n "; $n modules; done
Tested under Ubuntu with bash
Ben Okopnik added the comment:
Trivial fix: please see attached. As to test_pydoc.py, I don't know the system
well enough to fiddle with it, but something like this should work (untested):
def test_unreadable_dir(self):
''' pydoc should handle unreadabl
Ben Okopnik added the comment:
Whoops... with all of that, I just realized that this bug should be filed
against pkgutil, not pydoc (pydoc, of course, calls pkgutil to do the path
resolution, which is where this crash occurs.) My bad.
>>> import pkgutil
>>> inst = pkguti
