Your message dated Sun, 11 May 2014 12:10:35 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: python2.4 : help(encodings) -> IndexError: list index out of range has caused the Debian Bug report #411767, regarding python2.4 : help(encodings) -> IndexError: list index out of range to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: python2.4 Version: 2.4.4-2 Severity: normal trying to get help on the encodings module result in a exception. here is a sample session Python 2.4.4 (#2, Jan 13 2007, 17:50:26) [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import encodings >>> help(encodings) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site.py", line 339, in __call__ return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1656, in __call__ self.help(request) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1700, in help else: doc(request, 'Help on %s:') File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1483, in doc pager(title % desc + '\n\n' + text.document(object, name)) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 303, in document if inspect.ismodule(object): return self.docmodule(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1083, in docmodule contents.append(self.document(value, key, name)) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 305, in document if inspect.isroutine(object): return self.docroutine(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1262, in docroutine doc = getdoc(object) or '' File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 75, in getdoc result = inspect.getdoc(object) or inspect.getcomments(object) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/inspect.py", line 448, in getcomments lines, lnum = findsource(object) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/inspect.py", line 437, in findsource if pat.match(lines[lnum]): break IndexError: list index out of range it seems that at this point, linecache.getlines("encodings/__init__.py") gives the lines from the file /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cairo/__init__.py while the lnum variable is correct. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.19batchyx4.0 Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages python2.4 depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdb4.4 4.4.20-8 Berkeley v4.4 Database Libraries [ ii libncursesw5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline5 5.2-2 GNU readline and history libraries ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8c-4 SSL shared libraries ii mime-support 3.39-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii python2.4-minimal 2.4.4-2 A minimal subset of the Python lan python2.4 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Apparently this has been fixed in later python versions (e.g. it does not happen on 2.7), thus closing this issue. Thank you for your bug report. -- ,''`. Christian Hofstaedtler <[email protected]> : :' : Debian Developer `. `' 7D1A CFFA D9E0 806C 9C4C D392 5C13 D6DB 9305 2E03 `-
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