retitle 671021 help() thinks that packages in /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages are from the standard library reassign 671021 package python2.7 clone 671021 -1 reassign -1 python3.2 thanks
Twas brillig at 11:42:10 01.05.2012 UTC+02 when dooms...@knuut.de did gyre and gimble: UE> If you import the pyinotify module and invoke "help(pyinotify)", you get the UE> following output: UE> | MODULE DOCS UE> | http://docs.python.org/library/pyinotify UE> This link doesn't exist, pyinotify is not (yet?) part of upstream's standard UE> library. >From /usr/lib/python2.7/pydoc.py: if (isinstance(object, type(os)) and (object.__name__ in ('errno', 'exceptions', 'gc', 'imp', 'marshal', 'posix', 'signal', 'sys', 'thread', 'zipimport') or (file.startswith(basedir) and not file.startswith(os.path.join(basedir, 'site-packages')))) and object.__name__ not in ('xml.etree', 'test.pydoc_mod')): if docloc.startswith("http://"): docloc = "%s/%s" % (docloc.rstrip("/"), object.__name__) else: docloc = os.path.join(docloc, object.__name__ + ".html") else: docloc = None Apparently pydoc needs to be fixed to take dist-packages into account, as pyinotify, as well as other packages installed there, gets misdetected as a part of standard library. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org