I noticed that some easy_installed packages don't seem to support online
help in my environment at work (Solaris 10/x86, Python 2.4.2). Here's an
example:
% python
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Feb 23 2006, 12:48:31)
[GCC 3.4.1] on sunos5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sqlalchemy
>>> sqlalchemy.__file__
'/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.3.3-py2.4.egg/sqlalchemy/__init__.pyc'
>>> help(sqlalchemy)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/site.py", line 328, in
__call__
return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds)
File "/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1647, in
__call__
self.help(request)
File "/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1691, in
help
else: doc(request, 'Help on %s:')
File "/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1475, in
doc
pager(title % desc + '\n\n' + text.document(object, name))
File "/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 295, in
document
if inspect.ismodule(object): return self.docmodule(*args)
File "/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1052, in
docmodule
for file in os.listdir(object.__path__[0]):
OSError: [Errno 20] Not a directory:
'/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.3.3-py2.4.egg/sqlalchemy'
Online help for setuptools itself works fine though.
Is that a pydoc problem, a Python problem, an easy_install problem or what?
I get the same result when I try to get help about Elixir.
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