New submission from Palm Kevin <kevin.p...@labsolution.lu>: The interactive help-method provided by python crashes when no stdin-stream is available (sys.stdin == None). Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "MyScript", line 4, in <module> File "C:\Python32\lib\site.py", line 457, in __call__ return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds) File "C:\Python32\lib\pydoc.py", line 1748, in __call__ self.help(request) File "C:\Python32\lib\pydoc.py", line 1795, in help else: doc(request, 'Help on %s:', output=self._output) File "C:\Python32\lib\pydoc.py", line 1537, in doc pager(render_doc(thing, title, forceload)) File "C:\Python32\lib\pydoc.py", line 1345, in pager pager = getpager() File "C:\Python32\lib\pydoc.py", line 1352, in getpager if not sys.stdin.isatty() or not sys.stdout.isatty(): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'isatty'
I think that this situation should be handled: - either by raising a clear error message indicating that help cannot be displayed because Python is executing in a non-interactive mode - either by simply printing documentation to stdout (like this: "print(sys.__doc__)") ---------- messages: 132474 nosy: palm.kevin priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: help-method crashes if sys.stdin is None _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11709> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com