New submission from Ben Okopnik <b...@okopnik.com>:
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 unreadable
subdirs:
ben@Jotunheim:~$ mkdir /tmp/foo; cd /tmp/foo
ben@Jotunheim:/tmp/foo$ mkdir bar; sudo chmod 000 bar
[sudo] password for ben:
ben@Jotunheim:/tmp/foo$ pydoc modules
Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pydoc2.6", line 5, in <module>
pydoc.cli()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pydoc.py", line 2309, in cli
help.help(arg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pydoc.py", line 1765, in help
elif request == 'modules': self.listmodules()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pydoc.py", line 1886, in listmodules
ModuleScanner().run(callback, onerror=onerror)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pydoc.py", line 1937, in run
for importer, modname, ispkg in pkgutil.walk_packages(onerror=onerror):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pkgutil.py", line 105, in walk_packages
for importer, name, ispkg in iter_modules(path, prefix):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pkgutil.py", line 147, in iter_modules
for name, ispkg in iter_importer_modules(i, prefix):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pkgutil.py", line 211, in iter_modules
for fn in os.listdir(path):
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: './bar'
Proposed patch:
Seems like an easy fix. In Python 3.1.2, change line 206 in
/usr/lib/python3.1/pkgutil.py from
if not modname and os.path.isdir(path) and '.' not in fn:
to
if not modname and os.path.isdir(path) and '.' not in fn and os.access(path,
os.R_OK):
Other versions much the same (although the specified line number will probably
be different.)
Best regards,
Ben Okopnik
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components: Demos and Tools
messages: 134323
nosy: okopnik
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: pydoc modules/help('modules') crash in dirs with unreadable subdirs
type: crash
versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python
3.3, Python 3.4
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