Ben Okopnik <b...@okopnik.com> added the comment: Whoops... with all of that, I just realized that this bug should be filed against pkgutil, not pydoc (pydoc, of course, calls pkgutil to do the path resolution, which is where this crash occurs.) My bad.
>>> import pkgutil >>> inst = pkgutil.ImpImporter(path='/tmp') >>> list(inst.iter_modules()) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python3.1/pkgutil.py", line 209, in iter_modules for fn in os.listdir(path): OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/orbit-gdm' ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11914> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com