[issue32488] Fatal error using pydoc

[Ned Deily]

Ned Deily  added the comment:

Glad you solved the immediate problem.  Under the covers, pydoc (either pydoc2 
or pydoc3) tries to import all the modules associated with the interpreter 
instance it's running under - from the Python standard library plus any 
additional vendor-supplied modules and and any you install (with pip et al).  
It seems likely that the Python 2 instance associated with the "pydoc" on your 
shell path (not "pydoc3" and Python 3) has at least one broken module 
installed.  It may be a case of a third-party module being compiled against one 
version of Python 2.7 (say, a Homebrew version) and being executed with another 
(say the Apple-supplied system Python 2.7).  See, for example, 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35640529/what-does-fatal-python-error-pythreadstate-get-no-current-thread-mean

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resolution:  -> works for me
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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[issue32488] Fatal error using pydoc

[Dave Opstad]

Dave Opstad  added the comment:

I think this was my mistake; when I used pydoc3 instead of pydoc it ran to 
completion. Please feel free to close this; sorry for the noise.

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[issue32488] Fatal error using pydoc

[R. David Murray]

Change by R. David Murray :


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nosy: +ned.deily, ronaldoussoren

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[issue32488] Fatal error using pydoc

[Dave Opstad]

New submission from Dave Opstad :

I'm running 3.6.4 on Mac OS X 10.13.2, bash shell. Doing:

$ pydoc modules

causes:

Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules...

Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread
Abort trap: 6

Reproduced this several times with the same result.

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components: Demos and Tools
messages: 309422
nosy: opstad
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Fatal error using pydoc
type: crash
versions: Python 3.6

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