Python modules breaking python help() behaviour

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:49:13AM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> As seen in association with numpy:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467266
> 
> But poking at it a little bit, the module listing functionality seems
> to be broken by other modules. At least pygtk2 and possibly
> gnome-applets via different exceptions depending on situation from my
> own personal testing.

If it is so easy for lots of modules to break pydoc's help() function, 
then there also needs to be a bug filed against python itself to make
it robust against these problems.

Daniel
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