Bugs item #1438537, was opened at 2006-02-25 09:41
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by splitscreen
You can respond by visiting:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1438537&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread,
including the initial issue submission, for this request,
not just the latest update.
Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: A. Coder (hauptbeuteltier)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: modules search in help() crashes on insufficient file perms
Initial Comment:
In the python interpreter, in the interactive online
help, typing <code>modules <keyword></code>
throws a permission denied error (Errno 13) and dumps
the user back to the main interpreter if the user has
insufficient permission to read any .py file from the
site-packages directory.
Example:
~:$ ls -l /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pygtk.py
-rw-r----- 1 root root 2619 2005-02-20 14:18
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pygtk.py
~:$ python
>>> help()
help> modules html
Here is a list of matching modules. Enter any module
name to get more help.
HTMLParser - A parser for HTML and XHTML.
htmlentitydefs - HTML character entity references.
htmllib - HTML 2.0 parser.
markupbase - Shared support for scanning document type
declarations in HTML and XHTML.
pydoc - Generate Python documentation in HTML or text
for interactive use.
test.test_htmllib
test.test_htmlparser - Tests for HTMLParser.py.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site.py", line 328, in __call__
return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1650, in
__call__
self.interact()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1668, in
interact
self.help(request)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1686, in help
self.listmodules(split(request)[1])
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1790, in
listmodules
apropos(key)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1900, in apropos
ModuleScanner().run(callback, key)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1886, in run
desc = synopsis(path) or ''
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 182, in synopsis
file = open(filename)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/tageditor.py'
>>>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Comment By: splitscreen (splitscreen)
Date: 2006-02-28 15:54
Message:
Logged In: YES
user_id=1126061
Yeah, I've modified it to tell the user which file caused
the problem.
Want the patch posting to the Patch Manager?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Comment By: Grant Olson (logistix)
Date: 2006-02-26 23:32
Message:
Logged In: YES
user_id=699438
That patch sounds pretty-much right, but I think it should
print some feedback to stderr instead of silently swallowing
the exception.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Comment By: splitscreen (splitscreen)
Date: 2006-02-25 12:34
Message:
Logged In: YES
user_id=1126061
Could this just be silently skipped? i.e returning None if
the user does not have the corrept permissions to access a
particular file?
Just wrap the 'file = open(filename)' in pydoc.py: line 182
in a try: except block returning None if there's an error
(such as permission denied).
I have written a patch I can supply if anyone wants it and
if this is the Right Thing To Do (TM).
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Comment By: A. Coder (hauptbeuteltier)
Date: 2006-02-25 09:44
Message:
Logged In: YES
user_id=1420716
My apologies. The tageditor.py file had the same permissions
for my test as pygtk.py. The particular file is irrelevant
in this case, it only matters that a user has insufficient
permissions for any file in the site-packages directory.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You can respond by visiting:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1438537&group_id=5470
_______________________________________________
Python-bugs-list mailing list
Unsubscribe:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
