Ned Deily n...@acm.org added the comment:
This problem has been fixed with the changes for Issue7367 and, for 2.7,
Issue7425. They should appear in 3.3.0, 3.2.3, and 2.7.3.
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resolution: - duplicate
stage: test needed - committed/rejected
status: open - closed
superseder: -
New submission from Martin von Gagern martin.vgag...@gmx.net:
I'd like to be able to run pydoc -b in whatever directory I'm currently in.
Most of the time that would be the root of my home directory, which is an
ext4fs mount. So it has a subdirectory called lost+found for which I don't
have
Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment:
Do any of you three have anything to do with pydoc?
Given that the manual simply says pydoc -b will start the server and
additionally open a web browser to a module index page. without
qualifications, quitting when started from certain
Martin von Gagern martin.vgag...@gmx.net added the comment:
The server continues all right. It's the browser window which displays the
error message. Not much better in my opinion, though.
To be completely accurate: currently the -b option doens't work as it should
due to issue #11432. But
Ned Deily n...@acm.org added the comment:
This is essentially a duplicate of Issue11914. The root cause is that
pkgutil.iter_modules doesn't deal with permission errors when traversing paths.
Issue7367 is also related.
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assignee: - ned.deily
nosy: +ned.deily
