[issue7367] pkgutil.walk_packages fails on write-only directory in sys.path

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 17b5afd321a8 by Ned Deily in branch '2.7': Issue #7367: Ensure test directory always gets removed. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/17b5afd321a8 New changeset ff72f76dcf43 by Ned Deily in branch '3.2': Issue #7367: Ensure test directory always gets

[issue7367] pkgutil.walk_packages fails on write-only directory in sys.path

Ned Deily added the comment: The applied changesets correct pkgutil's walk_packages for "classic" imports to ignore unreadable directories the same way that the interpreter's import does. With this fix to pkgutil, pydoc -k also no longer fails in this case. Applied in 2.7 (for 2.7.3), 3.2 (

[issue7367] pkgutil.walk_packages fails on write-only directory in sys.path

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 096b010ae90b by Ned Deily in branch '2.7': Issue #7367: Add test case to test_pkgutil for walking path with http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/096b010ae90b New changeset 1449095397ae by Ned Deily in branch '2.7': Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths t

[issue7367] pkgutil.walk_packages fails on write-only directory in sys.path

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[issue7367] pkgutil.walk_packages fails on write-only directory in sys.path

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[issue7367] pkgutil.walk_packages fails on write-only directory in sys.path

Ned Deily added the comment: More precisely: you should check for and remove whatever is adding "Drop Box" or a directory within it to your Python sys.path. -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue7367] pkgutil.walk_packages fails on write-only directory in sys.path

Ned Deily added the comment: >I initially came across the error when attempting to get a modules list >and was returned a list of errors. One of them was the [errno 13]. OK, now that makes more sense! The problem is that somehow you had a write-only directory ("~/Public/Drop Box") on your pyt