New submission from Stefano Rivera <python@rivera.za.net>: Originally reported against pypy3 in Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pypy3/+bug/1920675 $ ./python Python 3.10.0a5+ (heads/master:ffa55d21b4, May 23 2021, 08:14:50) [GCC 10.2.1 20210110] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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import sys sys.path.append('/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/') help() ... help> modules

Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules... /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/IPython/kernel/__init__.py:12: ShimWarning: The `IPython.kernel` package has been deprecated since IPython 4.0.You should import from ipykernel or jupyter_client instead. warn("The `IPython.kernel` package has been deprecated since IPython 4.0." Expected Tk Togl installation in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/OpenGL/Tk/togl-linux-64 Failure loading Togl package: can't find package Togl, on debian systems this is provided by `libtogl2` ... Crypto brain_crypt hgext random ... Warnings should probably be suppressed during module importing in help. Any warnings emitted here are probably deprecation warnings or system configuration issues, not useful to a user trying to browse modules. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation, Library (Lib) messages: 394196 nosy: docs@python, stefanor priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: help() module listing displays import warnings from deprecated package modules type: behavior versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.11, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue44215> _______________________________________