pydoc blew up when I tried to view doc for pytools module, which is an egg: pydoc -p 8082 pydoc server ready at http://localhost:8082/ ---------------------------------------- Exception happened during processing of request from ('127.0.0.1', 52915) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/SocketServer.py", line 222, in handle_request self.process_request(request, client_address) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/SocketServer.py", line 241, in process_request self.finish_request(request, client_address) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/SocketServer.py", line 254, in finish_request self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/SocketServer.py", line 522, in __init__ self.handle() File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 316, in handle self.handle_one_request() File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 310, in handle_one_request method() File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py", line 1924, in do_GET self.send_document(describe(obj), html.document(obj, path)) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py", line 321, in document if inspect.ismodule(object): return self.docmodule(*args) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py", line 672, in docmodule contents.append(self.document(value, key, name, fdict, cdict)) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py", line 322, in document if inspect.isclass(object): return self.docclass(*args) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py", line 807, in docclass lambda t: t[1] == 'method') File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py", line 735, in spill funcs, classes, mdict, object)) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py", line 323, in document if inspect.isroutine(object): return self.docroutine(*args) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py", line 891, in docroutine getdoc(object), self.preformat, funcs, classes, methods) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py", line 79, in getdoc result = inspect.getdoc(object) or inspect.getcomments(object) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/inspect.py", line 521, in getcomments lines, lnum = findsource(object) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/inspect.py", line 510, in findsource if pat.match(lines[lnum]): break IndexError: list index out of range ----------------------------------------