[Distutils] Whose problem is this?

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I noticed that some easy_installed packages don't seem to support online
help in my environment at work (Solaris 10/x86, Python 2.4.2).  Here's an
example:

    % python
    Python 2.4.2 (#1, Feb 23 2006, 12:48:31)
    [GCC 3.4.1] on sunos5
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import sqlalchemy
    >>> sqlalchemy.__file__
    '/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.3.3-py2.4.egg/sqlalchemy/__init__.pyc'
    >>> help(sqlalchemy)
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
      File "/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/site.py", line 328, in __call__
        return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds)
      File "/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1647, in __call__
        self.help(request)
      File "/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1691, in help
        else: doc(request, 'Help on %s:')
      File "/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1475, in doc
        pager(title % desc + '\n\n' + text.document(object, name))
      File "/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 295, in document
        if inspect.ismodule(object): return self.docmodule(*args)
      File "/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/pydoc.py", line 1052, in docmodule
        for file in os.listdir(object.__path__[0]):
    OSError: [Errno 20] Not a directory:
    '/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.3.3-py2.4.egg/sqlalchemy'

Online help for setuptools itself works fine though.

Is that a pydoc problem, a Python problem, an easy_install problem or what?
I get the same result when I try to get help about Elixir.

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