[New-bugs-announce] [issue11831] "python -w" causes "no Python documentation found" error when the path is not current directory

[Susam Pal]

New submission from Susam Pal <susam at susam.in>:

Steps to reproduce:

susam at nifty:~/pydoc-test$ tree ../pydoc-subject/
../pydoc-subject/
|-- calc
|   |-- formulae.py
|   `-- __init__.py
|-- config.py
|-- default.conf
|-- main.py
`-- spal.conf

1 directory, 6 files

susam at nifty:~/pydoc-test$ pydoc -w ../pydoc-subject/
no Python documentation found for 'calc'
no Python documentation found for 'config'
no Python documentation found for 'main'

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 133557
nosy: susam
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: "python -w" causes "no Python documentation found" error when the path is not current directory
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2

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