[Python-3000] help() broken in the py3k-struni branch

[Alexandre Vassalotti]

On 6/5/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Feel free to mail me a patch to fix it.
>

Since you asked so politely, here a patch for you. :)

> On 6/5/07, Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre at peadrop.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I found another bug to report. It seems there is a bug in
> > subprocess.py that makes help() fail.
> >
> > -- Alexandre
> >
> > Python 3.0x (py3k-struni, Jun  5 2007, 18:41:44)
> > [GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > >>> help(open)
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> >   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/site.py", line 350,
> > in __call__
> >     return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds)
> >   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/pydoc.py", line
> > 1687, in __call__
> >     self.help(request)
> >   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/pydoc.py", line 1731, in help
> >     else: doc(request, 'Help on %s:')
> >   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/pydoc.py", line 1514, in doc
> >     pager(render_doc(thing, title, forceload))
> >   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/pydoc.py", line 1313, in pager
> >     pager(text)
> >   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/pydoc.py", line
> > 1333, in <lambda>
> >     return lambda text: pipepager(text, 'less')
> >   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/pydoc.py", line
> > 1352, in pipepager
> >     pipe = os.popen(cmd, 'w')
> >   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/os.py", line 717, in popen
> >     bufsize=buffering)
> >   File "/home/alex/src/python.org/py3k-struni/Lib/subprocess.py", line
> > 476, in __init__
> >     raise TypeError("bufsize must be an integer")
> > TypeError: bufsize must be an integer
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> --
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
>


-- 
Alexandre Vassalotti
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