[issue2938] Interactive help writes to the python install destination directory

Fan Decheng report at bugs.python.org
Thu May 22 06:59:37 CEST 2008


New submission from Fan Decheng <fandecheng at gmail.com>:

Python 3.0a5 on Windows Vista SP1

I installed it to C:\Python30, and used NTFS permissions to protect the
files in the directory from being changed, also making the whole
directory read-only.  Thus, new files can't be created inside the directory.

Then:
1. Type help() in python.  Python goes into interactive help mode.
2. Type "modules fnmatch" in python.

Result:
Help quits with the following error:

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'C:\\Python30\\lib\\lib2to3\\tests\\..\\G
rammar3.0.0.alpha.5.pickle'

For detailed error info please see the attached text file.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: py3help_error.txt
messages: 67179
nosy: r_mosaic
severity: normal
status: open
title: Interactive help writes to the python install destination directory
type: crash
versions: Python 3.0
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file10395/py3help_error.txt

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