[Python-Dev] inspect.py change for pygame

[Brian Curtin]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 23:13, ncdave4life <ncdave4life at gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed that pydoc doesn't work for pygame under python 3.2.1 for Win32:
>
> NotImplementedError: scrap module not available (ImportError: No module
> named scrap)
>
> I made a small patch to inspect.py to solve the problem (I just added a
> try/expect around the failing statement in ismethoddescriptor).   Here's the
> diff:
> http://www.burtonsys.com/python32/inspect.diff
> http://www.burtonsys.com/python32/inspect.diff
>
> With that patch, pydoc works with pygame, and reports just a few issues:
> *scrap* = <pygame.MissingModule object>
> *sndarray* = <pygame.MissingModule object>
> *surfarray* = <pygame.MissingModule object>
>
> Sorry, I'm a newbie to python-dev, so please forgive my ignorance, but what
> do I need to do get this fix (or something similar) into a future release?

Patches to fix Python should be posted to http://bugs.python.org/.
>From there they'll be classified, reviewed, and if all is well,
committed. It's much easier for patches to be tracked on there instead
of email.