Cannot Read MySQLdb docs within Python interpreter

Con conradwt at gmail.com
Mon May 26 10:09:27 EDT 2008


Hi, I'm gettting a traceback when I attempt to read the MySQLdb docs
after installation on Mac OS X 10.5.2:

BEGIN TRACEBACK:

>>> help( "MySQLdb" )
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
python2.5/site.py", line 346, in __call__
    return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
python2.5/pydoc.py", line 1645, in __call__
    self.help(request)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
python2.5/pydoc.py", line 1687, in help
    elif request: doc(request, 'Help on %s:')
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
python2.5/pydoc.py", line 1481, in doc
    pager(title % desc + '\n\n' + text.document(object, name))
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
python2.5/pydoc.py", line 324, in document
    if inspect.ismodule(object): return self.docmodule(*args)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
python2.5/pydoc.py", line 1072, in docmodule
    contents.append(self.document(value, key, name))
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
python2.5/pydoc.py", line 325, in document
    if inspect.isclass(object): return self.docclass(*args)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
python2.5/pydoc.py", line 1196, in docclass
    lambda t: t[1] == 'method')
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
python2.5/pydoc.py", line 1146, in spill
    name, mod, object))
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
python2.5/pydoc.py", line 326, in document
    if inspect.isroutine(object): return self.docroutine(*args)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
python2.5/pydoc.py", line 1257, in docroutine
    doc = getdoc(object) or ''
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
python2.5/pydoc.py", line 82, in getdoc
    result = inspect.getdoc(object) or inspect.getcomments(object)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
python2.5/inspect.py", line 521, in getcomments
    lines, lnum = findsource(object)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
python2.5/inspect.py", line 510, in findsource
    if pat.match(lines[lnum]): break
IndexError: list index out of range

END TRACEBACK:

If anyone has any ideas as to how to resolve this issue, please feel
free to post the solution and thanks in advance.

-Conrad





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