[Tutor] PyDoc problem

[Christian Meesters]

Hi,

PyDoc is working well, if invoked without flags on the modul in  
question. But when I use it with '-w' to produce html-output, I get an  
extremely long Traceback after a runtime of an hour or two. Here is a  
short part from it:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/pydoc", line 4, in ?
      pydoc.cli()
    File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/pydoc.py", line 2117, in cli
      writedoc(arg)
    File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/pydoc.py", line 1383, in writedoc
      page = html.page(describe(object), html.document(object, name))
    File  
"/Users/maxwell/Packages/SciPy_complete-0.3.2/build/lib.darwin-7.7.0- 
Power_Macintosh-2.3/scipy_base/ppimport.py", line 397, in  
_scipy_pydoc_Doc_document
    File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/pydoc.py", line 283, in document
      if inspect.ismodule(object): return self.docmodule(*args)
  <snip>
    File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/repr.py", line 49, in repr_list
      s = s + self.repr1(x[i], level-1)
    File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/pydoc.py", line 319, in repr1
      return self.escape(cram(stripid(repr(x)), self.maxother))
    File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/pydoc.py", line 111, in stripid
      if re.search(pattern, repr(Exception)):
    File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/sre.py", line 137, in search
      return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string)
  RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

What's going wrong? When I ask Pydoc to write html documentation for  
other modules there is no problem at all. It just works fine. And this  
traceback tell me nothing about my module, only about PyDoc. For it  
matters: I'm stuck with Python2.3 for compatibility reasons in this  
project and the module I'd like to see documented uses scipy and it is  
not really a small module anymore (about 1000 lines, including  
docstrings and comments).
Anybody an idea how I can force PyDoc to produce html output on this  
module?

TIA
Christian