[New-bugs-announce] [issue14367] try/except block in ismethoddescriptor() in inspect.py, so that pydoc works with pygame in Python 3.2

[Dave Burton]

New submission from Dave Burton <ncdave4life at gmail.com>:

I noticed that pydoc doesn't work for pygame under python 3.2.1 or 3.2.2 for Win32; it just reports:

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

With that patch, pydoc works with pygame, and reports just a few pygame issues:
*scrap* = <pygame.MissingModule object>
*sndarray* = <pygame.MissingModule object>
*surfarray* = <pygame.MissingModule object>

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components: Library (Lib)
files: inspect.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 156314
nosy: ncdave4life
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: try/except block in ismethoddescriptor() in inspect.py, so that pydoc works with pygame in Python 3.2
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24935/inspect.diff

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