[New-bugs-announce] [issue2141] Pydoc interactive browser misses some docs

[moreilcon]

New submission from moreilcon:

#no mention about formatdate at all:
% pydoc rfc822 | grep formatdate | wc -l
0
# but rfc822.formatdate docstring exists:
% pydoc rfc822.formatdate | wc -l
12
# also same behavior :
% pydoc codecs | getwriter | wc -l
0

Reproduced at:
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 09:20:17) 
[GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.2)] on linux2

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct  5 2007, 13:36:32)
[GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Feb 18 2008, 13:35:09)
[GCC 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD]] on freebsd7

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 62530
nosy: moreilcon
severity: normal
status: open
title: Pydoc interactive browser misses some docs
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5

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