[issue7015] Getting call trace while executing "modules spam" at help prompt

[Rishikesh K Rajak]

New submission from Rishikesh K Rajak <risrajak at linux.vnet.ibm.com>:

[root@ ~]# python
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Aug 21 2009, 12:23:57) 
[GCC 4.4.1 20090818 (Red Hat 4.4.1-6)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> help()

Welcome to Python 2.6!  This is the online help utility.

If this is your first time using Python, you should definitely check out
the tutorial on the Internet at http://docs.python.org/tutorial/.

Enter the name of any module, keyword, or topic to get help on writing
Python programs and using Python modules.  To quit this help utility and
return to the interpreter, just type "quit".

To get a list of available modules, keywords, or topics, type "modules",
"keywords", or "topics".  Each module also comes with a one-line summary
of what it does; to list the modules whose summaries contain a given word
such as "spam", type "modules spam".

help> modules spam

Here is a list of matching modules.  Enter any module name to get more help.


** (.:18352): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowState' as
flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'

** (.:18352): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowActions'
as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'

** (.:18352): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype
'WnckWindowMoveResizeMask' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'
Adding pauses to default speech formatting strings.
Adding pauses to Gecko speech formatting strings.
Adding pauses to soffice speech formatting strings.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py", line 433, in __call__
    return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/pydoc.py", line 1720, in __call__
    self.interact()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/pydoc.py", line 1738, in interact
    self.help(request)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/pydoc.py", line 1757, in help
    self.listmodules(split(request)[1])
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/pydoc.py", line 1862, in listmodules
    apropos(key)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/pydoc.py", line 1962, in apropos
    ModuleScanner().run(callback, key)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/pydoc.py", line 1927, in run
    for importer, modname, ispkg in pkgutil.walk_packages(onerror=onerror):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/pkgutil.py", line 110, in walk_packages
    __import__(name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gdb/__init__.py", line 19, in
<module>
    import gdb.command.require
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gdb/command/require.py", line
21, in <module>
    class RequireCommand (gdb.Command):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Command'
>>>

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assignee: georg.brandl
components: Documentation
messages: 93253
nosy: georg.brandl, rishikesh
severity: normal
status: open
title: Getting call trace while executing "modules spam" at help prompt
type: crash
versions: Python 2.6

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