[Pythonmac-SIG] python help() problems

George Wright georgewr at bigpond.net.au
Fri Dec 19 22:14:20 CET 2008


Gidday
I continue to have problems with python 2.5.1 and python2.4 on OSX  
10.5.5
I can't access help() > modules Here is the complete error report for  
2.5

geomacbk:~ georgewr$ python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 15 2008, 22:57:26)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> help()

Welcome to Python 2.5!  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://www.python.org/doc/tut/.

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

Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules...

Leopard libedit detected.
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/ 
pkgutil.py:110: DeprecationWarning: twisted.flow is unmaintained.
   __import__(name)
/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/Twisted-8.1.0-py2.5-macosx-10.5- 
i386.egg/twisted/words/im/__init__.py:8: UserWarning: twisted.im will  
be undergoing a rewrite at some point in the future.
   warnings.warn("twisted.im will be undergoing a rewrite at some  
point in the future.")
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/ 
python2.5/site.py", line 348, in __call__
     return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds)
   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/ 
python2.5/pydoc.py", line 1647, in __call__
     self.interact()
   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/ 
python2.5/pydoc.py", line 1665, in interact
     self.help(request)
   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/ 
python2.5/pydoc.py", line 1681, in help
     elif request == 'modules': self.listmodules()
   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/ 
python2.5/pydoc.py", line 1802, in listmodules
     ModuleScanner().run(callback)
   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/ 
python2.5/pydoc.py", line 1853, in run
     for importer, modname, ispkg in pkgutil.walk_packages():
   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/ 
python2.5/pkgutil.py", line 110, in walk_packages
     __import__(name)
   File "/usr/local/lib/wxPython-unicode-2.8.9.1/lib/python2.5/site- 
packages/wxaddons/__init__.py", line 29, in <module>
     config = wx.Config("wxaddons")
   File "//usr/local/lib/wxPython-unicode-2.8.9.1/lib/python2.5/site- 
packages/wx-2.8-mac-unicode/wx/_misc.py", line 3298, in __init__
     _misc_.Config_swiginit(self,_misc_.new_Config(*args, **kwargs))
wx._core.PyNoAppError: The wx.App object must be created first!
 >>>
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I also have an error on python2.4 help()

help> modules
Bus error
geomacbk:~ georgewr$
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Any assistance appreciated.

George Wright
georgewr at bigpond.net.au
http://mywebsite.bigpond.net.au/georgewr/
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~gwright






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