Issue 1153: help(pickle) fails: unorderable types: type() < type() (original) (raw)

Python 3.0a1 (py3k, Sep 8 2007, 15:57:56) [GCC 4.2.1 20070719 (release) (PLD-Linux)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import pickle help(pickle) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/site.py", line 350, in call return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/pydoc.py", line 1685, in call self.help(request) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/pydoc.py", line 1729, in help else: doc(request, 'Help on %s:') File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/pydoc.py", line 1512, in doc pager(render_doc(thing, title, forceload)) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/pydoc.py", line 1490, in render_doc return title % desc + '\n\n' + text.document(object, name) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/pydoc.py", line 319, in document if inspect.ismodule(object): return self.docmodule(*args) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/pydoc.py", line 1076, in docmodule contents.append(self.document(value, key, name)) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/pydoc.py", line 320, in document if inspect.isclass(object): return self.docclass(*args) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/pydoc.py", line 1210, in docclass lambda t: t[1] == 'data') File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/pydoc.py", line 1173, in spilldata name, mod, maxlen=70, doc=doc) + '\n') File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/pydoc.py", line 1295, in docother repr = self.repr(object) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/repr.py", line 24, in repr return self.repr1(x, self.maxlevel) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/pydoc.py", line 954, in repr1 return getattr(self, methodname)(x, level) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/repr.py", line 78, in repr_dict for key in islice(sorted(x), self.maxdict): TypeError: unorderable types: type() < type()