Issue 14680: pydoc with -w option does not work for a lot of help topics (original) (raw)

Issue14680

Created on 2012-04-26 22:11 by gregor.hoch, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin.

Messages (3)
msg159428 - (view)	Author: Gregor (gregor.hoch)	Date: 2012-04-26 22:11
pydoc with pydoc with -w option (to write html files) does not work for a lot of help topics (e.g. EXPRESSIONS, FORMATTING, TUPLELITERALS, def, if, else...) If you look at the source you can see that when using the switch '-w' (http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/pydoc.py#l2311) pydoc uses the function writedoc, otherwise to the class Helper (http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/pydoc.py#l2325). In the Helper-class EXPRESSIONS is defined under line 1666 (http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/pydoc.py#l1666). The function writedoc does not utilize this nor does it use the Helper class. For dicussion see: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10333615/1318686 Example: pydoc EXPRESSIONS works perfectly fine but pydoc -w EXPRESSIONS does not.
msg162569 - (view)	Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) *	Date: 2012-06-10 01:20
Thanks for the report. Are you interested in making a patch? Also, could you tell if the bug happens in 3.2?
msg200594 - (view)	Author: Sunny K (sunfinite) *	Date: 2013-10-20 15:56
This issue is present in 3.4 too. Added patch for 3.4.