Issue 21548: pydoc -k IndexError on empty docstring (original) (raw)

While trying to track down another bug, I disabled some packages:

[dima@bmg tmp]$ chmod a-x /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/speechd*

Then ran pydoc -k:

[dima@bmg tmp]$ pydoc3.4 -k n688954789 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pydoc3.4", line 5, in pydoc.cli() File "/usr/lib/python3.4/pydoc.py", line 2548, in cli apropos(val) File "/usr/lib/python3.4/pydoc.py", line 2080, in apropos ModuleScanner().run(callback, key, onerror=onerror) File "/usr/lib/python3.4/pydoc.py", line 2061, in run desc = (module.doc or '').splitlines()[0] IndexError: list index out of range

Clearly "".splitlines() is always empty; missing doc is not handled correctly.