Issue 1348477: pydoc seems to run some scripts! (original) (raw)

This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/42552

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Created on 2005-11-04 17:10 by olly, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg26798 - (view)	Author: Olly Betts (olly)	Date: 2005-11-04 17:10
Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" Linux 2.6.10 Python 2.4.2 Running pydoc on some scripts (for example regextest.py as supplied with python) just seems to hang: pydoc /usr/share/doc/python2.4/examples/Demo/comparisons/regextest.py Feeding it EOF (Ctrl-D) makes it actually generate documentation and exit. But as well as showing the documentation, I get output which appears to be the script actually having run with itself as an argument!
msg26799 - (view)	Author: Bob Ippolito (bob.ippolito) *	Date: 2005-11-08 02:45
Logged In: YES user_id=139309 Some scripts are broken, this one is missing a check to see if it's a script or a module: if __name__ == "__main__": main()
msg26800 - (view)	Author: Olly Betts (olly)	Date: 2005-11-08 11:09
Logged In: YES user_id=14972 So I guess this is a bug report for that missing check in regextest.py in the python distribution. Is running a script which is missing this check an inherent feature of how pydoc works then?
msg26801 - (view)	Author: Bob Ippolito (bob.ippolito) *	Date: 2005-11-08 16:13
Logged In: YES user_id=139309 pydoc imports modules, it doesn't run scripts. It just so happens that regextest isn't written correctly and does things it shouldn't do when imported. You should file a new bug on regextest.py, or at least change the summary accordingly... but a new bug would end up in the summary again, and would be more likely to be fixed.
msg26802 - (view)	Author: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz) *	Date: 2005-11-09 07:09
Logged In: YES user_id=33168 I'm feeling generous tonight. :-) Thanks for the report. I updated regextest program. Committed revision 41414. Committed revision 41415. (2.4)