python packages versus pydoc -k

[Florian Festi]

On 03/14/2014 08:05 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Sorry, I should have tried pdb first, because this one has nothing to do
>> with rpm-python.  I can see modname='PyQt4.uic.pyuic', and prior to the
>> exception site is a line 'loader = importer.find_module(modname)', which
>> is where the None came from.  I can confirm this one in a clean mock
>> root with just PyQt4 added (and its dependencies).
>>
>> This one might be a bug in the way pydoc -k iterates, because I can't
>> even target that name directly:
>>
>> $ pydoc PyQt4.uic.pyuic
>> no Python documentation found for 'PyQt4.uic.pyuic'
>>
>> $ python -c 'import PyQt4.uic.pyuic'
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>> ImportError: No module named pyuic
>>
> 
> It seems that PyQt4/uic/pyuic.py is a symlink to /usr/bin/pyuic4, which is in PyQt4-devel. This means that the file is not importable when PyQt4-devel is not installed.
> IMO this is both:
> 1) packaging problem, since the symlink shouldn't be there if the file it points to isn't installed.
> 2) pydoc problem, because it should try/except broken and unimportable files
> 
> I opened a rhbz#1076346 for 1)
> And I'll try to figure out a good patch for upstream and send it there to fix 2)

Thanks for taking care of this, guys!

Florian