Issue #18010: Fix pydoc GUI search to handle package exceptions
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index d7396f0..9316fff 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -2244,8 +2244,11 @@
if self.scanner:
self.scanner.quit = 1
self.scanner = ModuleScanner()
+ def onerror(modname):
+ pass
threading.Thread(target=self.scanner.run,
- args=(self.update, key, self.done)).start()
+ args=(self.update, key, self.done),
+ kwargs=dict(onerror=onerror)).start()
def update(self, path, modname, desc):
if modname[-9:] == '.__init__':
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c9dbb46..6f056b2 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #18010: Fix the pydoc GUI's search function to handle exceptions
+ from importing packages.
+
- Issue #25515: Always use os.urandom as a source of randomness in uuid.uuid4.
- Issue #21827: Fixed textwrap.dedent() for the case when largest common