Merged revisions 83385-83389,83391 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r83385 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 08:42:45 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8773: mailbox.py does not need to be executable.
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  r83386 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 08:44:46 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8768: name test method properly so that it gets executed.
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  r83387 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 08:53:28 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8735: better explain semantics of *values* argument for parse().
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  r83388 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 09:48:43 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #7395: fix traceback in do_add() when no stats are loaded.  Apply same fix for do_sort() and do_reverse().
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  r83389 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 09:57:47 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Small improvements to pstats browser: do not crash on reading invalid file, and actually do a reload when executing "read" as intended.
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  r83391 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 10:10:08 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Add another news entry.
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diff --git a/Lib/pstats.py b/Lib/pstats.py
index 3e6e994..a61e93d 100644
--- a/Lib/pstats.py
+++ b/Lib/pstats.py
@@ -596,7 +596,10 @@
             print("  that match it are printed.", file=self.stream)
 
         def do_add(self, line):
-            self.stats.add(line)
+            if self.stats:
+                self.stats.add(line)
+            else:
+                print("No statistics object is loaded.", file=self.stream)
             return 0
         def help_add(self):
             print("Add profile info from given file to current statistics object.", file=self.stream)
@@ -631,22 +634,33 @@
                 except IOError as err:
                     print(err.args[1], file=self.stream)
                     return
+                except Exception as err:
+                    print(err.__class__.__name__ + ':', err, file=self.stream)
+                    return
                 self.prompt = line + "% "
             elif len(self.prompt) > 2:
-                line = self.prompt[-2:]
+                line = self.prompt[:-2]
+                self.do_read(line)
             else:
                 print("No statistics object is current -- cannot reload.", file=self.stream)
             return 0
         def help_read(self):
             print("Read in profile data from a specified file.", file=self.stream)
+            print("Without argument, reload the current file.", file=self.stream)
 
         def do_reverse(self, line):
-            self.stats.reverse_order()
+            if self.stats:
+                self.stats.reverse_order()
+            else:
+                print("No statistics object is loaded.", file=self.stream)
             return 0
         def help_reverse(self):
             print("Reverse the sort order of the profiling report.", file=self.stream)
 
         def do_sort(self, line):
+            if not self.stats:
+                print("No statistics object is loaded.", file=self.stream)
+                return
             abbrevs = self.stats.get_sort_arg_defs()
             if line and not filter(lambda x,a=abbrevs: x not in a,line.split()):
                 self.stats.sort_stats(*line.split())
@@ -668,11 +682,16 @@
             self.generic_help()
 
         def do_strip(self, line):
-            self.stats.strip_dirs()
-            return 0
+            if self.stats:
+                self.stats.strip_dirs()
+            else:
+                print("No statistics object is loaded.", file=self.stream)
         def help_strip(self):
             print("Strip leading path information from filenames in the report.", file=self.stream)
 
+        def help_help(self):
+            print("Show help for a given command.", file=self.stream)
+
         def postcmd(self, stop, line):
             if stop:
                 return stop