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r73529 | r.david.murray | 2009-06-23 14:02:46 -0400 (Tue, 23 Jun 2009) | 4 lines
Fix issue 5230 by having pydoc's safeimport check to see if the import
error was thrown from itself in order to decide if the module can't be
found. Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for collaborating on the fix and tests.
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Library
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+- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated
+ a 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
+ Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
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- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when annonymous.