Hi Paul, works great and within a seond, if I just uncomment the scipy imports. This was easy, but without your help I still would stare at my screen and think it's hopeless.
Thanks, Christian On 23 Sep 2005, at 13:18, paul brian wrote: > THis sounds like a recursive import, which frankly should not happen > but perhaps pydoc imports differently to the standard. Or it is trying > to document the entire scipy framework, rather than just your module > > try firstly moving the module alone to directory foo and ensuring you > are calling only that module > >> pydoc -w mymodule > > Perhaps also try uncommenting imports at the top of the file (ie # > import scipy) to see if that helps. > > > > On 9/23/05, Christian Meesters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> PyDoc is working well, if invoked without flags on the modul in >> question. But when I use it with '-w' to produce html-output, I get an >> extremely long Traceback after a runtime of an hour or two. Here is a >> short part from it: >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/usr/bin/pydoc", line 4, in ? >> pydoc.cli() >> File >> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ >> python2.3/pydoc.py", line 2117, in cli >> writedoc(arg) >> File >> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ >> python2.3/pydoc.py", line 1383, in writedoc >> page = html.page(describe(object), html.document(object, name)) >> File >> "/Users/maxwell/Packages/SciPy_complete-0.3.2/build/lib.darwin-7.7.0- >> Power_Macintosh-2.3/scipy_base/ppimport.py", line 397, in >> _scipy_pydoc_Doc_document >> File >> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ >> python2.3/pydoc.py", line 283, in document >> if inspect.ismodule(object): return self.docmodule(*args) >> <snip> >> File >> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ >> python2.3/repr.py", line 49, in repr_list >> s = s + self.repr1(x[i], level-1) >> File >> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ >> python2.3/pydoc.py", line 319, in repr1 >> return self.escape(cram(stripid(repr(x)), self.maxother)) >> File >> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ >> python2.3/pydoc.py", line 111, in stripid >> if re.search(pattern, repr(Exception)): >> File >> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ >> python2.3/sre.py", line 137, in search >> return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string) >> RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded >> >> What's going wrong? When I ask Pydoc to write html documentation for >> other modules there is no problem at all. It just works fine. And this >> traceback tell me nothing about my module, only about PyDoc. For it >> matters: I'm stuck with Python2.3 for compatibility reasons in this >> project and the module I'd like to see documented uses scipy and it is >> not really a small module anymore (about 1000 lines, including >> docstrings and comments). >> Anybody an idea how I can force PyDoc to produce html output on this >> module? >> >> TIA >> Christian >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >> > > > -- > -------------------------- > Paul Brian > m. 07875 074 534 > t. 0208 352 1741 > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
