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-rwxr-xr-xLib/pdb.py3
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_pdb.py21
-rw-r--r--Misc/ACKS1
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-01-20-10-35-10.bpo-46434.geS-aP.rst2
4 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/pdb.py b/Lib/pdb.py
index 9432111..7ab50b4 100755
--- a/Lib/pdb.py
+++ b/Lib/pdb.py
@@ -1493,6 +1493,9 @@ class Pdb(bdb.Bdb, cmd.Cmd):
self.error('No help for %r; please do not run Python with -OO '
'if you need command help' % arg)
return
+ if command.__doc__ is None:
+ self.error('No help for %r; __doc__ string missing' % arg)
+ return
self.message(command.__doc__.rstrip())
do_h = do_help
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pdb.py b/Lib/test/test_pdb.py
index d4c037d..6ac1a4a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pdb.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pdb.py
@@ -1463,6 +1463,27 @@ def bœr():
self.assertNotIn(b'SyntaxError', stdout,
"Got a syntax error running test script under PDB")
+ def test_issue46434(self):
+ # Temporarily patch in an extra help command which doesn't have a
+ # docstring to emulate what happens in an embeddable distribution
+ script = """
+ def do_testcmdwithnodocs(self, arg):
+ pass
+
+ import pdb
+ pdb.Pdb.do_testcmdwithnodocs = do_testcmdwithnodocs
+ """
+ commands = """
+ continue
+ help testcmdwithnodocs
+ """
+ stdout, stderr = self.run_pdb_script(script, commands)
+ output = (stdout or '') + (stderr or '')
+ self.assertNotIn('AttributeError', output,
+ 'Calling help on a command with no docs should be handled gracefully')
+ self.assertIn("*** No help for 'testcmdwithnodocs'; __doc__ string missing", output,
+ 'Calling help on a command with no docs should print an error')
+
def test_issue13183(self):
script = """
from bar import bar
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 9292bdc..7f9166c 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -1668,6 +1668,7 @@ Evgeny Sologubov
Cody Somerville
Anthony Sottile
Edoardo Spadolini
+Tom Sparrow
Geoffrey Spear
Clay Spence
Stefan Sperling
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-01-20-10-35-10.bpo-46434.geS-aP.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-01-20-10-35-10.bpo-46434.geS-aP.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6000781
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-01-20-10-35-10.bpo-46434.geS-aP.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+:mod:`pdb` now gracefully handles ``help`` when :attr:`__doc__` is missing,
+for example when run with pregenerated optimized ``.pyc`` files.