Somewhere between python 2.7 and now the definition of a method changed causing this helper method in pydoc to break. This was discovered in http://bugs.python.org/issue17464 by r.david.murray when he found it curious that a test I wrote was passing. I had assumed the implemented behavior was correct.

Attached is a patch that ads in an updated version of that test with a fix to the bug. The method updated is only used in that one place as is indicated as private. So it only gets in classes. I went ahead and updated the param to reflect this.

Looks like you uploaded the wrong patch file.

Additional note: while pydoc itself does not use the allmethods method (which is doubtless why the bug wasn't found previously), I found through google that numpy at least uses it.  So it does need to be fixed.

Yes! Sorry.

New changeset 0a9b42de49d5 by R David Murray in branch '3.2':
#17476: make allmethods actually return all methods.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0a9b42de49d5

New changeset 7127fbc363bb by R David Murray in branch '3.3':
#17476: make allmethods actually return all methods.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7127fbc363bb

New changeset ee1376c15e2e by R David Murray in branch 'default':
Merge: #17476: make allmethods actually return all methods.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ee1376c15e2e

Thanks, Matt.

I figured out a way to make the test *somewhat* less fragile.

Oh, and that helper method really is operating on an object, not a class, so I changed the paramter name back (and added inspect.builtin...which Python2 didn't have, but I figure as long as we are fixing it we might as well fix it to get *all* the methods).