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The test added as part of fixing #65747 includes a chmod call that appears to be unrelated to the problem that was reported.

Part of the triage of that issue included the observation that the problem could be reproduced by removing execute permissions from a directory. However, this appears to be unrelated to the reported problem.

By removing the execute permission from the directory, the module is converted into a namespace package - at which point, it can't have a docstring. However, you can also validate empty docstring handling by... having a module without a docstring. Which is what the test implements.

Adding to the confusion - the test only removes user execute permissions. Group and Global execute permissions are retained. The original report removed all execute permissions, not just user execute permissions; so the test isn't reproducing the triage example. The only explanation I can think of for this is that the buildbots run with a umask of 0o77, which means removing user execute permissions is effectively equivalent to chmod a-x... but it won't be for anyone who isn't running under buildbot.

This PR removes the chmod call, which also allows for removing the workaround for Emscripten.

Thanks to @hoodmane for help diagnosing what was going on here.

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!buildbot emscripten

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🤖 New build scheduled with the buildbot fleet by @freakboy3742 for commit 15b6a15 🤖

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@ambv ambv merged commit 04c4628 into python:main Sep 22, 2025
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Thanks @freakboy3742 for the PR, and @ambv for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.14.
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miss-islington pushed a commit to miss-islington/cpython that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2025
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Remove unnecessary chmod from pydoc.apropos() test.
(cherry picked from commit 04c4628)

Co-authored-by: Russell Keith-Magee <[email protected]>
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bedevere-app bot commented Sep 22, 2025

GH-139242 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.14 branch.

@bedevere-app bedevere-app bot removed the needs backport to 3.14 bugs and security fixes label Sep 22, 2025
self.assertEqual(out.getvalue(), '')
self.assertEqual(err.getvalue(), '')

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Looks like this decorator was missed; it shouldn't be necessary anymore.

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Good call - see #139267.

@freakboy3742 freakboy3742 deleted the remove-unneeded-chmod branch September 23, 2025 08:55
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