I’m using the PV 5.10.0 installed version from the download site and when I try to use help() on anything I get the following:
Python 3.9.5 (default, Dec 22 2021, 22:21:42)
[GCC 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Module readline not available.
>>> help(int)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/acbauer/Code/ParaView/ParaView-5.10.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86_64/bin/../lib/python3.9/_sitebuiltins.py", line 102, in __call__
import pydoc
File "/home/acbauer/Code/ParaView/ParaView-5.10.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86_64/lib/python3.9/pydoc.py", line 458, in <module>
class Doc:
File "/home/acbauer/Code/ParaView/ParaView-5.10.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86_64/lib/python3.9/pydoc.py", line 488, in Doc
def getdocloc(self, object, basedir=sysconfig.get_path('stdlib')):
File "/home/acbauer/Code/ParaView/ParaView-5.10.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86_64/lib/python3.9/sysconfig.py", line 524, in get_path
return get_paths(scheme, vars, expand)[name]
File "/home/acbauer/Code/ParaView/ParaView-5.10.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86_64/lib/python3.9/sysconfig.py", line 514, in get_paths
return _expand_vars(scheme, vars)
File "/home/acbauer/Code/ParaView/ParaView-5.10.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86_64/lib/python3.9/sysconfig.py", line 175, in _expand_vars
_extend_dict(vars, get_config_vars())
File "/home/acbauer/Code/ParaView/ParaView-5.10.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86_64/lib/python3.9/sysconfig.py", line 564, in get_config_vars
_init_posix(_CONFIG_VARS)
File "/home/acbauer/Code/ParaView/ParaView-5.10.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86_64/lib/python3.9/sysconfig.py", line 430, in _init_posix
_temp = __import__(name, globals(), locals(), ['build_time_vars'], 0)
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_sysconfigdata__linux_x86_64-linux-gnu'
I’m getting similar behavior for the PV 5.9 installed version but not PV 5.8 version.
Note that this is on a RHEL7 machine.