Bug#852026: mate_invest: causes "Could not load the stocks" error in pydoc -k

[Steve Cotton]

Package: mate-applets
Version: 1.16.0-1
Severity: normal

Doing a keyword search with pydoc results in an error message from the mate-invest applet's
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mate_invest/__init__.py

$ pydoc -k datetime
datetime - Fast implementation of the datetime type.
2017-01-20 20:47:57.285987: ERROR: Could not load the stocks from /home/steve/.config/mate/invest-applet/stocks.pickle: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/steve/.config/mate/invest-applet/stocks.pickle'
zope.interface.common.idatetime - Datetime interfaces.
zope.interface.common.tests.test_idatetime - Test for datetime interfaces

$ pydoc -k any_search_term
2017-01-20 20:48:11.117224: ERROR: Could not load the stocks from /home/steve/.config/mate/invest-applet/stocks.pickle: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/steve/.config/mate/invest-applet/stocks.pickle'

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mate-applets depends on:
ii  gir1.2-mate-panel          1.16.0-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.22.0-1
ii  gvfs                       1.30.3-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.22.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.24-9
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.14.8-1
ii  libcairo2                  1.14.8-1
ii  libcpufreq0                008-1
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.10.14-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.108-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.36.4-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.50.2-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.22.7-1
ii  libgtksourceview-3.0-1     3.22.2-1
ii  libgtop-2.0-10             2.34.2-1
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.9-1+b1
ii  libiw30                    30~pre9-12
ii  libmate-panel-applet-4-1   1.16.0-1
ii  libmateweather1            1.16.1-2
ii  libnotify4                 0.7.7-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.40.3-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.40.3-3
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0      0.105-17
ii  libsm6                     2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  libupower-glib3            0.99.4-4
ii  libwnck-3-0                3.20.1-2
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.4-2
ii  libxml2                    2.9.4+dfsg1-2.1
ii  mate-applets-common        1.16.0-1
ii  mate-panel                 1.16.0-1
ii  python                     2.7.13-1
ii  python-gi                  3.22.0-2

Versions of packages mate-applets recommends:
ii  cpufrequtils         008-1
ii  mate-media           1.16.0-1
ii  mate-polkit          1.16.0-2
ii  mate-system-monitor  1.16.0-1

mate-applets suggests no packages.

Versions of packages python2.7 depends on:
ii  libpython2.7-stdlib  2.7.13-2
ii  mime-support         3.60
ii  python2.7-minimal    2.7.13-2

python2.7 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages python2.7 suggests:
ii  binutils       2.27.90.20170118-1
pn  python2.7-doc  <none>

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