[issue1788] Outdated link in the tutorial

2008-01-11 Thread Christopher Yeleighton 

New submission from Christopher Yeleighton:

The page "About Python Tutorial"
<http://docs.python.org/tut/node20.html> incorrectly refers to the
Python Bug Tracker at SourceForge as
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470&func=add>. 
That page says "This tracker is CLOSED. Please use the new tracker
instead.".  The new tracker is… guess where?  At <http://bugs.python.org/>.

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nosy: spe-anatol
severity: minor
status: open
title: Outdated link in the tutorial
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.0

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[issue1789] incorrect assumption about unsigned long byte size

2008-01-11 Thread Christopher Yeleighton 

New submission from Christopher Yeleighton:

Text of section 11.3 "Working with Binary Data Record Layouts" at
<http://docs.python.org/tut/node13.html#SECTION001330>
incorrectly assumes that unsigned long is 4 bytes long (with pack codes
"H" and "L" representing two and four byte unsigned numbers
respectively).  It is may be a valid description of the author’s
environment, but it is invalid as a general statement and it creates the
wrong impression that the sample programme is portable and ready-to-go.

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messages: 59704
nosy: spe-anatol
severity: normal
status: open
title: incorrect assumption about unsigned long byte size
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.0

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[issue1789] incorrect assumption about unsigned long byte size

2008-01-23 Thread Christopher Yeleighton 

Christopher Yeleighton added the comment:

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct  5 2007, 13:50:07) 
[GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import struct
>>> g_f = open('/dev/null')
>>> struct.unpack('L', g_f.read(04))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/struct.py", line 87, in unpack
return o.unpack(s)
struct.error: unpack requires a string argument of length 8

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