[issue1194] The reduce() documentation is lost in Python 3.0a1

New submission from Fan Decheng: The reduce() documentation is lost in Python 3.0a1. In the documentation, functools.reduce() points onto itself, so no further explanation can be found. -- components: Documentation messages: 56103 nosy: r_mosaic severity: minor status: open title: The re

[issue1193] os.system() encoding bug on Windows

Fan Decheng added the comment: Steps to reproduce: 1. Use a Windows, with system default encoding to cp936 (Chinese PRC, or Simplified Chinese) in Regional Options. 2. Open Python 3.0 (command line). 3. Type: import os import sys os.system(("echo " + sys.stdin.readline().rstrip("\n")).encode("cp

[issue1193] os.system() encoding bug on Windows

New submission from Fan Decheng: Python 3.0 uses utf-8 encoding, but os.system() when running on Windows uses the system default encoding, which may be "cp936" or "mbcs". They are incompatible. -- components: Library (Lib) messages: 56101 nosy: r_mosaic severity: major status: open titl

[issue1192] Python 3 documents crash Firefox

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Why do you think this is a bug in Python? If Firefox crashes, isn't this rather a bug in Firefox? Please report it at bugzilla.mozilla.com. Closing as third-party bug. -- nosy: +loewis resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed versions: +3rd party

[issue1192] Python 3 documents crash Firefox

New submission from Robert T McQuaid: I downloaded python-3.0a1.msi for Windows XP and after install converted the documentation from chm format to html with the hh.exe utility in XP. The resulting files crashed Firefox version 2.0 (it slowly chokes to death in a dozen operations), but worked fin

[issue1160] Medium size regexp crashes python

Fredrik Lundh added the comment: Well, I'm not sure 81k qualifies as "medium sized", really. If you look at the size distribution for typical RE:s (which are usually handwritten, not machine generated), that's one or two orders of magnitude larger than "medium". (And even if this was guaranteed

[issue1182] Paticular decimal mod operation wrongly output NaN.

Hirokazu Yamamoto added the comment: I tracked down, and I noticed following code was invoked. Lib/decimal.py (release-maint25 Decimal#_rescale) 1912: if watchexp and digits > context.prec: 1913: return context._raise

[issue1130] Idle - Save (buffer) - closes IDLE and does not save file (Windows XP)

New submission from Tal Einat: The saving bug is a string/bytes issue, simply fixed by replaced line 366 in Lib\idlelib\IOBinding.py with: chars = chars.replace(b"\n", self.eol_convention.encode('ASCII')) -- nosy: +taleinat __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[issue1727780] 64/32-bit issue when unpickling random.Random

Changes by Martin v. Löwis: -- assignee: -> loewis severity: normal -> major _ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _ ___ Python-bugs-list ma