[issue5163] tkinter.scrolledtext: new text is hidden after using insert()

New submission from David Schultz : I've added a "keep at bottom" option to the scrolledtext class. This way, if a user wants to always see the text added via "insert()", it will be visible. -- components: Tkinter messages: 81248 nosy: ringhome severity: normal status: open title: tki

[issue5162] multiprocessing cannot spawn child from a Windows service

New submission from Volodymyr Orlenko : I think I've found a small bug with multiprocessing package on Windows. If you try to start a multiprocessing.Process from a Python- based Windows service, the child process will fail to run. When running the parent process as a regular Python program, e

[issue3031] distutils package_dir/package_data failure

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: will test it on 2.6 (no more fixed for 2.4/2.5) -- assignee: -> tarek nosy: +tarek resolution: -> wont fix versions: +Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1 -Python 2.4 ___ Python tracker

[issue3386] [PATCH] distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument broken

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[issue4285] Use a named tuple for sys.version_info

Eric Smith added the comment: Committed in r69331 (trunk) and r69346 (py3k). -- resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue3992] removed custom log from distutils

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[issue3987] removed types from distutils.core [patch]

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[issue3986] removed string and type usage from distutils.cmd [patch]

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[issue3985] removed string module from distutils [patch]

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[issue2461] test_util.py for distutils

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[issue4015] [patch] make installed scripts executable on windows

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[issue4636] bdist_wininst installer with install script raises exception

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[issue4931] distutils does not show any error msg when can't build C module extensions due to a missing C compiler

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[issue1520877] Distutils bugfix: Read $AR from the environment/Makefile.

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[issue1520877] Distutils bugfix: Read $AR from the environment/Makefile.

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[issue4987] update distutils.README

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[issue5161] wrong paths for ctypes cleanup

New submission from Neil Schemenauer : The following code was added to Makefile.pre.in when ctypes was merged: find $(srcdir)/build -name 'fficonfig.h' -exec rm -f {} ';' || true find $(srcdir)/build -name 'fficonfig.py' -exec rm -f {} ';' || true If Python is compiled in a directory ot

[issue1276768] dirutils.mkpath (verbose option does not work)

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[issue4151] Separate build dir broken

Neil Schemenauer added the comment: Roumen, thanks for reporting the bug. It seems that distutils requires an absolute path (although I didn't waste time digging too deep into the issue). ___ Python tracker ___

[issue1276768] dirutils.mkpath (verbose option does not work)

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: done in r69324. Won't merge it in 2.6/3.0 -- versions: -Python 2.6, Python 3.0 ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue2636] Regexp 2.7 (modifications to current re 2.2.2)

Robert Xiao added the comment: In fact, it works for Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 3.0 from my rather limited testing. In Python 2.4: >>> u"\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A}" u'A' >>> u"\N{MUSICAL SYMBOL DOUBLE SHARP}" u'\U0001d12a' In Python 3.0: >>> "\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A}" 'A' >>> ord("\N{MUSICAL S

[issue2636] Regexp 2.7 (modifications to current re 2.2.2)

Matthew Barnett added the comment: Python 2.6 does (and probably Python 3.x, although I haven't checked): >>> u"\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A}" u'A' If it's good enough for Python's Unicode string literals then it's good enough for Python's re module. :-) ___

[issue2636] Regexp 2.7 (modifications to current re 2.2.2)

Russ Cox added the comment: > Named Unicode characters eg \N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A} These descriptions are not as stable as, say, Unicode code point values or language names. Are you sure it is a good idea to depend on them not being adjusted in the future? It's certainly nice and self-docume

[issue1276768] dirutils.mkpath (verbose option does not work)

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: I don't see the point of making mkpath and remove_tree more verbose than what they are now. log.info is called in both function and verbose is never used. So I guess the best way to activate verbose is to make its default value to 1 and change the code so log.inf

[issue2636] Regexp 2.7 (modifications to current re 2.2.2)

Bobby Xiao added the comment: I'm glad to see that the unmatched group issue is finally being addressed. Thanks! -- nosy: +nneonneo ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue5132] distutils: libpython not found when building python extensions on Solaris when Python was built with --enable-shared

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: fixed in r69316 Thanks for the patch -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-

[issue4151] Separate build dir broken

Roumen Petrov added the comment: The "clean build' mean missing subdirectory build in . Now module objects go in build/Modules/. I guess that second make succeed as libffi create build directory. ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5160] Intermittant segmentation fault with ctrl-c (threads and queues)

Corey Goldberg added the comment: little more info: If you create a Queue in the main thread and pass this to each worker thread, it works fine. If you create the Queue inside the worker thread and then pass it to a new thread, it can crash. when it crashes, you get an immediate core dump wi

[issue4151] Separate build dir broken

Roumen Petrov added the comment: May be not related to the commit but after clean make fail to build a number of modules, as example _bisect. Second run of make build all left. The value of srcdir (from Makefile) is ".." without quotes. About cleanup: one use of '(srcdir,)==...' left in setup

[issue4070] python tests failure if builddir <> sourcedir

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[issue4151] Separate build dir broken

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[issue4151] Separate build dir broken

Neil Schemenauer added the comment: I committed my proposed changes in several chunks, ending with r69305. I think building in a separate directory again works and that non-POSIX platforms are not adversely affected by this change. -- nosy: +nascheme resolution: -> fixed status: open

[issue4151] Separate build dir broken

Neil Schemenauer added the comment: I committed my proposed changes in several chunks, ending with r69305. I think building in a separate directory again works and that non-POSIX platforms are not adversely affected by this change. ___ Python tracker

[issue5152] Add a JSON-RPC module

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[issue4111] Add DTrace probes

John Levon added the comment: I haven't seen "shorter than expected" message before, sounds like a Mac OS X specific thing. As for never getting any probes out, this is where it gets fun. Debugging this is very tricky indeed: it involves you dropping into the kernel debugger and looking at the

[issue5160] Intermittant segmentation fault with ctrl-c (threads and queues)

New submission from Corey Goldberg : I can get the Python interpreter to core dump when running the following code: http://pastebin.com/f261f398f To reproduce: - run the above code and press ctrl-c to quit while it is running. It crashes (segfault) the interpreter every few times you stop it l

[issue5066] IDLE documentation for Unix obsolete/incorrect

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[issue5152] Add a JSON-RPC module

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > This is a reminder to me to submit a patch. Is it really necessary to use the public bug tracker for that? All other committers, as well as users, will see your reminder, and get bothered by this (non-)issue. ___ Python t

[issue5157] os.stat('foo') succeds if 'foo.exe' exists on cygwin

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Why do you think this is a bug in Python? It sounds like a bug in Cygwin to me? Python delegates to the C library as-is, with not attempt to second-guessing the C library. So if the C library says "file" exists, then this is also what Python must tell you. Cl

[issue5159] Indicating packages to be loaded when a Tcl interpreter is created in tkinter

Guilherme Polo added the comment: Attaching patch to show how ttk.py would be with this new module. Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12948/ttk_withdeploader.diff ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5159] Indicating packages to be loaded when a Tcl interpreter is created in tkinter

New submission from Guilherme Polo : Hi, It seems to me that it would be useful to add something to indicate which packages should be loaded, and how they should be loaded, when a Tcl interpreter is created through Tkinter.Tk. Right now every extension has to add some boilerplate code to load a

[issue5135] Expose simplegeneric function in functools module

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Even more inconveniently, the existence of unregister() on ABCs makes it difficult for the generic to cache the results of the isinstance() checks (you don't want to be going through the chain of registered ABCs every time calling isinstance(), since that would be

[issue1693050] \w not helpful for non-Roman scripts

Matthew Barnett added the comment: In issue #2636 I'm using the following: Alpha is Ll, Lo, Lt, Lu. Digit is Nd. Word is Ll, Lo, Lt, Lu, Mc, Me, Mn, Nd, Nl, No, Pc. These are what are specified at http://www.regular-expressions.info/posixbrackets.html -- nosy: +mrabarnett ___

[issue1519638] Unmatched Group issue - workaround

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[issue5157] os.stat('foo') succeds if 'foo.exe' exists on cygwin

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[issue4732] Object allocation stress leads to segfault on RHEL

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[issue763043] unable to specify another compiler

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[issue4732] Object allocation stress leads to segfault on RHEL

Farshad Khoshkhui added the comment: This happens for me on several debian and ubuntu machines with python 2.5 as well as 2.6 as I reported in #571885. I'll try your script and linking with tcmalloc and get back with results. -- nosy: +farshad ___ Py

[issue763043] unable to specify another compiler

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[issue1032] Improve the hackish runtime_library_dirs support for gcc

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[issue793069] Add --remove-source option

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[issue793069] Add --remove-source option

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[issue1032] Improve the hackish runtime_library_dirs support for gcc

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[issue1481347] parse_makefile doesn't handle $$ correctly

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[issue1371826] distutils is silent about multiple -I/-L/-R

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[issue5158] Document distutils 'depends' option for extensions

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[issue5158] Document distutils 'depends' option for extensions

New submission from Manuel Balsera : Add a paragraph describing distuils depends option. Its my first patch, let me know if I messed up formmating, etc. -- components: Distutils files: setupscript.diff keywords: patch messages: 81217 nosy: mbalsera severity: normal status: open title: D

[issue5152] Add a JSON-RPC module

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[issue2527] Pass a namespace to timeit

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[issue5157] os.stat('foo') succeds if 'foo.exe' exists on cygwin

New submission from Antoine Calando : On cygwin platform, with python cygwin package: Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Dec 2 2008, 09:26:14) When doing an os.stat('file') in a directory where no 'file' exists but a 'file.exe' do, the function return a stat object, as if the call was done on os.stat('

[issue5105] sqlite3.Row class, handling duplicate column names resulting from a SQL join

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[issue1835] Update version number in __init__.py

Thomas Heller added the comment: > The distutils version number is now updated automatically by the Python > release process, so the comment in that file can be removed. How does this mechanism work? I'm wondering if I should use a similar mechanism for the ctypes version number... --

[issue5135] Expose simplegeneric function in functools module

Paul Moore added the comment: Very good point. Registering for the standard ABCs seems like an important use case. Unfortunately, it seems to me that ABCs simply don't provide that capability - is there a way, for a given class, of listing all the ABCs it's registered under? Even if the order is

[issue5135] Expose simplegeneric function in functools module

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Hmm, there is such a thing as being *too* simple... a generic function implementation that doesn't even respect ABCs seems pretty pointless to me (e.g. I'd like to be able to register a default Sequence implementation for pprint and have all declared Sequences use

[issue5135] Expose simplegeneric function in functools module

Paul Moore added the comment: Agreed (in principle). However, in practice the subtleties of override order must be documented (and a method of implementation must be established!!!) Consider: >>> class A: ... pass ... >>> class C: ... __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta ... >>> class D: ...

[issue5031] Thread.daemon docs

Georg Brandl added the comment: Committed in r69301. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python

[issue4563] Wrong formatting of contributor list in About page

Georg Brandl added the comment: Fixed in r69300. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue4820] ctypes.util.find_library incorrectly documented

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, fixed in r69299. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue4827] optparse: Callback example 1 is confusing

Georg Brandl added the comment: You're right, I've fixed that in r69298. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue5015] The Py_SetPythonHome C API function is undocumented

Georg Brandl added the comment: Documented in r69297. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pytho

[issue2527] Pass a namespace to timeit

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[issue4760] cmp gone documentations

Georg Brandl added the comment: Seems to be gone now. -- resolution: -> out of date status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue4992] yield's documentation not updated

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, fixed in r69294. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue5059] Policy.DomainStrict in cookielib example code

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[issue5135] Expose simplegeneric function in functools module

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Failure to respect isinstance() should be fixed, not documented :) As far as registering existing functions goes, I also expect registering lambdas and functools.partial will be popular approaches, so keeping direct registration is a good idea. There isn't any am

[issue5066] IDLE documentation for Unix obsolete/incorrect

Georg Brandl added the comment: Well, having nice full docs for IDLE would be nice, but I won't do anything on this matter except committing a full patch :) -- assignee: georg.brandl -> ___ Python tracker

[issue5096] strange thing after call PyObject_CallMethod

Georg Brandl added the comment: Documented PyErr_PrintEx() in r69292. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue5107] built-in open(..., encoding=vague_default)

Georg Brandl added the comment: The device_encoding(buffer.fileno()) doesn't matter for open(), so I've documented that getpreferredencoding() is used in r69291. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue5145] struct.calcsize('cd') returns 16 instead of 9

STINNER Victor added the comment: The default endiand and alignment is "native". Using <, >, = or ! endian, the alignement is standard. Python 3.1a0 (py3k:69105M, Feb 3 2009, 15:04:35) >>> struct.calcsize('cd') 12 >>> struct.calcsize('=cd') 9 >>> struct.calcsize('

[issue5130] Obsolete reference to "unicode" in glossary

Georg Brandl added the comment: Fixed in r69290. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue5140] Some Built-in Functions entries in Library Manual are missing Permalinks

Georg Brandl added the comment: This is because these types are fully documented in the "standard types" section, and the entry in "functions" just serves a pointer. (And yes, this will happen to the remaining types too, at some point.) -- resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> close

[issue5144] PySys_SetArgv has wrong documentation

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, added docs in r69289. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue5145] struct.calcsize('cd') returns 16 instead of 9

Georg Brandl added the comment: The docs have this sentence: """ By default, C numbers are represented in the machine's native format and byte order, and properly aligned by skipping pad bytes if necessary (according to the rules used by the C compiler). """ What would you suggest be added? _

[issue901727] extra_path kwarg to setup() undocumented

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[issue5153] Extra ) in optparse sample

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, fixed in r69288. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue4137] update SIG web pages

Georg Brandl added the comment: As this is not a tracker for the website, closing is good, especially when we know it's being worked on. -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue5156] IDLE exits with UnicodeDecodeError on Ctrl+Space

New submission from Peter Harris : Using Python3.1 built from svn, on RedHat EL4, with Tcl/Tk 8.5 built from source. Traceback: -- File "/usr/mlocal/lib/python3.1/runpy.py", line 122, in _run_module_as_main "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name) File "/usr/mlocal/lib/python

[issue5141] C API for appending to arrays

Hrvoje Nikšić added the comment: Yes, and I use it in the second example, but the buffer interface doesn't really help with adding new elements into the array. ___ Python tracker ___

[issue4137] update SIG web pages

Paul Melis added the comment: The "archive" and "subscribe" links for the C++ SIG is incorrect, as the URL seems to have changed from http://mail.python.org/pipermail/c++-sig to http://mail.python.org/pipermail/cplusplus-sig -- nosy: +paulmelis

[issue1835] Update version number in __init__.py

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[issue1276768] dirutils.mkpath (verbose option does not work)

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[issue1520877] Distutils bugfix: Read $AR from the environment/Makefile.

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