[issue5588] Add --randseed to regrtest

Collin Winter added the comment: Committed as r70672 (trunk) and r70673 (py3k). Thanks for the quick review. -- resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue2591] ErrorHandler buffer overflow in ?unused? SGI extension module almodule.c

Guido van Rossum added the comment: (Almost) nobody uses these any more, so let's close as won't fix. The SGI modules are removed from 3.0. The few people who still have Irix could probably care less about the buffer overflows, but they *might* care about the modules (otherwise they wouldn't b

[issue1174606] Reading /dev/zero causes SystemError

R. David Murray added the comment: Antoine, since your fix also goes into the io module in 2.6, and the buggish behavior even of the old code is more cosmetic than problematic, I'm thinking we can just close this as accepted. Do you concur? -- ___ P

[issue2568] Seconds range in time unit

R. David Murray added the comment: The 'double leap second' issue has been around a long time and is part of the Posix standard (for some background see http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html, specifically the section named 'Unix system time and the POSIX standard'). This document

[issue2599] allow field_name in format strings to default to next positional argument (e.g., "{}")

R. David Murray added the comment: This was proposed on python-ideas, discussed, approved, and implemented for 2.7 and 3.1. Note that although this wasn't discussed, the internationalization issue is answered by the fact that when internationalizing, you are rewriting the string. At that time

[issue2578] Figure out what to do with unittest's redundant APIs

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: Oh for reference, i left these out but they may interest people for completeness sake. assert_ 15% assertTrue 9% assertFalse 5% We don't currently have the auto type checking in assertEqual in our internal codebase, direct use of the type specific met

[issue2578] Figure out what to do with unittest's redundant APIs

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: Some statistics from our large code base as to which of the assert methods get used relative to the others: These percentages are relative to the count of assertEqual(s) uses being 100% and cover python code written by a crazy large number of engineers. asse

[issue2577] cmd.py should track input file objects so macros with submacros can be easily written

R. David Murray added the comment: Since it's been almost a year and the OP hasn't responded with an updated patch, I'm closing this as out of date. -- nosy: +bitdancer resolution: -> out of date status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue2995] Idle, some Linuxes, cannot position Cursor by mouseclick

Guilherme Polo added the comment: Whoa, it went better than I expected. It failed on Mandriva just like it was mentioned, but I still haven't verified what is causing this problem. And while running IOBinding.py doesn't demonstrate the problem, running EditorWindow.py does. -- versions

[issue2570] backport 3.0-style \u/\U processing in raw strings when unicode_literals is imported from __future__

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[issue5593] test_math.testFsum failure on release30-maint

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: And it actually also happens in py3k (but only in 32-bit mode, too). -- versions: +Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue5593] test_math.testFsum failure on release30-maint

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: It only seems to happen on a 32-bit build on a 64-bit system. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-b

[issue5593] test_math.testFsum failure on release30-maint

New submission from Antoine Pitrou : I started getting this in release30-maint (not in py3k). == FAIL: testFsum (test.test_math.MathTests) -- Traceback (most re

[issue2578] Figure out what to do with unittest's redundant APIs

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: With all due respect, I find the presence of numerous type specific functions (assertListEqual, etc.) awful. I don't understand why the type isn't simply cased in the standard assertEqual function. I also don't think adding so many assert methods makes the API e

[issue2570] backport 3.0-style \u/\U processing in raw strings when unicode_literals is imported from __future__

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[issue2497] stdbool support

R. David Murray added the comment: Since Martin said this should be rejected, I'm closing it rejected. -- nosy: +bitdancer resolution: -> rejected stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue1174606] Reading /dev/zero causes SystemError

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: A fix for py3k was committed in r70664. -- versions: -Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyth

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

Matthew Barnett added the comment: Patch issue2636-patch-1.diff contains a stripped down version of my regex engine and the other changes that are necessary to make it work. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13449/issue2636-patch-1.diff ___ P

[issue1174606] Reading /dev/zero causes SystemError

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: The reason py3k is a lot longer to crash is because of a slight bug in _fileio.c :-) I'm gonna correct this one first. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue5588] Add --randseed to regrtest

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[issue2522] locale.format() problems with decimal separator

R. David Murray added the comment: That is true, however the code contains the comment "this is only for one-percent-specifier strings and this should be checked", implying that the intent is to make sure only a single format specifier has been passed. I don't think it is reasonable to perfect

[issue1174606] Reading /dev/zero causes SystemError

R. David Murray added the comment: Antoine, I added you to the nosy list for this because it turns out the new io.c segfaults in this case. -- keywords: -patch nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker _

[issue5588] Add --randseed to regrtest

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[issue5588] Add --randseed to regrtest

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[issue5588] Add --randseed to regrtest

Collin Winter added the comment: The "if rand_seed:" bit was a relic from a previous iteration; fixed. The only reason I didn't use randrange() is that I didn't see it; fixed. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13448/randseed.patch ___ Python

[issue2522] locale.format() problems with decimal separator

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: AFAIK, locale.format() is supposed to be used with a single format specifier, not a complete format string. It's up to you to concatenate the various parts afterwards. -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker

[issue2578] Figure out what to do with unittest's redundant APIs

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: Attaching a patch that adds Google's unittest.TestCase assertFooEqual() extensions and automatically uses rich comparisons in assertEqual() with nicely formatted failure messages for list, tuple, dict, set, frozenset. The following are added by this patch: +

[issue5588] Add --randseed to regrtest

Mark Dickinson added the comment: +1 on the idea. I'm not sure I understand the patch, though. If the line: random_seed = int(100 * random.random()) produces a random_seed of 0 (or if randseed=0 is supplied as an option), it looks as though random.seed is never called; is this intentio

[issue2522] locale.format() problems with decimal separator

R. David Murray added the comment: This bug is more subtle than it first appears. As far as I've been able to figure out, there is in fact no way to reliably detect that there is non-format text after the format specifier short of completely parsing the format specifier. I went through several

[issue5585] implement initializer for multiprocessing.BaseManager.start()

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[issue5591] global symbols in shared libpython not prefixed with Py or _Py

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[issue5592] Modules/_textio.c defines global symbol encodefuncs

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Fixed in r70663, thanks! -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue5592] Modules/_textio.c defines global symbol encodefuncs

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Yes, ok. -- assignee: -> pitrou components: +Library (Lib) nosy: +pitrou priority: -> normal stage: -> needs patch type: -> behavior versions: +Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker __

[issue4434] Embedding into a shared library fails

Matthias Klose added the comment: > I'm sure it does work, but what is the point of linking statically > to libpython.a but then having other dependencies, for example on > lib-dynload/time.so? Why not just link to libpython2.5.so in the > first place? speed. Using a python executable with a st

[issue5592] Modules/_textio.c defines global symbol encodefuncs

New submission from Matthias Klose : encodefuncs is only used locally. ok to make this variable static? -- messages: 84335 nosy: doko severity: normal status: open title: Modules/_textio.c defines global symbol encodefuncs ___ Python tracker

[issue5591] global symbols in shared libpython not prefixed with Py or _Py

New submission from Matthias Klose : There are four global symbols in libpython, which have are globally defined, and don't have a Py prefix. Would it be possible to define those with a _Py prefix instead? -- messages: 84334 nosy: doko severity: normal status: open title: global symbols

[issue5590] pyexpat defines global symbol template_string

New submission from Matthias Klose : pyexpat.c defines the global symbol template_string polluting the global namespace, which isn't used in the module. Is it ok to remove this definition altogether? -- messages: 84333 nosy: doko severity: normal status: open title: pyexpat defines globa

[issue3102] ctypes defines global symbols

Matthias Klose added the comment: These are the symbols on the trunk (20090328). There are *very* general names as well. How should this be resolved? Introduce macros for the old names, or just rename these? module_methods probably could be static. AllocFunctionCallback ArrayType_Type

[issue2972] arguments and default path not set in site.py and sitecustomize.py

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[issue4011] Create DAG for PEP 101

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[issue941262] List with Canvas.create_line Option arrow=LAST Broke

Guilherme Polo added the comment: Hi Brian (hope you are still there), the code in 31_8.tcl is not complete so I didn't bother looking into it. The tkdraw.py is not really correct, here is a cleaned up version that works: from Tkinter import Tk, Canvas, LAST, ROUND def StrokeBegin(event):

[issue5585] implement initializer for multiprocessing.BaseManager.start()

R. David Murray added the comment: Note that the Multiprocessing docs say that the Process "follows the API of threading.Thread," and this would represent a (minor) divergence. I also note that the patch does not contain any tests. -- assignee: jnoller -> keywords: +patch nosy: +bitda

[issue1468223] Hitting CTRL-C while in a loop closes IDLE on cygwin

Miki Tebeka added the comment: Happily(?) I don't use Windows anymore. Closing it. -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue5589] Wrong dump of floats

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[issue5564] os.symlink/os.link docs should say old/new, not src/dst

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Fixed in r70650. -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5589] Wrong dump of floats

R. David Murray added the comment: As Ezio points out, this is correct Python behavior. -- components: +Interpreter Core -Library (Lib) nosy: +bitdancer resolution: -> invalid stage: -> committed/rejected ___ Python tracker

[issue5337] Scanner class in re module undocumented

Georg Brandl added the comment: The class is commented as being "experimental", and the interface probably could use improvement (it's a bit awkward to subclass Scanner), but since it's been around for so long, I guess enough people will be using it that we have to keep it that way and document

[issue5324] __subclasses__ undocumented

Georg Brandl added the comment: Documented in r70648, r70649 (3k). -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5589] Wrong dump of floats

Ezio Melotti added the comment: >>> .1 0.10001 Read http://docs.python.org/tutorial/floatingpoint.html -- nosy: +ezio.melotti ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5585] implement initializer for multiprocessing.BaseManager.start()

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[issue5589] Wrong dump of floats

New submission from Sebastian Billaudelle : Hi there, I just recognized a weird behaviour of the json module... Dumpig a float like 0.1 I get some crazy output. Here is an example: >>> import json >>> json.dumps([.1]) '[0.10001]' Very simple to reproduce;) - Sebastian -

[issue5588] Add --randseed to regrtest

New submission from Collin Winter : Add the ability to control the random seed used by regrtest.py -r. This patch adds a --randseed option, and makes regrtest.py -r indicate what random seed it's using so that that value can later be fed back to --randseed. This option is useful for tracking down

[issue5006] Duplicate UTF-16 BOM if a file is open in append mode

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Here is a new patch catering to more cases (seek()) in addition to just opening in append mode. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13445/append_bom-3.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue2995] Idle, some Linuxes, cannot position Cursor by mouseclick

Guilherme Polo added the comment: I'm downloading Mandriva 2009.0 to hopefully reproduce the problem, but I'm afraid it won't happen. Apparently people that have this issue also reproduce it in different platforms, someone said on http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7661 that this occurs both on a olpc

[issue5006] Duplicate UTF-16 BOM if a file is open in append mode

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: It's better now, although I think it's not good to duplicate the encoding switch logic. It would be better to have a separate flag indicate whether it's the start of stream or not. I'm gonna produce a new patch, unless you beat me to it. Also, I'm adding Amaury

[issue1757057] IDLE + BeautifulSoup = Error

Guilherme Polo added the comment: I can't seem to reproduce this here. I've tried both python 2.4.5 and 2.5.2 using beautifulsoup 3.0.7. I also used the sample html attached in that email as well part of the code that is supposed to cause the problem, and I can also run pickle on the body's cont

[issue5569] Issue in transparency in top level tk window(python) on MAC

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: Guilherme, you are right. I think I looked at the wrong patch, sorry. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue5569] Issue in transparency in top level tk window(python) on MAC

Guilherme Polo added the comment: Amaury, can you be more specific on how it is not correct ? What patch should be reverted ? I'm closing this as invalid now. Although this, in some way, can be considered a duplicate of issue1500773, I don't see it that way. I'm just seeing an incorrect usage o

[issue5587] vars() no longer has a use __repr__

New submission from Raymond Hettinger : The vars() builtin now returns a hard to view object. Formerly, it had a useful __repr__. Python 3.1a1 >>> class A: pass >>> vars(A) IDLE 2.6.1 >>> class A: pass >>> vars(A) {'__module__': '__main__', '__doc__': None} -- components: I

[issue5576] Don't use PyLong_SHIFT with _PyLong_AsScaledDouble()

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[issue5576] Don't use PyLong_SHIFT with _PyLong_AsScaledDouble()

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Thanks for this. I'll take a look. How about making the exponent type size_t or Py_ssize_t, rather than [unsigned] int? It seems to me that that fits better with the usual size in digits. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue5569] Issue in transparency in top level tk window(python) on MAC

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: Please revert that patch, it is not correct! Did you try the commands I suggested in my previous post? And please, be more specific than "I am not able to run". Do you get an error message? If yes, copy its content here. -- _

[issue4294] Macros for PyLong: sign, number of digits, fits in an int

Mark Dickinson added the comment: [Mark] > PyLong_NDIGITS should stay in longintrepr.h, though, > since it's dependent on the representation. [Victor] >I don't understand why. [...] I expressed myself badly. I guess my point was that PyLong_SIGN and PyLong_EQUALS_ZERO (and PyLong_IS_NEGATIVE)

[issue5040] Bug of CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler

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[issue5040] Bug of CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler

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[issue5463] Remove deprecated features from struct module

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[issue5463] Remove deprecated features from struct module

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[issue5463] Remove deprecated features from struct module

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Oops. Out-of-date version of the diff. Here's the right one. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13443/cleanup_range_check_patch2.diff ___ Python tracker __

[issue5040] Bug of CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler

Brian Quinlan added the comment: It turns out that there are a bunch of issues with the py3k XML-RPC client and server. Attached as some tests that demonstrate them. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +bquinlan Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13442/xmlrpc-test.diff __

[issue5463] Remove deprecated features from struct module

Mark Dickinson added the comment: I've messed with your patch a bit more. :) Here's the latest version. Apart from the things I mentioned earlier, test_struct was failing on 64-bit machines with your original patch; I think that's fixed now. I also updated the docs. Does this version loo

[issue5261] with lock fails on multiprocessing

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[issue5261] with lock fails on multiprocessing

Tim Golden added the comment: Can I nudge this one a bit? It causes an interpreter crash and the patch seems good (subject to someone else's review). -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue989712] Support using Tk without a mainloop

Guilherme Polo added the comment: I've changed the patch a bit and give it a quick try on the python-trunk. I didn't understand the need to verify for _tkinter while IDLE is already running, also, _tkinter.dooneevent is gone in py3k so I'm not using the module function (these are the difference

[issue5586] The documentation of os.makedirs is misleading

New submission from Mher Movsisyan : The documentation of os.makedirs (http://docs.python.org/library/os.html? highlight=makedirs#os.makedirs) is misleading. It states that os.makedirs raises an exception if the leaf directory already exists but it doesn't. Lib/os.py: 136 def makedirs(name, m

[issue918368] urllib doesn't correct server returned urls

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[issue1153027] http_error_302() crashes with 'HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

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[issue1370380] async_chat.push() can trigger handle_error(). undocumented.

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[issue658749] asyncore connect() and winsock errors

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[issue5377] Strange behavior when performing int on a Decimal made from -sys.maxint-1

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[issue5377] Strange behavior when performing int on a Decimal made from -sys.maxint-1

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[issue1736190] asyncore/asynchat patches

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[issue3243] Support iterable bodies in httplib

Jeremy Hylton added the comment: Seems like a reasonable feature request. I'm going to apply a variant of the patch in 3.1 first. -- assignee: -> jhylton nosy: +jhylton resolution: -> accepted ___ Python tracker

[issue2073] asynchat push always sends 512 bytes (ignoring ac_out_buffer_size)

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[issue777588] asyncore is broken for windows if connection is refused

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[issue1563] asyncore and asynchat incompatible with Py3k str and bytes

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[issue4277] asynchat's handle_error inconsistency

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[issue2944] asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly

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[issue4501] asyncore's urgent data management and connection closed events are broken when using poll()

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[issue5585] implement initializer for multiprocessing.BaseManager.start()

lekma added the comment: here is a patch doing just that (against trunk). ps: this is my first bug report and contribution to Python, please, be gentle :) -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13438/Issue5585.patch ___ Python tra

[issue5585] implement initializer for multiprocessing.BaseManager.start()

New submission from lekma : It would be useful to have the ability to run arbitrary code before a manager's server subprocess is started (I'd use this feature to install signal handlers for example). -- components: Library (Lib) messages: 84302 nosy: lekma severity: normal status: open t

[issue5369] __ppc__ macro checking is incorrect

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[issue5369] __ppc__ macro checking is incorrect

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