[issue8745] zipimport is a bit slow

New submission from Goplat : Reading the list of files in a .zip takes a while because several seeks are done for each entry, which (on Windows at least) flushes stdio's buffer and forces a system call on the next read. For large .zips the effect on startup speed is noticeable, being perhaps 5

[issue8667] Link to PEP 3147 from importlib docs

Ashley Sands added the comment: Hi Brett, I would like to contribute to the open source community and Python is my favourite language, so I figured I would begin here. But I have never done this before, so I am a open-source-contributor-newbie. So to resolve this issue, I would need to: Chec

[issue3132] implement PEP 3118 struct changes

Meador Inge added the comment: Attached is a patch that implements part of the additions. More specifically, the 'T{}' syntax and the ability to place byte-order specifiers ('<', '>', '@', '^', '!", '=') anywhere in the struct string. The changes dictated by the PEP are so big that it is b

[issue8619] Doc bug for urllib.request._urlopener in Python 3.1+

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Removed in r81283 and r81284. With respect to the technical details of exposing this functionality for _urlretrieve and URLOpener. - users can still do it. - There is a better way, if the other global _opener be served for the same purpose, so that build_open

[issue8619] Doc bug for urllib.request._urlopener in Python 3.1+

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Actually, I see certain use-cases of _urlopener in py3k. Most visible one being urllib.request.urlretrieve and also URLOpener.open which is different from build_opener way of doing things. - But still, public exposure of overriding globals to can be removed.

[issue8619] Doc bug for urllib.request._urlopener in Python 3.1+

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: The functionality provided by urllib.request._urlopener can be accomplished in a more natural way using build_opener. Historically, _urlopener was there for urllib and build_opener style came in urllib2. So, I think, this can be safely be removed from the do

[issue8744] Maybe typo in doc

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[issue8744] Maybe typo in doc

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Fixed it in revision 81279 and other branches. -- nosy: +orsenthil ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pytho

[issue8591] update mkpkg to latest coding standards

Dan Buch added the comment: The attached mkpkg-round-of-pylinting.patch is known to cleanly apply to tarek's branch @ 541f90ef0636 -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue8591] update mkpkg to latest coding standards

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[issue8744] Maybe typo in doc

New submission from INADA Naoki : http://docs.python.org/dev/library/test.html#test.test_support.captured_stdout "This is a context manager than runs the with statement body using a StringIO.StringIO object as sys.stdout." I think "than" is typo of "that". -- assignee: d...@python com

[issue5753] CVE-2008-5983 python: untrusted python modules search path

Dave Malcolm added the comment: Attempting to summarize IRC discussion about this. PySys_SetArgv is used to set up sys.argv There is plenty of code which assumes that this is a list containing at least a zeroth string element; for example warnings.warn (see msg89688). It seems reasonable f

[issue8728] 2.7 regression in httplib.py: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'makefile'

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[issue3051] heapq change breaking compatibility

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[issue8727] test_import failure

Brett Cannon added the comment: Sorry about that. I guess I should have been more explicit when I said that "I have flagged the test as an expected failure" that meant I made it pass in the test suite until I get a chance to fix this. -- ___ Python

[issue8739] Update to smtpd.py to RFC 5321

Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: > It is not, but just seemed like good practice to advertise the limit in > EHLO and enforce it. My patch doesn't do a good job of enforcing it > since it enforces it before doing process_message. The problems with > 2518 and 1745035 are still there. Th

[issue8446] buildbot: DeprecationWarning not raised for icglue (test_py3kwarn.TestStdlibRemovals)

Florent Xicluna added the comment: Maybe this is due to webbrowser dependency on "ic" module. Patch not tested. -- assignee: -> ronaldoussoren components: +Macintosh keywords: +patch nosy: +flox, ronaldoussoren stage: -> patch review type: -> behavior versions: +Python 2.7 -Python 3

[issue8739] Update to smtpd.py to RFC 5321

Alberto Trevino added the comment: > Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: > > Some comments: > > Is RFC 5321 completely implemented? Otherwise I would turn this in "as > defined in RFC 821 and part of RFC 5321". RFC 5321 obsoletes RFCs 821, 974, 1869 and 2821. I don't think we should make

[issue5553] Py_LOCAL_INLINE(type) doesn't actually inline except using MSC

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[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

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[issue2226] Small _abcoll Bugs / Oddities

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[issue8729] The Mapping ABC's __eq__ method should return NotImplemented if the other type is not a Mapping

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[issue8727] test_import failure

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Brett marked it as an expected failure in r81219. Probably should have mentioned that here at the time though... -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue8739] Update to smtpd.py to RFC 5321

Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: Some comments: -# This file implements the minimal SMTP protocol as defined in RFC 821. It +# This file implements the minimal SMTP protocol as defined in RFC 5321. It Is RFC 5321 completely implemented? Otherwise I would turn this in "as defined in RFC

[issue8732] Should urrllib2.urlopen send an Accept-Encoding header?

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: HTTP Ref says that Server can send any encoding, if client does not specify Accept-Encoding header. But if 'identity' is one of the encoding that server recognizes (?), then it should send it as identity, which indicates untransformed content. I also see in th

[issue8713] multiprocessing needs option to eschew fork() under Linux

Ram Rachum added the comment: +1 for this issue; I've also wished for this feature in the past. -- nosy: +cool-RR ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue6583] 2to3 fails to fix test.test_support

Pascal Chambon added the comment: Sorry to reraise an old issue, but the documentation of "test" module is deceiving on that one : "The test.test_support module has been renamed to test.support in Python 3.0. The 2to3 tool will automatically adapt imports when converting your sources to 3.0."

[issue2521] ABC caches should use weak refs

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Antoine, do you have a suggestion for someone with with better > knowledge of ABCs to do the final review, so that I may very politely > pester them? ;-) I guess Benjamin could. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue7079] file_close() ignores return value of close_the_file

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Sorry, I had just forgotten. The patch has been committed in r81275 (trunk) and r81277 (2.6). Thank you: -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue7079] file_close() ignores return value of close_the_file

Daniel Stutzbach added the comment: Is there anything more I can do to help get this crash-fix committed before 2.7 rc1? -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue2521] ABC caches should use weak refs

Daniel Stutzbach added the comment: Antoine, do you have a suggestion for someone with with better knowledge of ABCs to do the final review, so that I may very politely pester them? ;-) -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue8743] set() operators don't work with collections.Set instances

Daniel Stutzbach added the comment: I should add: I discovered the inconsistency while working on my sortedset class, which provides the same interface as set() but is also indexable like a list (e.g., S[0] always returns the minimum element, S[-1] returns the maximum element, etc.). sorted

[issue8743] set() operators don't work with collections.Set instances

New submission from Daniel Stutzbach : The set() operators (__or__, __and__, __sub__, __xor__, and their in-place counterparts) require that the parameter also be an instance of set(). They're documented that way: "This precludes error-prone constructions like set('abc') & 'cbs' in favor of

[issue7981] False failure with doctest NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE in 3.1.1

trambalda added the comment: but with print() it works: print("This text\n contains weird spacing.") # doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue7981] False failure with doctest NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE in 3.1.1

trambalda added the comment: Same problem in 2.6.4 r264:75708 and 3.1 r31:73574 -- nosy: +trambalda ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-

[issue8741] 2.7 regression in tarfile: IOError: link could not be created

Sridhar Ratnakumar added the comment: Aside: why is the original exception ignored, and instead a generic IOError is thrown? Why not use one of the exceptions inheriting `TarError`, so that application code can reliably catch these errors? -- ___ P

[issue8741] 2.7 regression in tarfile: IOError: link could not be created

Sridhar Ratnakumar added the comment: The actual exception caught (before it was ignored and a generic IOError was thrown) was this: File "C:\Python27\lib\tarfile.py", line 2168, in _extract_member self.makelink(tarinfo, targetpath) File "C:\Python27\lib\tarfile.py", line 2258, in make

[issue8633] tarfile doesn't support undecodable filename in PAX format

Lars Gustäbel added the comment: I added support for the hdrcharset method and a workaround for the GNU tar bug, see r81273. -- resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker __

[issue8742] broken asdl link in Parser/asdl.py

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[issue8742] broken asdl link in Parser/asdl.py

New submission from Patrick Sabin : The link: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~danwang/Papers/dsl97/dsl97-abstract.html in the file Parser/asdl.py seems to be broken. When I tried to open it I got a page with: "Sorry, the page you requested couldn't be found". It seems to me that this is a permanen

[issue6054] tarfile normalizes arcname

Sridhar Ratnakumar added the comment: Apparently this fix introduced a regression. See issue8741 -- nosy: +srid ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue1285086] urllib.quote is too slow

Florent Xicluna added the comment: Committed to 3.2 in r81271, after some additional tuning. Btw, I kept list comprehension in 3.2, because it is faster for small strings (even if the gain is ~10%). -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue8741] 2.7 regression in tarfile: IOError: link could not be created

New submission from Sridhar Ratnakumar : Repro steps: Download http://appropriatesoftware.net/provide/docs/eternity-0.13.tar.gz (via 'eternity' module in PyPI) and look at the following command line session: C:\Temp\tfbug>python27 -c "import tarfile as T; T.open('eternity-0.13.tar.gz').extrac

[issue1285086] urllib.quote is too slow

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[issue1285086] urllib.quote is too slow

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 01:38:57PM +, Florent Xicluna wrote: > Committed in r81265 for 2.7. Thanks. That was interesting. Without resorting to any drastic changes like use of regex, interesting speed-up seems to have been achieved by using rsplit and map.

[issue8734] msvcrt get_osfhandle crash on bad FD

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: The second patch looks good to me. -- resolution: -> accepted stage: patch review -> commit review ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue8734] msvcrt get_osfhandle crash on bad FD

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[issue8734] msvcrt get_osfhandle crash on bad FD

Pascal Chambon added the comment: My bad, here is a better patch... -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17382/msvcrt_crash2.patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue1800] ctypes callback fails when called in Python with array argument

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[issue1800] ctypes callback fails when called in Python with array argument

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: Attached patch fixes the issue, but feels a little bit like a band-aid. I think making array arguments "decay" into pointers is the right solution, but I am not sure this should be done when prototype is created or when it is called. If python level so

[issue1285086] urllib.quote is too slow

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[issue8726] test_capi failure

Jeffrey Yasskin added the comment: Fixed in r81269. Sorry about that. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue8730] Spurious test failure in distutils

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: I'd also skip the test, this is not a bug in Python but a broken compress executable. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue8740] infinite recursion with setfilesystemencoding and pdb

STINNER Victor added the comment: Oh, flox closed the issue: it's a duplicate of #8226. The bug was fixed in Python 3.1.2 by myself (r79394). -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue8740] infinite recursion with setfilesystemencoding and pdb

Christophe Combelles added the comment: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.1/encodings/__init__.py", line 98, in search_function level=0) File "/usr/lib/python3.1/encodings/__init__.py", line 98, in search_function level=0) (...) File "/usr/lib/python3.1/enco

[issue8740] infinite recursion with setfilesystemencoding and pdb

STINNER Victor added the comment: The file system encoding should not be modifiable. Call sys.setfilesystemencoding() breaks Python, eg. module filenames are not reencoded. See also #8611. sys.setfilesystemencoding() is as danregeous as sys.setdefaultencoding() because it changes too much th

[issue8740] infinite recursion with setfilesystemencoding and pdb

STINNER Victor added the comment: What is the problem? $ python3.1 Python 3.1.2 (r312:79147, Apr 21 2010, 23:52:07) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys, pdb; sys.setfilesystemencoding('iso8859-7'); pdb.set_trace() --Return

[issue8685] set(range(100000)).difference(set()) is slow

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Will look at this when I get back to the U.S. -- priority: normal -> low ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue8734] msvcrt get_osfhandle crash on bad FD

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: I agree with the fix. However the patch should test for "sys.platform == 'win32'" before importing msvcrt. And there is an extra space on another line. -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc stage: -> patch review ___

[issue3051] heapq change breaking compatibility

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[issue3051] heapq change breaking compatibility

Maciek Fijalkowski added the comment: Hello. I would like to complain. It was decided at some point some time ago that both pure-python and C version should run against the same test suite and should not have any differencies. The reasoning behind it is that other python implementations migh

[issue8740] infinite recursion with setfilesystemencoding and pdb

Florent Xicluna added the comment: Next release should fix it: 3.1.3 (Tested on 3.1 branch) -- nosy: +flox, haypo resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> sys.setfilesystemencoding("xxx"); open("a") => stack overflow ___

[issue1800] ctypes callback fails when called in Python with array argument

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[issue8727] test_import failure

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: I cannot reproduce this on Ubuntu 10.04 with current py3k (r81268), even using the boiled down example given by Antoine. What platform are you on? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue2456] Make sysmodule.c compatible with Bazaar

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[issue8739] Update to smtpd.py to RFC 5321

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[issue8739] Update to smtpd.py to RFC 5321

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[issue8740] infinite recursion with setfilesystemencoding and pdb

New submission from Christophe Combelles : This leads to a maximum recursion depth error: $ python3.1 >>> import sys, pdb >>> sys.setfilesystemencoding('iso8859-7') >>> pdb.set_trace() I'm on ubuntu 10.04 x86_64, with LANG=fr_FR.utf8 -- components: None messages: 105904 nosy: ccomb pri

[issue1285086] urllib.quote is too slow

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[issue8739] Update to smtpd.py to RFC 5321

New submission from Alberto Trevino : This patch updates smtpd.py to be more RFC 5321 compliant. It contains: - EHLO support - Implement DATA size limit (32 MiB by default) - 8-bit mime extension plumbing (doesn't do anything, but accepts and records command) - Basic VRFY support - Basi

[issue8736] *= is undocumented for lists

Daniel Stutzbach added the comment: Good point, since I see now that *= (and +=) also works on immutable sequence types (though does something subtly different). I always forget that. -- resolution: -> invalid stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed _

[issue7946] Convoy effect with I/O bound threads and New GIL

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[issue8730] Spurious test failure in distutils

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Just skip the test, IMO. -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list U

[issue8730] Spurious test failure in distutils

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: So do you know if this is specific to all sharutils versions ? I could read the version and raise a specific error in that case. *or* just not fix this bug and fix the test so it's permissive in this very particular case (by looking at the compression version)

[issue8738] cPickle dumps(tuple) != dumps(loads(dumps(tuple)))

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I don't think you can expect serialized results to always be equal. It can depend on specifics of the internal algorithm, such as optimizations or dict iteration order. -- nosy: +alexandre.vassalotti, pitrou priority: normal -> low versions: +Python 2

[issue8688] distutils sdist is too laze w.r.t. recalculating MANIFEST

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: done in r81255, r81256 (2.6), r81258 (py3), r81260 (3.1) Thanks Ronald -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue8738] cPickle dumps(tuple) != dumps(loads(dumps(tuple)))

New submission from Alberto Planas Domínguez : Sometimes, when I use cPickle to serialize tuples of strings, I get different dumps() result for the same tuple: import cPickle t = ('', 'JOHN') s1 = cPickle.dumps(t) s2 = cPickle.dumps(cPickle.loads(cPickle.dumps(t))) assert s1 == s2 # Asserti

[issue8589] test_warnings.CEnvironmentVariableTests.test_nonascii fails under an ascii terminal

STINNER Victor added the comment: Does my fix this #8533 fixes this issue or not? I guess yes, but I would prefer a confirmation. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue8733] list type and UserList do not call super in __init__ and therefore, they cannot be parents in a multiple inheritence scheme

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[issue8736] *= is undocumented for lists

New submission from Ray.Allen : Does *= need document? I think the documentation of * for all sequence type can already cover the *= usage. -- nosy: +ysj.ray ___ Python tracker _