[issue9140] SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler not a new-style class?

New submission from Peter Froehlich : I tried to do this: class Handler(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler): def do_GET(self): super(Handler, self).do_GET() print self.path However super fails: TypeError: super() argument 1 must be type, not classobj Looking up the chain of base classes, I fo

[issue1596321] KeyError at exit after 'import threading' in other thread

Craig McQueen added the comment: A follow-on re the cx_Freeze issue: I looked at the source code, and found it doesn't seem to be doing any thread creation. But I found that in the initscripts/Console.py, there are the following lines: if sys.version_info[:2] >= (2, 5): module = s

[issue9139] Add examples for str.format()

New submission from Ezio Melotti : The attached patch adds a section with examples about str.format() after http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#format-specification-mini-language . The patch needs some small improvements: 1) the examples in the previous sections could be removed and/or

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: > I also don't think that the 2.x-to-3.x maintenance issue > is that big a deal any more; it would be surprising if > the 2.x version of Decimal sees anything more than minor > changes (doc fixes, etc.) from this point on. So perhaps > the 3.x version o

[issue5673] Add timeout option to subprocess.Popen

Dave Malcolm added the comment: The patch has bitrotted somewhat; I've had a go at reworking it so it applies against the latest version of trunk (r82429). All tests pass (or are skipped) on this x86_64 Linux box --with-pydebug (Fedora 13) There are still some TODOs in the code: Popen.wait(

[issue9138] Tutorial: classes intro paragraph icky

anatoly techtonik added the comment: Much better definition. I stripped it down a little to avoid "mechanism" repetition. Compared with other programming languages, Python provides object oriented approach with a minimum of new syntax and semantics. Its class mechanism is a mixture of

[issue9138] Tutorial: classes intro paragraph icky

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: +1 on the new wording. Nits: * Since many OOP languages don't support multiple inheritance, I don't think we can call multiple inheritance one of the "standard features of Object Oriented Programming". * Eventhough the wording is an improvement, I don't

[issue9104] test_exceptions does not test pickling with pickle.py

R. David Murray added the comment: If not in test.support, then where? Unless there's some reason for user code or other implementations (or stdlib code itself) to access that map, it seems to me that test.support is exactly where it belongs. Generic test support (that isn't specific to Pyth

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Yuv Gre added the comment: Now that we're on the subject of "from_float", I just recalled this slight issue: Python 3.1.2 (r312:79149, Mar 21 2010, 00:41:52) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> >>> import decimal >>> x

[issue9138] Tutorial: classes intro paragraph icky

New submission from Aahz : http://docs.python.org/dev/tutorial/classes.html Chapter 9 of the Tutorial contains this intro paragraph: Python's class mechanism adds classes to the language with a minimum of new syntax and semantics. It is a mixture of the class mechanisms found in C++

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Mark Dickinson added the comment: > ISTM, 2.5 compatible is probably good enough. Okay; that's fine with me. Now we can finally turn that "from_float = classmethod(from_float)" into a proper "@classmethod" decorator. :) I also don't think that the 2.x-to-3.x maintenance issue is that big a

[issue1643370] recursive urlparse

R. David Murray added the comment: Anatoly, when I said I was closing the issue for lack of interest, I meant that you had not produced a candidate patch, and no one else had shown any interest in creating one. If you wish to produce a candidate patch we can reopen the issue (though I do thi

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I'm not sure that I care about 2.3 compatibility anymore (I was the one who made the rule about 2.3 compatibility and made sure that it was just a preference, not an absolute rule -- as time goes on, it is of less and less value). ISTM, 2.5 compatible is

[issue1643370] recursive urlparse

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- nosy: +merwok ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.

[issue1643370] recursive urlparse

Georg Brandl added the comment: Why shouldn't you be eligible to produce patches to Python? And yes, requests without patches will sometimes take longer, or be evaluated differently, since we're all volunteers here, and an existing patch, even if unusable it the submitted form, often makes work

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Mark Dickinson added the comment: [Raymond] > self.Emin = DefaultContext.Emin if Emin is None else Emin I agree that looks better. But we can't spell it that way in 2.x (since conditional expressions aren't 2.3 compatible), and I'd prefer to keep the 2.x and 3.x versions reasonably close, at

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Stylistically, it would be nice to eliminate the local variable reassignment entirely: self.Emin = DefaultContext.Emin if Emin is None else Emin self.Emax = DefaultContext.Emax if Emax is None else Emax self._ignored_flags = [] if _ignored_flags is None els

[issue1643370] recursive urlparse

anatoly techtonik added the comment: Too bad that request from users who are not eligible to produce a patch are not accepted by Python "community". =/ -- ___ Python tracker

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Looks good to me. Please go ahead and apply it to the 3.2 and 3.1 branches, if you want. (Or just assign back to me if you prefer.) It should also be applied to 2.7 and 2.6, eventually, but we should probably wait until after the 2.7 release this weekend fo

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Stefan Krah added the comment: Mark, good point about 2.3 compatibility. The unit tests diverge quite a bit though between 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7. I like {s: 0 for s in _signals} slightly better here (but I like dict/list comprehensions in general). So, the new patch still sets the flags/traps sect

[issue8271] str.decode('utf8', 'replace') -- conformance with Unicode 5.2.0

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Ported to py3k in r82413. Some test with non-BMP characters should probably be added. The patch should still be ported to 2.6 and 3.1. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue7989] Add pure Python implementation of datetime module to CPython

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > I agree. Do you think I should just define __lt__ and use > functools.total_ordering decorator? I had forgotten about functools.total_ordering. Yes, very good idea. > Note that current implementation mimics what is done in C, but I > think python should d

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Stefan, one other thought: please also bear in mind that we're restricted to Python 2.3 syntax in the 2.x version of decimal, so any post-Python 2.3-isms will have to be rewritten when the patch is backported. (E.g., use of conditional expressions.) While I

[issue7989] Add pure Python implementation of datetime module to CPython

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: > R. David Murray added the comment: > > If they abuse the _ methods and complain that the C version doesn't > work, we just say "we *told* you not to do that".  It is not the Python > philosophy to try to protect users from mistakes that they willfully >

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Nice shade of blue! Just a couple of red spots that I'd prefer repainted, namely: (1) please put bodies of 'try:' and 'except:' on separate lines, and (2) please use 'except NameError' instead of a bare except. And a couple of points that I think also applie

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Stefan Krah added the comment: Mark, the patch looks good. I don't find it ugly, but anyway, here's a bike shed version. :) The main point is that I'd like the flags and traps sections to be set apart visually while compressing the boilerplate. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/fil

[issue1643370] recursive urlparse

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: David, Is the stage "unit test needed" proper for this or was it by mistake? Anatoly, I thought closing this feature request was fine, because I considered that with namedtuple the desired attributes of url's were obtained as ParsedTuple object (check test_u

[issue7989] Add pure Python implementation of datetime module to CPython

R. David Murray added the comment: If they abuse the _ methods and complain that the C version doesn't work, we just say "we *told* you not to do that". It is not the Python philosophy to try to protect users from mistakes that they wilfully make. --

[issue9104] test_exceptions does not test pickling with pickle.py

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: .. >> I don't understand how having multiple modules in the blocked list >> will help in io case.  io.py will simply not work if _io is blocked. > > Which you avoid by giving an empty list of blocked

[issue7989] Add pure Python implementation of datetime module to CPython

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: Thanks a lot for the review. Please see my replies below. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: .. > - I find the _cmp() and __cmp() indirection poor style in 3.x, > especially when you simply end up comparing self._getstate() and > oth

[issue9104] test_exceptions does not test pickling with pickle.py

R. David Murray added the comment: Please don't update the reST document. The support module should never have been documented outside the module itself, because now we are pretty much committed to otherwise needless backward compatibility for the stuff that is documented. -- nosy:

[issue9104] test_exceptions does not test pickling with pickle.py

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > > You can make the dictionary values as lists for the 'blocked' > > argument for import_fresh_module(). That would work [for io]. > > I don't understand how having multiple modules in the blocked list > will help in io case. io.py will simply not work if _io

[issue7989] Add pure Python implementation of datetime module to CPython

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > In any case, my threshold for moving this forward is for someone to > review the code in sandbox. Ok some comments: - I find the _cmp() and __cmp() indirection poor style in 3.x, especially when you simply end up comparing self._getstate() and other._getsta

[issue8939] Use C type names (PyUnicode etc;) in the C API docs

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > To avoid the strange-looking “a PyUnicodeObject object”, one can write > “an instance of PyUnicodeObject”. Or simply "a PyUnicodeObject". -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue8939] Use C type names (PyUnicode etc;) in the C API docs

Éric Araujo added the comment: To avoid the strange-looking “a PyUnicodeObject object”, one can write “an instance of PyUnicodeObject”. Victor, have you kept the around 0 and 1? -- resolution: -> accepted stage: -> patch review ___ Python tr

[issue9137] x.update(red=5, blue=6, other=7) doesn't work, where x is a MutableMapping

New submission from Daniel Stutzbach : Simple example, using collections.OrderedDict: >>> import collections >>> x = collections.OrderedDict() >>> x.update(red=5, blue=6, other=7) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/local/bin/../stow/Python-3.1.1/lib/python3.1/

[issue8939] Use C type names (PyUnicode etc;) in the C API docs

Daniel Stutzbach added the comment: +1 on using the full name, PyUnicodeObject The shorthand "PyUnicode" is too easy to confuse with Py_UNICODE (an actual type). -- nosy: +stutzbach ___ Python tracker ___

[issue9104] test_exceptions does not test pickling with pickle.py

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: > You can make the dictionary values as lists for the 'blocked' > argument for import_fresh_module(). That would work [for io]. I don't understand how having multiple modules in the blocked list will help in io case. io.py will simply not work if _io is

[issue8990] array constructor and array.fromstring should accept bytearray.

Changes by Thomas Jollans : Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file17827/tofrombytes.diff ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue8990] array constructor and array.fromstring should accept bytearray.

Changes by Thomas Jollans : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17828/tofrombytes.diff ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing l

[issue8595] Explain the default timeout in http-client-related libraries

Eric Smith added the comment: I think you could preserve backward compatibility by doing something like the following (in httplib): _sentinel = object() __HTTP_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = _sentinel In httplib.HTTPConnection.__init__(), in Python 2.6. def __init__(self, host, port=None, strict=None,

[issue8990] array constructor and array.fromstring should accept bytearray.

Thomas Jollans added the comment: Secondly, this is my attempt to add the more sensibly named {to|from}bytes methods, and to deprecate {to|from}string. I doubt it's perfect, maybe there's some policy on deprecating methods that I didn't find? This may be better discussed in a separate forum,

[issue9126] errors='replace' does not work at Windows command line

R. David Murray added the comment: The characters are fine when you read them (that is, they decode correctly to unicode). They are only invalid when you write them to the windows terminal, which can't handle all the valid characters that are in the file. The Idle output window uses a more

[issue8990] array constructor and array.fromstring should accept bytearray.

Thomas Jollans added the comment: Two more patches: Firstly, this patch (array_3.2_fromstring.diff) is nearly identical to array2.diff. "y*" would (again) have to be changed to "s*" to apply this to 3.1 -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17826/array_3.2_fromstring.diff ___

[issue9126] errors='replace' does not work at Windows command line

John Van Praag added the comment: According to the documentation of the open function: errors is an optional string that specifies how encoding and decoding errors are to be handled–this cannot be used in binary mode. Pass 'strict' to raise a ValueError exception if there is an encoding error (

[issue8324] add a distutils test command

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- resolution: -> accepted stage: -> needs patch versions: -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bu

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Here's a patch. It's a little ugly, but I don't see a better way that avoids locals(). Using **kwargs is an option, but would mean abandoning the current nice feature that unexpected keyword arguments raise TypeError (or alternatively, implementing that che

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Mark Dickinson added the comment: > it looks like 'locals()' is somewhat magical ... and Objects/frameobject.c is the place to go for a full understanding. PyFrame_FastToLocals is the 'updating' function that updates the locals dict from the 'fast locals' object. -- ___

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Ah, it looks like 'locals()' is somewhat magical. Its docstring says: "Update and return a dictionary containing the current scope's local variables." So I think this explains your (Stefan's) results: in either case, you evaluate locals() (as the target of

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Stefan Krah added the comment: The tracker doesn't handle code when posted by mail. Here's the code again: >>> for name, val in locals().items(): ... print(locals()) ... {'name': '__builtins__', 'val': , '__builtins__': , '__package__': None, '__name__': '__main__', '__doc__': None} Trac

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Stefan Krah added the comment: Mark Dickinson wrote: > > Mark Dickinson added the comment: > > class Context(object): > def __init__(self): > for name, val in locals().items(): > setattr(self, name, val) > > > Isn't this dodgy anyway, since 'name' and 'val' end up g

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Stefan Krah added the comment: Still clueless about profile.py, but I think it creates a parallel stack, and overwriting of locals legitimately occurs in that stack, producing the Exception. So it would appear that by design one simply cannot iterate over locals when using the profile module.

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Mark Dickinson added the comment: class Context(object): def __init__(self): for name, val in locals().items(): setattr(self, name, val) Isn't this dodgy anyway, since 'name' and 'val' end up going into locals()? I wonder why the RuntimeError *isn't* raised for a norm

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Removing the decimal module from the equation, the following is enough to trigger this for me. Stefan's suggestion about the profile module writing to locals sounds right on target. import profile class Context(object): def __init__(self): for

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Stefan Krah added the comment: Mark Dickinson wrote: > I can't reproduce this on Linux. However, I've seen an informal report of > something like this happening before. It looks a lot like something > threading related, but I don't see any threads in what you're doing. (Though > I don't k

[issue1152248] Enhance file.readlines by making line separator selectable

Ralph Corderoy added the comment: Google has led me here because I'm trying to see how to process find(1)'s -print0 output with Python. Perl's -0 option and $/ variable makes this trivial. find -name '*.orig' -print0 | perl -n0e unlink awk(1) has its RS, record separator, variable too.

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Okay, I can reproduce by adding a 'time.sleep(0.01)' delay into the body of the 'for name, val in locals().items():' loop. I then get (with py3k): dicki...@alberti:~/Source/py3k> ./python Python 3.2a0 (py3k:82413M, Jul 1 2010, 10:21:02) [GCC 4.2.1 (SUSE Linu

[issue1856] shutdown (exit) can hang or segfault with daemon threads running

Changes by Ernesto Menéndez : -- nosy: +Netto ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Mark Dickinson added the comment: BTW, is the behaviour consistent, or does it only occur on some runs? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue9136] RuntimeError when profiling Decimal

Mark Dickinson added the comment: I can't reproduce this on Linux. However, I've seen an informal report of something like this happening before. It looks a lot like something threading related, but I don't see any threads in what you're doing. (Though I don't know the details of how the p

[issue5315] signal handler never gets called

Changes by Ernesto Menéndez : -- nosy: +Netto ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python

[issue9134] sre bug: lastmark_save/restore

Armin Rigo added the comment: It's pretty trivial to turn my x.py into a unit test, of course. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bu