[issue7645] test_distutils fails on Windows XP

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: It's just a data file missing from the .msi installer. -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue9073] Tkinter module missing from install on OS X 10.6.4

Ned Deily added the comment: The Python 2 Tkinter has been renamed to tkinter in Python 3 and the lib-tk no longer exists. See http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/tkinter.html -- assignee: -> ronaldoussoren components: +Macintosh nosy: +ned.deily, ronaldoussoren

[issue9271] Python throws `IOError: [Errno 27] File too large' on long file names

New submission from Jason Gross : On attempting to open files with sufficiently long file names, python throws IOError: [Errno 27] File too large. This is misleading, and perhaps should be relabeled as 'File name too long.' I have only tested this on unix with Python 2.5.2. This error was th

[issue1475523] gettext breaks on plural-forms header

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Minor change request. +class Bug1448060(GettextBaseTest): Can you name the test class something more meaningful like PluralFormsTest or something like that. It is helpful when looking at it later. (Btw, this can be done by the committer during checkin too)

[issue9266] ctypes "ValueError: NULL pointer access" on Win7 x64

Greg Hazel added the comment: Ok, this issue is worse, and much easier to reproduce, than I thought. Here is an updated ctypes_test.zip with a repro using only integers and callbacks. Correct output: ('three', (1, 2, 3)) ('four', (1, 2, 3, 4)) ('five', (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)) Incorrect output: ('thr

[issue9266] ctypes "ValueError: NULL pointer access" on Win7 x64

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[issue9270] distutils.util.getplatform and sysconfig.getplatform differ

New submission from bugs-pyt...@vendor.thewrittenword.com : We had issues building python 2.7 on hppa-hp-hpux machines because sysconfig and distutils had different ideas of the platform name. ./python -c 'import os, sys; from distutils.util import get_platform as plat1; from sysconfig import

[issue9269] Cannot pickle self-referencing sets

mike bayer added the comment: OK, more specifically, here's the kind of situation where items in a set are mutable: company = Session.query(Company).first() # company.employees is a set() company.employees # each employee references the parent company for e in company.employees: assert e

[issue9269] Cannot pickle self-referencing sets

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Jack Diederich wrote: .. >  If database rows were mutable the results of a JOIN could be nonsensical. And if your result set is self-referential you have a bigger problem on your hands than not being able to pickle it. :

[issue9269] Cannot pickle self-referencing sets

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:26 PM, mike bayer wrote: .. > where is it defined that sets are not "supposed" to contain mutable items?   > such a requirement vastly limits the usefulness of sets. > Well, there is no such requirement. The actual requirement

[issue9269] Cannot pickle self-referencing sets

Jack Diederich added the comment: Mike, it is better to think of database rows as immutable tuples. During the course of a query the contents of the database are considered static - hence all that locking and kvetching about this or that database not having "true" foreign key support. If da

[issue7645] test_distutils fails on Windows XP

Austin English added the comment: Still present in 3.1.2. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18022/distutils.txt ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue7991] test_ntpath fails on Windows XP

Austin English added the comment: Runs fine in 3.1.2 on that machine. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsu

[issue7991] test_ntpath fails on Windows XP

Austin English added the comment: Runs fine in 3.1.2 on that machine. -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs

[issue9269] Cannot pickle self-referencing sets

mike bayer added the comment: where is it defined that sets are not "supposed" to contain mutable items? such a requirement vastly limits the usefulness of sets. Consider that relational database rows are mutable. A result set containing multiple rows which each have a primary key comprise

[issue9269] Cannot pickle self-referencing sets

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: I am reclassifying this as an RFE because as a bug, this is a duplicate of issue1062277. The later contains an excellent description of the problem by Dima Dorfman: Our pickle implementations don't check for reduce cycles. This is somewhat co

[issue9269] Cannot pickle self-referencing sets

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[issue9120] Reduce pickle size for an empty set

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: Chances are we will need to add protocol support for sets. See issue9269. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue998998] pickle bug - recursively memoizing class?

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: There are two issues here. The original issue is a duplicate of #1062277. The other issue is specific to cycles containing a set. [msg77200] I am opening a separate issue for that. See #9269. -- resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> pendin

[issue9205] Parent process hanging in multiprocessing if children terminate unexpectedly

Greg Brockman added the comment: Started looking at your patch. It seems to behave reasonably, although it still doesn't catch all of the failure cases. In particular, as you note, crashed jobs won't be noticed until the pool shuts down... but if you make a blocking call such as in the foll

[issue9269] Cannot pickle self-referencing sets

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[issue9269] Cannot pickle self-referencing sets

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[issue9269] Cannot pickle self-referencing sets

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[issue1043706] External storage protocol for large email messages

Mark Lawrence added the comment: The patch if fairly small and if accepted could be implemented quite easily despite its age as the code doesn't appear to have changed much in the interim. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.7 ___

[issue9269] Cannot pickle self-referencing sets

New submission from Alexander Belopolsky : Attached script, cycle.py demonstrates a simplification of the behavior reported by mike bayer in msg77200. Essentially, the script attempts to pickle a set that contains a class instance that has an attribute referring back to the set: class C:

[issue1475523] gettext breaks on plural-forms header

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Sorry, forgot to say that the patched code passed all tests in the patched unit test file. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue1006238] cross compile patch

Mark Lawrence added the comment: As a cross compile patch and being a feature request this must target 3.2. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker

[issue1597850] Cross compiling patches for MINGW

Mark Lawrence added the comment: I understand that cross-compilation is not supported so this must now be aimed at 3.2. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5404] Cross-compiling Python

Mark Lawrence added the comment: I understand that cross-compilation is not supported so this must now be aimed at 3.2. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.5 ___ Python tracker __

[issue8530] Stringlib fastsearch can read beyond the front of an array

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[issue991266] Cookie.py does not correctly quote Morsels

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[issue9236] Invalid reads in fastsearch.h

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[issue991266] Cookie.py does not correctly quote Morsels

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Can someone please take a look at this Cookie.py two line patch. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue900092] hotshot.stats.load fails with AssertionError

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Is it worth leaving this open, given this from section 26.5 of the 2.7 docs. "For common usage it is recommended to use cProfile instead. hotshot is not maintained and might be removed from the standard library in the future." -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy _

[issue1581183] pickle protocol 2 failure on int subclass

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: I am going to close this as a duplicate of issue 1062277. The later has a patch, but Raymond questioned whether proposed feature is desirable. [msg47268] I am -1, but will look at the patch there. -- nosy: +rhettinger resolution: -> duplicate

[issue1475523] gettext breaks on plural-forms header

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Attached patch is my take on the fix to this, it's a two line change to gettext.py for 2.7. If the change is accepted I'll provide another patch for py3k. Nosy list updated while I'm at it. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy, dsegan, potorange -merwok versions:

[issue9268] Add annotation option to pickletools.dis

New submission from Alexander Belopolsky : Example: >>> dis(pickle.dumps(T, 3), annotate=1) >>> >>> 0: \x80 PROTO 3 | Protocol version indicator.

[issue9205] Parent process hanging in multiprocessing if children terminate unexpectedly

Greg Brockman added the comment: Actually, the program you demonstrate is nonequivalent to the one I posted. The one I posted pickles just fine because 'bar' is a global name, but doesn't unpickle because it doesn't exist in the parent's namespace. (See http://docs.python.org/library/pickle

[issue9205] Parent process hanging in multiprocessing if children terminate unexpectedly

Ask Solem added the comment: > Really? I could be misremembering, but I believe you deal > with the case of the result being unpickleable. I.e. you > deal with the put(result) failing, but not the get() in the > result handler. Your example is demonstrating the pickle error on put(), not on

[issue3163] module struct support for ssize_t and size_t

Jean Brouwers added the comment: It would be sufficient to support size_t/ssize_t in native mode for my usage. The workaround I have been using is in this recipe in the function calcsize. That maps the 'z' and 'Z' format to either 'l', 'L' or

[issue3163] module struct support for ssize_t and size_t

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[issue9267] Update pickle opcode documentation in pickletools for 3.x

Changes by Alexander Belopolsky : -- dependencies: +3.1 cannot unpickle 2.7-created pickle nosy: +alexandre.vassalotti, lemburg, mark.dickinson, pitrou ___ Python tracker ___

[issue9267] Update pickle opcode documentation in pickletools for 3.x

New submission from Alexander Belopolsky : Pickle opcode documentation in pickletools still refers to old/new style classes and changes made in 2.x series. Opcodes such as INT, INST, and OBJ that are no longer produced by 3.x pickling code should be described as such and discussion added on h

[issue5180] 3.1 cannot unpickle 2.7-created pickle

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: Antoine, I think I have found a better solution. Since we are dealing with classic classes, they should not define __new__. If in porting to 3.x, users introduce __new__ that requires arguments, they will not be able to unpickle 2.x pickles no matter

[issue9028] test_support.run_unittest cmdline options and arguments

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[issue9028] test_support.run_unittest cmdline options and arguments

anatoly techtonik added the comment: Cool, unittest.main() worked for me, but I still lack the introspection to see what tests are available inside the file. Would there be any objections against quickly adding -l, --list option to expose the result of test discovery as it works now? What ar

[issue9265] Incorrect name passed as arg[0] when shell=True and executable specified

R. David Murray added the comment: Ah, I misread the test the first time. Well, I'd prefer a test that always did a real test on posix, but I suppose this has to be good enough since there could be systems that Python otherwise supports that *only* have /bin/sh. Actually I suppose one could

[issue1475523] gettext breaks on plural-forms header

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[issue1475523] gettext breaks on plural-forms header

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- resolution: -> accepted title: patch fixing #1448060 (gettext.py bug) -> gettext breaks on plural-forms header versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker __

[issue9260] A finer grained import lock

Brett Cannon added the comment: I'll have a look when I can (hopefully EuroPython). -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mai

[issue7384] curses crash on FreeBSD

Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis added the comment: This patch allows to build Python 3.* in this locale. It might be safer to open tmpfile in binary mode to avoid potential problems with non-ASCII characters in paths to libraries. -- ___ Python

[issue1448060] gettext.py breaks on plural-forms header (PATCH)

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[issue9265] Incorrect name passed as arg[0] when shell=True and executable specified

Stefan Krah added the comment: Hm, /bin/sh should actually be removed from the list. It might be a symlink to csh, for example. I know this isn't an exhaustive test. If /bin/bash or /bin/ksh don't exist, the test is skipped. I thought this is good enough, since the majority of systems have one

[issue1448060] gettext.py breaks on plural-forms header (PATCH)

Mark Lawrence added the comment: I'm closing this as a duplicate of 1475523 as the latter has a unit test patch file attached, I'll also merge the nosy lists. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue9265] Incorrect name passed as arg[0] when shell=True and executable specified

Éric Araujo added the comment: David: My message was ambiguous. Your second reading was correct :) Stefan: $0 works with dash too (no reason why it should not, but I still tested :). “Accepted” means “valid bug report”; to say that the patch is good people use a message or commit directly. -

[issue9264] trace.py documentation is incomplete

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am reviewing doc + patch against the code. Do not commit yet. -- assignee: d...@python -> tjreedy stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker _

[issue1724366] cPickle module doesn't work with universal line endings

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: > The pickle.py docsstrings in 2.7+ contain the following text > (amongst others): > > .. Protocol 0 is the > only protocol that can be written to a file opened in text > mode and read back successfully. Hmm, indeed. The ReST documenta

[issue9265] Incorrect name passed as arg[0] when shell=True and executable specified

R. David Murray added the comment: The test unfortunately is too fragile. There is no guarantee that those shells will exist with those paths on any given system. Maybe you could use 'which' to find the path to the alternate shell for use in the test, and skip it if you can't find said shel

[issue9265] Incorrect name passed as arg[0] when shell=True and executable specified

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[issue9265] Incorrect name passed as arg[0] when shell=True and executable specified

Stefan Krah added the comment: Here's a patch with a test case. Without the fix in subprocess.py, the test prints: == FAIL: test_specific_shell (__main__.POSIXProcessTestCase) ---

[issue9205] Parent process hanging in multiprocessing if children terminate unexpectedly

Ask Solem added the comment: Just some small cosmetic changes to the patch. (added multiprocessing-tr...@82502-termination3.patch) -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18015/multiprocessing-tr...@82502-termination3.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue9205] Parent process hanging in multiprocessing if children terminate unexpectedly

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[issue9205] Parent process hanging in multiprocessing if children terminate unexpectedly

Greg Brockman added the comment: >> Before I forget, looks like we also need to deal with the >> result from a worker being un-unpickleable: >This is what my patch in bug 9244 does... Really? I could be misremembering, but I believe you deal with the case of the result being unpickleable. I.e

[issue9244] multiprocessing.pool: Worker crashes if result can't be encoded

Ask Solem added the comment: Updated patch with Greg's suggestions. (multiprocessing-tr...@82502-handle_worker_encoding_errors2.patch) -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18014/multiprocessing-tr...@82502-handle_worker_encoding_errors2.patch _

[issue9249] struct.pack and Long Integer datatype should be 4, but is 8 bytes

hannes reuter added the comment: Hi Mark, If you would add a footnote to the L/l formats table and mention what you wrote, it would make things clearer. Something along the lines like that I reformulated from your explanation: On most common platforms the 'l' and 'L' codes are the only ones li

[issue9205] Parent process hanging in multiprocessing if children terminate unexpectedly

Ask Solem added the comment: Ok. I implemented my suggestions in the patch attached (multiprocessing-tr...@82502-termination2.patch) What do you think? Greg, Maybe we could keep the behavior in termination.patch as an option for map jobs? It is certainly a problem that map jobs won't terminate

[issue9265] Incorrect name passed as arg[0] when shell=True and executable specified

R. David Murray added the comment: Stephan: that might be a cleaner API, rather than overloading the semantics of 'executable'. But that would be a separate feature request. I see what you are saying about "just the name". I misread Éric's message as saying he'd confirmed the bug, but I gue

[issue9265] Can't choose other shell in subprocess

Stefan Krah added the comment: Isn't just the name of the executable wrong? /bin/bash is executed all right, but the name is set to "/bin/sh". Index: Lib/subprocess.py === --- Lib/subprocess.py (revision 82816) +++ Lib/subproce

[issue9265] Can't choose other shell in subprocess

R. David Murray added the comment: >From looking at the code, it appears that what happens currently is that >executable is used to run /bin/sh when shell=True. So I'm pretty sure there >is a bug here. What isn't clear is whether or not fixing this bug will cause >currently working code to

[issue9266] ctypes "ValueError: NULL pointer access" on Win7 x64

New submission from Greg Hazel : ctypes on Windows on a 64bit Python installation gets a NULL pointer access where one is not expected. To reproduce the problem, run make.bat then "python ctypes_test.py" Failure output looks like this: Three! 1 2 <__main__.LP_Some object at 0x0209C4C

[issue9265] Can't choose other shell in subprocess

Éric Araujo added the comment: The SHELL variable is not to be trusted, since e.g. dash (my system’s /bin/sh) in a bash will have SHELL=bash. I tested this command: "help set >/dev/null && echo ok". Bash prints ok but dash gives an error. This test worked for versions 2.4 up to 3.2. Narnie,

[issue9265] Can't choose other shell in subprocess

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[issue9265] Can't choose other shell in subprocess

Stefan Krah added the comment: I think this is invalid. Please run: >>> from subprocess import Popen >>> Popen("echo $SHELL", executable="/bin/bash", shell=True) /bin/bash >>> -- nosy: +skrah ___ Python tracker _

[issue9265] Can't choose other shell in subprocess

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thank you for the report. The docs indeed say “If shell=True, the executable argument specifies which shell to use”. Could you provide your change as a diff file following the guidelines on http://www.python.org/dev/patches/ ? Diffs are easier to review than who

[issue9110] contextlib.ContextDecorator

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[issue9110] contextlib.ContextDecorator

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Bumping back to open until the documentation is tweaked. -- components: +Documentation -Library (Lib) status: closed -> open ___ Python tracker __

[issue9260] A finer grained import lock

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > That's my point; loaders are using the lock implicitly so that's why > we don't need to worry about the global import lock just for path > hooks. It seems like you are suggesting using the global import lock > purely for compatibility, and what I am saying is

[issue9260] A finer grained import lock

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Graham Dumpleton added the comment: > > How is this going to deal with cyclical imports where different > threads could import at the same time different modules within that > cycle? I need to look through the proposed patch and work out exactly > what it do

[issue1724366] cPickle module doesn't work with universal line endings

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Antoine, to answer your question about universal newlines in pickle in msg87622. The pickle.py docsstrings in 2.7+ contain the following text (amongst others): The optional protocol argument tells the pickler to use the given protocol; suppo

[issue9164] 2.7 sysconfig should handle arch duplicates while building universal on OS X

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Thanks for investigation why MacPorts can use duplicate flags. My patch is in the repository and will be in the next releases of all 4 actively maintained branches. -- status: pending -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue9205] Parent process hanging in multiprocessing if children terminate unexpectedly

Ask Solem added the comment: Greg, > Before I forget, looks like we also need to deal with the > result from a worker being un-unpickleable: This is what my patch in bug 9244 does... > Yep. Again, as things stand, once you've lost an worker, > you've lost a task, and you can't really do much

[issue1520662] support all of strftime(3)

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