[issue1542677] IDLE shell gives different len() of unicode strings compared to Python shell

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: For 2.7, I don't think it's possible to really fix this. I see the following options: A. current status. Byte strings are compiled correctly, Unicode strings are not. B. compile source as a Unicode string, as proposed in msg85886. Unicode strings are compile

[issue1542677] compile(): IDLE shell gives different len() of unicode strings compared to Python shell

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: As indicated in msg59954, it works fine on 3.x, so removing these versions. -- versions: -Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue10190] Can argparse._AttributeHolder._get_kwargs become a public API?

New submission from Dariusz Suchojad : Hello, I was wondering if it were possible for the argparse._AttributeHolder._get_kwargs to become a part of the public API. Using this method is a very convenient way to get a hold of the arguments provided by the user and it would be shame to keep it p

[issue7761] telnetlib Telnet.interact fails on Windows but not Linux

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[issue10189] SyntaxError: no binding for nonlocal doesn't contain a useful traceback

R. David Murray added the comment: I figured it was something like that, from looking at the code. I wonder if it would be worthwhile to return the line info that is known (which I think is the start of the block containing the problematic symbol). In a complex program that would at least ge

[issue3196] Option in pydoc to show docs from private methods

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[issue10189] SyntaxError: no binding for nonlocal doesn't contain a useful traceback

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Technically, it's because the syntax errors come from a latter part of the compiling phase when the origin of names isn't known. Fixing this would involve attaching line numbers and offsets to names somehow. -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson ___

[issue1610654] cgi.py multipart/form-data

R. David Murray added the comment: I don't think it was appropriate to close this issue. -- nosy: +r.david.murray -BreamoreBoy resolution: wont fix -> stage: unit test needed -> patch review status: closed -> open versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.7, Python 3.1 _

[issue10189] SyntaxError: no binding for nonlocal doesn't contain a useful traceback

R. David Murray added the comment: Hmm. Just to clarify, the commit message on the code in question specifically said that the implementation of nonlocal was not complete with that commit, and Jeremy wasn't the only one working on it. So this detail may have simply been overlooked. ---

[issue10189] SyntaxError: no binding for nonlocal doesn't contain a useful traceback

R. David Murray added the comment: There are a number of such symbol resolution error messages for nonlocal that don't provide location information in symtable.c. I'm not very experienced with hacking the C code, but a naive addition of location information based on similar calls that do pro

[issue10161] unittest: use ascii() instead of repr() to display values on error

Michael Foord added the comment: Although this is still a real issue for other users of unittest. If I get time to think about it properly I may reopen. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue1542677] compile(): IDLE shell gives different len() of unicode strings compared to Python shell

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[issue10161] unittest: use ascii() instead of repr() to display values on error

STINNER Victor added the comment: Closed with r85829: patch test_pep277 instead of unittest. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue10171] Ugly buttons in some Tkinter objects in Windows

Rafe Kettler added the comment: I haven't had a chance to look too deeply into the source, but it appears (at least in Python 2.7) that the problem has something to do with the commands that the classes in tkMessageBox and tkColorChooser pass to tk.call(). The Message class in tkMessageBox, t

[issue8761] PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString name is not mangled (UCS2, UCS4)

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[issue8776] Bytes version of sys.argv

STINNER Victor added the comment: Prototype (in Python) of argvb.py. Try it with: ./python -i argvb.py. It's not possible to create sys.argvb in Python in a module loaded by Py_Initialize(), because sys.argv is created after Py_Initialize(). -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file1

[issue10189] SyntaxError: no binding for nonlocal doesn't contain a useful traceback

New submission from Alex : Given the code: def f(): def g(): nonlocal a a = 3 Running it produces: a...@alex-laptop:/tmp$ python3.1 test.py SyntaxError: no binding for nonlocal 'a' found Compared to a different SyntaxError: a...@alex-laptop:/tmp$ python3.1 test.py Fil

[issue10171] Ugly buttons in some Tkinter objects in Windows

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks, I tested the file dialog example and it does not respect my theme either. Re-adding the Windows component. I suspect the bug is in Python. Like you said, Tcl/Tk and Tkinter do have the ability to use new shiny buttons, it’s just two modules that are no

[issue10184] tarfile touches directories twice

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: I see. Here is an updated version that makes the touch operations optional. -- assignee: ghaering -> lars.gustaebel nosy: -ghaering Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19354/tarfile2.diff ___ Python tracker

[issue10002] Installer doesn't install on Windows Server 2008 DataCenter R2

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[issue10013] fix `./libpython2.6.so: undefined re ference to `_PyParser_Grammar´` in parallel builds

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[issue10019] json.dumps with indent = 0 not adding newlines

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[issue10171] Ugly buttons in some Tkinter objects in Windows

Rafe Kettler added the comment: If you were to create a FileDialog, you should see proper buttons (at least I do in Windows): import tkFileDialog tkFileDialog.askopenfile() I think that this goes more along the lines of a bug, because I know that Tkinter has the ability to properly show butt

[issue10171] Ugly buttons in some Tkinter objects in Windows

Éric Araujo added the comment: In my GTK desktop environment, your two examples produce windows that don’t respect my theme. Can you give me an example that uses correct buttons for you so that I can see what I should expect? I’m not sure this is a bug or a feature request. -- compo

[issue10002] Installer doesn't install on Windows Server 2008 DataCenter R2

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[issue10188] tempfile.TemporaryDirectory may throw errors at shutdown

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[issue10006] non-Pythonic fate of __abstractmethods__

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[issue10002] Installer doesn't install on Windows Server 2008 DataCenter R2

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[issue10000] mark more tests as CPython specific

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[issue7696] Improve Memoryview/Buffer documentation

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Let's close then. -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue7696] Improve Memoryview/Buffer documentation

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Antoine, is there more that remains to be done on this, or can it be closed? I don't know really. I have done what I thought necessary on memoryview/buffer maintenance, and I don't really want to go any further. -- __

[issue9437] can't build extensions with non-default ldflags (e.g. -m32)

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > These changes cause some regressions: > - distutils builds third-party extensions with LDFLAGS, which were > used to build CPython. (This is more important regression.) > This problem concerns Python 2.7 and 3.2. Well, is this a problem? This sounds like th

[issue9437] can't build extensions with non-default ldflags (e.g. -m32)

Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis added the comment: These changes cause some regressions: - distutils builds third-party extensions with LDFLAGS, which were used to build CPython. (This is more important regression.) This problem concerns Python 2.7 and 3.2. - distutils builds third-party

[issue9517] Make test.script_helper more comprehensive, and use it in the test suite

Nick Coghlan added the comment: I still think this is a good idea, I'm just not actively working on it. It might make a good project for someone wanting to get to know the process of working on CPython without having to deal with anything that is particularly tricky to understand. --

[issue5251] contextlib.nested inconsistent with, well, nested with statements due exceptions raised in __enter__

Nick Coghlan added the comment: R.I.P contextlib.nested (it is gone in 3.2 following the deprecation in 3.1). The issue is obscure enough that I don't see much value in updating the documentation for the versions that still contain it in deprecated form. -- resolution: -> out of date

[issue2690] Precompute range length

Nick Coghlan added the comment: I'd still like to have another look at this before beta 1, but can't promise I'll get to it. Unassigning in case someone else has some roundtuits to spare over the next few weeks. -- assignee: ncoghlan -> ___ Python

[issue10049] Add a "no-op" (null) context manager to contextlib

Nick Coghlan added the comment: I find Raymond's perspective persuasive in this case. Feel free to post either the original idea or my later variant as an ASPN cookbook recipe. (you could actually combine the two, and use NullContext as an implementation detail of an optional_cm() function)

[issue9873] urllib.parse: Allow bytes in some APIs that use string literals internally

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Unless I hear some reasonable objections within the next week or so, I'm going to document and commit the ascii-strict coercion approach for beta 1. The difference in code clarity is such that I'm not even going to try to benchmark the two approaches against ea

[issue9873] urllib.parse: Allow bytes in some APIs that use string literals internally

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Attached a second version of the patch. Notable features: - uses a coercion-to-str-and-back strategy (using ascii-strict) - a significantly more comprehensive pass through the urlparse test suite. I'm happy that the test suite mods are complete with this pass. T

[issue6407] multiprocessing Pool should allow custom task queue

Matthew Leon Grinshpun added the comment: I should be able to do this in November. For the moment I'm a bit busy. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue10184] tarfile touches directories twice

Lars Gustäbel added the comment: The patch goes a bit too far. Though it solves this particular problem with the way TarFile.extractall() works, it breaks TarFile.extract(). Running the testsuite does not expose this, simply because there's no testcase :-( Please see the attached testcase I j

[issue5178] Add context manager for temporary directory

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[issue5178] Add context manager for temporary directory

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Committed (with enhanced tests and a few fixes) in r85818 And credit where it's due to test___all__ for picking up a typo in my adjustment to tempfile.__all__ :) I created issue #10188 to track the shutdown problem. I'm considering taking out the code that att

[issue9408] curses: Link against libncursesw instead of libncurses

Stefan Krah added the comment: Hmm, I understood that your ldd lines implied that things don't work as intended in 3.1, hence the explanation. Perhaps this wasn't the case. :) -- ___ Python tracker

[issue10188] tempfile.TemporaryDirectory may throw errors at shutdown

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Cleanup of sys and __builtin__ is already delayed - this particular issue could be fixed by delaying cleanup of a few more modules, along with the proposed change to GC invocation in issue #1545463. -- ___ Python tra

[issue9408] curses: Link against libncursesw instead of libncurses

Stefan Krah added the comment: There are two issues here: (1) If libreadline is already linked against ncurses, there is no way that the readline module should be linked against ncursesw. This was the direct cause of the FreeBSD segfault, so this configuration is also prohibited in

[issue10188] tempfile.TemporaryDirectory may throw errors at shutdown

New submission from Nick Coghlan : During interpreter shutdown, modules can become unusable as module globals are set to None. This is a problem for tempfile.TemporaryDirectory, as it needs working os, os.path and stat modules in order to clean up the filesystem. The class makes a valiant atte

[issue8037] multiprocessing.Queue's put() not atomic thread wise

Vilnis Termanis added the comment: The idea is to pickle the object immediately (i.e. when added) instead of when requested (dequeued). This means that any operations (even deletion) performed on the original object do not make changes to the item in the queue, before it has been dequeued. Wh

[issue10156] Initialization of globals in unicodeobject.c

Stefan Krah added the comment: > why should _PyUnicode_Init() try to call _PyUnicode_InitGlobals() again? For the embedding scenario (when only Py_Initialize() is called) I wanted to preserve the old behavior of _PyUnicode_Init(). But this is not really enough. I wrote a new patch that also c

[issue8202] sys.argv[0] and python -m package

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[issue5178] Add context manager for temporary directory

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[issue5573] multiprocessing Pipe poll() and recv() semantics.

Ask Solem added the comment: I don't know about the socket internals, but I find the behavior acceptable. It may not be feasible to change it now anyway, as there may be people already depending on it (e.g. not handling errors occurring at poll) -- ___

[issue7474] multiprocessing.managers.SyncManager managed object creation fails when started outside of invoked file

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[issue8777] Add threading.Barrier

Kristján Valur Jónsson added the comment: Hi, I had forgotten about this. I went back to the drawing board and had almost completed a new version. Looking at the Java barrier shows how one can go overboard with stuff. My though with the barrier is to provide a simple synchronization primitiv

[issue6407] multiprocessing Pool should allow custom task queue

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[issue7200] multiprocessing deadlock on Mac OS X when queue collected before process terminates

Ask Solem added the comment: Queue uses multiprocessing.util.Finalize, which uses weakrefs to track when the object is out of scope, so this is actually expected behavior. IMHO it is not a very good approach, but changing the API to use explicit close methods is a little late at this point, I

[issue4999] multiprocessing.Queue does not order objects

Georg Brandl added the comment: Are you sure this needs to be a warning? We try to use them very sparingly. (Also note the 3-space indent for reStructuredText markup.) -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker __

[issue8037] multiprocessing.Queue's put() not atomic thread wise

Ask Solem added the comment: aha, no. I see now you use connection.send_bytes instead. Then I can't think of any issues with this patch, but I don't know why it was done this way in the first place. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue8037] multiprocessing.Queue's put() not atomic thread wise

Ask Solem added the comment: AFAICS the object will be pickled twice with this patch. See Modules/_multiprocessing/connection.h: connection_send_obj. -- nosy: +asksol ___ Python tracker

[issue4999] multiprocessing.Queue does not order objects

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[issue10187] exec encode unicode to utf-8 str automatically in GBK environment

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[issue10187] exec encode unicode to utf-8 str automatically in GBK environment

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > oh,you mentioned the PEP 263 > but I already set a header like this,you can see the attached test.py > #coding=GBK You have that in test.py, but not in the string you are giving to exec. This is really a separate source code. So you could have written exec

[issue10187] exec encode unicode to utf-8 str automatically in GBK environment

wjm251 added the comment: oh,you mentioned the PEP 263 but I already set a header like this,you can see the attached test.py #coding=GBK why exec choose to use utf-8 not GBK? GBK is a valid Chinese character set in python26 -- ___ Python tracker <