[issue10300] Documentation of three PyDict_* functions

Hagen Fürstenau added the comment: The ReST links in http://docs.python.org/py3k/c-api/dict.html#PyDict_Items seem to be broken. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue10243] Packaged Pythons

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[issue10243] Packaged Pythons

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[issue9015] array.array.tofile cannot write arrays of sizes > 4GB, even compiled for amd64

Martin Spacek added the comment: NumPy is addressing this with a workaround in its ndarray, calling fwrite multiple times in reasonably sized chunks. See http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1660 -- nosy: +mspacek type: -> crash ___ Python track

[issue10307] compile error in readline.c

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[issue10155] Add fixups for encoding problems to wsgiref

And Clover added the comment: Thanks. Some of those additions in _needs_transcode are potentially controversial, though. I'm not wholly sure it's the right thing to transcode these. Some of them may not actually come from the request, eg `REMOTE_USER` may be filled in by IIS's Windows authen

[issue10307] compile error in readline.c

New submission from Senthil Kumaran : /py3k/Modules/readline.c: In function flex_complete: /py3k/Modules/readline.c:877: error: on_completion undeclared (first use in this function) -- assignee: orsenthil messages: 120376 nosy: orsenthil priority: normal severity: normal status: open t

[issue10306] Weakref callback exceptions should be turned into warnings.

New submission from Julian : If a weakref callback raises an exception, weakref writes out some text (to stderr, I think) and ignores it. I think it would be more appropriate if weakref emitted that text using the Python warning module, to allow it to be better controlled. Consider this code

[issue7317] Display full tracebacks when an error occurs asynchronously

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[issue6058] Add cp65001 to encodings/aliases.py

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[issue6058] Add cp65001 to encodings/aliases.py

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[issue1602] windows console doesn't print utf8 (Py30a2)

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[issue10242] unittest's assertItemsEqual() method makes too many assumptions about its input

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: One nuance, it may be better to implement as: a_cnt = collections.Counter(iter(a)) b_cnt = collections.Counter(iter(b)) That will bypass the special handling the Counter constructor has if the argument is a Mapping. --

[issue10273] Clean-up Unittest API

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: > assertLess, on the other hand, I often get wrong, > since it is *not* __lt__ spelled out. Right. Even Michael gets that one wrong. Meditate on why Guido created the special method __lt__ instead of __less_than__. Regardless of why Guido made that choi

[issue10260] Add a threading.Condition.wait_for() method

Jeffrey Yasskin added the comment: On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> I spent some time thinking of a name.  I tried wait_predicate and >> predicate_wait, but wait_for seemed natural.  Any other ideas? >> How about wait_until_true? > > wait_for is ok IMO. Agreed. >> My o

[issue10273] Clean-up Unittest API

R. David Murray added the comment: assertCountsEqual is IMO much clearer than assertItemsCountsEqual (or however you spell it). I was unclear on what the latter did, but the former is fairly clear. Ezio's suggestion is also clearer. Raymond, since you said 'never' your statement about asser

[issue10273] Clean-up Unittest API

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: > For the regexp methods we should use assertRegexp assertRegex is better. it matches the name used in other unittest implementations, there is not confusion with camel casing RegExp vs Regexp, and it matches the former name of Python's own regex module.

[issue1926] NNTPS support in nntplib

StevenJ added the comment: I too was just looking at NNTPS support because I have a need for it. The latest patch looks like great work and I think the things it implements are needed for this library. But it seems to me that the latest patch combines 3 things which might otherwise be able t

[issue10305] Cleanup up ResourceWarnings in multiprocessing

New submission from Brian Curtin : As shown in a debug run of test_multiprocessing, at least two places in managers.py apparently leave open sockets. Lines 786 and 805 are the culprits, both util log lines. -- components: Library (Lib) messages: 120367 nosy: asksol, brian.curtin priori

[issue9732] Addition of getattr_static for inspect module

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[issue9732] Addition of getattr_static for inspect module

Michael Foord added the comment: Updated implementation that handles instances with inherited __slots__ members and attributes from C descriptors correctly. I think is both "good enough" and useful enough to add to inspect. (The remaining constraints are rare or pathological.) -- Add

[issue9732] Addition of getattr_static for inspect module

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[issue9732] Addition of getattr_static for inspect module

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[issue10304] error in tutorial triple-string example

Malte Helmert added the comment: Here's a related one if you want to get the sample output really 100% correct. In the last example of Section 3, the output in {>>> a, b = 0, 1 >>> while b < 1000: ... print(b, end=' ') ... a, b = b, a+b ... 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 233 377 610 98

[issue10304] error in tutorial triple-string example

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[issue10304] error in tutorial triple-string example

New submission from Malte Helmert : >From Section 3.1.2 of the tutorial: print(""" Usage: thingy [OPTIONS] -hDisplay this usage message -H hostname Hostname to connect to """) produces the following output: _

[issue10303] small inconsistency in tutorial

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[issue10273] Clean-up Unittest API

Ezio Melotti added the comment: An alternative would be adding check_order and check_duplicates to assertSameElements and de-deprecate it. Python 2.7 could be left unchanged because it's too late to add/rename/deprecate methods (it has assertItemsEqual but not assertSameElements). Py3.2 woul

[issue10303] small inconsistency in tutorial

New submission from Malte Helmert : Section "3.1.2. Strings" says "*Once again*, the print() function produces the more readable output.", but as far as I can see (or grep), this is the first time that this aspect of print() is mentioned. -- assignee: d...@python components: Documentat

[issue6081] str.format_from_mapping()

Eric Smith added the comment: Updated patch which adds tests and minimal docs. Named changed to format_map. I'll commit this before 3.2b1 unless I hear a complaint. -- keywords: +easy, needs review resolution: -> accepted Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19482/issue6081-1.diff

[issue10273] Clean-up Unittest API

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > For assertItemsEqual Raymond suggests assertElementCountsEqual. See > issue 10242. Why replace a long awkward name with an even longer and more awkward name? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue3699] test_bigaddrspace broken

Sandro Tosi added the comment: After quite a bit of discussion with Antoine on IRC, here it is a preliminary patch: it uses byte instead of string, but at least it works :) I'll work on a string (additional) test class hopefully tomorrow -- keywords: +patch nosy: +sandro.tosi Added fi

[issue10243] Packaged Pythons

Max Skaller added the comment: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: It may be there is none. You need to read the bit where I explain that I am not building Python, I'm grabbing pre-made packages, for OSX and for Ubuntu. The problem is that these packages don't seem to supp

[issue10273] Clean-up Unittest API

Michael Foord added the comment: Renaming and aliasing methods has a cost. It confuses users of the old names (including future users - the current API is now baked into django 1.3 unless I can get an update done in time for them to change the version they're using). People who use autocomple

[issue10242] unittest's assertItemsEqual() method makes too many assumptions about its input

Michael Foord added the comment: assertElementCountEqual is good name and I like your implementation suggestion. I'll put this in. I think the implementation fix can go into 2.7 as well but not the rename/aliasing. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue10242] unittest's assertItemsEqual() method makes too many assumptions about its input

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: > I'd be inclined to insert a check that falls back > to the "unorderable_list_difference" approach in > the case where "expected != sorted(reversed(expected))". Too fragile and subtle. The method need to be absolutely straight-forward. -- _

[issue10155] Add fixups for encoding problems to wsgiref

Phillip J. Eby added the comment: Committed to Py3K in r86146, with added docs and a larger list of transcodable CGI variables. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue9796] Add summary tables for unittest API

Ezio Melotti added the comment: I committed the patch in r86141 and a few other fixes in r86142 and r86143. There are still more things I want to fix before I backport all the patches to 3.1 and 2.7 and close the issue. -- stage: needs patch -> commit review _

[issue10242] unittest's assertItemsEqual() method makes too many assumptions about its input

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Suggestions: * new name: assertCountEqual(a, b) or:assertElementCountEqual(a, b) this name captures the essential service: - unordered comparison where duplicates matter - inputs are "elements", not "items" which means key/value pairs

[issue10302] Add class-functions to hash many small objects with hashlib

New submission from Lukas Lueg : The objects provided by hashlib mainly serve the purpose of computing hashes over strings of arbitrary size. The user gets a new object (e.g. hashlib.sha1()), calls .update() with chunks of data and then finally uses .digest() or .hexdigest() to get the hash. F

[issue8886] zipfile.ZipExtFile is a context manager, but that is not documented

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[issue10301] Zipfile cannot be used in "with" Statement

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[issue10284] NNTP should accept bytestrings for username and password

Julien ÉLIE added the comment: I quote what Russ Allbery has just answered on news.software.nntp: It's completely unspecified what encoding to use for AUTHINFO USER/PASS, which is one of the problems fixed by SASL. Clients should always use SASL where possible because of things like this. No

[issue1500504] Alternate RFC 3986 compliant URI parsing module

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Just to be clear, even *I* don't think adding urischemes as it stands is a particularly great idea, and I wrote it. The only reason I haven't closed the issue is because I'd like to see it mined for additional tests in test_urlparse and perhaps even implementat

[issue10301] Zipfile cannot be used in "with" Statement

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[issue10301] Zipfile cannot be used in "with" Statement

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[issue10300] Documentation of three PyDict_* functions

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: r86144 -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue10301] Zipfile cannot be used in "with" Statement

New submission from t.steinruecken : Using a ZipFile as a "with"-context dosnt work (Im using the standard Ubuntu version of Python3.1) Python 3.1.2 (r312:79147, Apr 15 2010, 15:35:48) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from zipfile

[issue8028] self.terminate() from a multiprocessing.Process raises AttributeError exception

Ask Solem added the comment: Since you can't specify the return code, `self.terminate` is less flexible than `sys.exit`. I think the original intent is clear here, the method is there for the parent to control the child. You are of course welcome to argue otherwise. By the way, I just read

[issue1500504] Alternate RFC 3986 compliant URI parsing module

Éric Araujo added the comment: Sure, adding tests is a no-brainer. Regarding the module, I’m a bit reluctant. I see value in providing low-level building blocks (think OS calls) and high-level utilities for regular use, but here it seems that urllib.parse and urischemes are at the same level

[issue10284] NNTP should accept bytestrings for username and password

Julien ÉLIE added the comment: OK, I understand. I believe it works fine in practice, because people often use ASCII-only characters... I assume it is going to be a problem when the passwords contain 8-bit characters. I doubt it will work fine if I use different news readers on different lo

[issue9995] "setup.py register sdist upload" requires pass to be saved

anatoly techtonik added the comment: Fix attached. Also on Rietveld - http://codereview.appspot.com/2874041 Could you also backport it to other Python distributions to avoid questions like these: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3773613/pypi-issues-upload-failed-401-you-must-be-identified-t

[issue10284] NNTP should accept bytestrings for username and password

R. David Murray added the comment: What I meant by saying that the spec was broken is that the user is going to be typing the password at a keyboard. The keyboard will generate scan codes. Those scan codes will get interpreted through a system-specific chain of processes until some bytes or

[issue9807] deriving configuration information for different builds with the same prefix

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: @rpetrov: reusing $LDVERSION does make sense, but then I think the variable is misnamed. I don't like $ABIVERSION either but maybe $BUILDVERSION? Also I think we need to let the substitution for $LDVERSION happen in the Makefile rather than in the configure

[issue10282] IMPLEMENTATION token differently delt with in NNTP capability

Julien ÉLIE added the comment: The "nntp_implementation" attribute would be great. OK for the exception. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue10285] Other status field flags in documentation for NNTP LIST command

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Improvement committed in r86140, thank you! -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue10171] Ugly buttons in some Tkinter objects in Windows

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[issue10282] IMPLEMENTATION token differently delt with in NNTP capability

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Rather than special casing the dict item, I would rather add an "nntp_implementation" attribute containing the desired value. > Besides, shouldn't it be checked that the line is not empty, before > splitting it? If the line is empty, the server is non-conform

[issue10281] Exception raised when an NNTP overview field is absent

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Ok, committed in r86139. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue1926] NNTPS support in nntplib

Julien ÉLIE added the comment: >> * starttls() should probably test the `tls_on` attribute first and >> raise a ValueError if True (as you point out, a client mustn't attempt >> to start a new TLS session if one is already active). > > ...I actually meant to do exactly that, but forgot to put th

[issue10281] Exception raised when an NNTP overview field is absent

Julien ÉLIE added the comment: > My conclusion in working on the email package is that only > the first space after the ':', if it exists, should be stripped. > That is, even though the RFC (for email) reads as if the space > after the colon is part of the value, in practice it is part > of the

[issue10281] Exception raised when an NNTP overview field is absent

Julien ÉLIE added the comment: > Er, so you're disagreeing with your previous message? > Or am I missing something? :) I was saying that if an empty string is returned, then it means that the header exists and is empty. An example was "User-Agent: \r\n". And my remark "I believe None is bette

[issue8028] self.terminate() from a multiprocessing.Process raises AttributeError exception

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[issue10297] decimal module documentation is misguiding

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[issue10299] Add index with links section for built-in functions

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[issue10299] Add index with links section for built-in functions

Ezio Melotti added the comment: The attached patch adds a 4-columns table that lists the functions without args. -- assignee: d...@python -> ezio.melotti keywords: +patch stage: needs patch -> patch review Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19478/issue10299.diff ___

[issue9995] "setup.py register sdist upload" requires pass to be saved

anatoly techtonik added the comment: Do you have a list of more important tasks than this one. I'd like to elaborate, because for me alone it could take a lot of time. What I need now is SVN URL to checkout distutils code and some advice where to start. No guarantees though - if the code is t

[issue2281] Enhanced cPython profiler with high-resolution timer

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[issue10284] NNTP should accept bytestrings for username and password

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[issue10300] Documentation of three PyDict_* functions

New submission from Hagen Fürstenau : The documentation of the functions PyDict_Items, PyDict_Keys and PyDict_Values is incorrect: They do return PyListObject, but in Python 3.x this is not the same as dict.items() etc. -- assignee: d...@python components: Documentation messages: 12032

[issue10299] Add index with links section for built-in functions

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[issue10299] Add index with links section for built-in functions

New submission from nestor : The built-in function page (http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/functions.html) is pretty long. Each function has an anchor but unlike the built-in types section there is no quick way to get an overview or jump to a specific function (like open or print) short

[issue10298] zipfile: incorrect comment size will prevent extracting

New submission from rep : Opening (and thus extracting) zip files with appended junk data is not possible with the way the current zipfile implementation checks validity. Basically the problem comes down to the comment size in the end-of-central-directory record being different from the size o

[issue9981] let make_buildinfo use a temporary directory on windows

Kristján Valur Jónsson added the comment: Committed to 3.2 in revision 86137 -- resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker _

[issue10295] _socket.pyd uses winsock2, select.pyd uses winsock 1

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[issue4147] xml.dom.minidom toprettyxml: omit whitespace for text-only elements

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[issue10273] Clean-up Unittest API

R. David Murray added the comment: assertEquals existed forever, too, but we deprecated that :) (with no intent to remove it, as I understand it). There is no more ambiguity in "assertLessThan" than there is in assertLT, one just has more letters. True, you have to look it up the first time,

[issue10181] Problems with Py_buffer management in memoryobject.c (and elsewhere?)

Nick Coghlan added the comment: So the overall to-do list here is sounding like: 1. Document "Py_buffer->obj" appropriately in both the C API documentation and in PEP 3118 2. Ensure GetBuffer/ReleaseBuffer are used as the moral equivalent of INCREF/DECREF for Py_buffer objects. 3. Check bui

[issue10181] Problems with Py_buffer management in memoryobject.c (and elsewhere?)

Nick Coghlan added the comment: It doesn't help that neither PEP 3118 nor the Py_buffer docs mention the "obj" member of the Py_buffer struct that refers back to the original object providing the buffer - that's fairly fundamental to understanding how PyBuffer_Release and PyMemoryView_FromBuf

[issue10263] "python -m site" does not print path details

Éric Araujo added the comment: Sounds good to me. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://ma

[issue10181] Problems with Py_buffer management in memoryobject.c (and elsewhere?)

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[issue10181] get_shape0 in memoryobject.c not checked for error return

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Hmm, if we're ever creating a new copy of a Py_buffer without calling GetBuffer again on the original object, then *that* is a bug (exactly comparable to copying a PyObject pointer without incrementing the reference count - it's OK if you can guarantee the life

[issue10181] get_shape0 in memoryobject.c not checked for error return

Roger Upole added the comment: While on the subject, the docs for PyMemoryView_FromBuffer state that the resulting memoryview takes ownership of the Py_buffer struct and is responsible for freeing any associated memory. It does not do so, which is not surprising. The absence of a standard f

[issue10263] "python -m site" does not print path details

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Ah, yes, I see what you mean - because runpy ignores the sys.modules cache (by design), it won't see the precached module instance placed there by the bootstrap code. We actually *could* make this work on our end: if we find an existing module in sys.modules,

[issue9995] "setup.py register sdist upload" requires pass to be saved

anatoly techtonik added the comment: > python setup.py build sdist register upload ... Save your login (y/N)?n running upload Submitting dist\review-r585.zip to http://pypi.python.org/pypi Upload failed (401): You must be identified to edit package information -- __

[issue10297] decimal module documentation is misguiding

New submission from hafiza jameel : the documentation does not show the import statement of decimal module in the introduction: http://docs.python.org/library/decimal.html import should have been done like this: from decimal import * -- assignee: d...@python components: Documentation m

[issue10295] _socket.pyd uses winsock2, select.pyd uses winsock 1

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[issue10295] _socket.pyd uses winsock2, select.pyd uses winsock 1

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[issue9015] array.array.tofile cannot write arrays of sizes > 4GB, even compiled for amd64

Christoph Gohlke added the comment: This seems to be related: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vcgeneral/thread/7c913001-227e-439b-bf07-54369ba07994 -- nosy: +cgohlke ___ Python tracker __

[issue10296] ctypes catches BreakPoint error on windows 32

New submission from Kristján Valur Jónsson : import ctypes ctypes.windll.kernel32.DebugBreak() This used to be a handy way to attach a debugger to a running program, by way of JIT debugging. Now ctypes catches and handles this exception so a debugger is never invoked. Bummer. -- mess

[issue9919] gdbinit lineno result is one line in excess

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