[issue10360] _weakrefset.WeakSet.__contains__ should not propagate TypeErrors

Georg Brandl added the comment: I agree; committed in r86960. If anyone wants to change this to raise TypeError for objects that are both unhashable and unrefable, please speak up. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue940286] pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters

Georg Brandl added the comment: Looks good; committed in r86957. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue10614] ZipFile and CP932 encoding

New submission from Hirokazu Yamamoto : Currently, ZipFile only accepts ascii or utf8 as file name encodings. On Windows (Japanese), usually CP932 is used for it. So currently, when we melt ZipFile via py3k, non-ascii file name becomes strange. Can we handle this issue? (ie: adding encoding optio

[issue10610] Correct the float(), int() and complex() documentation

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Let me know when you have a proposed doc patch. Ideally, the details should just be in one place and we can refer to it elsewhere. We don't want to add extra info to every function or method in Python that uses int(s) and gets extra unicode digits as an

[issue1745035] DoS smtpd vulnerability

Georg Brandl added the comment: Committed in r86955. Thanks! -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue10610] Correct the float(), int() and complex() documentation

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[issue10534] difflib.SequenceMatcher: expose junk sets, deprecate undocumented isb... functions.

Georg Brandl added the comment: Don't worry about doc additions too much; all doc changes can be considered bug fixes. In this patch, it appears that two of the three attributes are new? They should get a versionadded. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue10453] Add -h/--help option to compileall

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[issue10367] "python setup.py sdist upload --show-response" can fail with "UnboundLocalError: local variable 'result' referenced before assignment"

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks Daniel. I have good and bad news for this patch. The bad news is that I don’t want to accept patches without tests. We need to stop guessing or experimenting with the real PyPI to fix bugs. The good news is that we have a mock PyPI server in distutils2.

[issue10577] (Fancy) URL opener stuck when trying to open redirected url

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 05:51:35PM +, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > However, urllib.request.urlopen() works fine in this case, so > perhaps this advocates for deprecating the old stuff? Senthil? Yes. It should be deprecated.. I created a branch for trying remov

[issue10609] dbm documentation example doesn't work (iteritems())

Sandro Tosi added the comment: Hi Eric, on and up-to-date py3k I got this: >>> for k, v in db.items(): ... print(k, '\t', v) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in AttributeError: '_dbm.dbm' object has no attribute 'items' >>> 'items' in dir(db) False (I tried to u

[issue10610] Correct the float(), int() and complex() documentation

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Try not to twist yourself in a knot over this. I'll be happy to review in proposed doc patch. -- assignee: d...@python -> rhettinger ___ Python tracker ___

[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

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[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

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[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: And of course, roundup ate my work. The tokenize incantation was >>> pprint(list(tokenize(iter([b'1+1j']).__next__))) -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: .. > Whether 1+2j is a literal or an expression is debatable. > I think +1 is an expression but 1+2j is a literal; neither should have a >space. With respect to implementation there is no debate: [Tok

[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: .. > Whether 1+2j is a literal or an expression is debatable. > I think +1 is an expression but 1+2j is a literal; neither should have a >space. With respect to implementation there is no debate: [Tok

[issue10613] gzip._PaddedFile calls getattr with arguments in reversed order

Éric Araujo added the comment: Good catch. I’m tired, I should have noticed that :) -- resolution: -> duplicate stage: unit test needed -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> gzip module calls getattr incorrectly ___ Python tr

[issue10613] gzip._PaddedFile calls getattr with arguments in reversed order

Charles Harris added the comment: Looks like this was fixed by r86555 and a test added. I think you can close the ticket. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue10610] Correct the float(), int() and complex() documentation

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: .. > Try not to sprawl this all over the docs.  Find the most common root and > document it there. > No need to garbage-up Fractions, Decimal etc. with something that is of zero >interest to > 99

[issue10610] Correct the float(), int() and complex() documentation

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Try not to sprawl this all over the docs. Find the most common root and document it there. No need to garbage-up Fractions, Decimal etc. with something that is of zero interest to 99.9% of users. -- nosy: +rhettinger

[issue10613] gzip._PaddedFile calls getattr with arguments in reversed order

Éric Araujo added the comment: The best way is to learn by imitation. If you prefer to read, there is some guidance on http://www.python.org/dev/workflow/ and http://www.python.org/dev/faq/#how-to-test-a-patch . Concretely, you need to open a file, wrap it in a _PaddedFile and check that at

[issue10613] gzip._PaddedFile calls getattr with arguments in reversed order

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[issue10613] gzip._PaddedFile calls getattr with arguments in reversed order

Charles Harris added the comment: Hi Eric, On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: Where are the guidelines for writing python tests? Chuck -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19921/unnamed ___ Python tracker

[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

Éric Araujo added the comment: Whether 1+2j is a literal or an expression is debatable. I think +1 is an expression but 1+2j is a literal; neither should have a space. I’m not sure the language reference and the actual implementation are in agreement here (I have peephole optimizations in mi

[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

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[issue9709] test_distutils warning: initfunc exported twice on Windows

Éric Araujo added the comment: Sounds like a “+1 for the patch” to me :) I get no warning on linux2 after the patch. This is still a behavior change, and there might be code out there relying on self.get_export_symbols being called. My understanding of extension modules build is too small f

[issue10497] Incorrect use of gettext in argparse

Éric Araujo added the comment: I’ve started on a test but I’m not sure how to proceed, since I need to use or intercept gettext and compare the error messages of argparse with translated messages to prove that the gettext calls are bogus. There are various ways of using or intercepting gette

[issue1046092] HTMLParser fix to accept malformed tag attributes

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[issue1046092] HTMLParser fix to accept mailformed tag attributes

R. David Murray added the comment: Included this in the 'strict=False' mode in the issue 1486713 patch. -- nosy: +r.david.murray -BreamoreBoy resolution: -> accepted stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> HTMLParser : A auto-tolerant parsing mo

[issue975556] HTMLParser lukewarm on bogus bare attribute chars

R. David Murray added the comment: The new strict=False mode from #1486713 handles this case. -- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> accepted stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> HTMLParser : A auto-tolerant parsing mode ___

[issue1486713] HTMLParser : A auto-tolerant parsing mode

R. David Murray added the comment: I have committed a version of this patch, without the warnings, using the keyword 'strict=True' as the default, and with a couple added heuristics from other similar issues, in r86952. kxroberto, if you want to supply your full name, I'll add you to Misc/ACK

[issue10528] argparse uses %s in gettext calls

Éric Araujo added the comment: The incompatibility worries me a bit. A program compatible with Python 3.1 and 3.2 would have to support both sets of messages; I don’t know whether the i18n tools support having all the strings in one PO file, and how inconvenient it would be for translators.

[issue10613] gzip._PaddedFile calls getattr with arguments in reversed order

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the report and patch. Can you add a test, to prevent a regression? -- nosy: +eric.araujo stage: -> unit test needed type: -> behavior versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker

[issue10613] gzip._PaddedFile calls getattr with arguments in reversed order

New submission from Charles Harris : The attached patch fixes the problem. -- components: Library (Lib) files: gzip.patch keywords: patch messages: 123171 nosy: charris44 priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: gzip._PaddedFile calls getattr with arguments in reversed order

[issue8525] Display exception's subclasses in help()

Éric Araujo added the comment: Yes, I imagine the feature to be useful to find subclasses defined in the same module. Rob, am I misunderstanding your original request? -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue8525] Display exception's subclasses in help()

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: .. > Didn’t the first message ask for the feature to be extended to non-exceptions > classes?  “Built-in” > subclasses is a red herring, to me the feature is: display subclasses.  In > the text output y

[issue1058305] HTMLParser.locatestartagend regex too stringent

R. David Murray added the comment: Closing this in favor of 1486713, which has a patch and covers additional issues. -- nosy: -BreamoreBoy resolution: -> duplicate stage: unit test needed -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> HTMLParser : A auto-tolerant parsin

[issue8525] Display exception's subclasses in help()

Éric Araujo added the comment: Didn’t the first message ask for the feature to be extended to non-exceptions classes? “Built-in” subclasses is a red herring, to me the feature is: display subclasses. In the text output you can use the search feature of your pager to jump to a subclass, in t

[issue10557] Malformed error message from float()

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: I am submitting a new patch that excludes int() changes. The honest reason for the exclusion is that I gave up chasing a bug that only shows in full regrtest runs. (Marc, I don't think it is related to what you thought was a missing norm decref: that

[issue10554] Context management support for subprocess.Popen

Éric Araujo added the comment: “closing any open file descriptors on exit” is exactly the perfect wording I was looking for. Thanks for the patch! -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue10554] Context management support for subprocess.Popen

Brian Curtin added the comment: Committed in r86951. Thanks for the reviews! -- assignee: -> brian.curtin resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected ___ Python tracker

[issue2142] difflib.unified_diff(...) produces invalid patches

Éric Araujo added the comment: To sum up the current consensus as I understand it, the missing end of line is clearly a bug, but the addition of “\No newline at end of file” is controversial. In the current patch, both are changed, so backporting only the first fix to 3.1 and 2.7 will requir

[issue9299] os.makedirs(): Add a keyword argument to suppress "File exists" exception

Ray.Allen added the comment: Oh, yes, I missed that, too. I didn't pay attention to that. Thanks for pointing out it and fix it! -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue10554] Context management support for subprocess.Popen

Changes by Alexander Belopolsky : -- title: Context managerment support for subprocess.Popen -> Context management support for subprocess.Popen ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue10554] Context managerment support for subprocess.Popen

Éric Araujo added the comment: :keyword:`with`` → :keyword:`with` -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubsc

[issue10554] Context managerment support for subprocess.Popen

Éric Araujo added the comment: New doc looks good. Suggested changes: make with a link, explaing why it’s a context manager. - Popen objects are supported as context managers via the ``with`` statement. + Popen objects are supported as context managers via the :keyword:`with`` statement,

[issue10554] Context managerment support for subprocess.Popen

Brian Curtin added the comment: I updated the doc to be much more simple. I got used to sys.executable based tests :) New patch attached. As for __del__, I think it should do it's thing, and the exit will do it's own. Context managers are traditionally used on file-based things, or things tha

[issue10612] StopTestRun exception to halt test run

New submission from Michael Foord : It is hard for test infrastructure to halt a test run unless it has access to the result object. A StopTestRun exception could be provided. This could be caught in TestCase.run and call TestResult.stop(). It could be parameterized so that StopTestRun(repor

[issue10610] Correct the float(), int() and complex() documentation

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: Should we also review the documentation for fractions and decimals? For example, fractions are documented as accepting "strings of decimal digits", but given that we have presumably non-identical str.isdigit() and str.isdecimal() methods, the above def

[issue10554] Context managerment support for subprocess.Popen

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks! Patch looks good, tests pass and doc builds. I have one question and two micro-nitpicks on http://codereview.appspot.com/3441041/ -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue10554] Context managerment support for subprocess.Popen

Brian Curtin added the comment: Here's a patch which implements the context manager and adds a few tests and a small doc change. Tested on Mac and Windows. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +brian.curtin Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19916/subprocess.diff ___

[issue7475] codecs missing: base64 bz2 hex zlib hex_codec ...

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: I am probably a bit late to this discussion, but why these things should be called "codecs" and why should they share the registry with the encodings? It looks like the proper term would be "transformations" or "transforms". -- nosy: +belopolsk

[issue10611] sys.exit() in a test causes a test run to die

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[issue10611] sys.exit() in a test causes a test run to die

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[issue10611] sys.exit() in a test causes the run to stp

New submission from Michael Foord : Reported by a unittest2 user. A SystemExit (or GeneratorExit) will cause a test run to stop in 2.7 / 3.2. This would just be reported as an error in 2.6. >>> from unittest import TestCase >>> def test(s): ... raise GeneratorExit ... >>> class T(TestCase):

[issue10534] difflib.SequenceMatcher: expose junk sets, deprecate undocumented isb... functions.

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Here is a pretty minimal patch to expose bjunk and bpopular as attributes and document them along with b2j, which is already exposed but not documented. I suppose the proposed paragraph could be formatted as a list, perhaps after ":class:`SequenceMatcher`

[issue7911] unittest.TestCase.longMessage should default to True in Python 3.2

Michael Foord added the comment: Committed revision 86944. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue10197] subprocess.getoutput fails on win32

Éric Araujo added the comment: My idea is simply using Popen with appropriate args for stdout and stderr instead of using a shell command with redirections: --- Lib/subprocess.py (révision 86943) +++ Lib/subprocess.py (copie de travail) @@ -560,11 +560,7 @@ return ''.join(result) -#

[issue9333] Expose a way to enable os.symlink on Windows

Brian Curtin added the comment: > So the presence of os.symlink depends on some dynamic privilege? Yes. > Why not simply raise an exception when the user has not enough > privileges? (I mean OSError or WindowsError of course, not AttributeError) My thinking was that anyone writing cross-plat

[issue10609] dbm documentation example doesn't work (iteritems())

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- assignee: -> d...@python components: +Documentation nosy: +d...@python stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker __

[issue10609] dbm documentation example doesn't work (iteritems())

Éric Araujo added the comment: Isn’t s/iteritems/items/ enough? -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mai

[issue10557] Malformed error message from float()

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Stefan Krah wrote: .. > I like the public name. Extension authors can use it and be sure that > their programs accept exactly the same numeric strings as the rest of > Python. > > Are you worried that the semantics might ch

[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

Boštjan Mejak added the comment: (7.8064-6j) According to PEP 8, the output in our example should be with spaces surrounding the subtraction operator, like this: >>> (1 + 2.56j) * (-1 - 3.44j) (7.8064 - 6j) -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19914/unnamed _

[issue9333] Expose a way to enable os.symlink on Windows

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: So the presence of os.symlink depends on some dynamic privilege? It seems to me that it's the first time in Python. For example, os.chroot() is always available on Unix, even when the user is not root. Of course the call will fail at runtime. Why not

[issue10557] Malformed error message from float()

Stefan Krah added the comment: Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Marc-Andre Lemburg > wrote: > .. > >  * Please change the API _PyUnicode_NormalizeDecimal() to > >   PyUnicode_ConvertToASCIIDecimal() - that's closer to what > >   it does. > > > > Are you sure it is

[issue10610] Correct the float(), int() and complex() documentation

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: Marc, I don't want to further sprawl the python-dev thread, but it would be great if you could help with issue10587 as well. That is a documentation-only issue, but there is some disagreement about how specific the docs should be. Some of the relevan

[issue10610] Correct the float(), int() and complex() documentation

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[issue10367] "python setup.py sdist upload --show-response" can fail with "UnboundLocalError: local variable 'result' referenced before assignment"

Daniel Tavares added the comment: Here's an updated patch, which fixes the passing of multiple arguments to self.announce, based on Priscila's fix. -- nosy: +daniel.tavares Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19913/10367.diff ___ Python tracker

[issue10197] subprocess.getoutput fails on win32

R. David Murray added the comment: Do you have in implementation in mind? I'm not clear how this would work. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Le jeudi 02 décembre 2010 à 22:29 +, Mark Dickinson a écrit : > Mark Dickinson added the comment: > > Maybe we need a complex analog to datetime.strptime: > > complex.strpcx('(3 + 4i)', '(%R + %Ii)') -> 3 + 4j How about '3 + 4i'.transform('complex')?

[issue10602] Wrong assert* method in test_csv.test_register_kwargs masks error

Éric Araujo added the comment: Patch committed as r86940 (py3k), r86941 (3.1) and r86942 (2.7). -- resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker _

[issue1672568] silent error in email.message.Message.get_payload

R. David Murray added the comment: I've taken another look at this, and the email module is pretty consistent about just passing through data if it can't interpret it according to standards. I think it would lead to a cluttered API if we add support for being strict and raising errors piecem

[issue10610] Correct the float(), int() and complex() documentation

Mark Dickinson added the comment: The reference to the language spec was really just a way to avoid spelling out all the details (again) about the precise form of a floating-point string; apart from the accepted set of digits, the forms are exactly the same (optional sign, numeric part, opti

[issue10610] Correct the float(), int() and complex() documentation

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[issue10610] Correct the float(), int() and complex() documentation

New submission from Marc-Andre Lemburg : The Python3 documentation for these numeric constructors is wrong. Python has supported Unicode numerals specified as code points from the Unicode category "Nd" (decimal digit) since Python 1.6.0 when Unicode was first introduced in Python. http://

[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Maybe we need a complex analog to datetime.strptime: complex.strpcx('(3 + 4i)', '(%R + %Ii)') -> 3 + 4j -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

Georg Brandl added the comment: That would be a good question for a numpy/scipy-related mailing list, I guess. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue10557] Malformed error message from float()

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote: .. >  * Please change the API _PyUnicode_NormalizeDecimal() to >   PyUnicode_ConvertToASCIIDecimal() - that's closer to what >   it does. > Are you sure it is a good idea to give it a public name?

[issue9915] speeding up sorting with a key

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[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

Mark Dickinson added the comment: > Personally, I think it's more important to be able to read > scientific data easily without too many problems, then to be > able to write the processed data in exactly the same way it > was read. I wonder whether there are many examples where scientific data

[issue10197] subprocess.getoutput fails on win32

Éric Araujo added the comment: I think we should implement getstatusoutput and getoutput with Popen objects to gain portability and avoid spawning subshells. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue9915] speeding up sorting with a key

Changes by Daniel Stutzbach : -- components: +Interpreter Core -Library (Lib) resolution: -> accepted stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue10528] argparse uses %s in gettext calls

Georg Brandl added the comment: That would be good. While you could argue it's a bug, the fix is also slightly incompatible. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue9915] speeding up sorting with a key

Daniel Stutzbach added the comment: Committed as r86937. Thanks again for reviewing! Although I do not anticipate any problems, I will keep an eye on the buildbots just in case. Antoine, regarding "ms->alloced = (list_size + 1) / 2;", I ended up adding an extensive comment after all. -

[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Mark Dickinson wrote: > > Mark Dickinson added the comment: > > In all seriousness, the idea of accepting both 'i' and 'j' in complex() isn't > horrible. I'm personally -0.small on it, mostly because it seems likely to > lead to more objections about th

[issue10603] __file__ not usable, with certain paths on windows XP.

STINNER Victor added the comment: Great! -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python

[issue8989] email.utils.make_msgid: specify domain

R. David Murray added the comment: Committed to py3k in r86936 with minor fixups. -- resolution: -> accepted stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue10528] argparse uses %s in gettext calls

Éric Araujo added the comment: Georg, do I have to make a patch before beta1 for this to go in 3.2? -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue10557] Malformed error message from float()

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > > Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: > > I am submitting a patch (issue10557b.diff) for commit review. As Marc > suggested, decimal conversion is now performed on Py_UNICODE characters. For > this purpose, I introduce

[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

Mark Dickinson added the comment: In all seriousness, the idea of accepting both 'i' and 'j' in complex() isn't horrible. I'm personally -0.small on it, mostly because it seems likely to lead to more objections about the complex str() and repr() *output* containing 'j's. I still think python

[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Mark Dickinson wrote: > > Mark Dickinson added the comment: > >> There should be an environment variable to make the symbol settable. > > That could work; it's a bit late to do this in 3.2, though. How about the > following transition strategy for the

[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: > Can you now implement the letter 'i' to act as an > imaginary unit? Is that possible? Yes, it's possible; however, the developers do not think it is worthwhile. > If it's possible in MATLAB, why not have both 'j' and 'i' > in Python as well? Python doe

[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

Georg Brandl added the comment: Sure. I have personally written software where i denotes, in effect, an electrical current. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

Brian Curtin added the comment: yes -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/

[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

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[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

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[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

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[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

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[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

Boštjan Mejak added the comment: "In electrical engineering and related fields, the imaginary unit is often denoted by *j* to avoid confusion with electrical current as a function of time, t

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