[issue12204] str.upper converts to title

New submission from py.user : specification 1) str.upper()¶ Return a copy of the string converted to uppercase. 2) str.isupper()¶ Return true if all cased characters in the string are uppercase and there is at least one cased character, false otherwise. Cased characters are those wi

[issue11975] Fix referencing of built-in types (list, int, ...)

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[issue12134] json.dump much slower than dumps

Ezio Melotti added the comment: The name dump and dumps exist to match the same API provided by pickle and marshal. I agree that a note marked as CPython implementation detail should be added. -- keywords: +easy -patch stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2

[issue12162] Documentation about re \number

Ezio Melotti added the comment: The regex sets (\d\w\s\D\W\S) don't match any Python escape sequence, so even if some suggest to always use r'' regardless, I don't find it necessary, especially for simple regexs. The two conflicting escape sequences to keep in mind are \b (backspace for Pytho

[issue8583] Hardcoded namespace_separator in the cElementTree.XMLParser

library.engine added the comment: What is so implicit in the passing of a list of undesired namespaces to the parse function? This is quite explicit, in my humble opinion, and it lets you not to repeat yourself for each and every tag you want to find in the tree, as well. --

[issue12185] Decimal documentation lists "first" and "second" arguments, should be "self" and "other"

Ezio Melotti added the comment: In this case using: d.copy_sign(other) and then refer to 'd' and 'other' might be clearer. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue12203] isinstance not functioning as documented

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Everything is an instance of object. -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue12203] isinstance not functioning as documented

Alex Gaynor added the comment: I don't see why this is incorrect, type(a) -> type, and object is a superclass of type. -- nosy: +alex ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue12203] isinstance not functioning as documented

New submission from Joesph : #Example: class a(object): pass b = a() print([isinstance(a,object), isinstance(b,object)]) ''' outputs: [True, True] expected: [False, True] As class a is not instantiated it should return false. As-is isinstance is just a synonym for issubclass. ''' --

[issue11623] Distutils is reporting OSX 10.6 w/ XCode 4 as "universal"

Ned Deily added the comment: All that said, the best solution to the problem is to use an appropriately configured Python for the task at hand. If you want to build Python executables that are compatible with older OS X versions and Mac hardware (in particular, all machines capable of runnin

[issue12162] Documentation about re \number

R. David Murray added the comment: Why it works is due to a quirk in the handling of python strings: if an apparent escape sequence doesn't "mean anything", it is retained verbatim, including the '\' character. This is documented in http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#stri

[issue12157] join method of multiprocessing Pool object hangs if iterable argument of pool.map is empty

Charles-François Natali added the comment: When map is called, a MapResult object is created, which adds itself to the Pool's result cache. When the pool is shut down, the result handler thread waits until the cache drains (while cache and thread._state != TERMINATE). But since no result is p

[issue12185] Decimal documentation lists "first" and "second" arguments, should be "self" and "other"

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Return a copy of *self* with the sign set to be the same as the sign of *other*. seems clearer to me. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___

[issue12162] Documentation about re \number

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The doc consistently does NOT quote re's in the text. Rather, they are shaded gray, both in Windows help version and html version. So this one should not be treated differently. Most of the confusion reported is due to not reading the intro paragraphs. I alm

[issue12157] join method of multiprocessing Pool object hangs if iterable argument of pool.map is empty

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I ran with 3.2, winxp with "if __name__ == '__main__':" added after the def statement (without this, process spawned 150 processes before I got logged out) and ()s added to prints. Hung on pool.join as OP said. I could only stop by closing command window as ^

[issue12155] queue example doesn't stop worker threads

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The proposed change adds about 7 lines to show the 'trick' of putting num-worker Nones on the queue. I think that is worth it. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker __

[issue12148] Clarify "or-ing together" doctest option flags

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The basic fix is to replace the fake verb 'to or', conjugated not really properly as "or's" or "or'ing", with the real noun 'bitwise-or'. help(doctest.testmod) ... Optional keyword arg "optionflags" or's together module constants, and defaults to 0. T

[issue12144] cookielib.CookieJar.make_cookies fails for cookies with 'expires' set

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Exceptions with traceback are ordinary behavior issues. 'Crash' means segfault or equivalent on Windows. And Jesus is correct. In general, include system with reports. With 3.2.0 IDLE on Winxp, adjusted 3.x code import urllib.request as ur, http.cookiejar as

[issue12196] add pipe2() to the os module

R. David Murray added the comment: For the record (for people reading this ticket later), the removal of the python version of the unix subprocess code was discussed on IRC, and it was clarified there that the reason for removing it is not that it duplicates the C code. We like having python

[issue11785] email subpackages documentation problems

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[issue12196] add pipe2() to the os module

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: Include an appropriate Version Added annotation in the pipe2 documentation. Otherwise the current patches look good to me. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue12142] Reference cycle when importing ctypes

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: If you are able to rebuild Python, have you tried running the ctypes test after rebuilding with this change? And, does the test cover the internal uses of _array_type? -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker

[issue12137] Error EBADF in test_urllibnet

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[issue12177] re.match raises MemoryError

Matthew Boehm added the comment: Here are some windows results with Python 2.7: >>> import re >>> re.match("()*?1", "1") <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x025C0E60> >>> re.match("()+?1", "1") >>> re.match("()+?1", "11") <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x025C0E60> >>> re.match("()*?1", "11") <_sre.SRE_Match

[issue12134] json.dump much slower than dumps

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: >From just reading the docs, it appears that json.dump(obj,fp) == >fp.write(json.dumps(obj)) and it is easy to wonder why .dump even exists, as >it seems a trivial abbreviation (and why not .dump and .dumpf instead). Since, >'_one_shot' and 'c_make_encoder' a

[issue11893] Obsolete SSLFakeFile in smtplib?

Catalin Iacob added the comment: Attached v1 of patch. Please review. There are some tests using GMail in test_smtpnet.py. They still pass with the patch. I also did manual tests with GMail with both SMTP + starttls and SMTP_SSL. The idea of the patch is that SMTP.getreply is already doing:

[issue12199] Unify TryExcept and TryFinally

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Thanks for the review. New patch. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file22170/try2.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue12053] Add prefetch() for Buffered IO (experiment)

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[issue12053] Add prefetch() for Buffered IO (experiment)

John O'Connor added the comment: I started a draft in python. I am attaching the _pyio version along with tests. I will continue work on the C implementation and eventually documentation if this is well received. It seems straightforward, I am interested to see what you guys think. Also, the

[issue12129] Document Object Model API - validation

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I suspect you are right, but do not know the rules, and have never used the module. There is no particular person maintaining xml.dom.X at present. Could you please fill in the ... after the import to give a complete minimal example that fails? Someone could

[issue11906] test_argparse failure in interactive mode

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I will when I get setup to do that again. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing li

[issue12196] add pipe2() to the os module

Charles-François Natali added the comment: > I just nuked the pure Python POSIX subprocess implementation Nice. I've updated both patches to address Victor's comments on test_io and test_subprocess usage of PIPE_MAX_SIZE, and Ross' comment on pipe2's configure tests. I left subprocess use _po

[issue12196] add pipe2() to the os module

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[issue12196] add pipe2() to the os module

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[issue12185] Decimal documentation lists "first" and "second" arguments, should be "self" and "other"

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[issue12196] add pipe2() to the os module

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: I just nuked the pure Python POSIX subprocess implementation in 70467:75ca834df824. No need for both implementations. _posixsubprocess is now the only option. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue11623] Distutils is reporting OSX 10.6 w/ XCode 4 as "universal"

sorin added the comment: I think that distutils must me modified to auto detect supported architectures and use them, this without requiring you to hack ARCHFLAGS. The number of developers that need to build PPC binaries is at least one order of magnitude lower than the number of users in ne

[issue11217] python-32 not linked in /usr/local/bin in framework builds

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[issue12185] Decimal documentation lists "first" and "second" arguments, should be "self" and "other"

Eric V. Smith added the comment: I'm not talking about the method itself but rather the descriptive text. For example: copy_sign(other) Return a copy of the first operand with the sign set to be the same as the sign of the second operand. There is no second operand, unless you consider

[issue3099] On windows, "import nul" always succeed

Mark Mc Mahon added the comment: I am not sure that I fully understand the issue - but it seems that trunk still has this issue. As stated by Amaury - this is on DEBUG builds only. c:\>pcbuild\python_d.exe Python 3.3a0 (default, May 28 2011, 20:22:11) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type

[issue12202] Check status returns in msilib.SummaryInformation.GetProperty()

Mark Mc Mahon added the comment: I have added tests to the patch - but it's not easy to know what would cause an error in MsiSummaryInfoGetProperty which would trigger the new code. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file22165/ensure_MsiSummaryInfoGetProperty_retur

[issue1104] msilib.SummaryInfo.GetProperty() truncates the string by one character

Mark Mc Mahon added the comment: Responding to Eric's comments 1. There are only three valid property types returned by MsiInteger, String & FILETIME. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372045%28v=VS.85%29.aspx) 2. That comment makes sense - I have entered a new issue (issue12202) for

[issue12202] Check status returns in msilib.SummaryInformation.GetProperty()

New submission from Mark Mc Mahon : Per Eric V. Smith's comment issue1104 (msg134976) the return value of the call MsiSummaryInfoGetProperty() in summary_getproperty() (pc\_msi.c) is only checked for the error return ERROR_MORE_DATA. Other error values should be checked. -- messages:

[issue11975] Fix referencing of built-in types (list, int, ...)

Jonas H. added the comment: Does that look good to you? If it does, I'll go on using the script (http://paste.pocoo.org/show/396661/) on the 3.x docs. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file22164/p1.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue12201] Returning FILETIME is unsupported in msilib.SummaryInformation.GetProperty()

New submission from Mark Mc Mahon : In _msi.c, summary_getproperty() and summary_setproperty() raise an exception if the type being set/got is VT_FILETIME. This issue is to track adding support for (or declining to support) FILETIMEs in msilib.SummaryInformation.GetProperty()/SetProperty().

[issue11217] python-32 not linked in /usr/local/bin in framework builds

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks for the suggested patch. In addition to the "installunixtools" target, the "altinstallunixtools" target needed to be updated; it is used by default in the Python 3.x Makefiles. The applied fix causes the following additional symlinks to be added to the --

[issue11203] gzip doc is behind

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[issue11644] Cross-link 2to3 documentation, what’s new and pyporting howto

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[issue11217] python-32 not linked in /usr/local/bin in framework builds

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset a2f088cf7ced by Ned Deily in branch '2.7': Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds, http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a2f088cf7ced New changeset 7f2e3c466d57 by Ned Deily in branch '3.2': Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit M

[issue12084] os.stat() on windows doesn't consider relative symlink

Jason R. Coombs added the comment: To the extent that we can, we should try to support relative symlinks. Absolute symlinks aren't the right thing in some cases, where the symlinks should be movable with their targets. I use relative links extensively. Is it worth considering changing the cur

[issue11699] Doc for optparse.OptionParser.get_option_group is wrong

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[issue12185] Decimal documentation lists "first" and "second" arguments, should be "self" and "other"

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[issue10449] “os.environ was modified by test_httpservers”

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[issue12185] Decimal documentation lists "first" and "second" arguments, should be "self" and "other"

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Note that usually 'self' is not included in the arguments of methods. The 3.3 doc correctly uses e.g. copy_sign(other). A 'd.' could also be added so that the end result looks like: d.copy_sign(other) but it's not mandatory (if done, all the other methods sh

[issue12106] reflect syntatic sugar in with ast

Ezio Melotti added the comment: That would be c4ddb460f4f2. -- nosy: +ezio.melotti ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailin

[issue12106] reflect syntatic sugar in with ast

Nick Coghlan added the comment: One other thing I should mention is that in a later checkin, Benjamin did add a couple of explicit with statement examples to test_ast. These will fail if other implementations don't update the front end of their compilation processes correctly, so that should

[issue12106] reflect syntatic sugar in with ast

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[issue12196] add pipe2() to the os module

Ross Lagerwall added the comment: >> Also, the pure python implementation of subprocess for posix can now >> be >> updated to use pipe2 if it exists (previously on _posixsubprocess.c >> used it). > I don't understand the last part :-) > What do you suggest? Perhaps, os.pipe2 can be used if av

[issue12106] reflect syntatic sugar in with ast

Nick Coghlan added the comment: The AST version changed, and, more importantly, if other implementations pick up our AST changes without updating their compilers accordingly, their symbol table analysis and code compilation processes will break. So yes, the test suite does already cover this

[issue12199] Unify TryExcept and TryFinally

Nick Coghlan added the comment: >From my review: """One genuine problem with a stale assert and comment in ast.c, and a small objection to style in compile.c (I'd like a new compile_try() function to match the new AST node). Otherwise looked good in a desk review.""" -- ___

[issue10449] “os.environ was modified by test_httpservers”

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: I think, if you speak to RM, you can just have this change in. Don't we get "no commits please" email request from RM with hg or is the branch already cut? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue12196] add pipe2() to the os module

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[issue12196] add pipe2() to the os module

Charles-François Natali added the comment: > Out of interest, is there any reason that the configure check for pipe2 is a > special case near the bottom of configure.in instead of with all the other > function checks in the AC_CHECK_FUNCS[] section in the middle? No clue. I'll fix that. > Al

[issue12106] reflect syntatic sugar in with ast

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[issue12106] reflect syntatic sugar in with ast

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: Does this change have a visible effect? If so, can it have some unit test? Otherwise pypy and other alternative implementations are likely to miss this change. -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc ___ Python tracker

[issue985064] plistlib crashes too easily on bad files

Ned Deily added the comment: Thank you for the patch and tests! Applied in 3.1 (for 3.1.4), 3.2 (for 3.2.1), and 3.3. (The 2.x version of plistlib differs somewhat from the 3.x version so the patch would need some rework and testing for 2.7; that is probably not worth the effort at this poin

[issue985064] plistlib crashes too easily on bad files

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset a2688e252204 by Ned Deily in branch '3.1': Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a2688e252204 New changeset f555d959a5d7 by Ned Deily in branch '3.2': Issue #985064: Make plistlib more

[issue10225] Fix doctest runable examples in python manual

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[issue10224] Build 3.x documentation using python3.x

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[issue9382] os.popen referenced but not documented in Python 3.x

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[issue12170] Bytes.index() and bytes.count() should accept byte ints

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[issue10449] “os.environ was modified by test_httpservers”

Ezio Melotti added the comment: The release date of 3.1.4 is actually June 11th. Today will be released an RC though, so what I said should still apply. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue10449] “os.environ was modified by test_httpservers”

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Python 3.1.4 should be released today, so I think it's too late for this to be fixed. -- nosy: +ezio.melotti ___ Python tracker ___

[issue11906] test_argparse failure in interactive mode

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Terry, I think you can apply the patch you proposed in msg137085 and close this issue. If the recommended structure of test files is not documented, a section in the devguide should be added, but that's another issue. (FWIW I'm not even sure there's a recommen

[issue12188] PEP 7, C style: add ++ policy and explanation

Ezio Melotti added the comment: I'm not sure it's worth adding this to the PEP 7. The PEP is about conventions and style not idioms. PEP 8 has a section about "Programming Recommendations" that contains a few idioms, but since PEP 7 doesn't have an equivalent section, I think that explaining

[issue12196] add pipe2() to the os module

Ross Lagerwall added the comment: Out of interest, is there any reason that the configure check for pipe2 is a special case near the bottom of configure.in instead of with all the other function checks in the AC_CHECK_FUNCS[] section in the middle? I know this patch didn't write the configure

[issue9670] Exceed Recursion Limit in Thread

Ned Deily added the comment: Version 4 looks good and the tests pass on OS X with pydebug enabled. Applied in 2.7 (for release in 2.7.2), 3.1 (for 3.1.4). 3.2 (for 3.2.1), and default (for 3.3). -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed

[issue9670] Exceed Recursion Limit in Thread

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset ecf0ef85c72a by Ned Deily in branch '2.7': Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ecf0ef85c72a New changeset 0cded2f2cea3 by Ned Deily in branch '3.1': Issue #9670: Increase the defaul

[issue12163] str.count

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[issue8583] Hardcoded namespace_separator in the cElementTree.XMLParser

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[issue8583] Hardcoded namespace_separator in the cElementTree.XMLParser

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: I recommend to revert this change. It seems that some users are opposed to any kind of folding (as my earlier folding experiment has demonstrated); users who *really* don't want to see the history would need to step forward and request a per-user option to s

[issue8583] Hardcoded namespace_separator in the cElementTree.XMLParser

Stefan Behnel added the comment: I don't see this having much to do with the DRY principle. It's "explicit is better than implicit" and "better safe than sorry" that applies here. -- ___ Python tracker ___