[issue13515] Consistent documentation practices for security concerns and considerations

New submission from Nick Coghlan : This issue proposes that we adopt and apply some standard practices when documenting modules that have potential security implications and other cross-cutting errors that may affect multiple interfaces within the module. Accordingly, the main target is the "D

[issue13514] PIL does not support iTXt PNG chunks [patch]

Ezio Melotti added the comment: You could try submitting your patch to the image-sig ML (http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig). -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue13514] PIL does not support iTXt PNG chunks [patch]

Paul Sladen added the comment: Thank you Ezio. I could not see a separate bug tracker listed on: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ could you help me by providing a link to where it /should/ be filed correctly for PIL itself. -- ___ Python

[issue13514] PIL does not support iTXt PNG chunks [patch]

Ezio Melotti added the comment: You should report this to the PIL bug tracker. PIL is not part of the Python standard library. -- nosy: +ezio.melotti resolution: -> invalid stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <

[issue13514] PIL does not support iTXt PNG chunks [patch]

New submission from Paul Sladen : The Python Imaging Library does not support handling of UTF-8 'iTXt' key:value chunks in PNG files: http://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/#11iTXt Such support is necessary for successful extraction of key:value pairs of UTF-8 encoded data, stored in an PNG 'iTXt' commen

[issue13120] Default nosigint option to pdb.Pdb() prevents use in non-main thread

Meador Inge added the comment: Ilya, I agree. Thanks for the test patch. These two patches look OK to me. Georg OK with you? -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue13510] Clarify that readlines() is not needed to iterate over a file

Ezio Melotti added the comment: FWIW I've seen several persons using "for line in file.readlines(): ..." or even "while 1: line = file.readline()". IMHO it's a good idea to document that "without sizehint, it's equivalent to list(file)" and that "for line in file: ..." can be used directly.

[issue13510] Clarify that readlines() is not needed to iterate over a file

Meador Inge added the comment: I am skeptical that such a note will help. The iterator behavior is clearly pointed out in the Python Tutorial [1] and in the IOBase documentation [2]. I suspect this bad code pattern is just being copied and pasted from other sources without folks ever even l

[issue13513] IOBase docs incorrectly link to the GNU readline module

New submission from Meador Inge : The current IOBase documentation [1] reads: """ IOBase (and its subclasses) support the iterator protocol, meaning that an IOBase object can be iterated over yielding the lines in a stream. Lines are defined slightly differently depending on whether the stream

[issue13097] ctypes: segfault with large number of callback arguments

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[issue13097] ctypes: segfault with large number of callback arguments

Meador Inge added the comment: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote: > Right, alloca() could be replaced by some malloc(), but is it really useful?   > After all, when a C function calls back to Python, all arguments needs to be > > pushed to the stack anyway. The case

[issue13512] ~/.pypirc created insecurely

Philip Jenvey added the comment: It probably still needs to catch OSErrors which my patch doesn't do -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue13512] ~/.pypirc created insecurely

Philip Jenvey added the comment: Something along these lines (untested) should do it. 2.6 and 3.x need the fix as well -- keywords: +patch nosy: +pjenvey Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23824/pypirc-secure.diff ___ Python tracker

[issue11870] test_3_join_in_forked_from_thread() of test_threading hangs 1 hour on "x86 Ubuntu Shared 3.x"

STINNER Victor added the comment: > Gregory's patches to sanitize threading's lock should have fixed this The subprocess hang still occurs something, it just happened: http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/x86%20Ubuntu%20Shared%203.x/builds/4898/steps/test/logs/stdio [110/363] test_

[issue10364] IDLE: make .py default added extension on save

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[issue13512] ~/.pypirc created insecurely

New submission from Vincent Danen : A bug was reported in python's distutils in that ~/.pypirc was created insecurely by first creating and writing user/password information to the file, then chmod'ing it to 0600. Perhaps the file should be created (empty), chmod'd, and then written to or per

[issue6715] xz compressor support

Nadeem Vawda added the comment: > As the docs for zlib, gzip, bz2, lzma, zipfile and tarfile are in the > archiving subsection, there’s already a link to the subsection index, > so I just removed the “See also zlib, etc.” lines (except for the link > from zlib to gzip). I added a link from arch

[issue6715] xz compressor support

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 6cde416ef03b by Nadeem Vawda in branch 'default': Credit Per Øyvind Karlsen for the initial implementation of the lzma module (issue #6715). http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6cde416ef03b -- ___ Python t

[issue13491] Fixes for sqlite3 doc

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[issue13455] Reorganize tracker docs in the devguide

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Something else such docs could cover is how to manage remote Hg repos such that the "Create Patch" button does the right thing. Basically, you need to make sure an appropriate CPython version is found in the ancestors of the tip your working branch. This is mos

[issue13510] Clarify that readlines() is not needed to iterate over a file

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: This current line is "Read and return a list of lines from the stream. hint can be specified to control the number of lines read: no more lines will be read if the total size (in bytes/characters) of all lines so far exceeds hint." I would like to see added "

[issue13505] Bytes objects pickled in 3.x with protocol <=2 are unpickled incorrectly in 2.x

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: After a bit of testing, my idea was flawed, as str() doesn't accept an encoding parameter in 2.x: `str(u'foo', 'latin1')` simply raises a TypeError. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue13504] Meta-issue for "Invent with Python" IDLE feedback

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[issue7652] Merge C version of decimal into py3k.

Stefan Krah added the comment: Stefan Krah wrote: > Yes, that would be great. Apart from two or three changes that I still > need to push patch set 4 is the latest version. Hmm, no. I'll create a slightly newer patch from Oct. 1st. -- ___ Python tr

[issue7652] Merge C version of decimal into py3k.

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[issue7652] Merge C version of decimal into py3k.

Stefan Krah added the comment: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote: > I can help with the review. Is http://bugs.python.org/review/7652/show a > good starting point? I already have some comments. Yes, that would be great. Apart from two or three changes that I still need to push patch set 4 is the late

[issue7652] Merge C version of decimal into py3k.

STINNER Victor added the comment: > (Actually, that's a part of why decimal.py is slow---it's > using Python's *binary* integers to store *decimal* coefficients, > so that even simple addition is now a quadratic operation, > thanks to the binary <-> decimal conversions involved.) Oh, I forgot t

[issue7652] Merge C version of decimal into py3k.

Stefan Krah added the comment: Raymond Hettinger wrote: > We've been wanting this for a long time. > > Strong +1 from me. Thank you, Raymond! -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue7652] Merge C version of decimal into py3k.

Stefan Krah added the comment: Antoine Pitrou wrote: > It is also helped by the fact you are a core developer and we trust you to > be here to do maintenance :) Sure. The specification doesn't really change, so the work will hopefully be limited. :) > I think it's still probably a good idea t

[issue1040439] Missing documentation on how to link with libpython

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > I think mentioning that you can export CFLAGS and LDFLAGS would be > particularly useful. I was able to compile some of the missing > packages that were deemed 'missing' at the end of 'make' by updating > setup.py and having CFLAGS and LDFLAGS point to the de

[issue1040439] Missing documentation on how to link with libpython

Ray added the comment: I think mentioning that you can export CFLAGS and LDFLAGS would be particularly useful. I was able to compile some of the missing packages that were deemed 'missing' at the end of 'make' by updating setup.py and having CFLAGS and LDFLAGS point to the desired packages'

[issue1040439] Missing documentation on how to link with libpython

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 2c05b8a6cdd1 by Antoine Pitrou in branch '3.2': Issue #1040439: better document how to compile and link an embedded Python interpreter. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2c05b8a6cdd1 New changeset 528abe272856 by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default':

[issue13511] ./configure --includedir, --libdir accept multiple

Ray added the comment: I should mention, I had to modify setup.py in order for the export line in my original post to work on my linux machine. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23821/setup.py.diff ___ Python tracker

[issue7652] Merge C version of decimal into py3k.

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: I can help with the review. Is http://bugs.python.org/review/7652/show a good starting point? I already have some comments. -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc ___ Python tracker

[issue13511] ./configure --includedir, --libdir accept multiple

New submission from Ray : For ./configure, --includedir and --libdir both cannot handle multiple packages. e.g. /configure --includedir=/home/user/.local/sqlite3-3.7.9/include --includedir=/home/user/.local/readline-6.2/include --libdir=/home/user/.local/sqlite3-3.7.9/lib --libdir=/home/u

[issue7652] Merge C version of decimal into py3k.

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: We've been wanting this for a long time. Strong +1 from me. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python

[issue13510] Clarify that readlines() is not needed to iterate over a file

Changes by Ezio Melotti : -- nosy: +eric.araujo, ezio.melotti stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue13510] Clarify that readlines() is not needed to iterate over a file

New submission from Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de>: I've been looking at code on the tutor mailing list for some time, and for line in file.readlines(): ... is a common idiom there. I suppose this is because the readlines() method is easily discoverable while the proper way (iterate over the f

[issue7652] Merge C version of decimal into py3k.

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > If I'm interpreting this > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-August/113240.html > dialogue correctly, a complete audit down to the last line isn't > always necessary. It is also helped by the fact you are a core developer and we trust you to be

[issue7652] Merge C version of decimal into py3k.

Stefan Krah added the comment: Mark Dickinson wrote: > The only problem from my perspective is getting someone to find time to > review such a massive patch. I've been wondering whether we could get away > with some kind of 'statistical' review: do a large-scale review, and then > instead

[issue13276] bdist_wininst-created installer does not run the postinstallation script when uninstalling

Éric Araujo added the comment: (2.6 and 3.1 don’t get bug fixes anymore.) -- title: distutils bdist_wininst created installer does not run the postinstallation script on uninstalling -> bdist_wininst-created installer does not run the postinstallation script when uninstalling versions

[issue6715] xz compressor support

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > The entry in Misc/ACKS, Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst and the commit message > should be enough. Lately I’ve noticed some attributions in NEWS, but > it’s usually not done (as redundant). I generally add attributions in NEWS since that's where most people learn about

[issue13276] distutils bdist_wininst created installer does not run the postinstallation script on uninstalling

Jason Roberts added the comment: Sorry, I opened issue13509 after somehow not finding this one. Here is my text from issue13509. Thanks for looking at this problem... Historically (i.e. Python 2.6.1 and earlier) bdist_wininst would run the post install script at both installation and uninstal

[issue13509] On uninstallation, distutils bdist_wininst fails to run post install script

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the diagnosis. Please contribute to the existing bug report. -- resolution: -> duplicate stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> distutils bdist_wininst created installer does not run the postinstallati

[issue13276] distutils bdist_wininst created installer does not run the postinstallation script on uninstalling

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[issue13509] On uninstallation, distutils bdist_wininst fails to run post install script

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[issue13509] On uninstallation, distutils bdist_wininst fails to run post install script

New submission from Jason Roberts : Historically (i.e. Python 2.6.1 and earlier) bdist_wininst would run the post install script at both installation and uninstallation. The script would be invoked with a -install argument on installation and a -remove argument on uninstallation. This stopped

[issue6715] xz compressor support

Éric Araujo added the comment: > I actually hadn't realized that each section of the library docs had a > "sub-index" page like that That’s multiple-entry navigation :) You can jump to a module page, or use the index, or use the search, or browse and see the sub-indexes. As the docs for zlib

[issue6715] xz compressor support

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: what about a mention in lzmamodule.c? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing l

[issue7652] Merge C version of decimal into py3k.

Stefan Krah added the comment: Binary versus decimal - > There is already gmpy and bigfloat, based on the heavily optimized GMP > library, > for example. Is it a license issue? Can't we reuse GMP/MPFR to offer a > Decimal API? _decimal is a PEP-399 compliant C implementat

[issue6715] xz compressor support

Éric Araujo added the comment: --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -400,6 +400,7 @@ --- - Issue #6715: Add a module 'lzma' for compression using the LZMA algorithm. + Thanks to Per Øyvind Karlsen for the initial implementation. The entry in Misc/ACKS, Doc/whatsnew/3

[issue12014] str.format parses replacement field incorrectly

Ben Wolfson added the comment: "All three patches look different to me." Yeah, I verified that later; I'm not sure what made me think otherwise except that I eyeballed them sloppily. (It's still true that they'd need to target a different file for 3.3 now.) -- __

[issue11610] Improved support for abstract base classes with descriptors

Darren Dale added the comment: Here is a new patch addressing comments raised in review. It supersedes previous patch submissions. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23819/abc_descriptor.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue13210] Support Visual Studio 2010

Sébastien Sablé added the comment: I have started working on python default branch. My patch queue is available here: https://bitbucket.org/sablefr/py3kvs2010/ The result is the following so far: 323 tests OK. 8 tests failed: test_distutils test_fileio test_gettext test_io test_os test_

[issue13210] Support Visual Studio 2010

Brian Curtin added the comment: Again, rather than work off of the default branch and duplicate effort, can you work off of the vs2010 branch on http://hg.python.org/sandbox/vs2010port/? -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue12832] The documentation for the print function should explain/point to how to control the sys.stdout encoding

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks. Here’s another take: I think the wording is better, but it’s longer. I removed the reference to sys.stdin, which you don’t print to: I haven’t checked if the doc for the input function should talk about the encoding too. -- assignee: docs@pytho

[issue5411] add xz compression support to shutil

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[issue6715] xz compressor support

Nadeem Vawda added the comment: > Instead of duplicating the list of archiving/compression modules in > each doc, what about only linking to the shutil doc for archives and > the archiving.rst file? Sure, go ahead. I actually hadn't realized that each section of the library docs had a "sub-inde

[issue5689] Support xz compression in tarfile module

Éric Araujo added the comment: Python now has an lzma module. Lars, do you have the time to update your patch or should I do it? -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue5411] add xz compression support to shutil

Éric Araujo added the comment: distutils2/packaging now just uses the shutil functions. I’ll make a patch for shutil after tarfile is updated. -- assignee: tarek -> eric.araujo components: +Library (Lib) -Distutils2 title: add xz compression support to distutils -> add xz compression

[issue6715] xz compressor support

Nadeem Vawda added the comment: >> Not meaning to sound petty, but wouldn't it be common etiquette to >> retain some original copyright notice from original code intact..? > > It seemed to me that Nadeem had rewritten everything from scratch. Is > there any code of yours in the current module?

[issue6715] xz compressor support

Éric Araujo added the comment: Nadeem: Instead of duplicating the list of archiving/compression modules in each doc, what about only linking to the shutil doc for archives and the archiving.rst file? (I can make the patch, just wanted feedback first) -- _

[issue13508] ctypes' find_library breaks with ARM ABIs

Loïc Minier added the comment: While I'm at it, find_library also tries creating temp files when running gcc and other issues mention trouble running gcc or propose running ld: http://bugs.python.org/issue9998 http://bugs.python.org/issue5289 IMHO, calling binutils/gcc is troublesome, it's not

[issue13508] ctypes' find_library breaks with ARM ABIs

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[issue13508] ctypes' find_library breaks with ARM ABIs

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[issue13508] ctypes' find_library breaks with ARM ABIs

New submission from Loïc Minier : Hi, This bug was originally reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/898172 ctypes/utils.py provides a find_library function which amongst other things will scan the ldconfig -p output on linux to find libraries by name. It applies some logic to filter o

[issue13504] Meta-issue for "Invent with Python" IDLE feedback

Roger Serwy added the comment: #2704 covers point 1 (In the shell window, if you click anywhere but on the current line and move the cursor there, the window stops handling key strokes.) #3851 covers point 1.1) "Pressing the Home key moves the cursor before the >>> prompt, which then makes th

[issue6715] xz compressor support

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: > Oh well, I thought that I'd still earned a note with some slight credit at least I completely agree. Sometimes people get credit for simple bug fixes (count me among them) so the author of the first working implementation deserves some recognition IM

[issue7833] bdist_wininst installers fail to load extensions built with Issue4120 patch

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[issue6715] xz compressor support

Per Øyvind Karlsen added the comment: Ah, I thought that he had reused most of the original C code in _lzmamodule.c not replaced by python code, but I see that not being the case now (only slight fragments;). Oh well, I thought that I'd still earned a note with some slight credit at least, b

[issue11732] Skip decorator for tests requiring manual intervention on Windows

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[issue7652] Merge C version of decimal into py3k.

Mark Dickinson added the comment: > Does Python really need yet another multiprecision library? It's not really another library: it's a reimplementation of the existing decimal library in C. The decimal library is *hugely* valuable to the financial world, but its slowness is a major concern

[issue13493] Import error with embedded python on AIX 6.1

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: > dlopen("/usr/local/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/time.so", 2); You are trying to open a .so from another Python installation. It won't work: it is certainly linked to another Python VM, which is not initialized. -- ___

[issue13504] Meta-issue for "Invent with Python" IDLE feedback

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[issue13493] Import error with embedded python on AIX 6.1

python_hu added the comment: Thank Amaury,you are right. So python2.7 share library compile finished,and python2.7 works,and then I write a test program,to test libpython2.7.so share library,but it dumped! code: --- #include ^M #include "Python.h"^M #include ^M ^M int main(

[issue7652] Merge C version of decimal into py3k.

STINNER Victor added the comment: > Just to clarify, no decision has yet been made on *whether* > the cdecimal work should be integrated into py3k; > we'll consult python-dev on this once we've got a working branch > and performance information. So, what is the status today? _decimal looks to

[issue9116] test_capi.test_no_FatalError_infinite_loop crash on Windows

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[issue13097] ctypes: segfault with large number of callback arguments

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: Right, alloca() could be replaced by some malloc(), but is it really useful? After all, when a C function calls back to Python, all arguments needs to be pushed to the stack anyway. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue13097] ctypes: segfault with large number of callback arguments

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[issue6715] xz compressor support

Ned Deily added the comment: I've opened Issue13507 to track adding liblzma to the OS X installer builds. -- nosy: +ned.deily ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue13507] Modify OS X installer builds to package liblzma for the new lzma module

New submission from Ned Deily : Since AFAIK Apple does not currently ship a version of liblzma with Mac OS X, the OS X installer build script should be modified to build and link a version in support of the new lzma module (Issue6715). Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py http://tukaani.org/xz/

[issue13504] Meta-issue for "Invent with Python" IDLE feedback

Ned Deily added the comment: #10364 covers point 7 (make .py default added extension on save) -- dependencies: +IDLE: make .py default added extension on save nosy: +ned.deily ___ Python tracker __

[issue13471] setting access time beyond Jan. 2038 on remote share failes on Win7 x64

Changes by Petri Lehtinen : -- resolution: works for me -> invalid stage: -> committed/rejected ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue13471] setting access time beyond Jan. 2038 on remote share failes on Win7 x64

Thorsten Simons added the comment: Gentlemen, thank you for your contribution - the information about the Samba fix solved the problem! -- resolution: -> works for me status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker _

[issue13506] IDLE sys.path does not contain Current Working Directory

Roger Serwy added the comment: +1 The proposed patch works as described. I do agree with Marco that IDLE does need some more QA. -- nosy: +serwy ___ Python tracker ___ __