[issue14360] email.encoders.encode_quopri doesn't work with python 3.2

Dmitry Shachnev added the comment: > Then, which types of argument should encode_* functions take (I think str > should be supported, and it's not a case here as encode_quopri will only > accept bytes)? I meant which types of *payload* should they accept. Here's an illustration of what I mea

[issue5136] Deprecating (and removing) "globalcall", "merge" and "globaleval"

Éric Araujo added the comment: Andrew, you can take over this issue if you want. As you’ve discovered with #3035, our deprecation process is a bit unclear (this was discussed on python-dev a few months ago), so using PendingDeprecationWarning vs. DeprecationWarning is a judgment call. -

[issue14376] sys.exit documents argument as "integer" but actually requires "subtype of int"

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[issue14360] email.encoders.encode_quopri doesn't work with python 3.2

Dmitry Shachnev added the comment: > You can get it to work by explicitly passing the charset Thanks, I didn't know about that. > Given the above, do you need it anymore? No. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue14378] __future__ imports fail when compiling from python ast

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[issue14357] Distutils2 does not work with virtualenv

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[issue14241] io.UnsupportedOperation.__new__(io.UnsupportedOperation) fails

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[issue5301] add mimetype for image/vnd.microsoft.icon (patch)

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[issue14385] Support other types than dict for __builtins__

STINNER Victor added the comment: Example combining patches of #14385 and #14386 to run code with read-only __builtins__: --- test.py - ns={'__builtins__': __builtins__.__dict__} exec(compile("__builtins__['superglobal']=1; print(superglobal)", "test", "exec"), ns) ns={'__b

[issue14386] Expose dictproxy as a public type

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[issue14386] Expose dictproxy as a public type

STINNER Victor added the comment: dictproxy.patch: proxy_new() should check that dict is a dict (PyDict_Check). -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue14385] Support other types than dict for __builtins__

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[issue14386] Expose dictproxy as a public type

New submission from STINNER Victor : Attached patch makes the dictproxy type public. Example: $ ./python Python 3.3.0a1+ (default:059489cec7b9+, Mar 22 2012, 02:45:36) >>> d=dictproxy({1:2}) >>> d dict_proxy({1: 2}) >>> d[1] 2 >>> d[1]=3 TypeError: 'dictproxy' object does not support item assi

[issue3035] Removing apparently unwanted functions from Tkinter

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I do not know or directly use tkinter enough to judge the proposed removal. (Although they do look like they might be useless.) I would like to see a little more explanation on the record. Who wrote "# XXX I don't like these -- take them away"? Also, deprecat

[issue14385] Support other types than dict for __builtins__

New submission from STINNER Victor : CPython expects __builtins__ to be a dict, but it is interesting to be able to use another type. For example, my pysandbox project (sandbox to secure Python) requires a read-only mapping for __builtins__. The PEP 416 was rejected, so there is no builtin fro

[issue14384] Add "default" kw argument to operator.itemgetter and operator.attrgetter

R. David Murray added the comment: Thanks for the suggestion. It is an interesting idea, but there are some issues. attrgetter and itemgetter can take more than one key. It would probably make more sense to have the returned function be the one that takes the default, but in that case you

[issue14383] Generalize the use of _Py_IDENTIFIER in ceval.c and typeobject.c

STINNER Victor added the comment: Oops, my patch contained an unrelated change. I attach a new patch. I commited the change: changeset: 75866: tag: tip user:Victor Stinner date:Thu Mar 22 02:09:08 2012 +0100 files: Objects/object.c description: Micro-optimize P

[issue14383] Generalize the use of _Py_IDENTIFIER in ceval.c and typeobject.c

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[issue14384] Add "default" kw argument to operator.itemgetter and operator.attrgetter

New submission from Miki Tebeka : This way they will behave more like getattr and the dictionary get. If default is not specified, then if the item/attr not found, an execption will be raised, which is the current behavior. However if default is specified, then return it in case when item/attr

[issue14383] Generalize the use of _Py_IDENTIFIER in ceval.c and typeobject.c

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[issue13959] Re-implement parts of imp in pure Python

Eric Snow added the comment: Sounds good. It will be a while before we get there, but at that point I was already planning on getting in touch with the maintainers of relevant modules before messing with them. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue14383] Generalize the use of _Py_IDENTIFIER in ceval.c and typeobject.c

New submission from STINNER Victor : Attached patch adds the followig functions: - _PyDict_GetItemId() - _PyDict_SetItemId() - _PyType_LookupId() (private) And it uses identifiers in ceval.c and typeobject.c where it is revelant. I expect a small speedup. The patch does also simplify the co

[issue14204] Support for the NPN extension to TLS/SSL

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Closing since the buildbots don't seem to show any new failures after the commit. Thank you for your contribution! -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue13959] Re-implement parts of imp in pure Python

Éric Araujo added the comment: > Once things all the import stuff currently on the table is wrapped up, > I'll probably work on switching things over to using importlib directly. Please leave distutils unchanged; we don’t clean it up or improve it in any way, it’s bugfixes only. Changing pack

[issue14382] test_unittest crashes loading 'unittest.test.testmock' when run from installed Python

New submission from Ned Deily : When run from an installed location, rather than from the build directory, test_unittest now crashes: $ ./root/bin/python3.3 -m test -w -uall,-largefile test_unittest [1/1] test_unittest test test_unittest crashed -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/p

[issue14204] Support for the NPN extension to TLS/SSL

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 2514a4e2b3ce by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default': Issue #14204: The ssl module now has support for the Next Protocol Negotiation extension, if available in the underlying OpenSSL library. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2514a4e2b3ce --

[issue3573] IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(ies) instead of file(s))

Éric Araujo added the comment: (Edited for typos, ignore the “3-22 00:26” that comes from I don’t know where) -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue3573] IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(ies) instead of file(s))

Éric Araujo added the comment: 3-22 00:26 > with hg it is stronly recommended to apply to 3.2 first and forward port to > 3.3. > Something about the DAGs working better. The default branch (3.3) is a superset of 3.2: all bug fixes are in both branches, and new features are in 3.3 only. We’v

[issue3573] IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(ies) instead of file(s))

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[issue3573] IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(ies) instead of file(s))

Éric Araujo added the comment: > with hg it is stronly recommended to apply to 3.2 first and forward port to > 3.3. > Something about the DAGs working better. The default branch (3.3) are a superset of the changesets in 3.2: all bug fixes are in both branches, and new features are in 3.3 only

[issue3035] Removing apparently unwanted functions from Tkinter

R. David Murray added the comment: Also, posting a patch for review before committing is a good idea. If you don't get a review in a reasonable time period, then as a committer you can of course go ahead and commit, based on your judgement. -- ___

[issue3035] Removing apparently unwanted functions from Tkinter

R. David Murray added the comment: PendingDeprecationWarning would mean that we are going to remove it "someday". If you actually want to remove them in a reasonable time, you should use "DeprecationWarning" in 3.3, and then remove them in 3.4. But is there a need to remove them? Maybe Pend

[issue3035] Removing apparently unwanted functions from Tkinter

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset d42f264f291e by Andrew Svetlov in branch 'default': Issue #3035: Unused functions from tkinter are marked as pending peprecated. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d42f264f291e -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Pyt

[issue3035] Removing apparently unwanted functions from Tkinter

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[issue4652] IDLE does not work with Unicode

Andrew Svetlov added the comment: Daniel Swanson, maybe my msg156512 was not obvious. You can use 'ç' without any problem in IDLE — it is BMP character. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping_of_Unicode_characters for details. tkinter has full support for 'Basic Multilingual Plane' while last

[issue4652] IDLE does not work with Unicode

Ned Deily added the comment: To add to the other comments, problems with input methods using Python 3 and Tkinter or IDLE are usually platform-specific issues with the implementation of Tk. In particular, the issue Jean-Christophe reported with Python 3.1.1 was very likely due to its use of

[issue4333] Reworked Dialog.py

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[issue4652] IDLE does not work with Unicode

Daniel Swanson added the comment: I would say that alt-c is not a problem at all, but, some people might use 'ç' more that me, (I never have used 'ç' spesificaly) -- ___ Python tracker

[issue4652] IDLE does not work with Unicode

Andrew Svetlov added the comment: I close this issue because: - current 3.2 and upcoming 3.3 support Japanese characters very well. - there are problems with non-BMP characters not supported currently but it's another issue. See progress of #14200 and others for non-BMP. -- assignee:

[issue14376] sys.exit documents argument as "integer" but actually requires "subtype of int"

Mark Dickinson added the comment: > so maybe it's not important to do error handling here. Hmm, seems it's not. And dealing with OverflowError is hardly likely to be a concern in practice anyway. +1 for the suggested fix. -- ___ Python tracker <

[issue4652] IDLE does not work with Unicode

Andrew Svetlov added the comment: For now unicode BMP has full support in TK while non-BMP characters doesn't works. 'こ' character is BMP symbol: >>> hex(ord('こ')) '0x3053' which is lesser than non-BMP space (starting from 0x1). I have no idea why alt-c doesn't converted to 'ç' (also BMP

[issue4652] IDLE does not work with Unicode

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[issue4652] IDLE does not work with Unicode

Daniel Swanson added the comment: I opened my IDLE (v. 3.2.2 windows xp) and pasted in print('ここ') it printed ここ just fine. -- nosy: +weirdink13 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue1500773] wm_attributes doesn't take keyword arguments

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[issue10118] Tkinter does not find font

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[issue14381] Intern certain integral floats for memory savings and performance

Mark Dickinson added the comment: This looks like a duplicate of issue 4024. -- nosy: +mark.dickinson ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyth

[issue4652] IDLE does not work with Unicode

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[issue7738] IDLE hang when tooltip comes up in Linux

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[issue7738] IDLE hang when tooltip comes up in Linux

Ned Deily added the comment: Since most people can't reproduce this problem now, let's assume it was a problem in the particular version of Tk used. If someone can reproduce it with a current IDLE and Tk, please reopen with details. -- nosy: +ned.deily stage: test needed -> committed

[issue14377] Modify serializer for xml.etree.ElementTree to allow forcing the use of long tag closing

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[issue14078] Add 'sourceline' property to xml.etree Elements

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[issue12757] undefined name in doctest.py

R. David Murray added the comment: Since nobody really cares about this issue :), I went ahead and applied the patch that at least avoids the tracebacks. Someone can open a new bug about the duplicated message if they really care. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: test needed -> commit

[issue12757] undefined name in doctest.py

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 64f1b8ad9214 by R David Murray in branch '3.2': #12757: Make doctest skipping in -OO mode work with unittest/regrtest -v http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/64f1b8ad9214 New changeset ff7957aa01a1 by R David Murray in branch 'default': Merge #12757: M

[issue14381] Intern certain integral floats for memory savings and performance

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Does it not decrease the performance? Falling out integral floating point numbers in the mathematical floating point calculations seems unlikely. I suggest interning integral floats only in conversions str -> float and int -> float. Exception can be made to

[issue14308] '_DummyThread' object has no attribute '_Thread__block'

Dustin Kirkland added the comment: Okay, update... I did rebuild all of Python from source (actually, I applied it to the Ubuntu python2.7 package, rebuilt that locally, and then upgraded to the new python2.7 deb's. I could see my change was applied /usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py, and I ca

[issue14381] Intern certain integral floats for memory savings and performance

New submission from Kristján Valur Jónsson : Michael Foord reminded me of this issue recently. It was discussed on pydev a few years back and met with limited enthusiasm. I speak from experience in live production with EVE that this simple change saved us a lot of memory. Integral floating

[issue14380] MIMEText should default to utf8 charset if input text contains non-ASCII

New submission from R. David Murray : The MIMEText class of the email package in Python3 requires that a character set be specified in order for the resulting email to be valid. If no character set is specified, it currently assumes ascii but puts a unicode payload in the message. Because so

[issue7652] Merge C version of decimal into py3k.

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[issue802310] tkFont may reuse font names

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[issue14360] email.encoders.encode_quopri doesn't work with python 3.2

R. David Murray added the comment: Oh, you are right. I even noted that bug in my PyCon talk, but immediately forgot about it :( I do intend to fix it. You can get it to work by explicitly passing the charset: >>> x = MIMEText('йцукен', _charset='utf8') >>> str(x) 'Content-Type: text/pl

[issue3035] Removing apparently unwanted functions from Tkinter

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[issue5136] Deprecating (and removing) "globalcall", "merge" and "globaleval"

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[issue7057] tkinter doc: more 3.x updates

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[issue978604] wait_variable hangs at exit

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[issue14360] email.encoders.encode_quopri doesn't work with python 3.2

Dmitry Shachnev added the comment: > In fact, there's really no reason to call an encode_ method at all, since if > you pass a string to MIMEText when giving it a non-ascii unicode string, it > will default to utf-8 and do the appropriate CTE encoding. No, it doesn't: Python 3.2.3rc1 (default

[issue3573] IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(ies) instead of file(s))

Andrew Svetlov added the comment: Will do in next time. Thank you for instructions. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mai

[issue3573] IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(ies) instead of file(s))

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Thanks for applying. Just note that unlike with svn, with hg it is stronly recommended to apply to 3.2 first and forward port to 3.3. Something about the DAGs working better. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue10469] test_socket fails using Visual Studio 2010

Kristján Valur Jónsson added the comment: Added a patch as used by CCP in production. Covers more WSA cases. -- nosy: +krisvale Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24985/cpython_75849_to_75851.diff ___ Python tracker

[issue14360] email.encoders.encode_quopri doesn't work with python 3.2

R. David Murray added the comment: Well, a patch won't get committed if it lacks tests, so commit would have to wait until I have time to write some, then. The encode_ methods (from email.encoders) take *message* objects as their arguments. MIMEText internally converts a byte string into the

[issue14360] email.encoders.encode_quopri doesn't work with python 3.2

Dmitry Shachnev added the comment: (Sorry for not replying earlier). I think the main priority here is getting things working, not the tests (so I have little interest in that). First of all, should quopri.encodestring() really return bytes? Everything it returns is ascii text, obviously. T

[issue14373] C implementation of functools.lru_cache

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[issue14373] C implementation of functools.lru_cache

Matt Joiner added the comment: Updated patch to fix a crash if maxsize isn't given, and add a unit test for that. Possible issues: * I've tried to emulate object() by calling PyBaseObject_Type. Not sure if there's a more lightweight object for this that just provides the needed __hash__ an

[issue7738] IDLE hang when tooltip comes up in Linux

Andrew Svetlov added the comment: Works fine on Ubuntu 11.10 with tk 8.5 for 3.2, 2.7 and 3.3 alpha. -- nosy: +asvetlov ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue1053687] PyOS_InputHook not called in IDLE subprocess

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[issue5066] IDLE documentation for Unix obsolete/incorrect

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[issue7652] Merge C version of decimal into py3k.

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[issue3573] IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(ies) instead of file(s))

Andrew Svetlov added the comment: Backported to 3.2 and 2.7 -- versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue3573] IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(ies) instead of file(s))

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset a9be863e5734 by Andrew Svetlov in branch '2.7': #3573: idle now doesn't hungs if launched as: idle -e http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a9be863e5734 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue3573] IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(ies) instead of file(s))

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset a95b19b3b4cd by Andrew Svetlov in branch '3.2': #3573: idle now doesn't hungs if launched as: idle -e http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a95b19b3b4cd New changeset cdcd1f7f0882 by Andrew Svetlov in branch 'default': Merge from 3.2 for issue #3573, f

[issue3367] Uninitialized value read in parsetok.c

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[issue3367] Uninitialized value read in parsetok.c

Kristján Valur Jónsson added the comment: Here is a patch for the sysmodule.c problem -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24983/sysmodule.patch ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue14379] Several traceback docs improvements

New submission from anatoly techtonik : Some notes about current `traceback` documentation: http://docs.python.org/library/traceback.html 1. It needs a mentioning that traceback module works with traceback objects and frame objects 2. Functions that work with frames should probably be grouped

[issue13797] Allow objects implemented in pure Python to export PEP 3118 buffers

Nick Coghlan added the comment: The reason I don't particularly like the "delegation only" API is that the combination of the new memoryview implementation and bytes/mmap/etc to get a flat region of memory to play with means you could do some quite interesting things entirely at the Python le

[issue14376] sys.exit documents argument as "integer" but actually requires "subtype of int"

Gareth Rees added the comment: > Wouldn't you also have to deal with possible errors from the PyInt_AsLong > call? Good point. But I note that Python 3 just does exitcode = (int)PyLong_AsLong(value); so maybe it's not important to do error handling here. --

[issue9787] Release the TLS lock during allocations

Kristján Valur Jónsson added the comment: Making this low priority since it applies only to platforms without Windows and pthread support. -- priority: normal -> low versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker

[issue14371] Add support for bzip2 compression to the zipfile module

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[issue10142] Support for SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA

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[issue14371] Add support for bzip2 compression to the zipfile module

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Thanks to the tests, I found the error. Since the bzip2 is block algorithm, decompressor need to eat a certain amount of data, so it began to return data. Now when reading small chunks turns out premature end of data. I'm working on a fix. --

[issue14376] sys.exit documents argument as "integer" but actually requires "subtype of int"

Mark Dickinson added the comment: > It would be simple to change line 1112 of pythonrun.c from > >if (PyInt_Check(value)) > > to > >if (PyInt_Check(value) || PyLong_Check(value)) Wouldn't you also have to deal with possible errors from the PyInt_AsLong call? E.g., after sys.exit(2**64

[issue13797] Allow objects implemented in pure Python to export PEP 3118 buffers

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[issue7652] Merge C version of decimal into py3k.

Stefan Krah added the comment: > The best thing might be to use Emax=10**8-1 and Emin=-(10**8-1) throughout. > I don't think many applications depend on having Emax=10**9-1. If they do, > they'll have to use the 64-bit version. 10**6-1 would be another option. The advantage is that it's visuall