[issue15089] Add gzip support to urllib.request.retrieve()

New submission from Raymond Hettinger : Enable retrieve() to take advantage of data compression in HTTP requests. * In the request, add the header "Accept-Encoding: gzip". * In the response, check the headers for "Content-Encoding: gzip". * Convert the downloaded content using gzip.GzipFile. --

[issue14814] Implement PEP 3144 (the ipaddress module)

Nick Coghlan added the comment: I looked into the idea of treating networks as containers of interface objects rather than addresses - it turns out it gets messy very quickly, because you definitely want your network address and broadcast address to be ordinary addresses, so making the host a

[issue11816] Refactor the dis module to provide better building blocks for bytecode analysis

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Given the imminent 3.3 beta 1 feature freeze and the fact I would like to explore Ron's suggestion of a higher level ByteCode object to encapsulate a sequence of instructions (along with additional information from the code object), postponing this one. --

[issue13475] Add '-p'/'--path0' command line option to override sys.path[0] initialisation

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[issue13783] Clean up PEP 380 C API additions

Nick Coghlan added the comment: I left the name of the new private API as _PyGen_FetchStopIterationValue. If anyone wants to make it public, they can raise a new issue to give it a more appropriate name (and move the definition accordingly). PyStopIteration_Create is simply gone, replaced by

[issue13783] Clean up PEP 380 C API additions

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 438b861e2edb by Nick Coghlan in branch 'default': Issue #13783: PEP 380 cleanup part 2, using the new identifier APIs in the generator implementation http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/438b861e2edb -- ___

[issue14991] Option for regex groupdict() to show only matching names

Larry Hastings added the comment: Just a thought--how about a new constant in the re module: SUPPRESSED=object() and have the interface be mo.groupdict(default=re.SUPPRESSED) -- nosy: +larry ___ Python tracker

[issue14215] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/ title is python.org

Nick Coghlan added the comment: This is actually related to the integration between the PEP formatting tools and the python.org build system (that is, pep2pyramid.py, rather than genpepindex.py) I'm inclined to close it as "won't fix" and maybe pass it to the psf-redesign list to look into a

[issue13783] Clean up PEP 380 C API additions

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset cfbf6aa5c9e3 by Nick Coghlan in branch 'default': Issue #13783: the PEP 380 implementation no longer expands the public C API http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/cfbf6aa5c9e3 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python

[issue15088] PyGen_NeedsFinalizing is public, but undocumented

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[issue15088] PyGen_NeedsFinalizing is public, but undocumented

New submission from Nick Coghlan : Currently undocumented: http://docs.python.org/py3k/c-api/gen.html Public API in a released version of Python: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/3.2/Include/genobject.h -- messages: 163012 nosy: ncoghlan priority: normal severity: normal status: open t

[issue14928] Fix importlib bootstrapping issues

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Looks like a solid improvement to me. One minor naming quibble is that "FROZENLESS_LIBRARY_OBJS" hurts my brain - would you mind switching it to something like "LIBRARY_OBJS_OMIT_FROZEN"? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue14657] Avoid two importlib copies

Nick Coghlan added the comment: +1 Antoine - your patch is better than the status quo, so it makes sense to apply it. If Eric can make the other way work in time for 3.3, great, but at least we'll have a solid fallback position without it. -- ___

[issue14928] Fix importlib bootstrapping issues

Meador Inge added the comment: Nice patch Antoine! The method of partitioning the object sets into frozen and non-frozen is nice. > The proposed "-X" or BOOTSTRAP_PY approaches would be difficult, since there > doesn't appear to be an easy way to generate a given file (the Python > interpreter

[issue13823] xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree.write - argument checking

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[issue9458] xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree.write(): encoding handling problems

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[issue1767933] Badly formed XML using etree and utf-16

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[issue14055] Implement __sizeof__ for etree Element

Eli Bendersky added the comment: Martin, thanks for the explanation. The patch LGTM, then. Could it be useful to document this a bit more explicitly in the description of sys.getsizeof? The most intuitive thing to expect from it is to compute the *total* size including contained objects. So t

[issue15054] bytes literals erroneously tokenized

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[issue15054] bytes literals erroneously tokenized

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 35d3a8ed7997 by Meador Inge in branch '2.7': Issue #15054: Fix incorrect tokenization of 'b' and 'br' string literals. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/35d3a8ed7997 New changeset 115b0cb52c6c by Meador Inge in branch 'default': Issue #15054: Fix in

[issue15078] Change os.sendfile so its arguments are stable

Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: I'm -0 about unifying the function signature and raise NotImplementedError where an arg is not supported. I'm -1 about os.sendfile(..., diskio=True, wait=True, sync=False). In both cases users willing to use these 3 args are already supposed to know what

[issue15087] Add gzip function to read gzip'd strings

Nadeem Vawda added the comment: There is already such a function, gzip.decompress() - it was added in 3.2. -- nosy: +nadeem.vawda resolution: -> invalid stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> pending ___ Python tracker

[issue15087] Add gzip function to read gzip'd strings

New submission from Raymond Hettinger : The API for the gzip module is convenient for reading gzipped file but is rather awkward for reading bytes downloaded from a socket: >>> import gzip, io >>> from urllib.request import urlopen, Request >>> u = urlopen(Request('http://www.nytimes.com'

[issue14769] Add test to automatically detect missing format units in skipitem()

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[issue14815] random_seed uses only 32-bits of hash on Win64

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[issue14657] Avoid two importlib copies

Eric Snow added the comment: It's actually at the top of my list, but may still be a week or two until I can get to it. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue730473] Add Py_AtInit() startup hook for extenders

Patrick Miller added the comment: Just languishing for lo on these 5 years -- resolution: -> out of date status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue14815] random_seed uses only 32-bits of hash on Win64

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[issue15086] Ubuntu bot: error while loading shared libraries

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Looks fixed. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue15086] Ubuntu bot: error while loading shared libraries

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 3680b3423aa3 by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default': Try to fix issue #15086: build failure on Ubuntu shared buildbot. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3680b3423aa3 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue15086] Ubuntu bot: error while loading shared libraries

Stefan Krah added the comment: Rebuilding importlib.h fails: -- Python/importlib.h needs to be rebuilt, but no interpreter is available to do so. Leaving the previous version in place. You may want to run ''make'' a second time after this

[issue15086] Ubuntu bot: error while loading shared libraries

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[issue15054] bytes literals erroneously tokenized

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[issue15054] bytes literals erroneously tokenized

Meador Inge added the comment: Python 2 patch looks OK too. I will commit these later today. Thanks for the patches! -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue730473] Add Py_AtInit() startup hook for extenders

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Patrick, its been 5 years since you promised a 2nd patch (which would now have to be against the current 3.3 tip). If you have lost interested, perhaps we should close this. -- nosy: +terry.reedy versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 3.2

[issue14815] random_seed uses only 32-bits of hash on Win64

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[issue1229239] optionally allow mutable builtin types

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Greg, I am closing this because you seem to have found an alternate solution and have dropped the issue. If you do want to pursue a change for 3.4, I suggest you refresh your patch and post to python-ideas (new list since you posted this). As a limited resour

[issue15054] bytes literals erroneously tokenized

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > The Python 3 patch looks OK, except that several of the tests are duplicated. What tests? -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue15054] bytes literals erroneously tokenized

Meador Inge added the comment: Nevermind, the tests are OK. I missed the swapped quotes. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-l

[issue15054] bytes literals erroneously tokenized

Meador Inge added the comment: The Python 3 patch looks OK, except that several of the tests are duplicated. I am looking at the Python 2 patch now. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue14874] Faster charmap decoding

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 8f3a5308f50b by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default': Issue #14874: Restore charmap decoding speed to pre-PEP 393 levels. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/8f3a5308f50b -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python track

[issue14874] Faster charmap decoding

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Thank you for the patch! Now pushed to 3.3. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker __

[issue15054] bytes literals erroneously tokenized

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[issue15054] bytes literals erroneously tokenized

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Patches updated with tests. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26031/tokenize_bytes_py2-2.patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26032/tokenize_bytes_py3-2.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue14928] Fix importlib bootstrapping issues

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Here is a patch for the "separate C executable" approach. There are a couple of small complications in order to avoid any circular dependency (either at the Makefile level, or at the _frozen_importlib / Py_Initialize level). The proposed "-X" or BOOTSTRAP_PY

[issue15036] mailbox.mbox fails to pop two items in a row, flushing in between

R. David Murray added the comment: "Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox, MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes." -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue14055] Implement __sizeof__ for etree Element

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: __sizeof__ is supposed to account for just the object, not for the size of any object it refers to. If you want to compute total memory consumption, you should get a list of all objects, and then sum up __sizeof__. If some object would also include some of i

[issue14657] Avoid two importlib copies

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Unless someone plans to do further work on this, I'd like to commit unique_importlib3.patch. A working solution is better than nothing. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue15062] argparse: option for a positional argument

Georg Brandl added the comment: What alternate syntax would you suggest for a "find" type command then (other than replacing "-long" by "--long")? -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker ___

[issue15036] mailbox.mbox fails to pop two items in a row, flushing in between

Petri Lehtinen added the comment: Yes, this is what I tried to say. It's hard for me to find a good wording, so what would you suggest? I also noticed now that there's a typo in the commit messages. But those cannot be fixed anymore. -- ___ Python t

[issue15086] Ubuntu bot: error while loading shared libraries

New submission from Stefan Krah : The Ubuntu shared buildbot fails to run the tests: using PTY: True ./python: error while loading shared libraries: libpython3.3dm.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory make: *** [Python/importlib.h] Error 127 034c814eb187 was O.K

[issue14055] Implement __sizeof__ for etree Element

Eli Bendersky added the comment: Out of curiosity, why don't the constituents of Element (i.e. the tag, the attributes dict, etc.) count for its size? -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue15063] Source code links for JSON documentation

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[issue15008] PEP 362 "Signature Objects" reference implementation

Éric Araujo added the comment: One small thing: can we find a name for the function that starts with a verb? It’s the recommended naming style for functions, and would help making a difference between the class and the function. I also expect people to use “signature” and “sig” for their in

[issue15054] bytes literals erroneously tokenized

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[issue15082] [httplib] httplib.BadStatusLine on any HTTPS connection in certain unknown cases.

George Stephanos added the comment: I can confirm that. I built a 1.0.1c version of both _ssl.pyd and _ssl.lib and now the problem's solved (they're attached if ever needed). Thanks! Can't the next Python 2.7 release include 1.0.1c instead ? -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file2

[issue14874] Faster charmap decoding

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[issue15062] argparse: option for a positional argument

Éric Araujo added the comment: I wouldn’t use the syntax used by find, dd or other very old and peculiar commands as an example for anything new :) -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker ___

[issue15063] Source code links for JSON documentation

Éric Araujo added the comment: The source links were added by Raymond for selected modules that he judged readable, well-written and useful companions to the documentation. For the json.encoder and decoder modules, I don’t think this is the case: the rst doc should explain well the behavior

[issue14850] The inconsistency of codecs.charmap_decode

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[issue15048] Manually Installed Python Includes System Wide Paths

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[issue13241] llvm-gcc-4.2 miscompiles Python (XCode 4.1 on Mac OS 10.7)

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[issue14055] Implement __sizeof__ for etree Element

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[issue14055] Implement __sizeof__ for etree Element

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[issue13498] os.makedirs exist_ok documentation is incorrect, as is some of the behavior

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[issue805255] remove/discard method for dict objects.

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[issue15054] bytes literals erroneously tokenized

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: And here is an even better patch for Python 3. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26028/tokenize_bytes_py3.patch ___ Python tracker __

[issue15054] bytes literals erroneously tokenized

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[issue9679] unicode DNS names in urllib, urlopen

Florent Xicluna added the comment: The werkzeug.urls module has examples of such conversion IRI-to-URI: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/werkzeug/blob/master/werkzeug/urls.py#L109,L205 -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue15085] set.union accepts not set iterables for all but the first argument.

R. David Murray added the comment: By calling 'set.union' you are calling the method on the class. When you call a method directly on a class object, you have to explicitly pass in 'self'. Thus the first argument when you call it like that must be a set object. -- nosy: +r.david.mur

[issue15084] Add option to os.mkdir to not raise an exception for existing directories

R. David Murray added the comment: Note that the implementation of makedirs exist_ok has a significant bug (issue 13498) which renders it mostly useless in practice. Parties interested in this issue might be interested in figuring out how to fix that bug :) -- nosy: +r.david.murray

[issue15054] bytes literals erroneously tokenized

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: And here is a better patch for Python 3. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26027/tokenize_bytes_py3.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue15054] bytes literals erroneously tokenized

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[issue15054] bytes literals erroneously tokenized

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Here is a patch for Python 2. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26026/tokenize_bytes_py2.patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue14992] os.makedirs expect_ok=True test_os failure when directory has S_ISGID bit set

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[issue15054] bytes literals erroneously tokenized

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Here is a patch (for Python 3.3). -- keywords: +patch nosy: +storchaka Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26025/tokenize_bytes.patch ___ Python tracker _

[issue15054] bytes literals erroneously tokenized

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[issue15075] XincludeTest failure in test_xml_etree

Eli Bendersky added the comment: No need, the cause for the segfault is known. What happens is that Element objects from the Python module get intermixed with Element objects from the C module, and these are incompatible. The C module traversal functions assume they can cast Elements to a kno

[issue15050] Python 3.2.3 fail to make

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > Martin, do I understand that you are saying that this is not a Python > problem, and should be closed? No. I'm saying that I don't know whether it's a Python problem. It hasn't been fully analyzed. I actually only suspect that it's a misconfiguration. -

[issue15050] Python 3.2.3 fail to make

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Martin, do I understand that you are saying that this is not a Python problem, and should be closed? -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker

[issue15084] Add option to os.mkdir to not raise an exception for existing directories

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: I agree that this is already covered by the exist_ok parameter (which is new to 3.2). Existing code just hasn't been ported to this API. -- resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue15084] Add option to os.mkdir to not raise an exception for existing directories

Hynek Schlawack added the comment: I looked into the code. Assuming it should be added, we're facing the fact that os.mkdir() is C code ATM and the handling of the error would require to implement it for NT and Unix separately. Therefore it would make sense to add a Python os.mkdir() that han

[issue15085] set.union accepts not set iterables for all but the first argument.

New submission from Stefan Krastanov : >>> set.union(set([1,2]), [3]) set([1, 2, 3]) >>> set.union([1,2], [3]) TypeError: descriptor 'union' requires a 'set' object but received a 'list' It seems a bit inconsistent. Is it justified somehow? -- components: None messages: 162962 nosy: k

[issue15068] fileinput requires two EOF when reading stdin

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[issue15026] Faster UTF-16 encoding

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Thank you for pushing. :-) Are you interested in a faster UTF-32 codec? Not much :) I know you posted issues on that, but I think UTF-32 is quite low priority. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue15026] Faster UTF-16 encoding

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Thank you for pushing. :-) Are you interested in a faster UTF-32 codec? -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue15084] Add option to os.mkdir to not raise an exception for existing directories

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[issue15084] Add option to os.makefile to not raise an exception for existing directories

Hynek Schlawack added the comment: +1. Raymond, is there a reason you put that for 3.4? I'd try to get it in before beta1 next week, it's trivial enough. Regarding the name: os.makedirs() uses exist_ok, we shouldn't invent new ones. -- assignee: -> hynek nosy: +hynek __

[issue15084] Add option to os.makefile to not raise an exception for existing directories

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Agree. First, the use of parameter is shorter (1 line instead of 4). Second, try/except idiom hides possible real OS errors (no rights to create the directory, a non-directory file with the same name already exists, illegal filename, too long patch, etc.).

[issue15075] XincludeTest failure in test_xml_etree

Florent Xicluna added the comment: > File "/home/eliben/python-src/33/Lib/test/regrtest.py", line 710 in main > File "/home/eliben/python-src/33/Lib/test/regrtest.py", line 1829 in > > File "/home/eliben/python-src/33/Lib/runpy.py", line 75 in _run_code > File "/home/eliben/python-src/

[issue15084] Add option to os.makefile to not raise an exception for existing directories

New submission from Raymond Hettinger : I commonly see the code pattern: try: os.mkdir(dirname) except OSError: pass It would be nice to have this instead: os.mkdir(dirname, ignore_if_existing=True) There's probably a better name for the keyword argument, but it communicates the i