[issue14880] csv.reader and .writer use wrong kwargs notation in 2.7 docs

Hynek Schlawack added the comment: What does bother you? Both sigs look like in py3 if I'm looking correctly. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue9694] argparse required arguments displayed under "optional arguments"

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[issue15783] decimal.localcontext(None) fails when using the C accelerator module

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Note that it's only the 3.2 interactive help that specifies "ctx=None", and it's almost certainly lifting that directly from the Python implementation. The C implementation is definitely in compliance with the prose docs, which give the signature as localcontext

[issue14783] Update int() docstring from manual

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: The 3.3 version has the virtue of being accurate and the vice of being confusing. In a way, it has made the docs worse for the average user of common cases. Is there a way to stack the alternative signatures rather than mush the various used into a single

[issue15136] Decimal accepting Fraction

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Thanks Nick. I'll go ahead and close this one, leaving the Decimal module only with lossless coercions that do not depend on the decimal context (this matches the underlying design of the decimal module which treats all numbers as exact, and only applying

[issue6074] .pyc files created readonly if .py file is readonly, python won't overwrite

Eric Snow added the comment: Here's a patch for 3.3 with a test. Though, I'm still setting up my windows box for building Python, I wanted to get this patch up. On its own the test should fail on Windows. In that case, it should be backport-able. If no one has a chance to verify the test o

[issue15789] mention shell-like parts of the std lib in the subprocess docs

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: This is a nit, but can you adhere to an 80-character line length? Much (but not all) of the documentation does. -- nosy: +cjerdonek ___ Python tracker ___

[issue15785] curses.get_wch() returns keypad codes incorrectly

Adam Simpkins added the comment: > + Get a wide character as (is_key_code, key). *is_key_code* is True for > + function keys, keypad keys and so, in this case, *key* is a multibyte > string > + containing the key name. Otherwise, *key* is a single character > + corresponding to the key.

[issue15716] Ability to specify the PYTHONPATH via a command line flag

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[issue15716] Ability to specify the PYTHONPATH via a command line flag

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[issue15716] Ability to specify the PYTHONPATH via a command line flag

Colin Su added the comment: Could anyone provide some properly command line usage for this issue? ex. python -P "path_1:path_2:path_3" I think this point need to be discussed :D -- ___ Python tracker

[issue15716] Ability to specify the PYTHONPATH via a command line flag

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[issue14649] doctest.DocTestSuite error misleading when module has no docstrings

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: Updating the patch after discussing with David on IRC. The two new files are now added to Lib/test instead of to a subdirectory of Lib/test. Moving the doctest files to a subdirectory can be discussed and possibly addressed as part of a separate issue. -

[issue9650] format codes in time.strptime docstrings

Chris Rebert added the comment: +1 on including am/pm-related codes. Blame us backwards, non-metric Americans. Sounds GTM otherwise. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue15784] OSError.__str__() should distinguish between errno and winerror

Richard Oudkerk added the comment: > Well, "Error" and "Errno" are rather hard to distinguish Embarrassingly, I did not even notice the was a difference. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue15795] Zipfile.extractall does not preserve file permissions

R. David Murray added the comment: Does this have any relationship to issue 3394? From the discussion on that issue it sounds like zipfile is doing things with external_attributes if it is set. But I don't know much about zipfile internals. -- nosy: +r.david.murray _

[issue15533] subprocess.Popen(cwd) documentation

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: Here is a new patch that makes no assumptions about the contents of the directory containing sys.executable. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27026/issue-15533-3-default.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue15794] test_importlib: test_locks failure

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: After a bit of investigation, it turns out the test is probably too strict. The deadlock avoidance logic in importlib._bootstrap is indeed conservative: if you take a look at _ModuleLock.acquire(), _blocking_on[tid] is set even while other threads may run, beca

[issue15790] Python 3.3.0rc1 release notes claims PEP-405 support, yet pysetup is not in the package (needs more usage documentation, to get pip working)

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[issue15793] Stack corruption in ssl.RAND_egd()

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[issue15793] Stack corruption in ssl.RAND_egd()

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[issue15794] test_importlib: test_locks failure

Stefan Krah added the comment: Also reproduced on Ubuntu Lucid/Core 2 Duo with a very low switch interval and -j4. It takes more repetitions than on the i7: $ ./python -m test -uall -F -j4 test_importlib [...] [224] test_importlib [225] test_importlib [226/1] test_importlib test test_importlib

[issue15793] Stack corruption in ssl.RAND_egd()

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[issue15793] Stack corruption in ssl.RAND_egd()

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Patch updated with tests. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27023/ssl_RAND_egd-3.3.patch ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue15796] Fix readline() docstrings

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[issue15533] subprocess.Popen(cwd) documentation

Ned Deily added the comment: Because tests should be runnable from installed Pythons (including binary -only installations), tests should not assume that a Python source directory is available nor make any assumptions about the location of the Python executable itself. -- nosy: +ned.d

[issue15796] Fix readline() docstrings

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: Here is a patch that escapes '\n' in readline() docstrings. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: escape_nl.patch keywords: patch messages: 169235 nosy: docs@python, storchaka priority: normal severity: normal status: open title:

[issue15789] mention shell-like parts of the std lib in the subprocess docs

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks, LGTM. Maybe there’s a section about walking files in the os module doc that you could also link to? Also shutil. -- nosy: +eric.araujo versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker

[issue15795] Zipfile.extractall does not preserve file permissions

New submission from Alexey Boriskin: Zipfile._extract_member does not preserve file permissions while extracting it. As may be seen at link[1], raw open() is used and no os.chmod() applied after that, therefore any permission data stored in zipfile is dropped and file is created with default p

[issue15794] test_importlib: test_locks failure

New submission from Stefan Krah: On the obstinate i7 machine (see #15781), test_importlib fails sporadically (after 10 repetitions or so). $ ./python -m test -uall -F test_importlib [ 1] test_importlib

[issue15781] test_threaded_import fails with -j4

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 7fa6336e9864 by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default': Issue #15781: Fix two small race conditions in import's module locking. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7fa6336e9864 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tr

[issue15781] test_threaded_import fails with -j4

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > I'm getting another error in test_importlib, both with and without > the patch. I can open another issue for that if you think it's > completely unrelated: Please do. Thanks! -- ___ Python tracker

[issue15781] test_threaded_import fails with -j4

Stefan Krah added the comment: Nice, on the finicky i7 machine test_threaded_import is fixed. I'm getting another error in test_importlib, both with and without the patch. I can open another issue for that if you think it's completely unrelated: $ ./python -m test -uall -F test_importlib

[issue15793] Stack corruption in ssl.RAND_egd()

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: You should add a test (e.g. that TypeError is raised when a second argument is passed). -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue15784] OSError.__str__() should distinguish between errno and winerror

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Well, "Error" and "Errno" are rather hard to distinguish, and the difference isn't obvious either, so Richard's patch is a good improvement IMHO. -- assignee: -> sbt components: +Interpreter Core versions: +Python 3.3 _

[issue15784] OSError.__str__() should distinguish between errno and winerror

Georg Brandl added the comment: Uh, currently it's "Errno" or "Error", so there is a way to tell which. I'll leave to Antoine to decide what to do here; it's not like changing it a big deal. "WinError" looks kind of ugly to me though. -- ___ Python

[issue15781] test_threaded_import fails with -j4

Georg Brandl added the comment: Sure. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org

[issue15784] OSError.__str__() should distinguish between errno and winerror

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I originally kept it that way to minimize disruption with 3.2, but I agree it's a welcome change. As for acceptance in 3.3, Georg will have to decide. -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue15784] OSError.__str__() should distinguish between errno and winerror

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[issue15781] test_threaded_import fails with -j4

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: If possible I would like to wait for Stefan's confirmation that it fixes the failures for him. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue15792] Fix compiler options for x64 builds on Windows

Jeremy Kloth added the comment: I did forgot t mention that this change also silences a compiler warning: cl : Command line warning D9025: overriding '/GS' with '/GS-' The /USECL:xxx option does not provoke a warning is it is being evaluated as '/U "SECL:xxx"' (undefine macro) -- nosy:

[issue15793] Stack corruption in ssl.RAND_egd()

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: Here is a patch that fixes stack corruption in ssl.RAND_egd(). -- components: Library (Lib) files: ssl_RAND_egd.patch keywords: patch messages: 169221 nosy: haypo, storchaka priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Stack corruption in ss

[issue15781] test_threaded_import fails with -j4

Georg Brandl added the comment: Looks good to me. Please commit to default and I'll cherry-pick to rc2. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue15785] curses.get_wch() returns keypad codes incorrectly

Georg Brandl added the comment: Please get a review from another developer before I consider this for rc2. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue15785] curses.get_wch() returns keypad codes incorrectly

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[issue15781] test_threaded_import fails with -j4

Brett Cannon added the comment: Didn't patch it in to evaluate the surrounding code, but otherwise the patch LGTM. -- stage: patch review -> commit review ___ Python tracker ___

[issue15792] Fix compiler options for x64 builds on Windows

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[issue15781] test_threaded_import fails with -j4

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Ok, I can now reproduce with setswitchinterval(). Here is a patch. There was a race between putting the new module in sys.modules and setting its __initializing__ attribute, so now __initializing__ is set before putting the module in sys.modules. Also, there

[issue15533] subprocess.Popen(cwd) documentation

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: python_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(sys.executable)) wrong_cwd = os.path.join(python_dir, 'Doc') Actually, is there a better directory to be using for this? I'd like a directory that is guaranteed to exist that is in the same directory as sys.execut

[issue15533] subprocess.Popen(cwd) documentation

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[issue15533] subprocess.Popen(cwd) documentation

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: Here is a full patch for the default branch (documentation correction and test cases for the documented behavior). If this patch looks acceptable, I can prepare a separate patch for 2.7. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27018/issue-15533-2-def

[issue10076] Regex objects became uncopyable in 2.5

Michael Shields added the comment: It's not strictly necessary that re objects be copyable, but there's no reason to break it either. It's not strictly necessary that str or int be copyable either. This came up in code that had objects with a number of members, one of which was a regexp patt

[issue11964] Undocumented change to indent param of json.dump in 3.2

Éric Araujo added the comment: LGTM. -- assignee: eric.araujo -> petri.lehtinen stage: needs patch -> commit review ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue11964] Undocumented change to indent param of json.dump in 3.2

Petri Lehtinen added the comment: Attached a new patch. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27017/issue11964.patch ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue11964] Undocumented change to indent param of json.dump in 3.2

Petri Lehtinen added the comment: I don't think the test changes are needed, because both dump() and dumps() use JSONEncoder internally, and all current indent testing is done using dumps() anyway. More important would be to update the documentation of indent for JSONEncoder to match that of

[issue13405] Add DTrace probes

Jesús Cea Avión added the comment: Samuel, the program complaining about not being able to find the C Preprocessor is the system "dtrace" executable. Looks like a dependency there. To check this hypotesis, create a file called "a.d", with the following content: """ provider test { probe abc(

[issue15792] Fix compiler options for x64 builds on Windows

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[issue1065986] Fix pydoc crashing on unicode strings

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: I fail to see how this patch solves this issue. Taking the example from issue15791, I still get the traceback of that issue, namely in the line result = result + self.section('AUTHOR', str(object.__author__)) If __author__ is a unicode object, it's the st

[issue15791] pydoc does not handle non-ASCII unicode AUTHOR field

R. David Murray added the comment: There is a proposed patch in issue 1065986 waiting for review. -- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> Fix pydoc crashing on unicode strings type: crash -> behavior ___

[issue15783] decimal.localcontext(None) fails when using the C accelerator module

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[issue15775] Add StopParser() to expat

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: If a handler function raises an exception, the Parse() method exits and the exception is propagated; internally, this also calls XML_StopParser(). Why would one call XML_StopParser() explicitely? -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc _

[issue15533] subprocess.Popen(cwd) documentation

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[issue15533] subprocess.Popen(cwd) documentation

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: Attached are a few test cases showing that Popen *does* consider cwd when searching for the executable (as well as for args[0]), and in particular that you *can* specify the program's path relative to cwd. I also moved the test_cwd test to be adjacent to the o

[issue2988] Invalid cookies crash web applications

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[issue2988] Invalid cookies crash web applications

Wichert Akkerman added the comment: I do not agree that this is a fix. Effectively this means that if a user has a single cookie that SimpleCookie does not like a webapp can not use any cookie at all. Imho at a minimum there should be a way to tell SimpleCookie to ignore invalid cookies.

[issue15791] pydoc does not handle non-ASCII unicode AUTHOR field

Éric Araujo added the comment: One could argue that since print does respect the terminal encoding if sys.stdin is a tty, pydoc could be as smart and do the same. I think the problem comes from the use of a pager, which means a subprocess, which mean that the streams are not ttys and the enco

[issue15791] pydoc does not handle non-ASCII unicode AUTHOR field

Éric Araujo added the comment: I think this works if you set PYTTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 in your environment. (2.6 does not get bugfixes anymore.) -- title: pydoc does not handle unicode AUTHOR field -> pydoc does not handle non-ASCII unicode AUTHOR field versions: -Python 2.6 __

[issue11964] Undocumented change to indent param of json.dump in 3.2

Éric Araujo added the comment: See my previous message where I say that a careful check is needed. -- nosy: +sandro.tosi ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue15790] Python 3.3.0rc1 release notes claims PEP-405 support, yet pysetup is not in the package (needs more usage documentation, to get pip working)

Pas added the comment: Thank you. The missing detail was to install distribute when a package needs setuptools. So, documentation. The setuptools page doesn't even mention distribute. The PEP mentions both, even though setuptools pretty much looks incompatible with Py3.3. Anyway. I'm honestly

[issue15792] Fix compiler options for x64 builds on Windows

New submission from Jeremy Kloth: The attached patch fixes the compiler options used for building the x64 platform. - In VC10 the passing /GS- as an additional option has been replaced by the MSBuild BufferSecurityCheck command - The /USECL:xxx option is only for the VSExtComp plugin for VS.NE

[issue12403] Mention sys.displayhook in code module docs and the compile builtin docs

Aaron Iles added the comment: I've submitted a patch which adds a section to the code module's documentation on overriding console output. It attempts to catalogue when sys.stderr, sys.excepthook and sys.displayhook are used to print console output. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +aliles Ad

[issue15790] Python 3.3.0rc1 release notes claims PEP-405 support, yet pysetup is not in the package (needs more usage documentation, to get pip working)

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: pyvenv won't install setuptools because setuptools is not a stdlib package. Having packaging would have been nice, but that library was not in a good enough shape for the 3.3 release. I don't understand what you try to do in the second traceback. Installing

[issue15790] Python 3.3.0rc1 release notes claims PEP-405 support, yet pysetup is not in the package (needs more usage documentation, to get pip working)

Pas added the comment: It's not straightforward, at all. # (v3.3rc1) /home/pas/wololo/pip-1.1$ python setup.py install Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 3, in from setuptools import setup ImportError: No module named 'setuptools' Then, of course one can try insta

[issue15791] pydoc does not handle unicode AUTHOR field

New submission from Michele Orrù: $ echo "__author__ = u'Michele Orr\xf9'" > foo.py && python -c "import foo; print foo.__author__; help(foo)" Michele Orrù Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site.py",

[issue15790] Python 3.3.0rc1 release notes claims PEP-405 support, yet pysetup is not in the package (needs more usage documentation, to get pip working)

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: PEP 405 is for "venv" support and that is available. Documenting how to use pip/distribute/setuptools with venv is IMHO beyond the scope of the stdlib documentation (and should be easy enough: create a virtual environment using pyvenv, then install pip using

[issue15790] Python 3.3.0rc1 release notes claims PEP-405 support, yet pysetup is not in the package (needs more usage documentation, to get pip working)

New submission from Pas: Python 3.3.0rc1 release notes ( http://python.org/download/releases/3.3.0/ ) claims PEP-405 support, yet pysetup is not in the tarball. (After reading through mailing lists and bugs it's clear that the move to "packaging" module got pulled, so it's still just distutils

[issue9650] format codes in time.strptime docstrings

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: I would like to add my +1 to this issue. I suggest adding something like this: """ Commonly used format codes: %Y Year with century as a decimal number. %m Month as a decimal number [01,12]. %d Day of the month as a decimal number [01,31].

[issue14880] csv.reader and .writer use wrong kwargs notation in 2.7 docs

Petri Lehtinen added the comment: Chris: Thanks for the patch. I'm not sure register_dialect()'s signature is good like that, though. Hynek, what do you think? -- stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___

[issue15787] PEP 3121 Refactoring

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[issue15761] Setting PYTHONEXECUTABLE can cause segfaults on OS X

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[issue14870] Descriptions of os.utime() and os.utimensat() use wrong notation

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[issue14783] Update int() docstring from manual

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[issue9650] format codes in time.strptime docstrings

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[issue7186] Document specialness of __doc__, and possibly other "special" attributes

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[issue15533] subprocess.Popen(cwd) documentation

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[issue15786] IDLE code completion window does not scoll/select with mouse

suddha sourav added the comment: Platform is Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. Sorry for not including the information! -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue11964] Undocumented change to indent param of json.dump in 3.2

Chris Rebert added the comment: It's been over a year and the patch is trivial. Any chance of it getting applied soon? -- nosy: +cvrebert ___ Python tracker ___

[issue14570] Document json "sort_keys" parameter properly

Chris Rebert added the comment: Erm, the patch seems to have some ANSI terminal coloring escape code junk (e.g. "") in it... -- nosy: +cvrebert ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue15767] add ModuleNotFoundError

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[issue15789] mention shell-like parts of the std lib in the subprocess docs

New submission from Chris Rebert: To further dissuade people from using subprocess.Popen's shell=True option unnecessarily, this patch points out that some common shell features are also available directly in Python via certain modules & functions. -- assignee: docs@python components:

[issue15788] cross-refs in the subprocess.Popen.std{in, out, err} warning box aren't linked

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 92aa438a5c4b by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7': #15788: fix broken links in subprocess doc. Patch by Chris Rebert. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/92aa438a5c4b New changeset 1676e423054a by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2': #15788: fix broken links in s

[issue15788] cross-refs in the subprocess.Popen.std{in, out, err} warning box aren't linked

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Fixed, thanks for the patch! -- assignee: docs@python -> ezio.melotti resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed type: -> enhancement versions: +Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker