[issue17707] Multiprocessing queue get method does not block for short timeouts

Charles-François Natali added the comment: I think we should test multiple timeout values (e.g. 0.1, 0.5, 1 and 1.5): it'll take a little longer, but since the test suite didn't detect it, that's really lacking. Also, rathr than using an harcoded delta, we could maybe use a fudger factor, like wh

[issue17353] Plistlib outputs empty data tags when deeply nested

Ezio Melotti added the comment: If possible it would be better to still generate a valid output, possibly by limiting the indentation or removing it after a certain point. However I don't know if there are any restrictions that should be followed while generating a plist (What happens if the li

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

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Patch LGTM. I think it would also be better to say something like "Note that it's already possible to iterate on file objects using ``for line in file: ...`` without calling file.readlines()." in Doc/library/io.rst:readlines, as suggested in msg148703. ---

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

Dan Riti added the comment: Added a new version of the patch to incorporate Ezio's comment! -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29859/demote-readlines-v2.patch ___ Python tracker _

[issue16826] Don't check for PYTHONCASEOK if interpreter started with -E

Meador Inge added the comment: Here is a version which implements the subprocess method for testing suggested by Éric. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29858/issue16826-1.patch ___ Python tracker _

[issue14012] Misc tarfile fixes

Éric Araujo added the comment: I should be able to do that but can’t say when. -- versions: -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue17733] Add tests to test__header_value_parser for RFC 2231 parsing code

Changes by R. David Murray : -- title: Unit tests for RFC 2231 parsing code -> Add tests to test__header_value_parser for RFC 2231 parsing code ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue9849] Argparse needs better error handling for nargs

Mark Lawrence added the comment: The behaviour has changed from that given in msg116355. Using Python 3.3.1 on Windows. >>> import argparse >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() >>> parser.add_argument('foo', nargs='1') Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\python33\lib\argparse.py",

[issue15281] pyvenv --symlinks option is a no-op?

Piotr Dobrogost added the comment: > Following discussions on python-dev, the default is always to symlink, > except on Windows (no support for true symlinks on XP and older) and In this case couldn't symlinks be automatically used on Windows Vista or newer? -- nosy: +piotr.dobrogost _

[issue17010] Windows launcher ignores active virtual environment

Piotr Dobrogost added the comment: Issue titled "Python Launcher and virtualenv?" at https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/pylauncher/issue/15/ is related. -- nosy: +piotr.dobrogost ___ Python tracker

[issue17480] pyvenv should be installed someplace more obvious on Windows

Piotr Dobrogost added the comment: I've just stumbled upon this issue after asking "Where is pyvenv script in Python 3 on Windows installed?" question at http://stackoverflow.com/q/1598/95735 "Perhaps Windows installs should include (alongside Python.exe) a pyvenv.exe that invokes venv fo

[issue17707] Multiprocessing queue get method does not block for short timeouts

Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: You're right, sorry. I got confused by the exponential notation in 9.107589721679688e-05. Updated patch is in attachment. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29857/issue17707.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue16954] Add docstrings for ElementTree module

Eli Bendersky added the comment: You can ask on the python-dev mailing list. It's possible that other Python developers ran into a similar issue. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue17707] Multiprocessing queue get method does not block for short timeouts

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Without using Decimal and without patching connections.py (hence > q.get() returns immediately) the resulting delta is mismatched: Well, why are you surprised the test fails without the patch? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue17707] Multiprocessing queue get method does not block for short timeouts

Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: Without using Decimal and without patching connections.py (hence q.get() returns immediately) the resulting delta is mismatched: == FAIL: test_timeout (__main__.WithProcessesTestQueue) -

[issue17707] Multiprocessing queue get method does not block for short timeouts

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I don't understand what you're worrying about here. This is just because of evaluation order: >>> import itertools >>> it = itertools.count() >>> f = it.__next__ >>> f() - f() -1 >>> f() - f() -1 -- ___ Python track

[issue17707] Multiprocessing queue get method does not block for short timeouts

Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: Yeah, right. Too strict indeed. I'll get rid of the assertLessEqual statement. Here's why Decimal is necessary: >>> import time >>> time.time() - time.time() -9.5367431640625e-07 >>> from decimal import Decimal >>> Decimal(time.time()) - Decimal(time.time())

[issue17733] Unit tests for RFC 2231 parsing code

Changes by Ankur Ankan : -- components: Tests nosy: Ankur.Ankan, r.david.murray priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Unit tests for RFC 2231 parsing code type: enhancement ___ Python tracker __

[issue17707] Multiprocessing queue get method does not block for short timeouts

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Your test is much too strict (and I don't understand why you're using a Decimal). I think testing that the delta is greater or equal than 0.2 would be enough. -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker

[issue17707] Multiprocessing queue get method does not block for short timeouts

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[issue17707] Multiprocessing queue get method does not block for short timeouts

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[issue17707] Multiprocessing queue get method does not block for short timeouts

Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: Patch including a unittest is in attachment. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29855/issue17707.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue17135] imp doc should direct to importlib

R. David Murray added the comment: Thanks, Kristian. The 3.x docs were a "fresh start", so if we want to mark something as deprecated it would be a Python3 version number, the number current at the time of the deprecation. There is another open issue, 17177, that speaks specifically about dep

[issue17575] HTTPConnection.send

dspub...@freemail.hu added the comment: Thank you Stephen.Tu for information. I think so, the "return" has been found ;-) -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue16954] Add docstrings for ElementTree module

David Lam added the comment: Hi Eli, I sure would! (Though, if anyone finds this issue and can figure out a solution, I'd encourage them to post it!) -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue17716] From ... import fails when parent package failed but child module succeeded, yet works in std import case

Pascal Chambon added the comment: Thanks for the feedback, I'm gonna read those docs and related issues asap, and check that planned evolutions will actually fix this. just as a side note in the meantime: I dont think that the problem here is the "purge " of sys.modules, the failure is actuall

[issue10438] list an example for calling static methods from WITHIN classes

Richard Oudkerk added the comment: Note that in Python 3 you can also do __class__.f() in a staticmethod. Not sure if that is encouraged though. -- nosy: +sbt ___ Python tracker __

[issue17732] distutils.cfg Can Break venv

Nick Sloan added the comment: It looks like virtualenv includes an empty distutils.cfg at myvirtualenv/lib/python3.3/distutils/distutils.cfg. Most of myvirtualenv/lib/python3.3 is just symlinked to the base python version, but myvirtualenv/lib/python3.3/distutils/ is not, and I bet this is exa

[issue17353] Plistlib outputs empty data tags when deeply nested

Mike Milkin added the comment: Yep you are correct. >>> plistlib.readPlistFromBytes(plistlib.writePlistToBytes({'test': plistlib.Data(b'aa')})) {'test': Data(b'aa')} >>> plistlib.readPlistFromBytes(plistlib.writePlistToBytes([{'test': >>> plistlib

[issue10438] list an example for calling static methods from WITHIN classes

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[issue17732] distutils.cfg Can Break venv

Éric Araujo added the comment: There is a --no-user-cfg option to disable reading ~/.pydistutils.cfg, but I don’t recall an option to ignore the global config. How does virtualenv avoid this problem, if it does? -- assignee: eric.araujo -> vinay.sajip components: +Library (Lib) -Distu

[issue17732] distutils.cfg Can Break venv

New submission from Nick Sloan: When distutils.cfg defines an install-lib, it will be used within virtual environments created using venv as well, which makes it impossible to install things with setup.py or similar. Steps to reproduce: Create a distutils.cfg file and set a value for install-

[issue17353] Plistlib outputs empty data tags when deeply nested

Ezio Melotti added the comment: On 3.x it's called writePlistToBytes, and it seems to have the same issue. -- versions: -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___ __

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

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I agree with removing .readlines section. If .readlines did not exist, I do not think we would add it now. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue17731] test_iter_importers intermittent failure in test_pkgutil

Ezio Melotti added the comment: This is related to #16163. Other buildbots failed too, e.g.: http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/x86%20RHEL%206%203.3/builds/501 http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/x86%20Gentoo%20Non-Debug%203.x/builds/4128 http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20F

[issue17731] test_iter_importers intermittent failure in test_pkgutil

New submission from R. David Murray: A buildbot produced the following traceback, but the test passed when re-run. http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/x86%20Gentoo%203.3/builds/630/steps/test/logs/stdio test_loader_deprecated (test.test_pkgutil.ImportlibMigrationTests) ... ok ===

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

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > I would actually remove the whole section about readlines() or > possibly just mention it briefly (something like "If you want to read > all the lines of a file in a list you can also use f.readlines().") > The sizehint arg is rarely used, so I don't see the po

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

Ezio Melotti added the comment: I would actually remove the whole section about readlines() or possibly just mention it briefly (something like "If you want to read all the lines of a file in a list you can also use f.readlines().") The sizehint arg is rarely used, so I don't see the point of g

[issue10438] list an example for calling static methods from WITHIN classes

R. David Murray added the comment: After a discussion (at the Boston Python sprint, unfortunately I forget with who) of how difficult this could be to explain succinctly without confusing either java/C++ programmers on the one hand or Python programmers on the other hand, this, the wording in

[issue15866] encode(..., 'xmlcharrefreplace') produces entities for surrogate pairs

Ezio Melotti added the comment: I tend to agree with Victor: if you want to fix 2.7 go ahead, but if that's too much work it's OK with me to close this issue. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue17618] base85 encoding

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Hi and thanks for the patch! > I named the Mercurial base85 implementation functions with the "b85" > prefix. For the Ascii85 ones, I used "a85". I considered overloading > the same functions with a keyword argument to select which encoding, > but rejected that.

[issue17693] Use _PyUnicodeWriter API for CJK decoders

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset ffd4b72f7f95 by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': Issue #17693: Fix memory/reference leaks http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ffd4b72f7f95 -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue17341] Poor error message when compiling invalid regex

R. David Murray added the comment: Thanks Jason. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.3, Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker __

[issue17353] Plistlib outputs empty data tags when deeply nested

Mike Milkin added the comment: Looks like plistlib.writePlistToString is no loger in the plistlib. -- nosy: +mmilkin ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue17341] Poor error message when compiling invalid regex

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 65db865c0851 by R David Murray in branch '3.3': #17341: Include name in re error message about invalid group name. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/65db865c0851 New changeset 227fed7a05d4 by R David Murray in branch 'default': Merge #17341: Include

[issue17244] py_compile.compile() fails to raise exceptions when writing of target file fails

Changes by Brett Cannon : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: test needed -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue17244] py_compile.compile() fails to raise exceptions when writing of target file fails

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 04aaeae6ee7b by Brett Cannon in branch 'default': Issue #17244: Don't mask exceptions raised during the creation of http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/04aaeae6ee7b -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker <

[issue995907] memory leak with threads and enhancement of the timer class

Yael added the comment: Added a class Threading.TimerPool. This new class spawns one thread, and that thread is running as long as there are active timers. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29853/mywork.patch ___ Python track

[issue17221] Resort Misc/NEWS

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: I commit patches since no one objected. Not all errors are corrected. There are duplicates (`cat Misc/NEWS | sort | uniq -cd | sort -n`). I'm not sure that the line "What's New in Python 3.3.1 release candidate 1?" in Misc/NEWS for 3.4 correct. The differenc

[issue17221] Resort Misc/NEWS

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset dbb943399c9b by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '2.7': Issue #17221: Resort Misc/NEWS. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/dbb943399c9b New changeset 7da08495b497 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.3': Issue #17221: Resort Misc/NEWS. http://hg.python.org/cpyt

[issue17618] base85 encoding

Martin Morrison added the comment: I've updated the Ascii85 algorithms to remove the quadratic complexity, and use a single struct.pack/unpack. They should now be much quicker for large input strings. It's difficult to factor out commonality with b85* because the encodings and rules differ. T

[issue17702] os.environ converts key type from string to bytes in KeyError exception

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 72df981e83d3 by Victor Stinner in branch '3.3': Close #17702: os.environ now raises KeyError with the original environment http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/72df981e83d3 New changeset ea54559a4442 by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': (Merge 3.3) Cl

[issue17636] Modify IMPORT_FROM to fallback on sys.modules

Phillip J. Eby added the comment: On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Your analysis is one of the pieces that was missing, Unfortunately, I just noticed it's actually incorrect in a pretty important part In my original example, I said, "because of the circularity, this will

[issue15866] encode(..., 'xmlcharrefreplace') produces entities for surrogate pairs

STINNER Victor added the comment: Should we really invest time to fix bugs related to astral (non-BMP) characters with rare codecs and error handlers (CJK codecs, xmlcharrefreplace error handler)? Python 3.3 is released and has a much better support of astral characters (in many places). I don

[issue17044] Implement PEP 422: Simple class initialisation hook

Daniel Urban added the comment: I've attached a new patch. With this patch, type.__prepare__ has an optional keyword-only argument 'namespace', and returns it if it's specified. Also, __init_class__ is passed an argument: a mapping proxy of the mapping originally returned by __prepare__. > Wo

[issue17703] Trash can mechanism segfault during interpreter finalization in Python 2.7.4

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Yes, let's not break thing in point releases. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mail

[issue9682] socket.create_connection error message for domain subpart with invalid length is very confusing

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[issue9682] socket.create_connection error message for domain subpart with invalid length is very confusing

Mike Milkin added the comment: I did not mean to take the decode out of the previos patch. Sorry for the spam. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29850/Issue9682-full.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue16163] Wrong name in Lib/pkgutil.py:iter_importers

Changes by Nick Coghlan : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue16163] Wrong name in Lib/pkgutil.py:iter_importers

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset c40b50d65a00 by Nick Coghlan in branch '3.3': Close issue #16163: handle submodules in pkgutil.iter_importers http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c40b50d65a00 New changeset 3bb5a8a4830e by Nick Coghlan in branch 'default': Merge fix for #16163 from 3.3

[issue16694] Add pure Python operator module

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Thank you! One optional thing, the code churn could be minimized in test_operator.py by writing "operator = self.module" at the beginning of each test method. Otherwise, looks good to me. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue17703] Trash can mechanism segfault during interpreter finalization in Python 2.7.4

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: On 12.04.2013 20:00, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Marc-André, does this patch work for you? > > Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29791/tstate_trashcan.patch Thanks, Antoine. I can try this tomorrow. -- ___ P

[issue17730] code.interact() doesn't support no banner

New submission from Drekin: Currently, there is no way to run code.interact without a banner – empty string still means to print an empty line. If I want that behaviour, I must subclass code.InteractiveConsole and reimplement whole .interact method including the repl logic just not to print a

[issue17703] Trash can mechanism segfault during interpreter finalization in Python 2.7.4

Changes by Antoine Pitrou : -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson priority: normal -> release blocker ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-lis

[issue15301] os.chown: OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long

Larry Hastings added the comment: Oh...! Serhiy, I thought you already checked in the AsIndex stuff. Guess I was asleep at the switch. Certainly the patch should go in for trunk. I'd be comfortable with it going in for 3.3 as a bugfix but that's ultimately Georg's call. I'll give you a com

[issue17713] test_logging fails in test_compute_rollover_weekly_attime

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset efda51b85b31 by Vinay Sajip in branch 'default': Issue #17713: additional tweak to test. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/efda51b85b31 -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue17713] test_logging fails in test_compute_rollover_weekly_attime

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 1494daf809c1 by Vinay Sajip in branch 'default': Closes #17713: Fixed bug in test_compute_rollover_weekly_attime. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1494daf809c1 -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed __

[issue17413] format_exception() breaks on exception tuples from trace function

R. David Murray added the comment: Thanks Ingrid and Mark. The patch looks good; I put a couple of FYI comments on the review. I'm pretty sure this patch is correct, but I'd like someone with more experience modifying the ceval loop to confirm, so I'm nosying Benjamin. -- nosy: +benj

[issue15301] os.chown: OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Thank you, Mark. There is only one question. For what version is it appropriate? Only for 3.4 or for all maintained? -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue2118] smtplib.SMTP() raises socket.error rather than SMTPConnectError

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset adc72ff451dc by R David Murray in branch 'default': #2118: IOError is deprecated, use OSError. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/adc72ff451dc -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue16550] pickletools.py treats 32bit lengths as signed, but pickle.py as unsigned

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 4ced30417300 by Alexandre Vassalotti in branch '3.3': Issue #16550: Update the opcode descriptions of pickletools to use unsigned http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4ced30417300 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Pyt

[issue16551] Cleanup the pure Python pickle implementation

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 3dff836cedef by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'default': Closes #16551. Cleanup pickle.py. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3dff836cedef -- nosy: +python-dev resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed

[issue13050] RLock support the context manager protocol but this is not documented

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, closing. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> out of date status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue17727] document that some distributions change site.py defaults

Matthias Klose added the comment: the local patch adds as documentation on Debian/Ubuntu: """ For Debian and derivatives, this sys.path is augmented with directories for packages distributed within the distribution. Local addons go into /usr/local/lib/python/dist-packages, Debian addons install

[issue17729] advocacy howto improvements

New submission from Georg Brandl: >From docs@: """ The howto-advocacy is interesting. You might consider removing the following sentences, which I found personally gave me a negative impression: "python hasn't had all the publicity" to my mind gives the impression that python is not popular.

[issue17728] format() default precisions undocumented

New submission from Georg Brandl: The docs for % formatting say what the default precision for presentation types e, f, g is. I couldn't find the same for format(). -- assignee: eric.smith components: Documentation messages: 186902 nosy: eric.smith, georg.brandl priority: normal severi

[issue3056] Simplify the Integral ABC

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 4678259af5a4 by Georg Brandl in branch '2.7': The Integral class does not contain implementations for the bit-shifting operations. (See #3056.) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4678259af5a4 New changeset 1d4ba14cc505 by Georg Brandl in branch '3.3'

[issue14462] In re's named group the name cannot contain unicode characters

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 2fa27a3818a2 by Georg Brandl in branch '3.3': Closes #14462: allow any valid Python identifier in sre group names, as documented. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2fa27a3818a2 -- nosy: +python-dev resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -

[issue13638] PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilenameObject is undocumented

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 4cc94d30926f by Georg Brandl in branch '2.7': Closes #13638: document PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilenameObject, http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4cc94d30926f New changeset ee848457930f by Georg Brandl in branch '3.3': Closes #13638: document PyErr_SetFr

[issue17618] base85 encoding

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: I want to see both algorithms to be similar so far as it is possible. It might be worth extract and reuse a common code. Mercurial's code looks far more optimal (for example a85encode has a quadratic complexity in result accumulating). -- _

[issue17727] document that some distributions change site.py defaults

New submission from Georg Brandl: >From the docs@ list: """ Dear all, the first paragraph of the documentation for the site module states that site.py constructs four directories using a head and tail part, and that one of the tail parts would be lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages on UNIX/Mac. Howev

[issue17661] documentation of '%r' links to the wrong repr

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset dd5e7aef4d5b by Georg Brandl in branch '2.7': Closes #17661: fix references to repr() going to module repr. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/dd5e7aef4d5b -- nosy: +python-dev resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected sta

[issue17661] documentation of '%r' links to the wrong repr

Georg Brandl added the comment: Fixed, thanks. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.p

[issue17711] Persistent id in pickle with protocol version 0

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: I think a string with character codes < 256 will be better for test_protocol0_is_ascii_only(). It can be latin1 encoded (Python 2 allows any 8-bit strings). PyUnicode_AsASCIIString() can be slower than _PyUnicode_AsStringAndSize() (actually PyUnicode_AsUTF8

[issue17726] faq/design: improve clarity

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset ab35b5e81317 by Georg Brandl in branch '2.7': Closes #17726: small clarification in design FAQ. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ab35b5e81317 New changeset f6fdf3457f74 by Georg Brandl in branch '3.3': Closes #17726: small clarification in design FA

[issue17716] From ... import fails when parent package failed but child module succeeded, yet works in std import case

Nick Coghlan added the comment: More generally, I think we may have to revisit the question of what we remove from sys.modules on failure if, as a side effect of the import, a child module was imported successfully. In this situation, the possibilities are: 1. Remove the parent module, and al

[issue17726] faq/design: improve clarity

New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: I puzzled a bit on what that sentence meant. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: diff messages: 186891 nosy: docs@python, tshepang priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: faq/design: improve clarity versions: P

[issue17668] re.split loses characters matching ungrouped parts of a pattern

Changes by Mike Hoy : -- nosy: +mikehoy ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/

[issue17716] From ... import fails when parent package failed but child module succeeded, yet works in std import case

Nick Coghlan added the comment: The interpreter level problem covered by the current issue is that the difference between "import mypkg.module_a" and "from mypkg import module_a" is masking the fact that it is the original "import mypkg" that failed, and may still fail on the second and subseq

[issue992389] attribute error due to circular import

Nick Coghlan added the comment: The implementation of issue #17636 (making IMPORT_FROM fall back to sys.modules when appropriate) will make "import x.y" and "from x import y" equivalent for resolution purposes during import. That covers off the subset of circular references that we want to all

[issue17725] English mistake in Extending and Embedding Python doc page.

Kyle Simpson added the comment: I have provided a patch. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29847/issue17725.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue17636] Modify IMPORT_FROM to fallback on sys.modules

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Thanks for working through that Phillip - falling back to sys.modules when the expected attribute was missing is actually something I suggested as a possibility years ago, and Guido's response at the time was "If it was that easy, someone would have done it alre

[issue17725] English mistake in Extending and Embedding Python doc page.

New submission from Kyle Simpson: The second sentence in http://docs.python.org/3/extending/index.html says: Those modules can define new functions but also new object types and their methods. The word "but" doesn't make sense here. I suppose that the author meant to write: Those modules