[issue18993] There is an overshadowed and invalid test in testmock.py

New submission from Vajrasky Kok: In Lib/unittest/test/testmock/testmock.py, there are two test_attribute_deletion. One of them is overshadowed (not executed) by the other. def test_attribute_deletion(self): # this behaviour isn't *useful*, but at least it's now tested... f

[issue18815] DOCUMENTATION: "mmap .close()" doesn't close the underlying file

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: This is addressed. Thanks for the patch, Anoop. -- nosy: +orsenthil resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed type: -> behavior ___ Python tracker

[issue18815] DOCUMENTATION: "mmap .close()" doesn't close the underlying file

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 443d12b61e5b by Senthil Kumaran in branch '2.7': Clarify mmap.close method behavior. Addresses issue #18815 http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/443d12b61e5b New changeset 373907ca13e0 by Senthil Kumaran in branch '3.3': Clarify mmap.close method be

[issue18967] Find a less conflict prone approach to Misc/NEWS

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Couple of strategies I thought for tacking this problem. 1) Documenting the resolution of NEWS specific merge conflict. Observing/recording when those arises and when it was there was no-conflict will be helpful. This could help us in organizing NEWS file in

[issue18281] tarfile defines stat constants

Ethan Furman added the comment: Interestingly enough, the two constants that are used are prefixed with `stat`. Patch attached. Adios! -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue18281] tarfile defines stat constants

Changes by Ethan Furman : -- keywords: +patch stage: needs patch -> patch review Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file31707/issue18281.stoneleaf.01.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue18734] Berkeley DB versions 4.4-4.9 are not discovered by setup.py

Changes by Jesús Cea Avión : -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson priority: normal -> release blocker ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-li

[issue18800] Document Fraction's numerator and denominator properties

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Fixed in applicable versions 3.3 and 3.4. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed versions: -Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker __

[issue18800] Document Fraction's numerator and denominator properties

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset fe5c03fb0ff6 by Senthil Kumaran in branch '3.3': Document Fraction's numerator and denominator properties. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/fe5c03fb0ff6 New changeset 5fb700ca3fd5 by Senthil Kumaran in branch 'default': merge from 3.3 http://hg.pyth

[issue18929] inspect.classify_class_attrs ignores metaclass

Ethan Furman added the comment: Cool. Latest patch has a slight doc fix for getmembers. Will commit on Friday if no other pertinent feedback. -- assignee: -> ethan.furman stage: -> patch review Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file31706/issue18929.stoneleaf.04.patch __

[issue18992] test_sax fails on Windows under 3.4.0a2

Ned Deily added the comment: Martin builds the Windows installers. -- nosy: +loewis, ned.deily ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-

[issue18992] test_sax fails on Windows under 3.4.0a2

New submission from Tim Peters: Don't know whether this is new. Found it running the test suite under a 3.4.0a2 freshly installed from the python.org .msi installer: == CPython 3.4.0a2 (v3.4.0a2:9265a2168e2c+, Sep 8 2013, 19:41:05) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (Intel)] == Windows-Vista-6.0.6002-SP2 l

[issue18943] argparse: default args in mutually exclusive groups

paul j3 added the comment: This patch uses a narrow criteria - if `_get_values()` sets the value to `action.default`, then argument counts as 'not present'. I am setting a `using_default` flag in `_get_values`, and return it for use by `take_action`. In effect, the only change from previous b

[issue18989] reuse of enum names in class creation inconsistent

Nick Coghlan added the comment: I don't recall this *particular* wrinkle being discussed. Silently failing to define one of the requested enum members seems quite dubious. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > It will be good if your provide complete test suite. ... Again, take a look at the code I've posted above ... -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > It of course will make a size of source file bigger, but shouldn't > affect a size or performance of normal dicts. A dict object contains > dk_lookup. You need to keep both the original keys and the transformed keys. It's not only about transforming keys on l

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > I'm curious to know how you'll integrate it in dictobject.c without slowing > down normal dict objects, and without making them bigger. It of course will make a size of source file bigger, but shouldn't affect a size or performance of normal dicts. A dict

[issue14937] IDLE's deficiency in the completion of file names (Python 32, Windows XP)

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am not currently seeing the problem I reported, so closing. If I type past / and hit ^space, I sometimes get an empty listbox, but I do not yet have a consistent failing case. Will open a new issue if/when I get one. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: n

[issue18991] Overriding OrderedDict.__getitem__() doesn't work

Davi Post added the comment: Oops. Thanks. :-{ On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Alex Gaynor wrote: > > Alex Gaynor added the comment: > > Your __getitem__ never returns the result of OrderedDict.__getitem__ > > -- > nosy: +alex > resolution: -> invalid > status: open -> closed > > ___

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > By patching Objects/dictobject.c of course. Am I stupid :-) > I suppose it should require changing about 400 lines of code, a little > more than for IdentityDict. When you provides the specification > perhaps I will provide a patch. Well, take a look at the

[issue18991] Overriding OrderedDict.__getitem__() doesn't work

Alex Gaynor added the comment: Your __getitem__ never returns the result of OrderedDict.__getitem__ -- nosy: +alex resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker _

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > Why? Many custom dict-like classes aren't. And this is weird (issue10977). > Can you explain how? By patching Objects/dictobject.c of course. I suppose it should require changing about 400 lines of code, a little more than for IdentityDict. When you prov

[issue18991] Overriding OrderedDict.__getitem__() doesn't work

New submission from Davi Post: class MyOrderedDict(OrderedDict): def __getitem__(self, key): OrderedDict.__getitem__(self, key) After setting a key, getting it returns None. See attached. Am I missing something? Discovered this when trying to use the dict_type parameter of Con

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Proposed names: custom_dict, KeyedDictionary, Dictionary. Sounds much too vague and un-specific. > It will be confused if this dict will not be compatible with PyDict > API. Why? Many custom dict-like classes aren't. > It is possible to add such feature dir

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > I also note that defaultdict is implemented via a special method on > dict itself (__missing__), and if this one was implemented the same > way it would be easy to combine the features. It's not that simple: to remember the original casing you need either a se

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: (as a sidenote, you might want a case-insensitive OrderedDict as well, I see no reason to make a special case for defaultdict here) -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Ethan Furman added the comment: Precisely what I was thinking. :) -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubsc

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

R. David Murray added the comment: Indeed. Although there was apparently some call for it, it doesn't sound from a quick google like defaultdict was deemed to require a PEP. Presumably the informed audience should be wider than this issue, though. I also note that defaultdict is implemented

[issue1565525] tracebacks eat up memory by holding references to locals and globals when they are not wanted

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > - The documentation is wrong: frame.clear() does not guarantee to > clear *all* locals, but only *most* locals: > > "F.clear(): clear most references held by the frame"); Actually, the documentation is right: "references" != "locals" ;-) --

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: See also discussion on a topic: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.ideas/18469 . Proposed names: custom_dict, KeyedDictionary, Dictionary. It will be confused if this dict will not be compatible with PyDict API. It is possible to add such feature d

[issue18987] distutils.utils.get_platform() for 32-bit Python on a 64-bit machine

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Do you want to upload a patch? -- nosy: +pitrou versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue1565525] tracebacks eat up memory by holding references to locals and globals when they are not wanted

STINNER Victor added the comment: I tried to implement the feature as a new traceback.clear_frames() method. I tried to follow the chain of frame objects (using frame.f_back), but it does not work as expected. The method needs to follow the chain of traceback objects (tb.tb_next). So it makes

[issue18904] Unnecessary test in file descriptor inheritance test

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[issue17741] event-driven XML parser

Stefan Behnel added the comment: Created separate issue18990 to keep this one closed as is. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-

[issue18990] Remove unnecessary API inconsistency from ElementTree.XMLPullParser.close()

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[issue18984] Remove .stopped Event from Thread internals

Tim Peters added the comment: Well - I remain baffled, but am grateful for the patch - thanks :-) -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python

[issue18990] Remove unnecessary API inconsistency from ElementTree.XMLPullParser.close()

New submission from Stefan Behnel: The .close() method of the new XMLPullParser (see issue17741) in Py3.4 shows an unnecessarily complicated behaviour that is inconsistent with the .close() method of the existing XMLParser. The attached patch removes some code to fix this. -- componen

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > +10 to make this a PEP so that more people have a chance to express > their opinion (currently only those who noticed it on the issues > mailing list). I find the issue tracker a very bad medium for any kind > of brain-storming or bikeshedding. Well, I don't t

[issue18984] Remove .stopped Event from Thread internals

Tim Peters added the comment: Yes - and I just closed 18808 :-) -- stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue18808] Thread.join returns before PyThreadState is destroyed

Changes by Tim Peters : -- stage: commit review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-li

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > FYI os.environ uses something similar: keys and values are encoded and > decoded using functions. So any transformation is supported. I don't think this is the same situation. os.environ has bijective transformations, which don't pose any implementation challe

[issue18984] Remove .stopped Event from Thread internals

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Here is a fixed patch (works here, at least :-)). -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file31701/cleanup2.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

STINNER Victor added the comment: FYI os.environ uses something similar: keys and values are encoded and decoded using functions. So any transformation is supported. http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/eac63e7ceb03/Lib/os.py#l636 On UNIX, the encoder and decoder are os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Eli Bendersky added the comment: +1 For the general idea +1 For the more generic approach of which "lowercase" is just one special case +10 to make this a PEP so that more people have a chance to express their opinion (currently only those who noticed it on the issues mailing list). I find the

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I would like to shorten the proposals to "transformdict" and "coercedict". (after all, transforming the values would have little sense: you can do it yourself trivially) -- ___ Python tracker

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

R. David Murray added the comment: coercekeydict -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mai

[issue18989] reuse of enum names in class creation inconsistent

R. David Murray added the comment: As I recall this was discussed at length and we decided that this was the behavior we wanted. I could be wrong, of course; it was a long discussion. -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker

[issue18984] Remove .stopped Event from Thread internals

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I suppose we can close this issue now? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list U

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Matthew Barnett added the comment: mappeddict? Re defaultdict, you could write a dict that does all of these things, called superdict! :-) -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Ethan Furman added the comment: To the point, however, Eric's example would make use of both the defaultdict portion and the transformkey portion in a single dict. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue18988] Tab key doesn't work sometimes.

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: There is simpler test case. Just enter "flo" and press . Twice. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyth

[issue18987] distutils.utils.get_platform() for 32-bit Python on a 64-bit machine

Changes by Jeremy Kloth : -- nosy: +jkloth ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > It would be nice to combine the behaviors that defaultdict and the > case-insensitive comparisons. Any use case? In my experience they are used in completely different situations. defaultdict mostly to use the writing of some (internal) algorithms, a case-ins

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Eric V. Smith added the comment: True enough! I was trying to distinguish keys that I populate with initial values (mostly stock indexes) versus those where I just read values from a user-supplied file. When I populate the index values, I'd like to preserve the case I initially used. When I u

[issue1565525] tracebacks eat up memory by holding references to locals and globals when they are not wanted

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Revised version of the patch: catches RuntimeError instead of > skipping the first frame; adds versionadded tag; adds entry to NEWS > and whatsnew files. Looks good to me, thank you. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue18984] Remove .stopped Event from Thread internals

Tim Peters added the comment: Antoine, could I bother you to try the attached cleanup.patch? It looks harmless to me, but when I checked it in the Unix-y buildbots failed the thread+fork tests again :-( Two examples: http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/x86%20Gentoo%203.x/builds/4914/step

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > In this case I just str.upper everything, but it would be a nice > feature to case-preserve the keys that I pre-populate. I care less > about the keys from user data. Well, stock symbols are what I would call user data :-) --

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Eric V. Smith added the comment: Just today I was using a defaultdict where the keys are stock symbols. They're case insensitive (at least for this particular application). In this case I just str.upper everything, but it would be a nice feature to case-preserve the keys that I pre-populate. I

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Eric V. Smith added the comment: It would be nice to combine the behaviors that defaultdict and the case-insensitive comparisons. -- nosy: +eric.smith ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue18989] reuse of enum names in class creation inconsistent

New submission from Ethan Furman: Consider: == -->from enum import Enum -->class Color(Enum): ... red = 1 ... green = 2 ... blue = 3 ... red = 4 ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in

[issue18988] Tab key doesn't work sometimes.

Roger Serwy added the comment: LGTM. I manually tested it by assigning "a = 1" and then pressing tab at after "a", "aa", "aaa", and "a", and then pressing tab afterwards. Tab works to complete the name, and then afterwards when it has been replaced with "a". -- _

[issue18988] Tab key doesn't work sometimes.

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: I think this patch should fix the bug. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +serhiy.storchaka stage: -> patch review Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file31698/idle_autocomplete_nochange.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Ethan Furman added the comment: I would say - transformkeydict Too bad we can't just add an extra 'transform_key' keyword to defaultdict. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Ok, let's bikeshed this a bit. What should be the name? - projectdict? - normalizedict? - normdict? - derivedict? - transformdict? - any ideas? -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue18988] Tab key doesn't work sometimes.

Changes by Serhiy Storchaka : -- nosy: +kbk, roger.serwy, terry.reedy versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyt

[issue18934] multiprocessing: use selectors module

Changes by Charles-François Natali : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue17741] event-driven XML parser

Stefan Behnel added the comment: Looks like we missed the alpha2 release for the close() API fix. I recommend not letting yet another deadline go by. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

R. David Murray added the comment: For the record, email is not a good argument for this, since email could not use this data structure (its data structure is *not* a dict, but a list with dict-like features grafted on). I do think this would be useful, and the generic version (analogous to d

[issue18945] Name collision handling in tempfile is not covered by tests

Changes by Vlad Shcherbina : -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file31697/tempfile_collision_tests.patch ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

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[issue18988] Tab key doesn't work sometimes.

New submission from Howitzer21: In the IDLE program for Python 3.3.2, I've run across a situation where the tab key is not working. I have attached a file that shows everything in IDLE's console. At the very end of the file, you can see where I have typed in the word "queue" in IDLE without

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: For the record, I have my own implementation here: https://bitbucket.org/optiflowsrd/obelus/src/tip/obelus/casedict.py?at=default https://bitbucket.org/optiflowsrd/obelus/src/tip/obelus/test/test_casedict.py?at=default -- ___

[issue18987] distutils.utils.get_platform() for 32-bit Python on a 64-bit machine

New submission from Sam Ferencik: distutils.util.get_platform() semantically differs on (a) Windows and OS X, and on (b) Linux. Windows/OS X: the return value is derived from the architecture of the *interpreter*, hence for 32-bit Python running on a 64-bit system, get_platform() = 'win32'/'m

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Surely a case-insensitive dict should use str.casefold, not > str.lower? Perhaps. Network protocols will usually only allow ASCII in parts where case is insensitive (e.g. header names), so it shouldn't make a difference. Implementing the generic pattern means

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Matthew Barnett added the comment: Surely a case-insensitive dict should use str.casefold, not str.lower? -- nosy: +mrabarnett ___ Python tracker ___

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

Changes by Thomas Heller : -- nosy: +theller ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.pytho

[issue18986] Add a case-insensitive case-preserving dict

New submission from Antoine Pitrou: This is a very common need when implementing network protocols. You want to match keys case-insensitively but also preserve the original casing (e.g. for presentation). When searching on the Web, you see many people reimplementing their own variant (often i

[issue18985] Improve the documentation in fcntl module

New submission from Vajrasky Kok: The attached patch fixed typos and improved the documentation to improve the clarity in Modules/fcntlmodule.c. Please see the attached patch and feel free to disagree with the improvement. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: fix_d

[issue18622] reset_mock on mock created by mock_open causes infinite recursion

Nicola Palumbo added the comment: Hi all, I've fixed the infinite recursion in `reset_mock()`. It has been solved by tracking a set of visited ids as suggested. >>> from unittest import mock >>> a = mock.mock_open() >>> a.reset_mock() >>> a -- keywords: +patch nosy: +npalumbo Added f

[issue18606] Add statistics module to standard library

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[issue18929] inspect.classify_class_attrs ignores metaclass

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > So, even though __members__ does show up in dir(Color), > classify_class_attrs incorrectly assigns its class. > [...] > > So if getmembers() correctly reports it because it shows up in dir(), > then classify_class_attrs should correctly identify it as well.

[issue18577] lru_cache enhancement: lru_timestamp helper function

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: This is a pretty interesting idea. Ideally, it would be great if it could be a published as a recipe somewhere so that people could experiment with the API and try out variations. If there were good uptake by users, it would help justify a proposal to be i

[issue18313] In itertools recipes repeatfunc() defines a non-keyword argument as keyword

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: All of the proposed variants have their own issues. For example, the keyword-argument variant behaves badly if the user leaves off the keyword: >>> list(repeatfunc(ord, 'A', times=3)) [65, 65, 65] >>> list(repeatfunc(ord, 'A', 3)) Traceback (most

[issue18752] Make chain.from_iterable an alias for a new chain_iterable.

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[issue18752] Make chain.from_iterable an alias for a new chain_iterable.

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 23f77dc58979 by Raymond Hettinger in branch '3.3': Issue 18752: Make chain.from_iterable() more visible in the documentation. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/23f77dc58979 -- ___ Python tracker