[issue21198] Minor tarfile documentation bug

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the report. Is it an issue in the docstrings, the HTML documentation or both? -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue21188] Broken link

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the report. If the python.org links can be found in the Internet Archive, then one could find the new addresses to use by looking for the same message on http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-March/ Would you be willing to try that? ---

[issue21186] RawConfigParser __name__ option handling inconsistent

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[issue21171] Outdated usage str.encode('rot-13') in rot13 codec

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[issue21197] venv does not create lib64 directory and appropriate symlinks

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[issue21196] Name mangling example in Python tutorial

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the report and proposed fix! Could you upload a patch file that we could directly apply to the documentation instead of Python files? More information about how to do that is found here: https://docs.python.org/devguide/#quick-start If you need any

[issue21203] logging configurators ignoring documented options

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[issue15955] gzip, bz2, lzma: add option to limit output size

Nikolaus Rath added the comment: I've attached the second iteration of the patch. I've factored out a new function decompress_buf, and added two new (C only) instance variables input_buffer and input_buffer_size. I've tested the patch by enabling Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER in Objects/obmalloc.c

[issue21171] Outdated usage str.encode('rot-13') in rot13 codec

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[issue7951] Should str.format allow negative indexes when used for __getitem__ access?

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Either leading sign, '+' or '-', cause string interpretation, so I think 'unsigned integer' should be the term in the doc. >>> '{0[-1]}'.format({'-1': 'neg int key'}) 'neg int key' >>> '{0[+1]}'.format({'+1': 'neg int key'}) 'neg int key' >>> '{0[+1]}'.format([

[issue21204] published examples don't work

New submission from jmaki: Would you consider putting examples given in official documentation as part of release testing? e.g. (from official python.org documentation): - snip - An example of how a pool of worker processes can each run a SimpleHTTPServer.H

[issue1191964] asynchronous Subprocess

Josiah Carlson added the comment: I added the chunking for Windows because in manual testing before finishing the patch, I found that large sends on Windows without actually waiting for the result can periodically result in zero data sent, despite a child process that wants to read. Looking a

[issue21203] logging configurators ignoring documented options

Jure Koren added the comment: 2.7's logging.config.DictConfig does not respect the "class" option, but fileConfig does. The default branch logging.config has the same problem in DictConfig, but also lacks "style" support in fileConfig. -- hgrepos: +234 Added file: http://bugs.python.o

[issue21203] logging configurators ignoring documented options

New submission from Jure Koren: 2.7's logging.config.DictConfig does not respect the "class" option, but fileConfig does. The default branch logging.config has the same problem in DictConfig, but also lacks "style" support in fileConfig. -- components: Library (Lib) files: logging_con

[issue14758] SMTPServer of smptd does not support binding to an IPv6 address

R. David Murray added the comment: I added some review comments. Since this is a new feature, the patch also needs a 'versionchanged' that indicates that ipv6 support was added. -- stage: needs patch -> patch review versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.3 ___

[issue21202] Naming a file` io.py` causes cryptic error message

Madison May added the comment: I definitely agree that io shouldn't be special cased, as it's more about the name shadowing issue that this specific example. A simple docs addition would make me happy, to be honest. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue21193] pow(a, b, c) should not raise TypeError when b is negative and c is provided

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Benjamin: thanks for the fix. To be clear: Josh Rosenberg's patch had the correct test change. It was the (poorly) trained monkey who made the commit who broke the test. Sorry, all. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue21193] pow(a, b, c) should not raise TypeError when b is negative and c is provided

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset a8f3ca72f703 by Benjamin Peterson in branch 'default': test the change of #21193 correctly http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a8f3ca72f703 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue21180] Cannot efficiently create empty array.array of given size, inconsistency with bytearray

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: You are proposing to copy behavior that will likely be deprecated and removed (see http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0467/#id5). Lets reject that idea. The same pep proposes to replace byte(s/array)(n) "by two more explicit alternate constructors provide

[issue21201] Uninformative error message in multiprocessing.Manager()

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[issue21178] doctest cause warnings in tests using generators

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I not am not sure I see a bug here, a discrepancy between doc and behavior. Even if not, you may have a legitimate enhancement request. 3.4 now warns about ignored exceptions during shutdown in case there is a fixable bug in the code being shut down. This is i

[issue21202] Naming a file` io.py` causes cryptic error message

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[issue21202] Naming a file` io.py` causes cryptic error message

Brett Cannon added the comment: While mentioning something in the FAQ and/or tutorial is fine, I wouldn't want to change Python's message too much to deal with this unless it was extremely fast (e.g. we pre-generated a set and check that on ImportError and then modified the message only in tho

[issue21202] Naming a file` io.py` causes cryptic error message

Ned Deily added the comment: Using a local module name that shadows one in the standard library is a very common "import trap". See, for example, https://ncoghlan_devs-python-notes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/python_concepts/import_traps.html#the-name-shadowing-trap. I did a quick search throu

[issue21164] print unicode in Windows console

Leslie Klein added the comment: I start ipython in Windows PowerShell. The "console" I am referring to is ipython running in WindowsPowerShell. I do not use the DOS cmd.exe When running ipython notebook from WindowsPowerShell -- no problem printing unicode. When running in PTVS (Python Tools fo

[issue21171] Outdated usage str.encode('rot-13') in rot13 codec

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Since rot_13 is a transcoder, not an encoder, the error message is correct, as is the fix for the function. However, since neither the module encodings.rot_13 nor the rot13 function in the module are documented, (not even in 2.7), I wonder if the function and

[issue21193] pow(a, b, c) should not raise TypeError when b is negative and c is provided

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Patch applied. Thanks, all. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue21193] pow(a, b, c) should not raise TypeError when b is negative and c is provided

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset dc6c2ab7fec2 by Mark Dickinson in branch 'default': Issue #21193: Make (e.g.,) pow(2, -3, 5) raise ValueError rather than TypeError. Patch by Josh Rosenberg. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/dc6c2ab7fec2 -- nosy: +python-dev _

[issue21170] Incorrect signature for unittest.TestResult.startTestRun(), .stopTestRun()

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[issue21170] Incorrect signature for unittest.TestResult.startTestRun(), .stopTestRun()

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset c1ea2846a564 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '2.7': Issue #21170: Removed invalid parameter names from unittest doc. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c1ea2846a564 New changeset 5734175a87d1 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.4': Issue #21170: Removed inva

[issue21202] Naming a file` io.py` causes cryptic error message

New submission from Madison May: Naming a file `io.py` in the root directory of a project causes the following error on 2.7: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'BufferedIOBase' Similar issues arise on 3.x., although the error message is a bit more useful: Fatal Python e

[issue21202] Naming a file` io.py` causes cryptic error message

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[issue21170] Incorrect signature for unittest.TestResult.startTestRun(), .stopTestRun()

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Good catch. I verified in code that patch is correct. -- assignee: docs@python -> terry.reedy nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___

[issue21177] ValueError: byte must be in range(0, 256)

Stefan Krah added the comment: Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > I suggested "must be in the range [0; 255]" which is not a valid Python > > list: ";" is the instruction operator and there is "range" word in front of > > the "list". In my opinion, it's much easier to read and understand it. > > I'm -1

[issue21164] print unicode in Windows console

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: You can change the code page of a Command Prompt window, before calling Python, with ...> chcp . There is 'something' called cp65001 that is supposed to be a utf-8 codepage. Once can change to it, but it does not work right. This has been discussed on StackOve

[issue21127] Path objects cannot be constructed from str subclasses

Antony Lee added the comment: I am loading some structure from a MATLAB binary file using scipy.io.loadmat. This structure contains (in particular) paths (written as bytestrings) to other files which end up being loaded as numpy.str_ objects. In fact, just trying to store and retrieve strings

[issue19628] maxlevels -1 on compileall for unlimited recursion

Claudiu.Popa added the comment: Added patch which addresses the comments of Berker Peksag. Thanks for the review! -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34786/issue19628_1.patch ___ Python tracker _

[issue21201] Uninformative error message in multiprocessing.Manager()

New submission from Wojciech Walczak: While using multiprocessing.Manager() to send data between processes I've noticed that one of the traceback messages is not very informative: Traceback (most recent call last): File "age_predict.py", line 39, in train_data, train_target, test_data =

[issue21177] ValueError: byte must be in range(0, 256)

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Ok, seeing how the alternative proposals are all worse than the statu quo, and how this is going a massive bikeshedding anyway, I'd rather close the issue. -- resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed ___ Python

[issue21177] ValueError: byte must be in range(0, 256)

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > I suggested "must be in the range [0; 255]" which is not a valid Python > list: ";" is the instruction operator and there is "range" word in front of > the "list". In my opinion, it's much easier to read and understand it. I'm -1 on it. It may not be a valid P

[issue21158] Windows installer service could not be accessed (Python bug!)

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: If you were upgrading an existing install, try cleanly removing it from Control Panel / Programs and Features (Win 7). To do that, you may have to first fix the existing installation and that will require the installer used to install it. -- nosy: +te

[issue21194] json.dumps with ensure_ascii=False doesn't escape control characters

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[issue21197] venv does not create lib64 directory and appropriate symlinks

Ned Deily added the comment: "should OS X be excluded?" Yes. OS X uses universal binaries, with multiple CPU archs automatically combined at build time into one file, so there generally is no need for arch-specific directories. But if the problem is being caused by Pythons patched by third-pa

[issue21177] ValueError: byte must be in range(0, 256)

Mark Lawrence added the comment: How about plain English? "byte must be between 0 and 255 inclusive" -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue21197] venv does not create lib64 directory and appropriate symlinks

Vinay Sajip added the comment: Thanks for the info. I'm not opposed to adding a symlink on POSIX systems - I just wanted to make sure that was the right solution. My comment about adding links willy-nilly was about tools like Jedi that you mentioned (perhaps I misunderstood how it works). Cl

[issue21177] ValueError: byte must be in range(0, 256)

akira added the comment: "byte must be in range [0, 256)" - it hints at the builtin `range()` -- the intuition works for those who knows what `range()` does - it uses the standard math notation for half-open intervals [1] -- no Python knowledge required (among other things) - it is not a valid

[issue21200] pkgutil.get_loader() fails on "__main__"

New submission from Eric Snow: Prior to 3.4, pkgutil.get_loader('__main__') would return None. Now it results in an ImportError. That's because it calls importlib.util.find_spec() which fails if an existing module does not have __spec__ or it is None. -- components: Library (Lib) key

[issue21177] ValueError: byte must be in range(0, 256)

STINNER Victor added the comment: I suggested "must be in the range [0; 255]" which is not a valid Python list: ";" is the instruction operator and there is "range" word in front of the "list". In my opinion, it's much easier to read and understand it. Another example is the Unicode range(0x1100

[issue21197] venv does not create lib64 directory and appropriate symlinks

Matthias Dahl added the comment: The problem is: Some Linux dists install Python under /usr/lib64 on a multilib systems and patch Python accordingly, e.g. Gentoo or Fedora. Thus, Python looks for lib64/pythonX.Y/... which is also why pip installs to lib64/... by default on those systems. This

[issue21194] json.dumps with ensure_ascii=False doesn't escape control characters

Weeble added the comment: Ah, sorry for the confusion. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https

[issue21197] venv does not create lib64 directory and appropriate symlinks

Vinay Sajip added the comment: What does pip do under Windows? The symlink feature doesn't work on all Windows versions and is not quite the same as on POSIX. What is it that actually requires lib64? As venvs are specific to a single interpreter, it seems like it is inherently not a good idea

[issue21191] os.fdopen() may eat file descriptor and still raise exception

Dima Tisnek added the comment: I think consistency between Python versions is just as important as consistency between fd types. Here's my hack quickfix outline: fd = os.open(...) try: if not stat.S_ISREG(os.fstat(fd).st_mode): raise OSError(None, "Not a regular file", ...) f =

[issue21197] venv does not create lib64 directory and appropriate symlinks

Matthias Dahl added the comment: Take for example the case that you have to juggle with several venvs and mix them together. This has happened to me in the past in very legitimate cases. You have to add those venvs to the path yourself. I am not talking about having a shell where you do your w

[issue18304] ElementTree -- provide a way to ignore namespace in tags and seaches

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[issue5639] Support TLS SNI extension in ssl module

Dima Tisnek added the comment: Hopefully pep-466 resolves this for 2.x series. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing l