[issue35897] Support list as argument to .startswith()

Fred added the comment: > For subtle reasons, that would make us worse off. Tuple of constants get > precomputed but lists of constants have to be rebuilt. So if a list is 20 times slower than a tuple, I can still do billions of computations in a second on a Raspberry Pi, so does it

[issue46027] email.utils.parsedate_to_datetime() handling of -0000 offset

New submission from Fred Drake : A local time offset of '-' is not handled the same way as an offset of '+', but I'd expect it would be: >>> import email.utils >>> >>> email.utils.parsedate_to_datetime('9 Dec 2021

[issue45625] Add support for top-level await

Fred added the comment: Yeah, those other languages such as C# and JavaScript and others make async much more easier, approachable, reduces boilerplate code and lowers the bar for entry! -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue45

[issue45625] Add support for top-level await

Fred added the comment: I don't care what async framework is used, nor do I care if its a x86 or ARM, or if its Windows or Linux. I don't want to have to setup an async runner because it is boilerplate code, and it brings concern into my application which is outside of the do

[issue45625] Add support for top-level await

Fred added the comment: $ python3 --async myscript.py unknown option --async Also I cannot go around telling other people how to run my script. My script must be able to run properly without any special setup. -- ___ Python tracker <ht

[issue45625] Add support for top-level await

Fred added the comment: I think it would fit with the design and commmunity of Python. I think people who use Python don't care about what async runtime it is, or how to configure it or set it up, they just want to call async functions. This is 2021, we live in a async-first world. I

[issue45625] Add support for top-level await

Fred added the comment: No, I was not aware of that. After I started Python by running "python3 -m asyncio" then it behaved as I expected it should behave by default. But this seems to work only in the REPL. I would like to write Python scripts stored in files where I can easil

[issue45625] Add support for top-level await

New submission from Fred : I want top-level await without any boilerplate code or setup. Just write a "await" statement on line 1 without any indention. #!/usr/bin/env python3 import asyncio await asyncio.sleep(1) I don't want to have to call asyncio.run(main(

[issue40990] Make http.server support SSL

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[issue40990] Make http.server support SSL

Fred added the comment: It could look for a existing certificate in a well-known location, and could fallback to an self-signed certificate that could be shipped with Python. -- nosy: +Fred ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue40

[issue44169] Add HTTPS support to http.server

New submission from Fred : The http.server module only supports HTTP. https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html I propose that it should also support HTTPS. This would allow it to serve files that depend on features that are restricted to secure contexts. https

[issue43620] os.path.join does not use os.sep as documentation claims

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[issue43620] os.path.join does not use os.sep as documentation claims

Fred Drake added the comment: New changeset 455583b54aaec9a4266ff37dd438cbbd8ec6068a by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8': bpo-43620: Remove reference to os.sep from os.path.join() doc (GH-25025, GH-5030) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/455583b54aaec9a4266ff37dd438cb

[issue43620] os.path.join does not use os.sep as documentation claims

Fred Drake added the comment: New changeset f311290f091957653bba5ebfda28ad981bb78363 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.9': bpo-43620: Remove reference to os.sep from os.path.join() doc (GH-25025) (#25027) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f311290f091957653bba5ebfda28ad

[issue43620] os.path.join does not use os.sep as documentation claims

Fred Drake added the comment: New changeset 21a2cabb3795f5170c746ab8f29e9d25c7442550 by Jared Sutton in branch 'master': bpo-43620: Remove reference to os.sep from os.path.join() doc (#25025) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/21a2cabb3795f5170c746ab8f29e9d

[issue43620] os.path.join does not use os.sep as documentation claims

Fred Drake added the comment: Just reviewed the documentation for both os.sep and os.path.join(). The os.sep docs do not suggest it can be set, and the reference in the os.path.join() description is silent regarding that, so can be read as Jared did. I don't recall this coming up b

[issue43620] os.path.join does not use os.sep as documentation claims

Fred Drake added the comment: Perhaps Jared was expecting that modifying os.sep would affect the functions in os.path? os.sep was never intended to be updated. Using the specific *path modules to work with "foreign" paths has long been advocated as the way to do this. It is

[issue43353] Document that logging.getLevelName() can return a numeric value.

Fred Drake added the comment: New changeset 9bdb5802361016704fb3434369741cc6c5e08f02 by Mariusz Felisiak in branch '3.8': bpo-43353: Document that logging.getLevelName() accepts string representation of logging level. (GH-24693) (#24825) https://github.com/python/cpyt

[issue43353] Document that logging.getLevelName() can return a numeric value.

Fred Drake added the comment: Mariusz: Good point. IMO, an insane API behavior, but a legacy we must live with. No further objections from me. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue43

[issue43353] Document that logging.getLevelName() can return a numeric value.

Fred Drake added the comment: Just noticed this fly by in the stream of emails... sorry for not commenting earlier. The patch seems to describe "Level #" as "numeric", which I would not be inclined to do. It includes the numeric value since there's no available nam

[issue41111] [C API] Convert a few stdlib extensions to the limited C API (PEP 384)

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[issue39994] pprint handling of dict subclasses that override __repr__

Fred Drake added the comment: And that is why the original code was checking not only for the type, but the actual __repr__ method itself. I think the current behavior is broken. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue39

[issue39994] Redundant code in pprint module.

Fred Drake added the comment: Ah, good find! It's been so long since the first version of that code, but the implementation was surprisingly nuanced. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/is

[issue39994] Redundant code in pprint module.

Fred Drake added the comment: Adding serhiy.storchaka to nosy list since it looks like he introduced the isinstance check on purpose (see bpo-23741). Though bpo-23741 asserts that no behavior was changed with the patch applied then, reading through the change leads me to think this did

[issue36207] robotsparser deny all with some rules

Fred AYERS added the comment: I tried this one http://gtxgamer.fr/robots.txt/";>http://gtxgamer.fr/robots.txt and it seems to work. -- nosy: +Fred AYERS ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org

[issue40065] py39: remove deprecation note for xml.etree.cElementTree

Fred Drake added the comment: The Python 2.7 documentation was not clear that xml.etree.cElementTree was optional, so users who didn't dive into the implementation or build process could easily not have known unless someone with a more limited installation used their

[issue40065] py39: remove deprecation note for xml.etree.cElementTree

Fred Drake added the comment: Same core problem (module removed with insufficient document update), but a different action is needed for 3.8 and 3.9. When I started testing an application with 3.9 and found one of the dependencies broken because it was relying directly on

[issue40065] py39: remove deprecation note for xml.etree.cElementTree

New submission from Fred Drake : Since xml.etree.cElementTree does not exist in Python 3.9, the statement that it's deprecated should be removed from the documentation. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation keywords: easy messages: 365016 nosy: docs@python, f

[issue40064] py38: document xml.etree.cElementTree will be removed in 3.9

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[issue40064] py38: document xml.etree.cElementTree will be removed in 3.9

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[issue39480] referendum reference is needlessly annoying

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[issue38351] Modernize email example from %-formatting to f-string

Fred Drake added the comment: Thanks, Julien! Sounds good to me; no reason for a PR addressing this specific issue to be held up once one becomes available. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue38

[issue38621] Bad decoding of encoded-words in unstructured email headers

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[issue38621] Bad decoding of encoded-words in unstructured email headers

Fred Drake added the comment: It turns out this was a problem in 3.7.4; Python 3.7.5 seems to have fixed this. Sorry for the noise. Guess it's time to update my application to use 3.7.5! -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> resolved status: ope

[issue38621] Bad decoding of encoded-words in unstructured email headers

Fred Drake added the comment: This problem does not exist in Python 3.6 or Python 3.8; it appears to only exist in Python 3.7. -- versions: +Python 3.7 ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue38

[issue38619] [Doc] UUID.hex is lowercase

Fred Drake added the comment: While I don't know Felipe's use case, I would expect the documentation to be clear that the representation won't change in the future so users will know that this can be relied on to generate keys into some other persistent structure. -

[issue38621] Bad decoding of encoded-words in unstructured email headers

Fred Drake added the comment: It's worth noting that dealing with this header eventually causes the header parser to enter an infinite loop. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/is

[issue38621] Bad decoding of encoded-words in unstructured email headers

New submission from Fred Drake : I've encountered a problem parsing an email with this Subject: header: Subject: Be sure to redeem your =?utf-8?Q?$?=201.71 credit card reward certificate by the end of the year email._header_value_parser.get_unstructured defers to get_encoded_word, pa

[issue38351] Modernize email example from %-formatting to f-string

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I'd like to see consistent usage by default, with specific examples using the older forms as appropriate. The use cases Raymond identified are worth discussing (and the tutorial may be a good place for this), and well as mentioned in the reference

[issue38351] Modernize email example from %-formatting to f-string

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Definitely agree with Eric on this; code modernization is definitely on the risky side, so judicious updates are important. (Of course, not updating is also a risk, eventually. But not much of one in this case.) This issue is really about whether the

[issue38351] Modernize email example from %-formatting to f-string

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I agree that it's less invasive and easier to review. My question (and it's just that) is whether we've made a decision to prefer one formatting syntax over others (outside of examples discussing the formatting approaches themselves). I

[issue38351] Modernize email example from %-formatting to f-string

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Does it make sense to change just one example? I'm not sure what the long-term stance is on whether %-formatting should be replaced at this point, but shouldn't this be a matter of which string formatting approach we want overall, rather than

[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

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[issue37741] importlib.metadata docs not showing up in the module index

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Provisional status should not cause a module or other API element to be omitted from the indexes. So long as it's marked provisional where it's described, it should be locatable. -- nosy: +fdrake

[issue34226] cgi.parse_multipart() requires undocumented CONTENT-LENGTH in Python 3.7

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[issue14149] argparse: Document how to use argument names that are not Python identifiers

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[issue36705] Unexpected Behaviour of pprint.pprint

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Eric nailed it; pprint was not designed as a replacement for print, and was never intended to serve that purpose. Rejecting as out of scope. -- resolution: -> rejected stage: -> resolved status: open -&g

[issue36532] Example of logging.formatter with new str.format style

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Good catch, Vinay! Thanks. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue36532> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailin

[issue36532] Example of logging.formatter with new str.format style

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[issue9883] minidom: AttributeError: DocumentFragment instance has no attribute 'writexml'

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Updated target to Python 3.8, since this has aged a bit. -- versions: +Python 3.8 -Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue9

[issue36418] urllib.parse.*Result: support _replace for additional computed addresses

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[issue31822] Document that urllib.parse.{Defrag, Split, Parse}Result are namedtuples

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: To clarify: I'm not suggesting that an API expansion should be considered as part of this issue. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/is

[issue31822] Document that urllib.parse.{Defrag, Split, Parse}Result are namedtuples

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Unfortunately, when the implementation was migrated to use collections.namedtuple (a benefit), the _replace method wasn't extended to support the additional computed addresses for these types. That would really be useful. -- nosy: +f

[issue36138] Improve documentation about converting datetime.timedelta to scalars

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[issue35897] Support list as argument to .startswith()

Fred .Flintstone added the comment: A programmer want to instruct the computer to do something, without having to care about how it works. Maybe the library could in the background convert the list to a tuple. Like: "foo".startswith(tuple(["food", "for",

[issue35897] Support list as argument to .startswith()

New submission from Fred .Flintstone : The "".startswith() method accepts a string or a tuple as a parameter. Consider adding support for list as parameter. Example: "foo".startswith(["food", "for", "fast"]) -- components: Interp

[issue35831] Format Spec example says limited to 3.1+ but works in 2.7

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: The 3.X docs generally don't refer to the 2.X series. What that comment is pointing out is that leaving the field identifier out (the number inside the {...} placeholder syntax) was not in the 3.0, but added in 3.1. Unfortunately, I don't

[issue33381] Incorrect documentation for strftime()/strptime() format code %f

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[issue11233] clarifying Availability: Unix

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: A PR for this would be good, and would certainly accelerate getting this accomplished. Thanks, Cheryl! -- nosy: +fdrake ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue11

[issue34789] doc xml.sax.make_parser expects a list not just any sequence

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: The existing PR can be re-targeted to merge to a maintenance branch (I'd be inclined to merge manually, myself, but will have to check the current devguide to make sure that's still allowed). A new PR can be made for the non-documentation fix

[issue34789] doc xml.sax.make_parser expects a list not just any sequence

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: It probably makes more sense to keep that PR for the maintenance branches, and create a new branch / PR to land on master. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue34

[issue34789] doc xml.sax.make_parser expects a list not just any sequence

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I'm just going to presume this issue has been around a long time, but I think that's a pretty safe presumption. Accepting a general sequence instead of only a list would reasonable, and I'd support a fix that caused the code to accept a g

[issue15474] Differentiate decorator and decorator factory in docs

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I like Éric's terminology; giving a concrete name to the concept makes it a lot easier to grasp, and this doesn't require inventing any new component terms. Andrés, if you'd like to tackle this, that's great! I'd be happy to

[issue33869] doc Add set, frozen set, and tuple entries to Glossary

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[issue33832] Make "magic methods" a little more discoverable in the docs

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[issue33832] Make "magic methods" a little more discoverable in the docs

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Indeed, I did not. Fixed now. I hope. -- nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue33

[issue33832] Make "magic methods" a little more discoverable in the docs

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: A quick grep on the 3.7 branch indicates that the standard documentation includes each of the terms "magic method" and "special method" about the same number of times. (I didn't check for instances that wrapped lines.) Perhaps

[issue33274] minidom removeAttributeNode returns None

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: > I saw what looked to me like a bug that's been in the code for 18 years, > and I saw that it was a simple fix. And you're right: It is a bug, the fix is simple, and the risk is low. Ten years ago, I'd have probably just

[issue33274] minidom removeAttributeNode returns None

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: New changeset 5bfa058e65897567889354d7eb34af2b93a20f18 by Fred Drake (arikrupnik) in branch 'master': bpo-33274: Compliance with DOM L1: return removed attribute (#7465) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5bfa058e65897567889354d7eb34af

[issue33274] minidom removeAttributeNode returns None

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I should stop relying on wetware memory; it's not working out. Sorry for the mis-information. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/is

[issue33274] minidom removeAttributeNode returns None

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Python 2.7 is in security-fix-only mode, and this doesn't fit that. While I wouldn't object to a note in the documentation, see my comments in my patch review (there's just no pla

[issue33274] minidom removeAttributeNode returns None

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: While I've no strong objection to updating to follow the specification, I also don't see any real value here. The current minidom implementation has been considered sufficient for many years now (if you consider the DOM desirable at all), so t

[issue1644818] Allow built-in packages and submodules as well as top-level modules

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[issue32706] test_check_hostname() of test_ftplib started to fail randomly

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[issue32143] os.statvfs lacks f_fsid

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: This has landed on master and will be part of Python 3.7. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.or

[issue32143] os.statvfs lacks f_fsid

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: New changeset 96a5e50a5de3683b2afd6d680c7ecc4b525986f6 by Fred Drake (Giuseppe Scrivano) in branch 'master': bpo-32143: add f_fsid to os.statvfs() (#4571) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/96a5e50a5de3683b2afd6d680c7ecc

[issue32143] os.statvfs lacks f_fsid

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I think Giuseppe's patch is good, but there's a Windows failure on AppVeyor, so I'm a little wary. It doesn't look related, but I haven't looked at Python on Windows since... 2001, maybe? -- _

[issue32143] os.statvfs lacks f_fsid

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[issue31803] Remove not portable time.clock(), replaced by time.perf_counter() and time.process_time()

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[issue31766] Python 3.5 missing from documentation

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: The 3.5 docs should really remain in the main docs UI via the pulldown as long as it's so widely used. The fact that it won't be changing much just means it can be served efficiently. -- nos

[issue29400] Add instruction level tracing via sys.settrace

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[issue31055] All Sphinx generated pages could have a new "Edit This Page" link adjacent to the existing "Show Source"

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > If the link went to an edit form with the version of the content the > user was reading, > and includes an explanation of the multiple-versions issue, it might > prove reasonable Eg

[issue31055] All Sphinx generated pages could have a new "Edit This Page" link adjacent to the existing "Show Source"

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Mariatta Wijaya wrote: > I don't think we should add this link. > > When we make edits to the docs, even simple typo fixes, it should first be > done > in the master branch, instead of the maintenanc

[issue9883] minidom: AttributeError: DocumentFragment instance has no attribute 'writexml'

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I agree that writexml should be available for document fragments. I doubt the additional level of indentation should be added, as you've included in point 2. -- nosy: +fdrake ___ Python tracker

[issue29996] Use terminal width by default in pprint

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I wouldn't go so far as to say it's never come up; it's something I've thought about a number of times, and I've waffled on it a few times. It's not fundamentally unreasonable to want it to adapt to the current terminal wind

[issue29996] Use terminal width by default in pprint

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: This is not a problem for doctests, since the output stream is not a terminal; the check for terminal-ness seems reasonable. (Though I don't have any idea if it works on Windows, but it seems properly fac

[issue29997] Suggested changes for https://docs.python.org/3.6/extending/extending.html

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[issue27879] add os.syncfs()

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[issue9285] Add a profile decorator to profile and cProfile

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[issue29601] Need reST markup for enum types

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Is there some special treatment you think should be given to specific enum values as well? -- nosy: +fdrake ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue29

[issue28617] Why isn't "in" called a comparison operation?

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: "in" and "not in" are not comparisons, regardless of implementation mechanics (which could change). They aren't really dependent on iteration, though they often correlate with iteration. I'd rather see them described as &q

[issue19795] Formatting of True/False/None in docs

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Without the star would be right. ReST does not support nested markup, and in this case, I don't think it would make sense anyway. -- nosy: +fdrake ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue28278] Make `weakref.WeakKeyDictionary.__repr__` meaningful

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I don't recall that the issues discussed here were considered when these classes were added; functionality was the issue at the time. I'm not particularly opposed to adding a more data-ful repr for the weakref-oriented mappings, but I&#x

[issue27495] Pretty printing sorting for set and frozenset instances

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: +1 It could reasonably be argued that not sorting is a bug for already-released 3.x versions. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue27

[issue18085] Verifying refcounts.dat

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I don't think this is a duplicate of issue 9755; this relates to verifying the data, and that revolves around possible process improvements. Whether this issue should be closed is tied to whether the file has been verified, as the issue title suggest

[issue9755] Fix refcounting details in Py3k C API documentation

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: As mentioned in issue 18085, the original file was not generated, but crafted by hand (though I don't think that really matters). -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue23116] Python Tutorial 4.7.1: Improve ask_ok() to cover more input values

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[issue26526] In parsermodule.c, replace over 2KLOC of hand-crafted validation code, with a DFA

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I've read through this, but haven't applied the patch & run tests (that's what buildbots are for). No objections. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs

[issue26526] In parsermodule.c, replace over 2KLOC of hand-crafted validation code, with a DFA

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I see your message to python-dev, and apologize for taking so long to get to this. I do intend to read through your changes, and hope to be able to make time while I'm at PyCon this coming week. -- ___ P

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