[issue8134] collections.defaultdict gives KeyError with format()

Greg Jednaszewski added the comment: Oops, thanks. I should have known that. However, should this work? This is what initially led me to file this ticket. My initial example was a bad one. >>> from collections import defaultdict >>> d = defaultdict(int) >>&

[issue8134] collections.defaultdict gives KeyError with format()

New submission from Greg Jednaszewski : Found on 2.6.2 and 2.6.4: I expect that printing an uninitialized variable from a defaultdict should work. In fact it does with old-style string formatting. However, when you try to do it with new-style string formatting, it raises a KeyError

[issue7242] Forking in a thread raises RuntimeError

Greg Jednaszewski added the comment: I tested the updated patch, and the new unit test passes on my Sol 8 sparc, but the test_threading test still hangs on my system. However, given that the test is skipped on several platforms and it does work on more relevant versions of Solaris, it&#

[issue7242] Forking in a thread raises RuntimeError

Greg Jednaszewski added the comment: The problem only seems to appear on Solaris 9 and earlier. I'll try to test the updated patch tonight or tomorrow and let you know what I find. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue7242] Forking in a thread raises RuntimeError

Greg Jednaszewski added the comment: I spent some time working on and testing a unit test as well. It's the same basic idea as Zsolt Cserna's, but with a slightly different approach. See 7242_unittest.diff. My unittest fails pre-patch and succeeds post-patch. However, I