[issue11456] Documentation csv RFC4180

New submission from Tony Wallace : Change to documentation preamble for csv module: From: There is no “CSV standard”, so the format is operationally defined by the many applications which read and write it. The lack of a standard means that subtle differences often exist in the data produced

[issue3107] test_list uses unreasonable amounts of memory on 64-bit Linux

Tony Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: It worked- I took a patch of r65334, as svn diff -c 65334 "http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/release25-maint"; and applied that patch ONLY to a clean release 2.5.2 source, ignoring the patch failure in Misc/NEW

[issue3107] memory leak in make test (in "test list"), 2.5.2 not 2.5.1, Linux 64bit

Tony Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > Objects/obmalloc.c:529: warning: > comparison is always false due to limited range of data type This compile complaint was definitely introduced in 2.5.2 by source changes from 2.5.1. So, there's a minor problem that could

[issue3107] memory leak in make test (in "test list"), 2.5.2 not 2.5.1, Linux 64bit

Tony Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: tried again with /configure --prefix=/home/tony/root/usr/local/python-2.5.2 --with-tcl --disable-shared No change But I noticed this when it recompiled. Maybe it is related. gcc -pthread -c -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3

[issue3107] memory leak in make test (in "test list"), 2.5.2 not 2.5.1, Linux 64bit

Tony Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: in test_list.py, the following shows where it hit the memory leak: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python-2.5.2]$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/tony/src/Python-2.5.2/Lib/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./python -v Lib/test/test_list.py # installing zipimport hook

[issue3107] memory leak in make test (in "test list"), 2.5.2 not 2.5.1, Linux 64bit

Tony Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: make test not only fails "test_list", it also fails "test_tuple" and "test_userlist". In all cases, the behavior looks the same -- memory expands to > 90% and you kill it. ___

[issue3107] memory leak in make test (in "test list"), 2.5.2 not 2.5.1, Linux 64bit

Tony Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > are you willing Yes, so long as I don't need root, I can follow instructions OK. By the way, the same thing (memory leak 2.5.2) occurred on Centos 4.6, a different Linux box. Lets proceed on that Centos 4.6 box. Here are t

[issue3107] memory leak in make test (in "test list"), 2.5.2 not 2.5.1, Linux 64bit

Tony Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > are you using gcc 4.3 No, I don't think so. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tony]$ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-53) Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the sour

[issue3107] memory leak in make test (in "test list"), 2.5.2 not 2.5.1, Linux 64bit

Tony Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > how do you know Here is the story, sorry I skipped it before- I was at work then. I was doing the basic build-from-source on RHEL (Centos) Linux, because I don't have root and I need to install it in $HOME/something. I don&#

[issue3107] memory leak in make test (in "test list"), 2.5.2 not 2.5.1, Linux 64bit

New submission from Tony Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python-2.5.1]$ ./configure --prefix=/home/tony/root/usr/local/python-2.5.2 --enable-shared --enable-static [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ file python python: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU