[issue44257] typo and verbous grammar in the grammar spec

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[issue45356] Calling `help` executes @classmethod @property decorated methods

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[issue40379] multiprocessing's default start method of fork()-without-exec() is broken

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[issue45356] Calling `help` executes @classmethod @property decorated methods

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[issue27153] Default value shown by argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter is backwards for action='store_false'

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[issue28742] argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter sometimes provides inaccurate documentation of defaults, so they should be overrideable

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[issue29249] Pathlib glob ** bug

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[issue28874] test_logging fails and freezes

wim glenn added the comment: I was seeing this problem when building 3.6.4. Fixed it by replacing the test cert with a newer one from 3.6.13: curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python/cpython/v3.6.13/Lib/test/keycert.pem > ./Lib/test/keycert.pem Hope this helps someone else

[issue42948] bytearray.copy is undocumented

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[issue42948] bytearray.copy is undocumented

New submission from wim glenn : bytearray type has a copy method which seems to be undocumented https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes-and-bytearray-operations -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 385164 nosy: docs@python, wim.glenn priority

[issue37449] Move ensurepip off of pkgutil and to importlib.resources

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[issue41793] Inaccuracy about reflected operands in datamodel docs.

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[issue41793] Inaccuracy about reflected operands in datamodel docs.

New submission from wim glenn : Qualifying that the right operand's type must be a *strict* subclass for the reflected method to take precedence avoids an edge case / counter-example when the types are actually equal. >>> class A: ... def __add

[issue34394] Descriptors HowTo doesn't mention __set_name__

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[issue17005] Add a topological sort algorithm

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[issue39269] Descriptor how-to guide wanting update for 3.6+ features

New submission from wim glenn : https://docs.python.org/3/howto/descriptor.html Current descriptor how-to guide, above, has no mention about API features added since Python 3.6 (see __set_name__ in PEP 487) It's an important and useful piece of using descriptors effectively and the

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

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[issue36761] Extended slice assignment + iterable unpacking

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[issue27413] Add an option to json.tool to bypass non-ASCII characters.

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[issue31542] pth files in site-packages of venvs are executed twice

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[issue38557] PyTuple_GetSlice docs minor inaccuracy

New submission from wim glenn : https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/tuple.html#c.PyTuple_GetSlice In the c-api it says (emphasis mine): PyObject* PyTuple_GetSlice(PyObject *p, Py_ssize_t low, Py_ssize_t high)¶ Return value: New reference. Take a slice of the tuple pointed to by p from

[issue37684] list.extend docs inaccurate

wim glenn added the comment: Raymond, I understand that consecutive appends could potentially trigger multiple resizes behind the scenes, and so it's not really showing that extend is more like a bulk update as you mentioned. That's a good point! However I think it's a

[issue37684] list.extend docs inaccurate

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[issue37684] list.extend docs inaccurate

New submission from wim glenn : >From https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#more-on-lists : list.extend(iterable) Extend the list by appending all the items from the iterable. Equivalent to a[len(a):] = iterable. The "equivalent" is not very g

[issue30052] URL Quoting page links to function Bytes instead of defintion

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[issue30052] URL Quoting page links to function Bytes instead of defintion

wim glenn added the comment: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html Usually the little paragraph icon appears when you hover over a function name, giving an anchor link. It's not doing it for bytes or bytearray. Was that an unintended consequence of disambiguation fro

[issue36909] LastUpdatedOrderedDict recipe uses super() unnecessarily

New submission from wim glenn : Section https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#ordereddict-examples-and-recipes class LastUpdatedOrderedDict(OrderedDict): 'Store items in the order the keys were last added' def __setitem__(self, key, value):

[issue36761] Extended slice assignment + iterable unpacking

wim glenn added the comment: Serhiy, `a, *L[::2] = "abc"` as an alternative is interesting, thanks. The other example `L[:], *rest = 'abcdef'` is less interesting because L[:] can be arbitrary size. When noticing this, I had tried to consume a generator into every

[issue36761] Extended slice assignment + iterable unpacking

New submission from wim glenn : Could cases like these be made to work? *Should* cases like these be made to work? L = [0, 1, 2] L[::2], *rest = "abcdef" # ValueError: attempt to assign sequence of size 1 to extended slice of size 2 a, L[::2] = "abc" # ValueError: too m

[issue29636] Specifying indent in the json.tool command

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

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[issue11874] argparse assertion failure with brackets in metavars

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[issue29475] option to not follow symlinks when globbing

wim glenn added the comment: +1, would like to use this feature too, and I would like it also in pathlib.PosixPath.glob -- nosy: +wim.glenn ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue29

[issue26253] tarfile in stream mode always set zlib compression level to 9

wim glenn added the comment: This issue also got me. compresslevel kwarg works fine for tarfile.open(..., mode='w:gz') but raises exception for tarfile.open(..., mode='w|gz') I want to use stream compression, and compresslevel=1 is more than enough for my use case, the

[issue30583] docs mention datetuil presumably it should be dateutil

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[issue30583] docs mention datetuil presumably it should be dateutil

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[issue30583] docs mention datetuil presumably it should be dateutil

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[issue30583] docs mention datetuil presumably it should be dateutil

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[issue30583] docs mention datetuil presumably it should be dateutil

New submission from wim glenn: Typo from https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/94c8a3f91fbba72845706853d28bd5af8fc11875#diff-5a85d656ffad06e86bee33767ae24f33R1852 went unnoticed and is present in official docs https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/datetime.html#tzinfo-objects https

[issue11874] argparse assertion failure with brackets in metavars

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[issue11874] argparse assertion failure with brackets in metavars

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[issue11874] argparse assertion failure with brackets in metavars

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[issue29290] argparse breaks long lines on NO-BREAK SPACE

wim glenn added the comment: The test "test_help_non_breaking_spaces" from Zhang's commit fails on my platform (other 1563 tests in the module all pass). Interestingly, if running the entire test suite, it doesn't fail. It's only when executing the test_argpars

[issue28848] Add CopyingMock to mock.py

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

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[issue28848] Add CopyingMock to mock.py

wim glenn added the comment: Here's a first attempt at a patch. If it doesn't go into Lib finally, I'll just put up a CopyingMock on pypi instead. But it seemed like the kind of feature which should just be in mock directly rather than 3rd party, preferably. -- k

[issue28848] Add CopyingMock to mock.py

New submission from wim glenn: Would people be interested to consider adding the CopyingMock example shown in the documentation section "coping with mutable arguments" into the mock module? https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.mock-examples.html#coping-with-mutable-arguments

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

wim glenn added the comment: Perhaps it's better to call a spade a spade here - if they're implemented as comparisons, then why not document them as comparisons? A colleague has mentioned one point that sets `in` and `not in` apart from the other comparisons in the table: compa

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

wim glenn added the comment: I want to add that the grammar explicitly mentions them as comparisons https://docs.python.org/3/reference/grammar.html And they are also listed in the comparisons section of the expressions documentation https://docs.python.org/3/reference

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

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

New submission from wim glenn: Regarding https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#comparisons There is a line at the bottom claiming: > Two more operations with the same syntactic priority, in and not in, are > supported only by sequence types (below). The claim is inc

[issue28045] minor inaccuracy in range_contains_long

New submission from wim glenn: The [commented] code summarising this algorithm is incorrect because % has precedence over - Hey, no big deal it's just a comment after all, but may as well fix it up. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation, Interpreter Core

[issue27244] print(';;') fails in pdb with SyntaxError

wim glenn added the comment: Seems to be as documented here: https://docs.python.org/2/library/pdb.html#debugger-commands "No intelligence is applied to separating the commands; the input is split at the first ;; pair, even if it is in the middle of a quoted string." -

[issue26351] Occasionally check for Ctrl-C in long-running operations like sum

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[issue26478] dict views don't implement subtraction correctly

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[issue25574] 2.7 incorrectly documents objects hash as equal to id

New submission from wim glenn: The 2.7 glossary still incorrectly mentions instances of user-defined classes hash equal to their id. https://docs.python.org/2/glossary.html#term-hashable Just a minor documentation bug that was unfortunately missed by http://bugs.python.org/issue21782

[issue23986] Inaccuracy about "in" keyword for list and tuple

New submission from wim glenn: The comparisons section of the python 2 docs says: --- https://docs.python.org/2/reference/expressions.html#comparisons For the list and tuple types, x in y is true if and only if there exists an index i such that x == y[i] is true. --- But it's not str

[issue21642] "_ if 1else _" does not compile

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[issue17088] ElementTree incorrectly refuses to write attributes without namespaces when default_namespace is used

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[issue17088] ElementTree incorrectly refuses to write attributes without namespaces when default_namespace is used

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[issue17088] ElementTree incorrectly refuses to write attributes without namespaces when default_namespace is used

Wim added the comment: Here's an improved patch (and improved testcase). It's a little more intrusive than the last patch because when a default namespace is being used, two distinct qname caches must be made. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file33125/bug170

[issue17088] ElementTree incorrectly refuses to write attributes without namespaces when default_namespace is used

Wim added the comment: FWIW: I noticed that my patch has a bug due to sharing the cache dict between element names and attribute names, although I think this is unlikely to crop up very often in practice. I'll submit a better patch if/when I get the time to put one tog

[issue17088] ElementTree incorrectly refuses to write attributes without namespaces when default_namespace is used

Wim added the comment: I have run into this a few times although it is only recently that I've convinced myself I understood the XML namespace spec well enough to know what the right behavior was. (I came to the same interpretation as silverbacknet.) I have attached a patch which I be

[issue1551113] random.choice(setinstance) fails

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[issue1551113] random.choice(setinstance) fails

wim glenn added the comment: The implementation suggested by the OP def choice(self, seq): """Choose a random element from a non-empty sequence.""" idx = int(self.random() * len(seq)) try: result = seq[idx] # raises IndexError if seq

[issue17255] test_any and test_all should validate short-circuiting behaviour

New submission from wim glenn: The docs http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#all provide some equivalent code for all builtin (and similarly for any): def all(iterable): for element in iterable: if not element: return False return True The behaviour is

[issue16468] argparse only supports iterable choices

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[issue16697] argparse kwarg 'choices' documentation

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[issue16697] argparse kwarg 'choices' documentation

New submission from wim glenn: Any object that supports the in operator can be passed as the choices value, so dict objects, set objects, custom containers, etc. are all supported. (from http://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html#choices ) Actual behaviour is contradicted by the docs

[issue15866] encode(..., 'xmlcharrefreplace') produces entities for surrogate pairs

New submission from Wim: Encoding a (well-formed) Unicode string containing a non-BMP character, using the xmlcharrefreplace error handler, will produce two XML entities for surrogate codepoints instead of one entity for the actual character. Here's a transcript (Python 2.7.3, x

[issue9256] plistlib should create non-naïve datetime objects

New submission from Wim : The plistlib module parses elements in the plist into datetime objects. (This is good.) However, it produces naïve datetimes, even though the elements include an explicit timezone specification ('Z' for UTC, since they're in ISO 8601 format). Now

[issue6560] socket sendmsg(), recvmsg() methods

Wim added the comment: I just ran across yet another implementation of sendmsg support for python sockets, whose feature set seems to complement Kalman Gergely's implementation: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~ylg/PyXAPI by Yves Legrandgerard (Out of curiosity, people have been submi