[issue11396] add format handler to bytes object

2011-03-04 Thread nestor
nestor added the comment: My search fu has failed me this time. This is indeed a duplicate of issue 3982. I think the issue is real and not going to go away, but finding a beautiful solution has been elusive so far. -- resolution: -> duplic

[issue11396] add format handler to bytes object

2011-03-04 Thread nestor
New submission from nestor : Many programs written for Python 2.x use simple string interpolation to create byte strings with specific layout, this is gone in 3.x. Is it possible to support the format method but maybe only supporting field names like '{}' '{1}{2}' '{

[issue10974] IDLE 3.2 not loading on double-click in Finder, OSX 10.6

2011-01-23 Thread Nestor Aguilera
Nestor Aguilera added the comment: On 22 Jan 2011, at 04:50, Ned Deily wrote: [...] > A similar exception occurs (without a crash) when saving a file to a > non-ASCII file name and LANG is not properly set: [...] Is there a way of telling tkinter to set the encoding to utf-8 (or wh

[issue10973] OS X 10.6 IDLE, tkinter: Cocoa Tk 8.5 crash when composite character typed in text field

2011-01-23 Thread Nestor Aguilera
Nestor Aguilera added the comment: On 23 Jan 2011, at 04:33, Georg Brandl wrote: > Georg Brandl added the comment: > >> I disagree. There aren't really "64-bit users" on OSX, thanks to fat >> binaries. So if starting IDLE would start a 32-bit interpreter,

[issue10973] OS X 10.6 IDLE, tkinter: Cocoa Tk 8.5 crash when composite character typed in text field

2011-01-22 Thread Nestor Aguilera
Nestor Aguilera added the comment: Thanks Ned for thinking of ways out. - If I had a choice, I would agree with Georg's choice (Ned's option 1): most users will not use the composite characters and need not go through complications, or worse, cannibalization of the distribution

[issue10974] IDLE 3.2 not loading on double-click in Finder, OSX 10.6

2011-01-22 Thread Nestor Aguilera
Nestor Aguilera added the comment: Ned: thanks for the explanation. Nestor === On 22 Jan 2011, at 04:50, Ned Deily wrote: > > Changes by Ned Deily : > > > -- > Removed message: http://bugs.py

[issue10973] 'ñ' not working with IDLE 3.2rc1 - OSX 10.6.6

2011-01-21 Thread Nestor Aguilera
Nestor Aguilera added the comment: On 21 Jan 2011, at 21:12, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > >> I see your point. The problem is that IDLE is somewhat included with >> Python (so in a sense it is not "3rd party"), and seems l

[issue10973] 'ñ' not working with IDLE 3.2rc1 - OSX 10.6.6

2011-01-21 Thread Nestor Aguilera
Nestor Aguilera added the comment: On 21 Jan 2011, at 20:39, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > > As this clearly seems to be a Tk bug, I suggest to close this report as > "won't fix - 3rd party". I see your point. The problem is tha

[issue10974] IDLE 3.2 not loading on double-click in Finder, OSX 10.6

2011-01-21 Thread Nestor Aguilera
New submission from Nestor Aguilera : Here is the report from "Console" (date/time removed): [0x0-0x1a11a1].org.python.IDLE[5541]Traceback (most recent call last): [0x0-0x1a11a1].org.python.IDLE[5541] File "/Applications/Python 3.2/IDLE.app/Contents/Resources/idlemain.p

[issue10973] 'ñ' not working with IDLE 3.2rc1 - OSX 10.6.6

2011-01-21 Thread Nestor Aguilera
Nestor Aguilera added the comment: Thanks Victor and Ned, I'll send a report on the second issue as well (I thought it was known). Néstor Aguilera -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue10973] 'ñ' not working with IDLE 3.2rc1 - OSX 10.6.6

2011-01-21 Thread Nestor Aguilera
New submission from Nestor Aguilera : When trying to type 'ñ' in idle 3.2 (no problem in terminal), python "quits unexpectedly" when started from terminal: $ idle3 2011-01-21 11:21:55.883 Python[5228:a07] setCanCycle: is deprecated. Please use setCollectionBehavior inst

[issue10299] Add index with links section for built-in functions

2010-11-03 Thread nestor
New submission from nestor : The built-in function page (http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/functions.html) is pretty long. Each function has an anchor but unlike the built-in types section there is no quick way to get an overview or jump to a specific function (like open or print

[issue10091] ast.literal_eval does not handled new set literals

2010-10-18 Thread nestor
nestor added the comment: FYI although it breaks symmetry with eval, I am fine with this going in for 3.2. It just surprised me and I wanted to make sure it was documented here for future reference. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.

[issue10091] ast.literal_eval does not handled new set literals

2010-10-13 Thread nestor
New submission from nestor : >>> import ast >>> eval('{1:11,2:22}') {1: 11, 2: 22} >>> ast.literal_eval('{1:11,2:22}') {1: 11, 2: 22} >>> eval('{1,2}') {1, 2} >>> ast.literal_eval('{1,2}') Traceback (m

[issue6236] os.popen causes illegal seek on AIX in Python 3.1rc

2009-09-22 Thread nestor
nestor added the comment: Fantastic. Applied the patch and it solved the problem with xlc 8.0 on AIX 5.3. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6

[issue6236] os.popen causes illegal seek on AIX in Python 3.1rc

2009-07-28 Thread nestor
nestor added the comment: Python 3.1 (r31:73572, Jul 9 2009, 16:28:28) [C] on aix5 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> >>> import sys >>> sys.st

[issue6236] os.popen causes illegal seek on AIX in Python 3.1rc

2009-07-21 Thread nestor
nestor added the comment: Maybe this has something to do with it? Python 3.1 (r31:73572, Jul 9 2009, 16:28:28) [C] on aix5 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

[issue6348] solaris/aix: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams

2009-07-09 Thread nestor
nestor added the comment: Maybe make test will help troubleshoot this (BTW how do I enable verbose mode?): test test_ascii_formatd failed -- errors occurred; run in verbose mode for details test_cmath test test_cmath failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/datawhse/test

[issue6236] os.popen causes illegal seek on AIX in Python 3.1rc

2009-06-24 Thread nestor
nestor added the comment: That fails consistently: Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Jun 4 2009, 16:07:26) [C] on aix5 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os >>> r,w=os.pipe() >>> os.ls

[issue6236] os.popen causes illegal seek on AIX in Python 3.1rc

2009-06-08 Thread nestor
nestor added the comment: This quick and dirty fix in pydoc.py makes so it no longer aborts help. (less behaves somewhat strange for some commands but that is better than no help at all) def pipepager(text, cmd): """Page through text by feeding it to another program

[issue6236] os.popen causes illegal seek on AIX in Python 3.1rc

2009-06-07 Thread nestor
New submission from nestor : Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Jun 4 2009, 16:07:26) [C] on aix5 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os >>> os.popen('cat','w') Python