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Cheryl Sabella added the comment: And thank you, Victor, for reviewing and merging! :-) -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-

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STINNER Victor added the comment: Thank you Sandro Tosi for the bug report, thanks Georg Brandl for initial patch, and thanks Cheryl Sabella for the final changes in 3.7 and master! According to Yury Selivanov, it's not need to backport this change to 2.7 and 3.6, so I close the issue. https

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STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset b248a8c9a5e7cf6b8e84a3efda493fccfc511316 by Victor Stinner (Cheryl Sabella) in branch '3.7': [3.7] bpo-11233: Create availability directive for documentation (GH-9692) (GH-9830) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b248a8c9a5e7cf6b8e84a3efd

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STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset 2d6097d027e0dd3debbabc702aa9c98d94ba32a3 by Victor Stinner (Cheryl Sabella) in branch 'master': bpo-11233: Create availability directive for documentation (GH-9692) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2d6097d027e0dd3debbabc702aa9c98d94ba32a

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Cheryl Sabella added the comment: Thanks, Fred. I've submitted the PR. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

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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

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Cheryl Sabella added the comment: Hello, It doesn't appear that this patch was ever merged. If there's still interest, would it be OK for me to convert it to a PR? Thanks! -- nosy: +cheryl.sabella ___ Python tracker

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STINNER Victor added the comment: I like the idea of a single place where the Availability is described, and adding a link to this place. availability-directive.patch LGTM. -- nosy: +haypo ___ Python tracker

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Changes by Berker Peksag : -- nosy: +berker.peksag stage: needs patch -> patch review type: -> enhancement versions: +Python 3.5, Python 3.6 ___ Python tracker ___ _

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Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I can't comment on the Sphinx extension code but this is a good idea. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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Georg Brandl added the comment: A draft is attached. The directive currently just always links to the "availability" notes, which I have moved to the main "Operating system services" document. Please review! -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file32065/availabilit

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Éric Araujo added the comment: If no-one else has started on this, I’m interested in making a patch to introduce an availability directive. -- nosy: +eric.araujo resolution: works for me -> stage: -> needs patch ___ Python tracker

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R. David Murray added the comment: In another issue Georg came up with the idea of creating an availability directive that would auto link to the appropriate text. This would then apply to all our different availability types. -- ___ Python tracke

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Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset f197dac00f43 by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default': Merge commit for #11233 http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f197dac00f43 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

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Georg Brandl added the comment: That's a good point, indeed. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

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R. David Murray added the comment: Yes, but when you jump directly to one of the functions, you don't see that bullet list. Whereas if it were a footnote on the 'avaiability: unix" statement, the natural thing would be to follow the footnote and thus learn the limitations on that statement.

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Georg Brandl added the comment: The "Notes on availability" bullet list at the top of docs.python.org/library/os should already say everything that there is to say here... -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> works for me status: open -> pending

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R. David Murray added the comment: Good point :( -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mai

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Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > I like the footnote idea. Me too. > I wonder if it would also be worth marking which functions are Posix > (Availability: posix) and therefore likely to be available on all unix > systems. POSIX has optional APIs, hasn't it? -- nosy: +pitrou

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R. David Murray added the comment: I like the footnote idea. I wonder if it would also be worth marking which functions are Posix (Availability: posix) and therefore likely to be available on all unix systems. -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tr

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New submission from Sandro Tosi : Hi, following up http://mail.python.org/pipermail/docs/2011-February/003083.html we have a chat on #python-dev on the topic, the situation is - all started with os.lchmod() and as.lchflags() methods not available on a Debian system - that's because POSIX does