[issue11222] Python3.2rc3 fails to build on Mac OS X with a non-framework build

Ned Deily added the comment: You did run "sudo make install"? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe

[issue11222] Python3.2rc3 fails to build on Mac OS X with a non-framework build

John Szakmeister added the comment: I'm installing into an area that I own ($HOME/.local/python3), so no need for sudo. I just ran make install. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue11222] Python3.2rc3 fails to build on Mac OS X with a non-framework build

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: 'make install' works for me as well (OSX 10.6, configure --prefix=/tmp/python32). Could you attach the output of "make install", with some luck there will be a clear indication of why the install doesn't work on your machine. -- ___

[issue11221] all() returns wrong result when the parameters are non-encapsulated list-comprehension

Jonathan Livni added the comment: Let my foolishness be a reminder to all not to use "from [module] import *" After saying that - I believe overloading a built in Python function in a popular package\module is a mistake! I still don't know if pylab's all() is erroneous or if it's correct fun

[issue11222] Python3.2rc3 fails to build on Mac OS X with a non-framework build

John Szakmeister added the comment: Attached the output. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20775/make-install-output.txt ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue11222] Python3.2rc3 fails to build on Mac OS X with a non-framework build

John Szakmeister added the comment: This one is my fault. I have a .pydistutils.cfg that was causing them to be installed somewhere else or not at all. :-( Moving my custom config out of the way, I'm good. I'm not sure what's happening there, but that's a different problem. :-) --

[issue11223] interruption of locks by signals not guaranteed when the semaphore implementation is not used

Sébastien Sablé added the comment: Here is what faulthandler reports when I trigger it as Python is locked in test_socket: """ [108/349] test_socket Traceback (most recent call first): File "/san_cis/home/cis/.buildbot/python-aix6/3.x.phenix.xlc/build/Lib/test/fork_wait.py", line 30 in f "

[issue11223] interruption of locks by signals not guaranteed when the semaphore implementation is not used

Sébastien Sablé added the comment: faulthandler is great by the way! I will use that in my application. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue11223] interruption of locks by signals not guaranteed when the semaphore implementation is not used

STINNER Victor added the comment: > Here is what faulthandler reports when I trigger it as Python > is locked in test_socket: > ... > File ".../Lib/test/fork_wait.py", line 30 in f faulthandler doesn't print the source code line (yet?). Here is the code: class ForkWait(unittest.TestCase):

[issue11223] interruption of locks by signals not guaranteed when the semaphore implementation is not used

Sébastien Sablé added the comment: At the time of the lock, there is only one python process running. So I guess the other processes have already left but this is not correctly detected. I will try again with all_threads=True. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue11223] interruption of locks by signals not guaranteed when the semaphore implementation is not used

Sébastien Sablé added the comment: I kinda feel this is related to issue 11185 which I reported earlier. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue11223] interruption of locks by signals not guaranteed when the semaphore implementation is not used

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Could you open another issue? (or post in issue 11185 above) -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-b

[issue11230] "Full unicode import system" not in 3.2

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[issue11230] "Full unicode import system" not in 3.2

STINNER Victor added the comment: Short answer: In Python 3.2, « import héhé » doesn't work on Windows, but you can have non-ASCII paths in sys.path. Longer answer: I fixed the import machinery to handle correctly non-ASCII characters in module *paths*. But the import machinery is unable to

[issue7330] PyUnicode_FromFormat segfault

Ray.Allen added the comment: Thanks hyapo! > It looks like your patch fixes #10829: you should add tests for that, you can > just reuse the tests of my patch (attached to #10829). Sorry, but I think my patch doesn't fix #10829. It seems link another issue. And by applying my patch and add t

[issue10709] Misc/AIX-NOTES needs updating

Sébastien Sablé added the comment: Could this doc be added before the 3.2 release? I think it is convenient for the (few) AIX users and harmless. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue10709] Misc/AIX-NOTES needs updating

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[issue11185] test_wait4 error on AIX

Sébastien Sablé added the comment: This issue already existed on Python 2.5.2 with AIX 5.2: http://www.mail-archive.com/python-list@python.org/msg192219.html The documentation for WNOHANG says: http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.WNOHANG """ The option for waitpid() to return immediately

[issue9334] argparse does not accept options taking arguments beginning with dash (regression from optparse)

Eric Smith added the comment: [I doubt my terminology is exactly correct in this post, but I've tried my best to make it so.) The more I think about this the more I realize we can't implement a parser that doesn't make guesses about '-' prefixed args and that works with arparse's existing be

[issue11212] Python memory limit on AIX

R. David Murray added the comment: Here is a proofread diff. I did make one substantive change: I added a comment about the test suite not running with the default maxdata and not raising memory errors with 512MB. Is that correct? -- nosy: +r.david.murray Added file: http://bugs.pyt

[issue11221] all() returns wrong result when the parameters are non-encapsulated list-comprehension

Mark Dickinson added the comment: > After saying that - I believe overloading a built in Python function in > a popular package\module is a mistake! I believe NumPy had 'any' and 'all' *before* Python did. :-) -- ___ Python tracker

[issue11071] What's New review comments

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Here are couple of Review Comments on What's new document. 1. The logging dictConfig example fails if you try directly out-of-text. The conf file is opened as a 'rb' and json module throws an error as "TypeError: can't use a string pattern on a bytes-like ob

[issue11212] Python memory limit on AIX

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: David, I think you attached your patch to the wrong issue. Sébastien, according to the IBM docs, the memory limit can be changed using the LDR_CNTRL variable, so running the test suite shouldn't need special linker flags, or? (also, wouldn't it be simpler to

[issue11212] Python memory limit on AIX

Sébastien Sablé added the comment: The AIX documentation says: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v2r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.itame3.doc_5.1/am51_perftune113.htm """It is a good idea to unset the LDR_CNTRL environment variable, so that it does not unintentionally affect other p

[issue11212] Python memory limit on AIX

Sébastien Sablé added the comment: The doc would become: """ To allocate more segment registers to Python, you must use the linker option -bmaxdata or ldedit to specify the number of bytes you need in the data segment. For example, if you want to allow 512MB of memory for Python (this is en

[issue11212] Python memory limit on AIX

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[issue11212] Python memory limit on AIX

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[issue10709] Misc/AIX-NOTES needs updating

R. David Murray added the comment: Here is a proofread diff. I did make one substantive change: I added a comment about the test suite not running with the default maxdata and not raising memory errors with 512MB. Is that correct? -- nosy: +r.david.murray __

[issue10709] Misc/AIX-NOTES needs updating

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[issue10709] Misc/AIX-NOTES needs updating

Sébastien Sablé added the comment: Yes it is correct. And thank you for proof reading it too. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bu

[issue11212] Python memory limit on AIX

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > I think people may be more interested in setting permanently the > maximum memory that can be allocated by python rather than using an > environment variable that may be lost and which impacts all the > applications. Agreed, but it's impossible to standardize

[issue11231] bytes() constructor is not correctly documented

New submission from STINNER Victor : There are 5 different usages of the bytes() constructor: 1) bytes(iterable_of_ints) -> bytes 2) bytes(string, encoding[, errors]) -> bytes 3) bytes(bytes_or_buffer) -> immutable copy of bytes_or_buffer 4) bytes(memory_view) -> bytes 5) bytes(int) <=> b'\0' *

[issue11231] bytes() constructor is not correctly documented

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > 3) bytes(bytes_or_buffer) -> immutable copy of bytes_or_buffer > 4) bytes(memory_view) -> bytes These are AFAIR the same. -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker __

[issue11231] bytes() constructor is not correctly documented

STINNER Victor added the comment: > These are AFAIR the same. So the docstring should also maybe be updated too: $ python >>> help(bytes) Help on class bytes in module builtins: class bytes(object) | bytes(iterable_of_ints) -> bytes | bytes(string, encoding[, errors]) -> bytes | bytes(b

[issue11071] What's New review comments

Éric Araujo added the comment: > 2.Issue number for functools.lru_cache is not mentioned. If no tracker > id/ discussion is available, checkin link can be mentioned. There was no tracker issue for that; the checkin is r83327, but I don’t think it would be useful to mention it in whatsnew. > 3.

[issue11071] What's New review comments

Éric Araujo added the comment: I meant Lib/subprocess.py, of course :) -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Un

[issue11232] asyncore - don't throw a traceback when a client disconnects in echo server example

New submission from Sandro Tosi : Hi, following up http://mail.python.org/pipermail/docs/2011-February/003095.html I'm attaching a simple patch to avoid a traceback similar to this when a client disconnects: error: uncaptured python exception, closing channel <__main__.EchoHandler 127.0.0.1:4

[issue11232] asyncore - don't throw a traceback when a client disconnects in echo server example

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[issue11232] asyncore - don't throw a traceback when a client disconnects in echo server example

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[issue11233] clarifying Availability: Unix

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

[issue11234] Possible error in What's new Python3.2(rc3) documentation (sysconfig.get_config_var)

New submission from Carl Chenet : Hi, It seems a mistake could be in the "What's new in Python 3.2" (rc3) documentation in the sysconfig.get_config_var('SO') example : >>> sysconfig.get_config_var('SO') # find the full filename extension 'cpython-32mu.so' On my system (Debian GNU/Linux,

[issue11234] Possible error in What's new Python3.2(rc3) documentation (sysconfig.get_config_var)

Sandro Tosi added the comment: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 20:22, Carl Chenet wrote: sysconfig.get_config_var('SO') > '.cpython-32m.so' > > A dot at the beginning of the string could be missing in the example of the > current documentation. This dot also appears in the example of the PEP 3149

[issue11234] Possible error in What's new Python3.2(rc3) documentation (sysconfig.get_config_var)

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[issue11222] Python3.2rc3 fails to build on Mac OS X with a non-framework build

Ned Deily added the comment: Here's a minimal patch (a subset of Victor's original) that fixes the release blocker issue. It has been tested in both a shared library build (which now works) and a framework build (which is not affected as expected). I recommend that it be applied before 3.2f

[issue11233] clarifying Availability: Unix

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

[issue11233] clarifying Availability: Unix

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

[issue11233] clarifying Availability: Unix

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[issue11235] Source files with date modifed in 2106 cause OverflowError

New submission from Guy Kisel : Tested in Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Nov 27 2010, 18:30:46) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Exception thrown: OverflowError: modification time overflows a 4 byte field Steps to reproduce: 1. Set system time to 2/8/2106 or later and modify a .py file (or use

[issue11235] Source files with date modifed in 2106 cause OverflowError

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[issue11235] Source files with date modifed in 2106 cause OverflowError

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[issue11236] getpass.getpass does not respond to ctrl-c or ctrl-z

New submission from Merlijn van Deen : In python 2.5, entering ^C in a getpass prompt yields a KeyboardInterrupt. In later versions, nothing happens, and '\x03' is returned after pressing return. In python 2.5, entering ^Z in a getpass prompt suspends the process. In later versions, nothing hap

[issue11236] getpass.getpass does not respond to ctrl-c or ctrl-z

Merlijn van Deen added the comment: To allow people to cancel at the password prompt, we added a manual post-check. Although this check runs after return is pressed, it's better than nothing. Index: branches/rewrite/pywikibot/userinterfaces/terminal_interface.py ===

[issue11237] odbc module crashes Python interpretter

New submission from Maurice Maneschi : In Python 3.1.3 under Windows XP sp3, I enter the following under the interpretter: Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\MauriceM>c:\Python31\python.exe Python 3.1.3 (r313:86834, Nov 27

[issue11238] sets - refer to sets/frozenset in stdtypes

New submission from Sandro Tosi : Hi, following up http://mail.python.org/pipermail/docs/2011-February/003088.html, here's a patch to make sets.html big red notice :) refer to set/frozenset into stdtypes page with a couple of links. -- assignee: sandro.tosi components: Documentation f

[issue11235] Source files with date modifed in 2106 cause OverflowError

STINNER Victor added the comment: The problem occurs on import (import bla reads bla.py), when Python tries to create bla.pyc. The problem is that Python stores the timestamp as 4 bytes in .pyc files, whereas time_t is 64 bits on Windows (at least on Windows XP with Visual Studio). To suppor

[issue11222] Python3.2rc3 fails to build on Mac OS X with a non-framework build

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Looks good to me. I guess it needs Georg's approval, though. -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue11238] sets - refer to sets/frozenset in stdtypes

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[issue11232] asyncore - don't throw a traceback when a client disconnects in echo server example

Sandro Tosi added the comment: well, since we are at it, sed 's/abasic/a basic/' in the first line of echo server example; I'm too lazy to regenerate the patch tho :) -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue11235] Source files with date modifed in 2106 cause OverflowError

STINNER Victor added the comment: > To support bigger timestamps, we have to change the file format > of .pyc files. write_compiled_module(), check_compiled_module() and other functions use the marshal module to read/write binary file, but marshal has no function for int64_t, only for long (

[issue4379] Py_SAFE_DOWNCAST in FILE_TIME_to_time_t_nsec failing

STINNER Victor added the comment: Oh, this issue was already fixed by r87666 to fix the duplicate issue #8278. -- nosy: +haypo resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue4379] Py_SAFE_DOWNCAST in FILE_TIME_to_time_t_nsec failing

STINNER Victor added the comment: > Oh, this issue was already fixed by r87666 ... in py3k, and then merged into release31-maint (r87668) and release27-maint (r87669). -- ___ Python tracker __

Re: [issue11071] What's New review comments

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Éric Araujo wrote: > You must have missed line 752 and following of Lib/functools.py.  Brian did > add context management support to Popen in response to my request in #10554. Yes, I did miss it because the What's new document referenced only issue 7461 and I sa

[issue5537] LWPCookieJar cannot handle cookies with expirations of 2038 or greater on 32-bit platforms

STINNER Victor added the comment: > Shouldn't module time be changed to use a cross-platform implementation > that uses a 64 bit time_t-like type? Apparently Perl 6 has made the > equivalent change. The error occurs on time.gmtime(t): even if we use 64 bits time_t type, we have to downcast it

[issue2571] cmd.py always uses raw_input, even when another stdin is specified

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[issue11236] getpass.getpass does not respond to ctrl-c or ctrl-z

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Initialization scope bug?

The following code does not work for some reason in Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Jun 9 2010, 16:26:11) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Apparently, the class's function definition is accepted just fine by Python, however when the function is called during the initialization that follows, the fun

[issue11237] odbc module crashes Python interpretter

Brett Cannon added the comment: odbc is not a module provided by Python. -- nosy: +brett.cannon resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue11239] regexp-howto - add missing } to metachars

New submission from Sandro Tosi : hi, following up http://mail.python.org/pipermail/docs/2011-February/003099.html, here's a patch to add '}' to metachars, currently missing. -- assignee: sandro.tosi components: Documentation files: regex-howto-add-missin-metachar-py3k.patch keywords:

[issue11240] Running unit tests in a command line tool leads to infinite loop with multiprocessing on Windows

New submission from Matt Chaput : If you start unit tests with a command line such as "python setup.py test" or "nosetests", if the tested code starts a multiprocessing.Process on Windows, each new process will act as if it was started as "python setup.py test"/"nosetests", leading to an infin

[issue11241] ctypes: subclassing an already subclassed ArrayType generates AttributeError

New submission from Steve Thompson : Consider the following: python code: class my_array( ctypes.Array ): _type_= ctypes.c_uint8 _length_ = 256 class my_array2( my_array ): pass Output: class my_array2( my_array ): AttributeError: class must define a '_length_' attribute, which

[issue11240] Running unit tests in a command line tool leads to infinite loop with multiprocessing on Windows

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: Using multiprocessing on Windows can be different; please read http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html#windows especially the part named "Safe importing of main module". On Windows, fork() does not exist, so a new interpreter must be started

[issue11240] Running unit tests in a command line tool leads to infinite loop with multiprocessing on Windows

Matt Chaput added the comment: Thank you, I understand all that, but I don't think you understand the issue. My code is not __main__. I am not starting the test suite. It's the distutils/nose code that's doing that. It seems as if the multiprocessing module is starting new Windows processes b

[issue11240] Running unit tests in a command line tool leads to infinite loop with multiprocessing on Windows

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: > It seems as if the multiprocessing module is starting new Windows > processes by duplicating the command line of the original process. It does not. The spawned processes use the command:: python.exe -c 'from multiprocessing.forking import main; main()

[issue11236] getpass.getpass does not respond to ctrl-c or ctrl-z

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[issue2571] can cmd.py's API/docs for the use of an alternate stdin be improved?

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[issue2571] can cmd.py's API/docs for the use of an alternate stdin be improved?

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[issue7330] PyUnicode_FromFormat segfault

Ray.Allen added the comment: > Do you mean combine step 3 and step 4 together? Currently step 3 is just to > compute the biggest width value and step 4 is to compute exact width and do > the real format work. Only by doing real format we can get the exact width of > a string. So I have to com

[issue11230] "Full unicode import system" not in 3.2

John added the comment: Victor asked "Which web page should updated/fixed?" Answer: The Python 3.2 download page. But what should it say? The main point is that people like me, who remember seeing a statement about this a few months ago, may expect unicode to work in every conceivable situa

[issue7833] Bdist_wininst installers fail to load extensions built with Issue4120 patch

Mark Hammond added the comment: I'm failing to get a new pywin32 out of the door due to this issue. I've spent a few hours playing with this and I think the analysis is generally correct here. The key thing is that when using distutils, the extensions end up with a manifest (albeit one with

[issue7330] PyUnicode_FromFormat segfault

STINNER Victor added the comment: > > It looks like your patch fixes #10829: you should add tests for that, you > > can just reuse the tests of my patch (attached to #10829). > > Sorry, but I think my patch doesn't fix #10829. Ah ok, so don't add failing tests :-) > > You should also avoid t