[issue11734] Add half-float (16-bit) support to struct module

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[issue11734] Add half-float (16-bit) support to struct module

Mark Wiebe added the comment: Taking a look at the patch, I see you're using the single -> half conversion routine from NumPy. This has the double rounding problem when converting double -> float -> half, so it would be better to use the double -> half routine. I implemented it with 64-bit un

[issue10762] strftime('%f') segfault

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[issue9325] Add an option to pdb/trace/profile to run library module as a script

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[issue11393] Integrate faulthandler module into Python 3.3

STINNER Victor added the comment: The last commits fixed test_faulthandler on FreeBSD, there are no more faulthandler bugs. Close this issue gain. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue11393] Integrate faulthandler module into Python 3.3

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset e51d8a160a8a by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': Issue #11393: fault handler uses raise(signum) for SIGILL on Windows http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e51d8a160a8a New changeset a4fa79b0d478 by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': Issue #11393: T

[issue11393] Integrate faulthandler module into Python 3.3

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset a27755b10448 by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': Issue #11393: Fix faulthandler.disable() and add a test http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a27755b10448 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue11736] windows installers ssl module / openssl broken for some sites

New submission from Mads Kiilerich : (Probably the same root cause as issue11725 and using the same test case and analysis, but it seems like it isn't just somebody elses problem.) Expected behaviour: C:\Python26>python --version Python 2.6.4 C:\Python26>python -c "import urllib2; urllib2.

[issue11725] httplib and urllib2 failed ssl connection httplib.BadStatusLine

Mads Kiilerich added the comment: I have filed issue11736 as a more or less related (or bogus) issue. -- nosy: +kiilerix ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue11393] Integrate faulthandler module into Python 3.3

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 7e3ed426962f by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': Issue #11393: _Py_DumpTraceback() writes the header even if there is no frame http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7e3ed426962f New changeset e609105dff64 by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': Issue

[issue11736] windows installers ssl module / openssl broken for some sites

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[issue11727] Add a --timeout option to regrtest.py using the faulthandler module

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 15f6fe139181 by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': Issue #11727: set regrtest default timeout to 15 minutes http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/15f6fe139181 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue11737] and is not a logical conjugation

New submission from Iain Henderson : The documentation here: http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html indicates that and operates as such {if x: return x else: return y} to be a logical conjugation it should function as {if x: if y: return True return False} The it is no

[issue11737] and is not a logical conjugation

Ezio Melotti added the comment: The doc[0] says: """ x and y: if x is false, then x, else y """ Boolean operators in Python always return one of the two values (rather than True/False), and they are also short-circuit operators, so: * if x is false, the whole expression is false regardless of

[issue10966] eliminate use of ImportError implicitly representing SkipTest

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[issue6501] Fatal error on startup with invalid PYTHONIOENCODING

Daniel Goertzen added the comment: I run into this problem when I start a Python app as a subprocess from Erlang (open_port() function). The PYTHONIOENCODING fix works when I launch my py app via pythonw.exe, but it does *not* work when I use the cx-freeze version of the app. I am using the

[issue11715] Building Python on multiarch Debian and Ubuntu

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: "As I see it, the patch is uncontroversial for 3.3, 3.2, and 2.7. And it definitely will not be applied to 3.0. That leaves 2.5, 2.6, and 3.1. If you really care one way or the other, please register your vote in the tracker." 2.5: +0 2.6: +1 3.1: +1 ---

[issue11715] Building Python on multiarch Debian and Ubuntu

Éric Araujo added the comment: I’m not opposed to the change. -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list maili

[issue11727] Add a --timeout option to regrtest.py using the faulthandler module

STINNER Victor added the comment: Great! The timeout works: - ... [ 25/354] test_threadsignals Thread 0xa000ed88: File "/Users/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.parc-tiger-1/build/Lib/test/test_threadsignals.py", line 46 in test_signals File "/Users/buildbot/builda

[issue11715] Building Python on multiarch Debian and Ubuntu

Nick Coghlan added the comment: 2.5: -1 2.6: -0 3.1: +0 As I see it, a large part of the "security fixes only" rule is for the benefit of folks auditing those security fixes, as it means there's very little noise in the branch to confuse the matter. -- nosy: +ncoghlan __

[issue11738] ThreadSignals.test_signals() of test_threadsignals hangs on PPC Tiger 3.x buildbot

New submission from STINNER Victor : Thanks to the new faulthandler module (#11393) and regrtest timeout (#11727, timeout of 15 minutes), I finally found why test_threadsignals hangs on PPC Tiger 3.x: - ... [ 25/354] test_threadsignals Thread 0xa000ed88: Fi

[issue11738] ThreadSignals.test_signals() of test_threadsignals hangs on PPC Tiger 3.x buildbot

STINNER Victor added the comment: The trace is supposed to contain the traceback of all threads, and I see only one thread. So I suppose that send_signals() thread has exited. I don't know if it raises an exception or was interrupted before calling signalled_all.release(). -- __

[issue11739] Python doesn't have a 2011 april fools joke

New submission from Joaquin Sorianello : I found this bug today, and I am really sad. We need to create a really good joke. This languaje takes his name from "Monty Python Flying Circus" and IMHO this makes this languaje more funny. I hope we can fix this for the next year. Sorry if you consi

[issue11690] Devguide: Add "communication" FAQ

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[issue11710] Landing pages in docs for standard library packages

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[issue11739] Python doesn't have a 2011 april fools joke

Skip Montanaro added the comment: +1. That was the first thing I looked for when I checked my email today. -- nosy: +skip.montanaro ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue11739] Python doesn't have a 2011 april fools joke

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[issue11727] Add a --timeout option to regrtest.py using the faulthandler module

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 053bc5ca199b by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': Issue #11727: set regrtest default timeout to 30 minutes http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/053bc5ca199b -- ___ Python tracker

[issue11705] sys.excepthook doesn't work in imported modules

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[issue11710] Landing pages in docs for standard library packages

Éric Araujo added the comment: It works with docs.python.org/py3k/library/urllib -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyt

[issue11723] Add support for mingw64 compiler

Éric Araujo added the comment: As Mingw64 support is not currently claimed in the documentation, this is a feature request and can’t land in stable versions. I suggest you wait a bit for the merge of distutils2 into the standard library an then refresh your patch. -- assignee: -> t

[issue11733] Implement a `Counter.elements_count` method

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[issue11727] Add a --timeout option to regrtest.py using the faulthandler module

STINNER Victor added the comment: Failures on the default branch with a timeout of 15 minutes: - test_io on "x86 FreeBSD 3.x" - test_signal on "x86 FreeBSD 7.2 3.x" - test_stdin_none on "sparc solaris10 gcc 3.x" I think that the tests failed because the buildbot is slow, not because of a h

[issue11710] Landing pages in docs for standard library packages

Nick Coghlan added the comment: That link goes to a 404 error page for me. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing lis

[issue10791] Wrapping TextIOWrapper around gzip files

Filip Gruszczyński added the comment: Is following change in GzipFile class enough: def read1(self, n): return self.read(n) ? This satisfies TextIOWrapper to run readline correctly. -- nosy: +gruszczy ___ Python tracker

[issue11707] Create C version of functools.cmp_to_key()

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[issue11710] Landing pages in docs for standard library packages

Éric Araujo added the comment: Okay, now I understand your request: a spam package should have a page at library/spam in addition to submodules pages. +1. -- versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker

[issue11340] test_distutils fails because of borked compress program

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for opening #11678 for the feature request. To fix this in all versions, we would need a way to find that the current OS is Arch, and/or that the compress program is faulty. Do you know how to do that? Maybe with lsb_release? -- components: +D

[issue11710] Landing pages in docs for standard library packages

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Oh, I see the confusion - yeah, the missing "library" in the URL in my first post was just a typo. It was actually present in my test URLs (otherwise the 4 packages with landing pages wouldn't have worked). The problem in 2.7 is smaller, since there aren't as a

[issue11734] Add half-float (16-bit) support to struct module

Eli Stevens added the comment: I'm thinking of taking the current float implementation and wrapping it with something like: #if HAS_INT64_TYPE // double implementation goes here #else // float implementation here (what's in the current patch) ... #endif Does this seem like a reaso

[issue11705] sys.excepthook doesn't work in imported modules

STINNER Victor added the comment: python -c "import loggingTest" calls PyRun_SimpleStringFlags(). python import_loggingTest.py (import_loggingTest.py just contains "import loggingTest") calls PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags(). Both functions calls PyErr_Print() on error. An error occurs ("raise Exce

[issue11736] windows installers ssl module / openssl broken for some sites

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[issue6501] Fatal error on startup with invalid PYTHONIOENCODING

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[issue11715] Building Python on multiarch Debian and Ubuntu

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[issue6087] distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib gives surprising result when used with a Python build

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[issue11734] Add half-float (16-bit) support to struct module

Eli Stevens added the comment: I've spelled "HAS_INT64_TYPE" as follows: +#if SIZEOF_LONG == 8 || SIZEOF_LONG_LONG == 8 +#if SIZEOF_LONG == 8 +typedef unsigned long npy_uint64; +#else +#if SIZEOF_LONG_LONG == 8 +typedef unsigned long long npy_uint64; +#endif +#endif ... I left the Unpa

[issue11734] Add half-float (16-bit) support to struct module

Mark Wiebe added the comment: I think this won't work on Windows since there the 64-bit int is generally __int64. If you look at the long long and unsigned long long support in _struct.c you can see a better way to do this: "#ifdef HAVE_LONG_LONG" and "unsigned PY_LONG_LONG" for the type. -

[issue11734] Add half-float (16-bit) support to struct module

Eli Stevens added the comment: Ahh, yes, much cleaner. Thank you. :) I'll remove the previous version. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21499/cpython-struct-float16-v3.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue11734] Add half-float (16-bit) support to struct module

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[issue11707] Create C version of functools.cmp_to_key()

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[issue7443] test.support.unlink issue on Windows platform

Jeff Dean added the comment: > * Patch Py_DeleteFileW in posixmodule.c so that it renames before > deleting: should solve the problem overall but obviously has a > possible wider impact, in general and on performance in particular. > This rename might be a simple rename-to-guid or something more

[issue11740] difflib html diff takes extremely long

New submission from Michael O'Rourke : If you try to difference the attached files with difflib and a html difference it take 10 minutes or more. In comparison other differencing tools like windiff and araxis merge will show the diff within a second. Example code I'm using is: sourceText = o

[issue11727] Add a --timeout option to regrtest.py using the faulthandler module

STINNER Victor added the comment: (oh, "sparc solaris10 gcc 3.x" failed on test_subprocess, test_stdin_none is the function, not the file) With a timeout of 30 minutes: - "sparc solaris10 gcc 3.x" doesn't fail anymore. - "x86 FreeBSD 3.x" still fails on the same test: test_io (test_interru

[issue11340] test_distutils fails because of borked compress program

Westley Martínez added the comment: I've already got a patch ready for #11678. As for checking the compress command, perhaps we can accomplish it by comparing version information of the program: $ compress --version compress 1.4 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright (C)

[issue11727] Add a --timeout option to regrtest.py using the faulthandler module

STINNER Victor added the comment: Because the timeout was 30 minutes, we missed where test_ssl hangs on "x86 Windows7 3.x": -- ... [259/354] test_filecmp [260/354] test_ssl command timed out: 1200 seconds without output, killing pid 3012 SIGKILL failed to kill process using fake rc

[issue10496] "import site failed" when Python can't find home directory

Denis Barmenkov added the comment: I saw similar error on Python 2.6 installed on freeBSD. I had test SVN server and wrote pre-commit hook using python. When remote developer commited his changes to repository, hook called os.path.expanduser and exception was raised: # File "/usr/loca

[issue11727] Add a --timeout option to regrtest.py using the faulthandler module

STINNER Victor added the comment: For test_subprocess timeout, see also: http://bugs.python.org/issue8429#msg103368 For test_io timeout, see also: issue #8431 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue11674] list(obj), tuple(obj) swallow TypeError (in _PyObject_LengthHint)

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Elvis, I agree that the masking is not nice. To call it a tracker bug (as opposed to design bug), you need to show that the behavior is different from what is documented. Of course, This issue illustrates why one should have unit tests that try to test each c

[issue11674] list(obj), tuple(obj) swallow TypeError (in _PyObject_LengthHint)

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: I have a proposal: only call __length_hint__ on C types. -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson ___ Python tracker ___

[issue11727] Add a --timeout option to regrtest.py using the faulthandler module

STINNER Victor added the comment: Timeout of 15 minutes on "x86 XP-4 3.x": ... [334/354] test_threading Thread 0x024c: File "D:\cygwin\home\db3l\buildarea\3.x.bolen-windows\build\lib\threading.py", line 235 in wait File "D:\cygwin\home\db3l\buildarea\3.x.b

[issue11674] list(obj), tuple(obj) swallow TypeError (in _PyObject_LengthHint)

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Am going to close this one because I don't see any straight-forward way around it and because it's technically not a bug (just an undesirable design artifact). The use of TypeError for objects that don't define __len__ is deeply ingrained into Python (20

[issue11661] test_collections.TestNamedTuple.test_source failing on many buildbots after f09f7ab40ce6

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[issue11674] list(obj), tuple(obj) swallow TypeError (in _PyObject_LengthHint)

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: 2011/4/1 Raymond Hettinger : > [benjamin] > The __length_hint__ protocol is a public API, so anyone can use it.  Also, > the issue is a broader than __length_hint__, it is really distinguishing > multiple possible meanings for a TypeError raised by a call t

[issue11674] list(obj), tuple(obj) swallow TypeError (in _PyObject_LengthHint)

Elvis Pranskevichus added the comment: I guess, the best workaround would then be to use a decorator (or a metaclass) and wrap __len__ so that TypeError is caught and wrapped into some other exception. On April 1, 2011 07:10:21 PM Benjamin Peterson wrote: > What?? I certainly hope not. I thou

[issue11676] Improve imp.load_module and submodules doc

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I verified this for 3.2 (and IDLE) with import sys, tkinter "ttk" in dir(sys.modules['tkinter']) # False import tkinter.ttk "ttk" in dir(sys.modules['tkinter']) # True reload import sys,imp imp.load_module('tkinter',*imp.find_module('tkinter')) im

[issue11678] Add support for Arch Linux to platform.linux_distributions()

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: If today's multi-site message is not a joke, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, Grml, and openSUSE are about to be joined into the Canterbury distribution. -- nosy: +terry.reedy stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker

[issue11699] Doc for optparse.OptionParser.get_option_group is wrong

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[issue11740] difflib html diff takes extremely long

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[issue11718] Teach IDLE's open-module command to find packages

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I strongly agree. This would make it easy to see modules of 3rd party packages loaded, for instance, in site-packages. Once pack/__init__.py is opened, selecting File/Open in its edit window displays the package directory. Dotted names work, but must be remem

[issue11726] linecache becomes specific to Python scripts in Python 3

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The help(linecache) Description is more specific as to the intention (based on traceback usage): "This is intended to read lines from modules imported -- hence if a filename is not found, it will look down the module search path for a file by that name." My

[issue11730] Setting Invalid sys.stdin in interactive mode => loop forever.

Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- stage: -> test needed title: Setting sys.stdin to an invalid input stream causes interpreter run loop forever. -> Setting Invalid sys.stdin in interactive mode => loop forever. ___ Python tracker

[issue11739] Python doesn't have a 2011 april fools joke

ysj.ray added the comment: +1. I was updating my hg clone all the time yesterday to see if there was anything interesting happened. But I was disappointed. -- nosy: +ysj.ray ___ Python tracker __

[issue11739] Python doesn't have a 2011 april fools joke

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Perhaps 2012 will be extra special. -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson resolution: -> postponed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue11739] Python doesn't have a 2011 april fools joke

ysj.ray added the comment: > Perhaps 2012 will be extra special. I'm afraid 2012 April Fool may be the last April Fool of the world. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue11740] difflib html diff takes extremely long

ysj.ray added the comment: Reproduced in 3.3 -- components: +Library (Lib) -None nosy: +ysj.ray versions: +Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue7443] test.support.unlink issue on Windows platform

Nick Coghlan added the comment: I'll throw in my 2 cents as to a possible way forward: - fix test.support.unlink in all current maintenance branches (2.7, 3.1, 3.2, default) - expose the feature to users as "shutil.rmfile" for 3.3 -- ___ Python tra

[issue11730] Setting Invalid sys.stdin in interactive mode => loop forever.

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[issue11717] conflicting definition of ssize_t in pyconfig.h

Mark Hammond added the comment: As Tim Roberts says on the python-win32 list: > Actually, on closer examination, it may be a bit difficult to sell this. The > Microsoft compilers do not define this symbol at all. The SDK defines > SSIZE_T (as a long). Nothing defines ssize_t. http://code