[issue10932] distutils.core.setup - data_files misbehaviour ?

Prashant Kumar added the comment: Certainly, a test is needed to check that ('config', ['cfg/data.cfg']) would create a file in config/data.cfg and not config/cfg/data.cfg. Though, I've added a patch 'test_command_sdist.diff' for the changes made in 'patch.diff'. -- Added file: http:

[issue11911] Interlink Python versions docs

New submission from anatoly techtonik : I want to be able to jump from latest Python 2 docs to the same page in stable Python 3 doc in one click. E.g. from http://docs.python.org/library/string.html to http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/strings.html -- assignee: docs@python components

[issue11911] Interlink Python versions docs

anatoly techtonik added the comment: sorry, to http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/string.html -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-b

[issue11907] SysLogHandler can't send long messages

Changes by Vinay Sajip : -- assignee: -> vinay.sajip nosy: +vinay.sajip versions: +Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue11907] SysLogHandler can't send long messages

Vinay Sajip added the comment: The entire part of emit() which sends to the socket is wrapped in an except: which should catch all except KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit. The except clause calls the handleError method of the handler. See http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/fa277cbd66bb/Lib/log

[issue11899] TarFile.gettarinfo modifies self.inodes

Michael Gold added the comment: No, I don't have a working implementation. (I basically reimplemented TarFile.inodes to work around this; I was using TarFile.dereference, so I already had to do the hard-linking manually.) -- nosy: +mgold ___ Pytho

[issue11911] Interlink Python versions docs

Ezio Melotti added the comment: This is a duplicated of #8040. -- nosy: +ezio.melotti resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> It would be nice if documentation pages linked to other versions of the same document __

[issue11879] TarFile.chown: should use TarInfo.uid if user lookup fails

Michael Gold added the comment: The tests passed on Linux (with Python 3.2 under fakeroot): Ran 240 tests in 9.613s OK But I don't see any tests that check the uid/gid of extracted files. -- nosy: +mgold ___ Python tracker

[issue11889] 'enumerate' 'start' parameter documentation is confusing

Éric Araujo added the comment: +1 to what David says. Terry’s patch is a good starting point; I think Raymond will commit something along its lines. -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker _

[issue11884] Argparse calls ngettext but doesn't import it

Éric Araujo added the comment: Confirmed. It’s a Debian-specific problem, please use “reportbug python3.2” to report it to them. -- nosy: +doko resolution: -> invalid stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue11382] some posix module functions unnecessarily release the GIL

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset eb7297fd5840 by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default': Issue #11382: Trivial system calls, such as dup() or pipe(), needn't http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/eb7297fd5840 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python trac

[issue11382] some posix module functions unnecessarily release the GIL

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Sorry for the delay, I had forgotten about this issue. Thank you for the patch! -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker __

[issue444582] Finding programs in PATH, adding shutil.which

Éric Araujo added the comment: Can someone remove obsolete files from the file list and post an up-to-date patch? -- keywords: -easy ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue482531] python directory not added to PATH

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- superseder: -> Windows installer should add Python and Scripts directories to the PATH environment variable ___ Python tracker ___

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

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- nosy: +eric.araujo versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing li

[issue10154] locale.normalize strips "-" from UTF-8, which fails on Mac

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- stage: -> needs patch title: locale.normalize strips "-" from UTF-8, which fails on Mac -> locale.normalize strips "-" from UTF-8, which fails on Mac versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 2.5, Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker

[issue9228] Make changes in the PATH and PATHEXT on installation

Éric Araujo added the comment: This is rejected every few months by Martin. -- nosy: +eric.araujo resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> Windows installer should add Python and Scripts directories to the PATH environment variable

[issue11340] test_distutils fails because of borked compress program

Éric Araujo added the comment: Okay. It’s not a very beautiful check, but it will do. Do you want to make a patch to disable compress if it’s a fake compress program? -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue11258] ctypes: Speed up find_library() on Linux by 500%

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 19d9f0a177de by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default': Issue #11258: Speed up ctypes.util.find_library() under Linux by a factor http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/19d9f0a177de -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python

[issue11258] ctypes: Speed up find_library() on Linux by 500%

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I committed a modified patch. Hopefully the buildbots won't break this time :) -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> pending ___ Python tracker

[issue11889] 'enumerate' 'start' parameter documentation is confusing

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I've got it from here. Thanks. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsu

[issue11907] SysLogHandler can't send long messages

Lukáš Lalinský added the comment: It seems that I was wrong, the exception is indeed not propagated to the application, but handled by the handleError() method. I was confused by seeing the traceback in my uWSGI log file. I'm unable to find a way to determine the maximum allowed syslog messag

[issue11907] SysLogHandler can't send long messages

Vinay Sajip added the comment: I've managed to get access to a FreeBSD system and done some investigation. The system is working as designed, and the error message is being printed by the handleError() method of the handler. To handle the exception differently, you either set logging.raiseExc

[issue11912] Python shouldn't use the mprotect() system call

New submission from Nils Breunese : When I try to run iotop [0] on CentOS 5.6 on a kernel with grsecurity [1] then iotop won't start because grsecurity is blocking Python because of its use of the mprotect() system call. Please see http://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/index.php/ASL_FAQ#grsec:_denied

[issue11912] Python shouldn't use the mprotect() system call

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Where have you seen that Python is calling mprotect()? There's no sign of it in the whole source tree. -- nosy: +neologix, pitrou ___ Python tracker _

[issue11912] Python shouldn't use the mprotect() system call

Nils Breunese added the comment: I got this error message in /var/log/messages when trying to start iotop: Apr 13 08:49:37 hostname kernel: grsec: From xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: denied RWX mprotect of /lib64/ld-2.5.so by /usr/bin/iotop[iotop:9836] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0, parent /bin/bash[bash:

[issue11912] Python shouldn't use the mprotect() system call

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > /usr/bin/iotop is a Python script and according to that log message > grsecurity detected a call to mprotect(). Well, does Python itself run ok? That Python script could use third-party extension modules which issue the offending mprotect() call. --

[issue11912] Python shouldn't use the mprotect() system call

Nils Breunese added the comment: I haven't had any problems with other Python applications like this, Python seems fine otherwise. I just noticed that iotop has a dependency on python-ctypes, which sounds like it could be iotop doing the mprotect() calls via ctypes. Does that make sense? ---

[issue4608] urllib.request.urlopen does not return an iterable object

Rafael Zanella added the comment: The patch that makes addinfourl() iterable was not commited due to the change to HTTP request see: msg86365 (http://bugs.python.org/issue4608#msg86365). Since urllib is protocol agnostic it should behave the same with FTP, right? So, where to fix? Change the

[issue11912] Python shouldn't use the mprotect() system call

Andreas Stührk added the comment: glibc's `dlopen()` can call `mprotect()`, which is used for loading C extensions. -- nosy: +Trundle ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue6780] startswith error message is incomplete

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Attached an updated patch for 2.7 with tests that check that UnicodeErrors are still raised and that the error message mentions 'str', 'unicode' and 'tuple'. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21762/issue6780-2.diff __

[issue11913] sdist should allow for README.rst

New submission from Ingy dot Net : When I upload modules to PyPI, distutils is clucking about a missing README, even though PyPI accepts README.rst, and I am providing that. Registering pyplay to http://pypi.python.org/pypi Server response (200): OK python setup.py sdist upload running sdist wa

[issue11914] pydoc modules/help('modules') crash in dirs with unreadable subdirs

New submission from Ben Okopnik : Long-standing problem (happens in every Python version I've tested). The usual situation is when invoking Python (and then "help('modules')") or "pydoc modules" in /tmp, but also happens when located anywhere with unreadable subdirs: ben@Jotunheim:~$ mkdir /t

[issue9269] Cannot pickle self-referencing sets

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[issue11907] SysLogHandler can't send long messages

Vinay Sajip added the comment: > I'll write a LocalSysLogHandler for me that uses the syslog module. Sure, but bear in mind that on some Linux systems at least, the syslog module has thread safety issues because the underlying C APIs are not thread-safe. (I'm not sure of the situation on Fr

[issue11907] SysLogHandler can't send long messages

Lukáš Lalinský added the comment: It will be called only from the handler, so I think it should be fine. The reason why I started using syslog was that I need to log into a single file from multiple processes, but it seems to be showing up as too much trouble. --