[issue12775] immense performance problems related to the garbage collector

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: 2.6 is in security fix only mode and the OP agrees not applicable to current -- nosy: +terry.reedy resolution: -> out of date status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker __

[issue12753] \N{...} neglects formal aliases and named sequences from Unicode charnames namespace

Tom Christiansen added the comment: "Terry J. Reedy" wrote on Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:50:58 -: > My current opinion is that adding the aliases might be done in current > releases. It certainly would serve the any user who does not know to > misspell 'FTHORA' as 'FHTORA' for just one of the

[issue12753] \N{...} neglects formal aliases and named sequences from Unicode charnames namespace

Matthew Barnett added the comment: For the "Line_Break" property, one of the possible values is "Inseparable", with 2 permitted aliases, the shorter "IN" (which is reasonable) and "Inseperable" (ouch!). -- ___ Python tracker

[issue12753] \N{...} neglects formal aliases and named sequences from Unicode charnames namespace

Tom Christiansen added the comment: Matthew Barnett wrote on Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:36:45 -: > For the "Line_Break" property, one of the possible values is > "Inseparable", with 2 permitted aliases, the shorter "IN" (which > is reasonable) and "Inseperable" (ouch!). Yeahy, I've shaken m

[issue12678] test_packaging and test_distutils failures under Windows

Jeremy Kloth added the comment: The failure was due to the sdist command having different default formats for each platform (i.e., POSIX: gztar, Win32: zip). Patch attached. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +jkloth Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file22952/test_sdist.diff ___

[issue12788] test_email fails with -R

New submission from Antoine Pitrou : $ ./python -m test -R 3:2 test_email [1/1] test_email beginning 5 repetitions 12345 Warning -- sys.path was modified by test_email test test_email failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/antoine/cpython/default/Lib/test/test_email/test_polic

[issue12789] re.Scanner don't support more then 2 groups on regex

New submission from Ângelo Otávio Nuffer Nunes : When I use the scanner object in re module, I can create groups on regex and associate this to a method... In [17]: re.Scanner([(r"(\w)(\w)\w", foo)]) Out[17]: But I tryed 3 groups and it raises "invalid SRE code", but I think my regex is no

[issue12790] doctest.testmod does not run tests in functools.partial functions

New submission from Steven D'Aprano : Functions with docstrings which were created with partial are not run by doctest.testmod(). See the test script, which prints: Expected 1 failure from 2 tests, but got 0 from 0. -- files: partial_doctest.py messages: 142512 nosy: stevenjd priority

[issue12765] test_packaging failure under Snow Leopard

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[issue12713] argparse: allow abbreviation of sub commands by users

Ned Deily added the comment: http://docs.python.org/devguide/patch.html -- nosy: +ned.deily ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-li

[issue11397] os.path.realpath() may produce incorrect results

Martin Panter added the comment: Another infinite loop that isn't caught in Python 3.2.1: With the symbolic link link => link/inside a readlink("link") call will keep looping. Anyhow, the proposed solution in issue11397_py32_2.patch does not account for paths with multiple independent refe

[issue12791] Yield" leaks exception being handled as garbage

New submission from Martin Panter : See attached "leaky_generator.py" demo. Python doesn't appear to delete the exception variable if an exception is thrown back into it (via "throw", "close" or by deleting it). The result is a reference cycle that needs garbage collecting. This even happens w

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