[issue11171] Python 2.7.1 does not start when "./configure" is used with "--prefix" != "--exec-prefix"

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 6542e4028ed2 by Éric Araujo in branch '3.2': As it turns out, this bug was already in the tracker: #11171 http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6542e4028ed2 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue10526] Minor typo in What's New in Python 2.7

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset c52bac35b498 by Éric Araujo in branch 'default': Merge fixes for #10526, #10359, #11254, #9100 and the bug without number http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c52bac35b498 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tra

[issue10536] Enhancements to gettext docs

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset e48e6e9bdef6 by Éric Araujo in branch '3.2': Fix a typo and a broken link (part of #10536). http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e48e6e9bdef6 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue9100] test_sysconfig fails (test_user_similar)

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 1f8aef75558c by Éric Araujo in branch '3.2': Fix test_sysconfig when prefix != exec-prefix (#9100). http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1f8aef75558c -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue13114] check -r fails with non-ASCII unicode long_description

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset e16792003597 by Éric Araujo in branch '3.2': Add tests for Unicode handling in distutils’ check and register (#13114) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e16792003597 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue11254] distutils doesn't byte-compile .py files to __pycache__ during installation

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 27a36b05caed by Éric Araujo in branch '3.2': Fix distutils byte-compilation to comply with PEP 3147 (#11254). http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/27a36b05caed New changeset 651e84363001 by Éric Araujo in branch '3.2': Fix docstring of distutils.util.b

[issue9100] test_sysconfig fails (test_user_similar)

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 27045f93e4cb by Éric Araujo in branch '2.7': Fix test_sysconfig when prefix != exec-prefix (#9100). http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/27045f93e4cb -- ___ Python tracker

[issue10536] Enhancements to gettext docs

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 1e48a2b484a3 by Éric Araujo in branch '2.7': Fix a typo and a broken link (part of #10536). http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1e48a2b484a3 -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue13114] check -r fails with non-ASCII unicode long_description

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 8d837bd8148a by Éric Araujo in branch '2.7': Fix distutils’ check and register Unicode handling (#13114). http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/8d837bd8148a -- ___ Python tracker

[issue10359] ISO C cleanup

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 134b68cae802 by Éric Araujo in branch '2.7': Make C code in one distutils test comply with ISO C (#10359). http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/134b68cae802 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue11171] Python 2.7.1 does not start when "./configure" is used with "--prefix" != "--exec-prefix"

Éric Araujo added the comment: > My question was: does distutils.sysconfig._get_makefile_filename have > the same bug as the one that was fixed in sysconfig._get_makefile_filename? It does, I fixed it in 9afd3d54c3cb. -- stage: patch review -> committed/rejected __

[issue11254] distutils doesn't byte-compile .py files to __pycache__ during installation

Éric Araujo added the comment: Finally fixed. I fail at boolean logic; removing the “dance around imp.cache_from_source that seemed unnecessary” as I called it was a mistake, we have to do it, so I restored that part of your original patch. I’m sorry I took so long to fix this, it was strai

[issue9100] test_sysconfig fails (test_user_similar)

Éric Araujo added the comment: Now fixed. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue13114] check -r fails with non-ASCII unicode long_description

Éric Araujo added the comment: Fixed, thanks again! -- resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue13086] Update howto/cporting.rst so it talks about Python 3 instead of 3.0

Éric Araujo added the comment: +1 ;) -- nosy: +eric.araujo title: Update howto/cporting.rst so it talks about 3.x instead of 3.0 -> Update howto/cporting.rst so it talks about Python 3 instead of 3.0 ___ Python tracker

[issue6983] Add specific get_platform() for freebsd

Éric Araujo added the comment: This patch was a short-term fix. Distutils is closed to anything but bug fixes and distutils2 can get a better fix. Objections if I close this? -- components: +Distutils -Distutils2, Library (Lib) versions: -Python 3.2

[issue12427] packaging register fails because "POST data should be bytes"

Éric Araujo added the comment: Can’t reproduce. -- assignee: tarek -> eric.araujo resolution: -> out of date stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue12405] packaging does not record/remove directories it creates

Éric Araujo added the comment: > IMO in this situation, a and b were created by the installation and so > should be removed, unless they contain files not added during installation. I share that opinion. So, the first step would be to record created directories. We could extend PEP 376 and w

[issue13123] bdist_wininst uninstaller does not remove pycache directories

Paul Moore added the comment: On 9 October 2011 04:21, Éric Araujo wrote: > > Éric Araujo added the comment: > > I don’t have a Windows VM set up yet, but I can try to write a patch in the > coming weeks and ask you to test it.  Deal? No problem there! -- __

[issue6983] Add specific get_platform() for freebsd

Stef Walter added the comment: Shrug. I guess you can close it. This is still a bothersome issue, but we've taken to patching every version of python downstream before deploying them. All for a simple three line patch. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue12386] packaging fails in install_distinfo when writing RESOURCES

Éric Araujo added the comment: I’d like to fix this. How can I reproduce the bug? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mai

[issue1109658] distutils dry-run breaks when attempting to bytecompile

Éric Araujo added the comment: [Martin] > Looking at the code, I find it unfortunate that it uses os.path.exists, > causing a stat call, and then does another stat call to find the time stamp. Are you noting the inefficiency of doing two stat calls instead of one, or saying that it should make

[issue7330] PyUnicode_FromFormat: implement width and precision for %s, %S, %R, %V, %U, %A

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[issue13055] Distutils tries to handle null versions but fails

Éric Araujo added the comment: The fact that 1) StrictVersion and LooseVersion have None as default argument for vstring in __init__ 2) __init__ does not raise an exception if vstring is not given makes me think that the intended behavior is that the vstring argument is optional. Making it r

[issue6164] [AIX] Patch to correct the AIX C/C++ linker argument used for 'runtime_library_dirs'

Roumen Petrov added the comment: hmm, and commit that close issue is ? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Uns

[issue13074] Improve documentation of locale encoding functions

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[issue6164] [AIX] Patch to correct the AIX C/C++ linker argument used for 'runtime_library_dirs'

Éric Araujo added the comment: See above: “done in r73490” and “merged in 3.2 in r73647”. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-li

[issue6164] [AIX] Patch to correct the AIX C/C++ linker argument used for 'runtime_library_dirs'

Roumen Petrov added the comment: see above "and restore of distutils in trunk abandon it." -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-l

[issue6164] [AIX] Patch to correct the AIX C/C++ linker argument used for 'runtime_library_dirs'

Éric Araujo added the comment: This was supposed to be added to 3.1 but we missed it. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list m

[issue13030] Be more generic when identifying the Windows main dir in installation doc

Éric Araujo added the comment: > The table headings 'Standard installation location' (of what?) Of software projects using distutils. > and 'Default value' (for what program?) For a CPython without changes to the default build configuration. > both seem a bit ambiguous, or rather they seem rev

[issue13094] Need Programming FAQ entry for the behavior of closures

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[issue6164] [AIX] Patch to correct the AIX C/C++ linker argument used for 'runtime_library_dirs'

Roumen Petrov added the comment: For protocol blibpath is not in any release - get download and check content . Did you apply a different fix ? -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue7475] codecs missing: base64 bz2 hex zlib hex_codec ...

Éric Araujo added the comment: So. This was reverted before 3.2 was out, right? What is the status for 3.3? -- components: -2to3 (2.x to 3.0 conversion tool), Documentation ___ Python tracker ___

[issue12386] packaging fails in install_distinfo when writing RESOURCES

Vinay Sajip added the comment: I got the problem when installing a package with resources using pysetup3. Here's the relevant part of the console session: (venv) vinay@eta-natty:~/projects$ pysetup3 install nemo Installing from source directory: /home/vinay/projects/nemo running install_dist r

[issue6164] [AIX] Patch to correct the AIX C/C++ linker argument used for 'runtime_library_dirs'

Éric Araujo added the comment: Ah, I thought it was missing only in 3.1. I will reapply the patch. -- assignee: tarek -> eric.araujo components: +Distutils2 nosy: +alexis resolution: fixed -> stage: committed/rejected -> patch review status: closed -> open versions: +3rd party, Python

[issue12405] packaging does not record/remove directories it creates

Vinay Sajip added the comment: > I share that opinion.  So, the first step would be to record created > directories.  We could extend PEP 376 and write entries without hash nor > length > record for directories in RECORD, or use another file in the dist-info dir. IMO using RECORD would be p

[issue13133] FD leaks in ZipFile.read(), ZipFile.extract() and also using explicit arc_member.close()

Valery Khamenya added the comment: Amaury, I followed your advice. All relevant changes of 3.2 are backported via the patch attached. P.S. now I can install Twisted using pypy too. "pypy setup.py install" works fine for me. -- keywords: +patch status: pending -> open Added file: http

[issue13134] speed up finding of one-character strings

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: [Posted the reply to the right ticket; see issue13136 for the original post to the wrong ticket] Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > >> Before going further with this, I'd suggest you have a look at your >> compiler settings. >

[issue12779] Update packaging documentation

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[issue13136] speed-up conversion between unicode widths

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Antoine Pitrou wrote: > >> I tested using memchr() when writing those "naive" loops. > > memchr() is mentioned in another issue, #13134. Looks like I posted the comment to the wrong ticket. -- ___ Python track

[issue13053] Add Capsule migration documentation to "cporting"

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset d0af22b65889 by Larry Hastings in branch '2.7': Issue #13053: Added section on migrating from CObject to Capsule http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d0af22b65889 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

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

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Here is a new patch that stores the names of aliases and named sequences in the Private Use Area. To summarize a bit, this is what we want: | 6.0.0 | 3.2.0 | +---+---+ \N{...} | A | - | .name | - | - | .lookup | A,NS |

[issue13055] Distutils tries to handle null versions but fails

Ben Gamari added the comment: The bug was encountered while trying to install a package. As it turns out, a dependency was incorrectly installed, resulting in a null version being passed around which quickly caused a crash in setup.py. While this is definitely not a normal circumstance, the f

[issue11457] os.stat(): add new fields to get timestamps as Decimal objects with nanosecond resolution

Larry Hastings added the comment: Can I get some thoughts / votes on whether to a) check in with the current performance regression, or b) do the work to make it lazy-created? -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue13096] ctypes: segfault with large POINTER type names

Brian Brazil added the comment: The problem is around line 1734 of callproc.c in tip: } else if (PyType_Check(cls)) { typ = (PyTypeObject *)cls; buf = alloca(strlen(typ->tp_name) + 3 + 1); sprintf(buf, "LP_%s", typ->tp_name); <-- segfault is here Replacing the all

[issue13096] ctypes: segfault with large POINTER type names

Meador Inge added the comment: Yup, it is the 'alloca' call. This issue and issue13097 are both 'alloca' related as mentioned in issue12881. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue13097] ctypes: segfault with large number of callback arguments

Meador Inge added the comment: As mentioned in issue12881, this issue is a result of an unbounded 'alloca' call that trashes the stack. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue13050] RLock support the context manager protocol but this is not documented

New submission from Brian Brazil : This is already documented: http://docs.python.org/library/threading.html#using-locks-conditions-and-semaphores-in-the-with-statement -- nosy: +bbrazil ___ Python tracker ___

[issue8668] Packaging: add a 'develop' command

higery added the comment: >> higery, can you give us a status update? Do you have the time to ... Sorry to reply to you so late, I will read carefully these reviews asap and try to make an updated patch before 12th. -- ___ Python tracker

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

Tom Christiansen added the comment: Ezio Melotti wrote on Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:21:00 -: > Here is a new patch that stores the names of aliases and named > sequences in the Private Use Area. Looks good! Thanks! --tom -- title: \N{...} neglects formal aliases and named sequenc

[issue11457] os.stat(): add new fields to get timestamps as Decimal objects with nanosecond resolution

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: [Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis] > I suggest to have low-level, POSIX-compatible, > (int, int)-based interface in os module and add > high-level, decimal.Decimal-based interface in > shutil module. I agree that this is the cleanest approach. Ideally,

[issue13062] Introspection generator and function closure state

Meador Inge added the comment: Here is an updated patch with error handling. One other thought is that 'getclosure' should be called something like 'getclosureenv' since technically a closure is a function plus its environment and our implementation only returns the environment. But that ma

[issue11457] os.stat(): add new fields to get timestamps as Decimal objects with nanosecond resolution

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[issue12436] Missing items in installation/setup instructions

Mike Hoy added the comment: Here is what I have so far: > For Windows users, added a section about how to use a terminal How to use a terminal Open a command prompt: * On Windows Vista or Windows 7: click on the Start menu (the Windows logo in the lower left of the screen), type cmd into th

[issue12923] test_urllib fails in refleak mode

Brian Brazil added the comment: This appears to fail every 9th, 19th, 29th, etc. repetition of the test. This seems to be something to do with the reference counting/close logic of the FakeSocket but I haven't managed to figure out what. -- nosy: +bbrazil ___

[issue13086] Update howto/cporting.rst so it talks about Python 3 instead of 3.0

Larry Hastings added the comment: Attached is my first revision patch. I did some other editing for clarity / 80 columns, though I can back those out from this patch (and put in another) if that's best. Patch is against the 2.7 branch; once this goes in I'll port all my recent cporting.rst c

[issue13050] RLock support the context manager protocol but this is not documented

R. David Murray added the comment: Hmm. But what I did was look up the RLock section of the manual to answer the question "does this support the context manager protocol", and the answer appeared to be no. In a reference manual I would expect all the important features of an object to be de

[issue13086] Update howto/cporting.rst so it talks about Python 3 instead of 3.0

Ezio Melotti added the comment: > Attached is my first revision patch. LGTM > I did some other editing for clarity / 80 columns, though I can back > those out from this patch (and put in another) if that's best. That's fine with me, and while you are at it, you could fix this too when you c

[issue12923] test_urllib fails in refleak mode

Brian Brazil added the comment: The actual problem is that FancyURLOpener self.tries isn't being reset if the protocol is file:// I've attached a patch that'll help improve the test at least. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23358/12923-unittest-improvement.p

[issue12923] test_urllib fails in refleak mode

Brian Brazil added the comment: Here's a path to fix the problem. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23359/12923-maxtries-reset.patch ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue3902] Packages containing only extension modules have to contain __init__.py

Mike Hoy added the comment: Submitted v2 of my patch after reading Éric's review of my first. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23360/apiref-setupscript-v2.diff ___ Python tracker __

[issue13140] ThreadingMixIn.daemon_threads is not honored when parent is daemon

New submission from Florent Xicluna : I use the socketserver.ThreadingMixIn to create a TCPServer. I set the server thread as daemon (t.daemon=True). But I want the client threads to run as non-daemon. According to the documentation, the "daemon_threads" class attribute should do the trick. Bu

[issue13141] get rid of old threading API in the examples

New submission from Florent Xicluna : http://docs.python.org/dev/library/socketserver.html#asynchronous-mixins Still there's getName or setDaemon in some example. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 145274 nosy: docs@python, flox priority: low severity: normal s

[issue13139] multiprocessing.map skips finally blocks

Florent Xicluna added the comment: Same behavior on Python 3.2 with this code: from multiprocessing import Pool from time import sleep def Process(x): try: print(x) sleep(.6-x/10.) raise Exception('Exception: %d' % x) finally: print('Finally: %d' % x)

[issue13138] ElementTree's Element.iter() lacks versionadded

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 0f0a5d1c7a93 by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7': #13138: add missing versionadded. Patch by Andreas Stührk. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0f0a5d1c7a93 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue13138] ElementTree's Element.iter() lacks versionadded

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 66d01b252b9a by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2': #13138: add missing versionadded. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/66d01b252b9a New changeset 2580e642e2ee by Ezio Melotti in branch 'default': #13138: merge with 3.2. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2

[issue13138] ElementTree's Element.iter() lacks versionadded

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Fixed, thanks for the report and the patch! -- assignee: docs@python -> ezio.melotti nosy: +ezio.melotti resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue13126] find() slower than rfind()

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[issue13119] Newline for print() is \n on Windows, and not \r\n as expected

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[issue13134] speed up finding of one-character strings

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > >> Before going further with this, I'd suggest you have a look at your > >> compiler settings. > > > > They are set by the configure script: > > > > gcc -pthread -c -Wno-unused-result -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall > > -Wstrict-prototypes-I. -I./Include

[issue13139] multiprocessing.map skips finally blocks

Daniel Wagner-Hall added the comment: Explanation of behaviour at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7700929/python-multiprocessing-map-if-one-thread-raises-an-exception-why-arent-other tl;dr SIGTERM kills subprocesses and finally blocks aren't called. I still consider this a bug, though ---

[issue10444] A mechanism is needed to override waiting for Python threads to finish

Florent Xicluna added the comment: Antoine wrote: > You could instead enumerate() all threads and set their daemon flag > to False, before shutting down the interpreter. If it is intended to work this way, it should be mentioned in the documentation. Currently the documentation for "Thread.dae

[issue13127] xml.dom.Attr.name is not labeled as read-only

Ezio Melotti added the comment: localName is defined with defproperty() in Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py:464 and looking at the definition of defproperty() in Lib/xml/dom/minicompat.py:97 I think this is supposed to raise an xml.dom.NoModificationAllowedErr exception when someone tries to write on

[issue11813] inspect.getattr_static doesn't get module attributes

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[issue13142] Add support for other HTTP methods in urllib.request

New submission from Patrick Westerhoff : Hey, I would like to request the support of other HTTP methods (other than GET and POST) in urllib.request. While it’s actually simple enough to override the Request class to add such a possibility, I think it is far too simple to leave it out of the s

[issue13142] Add support for other HTTP methods in urllib.request

Ezio Melotti added the comment: This is a duplicate of #1673007, and it also has the same patch you wrote. -- nosy: +ezio.melotti resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> urllib2 requests history + HEAD support versions: -Python 3.2

[issue13142] Add support for other HTTP methods in urllib.request

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[issue1673007] urllib2 requests history + HEAD support

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[issue12436] Missing items in installation/setup instructions

Ezio Melotti added the comment: > Open a command prompt: Another alternative is win+r -> type 'cmd' -> hit enter. This should work on all the Windows versions. > * cd C:\ - Puts you in the root directory of the C drive. > * cd Python32 - Puts you in the directory where Python 3.2 is installed

[issue13107] Text width in optparse.py can become negative

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[issue13075] PEP-0001 contains dead links

Ezio Melotti added the comment: This has been fixed in http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/398596b3 Thanks for the report and the patch! -- resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue11489] json.dumps not parsable by json.loads (on Linux only)

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[issue11489] json.dumps not parsable by json.loads (on Linux only)

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[issue11457] os.stat(): add new fields to get timestamps as Decimal objects with nanosecond resolution

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: One other thought: it would be useful to research how nanosecond-resolution timestamps are going to be supported in other languages. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue12602] Missing cross-references in Doc/using

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[issue5322] Python 2.6 object.__new__ argument calling autodetection faulty

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[issue13143] os.path.islink documentation is ambiguous

New submission from Garen : The documentation for os.path.islink says: "Return True if path refers to a directory entry that is a symbolic link. Always False if symbolic links are not supported." But what does "supported" mean? "Supported" by what? Supported by the OS, or supported by the P