[issue16814] use --directory option of make in describing how to build the docs

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 5f24a77e7beb by Chris Jerdonek in branch 'default': Issue #16814: add "make -C Doc html" short-cut to documentation instructions. http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/5f24a77e7beb -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Py

[issue16814] use --directory option of make in describing how to build the docs

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: I went ahead and committed this if that's okay. I wasn't sensing any strong objection but -0 from some and +1 or +0 from others. To compensate for the extra six words, I went ahead and first made the current language more concise here: http://hg.python.org/

[issue16899] Add support for C99 complex type (_Complex) as ctypes.c_complex

Mark Dickinson added the comment: > But I'm unsure is this is expected behavior or luck, and on some > platform this code will not work due to different complex numbers > internal representation. What platform? Isn't the complex number representation standard? E.g., C99 6.2.5p13 says: "Each c

[issue16929] poll()/epoll() are not thread-safe

New submission from Charles-François Natali: After optimizing epoll() to use a per-instance buffer like poll() does (http://bugs.python.org/issue16876), I realized that it wasn't thread-safe, and can result in crashes: """ ./python /tmp/test.py *** glibc detected *** ./python: free(): corrupte

[issue16928] spurious Cron Daemon e-mails to d...@dinsdale.python.org

Georg Brandl added the comment: This is a known issue in older Sphinx versions. I've updated the version used to build the devguide now; this should fix it. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue16928] spurious Cron Daemon e-mails to d...@dinsdale.python.org

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[issue16930] mention limitations and/or alternatives to hg graft

New submission from Chris Jerdonek: In various places, the devguide recommends `hg graft`, but it appears it might not be possible to use on some systems or in certain situations. For example, when I tried grafting a trivial change from 2.7 to 3.2 on Mac OS X, I got the following fatal error:

[issue16076] xml.etree.ElementTree.Element is no longer pickleable

Ezio Melotti added the comment: This is what I found out. I used an easily copy/pastable one-liner that creates 3 variables: e (no children), e2 (3 children), e3 (5 children). Original leaky code (test_xml_etree_c leaked [56, 56] references, sum=112): >>> from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET

[issue16914] timestamping in smtplib.py to help troubleshoot server timeouts/delays

gac added the comment: Patch to add the same functionality to Python 2.7, if anyone's interested in that also. -- versions: +Python 2.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file28686/smtplib.py.27.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue16929] poll()/epoll() are not thread-safe

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[issue16929] poll()/epoll() are not thread-safe

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[issue16930] mention limitations and/or alternatives to hg graft

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[issue16931] mention work-around to create diffs in default/non-git mode

New submission from Chris Jerdonek: This issue is to mention in the devguide how to create diffs with the changeset number when --git is configured on. Perhaps this can be done via a FAQ like: "How can I get Rietveld to work with a 2.7 patch?" Background: Currently, the devguide recommends co

[issue16929] poll()/epoll() are not thread-safe

Charles-François Natali added the comment: OK, I'll close as duplicate. -- dependencies: -select.poll is not thread safe resolution: -> duplicate superseder: -> select.poll is not thread safe ___ Python tracker

[issue8865] select.poll is not thread safe

Charles-François Natali added the comment: This patch should be updated to also fix epoll(). Also, is it right to raise an exception in case of concurrent invocation? Here's a simple script that crashes systematically on my Linux box. -- nosy: +neologix Added file: http://bugs.python.o

[issue16929] poll()/epoll() are not thread-safe

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[issue13963] dev guide has no mention of mechanics of patch review

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: I created issue 16931 to document a way to use Rietveld for 2.7 patches, while still keeping the Mercurial configuration we advise. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue8865] select.poll is not thread safe

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > Also, is it right to raise an exception in case of concurrent invocation? It is right for poll() because it was not concurrently usable in previous versions in any case. For epoll() it is an another issue. -- __

[issue16921] Docs of subprocess.CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE are wrong

Tim Golden added the comment: This code is no longer present in subprocess.py now that issue14470 has been applied. -- nosy: +brian.curtin, tim.golden resolution: -> out of date stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue11159] Sax parser crashes if given unicode file name

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[issue16921] Docs of subprocess.CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE are wrong

Tim Golden added the comment: Reopening because there is in fact a doc issue reamining. -- assignee: -> tim.golden resolution: out of date -> stage: committed/rejected -> status: closed -> open ___ Python tracker

[issue16921] Docs of subprocess.CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE are wrong

Tim Golden added the comment: I can't push from work; the (trivial) doc patch is attached. If no-one gets to it, I'll push from home this evening. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file28688/doc.diff ___ Python tracker

[issue16748] Make CPython test package discoverable

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: As suggested in the previous comment, here is simple code to find candidates for test duplication (TestCase subclasses subclassing other TestCase classes): def find_dupes(mod): objects = [getattr(mod, name) for name in sorted(dir(mod))] classes = [obj f

[issue15539] Fixing Tools/scripts/pindent.py

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset f783db4a58ba by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '2.7': Issue #15539: Fix a number of bugs in Tools/scripts/pindent.py. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f783db4a58ba New changeset 9df6b707aef9 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.2': Issue #15539: Fix a numbe

[issue15539] Fixing Tools/scripts/pindent.py

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[issue16748] Make CPython test package discoverable

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Here is a dirty patch which hacks unittest to search possible test overriding. Just apply the patch and run regression tests. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file28689/checkTestOverriding.diff ___ Python trac

[issue16748] Make CPython test package discoverable

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[issue16398] deque.rotate() could be much faster

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: It could be made a bit faster, but it would complicate the code for very little benefit. IMO, this isn't worth it. -- priority: normal -> low ___ Python tracker __

[issue16613] ChainMap.new_child could use improvement

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[issue16076] xml.etree.ElementTree.Element is no longer pickleable

Daniel Shahaf added the comment: Ezio Melotti wrote on Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 08:44:43 +: > >>> ### one ref leaked for every child in __setstate__: > >>> e2.__setstate__(p2) > [76810 refs] > >>> e2.__setstate__(p2) > [76813 refs] > >>> e2.__setstate__(p2) > [76816 refs] > > I'm not working on

[issue16886] Doctests in test_dictcomp depend on dict order

Ezio Melotti added the comment: I left a review on Rietveld. Frank, once the comments have been addressed and the patch approved, do you want to commit it on all the 4 branches yourself? If you prefer I can take care of it. -- nosy: +ezio.melotti type: -> behavior versions: +Python 2.7

[issue15539] Fixing Tools/scripts/pindent.py

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Some buildbots are failing: http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Windows7%20SP1%202.7/builds/341/steps/test/logs/stdio http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Windows7%20SP1%203.x/builds/1263/steps/test/logs/stdio -- __

[issue16932] urlparse fails at parsing "www.python.org:80/"

New submission from Sandro Tosi: Hello, as reported at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/docs/2013-January/012375.html urlparse fails to parse URLs without a schema and with a url path, as opposed to what's documented at http://docs.python.org/2/library/urlparse.html?highlight=urlparse#urlparse

[issue16613] ChainMap.new_child could use improvement

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Can you write-up a patch with tests and a doc change? -- stage: -> needs patch ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue16932] urlparse fails at parsing "www.python.org:80/"

Sandro Tosi added the comment: Adding Senthil as per expert list -- nosy: +orsenthil ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list maili

[issue16915] mode of socket.makefile is more limited than documentation suggests

Federico Reghenzani added the comment: I think that 't' option can be added to conform with open() built-in function. The other options I don't think it's possible to use with sockets. Adding the 't' doesn't change the makefile() behavior. I added also a clarification in documentation. --

[issue14102] argparse: add ability to create a man page

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[issue16613] ChainMap.new_child could use improvement

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[issue16613] ChainMap.new_child could use improvement

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[issue16613] ChainMap.new_child could use improvement

Vinay Sajip added the comment: > Can you write-up a patch with tests and a doc change? Done. -- stage: needs patch -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue16917] Misleading missing parenthesis syntax error

Dražen Lučanin added the comment: Yes, I see your point. Well, for now I am voting for issue1634034 to get some sort of resolution, as Serhiy mentioned, as it might help this scenario as well. Cheers! On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Ezio Melotti wrote: > > Ezio Melotti added the comment: > >

[issue15539] Fixing Tools/scripts/pindent.py

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Here is a patch which should fix creating a backup on Windows. Please test it. If test_tools passes on Windows then I'll commit the patch, in contrary case I'll just skip checking of backup on Windows. -- stage: committed/rejected -> patch review sta

[issue1634034] Show "expected" token on syntax error

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: I agree, the main problem is in the fact that "expected token" is not always singular. And even "most expected token" is a little subjective. The better solution will be to expect several possible tokens. This requires some parser modification. -- s

[issue16921] Docs of subprocess.CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE are wrong

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 1aac333f320a by Tim Golden in branch 'default': #16921 Since Win9x is no longer supported, CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE is http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1aac333f320a -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue16445] SEGFAULT when deleting Exception.message

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[issue16933] argparse: remove magic from examples

New submission from Thomas Guettler: The current argparse documentation is not easy to read people new to python. http://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html#choices {{{ current: parser.add_argument('foo', choices='abc') }}} Please make this more explicit: {{{ better: parser.add_argument(

[issue16934] qsort doesn't work for double arrays

New submission from Stephane Poirier: qsort doesn't sort arrays that are defined with double elements. You can find attached a script that shows this function working well for int (as described in the ctypes documentation). If int array is replaced by double array qsort doesn't sort any more. E

[issue16934] qsort doesn't work for double arrays

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[issue16935] unittest should understand SkipTest at import time during test discovery

New submission from Brett Cannon: For test discovery to work where a dependent module is optional, you end up needing to do something like what is done in http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/15ddd683c321: -crypt = support.import_module('crypt') +def setUpModule(): +# this import will raise un

[issue16935] unittest should understand SkipTest at import time during test discovery

Michael Foord added the comment: Agreed and it should be easy to implement. -- keywords: +gsoc ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-

[issue16934] qsort doesn't work for double arrays

Mark Dickinson added the comment: What happens if you replace the line: CMPFUNC = CFUNCTYPE(c_double, POINTER(c_double), POINTER(c_double)) in your example code with CMPFUNC = CFUNCTYPE(c_int, POINTER(c_double), POINTER(c_double)) ? -- nosy: +mark.dickinson _

[issue16829] IDLE on POSIX can't print filenames with spaces

Ramchandra Apte added the comment: Going to attach a patch using subprocess in a few minutes... -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-b

[issue16934] qsort doesn't work for double arrays

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Closing as invalid: the issue is not in Python but with the CMPFUNC line. Your py_cmp_func should return an integer rather than a float to be compatible with libc.qsort. -- resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed _

[issue8145] Documentation about sqlite3 isolation_level

R. David Murray added the comment: I believe this patch is correct in essence, but I think it would be helpful to clarify the explanation of what autocommit mode is. I'll work on an updated patch. It could also be considered a bug that the standard context manager does not support autocommit

[issue16935] unittest should understand SkipTest at import time during test discovery

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[issue16936] Documentation for stat.S_IFMT inconsistent

New submission from Jens Lechtenboerger: The documentation for the stat module is inconsistent (Doc/library/stat.rst, at least for Python 2.7.2 and 3.3.0): It talks about a function stat.S_IFMT() and a bit mask stat.S_IFMT. Only the former does exist. Besides, it states: "For complete details ab

[issue16829] IDLE on POSIX can't print filenames with spaces

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: It is not so easy. The problem is that we have to determine the print command by configuration line. A user may wish to change these settings, and some users already changed them. The patch should not break them. For backward compatibility we also have to ru

[issue1634034] Show "expected" token on syntax error

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Hmm, "expected" attribute is set when there is only one possible expected token in PyParser_AddToken(). I don't understand why error messages are so misleading for "def f(*23):" (here not only ')', but a name possible). -- __

[issue16829] IDLE on POSIX can't print filenames with spaces

Ramchandra Apte added the comment: @Serhiy Storchaka I don't think anybody edits that line anyway. IMHO, a warning about this change should be enough. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue3170] test_pydoc has no way to regenerate pristine data

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[issue10544] yield expression inside generator expression does nothing

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[issue9716] The inittab modules cannot be packages

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[issue10544] yield expression inside generator expression does nothing

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[issue16829] IDLE on POSIX can't print filenames with spaces

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: At least one who want print filenames on non-default printer must edit that line. In any case we can't break this in a bugfix release. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue16624] subprocess.check_output should allow specifying stdin as a string

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Zack, can you please resend your agreement by email? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-lis

[issue3583] test_urllibnet.test_bad_address() fails when using OpenDNS

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset acce13a6e728 by Brett Cannon in branch 'default': Issue #3583: mention that testing whether a bad address not triggering http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/acce13a6e728 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python track

[issue3583] test_urllibnet.test_bad_address() fails when using OpenDNS

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[issue12004] PyZipFile.writepy gives internal error on syntax errors

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[issue8915] Use locale.nl_langinfo in _strptime

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[issue2267] datetime.datetime operator methods are not subclass-friendly

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[issue16814] use --directory option of make in describing how to build the docs

Éric Araujo added the comment: LGTM. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/

[issue16874] setup.py upload option repeated in docs

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[issue16893] Create IDLE help.txt from Doc/library/idle.rst

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[issue13934] sqlite3 test typo

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the report and patches! -- resolution: -> fixed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue10895] Private stdlib API: getopt, getpass, glob, gzip, genericpath, gettext

Brett Cannon added the comment: While I appreciate the effort, SilentGhost, I'm going to make a call and say Raymond is right; this isn't worth the code breakage. While all new code should make sure to use the underscore prefix, proactively adding it to pre-existing code just isn't worth the r

[issue10894] Making stdlib APIs private

Brett Cannon added the comment: So I just closed the dependency on this issue as I figured the potential code breakage wasn't worth this (plus the referenced TODO item from the devguide is gone and was never turned into a proper task). Now the question becomes do the guidelines SilentGhost wro

[issue16935] unittest should understand SkipTest at import time during test discovery

Éric Araujo added the comment: FTR there is already an alternative to setupmodule: try: import module except ImportError: module = None @unittest.skipUnless(module, 'requires module') class ModuleTests(unittest.TestCase): pass This idiom is more lines than support.import_module, b

[issue969718] BASECFLAGS are not passed to module build line

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[issue10541] regrtest.py -T broken

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[issue10991] trace fails when test imported a temporary file

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[issue10708] Misc/porting should be folded into the development FAQ or the devguide

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[issue16932] urlparse fails at parsing "www.python.org:80/"

Georg Brandl added the comment: This is not a bug: urlparse is there to parse URLs, and URLs start with an URL scheme such as "http:". There is no way for a generic URL parser to know that "python.org:80/" is supposed to be "http://python.org:80/";. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution:

[issue16933] argparse: remove magic from examples

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[issue11441] compile() raises SystemError if called from except clause

Brett Cannon added the comment: This no longer seems to be a problem in Python 3.2, 3.3, or 3.4. -- resolution: -> out of date status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue10401] Globals / builtins cache

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[issue10399] AST Optimization: inlining of function calls

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[issue11276] 2to3: imports fixer doesn't update references to modules specified without attributes

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[issue16879] distutils.command.config uses fragile constant temporary file name

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the report. Did you find this by looking at the code or while using distutils? In other words, if this is just a theoretical issue / code quality problem, it won’t be changed. (distutils is not improved anymore.) -- versions: +Python 3.4 -Py

[issue11844] Update json to upstream simplejson latest release

Brett Cannon added the comment: What is the status of this, Sandro? Are we still out of sync? If so and it's a licensing issue I can get legal clarification for whatever we need. -- status: open -> pending ___ Python tracker

[issue16916] The Extended Iterable Unpacking (PEP-3132) for byte strings doesn't match the specification

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[issue16829] IDLE on POSIX can't print filenames with spaces

Roger Serwy added the comment: @Serhiy IDLE places its default configuration files within the standard library. Any upgrade of Python can modify the contents of the standard library. Even if we do *nothing* to change Lib/idlelib/config-main.def, the next upgrade would overwrite an end users c

[issue16893] Create IDLE help.txt from Doc/library/idle.rst

Andrew Svetlov added the comment: I like the proposition in general, but files should be synchronized first. -- nosy: +asvetlov ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue16932] urlparse fails at parsing "www.python.org:80/"

Sandro Tosi added the comment: The documentation reports this example: >>> urlparse('www.cwi.nl:80/%7Eguido/Python.html') ParseResult(scheme='', netloc='', path='www.cwi.nl:80/%7Eguido/Python.html', params='', query='', fragment='') but when executing it returns: $ ./python -V Pytho

[issue16893] Create IDLE help.txt from Doc/library/idle.rst

Georg Brandl added the comment: Note that Sphinx' "make text" output already should be suitable. We already update the pydoc topics with that on every release, so we could just as well do the same for the IDLE doc. No need for another separate script. -- nosy: +georg.brandl _

[issue16715] Get rid of IOError. Use OSError instead

Andrew Svetlov added the comment: LoadError was IOError descendant, now OSError is directly specified. If somebody want to change base class for LoadError he should to update the code in several places in http/cookiejar.py. The docstring for FileCookieJar.revert directly specifies possible excep

[issue16932] urlparse fails at parsing "www.python.org:80/"

Georg Brandl added the comment: Hmm, you're right. The behavior has been like this at least since Python 2.5: Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 16 2012, 20:33:12) [GCC 4.6.3] on linux3 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from urlparse import urlparse >>> urlp

[issue16916] The Extended Iterable Unpacking (PEP-3132) for byte strings doesn't match the specification

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset a0077c1d201d by Georg Brandl in branch 'default': Closes #16916: clarify "slicing equivalent to extended unpacking" example: the latter always creates a list. http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/a0077c1d201d -- nosy: +python-dev resolution: -> f

[issue16916] The Extended Iterable Unpacking (PEP-3132) for byte strings doesn't match the specification

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks for the report. This statement was actually false for almost all sequence types, except for those whose slicing returns a list. -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker

[issue16924] try: except: ordering error

Georg Brandl added the comment: If I understand your issue correctly, you are expecting all three exception handlers to be called in innermost-to-outermost order. However, exceptions are not reraised automatically after "except" blocks; you can insert a bare "raise" statement in the handler to

[issue16933] argparse: remove magic from examples

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: +1. By the way, I included a couple fixes similar to these in a patch posted to issue 16878. -- nosy: +bethard, chris.jerdonek ___ Python tracker

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