[issue17862] itertools.chunks(iterable, size, fill=None)

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: The reasons for the previous rejections still hold: more tools make the overall toolset harder to use, not being a primitive operation, dearth of real-world use-cases, not being prevalent in other functional languages, easily expressible with existing tool

[issue17897] Optimize unpickle prefetching

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: No, I have no any interesting results. ;) If an effect exists, it should reveal itself only in rare cases and be very small. This patch may be considered rather as a tiny refactoring (it decreases a number of code lines). --

[issue17900] Recursive OrderedDict pickling

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: In additional the patch decreases the size of the pickled data, speeds up pickling and unpickling. $ ./python -c "import collections, pickle; od = collections.OrderedDict((i, i) for i in range(10)); print(len(pickle.dumps(od)))" Without patch: 1536827.

[issue17899] os.listdir() leaks FDs if invoked on FD pointing to a non-directory

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[issue17872] Crash in marshal.load() with bad reader

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[issue17776] IDLE Internationalization

Damien Marié added the comment: A side note to justify the localization of IDLE: I think the internationalization part is important, It's a nearly invisible overhead for the code but it will be helpful for example: - In France, most of the highschool student have to learn python so they learn

[issue17868] pprint long non-printable bytes as hexdump

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > 1) A separate function might be better. I think this kind of output would > be more useful while inspecting individual byte objects, rather than having > it for arbitrary byte objects (that might be inside other containers). I don't think the general hex

[issue16429] Emit SyntaxWarning for code that risks UnboundLocalError

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[issue17903] Python launcher for windows should search path for #!/usr/bin/env

New submission from Paul Moore: The Python launcher for windows should recognise a hashbang line of #!/usr/bin/env python, and use the python executable found on PATH to run the script. If no python executable is present on PATH the launcher should fall back to the current behaviour (using the

[issue17868] pprint long non-printable bytes as hexdump

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Here is an alternative patch which outputs a bytes literal and a hexdump as a comment. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file30121/pprint_bytes_hex_2.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue17904] bytes should be listed as built-in function for 2.7

New submission from Florent Xicluna: Looking into the summary table, there's no information about the `bytes` built-in alias for `str`: http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html IMHO it should appear in this table (as str, unicode, bytearray) with the appropriate `.. versionadded:`. ---

[issue5492] Error on leaving IDLE with quit() or exit() under Linux

Ger Luijten added the comment: Hello Roger, Thanks for the clear explanation! Greetings, Ger 2013/4/20 Roger Serwy > > Roger Serwy added the comment: > > Good catch Terry! I've been testing using "python -m idlelib.idle" instead > of importing it from an interactive prompt. I'll need to reme

[issue3405] Add support for the new data option supported by event generate (Tk 8.5)

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[issue17810] Implement PEP 3154 (pickle protocol 4)

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Antoine, can you share the code for your benchmarks which show > performance improvements when framing is enabled? I am seeing the same > 10-15% slowdown even when pickling stuff to pure Python objects: The performance improvement is when unpickling, not when

[issue17868] pprint long non-printable bytes as hexdump

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Le samedi 04 mai 2013 à 09:42 +, Serhiy Storchaka a écrit : > > However a simple specialized code can be used for special purposes, > i.e. internally in the pprint module. I don't see how it can be reused > and don't interested in a general function. I don'

[issue17806] Add keyword args support to str/bytes.expandtabs()

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > FTR the reason to add this is consistency This always was a weak reason. > and readability It is a matter of taste. For me s.expandtabs(3) looks more readable than s.expandtabs(tabsize=3). I don't see an urgent need for this feature and don't like a comp

[issue17868] pprint long non-printable bytes as hexdump

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[issue17868] pprint long non-printable bytes as hexdump

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[issue17868] pprint long non-printable bytes as hexdump

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > I don't understand how it would be useful in the pprint module if it > can't be useful as a general function. How can it be used besides pprint/pformat functions? > Just the nice way is different > depending on the situations: if my bytes object is simply

[issue17868] pprint long non-printable bytes as hexdump

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > > I don't understand how it would be useful in the pprint module if it > > can't be useful as a general function. > > How can it be used besides pprint/pformat functions? I don't understand your question. Do you never print some data at the command-line promp

[issue16316] Support xz compression in mimetypes module

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 26068bfec70e by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '2.7': Issue #16316: mimetypes now recognizes the .xz and .txz (.tar.xz) extensions. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/26068bfec70e New changeset d04259af01ff by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.3': Issue #1631

[issue16316] Support xz compression in mimetypes module

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Have backported. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed versions: -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue15809] IDLE console uses incorrect encoding.

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: If there are no objections I will commit the patch soon. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs

[issue16945] rewrite CGIHTTPRequestHandler to always use subprocess

Charles-François Natali added the comment: The latest version of the patch passes on Linux, OpenIndiana and Windows. Note that I did apply the select()-hack on all platforms (not only Windows), because if I understood #427345 correctly, it's really there to bypass a non-standard IE behavior (w

[issue17868] pprint long non-printable bytes as hexdump

Ezio Melotti added the comment: The idea is that the output of pprint should be something like (once #17530 is applied): >>> pprint.pprint(b'\x7fELF\x01\x01\x01\x00\x00\n\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x03\x00\x01') (b'\x7fELF\x01\x01\x01\x00\x00\n\x00\x00' b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x03\x00\x

[issue17819] removes need for CONFIG_SITE external configuration

Antonio Cavallo added the comment: So far it seems the special handling in config.site is restricted to these two bits ptc/ptmx (I'm targeting android in cross compiling at the moment). -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue17905] Add check for locale.h

New submission from Antonio Cavallo: This patch adds autoconf.ac check for the locale.h file in addition to langinfo.h. The patch contains also a fix to Python/fileutils.c file. The android ndk provides locale.h but no langinfo.h: this fixes the issue. BTW bionic doesn't have any runtime suppo

[issue17810] Implement PEP 3154 (pickle protocol 4)

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Here are some numbers: # Without the patch $ ./python -m timeit -s "import pickle, io; d=pickle.dumps(list(range(1000)), 4); b=io.BytesIO(d)" "b.seek(0); pickle.load(b)" 1 loops, best of 3: 180 usec per loop $ ./python -m timeit -s "import pickle, _pyio a

[issue17906] Add a string error handler to JSON encoder/decoder

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: Inspired by simplejson issue [1] which is related to standard json module too. JSON parser 3.3+ and wide builds of 3.2- raise an error on invalid strings (i.e. with unpaired surrogate), while narrow builds and some third-party parsers. Wide builds are righ

[issue7855] Add test cases for ctypes/winreg for issues found in IronPython

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 5f82b68c1f28 by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.3': #7855: Add tests for ctypes/winreg for issues found in IronPython. Initial patch by Dino Viehland. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5f82b68c1f28 New changeset df655ebf74d7 by Ezio Melotti in branch 'de

[issue7855] Add test cases for ctypes/winreg for issues found in IronPython

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset e71406d8ed5d by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7': #7855: Add tests for ctypes/winreg for issues found in IronPython. Initial patch by Dino Viehland. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e71406d8ed5d -- ___ Pyth

[issue7855] Add test cases for ctypes/winreg for issues found in IronPython

Ezio Melotti added the comment: This should be fixed now. Thanks for the report and the patch (and thanks Zach for confirming that it works on Windows and for the review)! -- assignee: dino.viehland -> ezio.melotti resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status:

[issue16518] add "buffer protocol" to glossary

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 003e4eb92683 by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.3': #16518: use "bytes-like object" throughout the docs. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/003e4eb92683 New changeset d4912244cce6 by Ezio Melotti in branch 'default': #16518: merge with 3.3. http://hg.python

[issue16518] add "buffer protocol" to glossary

Ezio Melotti added the comment: The attached patch uses "bytes-like objects" in the error messages. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file30124/issue16518-3.diff ___ Python tracker _

[issue17904] bytes should be listed as built-in function for 2.7

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[issue17859] improve error message for saving ints to file

Ezio Melotti added the comment: > binary-mode write requires bytes-like object, not 'int' Looks like the function that raises the error (Objects/abstract.c:352) doesn't have enough information to produce a message like that. I attached a patch to #16518 that improves this and other error messag

[issue17901] _elementtree.TreeBuilder raises IndexError on end if constructed with element_factory=None

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[issue17868] pprint long non-printable bytes as hexdump

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > I don't understand your question. Do you never print some data at the > command-line prompt? Or even as part of small test programs? To be honest, I very rarely even use pprint. I'm too lazy to import it. If I want to quickly get a hexdump, I use something

[issue17868] pprint long non-printable bytes as hexdump

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Le samedi 04 mai 2013 à 15:41 +, Serhiy Storchaka a écrit : > > Which is why the proposal doesn't fit well with pprint/pformat. > > Perhaps I misunderstood your wish. I'm not against consider pprint as > a black box, which does all good magic inside by defau

[issue1298835] Add a vendor-packages directory for system-supplied modules

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[issue1298835] Add a vendor-packages directory for system-supplied modules

Éric Araujo added the comment: Adding Nick to this discussion, since distutils-sig is talking about these issues right now. Previous discussions: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-September/345116.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-September/056682.html http:/

[issue17906] Add a string error handler to JSON encoder/decoder

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I wonder if json should simply be less strict by default. If you pass the raw unescaped character, the json module accepts it: >>> json.loads('{"a": "\ud8e9"}') {'a': '\ud8e9'} It's only if you pass the escaped representation that json rejects it: >>> json.lo

[issue17906] Add a string error handler to JSON encoder/decoder

Ezio Melotti added the comment: See also #11489. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail

[issue17854] symmetric difference operation applicable to more than two sets

Ezio Melotti added the comment: > Return a new set with elements in an odd number of the sets. This wording is not really clear to me. IMHO the documentation is fine as is. The evaluation order works as usual, and, since the symmetric difference is an associative (and commutative) operation,

[issue1298835] Add a vendor-packages directory for system-supplied modules

Nick Coghlan added the comment: The discussion on distutils-sig that Éric is referring to is one were I ended up pointing out that PEP 439 (bootstrapping pip in 3.4) needs to address this in some manner, so that pip (which installs to site-packages) doesn't end up fighting with system package

[issue17862] itertools.chunks(iterable, size, fill=None)

Ezio Melotti added the comment: FWIW I'm +1 about adding grouper(), since it happened to me to use it and suggest more often than any other recipe (I think it's the only recipe I used/know), and even more often than some of the current itertools. The fact that has been requested several times a

[issue17862] itertools.chunks(iterable, size, fill=None)

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[issue17877] Skip test_variable_tzname when the zoneinfo database is missing

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[issue17887] docs: summary page - generator vs iterator vs iterable

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[issue17890] argparse: mutually exclusive groups full of suppressed args can cause AssertionErrors

Yogesh Chaudhari added the comment: I am not sure if I am missing something. I had filled out the form at http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/ on the day I submitted the patch and even got back an email from Ewa Jodlowska. However, I don't see any "*" after my name. I submitted the

[issue1298835] Add a vendor-packages directory for system-supplied modules

Matthias Klose added the comment: there is more than one thing addressed with the 'dist-packages' choice of name. The primary reason is to have a directory where you only find python packages as distributed by the linux distribution, and where installers do not install to by default. Even if

[issue17115] __loader__ = None should be fine

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset e39a8f8ceb9f by Brett Cannon in branch 'default': #17115,17116: Have modules initialize the __package__ and __loader__ http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e39a8f8ceb9f -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue17115] __loader__ = None should be fine

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[issue17116] xml.parsers.expat.(errors|model) don't set the __loader__ attribute

Brett Cannon added the comment: New changeset e39a8f8ceb9f by Brett Cannon in branch 'default': #17115,17116: Have modules initialize the __package__ and __loader__ http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e39a8f8ceb9f -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed

[issue17894] Edits to descriptor howto

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Attached a patch that rephrases part of the suggestions made by Ned. -- nosy: +ezio.melotti Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file30125/issue17894.diff ___ Python tracker __

[issue5845] rlcompleter should be enabled automatically

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset d5ef330bac50 by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default': Issue #5845: Enable tab-completion in the interactive interpreter by default, thanks to a new sys.__interactivehook__. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d5ef330bac50 -- nosy: +python-dev _

[issue5845] rlcompleter should be enabled automatically

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: End-users will hopefully rejoice :) -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue17177] Document/deprecate imp

Brett Cannon added the comment: Just to keep on top of what is left to do for this to happen: * get_magic(): expose in importlib * find_module()/load_module(): eliminate all uses in the stdlib and fully deprecate * new_module(): use types.ModuleType() instead * reload(): relocate * cache_from_s

[issue17907] Deprecate imp.new_module() in favour of types.ModuleType

New submission from Brett Cannon: imp.new_module() does not need to exist since code can use types.ModuleType's constructor. -- components: Library (Lib) keywords: easy messages: 188388 nosy: brett.cannon priority: low severity: normal stage: test needed status: open title: Deprecate im

[issue17177] Document/deprecate imp

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[issue17115] __loader__ = None should be fine

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Some buildbots are failing after this: http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/x86%20Ubuntu%20Shared%203.x/builds/7840 http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20FreeBSD%209.0%203.x/builds/4536 FAIL: test_everyone_has___loader__ (test.test_importlib.test_api.

[issue17177] Document/deprecate imp

Brett Cannon added the comment: While thinking about asking on G+ for feedback, I realized that if I get this to the point of a module-level warning, it won't be a big deal. It would be just like warnings you deal with when supporting old versions of Python along with newer versions where thin

[issue17177] Document/deprecate imp

Ezio Melotti added the comment: This might be OK, however you won't be able to point to the alternatives in the deprecation message (e.g. "new_module() is deprecated, use types.ModuleType() instead"). This can still be done in the docs though. -- __

[issue17177] Document/deprecate imp

Brett Cannon added the comment: Right, the docs would say "the imp modules is deprecated; please see the module documentation for alternatives" or something. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue17408] second python execution fails when embedding

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 8c1385205a35 by Antoine Pitrou in branch '3.3': Issue #17408: Avoid using an obsolete instance of the copyreg module when the interpreter is shutdown and then started again. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/8c1385205a35 New changeset 0b34fd75b937 b

[issue17882] test_objecttypes fails for 3.2.4 on CentOS 6

Ezio Melotti added the comment: 3.2 only gets security fixes, can you try with 3.3/default and see if it fails there? (The devguide has instructions about getting an updated clone and testing on 3.3/default if you need them.) -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, loewis type: ->

[issue17408] second python execution fails when embedding

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Thank you for reporting! This should be fixed now. -- components: +Interpreter Core -None nosy: +pitrou resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.4 ___ P

[issue17115] __loader__ = None should be fine

Brett Cannon added the comment: It's because test_pydoc is actively deleting the __loader__ of a test module. I'll have a look to figure out why it's doing that. -- resolution: fixed -> status: closed -> open ___ Python tracker

[issue16742] PyOS_Readline drops GIL and calls PyOS_StdioReadline, which isn't thread safe

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: So, could you propose a patch? -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue10363] Embedded python, handle (memory) leak

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Closing as the original issue is fixed. Other leaks should be reported as separate issues. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue15809] IDLE console uses incorrect encoding.

Roger Serwy added the comment: There is a problem. Adding the encoding comment to the top of the source causes off-by-one line errors in the traceback. Take as an example: >>> 1/0 Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 2, in ZeroDivisionError: integer division or modulo by zero >

[issue1545463] New-style classes fail to cleanup attributes

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Here is a patch adding a call to gc.collect() after cleaning up most modules, with tests. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +ncoghlan stage: commit review -> patch review type: resource usage -> enhancement versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 3.2 Added file: http://b

[issue2262] Helping the compiler avoid memory references in PyEval_EvalFrameEx

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: This avenue doesn't look promising at all. Closing. -- resolution: -> works for me stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker _

[issue17806] Add keyword args support to str/bytes.expandtabs()

Mark Dickinson added the comment: > For me s.expandtabs(3) looks more readable than s.expandtabs(tabsize=3). I disagree: I think the second is more readable, and I think it's especially helpful to those not intimately familiar with the language (which probably accounts for the vast majority o

[issue11406] There is no os.listdir() equivalent returning generator instead of list

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: +1 for iterdir. However, if we get a separate scandir() returning entries with attributes, is iterdir() still useful? -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue16518] add "buffer protocol" to glossary

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > The attached patch uses "bytes-like objects" in the error messages. I'm surprised your patch doesn't touch Python/getargs.c. -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue16445] SEGFAULT when deleting Exception.message

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: This looks like it is fixed by Mark's commit. Other proposals should go into separate issues. -- nosy: +pitrou resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed versions: -Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4

[issue17705] Fill Character cannot be \0

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[issue16518] add "buffer protocol" to glossary

Ezio Melotti added the comment: FWIW I was grepping for buffer protocol/interface/api, and then double-checking for "buffer" in the resulting files. Python/getargs.c doesn't seem to mention the buffer protocol/interface/api at all. -- ___ Python tr

[issue14173] PyOS_FiniInterupts leaves signal.getsignal segfaulty

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 0201d8fa8bd0 by Antoine Pitrou in branch '2.7': Issue #14173: Avoid crashing when reading a signal handler during interpreter shutdown. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0201d8fa8bd0 New changeset 0dfd5c7d953d by Antoine Pitrou in branch '3.3': Issu

[issue14173] PyOS_FiniInterupts leaves signal.getsignal segfaulty

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: This should be fixed now. Thank you for diagnosing this bug! -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker

[issue6178] Core error in Py_EvalFrameEx 2.6.2

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > As an update (since someone else has this problem) this issue stopped > once we converted from centos to archlinux (www.archlinux.org). May be > an underlying issue with something in the centos environment. We used > the same modules same configuration basic

[issue17115] __loader__ = None should be fine

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset bb023c3426bc by Brett Cannon in branch 'default': #17115: Remove what appears to be a useless chunk of code which broke http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/bb023c3426bc -- ___ Python tracker

[issue17115] __loader__ = None should be fine

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[issue17115] __loader__ = None should be fine

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 97b7bd87c44c by Brett Cannon in branch 'default': #17115: I hate you MS for not supporting C99. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/97b7bd87c44c -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue17289] readline.set_completer_delims() doesn't play well with others

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Thanks for reporting this. Do you want to contribute a proper patch? You'll find instructions at http://docs.python.org/devguide/ -- nosy: +pitrou stage: -> needs patch versions: -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker

[issue17890] argparse: mutually exclusive groups full of suppressed args can cause AssertionErrors

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Wait a week and see what happens. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubs

[issue17855] Implement introspection of logger hierarchy

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Perhaps you should explain what the point of this is. -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue17854] symmetric difference operation applicable to more than two sets

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: If you take the union/intersection/symmetric difference of n sets, the result is a set with all items that appears in one/all/an odd number of the n sets. The union and intersection methods actually accept n inputs, because the result is obvious, useful, and c

[issue11698] Improve repr for structseq objects to show named, but unindexed fields

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Thanks for the patch. (Yes, I'm looking at this a bit late :-)) First, there seems to be a problem with the repr() of of.stat() results: ./python -c "import os; print(os.stat('LICENSE'))" posix.stat_result(st_mode=33204, st_ino=6553619, st_dev=2053, st_nlink=1

[issue17636] Modify IMPORT_FROM to fallback on sys.modules

Phillip J. Eby added the comment: It looks like maybe basic2 should be importing basic, not basic2. Otherwise, you might as well just import basic2 directly and be done with it. ;-) Likewise, I think indirect should be importing from indirect2, not from itself? i.e., I'd expect that test to fa

[issue17894] Edits to descriptor howto

Ned Batchelder added the comment: I worked with Ezio to make a new patch with the full edits. I have other ideas for edits to the rest of the document, but we can discuss those if you like these... -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file30127/descriptor_howto_2.patch __

[issue17907] Deprecate imp.new_module() in favour of types.ModuleType

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[issue17177] Document/deprecate imp

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[issue17855] Implement introspection of logger hierarchy

R. David Murray added the comment: I think that's what the link in the first message does. However, as I remember Bradon's talk, the short answer is: make it easy to discover (and therefore reason about) the hierarchy of logging objects that results from all the logging setup calls in an appl

[issue17908] Unittest runner needs an option to call gc.collect() after each test

New submission from Guido van Rossum: It would be nice if there was a command-line option to tell the test runner to call gc.collect() after each test. See https://groups.google.com/d/msg/python-tulip/tstjvOQowIU/IRihc8NCHZUJ -- Glyph points out that always doing this is problematic because it

[issue17894] Edits to descriptor howto

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Please don't go crazy with this. I will look at the suggestions and make some edits to improve its readability but am not going to change it into a breezy conversational style. Instead, I'll likely put together a separate descriptor tutorial that presents

[issue17908] Unittest runner needs an option to call gc.collect() after each test

Ezio Melotti added the comment: See also #17534. -- nosy: +ezio.melotti, michael.foord stage: -> needs patch ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue17894] Edits to descriptor howto

Ned Batchelder added the comment: Raymond, I'm glad you're on top of this. I would have thought the howto should be the easy on-ramp, and deeper authoritative details should go in the reference section. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue11798] Test cases not garbage collected after run

Guido van Rossum added the comment: Just to be self-referential here's a link to #17908. -- nosy: +gvanrossum ___ Python tracker ___ _

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