[issue1225584] crash in gcmodule.c on python reinitialization

2014-03-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: I find it surprising that something flagged up as causing a crash hasn't had a little more TLC, but is this still a genuine problem? -- components: +Windows nosy: +BreamoreBoy, terry.reedy ___ Python tracker

[issue4261] The pwd module doesn't distinguish between errors and no user

2014-03-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: I'm assuming that 2.7 and 3.5 would need patches. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 2.6, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue1542308] Nested finally in generators don't follow PEP 342

2014-03-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Just in case PEP 342 ever changes we might as well target the latest versions. As an aside I followed the PEP 342 link to here http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0342/ and clicked on the "last modified" field. I was taken here http://hg.pytho

[issue1581182] Definition of a "character" is wrong

2014-03-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Can this be tied in with the work being done on the unicode howto #20906? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1581

[issue8449] buildbot: test_dbm and test_dbm_ndbm failures on ia64 Ubuntu 3.1

2014-03-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: As there's no more ia64 buildbot can't we simply close this? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.

[issue17234] python-2.7.3-r3: crash in visit_decref()

2014-03-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: I'm guessing that the status was inadvertently changed as this issue is only one year old. Could someone set it to open please. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue15893] Py_FrozenMain() resource leak and missing malloc checks

2014-03-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: This believe that this can be closed as Python 3.3 is no longer taking fixes. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue15

[issue2552] test_ctypes failed Python 2.6a2 Solaris 10 SUN C

2014-03-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Given the title is this still relevant given that Oracle Solaris 11 is closed source? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue2

[issue6742] Embedding python into shared library crash on AIX

2014-03-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: msg192851 states that this should be closed. If somebody agrees with that statement would they please do the honours. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6

[issue1516] make _ctypes work with non-gcc compilers

2014-03-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Given msg173279 from Greg Couch "I'm using supported compilers on all platforms now." can we close this issue or does Trent Nelson still have problems? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python

[issue15859] PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault win32 inconsistancy.

2014-03-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: msg192795 says this is still an issue so I'm not sure why it's been set to languishing as it's only 18 months old. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python

[issue1697175] winreg module for cygwin?

2014-03-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Is cygwin officially supported by Python core development? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy, terry.reedy versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1697

[issue21039] pathlib strips trailing slash

2014-03-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: PEP11 states that VMS was unsupported in 3.3. Code was removed from 3.4 via #16136. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue21

[issue20904] HAVE_PY_SET_53BIT_PRECISION for m68k

2014-03-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: It strikes me as strange that we'd allow code churn for an unsupported platform, can someone explain the rationale behind this please. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue20904] HAVE_PY_SET_53BIT_PRECISION for m68k

2014-03-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Code churn is defined as lines added, modified or deleted to a file from one version to another. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue20

[issue20904] HAVE_PY_SET_53BIT_PRECISION for m68k

2014-03-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: I love you as well Benjamin :) To be serious I think we're talking at cross purposes. I'm not against this patch. Code churn often gets mentioned here as a reason for not doing what is proposed. Changing code for an unsupported platform just st

[issue20904] HAVE_PY_SET_53BIT_PRECISION for m68k

2014-03-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Great, you ask a simple, straight forward question and get told to go away. I'll therefore leave everything to the committers, including the roughly 4500 open issues and the other 40 languishing. -- ___ P

[issue20904] HAVE_PY_SET_53BIT_PRECISION for m68k

2014-03-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: I've asked a simple question and I've *NOT* had an answer. Antoine's response to Larry's question "Does Python still officially support m68k?" is certainly pertinent "Certainly not. We haven't had any 68k buildbot in a

[issue21043] Stop recommending CACert.org in the SSL documentation

2014-03-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
Changes by Mark Lawrence : -- title: Stop reccomending CACert.org in the SSL documentation -> Stop recommending CACert.org in the SSL documentation ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue21046] Document formulas used in statistics

2014-03-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: IMHO the docs shouldn't be cluttered with details such as this. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue19537] Fix misalignment in fastsearch_memchr_1char

2014-03-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Martin, Larry msg214639 states "Fix PyUnicode_DATA() alignment under m68k.", your comments please. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy, larry, loewis ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.o

[issue19537] Fix misalignment in fastsearch_memchr_1char

2014-03-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Please do not threaten me, I've been told that I'm to be ignored, and I now observe that committers seem to be sneaking patches into the source control system when the platform is unsupported. I'll stop placing comments on appropriate issues i

[issue20210] Provide configure options to enable/disable Python modules and extensions

2014-03-25 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: I certainly like the principle. Does this need a wider audience, python-dev maybe? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue20

[issue21177] ValueError: byte must be in range(0, 256)

2014-04-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: How about plain English? "byte must be between 0 and 255 inclusive" -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.o

[issue8387] use universal newline mode in csv module examples

2014-04-19 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: I think that it's complete nonsense to talk about binary csv files on Windows. They are just plain text files that can be manipulated with any old editor or a spreadsheet. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tr

[issue21465] sqlite3 Row can return duplicate keys when using adapters

2014-05-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
New submission from Mark Lawrence: Code adopted from here https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html#default-adapters-and-converters. import sqlite3 import datetime con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:", detect_types=sqlite3.PARSE_DECLTYPES|sqlite3.PARSE_COLNAMES) con.row_factory

[issue19980] Improve help('non-topic') response

2014-05-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: I propose the following. help('') returns help on strings in the same way that help([]) and help({}) returns help on lists and dicts respectively, further help(''.method) returns help on the string method or an attribute error, so

[issue19980] Improve help('non-topic') response

2014-05-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Anybody? -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue19980> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue21607] results of `zip` are displayed as '

2014-05-29 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: How do you display the contents of an iterable without using them up, or have I grossly overlooked something? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue21

[issue21427] installer not working

2014-06-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: FWIW I've never had any installation problems involving py.exe. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue19980] Improve help('non-topic') response

2014-06-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Please find attached a first pass at a patch file. Help('') produces help for the str class as discussed. I found the difference between help('help') and help() very confusing. The former produced the help output but left you at the int

[issue7932] print statement delayed IOError when stdout has been closed

2014-06-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Is there any interest in following this up as 2.6 is out of support? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue7

[issue9194] winreg:fixupMultiSZ should check that P < Q in the inner loop

2014-06-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: @Tim is this something that you can comment on? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy, tim.golden ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9

[issue5235] distutils seems to only work with VC++ 2008 (9.0)

2014-06-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Given that we're already using VC++ 2010 for 3.4 and there is discussion here http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-dev/131023/ about changing for 3.5 can this be closed? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tr

[issue8840] truncate() semantics changed in 3.1.2

2014-06-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Is any more work needed here as msg106725 asks about updating doc strings? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue8

[issue15707] PEP 3121, 384 Refactoring applied to signal module

2014-06-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: PEP 384 is listed as finished while 3121 is accepted so what if anything needs to be done here? I've checked https://docs.python.org/devguide/experts.html and nobody is listed against the signal module. The patch is C code which I don't have the kn

[issue8576] test_support.find_unused_port can cause socket conflicts on Windows

2014-06-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: msg104677, msg104822 and msg104845 refer to various commits but msg104955 suggests that a follow up is needed so where do we stand with this issue? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.

[issue9012] Separate compilation of time and datetime modules

2014-06-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: msg111078 refers to r82035 for Visual Studio 2005 (VC8) builds. Given that http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-dev/131023/ refers to VC14 for 3.5 can we close this as out of date? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy

[issue10002] Installer doesn't install on Windows Server 2008 DataCenter R2

2014-06-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: msg121605 says the OP isn't seeing issues with this so I'd guess this can be closed? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.o

[issue6701] Make custom xmlrpc extension easier

2014-06-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Is there any value in the proof of concept patches attached here? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6

[issue6550] asyncore incorrect failure when connection is refused and using async_chat channel

2014-06-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Has maintenance of asyncore effectively ceased owing to tulip/asyncio or are outstanding problems here, if any, still considered valid? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6

[issue1559298] test_popen fails on Windows if installed to "Program Files"

2014-06-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Is this worth pursuing given the wording here https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#replacing-os-popen-os-popen2-os-popen3 ? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1559

[issue10765] Build regression from automation changes on windows

2014-06-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: I agree with the sentiment expressed in msg160237. Having said that I believe that a lot of work has been put into the build system recently that might have covered this. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker

[issue13247] under Windows, os.path.abspath returns non-ASCII bytes paths as question marks

2014-06-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: I've read this entire issue and can't see that much can be done, so suggest it is closed as "won't fix" as has already happened for #16656, which was suggested is a duplicate of this in msg177609.

[issue4071] ntpath.abspath fails for long str paths

2014-06-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: I don't see that any further work can be done here owing to limitations of the Windows str API. Note that the same argument can be applied to issue1776160. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker

[issue15286] normpath does not work with local literal paths

2014-06-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: As Antoine's pathlib made it into 3.4 is the patch here now obsolete or what? Also note the reference to issue15275. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue15275] isinstance is called a more times that needed in ntpath

2014-06-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: @Manuel do you intend picking this up? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue15275> ___ ___ Pytho

[issue17822] Save on Close windows (IDLE)

2014-06-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Using 3.4.1 on Windows I can't reproduce the AttributErrors given in msg187674 -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue12274] "Print window" menu on IDLE aborts whole application

2014-06-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Can this be closed as a patch has been committed and the unittest framework was created on issue15392 ? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy, terry.reedy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue12

[issue4765] IDLE fails to "Delete Custom Key Set" properly

2014-06-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: This is still a problem on Windows 7 with 3.4.1 but the patch file fixes it. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue4

[issue17822] Save on Close windows (IDLE)

2014-06-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Using 3.4.1 and 3.5.0 on Windows 7 I always get the focus set to the edit window or shell as appropriate. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue17

[issue15780] IDLE (windows) with PYTHONPATH and multiple python versions

2014-06-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Something on Windows configuration here https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#excursus-setting-environment-variables -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue15

[issue17822] Save on Close windows (IDLE)

2014-06-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: My 3.4.1 is the released version, 3.5.0 built from source that was synchronised earlier today as in :- c:\cpython\PCbuild\python_d.exe Python 3.5.0a0 (default:b1e99b4ec374, Jun 8 2014, 18:29:24) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Running the console

[issue11437] IDLE crash on startup with typo in config-keys.cfg

2014-06-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: @Roger, Andrew could you pick this up again? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue11437> ___ ___

[issue8378] PYTHONSTARTUP is not run by default when Idle is started

2014-06-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Terry what is your opinion on this? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy, terry.reedy versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue8

[issue1517993] IDLE: config-main.def contains windows-specific settings

2014-06-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
Changes by Mark Lawrence : -- nosy: +ned.deily, terry.reedy type: -> behavior versions: +Python 3.4, Python 3.5 -Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1

[issue3938] Clearing globals; interpreter -- IDLE difference

2014-06-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: The output from IDLE is still the same using both 3.4.1 and 3.5. FTR the output from iPython 2.0.0 appears the same, although it's pretty printed. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.3 ___ P

[issue1253] IDLE - Percolator overhaul

2014-06-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Can somebody please close as requested in msg210212, thanks. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1

[issue13111] Error 2203 when installing Python/Perl?

2014-06-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Can it be assumed that there is no interest in this issue as it targets Windows 8 Developer Preview? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue13

[issue12989] Consistently handle path separator in Py_GetPath on Windows

2014-06-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: If this is a security issue shouldn't it have been actioned? If not does the type move to behaviour or what? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue3905] subprocess failing in GUI applications on Windows

2014-06-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: I cannot reproduce this problem with 3.4.1 or 3.5.a0 on Windows 7. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue3

[issue13101] Module Doc viewer closes when browser window closes on Windows 8

2014-06-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: This works fine for me with Windows 7, Python 3.4.1 and Firefox 29. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue13

[issue3905] subprocess failing in GUI applications on Windows

2014-06-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: *facepalm* looks like I've run it with the wrong exe, sorry about the noise :-( -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/i

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

2014-06-12 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: This strikes me as a sizable hole in our documentation. Are there any plans to implement this as I quick glance at the devguide has no references to rietveld that I can find? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python

[issue19873] There is a duplicate function in Lib/test/test_pathlib.py

2014-06-12 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: ping. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue19873> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsub

[issue15934] flaky test in test_ftplib

2014-06-12 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Can it be assumed that this is no longer a problem? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue15

[issue18082] Inconsistent behavior of IOBase methods on closed files

2014-06-12 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Could we have a response for the record please. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue18

[issue1724366] cPickle module doesn't work with universal line endings

2014-06-12 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Can this be closed as issue616013 was? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1724366> ___ ___

[issue13790] In str.format an incorrect error message for list, tuple, dict, set

2014-06-12 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Python 3.4.1 (v3.4.1:c0e311e010fc, May 18 2014, 10:38:22) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >>> '{0:d}'.format('a') Traceback (most r

[issue3931] codecs.charmap_build is untested and undocumented

2014-06-12 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: msg120987 states the opposite to msg112747 so what do we do with this issue? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.4, Python 3.5 -Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue3

[issue19351] python msi installers - silent mode

2014-06-12 Thread Mark Lawrence
Changes by Mark Lawrence : -- nosy: +steve.dower versions: +Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue19351> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailin

[issue5718] Problem compiling ffi part of build on AIX 5.3.

2014-06-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: As we're now on 3.5, AIX is up to 7.1 and there's no patch can we close this one as out of date? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.

[issue17941] namedtuple should support fully qualified name for more portable pickling

2014-06-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Just slipped under the radar? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue17941> ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue8535] passing optimization flags to the linker required for builds with gcc -flto

2014-06-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Is this still relevant as GCC 4.9.0 was released on April 22, 2014? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue8

[issue5999] compile error on HP-UX 11.22 ia64 - 'mbstate_t' is used as a type, but has not been defined as a type

2014-06-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Should this be closed in favour of issue 12572? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue5

[issue12561] Compiler workaround for wide string constants in Modules/getpath.c (patch)

2014-06-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: According to msg140433 this should be closed. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue12

[issue7057] tkinter doc: more 3.x updates

2014-06-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: The default build (on Windows anyway)is using tcl/tk 8.6 so I believe that we can take this forward now. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue7

[issue19362] Documentation for len() fails to mention that it works on sets

2014-06-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: This is a very simple docs patch so could we have it committed please? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue19

[issue17424] help() should use the class signature

2014-06-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: issue17053 was closed in favour of issue19674 but I don't know if this issue is a duplicate of the former anyway. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue13312] test_time fails: strftime('%Y', y) for negative year

2014-06-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: The failing negative years test is still being skipped. I'm assuming this was not originally intended. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue6916] Remove deprecated items from asynchat

2014-06-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Is it worth the effort of committing changes like this when according to https://docs.python.org/3/library/asynchat.html#module-asynchat "This module exists for backwards compatibility only. For new code we recommend using asyncio."? See also

[issue12314] regrtest checks (os.environ, sys.path, etc.) are hard to use

2014-06-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: @Éric do you intend following up on this? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue12314> ___ ___

[issue18507] import_init() should not use Py_FatalError() but return an error

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Just making sure this hasn't slipped under the radar. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue14017] Make it easy to create a new TextIOWrapper based on an existing

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: @Nick would you like or even need this in 3.5? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue14

[issue16133] asyncore.dispatcher.recv doesn't handle EAGAIN / EWOULDBLOCK

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Could we have a review of the latest path from Xavier please. Aside, msg172160 "add Windows project file for _sha3 module. I choose to build _sha3 as a sparat module as it's rather large (190k for AMD64).", presumably Christian mistyped

[issue11322] encoding package's normalize_encoding() function is too slow

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: What's the status of this issue, as we've lived with this really slow implementation for well over three years? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.4, Python 3.5 -Python 3.3 ___ Python trac

[issue15506] configure should use PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: I've guessed at the versions impacted, assuming of course that the change proposed inline in msg166915 is acceptable. I'm sorry but I don't know who is best qualified to put on the nosy list for this issue. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versio

[issue18875] Automatic insertion of the closing parentheses, brackets, and braces

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: I'd like to see this feature as I've been using IDLE quite a lot recently and I'm so used to seeing it in other IDEs. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.4 ___ Python

[issue14540] Crash in Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/dlmalloc.c on ia64-hp-hpux11.31

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Is this still a problem given that we're two years on and up to Python 2.7.7? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue15954] No error checking after using of the wcsxfrm()

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: @Serhiy will you follow up on this? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.4, Python 3.5 -Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue15

[issue13779] os.walk: bottom-up

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: The OP is happy with the proposed doc patch so can we have this committed please. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue13

[issue21095] EmailMessage should support Header objects

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: @David can we have your comments please. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue21095> ___ ___

[issue10118] Tkinter does not find font

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Is this still a problem with tcl/tk 8.6? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue10118> ___ ___

[issue16181] cookielib.http2time raises ValueError for invalid date.

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: A simple patch is attached so could someone take a look please, thanks. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue16

[issue15025] httplib and http.client are missing response messages for defined WEBDAV responses, e.g., UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY (422)

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Can someone take a look please as nobody is given against http in the experts index. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue15

[issue16587] Py_Initialize breaks wprintf on Windows

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: I'll let our Windows gurus fight over who gets this one :) -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue14534] Add method to mark unittest.TestCases as "do not run".

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Do we have a consensus as to whether or not David's proposed solution is acceptable? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue15476] Add "code object" to glossary

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Can this be closed given msg169859 and msg169861? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue15

[issue15680] PEP 3121 refactoring applied to audioop module

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Could somebody review the attached patch please. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue15

[issue1102] Add support for _msi.Record.GetString() and _msi.Record.GetInteger()

2014-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Can someone review the latest patch please as it's only five additional lines of C code. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy, steve.dower, zach.ware versions: +Python 3.4, Python 3.5 -Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tr

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