[issue9761] stale .pyc files aren't cleaned out

2010-09-03 Thread Steve Thompson
New submission from Steve Thompson : I'm running pythong 2.6.1 on Windows XP SP3. On many occasions I have ran into cases where I've installed a new package via the package's setup.py (pylint, logilab-common, etc) and new .pyc files don't get generated when I attempt to ru

[issue9761] stale .pyc files aren't cleaned out

2010-09-03 Thread Steve Thompson
Steve Thompson added the comment: "Setup.py install". We've also seen this happen when checking our python files out of our version control system. Also seen a .pyc get used when the .py no longer exists, but I could see that being intentional behavior. On Sep 3, 2010 2:57 PM

[issue9761] stale .pyc files aren't cleaned out

2010-09-03 Thread Steve Thompson
Steve Thompson added the comment: Hmmm... this definitely sounds like the issue for version controlled files, but does not explain the issue when installing packages from source. On Sep 3, 2010 3:16 PM, "Amaury Forgeot d'Arc" wrote: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment

[issue6074] .pyc files created readonly if .py file is readonly, python won't overwrite

2010-09-03 Thread Steve Thompson
Steve Thompson added the comment: So what's the current status of this on Windows Platforms? -- nosy: +Steve.Thompson ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue6074] .pyc files created readonly if .py file is readonly, python won't overwrite

2010-09-03 Thread Steve Thompson
Steve Thompson added the comment: Any idea if this will be fixed (at all) and/or back ported to 2.6.x or 2.7.x? On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote: > > Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: > > This is still the case: on Windows, if foo.py is

[issue11920] ctypes: Strange bitfield structure sizing issue

2011-04-25 Thread Steve Thompson
New submission from Steve Thompson : Consider the following: import ctypes class struct1( ctypes.Structure ): _pack_ = 1 _fields_ = [ ( "first", ctypes.c_uint8, 1 ), ( "second", ctypes.c_uint8, 1 ),

[issue11920] ctypes: Strange bitfield structure sizing issue

2011-04-25 Thread Steve Thompson
Steve Thompson added the comment: So, knowing there's a potential cross platform inconsistency here, is there a proposed way to deal with this that doesn't involve modifying the real c code I'm interfacing with? That's not always an option. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 2:4

[issue11241] ctypes: subclassing an already subclassed ArrayType generates AttributeError

2011-02-17 Thread Steve Thompson
New submission from Steve Thompson : Consider the following: python code: class my_array( ctypes.Array ): _type_= ctypes.c_uint8 _length_ = 256 class my_array2( my_array ): pass Output: class my_array2( my_array ): AttributeError: class must define a '_length_'