[issue8093] IDLE processes don't close

2010-03-09 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I reproduced this with 3.1.1 on xp. It took a while to get the shell menu to restart as the calculation process is hogging the cpu 99%. KeyboardInterrupt (^C) would not stop the runaway process. There may have been other issues about this. Two processes is

[issue1069092] segfault on printing nested sequences of None/Ellipsis

2010-03-22 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: General policy is that ordinary code (not using, for instance, ctypes) should not crash or segfault the interpreter. I believe there is a 'crashers' subdirectory somewhere in the tree for examples that do so that people so inclined can work on the

[issue1683368] object.__init__ shouldn't allow args/kwds

2010-04-01 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: @dauerbaustelle I believe your question is a separate issue and that it should have been asked on Python list. However, yes, subclasses of immutables must override __new__. For more, do ask on the list, not here

[issue8060] PEP 3101 string formatting missing engineering presentation type for floating point

2010-04-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Too late for 2.7, but I would like this to hit 3.2. Some calculators have engineering format as an output option and it would be good for Python. This issue is being discussed in python-list in thread "Engineering numerical format...". The OP (

[issue8404] Set operations don't work for dictionary views

2010-04-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue2331] Backport parameter annotations

2010-04-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue7511] msvc9compiler.py: ValueError: [u'path']

2010-04-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Tarek, when you set the resolution to 'accepted', did you mean to close this? Resolutions are meant for closed issues. -- nosy: +tjreedy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.

[issue4186] type() doesn't accept bases and dict keyword arguments

2010-04-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Since 'pending' is not implemented, should this be 'closed'? -- nosy: +tjreedy status: pending -> open ___ Python tracker <http:/

[issue3620] test_smtplib is flaky

2010-04-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue2340] Backport PEP 3132 (extended iterable unpacking)

2010-04-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue3080] Full unicode import system

2010-04-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1909] Backport: Mixing default keyword arguments with *args

2010-04-28 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Can this be closed as either fixed or out-or-date, as the case may be? -- nosy: +tjreedy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1

[issue5559] IDLE Output Window 's goto fails when path has spaces

2010-04-28 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Resolution should only be set when an issue is closed. So should this be closed? or unfixed and the versions updated? -- nosy: +tjreedy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue5

[issue2345] Using an exception variable outside an 'except' clause should raise a Py3K warning

2010-04-28 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am assuming that this is an unfixed bug that might still be fixed in 2.7 sometime and that it should not be closed yet, so I am just updating the version. -- nosy: +tjreedy versions: +Python 2.7 -Python 2.6

[issue2380] Raise a Py3K warning for catching nested tuples with non-BaseException exceptions

2010-04-28 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1909] Backport: Mixing default keyword arguments with *args

2010-04-28 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Ok, I though 2.7 was in feature freeze. Updating version. -- versions: +Python 2.7 -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1

[issue2715] Remove carbon-specific code from binhex

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I would close this, but I am not sure what the resolution should be. -- nosy: +tjreedy status: pending -> open ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/iss

[issue770280] PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Can this be closed as either out-of-date or rejected? -- nosy: +tjreedy status: pending -> open ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue

[issue3328] When PyObject_CallMethod fails, refcount is incorrect

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue3536] case conversion problems in Turkish

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue3957] [contextlib] Reverse order of locking

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue4262] import and compile() do not treat trailing whitespace the same

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue3433] Mac, 3.0 framework install error with fink cp

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue4025] C99 comments in Python 2.6 break build on AIX 6.1

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: In the absence of further complaints, this appears to really be fixed. Should it be closed as such? -- nosy: +tjreedy status: pending -> open ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/iss

[issue1178510] configure: refuses setgroups

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Closing this pending 2.4 Irix issue as out of date. Martin, reopen if you object. -- nosy: +tjreedy resolution: -> out of date status: pending -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/iss

[issue5407] Broken Py3.1 release build in Visual Studio 2005

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue5494] Failure in test_httpservers on Linux

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue785031] MacPython installer fails on UFS filesystem

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1004810] Carbon.File fails if server vol is mounted after launch

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1473979] test test_capi crashed -- thread.error: can't allocate lock

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue658693] cPickle does relative import

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue2016] Crash when modifying the **kwargs passed to a function.

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Is everything fixed, so this can be closed? -- nosy: +tjreedy status: pending -> open ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/iss

[issue1367628] use PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer in non-interractive input

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1027] uudecoding (uu.py) does not supprt base64, patch attached

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue6788] codecs.open on Win32 does not force binary mode

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue6883] OptionParser.allow_interspersed_args is undocumented

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Skip, can we close this? -- nosy: +tjreedy status: pending -> open ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/iss

[issue6941] Socket error when launching IDLE

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1756343] Python 2.5.1 fails to build on AIX

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1155] Carbon.CF memory management problem

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Should this be closed? As out of date? -- nosy: +tjreedy status: pending -> open ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/iss

[issue2571] cmd.py always uses raw_input, even when another stdin is specified

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Too late for new 2.7 features. -- nosy: +tjreedy resolution: -> out of date status: pending -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6306] filecmp.cmp can not compare two files from different OS with the same content

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1155] Carbon.CF memory management problem

2010-04-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue8525] Small enhancement to help()

2010-04-30 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: 2.5 is frozen. 2.6 and 3.1 are in bug-fix mode only, and 2.7 is in beta so new features are unlikely there. So I recommend doing a patch against 3.1 or even the 3.2 trunk. And of course, make sure this proposal makes sense for 3.x. -- nosy: +tjreedy

[issue3720] segfault in for loop with evil iterator

2010-05-03 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The fix works for 3.1.2, giving TypeError: iter() returned non-iterator of type 'BadIterator' Too late to patch 2.5. Is there any intention of patching 2.6 before its final bug-fix release, in a couple of months? -- keywords: -needs rev

[issue8638] Remove suggestion for name mangling from the tutorial

2010-05-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Double underscore name mangling is for avoiding name clashes with base classes, not for 'private attributes'. This is such an advanced and rarely used feature that it hardly seems appropriate for the tutorial. -- nosy

[issue8641] IDLE 3 doesn't highlights b"", but u""

2010-05-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: u'whatever' is not valid syntax for 3.x. In any case, with IDLE on my WinXP 3.1.2 system, all string literals are green, with or without a leading b. If you want this to stay open, cut and paste the opening header like Python 3.1.2 (r312:79149, M

[issue8691] Doc: left alignment is not the default for numbers

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
New submission from Terry J. Reedy : As reported on python-list by Alan G Isaac, Lib Ref 6.1.3.1. Format Specification Mini-Language, for instance http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/string.html#formatstrings wrongly says in the alignment section "'<'Forces the field

[issue4653] Patch to fix typos for Py3K

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue965065] document docs.python.org in PEP-101

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: PEP 101 now says ___ If this is a final release, also unpack the HTML docs to /data/ftp.python.org/pub/docs.python.org/release/X.Y[.Z]. ___ If this is a major release: Tell the DE to adapt redirects for docs.python.org/X.Y in the

[issue2716] Reimplement audioop because of copyright issues

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1397] mysteriously failing test_bsddb3 threading test in other threads

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue3006] subprocess.Popen causes socket to remain open after close

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue3710] Reference leak in thread._local

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1745035] DoS smtpd vulnerability

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1615] descriptor protocol bug

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1868] threading.local doesn't free attrs when assigning thread exits

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue3657] pickle can pickle the wrong function

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: 'works for me' contradicts 'open', so I unset that -- nosy: +tjreedy resolution: works for me -> versions: +Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker <http:/

[issue5180] 3.1 cannot unpickle 2.7-created pickle

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue886488] WinPython 2.3.3 crashes using popen2 to spawn lots of child

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue2437] Distutils runtime_library_dirs broken on Windows

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue5464] msgfmt.py does not work with plural form

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue3699] test_bigaddrspace broken

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1451466] reading very large files

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Is this still an issue for 2.7? -- nosy: +tjreedy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1451466> ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue1599254] mailbox: other programs' messages can vanish without trace

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1646068] Dict lookups fail if sizeof(Py_ssize_t) < sizeof(long)

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1669539] Change (fix!) os.path.isabs() semantics on Win32

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue4608] urllib.request.urlopen does not return an iterable object

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue5945] PyMapping_Check returns 1 for lists

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1598083] Top-level exception handler writes to stdout unsafely

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue4188] Lib/threading.py causes infinite recursion when running as verbose

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1621] Do not assume signed integer overflow behavior

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1621] Do not assume signed integer overflow behavior

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue2122] mmap.flush does not check for errors on windows

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue5219] IDLE/Tkinter: edit win stops updating when tooltip is active

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue2620] Multiple buffer overflows in unicode processing

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Neal committed changes for 2.4,2.5, so I removed those. 3.0 is dead. Is this an issue for 3.1,3.2 or should it be closed? -- nosy: +tjreedy ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue2

[issue7152] urllib2.build_opener() skips ProxyHandler

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue779285] Carbon Event ReceiveNextEvent

2010-05-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I have the strong impression that Carbon is no longer used (or is being phased out) in modern Mac ports of Python. Reopen is this is wrong and there is a problem in 2.6,7 or 3.1,2. -- nosy: +tjreedy resolution: -> out of date status: open ->

[issue1811] True division of integers could be more accurate

2008-03-18 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: To my mind, the inaccurate result is a bug that should be fixed. Note: (3.0a3) >>> 10e40/10e39 10.0 The rationale for the division change is that (as far as reasonably possible) arithmetic operations with same values should g

[issue2417] Integer floor division (//): small int check omitted

2008-03-18 Thread Terry J. Reedy
New submission from Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Python 3.0a3 (r30a3:61161, Mar 1 2008, 22:51:17) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 >>> a,b=1,1//1 >>> a is b False IDLE 3.0a3 >>> a,b=1,1//1 >>> a is b True ditto for 2.5.2 interpreter

[issue2417] [py3k] Integer floor division (//): small int check omitted

2008-03-18 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- title: Integer floor division (//): small int check omitted -> [py3k] Integer floor division (//): small int check omitted __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.py

[issue2413] os.strerror does not check for out of range argument

2008-03-18 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file9754/posix-strerror.diff __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.pytho

[issue2413] os.strerror does not check for out of range argument

2008-03-18 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Removed earlier version -- nosy: +tjreedy __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2413> __

[issue2417] [py3k] Integer floor division (//): small int check omitted

2008-03-19 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I agree that this is not a bug in the strict sense. I could have selected Type: resource usage (for memory increase). But the change of behavior is also visible. I suspect the change is not intentional both because of the patte

[issue2413] os.strerror does not check for out of range argument

2008-03-19 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue2138] Add a factorial function

2008-04-03 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: The fact that other languages have factorial does not in itself impress me. What is the actual use case other than illustrating computational induction (whether by iteration or recursion) and for calculating binomial coefficients? I

[issue2506] Line tracing of continue after always-taken if is incorrect

2008-04-04 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: While I agree with Raymond that the interpreter should be left alone, this could be reclassified (and reopened) as a doc issue. The current trace doc (Lib Ref 25.10) says rather tersely "The trace module allows you to trace progra

[issue2565] Change 'type' to 'class' in repr/str(builtin-class)

2008-04-06 Thread Terry J. Reedy
New submission from Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >From py3 devel list today: > r23331 | gvanrossum | 2001-09-25 05:56:29 +0200 (Di, 25 Sep 2001) | 5 lines > > Change repr() of a new-style cl

[issue2565] Change 'type' to 'class' in repr/str(builtin-class)

2008-04-06 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Finish the change from 'type' to 'class' (See carefully written title ;-) __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

[issue2580] Revise builtin class int library manual entry

2008-04-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
New submission from Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Based on c.l.p discussion with Mark Dickinson, who supplied details and corrections, we propose the following for the int() entry at http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/library/functions.html#int int([number | string[, radix]]) Convert a

[issue2677] Argument rules for callables do not apply when function implementation uses PyArg_ParseTuple

2008-04-25 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I consider the difference between builtin and def'ed functions to be something of an implementation wart -- one that I would like to see someday removed if sensibly possible. How is a beginner to know that the parameter names

[issue2677] Argument rules for callables do not apply when function implementation uses PyArg_ParseTuple

2008-04-26 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Ludovico quoted from LangReg 5.3.4 of old style doc. The same paragraph about keyword args is under Expressions/Primaries/Calls in the 2.6/3.0 docs __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://

[issue2695] Ignore case when checking algorithm in urllib2

2008-05-02 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: What module is this in that you want to change? Note 1: hashlib checks upper and lower case versions of names. So this seems like reasonable request. Note 2: I would start hashlib.__get_builtin_constructor(name): with 'name =

[issue2695] Ignore case when checking algorithm in urllib2

2008-05-02 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Whoops, just checked the title. Function is about 2/3rds down in urllib2. comments still apply Note 4: I consider 'name = lambda ...' inferior to 'def name...' but I am not

[issue2695] Ignore case when checking algorithm in urllib2

2008-05-02 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue2695] Ignore case when checking algorithm in urllib2

2008-05-02 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue2695] Ignore case when checking algorithm in urllib2

2008-05-02 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Function is about 2/3rds down in urllib2. Note 1: hashlib checks upper and lower case versions of names. So this seems like reasonable request. Note 2: I would start hashlib.__get_builtin_constructor(name): with 'name = name.l

[issue2704] IDLE: Patch to make PyShell behave more like a Terminal interface

2008-05-02 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I like the two changes: jump to command line and scroll previous command lines without having to search back up through the output. Just don't imitate the Windows terminal too closely with its inability to just select prev

[issue2735] range: lean and mean

2008-05-02 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Does this/will this supercede http://bugs.python.org/issue2690 ? -- nosy: +tjreedy __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.pytho

[issue2759] Bool makes filter(None,it) redundant; remove None option?

2008-05-04 Thread Terry J. Reedy
New submission from Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Filter() allows None as a stand-in for either the still-nonexistent identity() or the now existent bool(). Removing the now redundant option would slightly simplify the language. It is certainly a glitch for newcomers. Would this

[issue2761] Doc: built-in callables and map

2008-05-04 Thread Terry J. Reedy
New submission from Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: StdLibMan Built-in Functions I believe that at one time this section only contained functions. But this has not been true since at least 2.2. Please add "and Classes" to the title and first sentence. Possibly add "

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