File naming [was Re: Bug reporting impossible]

2006-06-30 Thread Nick Maclaren
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> |> > |> Why would you have a file named '' in your current directory? |> > |> > Why would Python search for one? :-) |> > |> > In both cases, the normal answer is "Someone made a mistake" but, if |> > you have a script

Re: Bug reporting impossible

2006-06-29 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Nick Maclaren wrote: > |> Why would you have a file named '' in your current directory? > > Why would Python search for one? :-) > > In both cases, the normal answer is "Someone made a mistake" but, if > you have a script that creates a files of the same names specified in > the current directory,

Re: Bug reporting impossible

2006-06-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-06-29, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Maclaren wrote: > >> It's definitely worth fixing, but not as a high priority. Invoking a >> file spuriously is potentially serious, with very low probability. > > the traceback printer is reading the file (using a very robust reader),

Re: Bug reporting impossible

2006-06-29 Thread olsongt
> > I usually refrain from posting if I don't have anything to add to the > discussion, but that struck me as perverse and I was curious. > I certainly have no objection to having that bug fixed. : ) > If you find that sort of perversity strangely exciting, I would like to refer you to pages 67-

Re: Bug reporting impossible

2006-06-29 Thread Nick Maclaren
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> Nick Maclaren wrote: |> |> > It's definitely worth fixing, but not as a high priority. Invoking a |> > file spuriously is potentially serious, with very low probability. |> |> the traceback printer is reading the file

Re: Bug reporting impossible

2006-06-29 Thread Simon Forman
Nick Maclaren wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Simon Forman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > |> Nick Maclaren wrote: > |> ... > |> > Create a file called '' in your current directory containing > |> > 'print "Oh, yeah?\n"' and then import a module that doesn't exist. > |> > Don't include t

Re: Bug reporting impossible

2006-06-29 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Nick Maclaren wrote: > It's definitely worth fixing, but not as a high priority. Invoking a > file spuriously is potentially serious, with very low probability. the traceback printer is reading the file (using a very robust reader), it's not "invoking" it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: Bug reporting impossible

2006-06-29 Thread Nick Maclaren
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> |> You should have said what the bug is. Well, maybe, but it is more amusing than serious. I have now reported it properly, as Sourceforge is back up. |> The problem is that Python does not know whether a file name is

Re: Bug reporting impossible

2006-06-29 Thread Nick Maclaren
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Simon Forman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> Nick Maclaren wrote: |> ... |> > Create a file called '' in your current directory containing |> > 'print "Oh, yeah?\n"' and then import a module that doesn't exist. |> > Don't include the single quotes. |> |> Why would

Re: Bug reporting impossible

2006-06-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-06-29, Simon Forman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Maclaren wrote: > ... >> Create a file called '' in your current directory >> containing 'print "Oh, yeah?\n"' and then import a module that >> doesn't exist. Don't include the single quotes. > > Why would you have a file named '' in you

Re: Bug reporting impossible

2006-06-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-06-29, Nick Maclaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently logins are disabled to sourceforge.net, and (despite the > comments) it won't let me report a bug anonymously. Does anyone > know whether this is short or long term? I have a bug in 2.5 to > report - which has been there for a w

Re: Bug reporting impossible

2006-06-29 Thread Simon Forman
Nick Maclaren wrote: ... > Create a file called '' in your current directory containing > 'print "Oh, yeah?\n"' and then import a module that doesn't exist. > Don't include the single quotes. Why would you have a file named '' in your current directory? ~Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: Bug reporting impossible

2006-06-29 Thread Georg Brandl
Nick Maclaren wrote: > Currently logins are disabled to sourceforge.net, and (despite the > comments) it won't let me report a bug anonymously. Does anyone > know whether this is short or long term? I have a bug in 2.5 to > report - which has been there for a while and isn't overwhelmingly > crit

Bug reporting impossible

2006-06-29 Thread Nick Maclaren
Currently logins are disabled to sourceforge.net, and (despite the comments) it won't let me report a bug anonymously. Does anyone know whether this is short or long term? I have a bug in 2.5 to report - which has been there for a while and isn't overwhelmingly critical and has been there for a