Re: zipfile [module and file format, both] stupidly broken

2007-05-21 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:00:01 + (UTC), Martin Maney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > posted here and had so much fun. Apparently I don't speak for most readers here, but I had fun too. Smart, reasonable people write braindead code all the time. I think it's fine when people whine about that o

Re: zipfile [module and file format, both] stupidly broken

2007-05-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Paul Boddie (20 May 2007 08:36:18 -0700) > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > Don't be silly. Where would you look for the URL to report bugs? On > > the website of the project, of course. It's not that easy to find on > > python.org (although not as hard as Martin says): > > > > Core Development > Links

Re: zipfile [module and file format, both] stupidly broken

2007-05-20 Thread Paul Boddie
Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > Don't be silly. Where would you look for the URL to report bugs? On > the website of the project, of course. It's not that easy to find on > python.org (although not as hard as Martin says): > > Core Development > Links for Developers > Bug Manager or This is the "in crow

Re: zipfile [module and file format, both] stupidly broken

2007-05-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Gabriel Genellina (Sat, 19 May 2007 18:09:06 -0300) > En Sat, 19 May 2007 14:00:01 -0300, Martin Maney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > > BTW, thanks for the pointer someone else gave to the proper place for > > posting bugs. I'd had the silly idea that I would be able to find that > > easily

Re: zipfile [module and file format, both] stupidly broken

2007-05-19 Thread Martin Maney
Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A module in the Python Standard Library has a bug. I take the Python > Library Reference manual, go to the last pages (Appendix B), and find how > to properly report a bug. Sure, the information is *somewhere*. Silly me, I expected it to be readi

Re: zipfile [module and file format, both] stupidly broken

2007-05-19 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sat, 19 May 2007 14:00:01 -0300, Martin Maney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > BTW, thanks for the pointer someone else gave to the proper place for > posting bugs. I'd had the silly idea that I would be able to find that > easily at www.python.org, but if I had then I'd not have posted here

Re: zipfile [module and file format, both] stupidly broken

2007-05-19 Thread Martin Maney
Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bristled: > Are you serious? A zipfile with a comment > 4Kbytes. I've never encountered > such a beast. If I hadn't run into one I would never have had a clue that Python's zipfile module had this silly bug. > As with any open source product it is much better to r