Re: Reportlab / platypus bug?

2022-03-14 Thread Les
Good point. I can confirm, that it works with copy.deepcopy. Probably you are right, the story is somehow consumed by doc.build. But it is not documented anywhere. I'm going to submit a bug report, thanks. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Suggestion for Linux Distro (from PSA: Linux vulnerability)

2022-03-14 Thread Loris Bennett
Marco Sulla writes: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 at 19:10, Michael Torrie wrote: >> Both Debian stable and Ubuntu LTS state they have a five year support >> life cycle. > > Yes, but it seems that official security support in Debian ends after > three years: > > "Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian

RE: Reportlab / platypus bug?

2022-03-14 Thread Schachner, Joseph
I realize this is Python code, but I doubt that the question is a Python question. I have used Python +numpy, scipy, matplotlib for years. I have not used reportlab and have no idea about the reported problem except that I will be very surprised if it turns out to be a Python language issue.

Re: Reportlab / platypus bug?

2022-03-14 Thread Les
Unfortunately, the reportlab-users mailing list is unavailable (I cannot subscribe). There is paid support but since I already have a workaround, I won't pay for this. I think this is a documentation error of the reportlab package. (They do not mention that stories cannot be reused.) I think we ca

Re: Reportlab / platypus bug?

2022-03-14 Thread Dennis Lee Bieber
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 19:17:31 +0100, Les declaimed the following: >Unfortunately, the reportlab-users mailing list is unavailable (I cannot >subscribe). There is paid support but since I already have a workaround, I >won't pay for this. I think this is a documentation error of the reportlab >packa

Re: Suggestion for Linux Distro (from PSA: Linux vulnerability)

2022-03-14 Thread Marco Sulla
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 18:33, Loris Bennett wrote: > I am not sure how different the two situations are. Ubuntu is > presumably relying on the Debian security team as well as other > volunteers and at least one company, namely Canonical. So do you think that Canonical contributes to the LTS secu

Weird strace of #! python script

2022-03-14 Thread Dan Stromberg
Hi folks. First off, I know, python2 is ancient history. Porting to 3.x is on my list of things to do (though I'm afraid it's not yet at the top of the list), and the same thing happens with python3. So anyway, I'm strace'ing a #!/usr/bin/python2 script. I expected to see an exec of /usr/bin/py

Re: Weird strace of #! python script

2022-03-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 at 08:28, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > Hi folks. > > First off, I know, python2 is ancient history. Porting to 3.x is on my > list of things to do (though I'm afraid it's not yet at the top of the > list), and the same thing happens with python3. > > So anyway, I'm strace'ing a #!

Re: Weird strace of #! python script

2022-03-14 Thread Barry
> On 14 Mar 2022, at 21:29, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > I expected to see an exec of /usr/bin/python2, but I don't. I just see an > exec of /tmp/t. I understand that the kernel handles the #! Line itself, which is why you do not see it in strace. Barry -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/l