[issue4305] ctypes fails to build on mipsel-linux-gnu (detects mips instead of mipsel)

Joshua Kinard ku...@gentoo.org added the comment: Is there any movement on this perchance? Just bumped into this on my MIPS platform and discovered this bug. -- nosy: +kumba ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4305

[issue5776] RPM build error with python-2.6.spec

New submission from Yasushi Iwata yasu...@lowlife.jp: I found some typo and mistakes in python-2.6.spec. -- components: Demos and Tools files: python-2.6.spec.patch keywords: patch messages: 86056 nosy: yasusii severity: normal status: open title: RPM build error with python-2.6.spec

[issue5777] unable to search in python V3 documentation

New submission from Andreas Otto aotto1...@users.sourceforge.net: Hi, if I search for sys.argv I get Your search did not match any documents. Please make sure that all words are spelled correctly and that you've selected enough categories. but its available at:

[issue2531] float compared to decimal is silently incorrect.

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Raymond Hettinger rep...@bugs.python.org wrote: Mark, any thoughts?  I would like to apply this patch for ordering comparisons other than __eq__ and __ne__. Hi Raymond, Sorry for not responding to this

[issue5778] sys.version format differs between MSC and GCC

Changes by Georg Brandl ge...@python.org: -- assignee: - loewis nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5778 ___ ___

[issue5779] _elementtree import can fail silently

New submission from Matteo Bertini matt...@naufraghi.net: (the patch is old, I forwarded it to Fredrik but I forgot to open the bug) Playing with PyInstaller I have found that the final part of _elementtree.c: Index: Modules/_elementtree.c

[issue4305] ctypes fails to build on mipsel-linux-gnu (detects mips instead of mipsel)

Thomas Heller thel...@ctypes.org added the comment: Joshua Kinard schrieb: Joshua Kinard ku...@gentoo.org added the comment: Is there any movement on this perchance? Just bumped into this on my MIPS platform and discovered this bug. There is no MIPS buildbot at the moment, and I'm unclear

[issue5778] sys.version format differs between MSC and GCC

New submission from Toshihiro Kamiya t-kam...@aist.go.jp: The value of sys.version includes a new-line char in GCC build. '2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct 5 2008, 19:24:49) \n[GCC 4.3.2]' MSC build doesn't. '2.6.2 (r262:71605, Apr 14 2009, 22:46:50) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]' This seems a kind of

[issue2531] float compared to decimal is silently incorrect.

Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: I'm not seeing the downside. This gives better answers than it does now but doesn't commit us to anything else. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue5779] _elementtree import can fail silently

Matteo Bertini matt...@naufraghi.net added the comment: Ups, I duplicated myself... issue3475 -- status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5779 ___

[issue5780] test_float fails for 'legacy' float repr style

New submission from Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com: After: CC=gcc -DPY_NO_SHORT_FLOAT_REPR ./configure make test_format_testfile in test_float fails with: test.support.TestFailed: Traceback (most recent call last): File Lib/test/test_float.py, line 341, in test_format_testfile

[issue5780] test_float fails for 'legacy' float repr style

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: On second thoughts, I think that repr shouldn't change: 'legacy' repr format should mean that it *is* exactly the same as before, including the switch at 1e17 instead of 1e16. Otherwise there will be 3 possibilities for repr output: 'short'

[issue5780] test_float fails for 'legacy' float repr style

Changes by Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file13711/issue5780.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5780 ___

[issue5780] test_float fails for 'legacy' float repr style

Eric Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment: Also, remove_trailing_zeros should go inside the #ifdef so it's not included if Gay's code is being used. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5780

[issue5780] test_float fails for 'legacy' float repr style

Eric Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment: I agree that there should be 2 behaviors, not 3. This patch looks okay to me, and tests pass both with and without defining PY_NO_SHORT_FLOAT_REPR. One nit: You don't need to use Py_CHARMASK when using the ISDIGIT macro locally defined in

[issue2531] float compared to decimal is silently incorrect.

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: The downside is the potential confusion arising from using one method (comparison of actual numerical value) for , =, , =, and a different method (decimals and floats are never equal) for == and !=. --

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: Closing this. There are a few known problems remaining, but they've all got their own issue numbers: see issue 5780, issue 4482. -- resolution: - accepted stage: - committed/rejected status: open - closed

[issue5780] test_float fails for 'legacy' float repr style

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: Here's a patch. Eric, do you have time to check this over for general sanity? -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13711/issue5780.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue5780] test_float fails for 'legacy' float repr style

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: I seem to recall that despite the C standards, there are platforms around where isdigit and isxdigit are still locale aware. This bit me when I implemented float.fromhex: see r65964. And my man page for isdigit says: COMPATIBILITY

[issue5781] Legacy float repr is used unnecessarily on some platforms

New submission from Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com: The current defines in pyport.h mean that we don't use Gay's code for short float repr if there's evidence of double rounding. However, there's one situation where double rounding occurs and we can still use Gay's code: namely, when the

[issue5780] test_float fails for 'legacy' float repr style

Eric Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment: I definitely think that if you go with isdigit, you need the macro. I've been bitten by this in 3.0. My actual suggestion is to go with isdigit and the macro everywhere in this file and all files. But for just this checkin, ISDIGIT is probably

[issue5782] ',' formatting with empty format type '' (PEP 378)

New submission from Eric Smith e...@trueblade.com: PEP 378 says that the ',' format option applies to types 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'E', 'G', '%' and 'F'. I think this should also be extended to include the empty type ''. This only makes a difference for floats. For ints, '' is the same as 'd', but

[issue708320] DistributionMetaData error ?

Vah Rashim d233...@bsnow.net added the comment: I'm running py2exe on python 2.6 and have this error, too. I'm look through distutils/dist.py and read following: self.metadata = DistributionMetadata() method_basenames = dir(self.metadata) + \ ['fullname', 'contact',

[issue4482] 10e667.__format__('+') should return 'inf'

Daniel Stutzbach dan...@stutzbachenterprises.com added the comment: I used 'inf' instead of +inf' because the original bug report states that the docs say it should be 'inf'. Now that I actually look at the docs, I don't agree with the original report's interpretation and agree that '+inf' is

[issue3754] minimal cross-compilation support for configure

Changes by Victor Godoy Poluceno victorpoluc...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +victorpoluceno ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue3754 ___ ___

[issue3102] ctypes defines global symbols

Thomas Heller thel...@ctypes.org added the comment: Here is a quite large patch (300 lines) against svn trunk that renames a lot of symbols. The list of symbols, listed by 'nm -g --defined-only _ctypes.so' is as follows: thel...@tubu32:~/devel/trunk$ find . -name _ctypes.so | xargs nm -g

[issue5782] ',' formatting with empty format type '' (PEP 378)

Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: I concur. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5782 ___ ___

[issue5782] ',' formatting with empty format type '' (PEP 378)

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: Sounds good to me, too. It looks as though the Decimal type already does this: Python 3.1a2+ (py3k:71669:71684M, Apr 17 2009, 19:23:53) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5490)] on darwin Type help, copyright, credits or license for more

[issue5782] ',' formatting with empty format type '' (PEP 378)

Eric Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment: I updated the PEP in r71686. I'll fix the code and add a test after I backport the entire thing to 2.7. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5782

[issue5783] IDLE cannot find windows chm file

New submission from Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net: The Doc/Python262.chm file needs to be named Doc/Python26.chm so that IDLE can find it. The current release cannot find the chm file at all so it falls back to the on-line docs at http://www.python.org/doc/current .

[issue5783] IDLE cannot find windows chm file

Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: This also applies to Python31a2.chm -- Python31.chm -- versions: +Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5783

[issue5783] IDLE cannot find windows chm file

Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: It's actually vice versa - IDLE should open the file under its correct name. -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5783

[issue5764] 2.6.2 Python Manuals CHM file seems broken

Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: On http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.2/ we now provide a fixed version of the CHM file. -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5764

[issue5783] IDLE cannot find windows chm file

Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: What changed here? ISTM that IDLE was always looking for the same name and that the new part is that the build procedure has been been changed (the step where the make htmlhelp output file is moved to ./Doc and renamed).

[issue5764] 2.6.2 Python Manuals CHM file seems broken

Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Are you also going to update the original MSI file so that people get a correct installation straight-away? -- nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue1869] Builtin round function is sometimes inaccurate for floats

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: Here's a patch that improves float rounding in a number of respects: (1) (when available) it uses the recently added correctly-rounded str - float conversions in Python/dtoa.c. This means that: - round(x, n) finally does what the docs say

[issue1869] Builtin round function is sometimes inaccurate for floats

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: Note that the correctly rounded string-decimal code only exists in 3.1, so it won't be possible to backport all this good stuff to 2.7. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue5734] BufferedRWPair broken

Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: I've uploaded the patch for code review here: http://codereview.appspot.com/40126 -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5734 ___

[issue5734] Fix BufferedRWPair

Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: Reviewers: report_bugs.python.org, Message: Here are some comments. In general, I think the changes to _pyio.py are unwarranted (even though I dislike the naming of _checkReadable and _checkWritable). http://codereview.appspot.com/40126/diff/1/2

[issue5773] Crash on shutdown after os.fdopen(2) in debug builds

Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: I thought there was a _PyVerify_Fd() just for that, why couldn't it be used here too? (not that I think sparkling _PyVerify_Fd() everywhere in our code base is reasonable and maintainable, but I didn't make that choice :-)) -- nosy:

[issue1869] Builtin round function is sometimes inaccurate for floats

Changes by Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com: -- components: +Interpreter Core ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue1869 ___ ___

[issue5784] raw deflate format and zlib module

New submission from paul rubin p...@users.sourceforge.net: The zlib module doesn't support raw deflate format, so it doesn't completely interoperate with php's gzdeflate function and fails to decompress some strings that web browsers can decompress. A workaround is to use a special zlib feature

[issue5784] raw deflate format and zlib module

Changes by paul rubin p...@users.sourceforge.net: -- components: +Library (Lib) type: - feature request versions: +Python 2.5 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5784 ___

[issue5784] raw deflate format and zlib module

paul rubin p...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: I should have mentioned, the docs do say When wbits is negative, the standard gzip header is suppressed; this is an undocumented feature of the zlib library, used for compatibility with unzip‘s compression file format but this wasn't

[issue5780] test_float fails for 'legacy' float repr style

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: Committed, with the fixups Eric pointed out, in r71692. -- resolution: - fixed stage: patch review - committed/rejected status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue5778] sys.version format differs between MSC and GCC

Changes by Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de: -- type: - feature request ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5778 ___ ___

[issue5778] sys.version format differs between MSC and GCC

Changes by Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de: -- priority: - low ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5778 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue5778] sys.version format differs between MSC and GCC

Changes by Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de: -- assignee: loewis - ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5778 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue5783] IDLE cannot find windows chm file

Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: It looks like IDLE has been the same since 2004: http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py?view=diffr1=36600r2=36601 The correct filename is what has changed. The release process needs to have a

[issue5783] IDLE cannot find windows chm file

Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Just checked Python2.5.4 and its CHM file is Python25.chm. So everything is fine with that release. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5783

[issue3102] ctypes defines global symbols

Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: Looks fine to me, except that I wouldn't call things My* (but I do understand that this unrelated to this issue). -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue3102

[issue5783] IDLE cannot find windows chm file

Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: What changed here? We switched to sphinx, and the makefiles put the full version into the output files. ISTM that IDLE was always looking for the same name and that the new part is that the build procedure has been been changed (the

[issue5764] 2.6.2 Python Manuals CHM file seems broken

Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: Are you also going to update the original MSI file so that people get a correct installation straight-away? No. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5764

[issue5783] IDLE cannot find windows chm file

Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: The release process needs to have a step that validates that the CHM file works from IDLE. I personally can't perform such testing steps, perhaps unless somebody maintains a list of such steps for me. Instead, I think such problems must

[issue5783] IDLE cannot find windows chm file

Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: Just checked Python2.5.4 and its CHM file is Python25.chm. So everything is fine with that release. True. The renaming happened with the switch to sphinx. -- ___ Python tracker