[issue6285] Silent abort on XP help document display

Scott David Daniels added the comment: Help / Python31 Instead of docs showing up, all Idle windows closed. To demonstrate for yourself, edit ~/.idlerc/config-main.cfg add a line at the end (where additional docs show up), like: 4 = Python31c1;C:/Python31/Doc/python31c1.chm (where the 4 is j

[issue6285] Silent abort on XP help document display

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > I uninstalled 3.1rc1, installed 3.1rc2, was exercising, and went to look > up something in the docs What does that mean? What exactly did you do to "look up something in the docs"? (I assume "was exercising" didn't cause IDLE to crash) -- _

[issue6283] Cannot build extension in amd64 using msvc9compiler

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: So when you run vcvarsall.bat, and then do "set", does it print any of the variables "include", "lib", "libpath", "path"? -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue6285] Silent abort on XP help document display

Scott David Daniels added the comment: I uninstalled 3.1rc1, installed 3.1rc2, was exercising, and went to look up something in the docs, and Idle disappeared. I tried again, same result. So I opened a command window, and ran Idle as: python -m idlelib.idle Tried it again and got an error

[issue6285] Silent abort on XP help document display

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: How exactly did you trigger the error that you are fixing? -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5811] io.BufferedReader.peek(): Documentation differs from Implementation

Lucas Prado Melo added the comment: Here, it's a patch that passes all the tests (I had to change some of them though, they were expecting erroneous behaviours IMHO). The biggest problem was the read1 testing, I've tried to get the maximum of bytes less than or equal to what the user wanted whil

[issue5811] io.BufferedReader.peek(): Documentation differs from Implementation

Lucas Prado Melo added the comment: Here is a patch that passes all the tests (I had to change some of them though, they were expecting erroneous behaviours IMHO). The biggest problem was the read1 testing, I've tried to get the maximum of bytes less than or equal to what the user wanted while e

[issue6143] IDLE - an extension to clear the shell window

Roger Serwy added the comment: I just tried Squeezer. It's pretty neat and it solves a different problem. Clearing the contents of the shell window should be a simple operation. The undo operation doesn't restore iomark properly, nor does it restore tags. I've uploaded a newer version of the ex

[issue1489051] keyword and topic help broken in Pythonwin IDE

Georg Brandl added the comment: Very good :) -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs

[issue6277] Add description of new syntax of with to 2.7 whatsnew document.

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I should have been clearer. There is no need to submit patches for whatsnew documents. Those are solely the responsiblity of their individual maintainers (see the instructions at the top of the file). -- ___ Pyt

[issue6277] Add description of new syntax of with to 2.7 whatsnew document.

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: AMK writes the whatsnew for 2.7 and I write it for 3.1. In the case of 3.1, I already have an entry. -- nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker

[issue6283] Cannot build extension in amd64 using msvc9compiler

Alex Shih-Han Lin added the comment: yes, I have already installed VS 2008 (but it is Express Edition for VC, VB ,C#...I have no money to buy standard edition.) -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue6215] Backport the IO lib to trunk

Hirokazu Yamamoto added the comment: > except in places where it's not used as a test. I couldn't distinguish which one is that case, so I converted all open(). ;-) -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue6215] Backport the IO lib to trunk

Hirokazu Yamamoto added the comment: Here is a patch to convert open() and io.open() to self.open(). # I didn't change _default_chunk_size() but maybe should this also use self.open()? -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14302/self_open.patch

[issue6282] In tarfile, compression level cannot be specified

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: The TarFile.bz2open function does have a 'compresslevel' parameter. How do you use TarFile? -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc ___ Python tracker __

[issue6280] calendar.timegm() belongs in time module, next to time.gmtime()

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: Do you want to write a patch? (Note: the time module is written in C) -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc stage: -> needs patch ___ Python tracker _

[issue6285] Silent abort on XP help document display

New submission from Scott David Daniels : When running Idle on Windows XP, Python 3.1rc2, a failure to find an entry in the help documents causes Idle to exit (with no visible indication of why). The reason is in a failure of the call to os.startfile, and apparenly the exception causes Idle to

[issue6095] os.curdir as the default argument for os.listdir

Virgil Dupras added the comment: 1. Yeah, I know. At first, that's what I wanted to do, but it resulted in a lot of code duplication (alloc, memerror, copy), which I didn't much like. But then again, what I ended up writing (because I realized I had to decref the new "po") uses up more lines

[issue6095] os.curdir as the default argument for os.listdir

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: Some comments about the patch: - It seems wasteful to allocate a new PyUnicode object for the "."; the posix implements does it right: a simple wcscopy should be enough (and reduces the chances of refcount mistakes) - the last block is not correctly in

[issue6281] Bug in hashlib

Daniel Eloff added the comment: Yes, I prefer: globals()[funcName] = __get_hash(funcName) The exec was used in the original code, I'm not aware of the style of the python stdlib programmers, so I tried to be as true to what I found as possible. I just wanted to blunt my words in the original

[issue6281] Bug in hashlib

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: In addition, I would replace exec funcName + ' = __get_hash(funcName)' with globals()[funcName] = __get_hash(funcName) -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc ___ Python tracker

[issue1489051] keyword and topic help broken in Pythonwin IDE

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Something changed in the past year so that keyword and topic help work in 3.2rc2 at both the main prompt and help prompt. Thanks to whoever. If this is also fixed in 2.6.2 or even 2.6 in SVN, this can be closed. >>> help('while') The ``while`` statement... ...

[issue6284] C/API PyErr_AsUnicode()

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: PyErr_Print seems a too high-level function for this usage: - it uses sys.excepthook - it exits the process if the exception is SystemExit (!) I'd prefer a function similar to PyErr_Display. And sys.stderr should not be redirected to a temporary stream:

[issue5221] help related topic doesn't exist

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: In 3.1rc2, SPECIALMETHODS help ends with "Related help topics: BASICMETHODS, ATTRIBUTEMETHODS, CALLABLEMETHODS, SEQUENCEMETHODS1, MAPPINGMETHODS, SEQUENCEMETHODS2, NUMBERMETHODS, CLASSES". The topic list only has SEQUENCEMETHODS and not S...1 and S...2. So I sus

[issue6227] doctest_aliases doesn't test duplicate removal

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: Fixed in r73432 (trunk), will be merged to py3k after 3.1 is final. Thanks for the report! -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue1230] Tix HList class missing method implementation for info_bbox

Guilherme Polo added the comment: Please include a diff of this modified Tix.py instead. -- nosy: +gpolo ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue5492] Error on leaving IDLE with quit() or exit() under Linux

Guilherme Polo added the comment: I can get a similar error from time to time, just try it a couple of times and I believe you should hit it too. When that error isn't thrown IDLE prints the traceback of a SystemExit exception inside IDLE right before closing, so it may be hard to notice. The

[issue6275] let unittest.assertRaises() return the exception object caught

Kristján Valur Jónsson added the comment: Ok, maybe a bad choice of words :) I don't write unittests that much, of course, but I have found that when I am writing tests for stuff such as http, I want to verify the actual error code, i.e. HTTPError.code, which is not possible using the message

[issue5811] io.BufferedReader.peek(): Documentation differs from Implementation

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Rather than "only a single read on the raw stream", it should be "at most a single read on the raw stream", IMHO. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue3407] test_urllib2_localnet fails on MacOS X 10.4.11 (Intel)

Jean Brouwers added the comment: The test also passes on Python 2.6.2 on MacOS X 10.4.11 Tiger (Intel): % ./python.exe Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Apr 15 2009, 21:47:16) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

[issue3407] test_urllib2_localnet fails on MacOS X 10.4.11 (Intel)

Jean Brouwers added the comment: This test passes with Python 3.1rc2 on MacOS X 10.4.11 Tiger (Intel). % ./python.exe Python 3.1rc2 (r31rc2:73411, Jun 14 2009, 09:27:12) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more informatio

[issue1252236] Simplying Tkinter's event loop

Guilherme Polo added the comment: Michiel, the patch on #1049855 has been rejected so there is no longer a fix for the first problem to be solved. Also, the fourth problem you described is not entirely true, it is possible to run tkinter apps on IDLE without calling the mainloop function (see #9

[issue4388] test_cmd_line fails on MacOS X

Jean Brouwers added the comment: This test still fails and is the only failure with Python 3.1rc2 on MacOS X 10.4.11 Tiger (Intel). -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue6215] Backport the IO lib to trunk

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > I found following patch can fix test_invalid_operations error on > windows. Is this correct fix? There are many other places using bare open(). The fix looks ok. test_io should use self.open() instead of open() everywhere, except in places where it's not use

[issue6208] path separator output ignores shell's path separator: / instead of \

ThurnerRupert added the comment: the parent process would be "sh.exe" in the msys case, contrary to the windows standard cmd.exe, explorer.exe, system, system idle process, ... an example is the mercurial "status" command, see http://selenic.com/repo/index.cgi/hg/file/8bf6eb68ddaf/mercurial/

[issue6281] Bug in hashlib

Changes by Antoine Pitrou : -- stage: -> patch review versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-

[issue6284] C/API PyErr_AsUnicode()

Changes by Campbell Barton : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14301/PyErr_AsUnicode_r73429.diff ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-li

[issue6284] C/API PyErr_AsUnicode()

Changes by Campbell Barton : Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file14300/PyErr_AsUnicode_r73429.diff ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-

[issue1399935] enhance unittest to define tests that *should* fail

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Actually, unittest already has @expectedFailure. -- resolution: -> out of date status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue6284] C/API PyErr_AsUnicode()

Changes by Campbell Barton : Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file14299/PyErr_AsUnicode_r73429.diff ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-

[issue6284] C/API PyErr_AsUnicode()

Campbell Barton added the comment: last patch was bad heres a new one. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14300/PyErr_AsUnicode_r73429.diff ___ Python tracker ___

[issue6281] Bug in hashlib

Changes by Benjamin Peterson : -- assignee: -> gregory.p.smith nosy: +gregory.p.smith ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mail

[issue6284] C/API PyErr_AsUnicode()

New submission from Campbell Barton : This function returns the output of PyErr_Print as a unicode string. We needed this in Blender3D because it has its own error logging system which does not use the console. The patch is made against python3k r73429. -- components: None files: PyErr

[issue6275] let unittest.assertRaises() return the exception object caught

Kristján Valur Jónsson added the comment: Uploading a slimmed down patch, with only the exc_value memeber added to the assertRaises context manager. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14298/unitest2.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue6281] Bug in hashlib

Daniel Eloff added the comment: If you're missing any hash algorithm from openssl (say sha224) and the corresponding _sha224 module, hashlib will fail to import and no hash algorithms will be available. Additionally, if no (or only some) openssl algorithms are available, the error branch expect

[issue1399935] enhance unittest to define tests that *should* fail

Michael Foord added the comment: Patch needs updating but still seems like a useful feature. I'll update and commit. I agree that decorator should be lowercase - should_fail or shouldfail ? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue6275] let unittest.assertRaises() return the exception object caught

Michael Foord added the comment: I disagree that the regex version is half-assed though. If all you want to do is to make assertions about the exception message (the most common use case in *my* experience) it is enormously convenient. -- ___ Python

[issue6275] let unittest.assertRaises() return the exception object caught

Michael Foord added the comment: Well, his comment was made after assertRaises had already been made a context manager. Keeping the exception attached to the context manager is an interesting suggestion and a less 'surprising' change to the API. -- ___

[issue6275] let unittest.assertRaises() return the exception object caught

Kristján Valur Jónsson added the comment: Guido's comment is out of date. The assertRaises(exception) already returns something: A context manager. If we don't want to return the object, how about retainig it in the context manager, then? It is very awkward otherwise to make any kinds of as

[issue6283] Cannot build extension in amd64 using msvc9compiler

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Do you have VS2008 installed also? -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mai

[issue5811] io.BufferedReader.peek(): Documentation differs from Implementation

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: I updated the documentation in r73429. Is that better? -- versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 3.0 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue6283] Cannot build extension in amd64 using msvc9compiler

New submission from Alex Shih-Han Lin : OS is Windows 7 x64, python using 2.6.2 amd64, SDK installed, but when I build some module by setup.py, it always traceback ValueError. running build running build_py running build_ext building 'genshi._speedups' extension Traceback (most recent call last)

[issue6205] sdist doesn't include data_files

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: Hi James, this has been changed already for trunk and 3.x, see #2279. Although it hasn't been backported in Python 2.6.x because it's a major behavior change that breaks setuptools. Although, when 2.7 and 3.2 are out, we will provide a backport of distutils. for

[issue6279] datamodel documentation confuses staticmethod with classmethod

Changes by Florian Mayer : Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file14292/datamodel.rst.patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list maili

[issue6279] datamodel documentation confuses staticmethod with classmethod

Florian Mayer added the comment: Sorry, my fault. -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list U

[issue6282] In tarfile, compression level cannot be specified

New submission from Omri Shaked : When creating a TarFile object that uses compression, the compressor is always created using its default compression level. import bz2 self.cmp = bz2.BZ2Compressor() You can't specify the compression level (i.e. self.cmp = bz2.BZ2Compressor(1)). -- com

[issue6281] Bug in hashlib

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Can you propose an actual test case and a patch? -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-

[issue6215] Backport the IO lib to trunk

Hirokazu Yamamoto added the comment: I found following patch can fix test_invalid_operations error on windows. Is this correct fix? There are many other places using bare open(). Index: Lib/test/test_io.py === --- Lib/test/test_io.

[issue6215] Backport the IO lib to trunk

Hirokazu Yamamoto added the comment: I think I could fix windows build issue. (r73423) It seems some tests are failing. See http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/trunk.stable/x86%20XP-4%20trunk/builds/2244/step-test/0 -- nosy: +ocean-city ___ Python tr