[issue8739] Update to smtpd.py to RFC 5321

Alberto Trevino albe...@byu.edu added the comment: Sorry. This is my first submission to Python, so I'm learning the process as I go. This latest patch is done against today's SVN snapshot. Just to summarize, it does the following: * Updates the main smtpd.py module to make it RFC 5321

[issue5077] 2to3 fixer for the removal of operator functions

Alexandre Vassalotti alexan...@peadrop.com added the comment: Patch committed in r83740. I will make the documentation update in a separate commit. Thanks! -- resolution: - accepted stage: patch review - committed/rejected status: open - closed versions: -Python 2.6, Python 2.7,

[issue9452] configparser support for reading from strings and dictionaries

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdr...@acm.org added the comment: (Apparently I don't have the right permissions on Rietveld.) - Docstrings should be written in the standard PEP-8 way (single line summary + additional explanation as needed following a blank line). - read_sting and read_dict should still

[issue5077] 2to3 fixer for the removal of operator functions

Alexandre Vassalotti alexan...@peadrop.com added the comment: Documentation added in r83741. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5077 ___

[issue1474680] pickling files works with protocol=2.

Alexandre Vassalotti alexan...@peadrop.com added the comment: Although it is tempting to fix this, it feels to much like a feature. I am closing as won't fix because we don't add new features to 2.x. -- resolution: - wont fix stage: needs patch - committed/rejected status: open -

[issue6290] cPickle can misread data type

Alexandre Vassalotti alexan...@peadrop.com added the comment: It is too late for 2.6.6 now that it is released. -- resolution: - wont fix stage: - committed/rejected status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue5671] Speed up pickling of lists in cPickle

Alexandre Vassalotti alexan...@peadrop.com added the comment: It is too late now for the 2.x version. And, the huge patch in issue 9410 includes an updated version of this patch for 3.x. -- resolution: - duplicate stage: - committed/rejected status: open - closed superseder: - Add

[issue6361] I/O object wrappers shouldn't close their underlying file when deleted.

Alexandre Vassalotti alexan...@peadrop.com added the comment: OK I am convinced, the current behavior is fine. Let's close this one. -- resolution: - wont fix stage: needs patch - committed/rejected status: open - closed ___ Python tracker

[issue9427] logging.error('...', exc_info=True) should display upper frames, too

Thomas Guettler guet...@thomas-guettler.de added the comment: Until exc_info=True prints the current stack, I use this pattern: import traceback logging.error(u's...\nStack: %s' % ( ''.join(traceback.format_stack())), exc_info=True) -- ___

[issue9410] Add Unladen Swallow's optimizations to Python 3's pickle.

Alexandre Vassalotti alexan...@peadrop.com added the comment: Ah, that's right Skip. You did fixed it in Unladen Swallow's trunk. I will take a look at your solution.

[issue5683] Speed up cPickle's pickling generally

Alexandre Vassalotti alexan...@peadrop.com added the comment: Too late to make this change in 2.x. And the patch in issue 9410 includes the optimization for 3.x. -- resolution: - duplicate stage: patch review - committed/rejected status: open - closed superseder: - Add Unladen

[issue9514] platform.linux_distribution() under Ubuntu returns ('debian', 'squeeze/sid', '')

Marc-Andre Lemburg m...@egenix.com added the comment: I think we'll start to use the lsb_release command if available and as suggested in issue1322. Note that if you test the API, make sure that you use a Python build from sources available on python.org - the Debian and Ubuntu packagers tend

[issue5871] email.header.Header allows to embed raw newlines into a message

Jakub Wilk jw...@jwilk.net added the comment: Sorry if that wasn't clear in the first place: this is not a feature request. I agree that current behavior for email.header.Header (as shown in the first message) is bizarre, confusing, unnecessary, and potentially leading to vulnerabilities -

[issue4806] Function calls taking a generator as star argument can mask TypeErrors in the generator

Hagen Fürstenau hfuerste...@gmx.net added the comment: IIUC, the only change you suggest for my patch is using finite iterable instead of sequence or iterable, right? I've looked at the docs and there seems to be no precedent for finite iterable. I think it's just as obvious that the iterable

[issue9521] xml.etree.ElementTree strips XML declaration and procesing instructions

New submission from Mark Summerfield m...@qtrac.eu: If you read in an XML file using xml.etree.ElementTree.parse() and then write it out again using xml.etree.ElementTree.write() what is written may not be the same as what was read. In particular any XML declaration and processing

[issue9522] xml.etree.ElementTree forgets the encoding

New submission from Mark Summerfield m...@qtrac.eu: If you read in an XML file that specifies its encoding and then later on use xml.etree.ElementTree.write(), it is always written using US-ASCII. I think the behaviour should be different: (1) If the XML that was read included an encoding,

[issue9510] sqlite3.Warning isnt a subclass of exceptions.Warning

Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com added the comment: I think the fact that sqlite may not be using the warnings properly is independent of this problem. Warnings should be filterable, but if sqlite isn't notifying them properly - that would be a different bug. BTW I came across this

[issue9510] sqlite3.Warning isnt a subclass of exceptions.Warning

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: I agree with Antoine. You say you want to filter warnings, but you can’t since they are not warnings. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9510

[issue9520] Add Patricia Trie high performance container

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Thanks for the request Dmitry. You may want to read http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0002/ to know which steps are required to add a module to the stdlib. In particular, the module has to be proven on the field and the author needs to sign a

[issue9520] Add Patricia Trie high performance container

Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: -- type: performance - feature request ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9520 ___ ___

[issue9510] sqlite3.Warning isnt a subclass of exceptions.Warning

Gerhard Häring g...@ghaering.de added the comment: PEP 0249 says that the module's Warning class must be a subclass of StandardError. So I reject your proposed change. There are only two cases where pysqlite raises Warning, and these could be changed to ProgrammerError anyway. --

[issue9520] Add Patricia Trie high performance container

Dmitry Chichkov dchich...@gmail.com added the comment: Thank you for your comment. Perhaps we should try separate this into two issues: 1) Bug. Python's dict() is unusable on datasets with 10,000,000+ keys. Here I should provide a solid test case showing a deviation from O(1); 2) Feature

[issue3210] subprocess.Popen does not release process handles if process cannot be started

Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk added the comment: Patch attached with code test which fixes this within _subprocess.c at least for Windows -- assignee: - tim.golden Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18398/3210.r83741.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue9517] Make test.script_helper more comprehensive, and use it in the test suite

Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com added the comment: (The email daemon was not in a happy place, so posting directly) On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Antoine Pitrou rep...@bugs.python.org wrote: - perhaps improve the existing functions (kill_python() does a strange dance instead of calling

[issue9520] Add Patricia Trie high performance container

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: 1) Bug. Python's dict() is unusable on datasets with 10,000,000+ keys. Here I should provide a solid test case showing a deviation from O(1); That would be helpful. Are you sure that the slow-down you're seeing isn't simply due to running

[issue8184] multiprocessing.managers will not fail if listening ocket already in use

Jesse Noller jnol...@gmail.com added the comment: Mark - did you observe the behavior in the Op? He's not stating the the code snippet runs fine, but that the second run at the same time on windows to cause a conflict. We need to show that either running it twice, at the same time against the

[issue9509] argparse FileType raises ugly exception for missing file

Changes by Doug Hellmann doug.hellm...@gmail.com: -- keywords: +easy ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9509 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue8041] No documentation for Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_STACKLESS_EXTENSION or Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG.

Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: I don't think these flags need documenting or even deserve mentioning. Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_STACKLESS_EXTENSION seems to be two bits reserved for use by Stackless, while Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG should be considered by extension authors an

[issue9520] Add Patricia Trie high performance container

Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: 1) Bug. Python's dict() is unusable on datasets with 10,000,000+ keys. Here I should provide a solid test case showing a deviation from O(1); Try to disable the cyclic garbage collector before the test (gc.disable()). -- nosy: +pitrou

[issue9512] logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler - mode argument not respected

Friðrik Már Jónsson frid...@pyth.net added the comment: Thank you. I should have been more clear about what I meant. This this condition was introduced in r38631 by Vinay Sajip having the log message Added optional encoding argument to file handlers. I can't easily see why this piece of code

[issue9512] logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler - mode argument not respected

Friðrik Már Jónsson frid...@pyth.net added the comment: It may not have been entirely obvious that what I meant with the Extended Log File Format example is that read access would be optimal. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue9518] PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT does not explicitly initialize all fields of m_base

Changes by Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr: -- nosy: +loewis versions: -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9518 ___ ___

[issue917120] imaplib: incorrect quoting in commands

Dave Baggett jyt...@baggett.org added the comment: Piers Lauder, author of imaplib, emailed me the following comment about this bug: The regex for mustquote_cre looks bizarre, and I regret to say I can no longer remember its genesis. Note however, that the term CTL in the RFC

[issue9510] sqlite3.Warning isnt a subclass of exceptions.Warning

Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com added the comment: Reading PEP 0249 I can see Gerhard is correct, this patch would violate the PEP. I think that the PEP is slightly flawed in that users are encouraged to raise exceptions called Warning. IMHO a Warning is never an exceptional condition

[issue2400] from .foo import * should work

Changes by Jason R. Coombs jar...@jaraco.com: -- nosy: +jaraco ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue2400 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue2400] from .foo import * should work

Jason R. Coombs jar...@jaraco.com added the comment: Is there any chance this can be back-ported to Python 2.7? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue2400 ___

[issue1343] XMLGenerator: nice empty/ elements

Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk added the comment: Can a committer look at this please. -- stage: commit review - patch review ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue1343 ___

[issue1812] doctest _load_testfile function -- newline handling seems incorrect

Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk added the comment: can committers take a look please. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue1812 ___

[issue6683] smtplib authentication - try all mechanisms

Gerhard Häring g...@ghaering.de added the comment: Fixed in r83742. I implemented this without a test case, because if we wait for a test case for this, we can wait forever (would need a SMTP server implementation in Python for the various auth methods). --

[issue8196] sqlit3.paramstyle reported as 'qmark'

Gerhard Häring g...@ghaering.de added the comment: There is too little value changing the paramstyle attribute. I think the documentation clearly states that both parameter binding methods are supported. -- resolution: - rejected status: open - closed

[issue2521] ABC caches should use weak refs

Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk added the comment: Can a committer take a look at this please. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue2521 ___

[issue3210] subprocess.Popen does not release process handles if process cannot be started

Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk added the comment: Patch added for 31 branch -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18399/3210.release31-maint.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue3210

[issue3210] subprocess.Popen does not release process handles if process cannot be started

Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk added the comment: Patch added for 27 branch -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18400/3210.release27-maint.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue3210

[issue3210] subprocess.Popen does not release process handles if process cannot be started

Brian Curtin cur...@acm.org added the comment: Tim, I updated your test to use some of the newer and preferred unittest features and made a change to do the common stuff in loops. The _subprocess.c changes look fine to me. See attached issue3210_py3k.diff. -- nosy: +brian.curtin Added

[issue3210] subprocess.Popen does not release process handles if process cannot be started

Changes by Brian Curtin cur...@acm.org: -- stage: unit test needed - patch review ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue3210 ___ ___

[issue3210] subprocess.Popen does not release process handles if process cannot be started

Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk added the comment: Brian, I'm not sure that the test as rewritten will exercise the error. The key is that the traceback object will prevent the handles from being finalised until it is itself finalised. After your change I expect the handles to release anyway

[issue3210] subprocess.Popen does not release process handles if process cannot be started

Brian Curtin cur...@acm.org added the comment: Ah ok. I got hooked onto new unittest stuff and overdid it. Whoops. In that case, I guess just the last lines converting your assert_ to assertFalse would be my only suggestion. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue9523] Improve dbm module

New submission from Ray.Allen ysj@gmail.com: During the patching work of issue8634, I found several problems about the module dbm.gnu and dbm.ndbm, I feel it's better to address them on a separate issue. 1. As issue8634 said, the dbm.gnu, dbm.ndbm and dbm.dumb should have the similar

[issue8634] get method for dbm interface

Ray.Allen ysj@gmail.com added the comment: See issue9523. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue8634 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue2521] ABC caches should use weak refs

Jack Diederich jackd...@gmail.com added the comment: This is a change in the codepath for instances that don't have __class__ defined. subclass = getattr(instance, '__class__', None) -if subclass in cls._abc_cache: +if subclass is not None and subclass in

[issue5476] datetime: timedelta(minutes = i) silently fails with numpy.int32 input

Alexander Belopolsky belopol...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Terry, Realistically, though, if you close this issue it is virtually guaranteed that not further action will be taken. I have not been involved with numpy for a couple of years now, so it would take me some time to

[issue7574] PyUnicode_FromFormat broken and not documented for 2.x

Ray.Allen ysj@gmail.com added the comment: It seems there is pretty much problems in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(). see issue7330. -- nosy: +ysj.ray ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue7574

[issue2651] Strings passed to KeyError do not round trip

Alexander Belopolsky belopol...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Unassigning because others seem to be ahead of me reviewing this patch. I will keep an eye on this, though. Please note that I marked issue #614557 to depend on this one. Adding 'key' attribute to exceptions is the

[issue614557] LookupError etc. need API to get the key

Changes by Alexander Belopolsky belopol...@users.sourceforge.net: -- assignee: belopolsky - ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue614557 ___

[issue7567] Messed up terminal after calling curses.initscr() twice.

Barry A. Warsaw ba...@python.org added the comment: Doko asks in IRC to apply this for 2.6.6. Approved. -- nosy: +barry status: pending - open ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue7567

[issue5871] email.header.Header too lax with embeded newlines

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: My apologies for misunderstanding. Feature removal requests are sufficiently rare that I thought you were posting a mockup of what you wanted to be able to do, as many others have done. So we definitely agree on that example. I changed the

[issue5905] strptime fails in non-UTF locale

Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk added the comment: I can't reproduce this on Windows Vista with 3.1 or 3.2 despite trying several Western Eastern European, Chinese Japanese locales. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker

[issue4806] Function calls taking a generator as star argument can mask TypeErrors in the generator

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: Ok, leave iterable as is. More important, you have two disjoint patches that I believe should be combined. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4806

[issue2651] Strings passed to KeyError do not round trip

Changes by Brett Cannon br...@python.org: -- nosy: -brett.cannon ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue2651 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue9512] logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler - mode argument not respected

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: Given that you decided to argue for a code change (which my comment implicitly invited), adding someone (VS in this case) to nosy to respond is the right thing to do and fairly common. Assigning to someone is not, as least not any more. If

[issue9079] Make gettimeofday available in time module

Alexander Belopolsky belopol...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Updated the patch to reflect recent datetimemodule.c renaming to _datetimemodule.c. No other changes between issue9079b.diff and issue9079c.diff. I am going to commit issue9079c.diff soon unless someone wants more

[issue9079] Make gettimeofday available in time module

Alexander Belopolsky belopol...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Committed issue9079c.diff as r83744. This commit does not provide time.gettimeofday() and therefore does not close the issue. -- keywords: -needs review, patch stage: commit review - needs patch

[issue9315] The trace module lacks unit tests

Alexander Belopolsky belopol...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Eli, Are you still working on this? Please note that Georg committed beginnings of a trace.py unittest in r83527, so your tests will need to be merged with his. -- nosy: +georg.brandl

[issue9315] The trace module lacks unit tests

Eli Bendersky eli...@gmail.com added the comment: Alexander, Yes, I plan to work on this during the weekend (which starts tomorrow where I'm at). Georg, Are you having plans for writing comprehensive tests for the module, or is this just a placeholder? I have no problem merging with this

[issue9315] The trace module lacks unit tests

Alexander Belopolsky belopol...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Eli Bendersky rep...@bugs.python.org wrote: .. Georg, Are you having plans for writing comprehensive tests for the module, or is this just a placeholder? I think I can answer for Georg

[issue9524] CTRL_C_EVENT and CTRL_BREAK_EVENT cannot be registered by signal.signal() method on windows

New submission from Valentine Gogichashvili val...@gmail.com: When executing the following code on Windows 7 64-bit :: import sys import signal import time print 'Version:' print sys.executable or sys.platform, sys.version print print def h(s, f): print s

[issue9524] Document CTRL_C_EVENT and CTRL_BREAK_EVENT usage on Windows

Brian Curtin cur...@acm.org added the comment: Those two signals are only intended to work with os.kill -- they are specific to the GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent function in Modules/posixmodule.c. I'll have to change the documentation to note that. If you want to send those events to other

[issue8285] IDLE not smart indenting correctly in nested statements

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: I don't think this is specific to IDLE; it also happens when launching the python interpreter directly from a terminal on OS X or Linux. (BTW, what platform are you on?) As far as I can tell, the TAB character is simply advancing to the

[issue4032] distutils cannot recognize .dll.a as library on cygwin

Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: -- versions: -Python 2.6, Python 3.0 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4032 ___ ___

[issue4032] distutils cannot recognize .dll.a as library on cygwin

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: With development of disutils2, distutils issues are not getting much separate attention. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4032

[issue1274324] 'setup.py install' fail on linux from read-only storage

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: With development of disutils2, distutils issues are not getting much separate attention. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue1274324

[issue9524] Document CTRL_C_EVENT and CTRL_BREAK_EVENT usage on Windows

Brian Curtin cur...@acm.org added the comment: Fixed the first part, denoting that signal.CTRL_C_EVENT and signal.CTRL_BREAK_EVENT are for os.kill only. Done in r83745 (py3k) and r83746 (release27-maint). Leaving open for the second part about their usage. --

[issue1011113] distutils install with -b / --build-base

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: With development of disutils2, distutils issues are not getting much separate attention. Is this still an issue with 2.7 or later? -- components: +Distutils -None nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python

[issue5936] Add MSI suport for uninstalling individual versions

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: I am just responding so this will not show up on the 'unanswered issues' list. -- components: +Distutils nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5936

[issue6466] duplicate get_version() code between cygwinccompiler and emxccompiler

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: I am just responding so this will not show up on the 'unanswered issues' list. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue6466

[issue5936] Add MSI suport for uninstalling individual versions

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Terry, why? It is, after all, still unanswered. -- nosy: +merwok ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5936 ___

[issue6696] Profile objects should be documented

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: I am just responding so this will not show up on the 'unanswered issues' list. It appears that GB has accepted this as something that needs to be done. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker

[issue6466] duplicate get_version() code between cygwinccompiler and emxccompiler

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Tarek, does this still apply? -- components: +Distutils2 nosy: +merwok versions: -Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue6466

[issue1703178] link_objects in setup.cfg crashes build

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: Is there still a problem with 2.7 or 3.x? -- nosy: +terry.reedy status: open - pending versions: +Python 2.7 -Python 2.6, Python 3.0 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue7694] DeprecationWarning from distuils.commands.build_ext needs stacklevel

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: With development of disutils2, distutils issues are not getting much separate attention. This may or may not get folded in to disutils2. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker

[issue7726] Remove required metadata warnings for sdist

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: With development of disutils2, distutils issues are not getting much separate attention. This may or may not get folded in to disutils2. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker

[issue8306] ctypes.create_string_buffer should only accept bytes

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: I am just responding so this will not show up on the 'unanswered issues' list. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue8306

[issue4806] Function calls taking a generator as star argument can mask TypeErrors in the generator

Hagen Fürstenau hfuerste...@gmx.net added the comment: Attaching a combined patch against the current py3k. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18404/combined.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4806

[issue7894] too aggressive dependency tracking in distutils

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: With development of disutils2, distutils issues are not getting much separate attention. This may or may not get folded in to disutils2. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker

[issue8315] ./python -m unittest test.test_importlib doesn't work

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: I am just responding so this will not show up on the 'unanswered issues' list. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue8315

[issue3854] Document sqlite3 vs. threads

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: Do you have any specific suggestion that something should be added somewhere, or is this a report that should be closed? -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue1011113] distutils install with -b / --build-base

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Tarek maintains distutils and heads the development of distutils2; he’s very busy because of new work and baby these months. I have reviewed, updated and sometimes closed a bunch of distutils issues in April, before I started my GSoC work on

[issue8285] IDLE not smart indenting correctly in nested statements

Tofystedeth nanc...@gmail.com added the comment: You're right, it also does it when I use the Python shell from the command prompt. I'm running Windows Vista 32bit SP2. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue8285

[issue1274324] 'setup.py install' fail on linux from read-only storage

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Alexander, thank you for the report. I’m sorry there was no reply earlier. Distutils was without dedicated maintainer for a long time, now Tarek has taken it over and fixes bugs. He’s very busy these months, so I’ll investigate this later this

[issue8299] Improve GIL in 2.7

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: For better or worse, this did not make it into 2.7. Is it the sort of thing that could still go into a bug-fix release, without alpha/beta testing? Or should this be closes as out-of-date? -- nosy: +terry.reedy

[issue8411] Improve condition variable emulation on NT

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: This patches ceval_gil.h. Can these changes be unit tested? Or is this intended to be an internal performance, invisible-to-the-user, code improvement? Antoine, are you going to look at this? -- nosy: +terry.reedy stage: - patch

[issue8416] python 2.6.5 documentation can't search

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: With FireFox, searching from http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.5/ does not get 404 Not Found for me, but neither does it return any hits. The 2.7, 3.1.2, 3.2a pages work fine. Georg, I do not see a 2.6.6 page. Can you verify that it will work

[issue8426] multiprocessing.Queue fails to get() very large objects

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: By 'crash', do you actually mean 'hang'? Jesse, is it reasonable to stuff pickles of 100s of megabytes through the connections? -- nosy: +terry.reedy versions: -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker

[issue8491] Need readline command and keybinding information

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: Can you suggest a specific link and a specific location where to add it? -- assignee: georg.brandl - d...@python nosy: +d...@python, terry.reedy versions: -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker

[issue8426] multiprocessing.Queue fails to get() very large objects

Jesse Noller jnol...@gmail.com added the comment: I don't know that it's unreasonable to send that much data, but it would certainly be slow, and I would not recommend it. Therefore, this is still on the list for when I have time -- ___ Python

[issue9525] webbrowser: open new tab in unobtrusive way

New submission from Filip Gruszczyński grusz...@gmail.com: webbrowser module doesn't allow to open url in an unobtrusive way. Right now if browser is minimized it is brought to the top. Furthermore if you browser is already in the top, new tab is opened and user is moved to this top. It would

[issue1684] CGIHTTPServer does not chdir prior to executing the CGI script

Fazal Majid pyt...@sentfrom.com added the comment: Well, CGI/1.1 was formally documented by RFC 3875 in October 2004 (a full 11 years after CGI was introduced...). http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3875.txt The RFC is classified as informative, but it's as close to a definitive spec for CGI as

[issue8416] python 2.6.5 documentation can't search

Santiago Gala sg...@apache.org added the comment: I got this trying to reply: This is the mail system at host psf.upfronthosting.co.za. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send

[issue8548] Building on CygWin 1.7: PATH_MAX redefined

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: None of the developers are much up on Cygwin and I am not sure it is directly supported by the core distribution. If it is not, this should be closed unless you have a specific patch. In any case, you might do better with your question on

[issue9514] platform.linux_distribution() under Ubuntu returns ('debian', 'squeeze/sid', '')

Matthias Klose d...@debian.org added the comment: IMO using lsb_release is not an option, because it can take some time to complete. So maybe it's better for the Ubuntu change to guard the check with the existance of /etc/debian_version. Please could you attach a Mandriva lsb-release file?

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