[issue9530] integer undefined behaviors

2010-08-05 Thread John Regehr
New submission from John Regehr : I ran "make test" for today's Python3k snapshot under a tool which detects math operations that the C language considers to have undefined behavior. This was on x86 Linux. The list of undefined behaviors is attached. Hopefully they are self-explanatory, but

[issue3854] Document sqlite3 vs. threads

2010-08-05 Thread Gerhard Häring
Gerhard Häring added the comment: Fixed in r83747. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-b

[issue9315] The trace module lacks unit tests

2010-08-05 Thread Eli Bendersky
Eli Bendersky added the comment: The test class added into test_trace.py in issue 3821 fails in verbose mode (see my message http://bugs.python.org/msg113076). I'm merging that class into my larger test_trace.py and will fix this problem, unless you guys have other ideas. -- ___

[issue3821] trace module bug when using --missing

2010-08-05 Thread Eli Bendersky
Eli Bendersky added the comment: TestCoverage.test_coverage_ignore fails when running in verbose mode ("python regrtest.py -v test_trace", or directly "python test_trace.py"), because it attempts to compare stdout.getvalue() with the empty string, while verbose places output there. I will fi

[issue7894] too aggressive dependency tracking in distutils

2010-08-05 Thread Baiju M
Changes by Baiju M : -- components: +Distutils2 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.pyth

[issue9529] Converge re.findall and re.finditer

2010-08-05 Thread Ezio Melotti
Changes by Ezio Melotti : -- nosy: +ezio.melotti, moreati, mrabarnett, timehorse stage: -> needs patch type: -> behavior versions: +Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue9452] configparser support for reading from strings and dictionaries

2010-08-05 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: - Summmary lines in docstrings are one line, as Éric points out. They're summaries, so need not be complete. Use elaboration text as needed, and omit anything that's not relevant in context. An alternate wording to consider: """Raised by strict

[issue9529] Converge re.findall and re.finditer

2010-08-05 Thread MizardX
New submission from MizardX : re.findall and re.finditer has very different signature. One iterates over match objects, the other returns a list of tuples. I can think of two ways to make them more similar: 1) Make match objects iterable over their captures. With this, you could write somethi

[issue9528] Add pure Python implementation of time module to CPython

2010-08-05 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
New submission from Alexander Belopolsky : The original RFE at issue 7989 was: """ After discussion on numerous issues, python-dev, and here at the PyCon sprints, it seems to be a good idea to move timemodule.c to _timemodule.c and convert as much as possible into pure Python. The same change

[issue9519] IDLE cannot do example 4.1 in tutorial (if statements)

2010-08-05 Thread Robert Buckley
Robert Buckley added the comment: See attached file -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18411/ISSUE_9519.rtf ___ Python tracker ___

[issue6942] email.generator.Generator memory consumption

2010-08-05 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: When I first looked at this issue, it appeared to me reading the code that the assumption was not considered safe. I'm hoping I can implement something akin to your algorithm in email6 (which, unfortunately, won't make 3.2), but I'm going to have to give it

[issue5027] xml namespace not understood by xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: It is about a week too late for 2.6.6. rc1 is just out and only critically needed fixes before the final. For future reference, 'trunk' is frozen. 2.7 patches should be against '2.7maintenace' (or however spelled) but I assume this should apply. 'py3k' is th

[issue9527] Add aware local time support to datetime module

2010-08-05 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: Merging nosy lists from issues #1647654 and #2736. If datetime.localtime() is implemented, I argue that the features requested in these two issues will become unnecessary. -- nosy: +Neil Muller, amaury.forgeotdarc, andersjm, catlee, davidfraser

[issue1647654] No obvious and correct way to get the time zone offset

2010-08-05 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Changes by Alexander Belopolsky : -- superseder: -> Add aware local time support to datetime module ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyth

[issue9525] webbrowser: open new tab in unobtrusive way

2010-08-05 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: There is the autoraise keyword, which if set to False might do what you want if you are lucky. It only works on linux (see issue 8232) and only with some browsers, and even then the window manager may ignore the hint. If you can figure out a way to make it

[issue2736] datetime needs an "epoch" method

2010-08-05 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Changes by Alexander Belopolsky : -- superseder: -> Add aware local time support to datetime module ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-

[issue9527] Add aware local time support to datetime module

2010-08-05 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
New submission from Alexander Belopolsky : See python-dev post for motivation. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-August/102842.html I am attaching a patch implementing the proposed method in datetime.py. I will also paste the code below. Note that this is only prototype. Rea

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

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Given this "The email package attempts to be as RFC-compliant as possible," and your reading, I agree this is a backport-worth bug. This is the "prohibition in the docs" I was looking for. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue9522] xml.etree.ElementTree forgets the encoding

2010-08-05 Thread R. David Murray
Changes by R. David Murray : -- nosy: +effbot, flox ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.

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

2010-08-05 Thread R. David Murray
Changes by R. David Murray : -- nosy: +effbot ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python

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

2010-08-05 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Yeah, it's a good question whether or not this is enough of a behavior change that the fix can't be backported. On the other hand, this is definitely a bug (the RFCs specifiy that header values may not contain newlines or carriage returns), so at the moment

[issue5027] xml namespace not understood by xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator

2010-08-05 Thread Troy J. Farrell
Changes by Troy J. Farrell : Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file18407/issue5027.diff ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue5027] xml namespace not understood by xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator

2010-08-05 Thread Troy J. Farrell
Troy J. Farrell added the comment: I've created tests and patches for the trunk and branches/py3k. The only difference between the two is the use of u'' for a Unicode string in the trunk. (IIRC, Py3k treats all strings as Unicode.) -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18409/iss

[issue5027] xml namespace not understood by xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator

2010-08-05 Thread Troy J. Farrell
Changes by Troy J. Farrell : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18408/issue5027.trunk.diff ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mail

[issue9519] IDLE cannot do example 4.1 in tutorial (if statements)

2010-08-05 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Could you please be more specific? What error are you seeing? It works for me. -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue5027] xml namespace not understood by xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator

2010-08-05 Thread Troy J. Farrell
Troy J. Farrell added the comment: I've attached a patch against branches/py3k that tests and fixes the issue. I don't suppose this fix (if I backport it) could make it into 2.6.6, could it? -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18407/issue5027.diff ___

[issue9526] 2 GB limit in array module

2010-08-05 Thread Martin Frith
New submission from Martin Frith : The array module does not seem to work for arrays > 2 GB. >>> import sys, array >>> sys.maxsize 9223372036854775807 >>> x = array.array('c', ('a' for i in xrange(3))) (seems to work OK) >>> x = array.array('c', ('a' for i in xrange(30))) (runs f

[issue9523] Improve dbm module

2010-08-05 Thread Ray.Allen
Changes by Ray.Allen : -- components: +Extension Modules type: -> feature request versions: +Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyt

[issue9520] Add Patricia Trie high performance container

2010-08-05 Thread Dmitry Chichkov
Dmitry Chichkov added the comment: No. I'm not simply running out of system memory. 8Gb/x64/linux. And in my test cases I've only seen ~25% of memory utilized. And good idea. I'll try to play with the cyclic garbage collector. It is harder than I thought to make a solid synthetic test case ad

[issue9168] setuid in smtp.py sheds privileges before binding port

2010-08-05 Thread Alberto Trevino
Changes by Alberto Trevino : -- type: -> crash versions: +Python 3.1 -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing l

[issue9452] configparser support for reading from strings and dictionaries

2010-08-05 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: >> Docstrings should be written in the standard PEP-8 way (single line >> summary + additional explanation as needed following a blank line). > Corrected where applicable. Is it OK if the one-sentence summary is > occasionally longer than one line? It’s a one-line

[issue9452] configparser support for reading from strings and dictionaries

2010-08-05 Thread Łukasz Langa
Łukasz Langa added the comment: Ah, forgot to remind you that I don't have commit privileges yet. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python

[issue9452] configparser support for reading from strings and dictionaries

2010-08-05 Thread Łukasz Langa
Łukasz Langa added the comment: Updated patch after review by Fred Drake. Thanks, it was terrific! Status: > Docstrings should be written in the standard PEP-8 way (single line > summary + additional explanation as needed following a blank line). Corrected where applicable. Is it OK if the on

[issue5936] Add MSI suport for uninstalling individual versions

2010-08-05 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the reply Terry, I didn’t get that. Maybe you can edit your boilerplate message to prevent future misunderstandings like mine :) -- nosy: +tarek versions: +Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker

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

2010-08-05 Thread Gerhard Häring
Changes by Gerhard Häring : -- nosy: -ghaering ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.pyth

[issue9452] configparser support for reading from strings and dictionaries

2010-08-05 Thread Łukasz Langa
Changes by Łukasz Langa : Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file18382/issue9452.diff ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing lis

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

2010-08-05 Thread Éric Araujo
Changes by Éric Araujo : -- nosy: +merwok ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org

[issue8416] python 2.6.5 documentation can't search

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The best way to reply to tracker messages is to click the link at the bottom and enter in the box. Pasting all that junk is useless. The noise hides the message, which seems to be a non-helpful repeat of the original message. I already did what was needed, w

[issue8285] IDLE not smart indenting correctly in nested statements

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- nosy: -terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.p

[issue5936] Add MSI suport for uninstalling individual versions

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Because this basically is a self-reminder note by a developer to himself, which he assigned to himself, so no answer is needed. Removing such things from 'unanswered' will make it easier to focus on posts by newcomers who need a thoughtful answer. [Sorry Stev

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

2010-08-05 Thread Michael Foord
Michael Foord added the comment: I'd still like to see this fixed. Some of the features of regrtest will need to be implemented as plugins for unittest (but not many - a lot of the features of regrtest are already obsolete). -- ___ Python tracker

[issue8171] bdist_wininst builds wrongly for --plat-name=win-amd64

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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 _

[issue8170] Wrong Paths for distutils build --plat-name=win-amd64

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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 _

[issue8027] distutils fail to determine c++ linker with unixcompiler if using ccache

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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 _

[issue3902] distutils does not correctly create packages for compiled extensions

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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 _

[issue1690608] email.utils.formataddr() should be rfc2047 aware

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am just responding so this will not show up on the 'unanswered issues' list. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue1443866] email 3.0+ stops parsing headers prematurely

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The email module has several problems. RDM is working on overhauling the email module for 3.2. Existing issues may not get individual attention. -- nosy: +terry.reedy versions: +Python 3.1 -Python 2.6, Python 3.0 __

[issue5612] whitespace folding in the email package could be better ; -)

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The email module has several problems. RDM is working on overhauling the email module for 3.2. Existing issues may not get individual attention. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker

[issue1372770] email.Header should preserve original FWS

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The email module has several problems. RDM is working on overhauling the email module for 3.2. Existing issues may not get individual attention. -- nosy: +terry.reedy versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.6, Python 3.0 __

[issue6942] email.generator.Generator memory consumption

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The email module has several problems. RDM is working on overhauling the email module for 3.2. Existing issues may not get individual attention. -- nosy: +terry.reedy versions: +Python 2.7 -Python 2.6 ___ Python tra

[issue8585] zipimporter.find_module is untested

2010-08-05 Thread Alex
Alex added the comment: Gah, I lost track of this one after I realized the bug I was chasing after (originally thought to be in PyPy's zipimpoter) was actually in Django. I'll try to get to this over the weekend. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue8427] toplevel jumps to another location on the screen

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Can you show minimum length code that shows the effect you claim? -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue8585] zipimporter.find_module is untested

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Since devs are trying to improve tests, I expect a patch will get looked at. -- nosy: +terry.reedy versions: -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue8506] SimpleXMLRPCServer Socket not closed after shutdown call

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The behavior is as documented, so this is a feature request. The 3.1.2 doc in 20.19.2. Server Objects says "BaseServer.shutdown() Tells the serve_forever() loop to stop and waits until it does." I presume this allows subsequent .handle_request() and ..serve_fo

[issue8299] Improve GIL in 2.7

2010-08-05 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger added the comment: That question should probably raised on python-dev, not the bug tracker. -- nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker ___

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

2010-08-05 Thread Matthias Klose
Matthias Klose 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? -- _

[issue8548] Building on CygWin 1.7: PATH_MAX redefined

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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 python-list. Also, P

[issue8416] python 2.6.5 documentation can't search

2010-08-05 Thread Santiago Gala
Santiago Gala 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 mail to postmaste

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

2010-08-05 Thread Fazal Majid
Fazal Majid 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 we will ever get.

[issue9525] webbrowser: open new tab in unobtrusive way

2010-08-05 Thread Filip Gruszczyński
New submission from Filip Gruszczyński : 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 be useful, if tab

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

2010-08-05 Thread Jesse Noller
Jesse Noller 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 tracker

[issue8491] Need readline command and keybinding information

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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

[issue8416] python 2.6.5 documentation can't search

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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 when released?

[issue8411] Improve condition variable emulation on NT

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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 review type: -> perf

[issue8299] Improve GIL in 2.7

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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 ___

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

2010-08-05 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo 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 month when I get s

[issue8285] IDLE not smart indenting correctly in nested statements

2010-08-05 Thread Tofystedeth
Tofystedeth 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 ___

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

2010-08-05 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo 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 distutils2, and I ha

[issue3854] Document sqlite3 vs. threads

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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 _

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

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am just responding so this will not show up on the 'unanswered issues' list. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___

[issue7894] too aggressive dependency tracking in distutils

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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 _

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

2010-08-05 Thread Hagen Fürstenau
Hagen Fürstenau added the comment: Attaching a combined patch against the current py3k. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18404/combined.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue8306] ctypes.create_string_buffer should only accept bytes

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am just responding so this will not show up on the 'unanswered issues' list. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___

[issue7726] Remove required metadata warnings for sdist

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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 _

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

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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 _

[issue1703178] link_objects in setup.cfg crashes build

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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

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

2010-08-05 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: Tarek, does this still apply? -- components: +Distutils2 nosy: +merwok versions: -Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue6696] Profile objects should be documented

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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

[issue5936] Add MSI suport for uninstalling individual versions

2010-08-05 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: Terry, why? It is, after all, still unanswered. -- nosy: +merwok ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs

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

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am just responding so this will not show up on the 'unanswered issues' list. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5936] Add MSI suport for uninstalling individual versions

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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 _

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

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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 tracker

[issue9524] Document CTRL_C_EVENT and CTRL_BREAK_EVENT usage on Windows

2010-08-05 Thread Brian Curtin
Brian Curtin 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. -- __

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

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: With development of disutils2, distutils issues are not getting much separate attention. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___ __

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

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: With development of disutils2, distutils issues are not getting much separate attention. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___ _

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

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- versions: -Python 2.6, Python 3.0 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue8285] IDLE not smart indenting correctly in nested statements

2010-08-05 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson 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 next tab stop; tho

[issue9524] Document CTRL_C_EVENT and CTRL_BREAK_EVENT usage on Windows

2010-08-05 Thread Brian Curtin
Brian Curtin 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 processes, have a look

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

2010-08-05 Thread Valentine Gogichashvili
New submission from Valentine Gogichashvili : 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 signal.signal(signal.CTRL_BREAK_EVEN

[issue9315] The trace module lacks unit tests

2010-08-05 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Eli Bendersky 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 (subject to being corrected, of course.) Georg's c

[issue9315] The trace module lacks unit tests

2010-08-05 Thread Eli Bendersky
Eli Bendersky 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 change, but if you

[issue9315] The trace module lacks unit tests

2010-08-05 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Alexander Belopolsky 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 ___ Python tracker <

[issue9079] Make gettimeofday available in time module

2010-08-05 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Alexander Belopolsky 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 ___ Python

[issue9079] Make gettimeofday available in time module

2010-08-05 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Alexander Belopolsky 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 time to review. -- Added fi

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

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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 someone agrees to c

[issue2651] Strings passed to KeyError do not round trip

2010-08-05 Thread Brett Cannon
Changes by Brett Cannon : -- nosy: -brett.cannon ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.py

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

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Ok, leave iterable as is. More important, you have two disjoint patches that I believe should be combined. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue5905] strptime fails in non-UTF locale

2010-08-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence 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

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

2010-08-05 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy 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 title to be a littl

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