[issue17556] os.path.join() converts None to '' by default

2013-03-27 Thread Muhammad Hallaj Subery
New submission from Muhammad Hallaj Subery: I think the default behavior of os.path.join() when None is passed as the first argument should be to translate it to '' by default. import os os.path.join(None, 'somewhere') 'somewhere' vs the current import os os.path.join(None, 'somewhere')

[issue17556] os.path.join() converts None to '' by default

2013-03-27 Thread Muhammad Hallaj Subery
Muhammad Hallaj Subery added the comment: I believe this can be easily archived by adding the following changes: 64c64 path = a or '' --- -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17556

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

2013-03-27 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Changes by Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettin...@gmail.com: -- assignee: - docs@python components: +Documentation -Library (Lib) nosy: +docs@python title: rename type returned by locals() to livedict - Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

[issue17526] inspect.findsource raises undocumented error for code objects with empty filename

2013-03-27 Thread Tyler Doyle
Changes by Tyler Doyle kingt...@gmail.com: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file29576/inspect.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17526 ___

[issue17526] inspect.findsource raises undocumented error for code objects with empty filename

2013-03-27 Thread Tyler Doyle
Changes by Tyler Doyle kingt...@gmail.com: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file29577/test_inspect.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17526 ___

[issue17552] socket.sendfile()

2013-03-27 Thread Ross Lagerwall
Changes by Ross Lagerwall rosslagerw...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +rosslagerwall ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17552 ___ ___

[issue17526] inspect.findsource raises undocumented error for code objects with empty filename

2013-03-27 Thread Tyler Doyle
Changes by Tyler Doyle kingt...@gmail.com: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29591/17526_getsource.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17526 ___

[issue17555] Creating new processes after importing multiprocessing.managers consumes more and more memory

2013-03-27 Thread Charles-François Natali
Charles-François Natali added the comment: That's due to a leak in forker-registered handlers: The _afterfork_registry is never cleared, so spawning processes recursively keeps feeling it, which ends up consuming a huge amount of memory and slowing process creation greatly. Could you try the

[issue17555] Creating new processes after importing multiprocessing.managers consumes more and more memory

2013-03-27 Thread Charles-François Natali
Changes by Charles-François Natali cf.nat...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +sbt ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17555 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue17557] test_getgroups of test_posix can fail on OS X 10.8 if more than 16 groups

2013-03-27 Thread Ned Deily
New submission from Ned Deily: Due to a change in behavior for OS X 10.8 (seen with 10.8.3), the code added to posixmodule.c in Issue7900 to handle an unlimited number of groups no longer works. The code depends on the documented behavior of getgroups(2) failing with EINVAL when the

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

2013-03-27 Thread anatoly techtonik
anatoly techtonik added the comment: Raymond, could you please get the title back? You unintentionally hijacked the issue. The Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated is not a describing title for this issue - it is one of the possible action items. I'd prefer to see a

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

2013-03-27 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: The previous title, rename type returned by locals() to livedict did not describe the reality, since locals() returns a regular dict. [Would you call x.__dict__ a livedict?] So either this issue should be closed as invalid, because it's based on

[issue17555] Creating new processes after importing multiprocessing.managers consumes more and more memory

2013-03-27 Thread Richard Oudkerk
Richard Oudkerk added the comment: It seems to be a problem with ForkAwareThreadLock. Could you try the attached patch? -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29593/forkawarethreadlock.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue17555] Creating new processes after importing multiprocessing.managers consumes more and more memory

2013-03-27 Thread Richard Oudkerk
Richard Oudkerk added the comment: _afterfork_registry is not supposed to be cleared. But the problem with ForkAwareThreadLocal meant that the size of the registry at generation n is 2**n! -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

2013-03-27 Thread anatoly techtonik
anatoly techtonik added the comment: Eric, here is the code that confirms changed behavior under trace function for both Python 2 and 3 - http://bugs.python.org/file15081/localstest.py I agree that the documentation fix is necessary, and if you say that it is an easier sell - I tend to

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

2013-03-27 Thread anatoly techtonik
anatoly techtonik added the comment: Amaury, from user's point of view (I am not a core developer - I just need to troubleshoot complicated Python code) the object (the internal structure) returned by locals() has different behavior than a normal dict. Normal dict in Python is updated by user

[issue11664] Add patch method to unittest.TestCase

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Foord
Michael Foord added the comment: Yes this is still relevant and needs doing (and is easy). The implementation should be similar to: def patch(self, *args, **kwargs): # lazy import from unittest.mock import patch p = patch(*args, **kwargs) result = p.start()

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

2013-03-27 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: Normal dict in Python is updated by user code (which I as a user can see and can inspect for further troubleshooting) and for locals's dict this is not correct. Do you have an example? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue7559] TestLoader.loadTestsFromName swallows import errors

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Foord
Michael Foord added the comment: My preferred fix is to wrap an exception during import as a test that fails instead of an AttributeError. This would definitely be a new feature rather than a bugfix - so it could only be in 3.4. It could be made available to Python 2.7 through the unittest2

[issue7559] TestLoader.loadTestsFromName swallows import errors

2013-03-27 Thread Domen Kožar
Domen Kožar added the comment: One relevant use case is the following: https://github.com/Pylons/venusian/issues/23 Here the module is supposed to raise an ImportError. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue7559

[issue17554] Compact output for regrtest

2013-03-27 Thread Brett Cannon
Brett Cannon added the comment: So are you saying you want both the short-form output while running but then the whole output upon completion, David? I can understand wanting the summaries still in order to sort the skipped tests vs. failures, but not outputting every test that succeeded

[issue17551] Windows - accessing drive with nothing mounted forces user interaction

2013-03-27 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: Does it change something if you insert in your script (in 3.3): import msvcrt msvcrt.SetErrorMode(msvcrt.SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS) -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

2013-03-27 Thread anatoly techtonik
anatoly techtonik added the comment: Example: l = locals() z = dict(a=5, b=3) lc = dict(l) zc = dict(z) print(lc == l) print(zc == z) Gives: False True -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue17329] Document unittest.SkipTest

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Foord
Michael Foord added the comment: For features like test skipping I would prefer to keep all the documentation together. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17329 ___

[issue12271] panel.h is not found even if it's installed on various flavours of SUSE

2013-03-27 Thread Kenneth O'Brien
Kenneth O'Brien added the comment: I have created a simple patch that solves this problem. Depending on whether panel.h or ncurses/panel.h are found, the appropriate one is included. -- nosy: +Kenneth.O'Brien Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29594/ken_ncurses.patch

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

2013-03-27 Thread bob gailer
bob gailer added the comment: On 3/27/2013 9:48 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote: anatoly techtonik added the comment: Example: l = locals() z = dict(a=5, b=3) lc = dict(l) zc = dict(z) print(lc == l) print(zc == z) Gives: False True Expected

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

2013-03-27 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: This is expected: zc = xxx updates locals! but not the copy. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17546 ___

[issue17558] gdb debugging python frames in optimised interpreters

2013-03-27 Thread Marcus Cobden
New submission from Marcus Cobden: I've made some tweaks to the libpython.py util functions to better pick up python frames when using a normal python interpreter. It's not by any means perfect, but it works on my ubuntu-shipped python interpreter (with debugging symbols installed, but not

[issue17559] str.is* implementation seem suboptimal for single character strings

2013-03-27 Thread Gaëtan de Menten
New submission from Gaëtan de Menten: In isspace, isalpha, isalnum and isdigit, I see code like: /* Shortcut for single character strings */ if (PyString_GET_SIZE(self) == 1 isspace(*p)) return PyBool_FromLong(1); Is it intentional to not use: if (PyString_GET_SIZE(self) == 1))

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

2013-03-27 Thread anatoly techtonik
anatoly techtonik added the comment: I as a user can see and can inspect for further troubleshooting This doesn't work for this example, which was your question. I still feel like this needs further clarification. For a user this behavior is not expected. User is someone who doesn't know

[issue17536] update browser list with additional browser names

2013-03-27 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: FTR the shlex unicode bug reports are #6988 and #1170, and the cStringIO bug is #1548891. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17536 ___

[issue17553] python setup.py bdist_rpm is broken

2013-03-27 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: To build Python itself you need to use the Makefile and the Misc/RPM/python-2.7.spec file. The doc you’re referring to talks about building rpm packages for Python libraries, not CPython itself. -- nosy: +eric.araujo

[issue17553] python setup.py bdist_rpm is broken

2013-03-27 Thread Sean Carolan
Sean Carolan added the comment: Éric Araujo, if that is the case then why does it build what looks like a *.spec file for Python itself? [scarolan@titania:~/Python-2.7.3]$ head -10 ./build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/SPECS/Python.spec %define name Python %define version 2.7.3 %define

[issue17553] python setup.py bdist_rpm is broken

2013-03-27 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: Sorry, I don’t understand the question. The point still stands: one should not use setup.py build_rpm to build an RPM for CPython. Please read Misc/RPM/README. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue17560] problem using multiprocessing with really big objects?

2013-03-27 Thread mrjbq7
New submission from mrjbq7: I ran into a problem using multiprocessing to create large data objects (in this case numpy float64 arrays with 90,000 columns and 5,000 rows) and return them to the original python process. It breaks in both Python 2.7 and 3.3, using numpy 1.7.0 (but with

[issue17560] problem using multiprocessing with really big objects?

2013-03-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: A multiprocessing queue currently uses a 32-bit signed int to encode object length (in bytes): def _send_bytes(self, buf): # For wire compatibility with 3.2 and lower n = len(buf) self._send(struct.pack(!i, n)) # The

[issue17553] python setup.py bdist_rpm is broken

2013-03-27 Thread Sean Carolan
Sean Carolan added the comment: Ok, thanks for clearing that up. Maybe the documentation could be updated to explicitly state this to avoid confusion, eg: NOTE: You cannot use setup.py to build a Python RPM. It is only for building Python modules. --

[issue17551] Windows - accessing drive with nothing mounted forces user interaction

2013-03-27 Thread Bob Alexander
Bob Alexander added the comment: Thanks for the prompt reply! Your suggested change does change the behavior to exactly the way I think it should work by default. Tried it on both Windows 7 and Vista; no popups when accessing a mobile mount drive with nothing in it, just quietly reports False.

[issue17553] Note that distutils’ bdist_rpm command is not used to build a CPython rpm

2013-03-27 Thread Éric Araujo
Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: -- assignee: - docs@python components: +Distutils, Documentation -Build keywords: +easy nosy: +docs@python, tarek stage: - needs patch title: python setup.py bdist_rpm is broken - Note that distutils’ bdist_rpm command is not used to build a

[issue7083] locals() behaviour differs when tracing is in effect

2013-03-27 Thread anatoly techtonik
anatoly techtonik added the comment: Attached localtest2.py where an empty locals() call changes behavior. --- localtest.pyWed Mar 27 19:48:06 2013 +++ localtest2.py Wed Mar 27 19:45:19 2013 @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ def X(): l = locals() i = foo +locals() print(Is 'i'

[issue17557] test_getgroups of test_posix can fail on OS X 10.8 if more than 16 groups

2013-03-27 Thread Jesús Cea Avión
Changes by Jesús Cea Avión j...@jcea.es: -- nosy: +jcea ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17557 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue17561] Add socket.create_server_sock() convenience function

2013-03-27 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
New submission from Giampaolo Rodola': Here's a function similar to socket.create_connection() which addresses all the repetitive tasks needed to order to create an IPv4/IPv6 agnostic server socket. -- components: Library (Lib) files: socket.patch keywords: easy, needs review, patch

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

2013-03-27 Thread Eric Snow
Eric Snow added the comment: Thanks for the script Anatoly. That's pretty much what I was imagining from your description. This definitely reinforces my belief that profiling. -- versions: +Python 3.3, Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker

[issue17561] Add socket.create_server_sock() convenience function

2013-03-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Changes by Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr: -- nosy: +gvanrossum ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17561 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue17560] problem using multiprocessing with really big objects?

2013-03-27 Thread Richard Oudkerk
Richard Oudkerk added the comment: I *think* we need to keep compatibility with the wire format, but perhaps we could use a special length value (-1?) to introduce a longer (64-bit) length value. Yes we could, although that would not help on Windows pipe connections (where byte oriented

[issue17560] problem using multiprocessing with really big objects?

2013-03-27 Thread mrjbq7
mrjbq7 added the comment: On a machine with 256GB of RAM, it makes more sense to send arrays of this size than say on a laptop... -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17560 ___

[issue7083] locals() behaviour differs when tracing is in effect

2013-03-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Calling locals() updates the dict, just as documented. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue7083 ___

[issue16754] Incorrect shared library extension on linux

2013-03-27 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: So sysconfig.get_config_var('SO') will change in a micro release? Won't this break working user code? Give unexpected file names? -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc status: pending - open ___ Python tracker

[issue17560] problem using multiprocessing with really big objects?

2013-03-27 Thread Richard Oudkerk
Richard Oudkerk added the comment: On 27/03/2013 5:13pm, mrjbq7 wrote: On a machine with 256GB of RAM, it makes more sense to send arrays of this size than say on a laptop... I was thinking more of speed than memory consumption. -- ___ Python

[issue17560] problem using multiprocessing with really big objects?

2013-03-27 Thread Charles-François Natali
Charles-François Natali added the comment: Also, does pickle currently handle byte strings larger than 4GB? The 2.7 failure is indeed a pickle limitation, which should now be fixed by issue #13555. On a machine with 256GB of RAM, it makes more sense to send arrays of this size than say on

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

2013-03-27 Thread Eric Snow
Eric Snow added the comment: Okay, I found it. sys.settrace() ultimately results in the setting of tstate-use_tracing to true and sets tstate-c_tracefunc and tstate_c_traceobj (see sys_settrace() in Python/sysmodule.c and PyEval_SetTrace() in Python/ceval.c). tstate-c_tracefunc() gets set

[issue17560] problem using multiprocessing with really big objects?

2013-03-27 Thread mrjbq7
mrjbq7 added the comment: Richard was saying that you shouldn't serialize such a large array, that's just a huge performance bottleneck. The right way would be to use a shared memory. Gotcha, for clarification, my original use case was to *create* them in the other process (something which

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

2013-03-27 Thread Eric Snow
Eric Snow added the comment: I should also point out that the following from that note may actually also be a CPython implementation detail: Each call to locals() will return the same dictionary, updated to the contents of the current local symbol table. We'd want to be sure that such

[issue17546] Document the circumstances where the locals() dict gets updated

2013-03-27 Thread Ned Batchelder
Changes by Ned Batchelder n...@nedbatchelder.com: -- nosy: +nedbat ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17546 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue17329] Document unittest.SkipTest

2013-03-27 Thread Roundup Robot
Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset cd5c23583fa5 by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2': #17329: document unittest.SkipTest. Initial patch by Zachary Ware. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/cd5c23583fa5 New changeset 4bf2a53b53b6 by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.3': #17329: merge with 3.2.

[issue17329] Document unittest.SkipTest

2013-03-27 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti added the comment: Fixed, thanks for the patch! -- resolution: - fixed stage: needs patch - committed/rejected status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17329

[issue17561] Add socket.create_server_sock() convenience function

2013-03-27 Thread Charles-François Natali
Charles-François Natali added the comment: I think that's a good idea. However, there's a problem with the implementation: if one passes or None as address on a dual-stack node, the resulting socket will be either IPv4 bound to INADDR_ANY, or IPv6 bound to IN6ADDR_ANY, whereas one would

[issue17554] Compact output for regrtest

2013-03-27 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: No, what I'd prefer is that the current print it as it runs behavior not change, but that the list of skip reasons be displayed at the end. after all the tests have completed. This is probably not a realistic request, so I'm fine with just having Ezio's

[issue17556] os.path.join() converts None to '' by default

2013-03-27 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I think it is probably better to keep the error, myself. It seems to me that a None creeping in is more likely to be an error in the program. But I could be convinced otherwise :) What is your use case? -- nosy: +r.david.murray versions: -Python

[issue17554] Compact output for regrtest

2013-03-27 Thread Brett Cannon
Brett Cannon added the comment: I say move forward and put it behind a flag (w/ quiet is fine, maybe some arg to specify quietness or -qq much like -vv?). -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17554

[issue17560] problem using multiprocessing with really big objects?

2013-03-27 Thread Richard Oudkerk
Richard Oudkerk added the comment: On 27/03/2013 5:47pm, Charles-François Natali wrote: multiprocessing currently only allows sharing of such shared arrays using inheritance. You mean through fork() COW? Through fork, yes, but shared rather than copy-on-write. Perhaps we need a

[issue17556] os.path.join() converts None to '' by default

2013-03-27 Thread Eric V. Smith
Eric V. Smith added the comment: I agree with David. This is a programming error, and should result in an exception. -- nosy: +eric.smith ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17556

[issue17560] problem using multiprocessing with really big objects?

2013-03-27 Thread Charles-François Natali
Charles-François Natali added the comment: Through fork, yes, but shared rather than copy-on-write. There's a subtlety: because of refcounting, just treating a COW object as read-only (e.g. iteratin on the array) will trigger a copy anyway... I assume you mean shared memory and shm_open(),

[issue13510] Clarify that readlines() is not needed to iterate over a file

2013-03-27 Thread Ashwini Chaudhary
Changes by Ashwini Chaudhary monty.sin...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +montysinngh ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13510 ___ ___

[issue17561] Add socket.create_server_sock() convenience function

2013-03-27 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: What you say is right but whether the kernel supports an hybrid IPv4/6 stack or not there's not much we can do about it anyway. Exactly what are you suggesting with the ServerSocket class you mentioned? What do you expect it to do? Note that platforms

[issue17561] Add socket.create_server_sock() convenience function

2013-03-27 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: Side note: this is how in pyftpdlib I determine whether a platform supports the dual stack: def support_hybrid_ip_v4_v6(): # Note: IPPROTO_IPV6 constant is broken on Windows, see: # http://bugs.python.org/issue6926 sock = None try:

[issue17560] problem using multiprocessing with really big objects?

2013-03-27 Thread Richard Oudkerk
Richard Oudkerk added the comment: On 27/03/2013 7:27pm, Charles-François Natali wrote: Charles-François Natali added the comment: Through fork, yes, but shared rather than copy-on-write. There's a subtlety: because of refcounting, just treating a COW object as read-only (e.g. iteratin on

[issue17561] Add socket.create_server_sock() convenience function

2013-03-27 Thread Guido van Rossum
Guido van Rossum added the comment: Tulip has something similar. Someone should compare the two and make sure they are equivalent or similar. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17561

[issue17560] problem using multiprocessing with really big objects?

2013-03-27 Thread Charles-François Natali
Charles-François Natali added the comment: Apart from creating, unlinking and resizing the file I don't think there should be any disk I/O. On Linux disk I/O only occurs when fsync() or close() are called. What? Writeback occurs depending on the memory pressure, percentage of used pages,

[issue17561] Add socket.create_server_sock() convenience function

2013-03-27 Thread Charles-François Natali
Charles-François Natali added the comment: What you say is right but whether the kernel supports an hybrid IPv4/6 stack or not there's not much we can do about it anyway. Exactly what are you suggesting with the ServerSocket class you mentioned? What do you expect it to do? There's a

[issue17560] problem using multiprocessing with really big objects?

2013-03-27 Thread Richard Oudkerk
Richard Oudkerk added the comment: On 27/03/2013 8:14pm, Charles-François Natali wrote: Charles-François Natali added the comment: Apart from creating, unlinking and resizing the file I don't think there should be any disk I/O. On Linux disk I/O only occurs when fsync() or close() are

[issue17562] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2013-03-27 Thread Konstantin
New submission from Konstantin: LinkedIn I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Konstantin Konstantin Aslanidi Author of opentradingsystem.com Greater New York City Area Confirm that you know Konstantin Aslanidi:

[issue17562] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2013-03-27 Thread Ezio Melotti
Changes by Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com: -- Removed message: http://bugs.python.org/msg185376 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17562 ___

[issue17562] spam

2013-03-27 Thread Ezio Melotti
Changes by Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com: -- nosy: -Aslanidi resolution: - invalid stage: - committed/rejected status: open - closed title: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn - spam ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue17560] problem using multiprocessing with really big objects?

2013-03-27 Thread Charles-François Natali
Charles-François Natali added the comment: I meant when there is no memory pressure. http://lwn.net/Articles/326552/ The kernel page cache contains in-memory copies of data blocks belonging to files kept in persistent storage. Pages which are written to by a processor, but not yet written to

[issue17558] gdb debugging python frames in optimised interpreters

2013-03-27 Thread R. David Murray
Changes by R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com: -- nosy: +dmalcolm ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17558 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue17563] Excessive resizing of dicts when used as a cache

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Shannon
New submission from Mark Shannon: If a dict is used a cache, e.g. in functools.lru_cache, the reduced resize factor in 3.3 can cause excessive resizing. This can lead to a significant performance regression. When the the number of deletions and insertions is roughly in balance the reduced head

[issue17564] test_urllib2_localnet fails

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Shannon
New submission from Mark Shannon: The test_urllib2_localnet test fails when run with a clean build from a clean checkout. Machine: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 64 bit Intel i3-2370M CPU @ 2.40GHz × 4 Test output: $ ./python -m test -v test_urllib2_localnet == CPython 3.4.0a0 (default:53cc3dbb1918,

[issue17564] test_urllib2_localnet fails

2013-03-27 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Are you behind some kind of a proxy? This is seen when you are running the tests and your interent connection is via proxy (and that is handling this invalid URL test) -- nosy: +orsenthil status: open - pending

[issue17564] test_urllib2_localnet fails

2013-03-27 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti added the comment: There's a comment in the test that says it might be because of the ISP. What happens if you try to open that address in a browser or using something like wget? -- nosy: +ezio.melotti status: pending - open ___ Python

[issue17564] test_urllib2_localnet fails

2013-03-27 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Indeed, this is almost always a (common) ISP DNS server misconfiguration. Well, they would claim they are helping their users, but we know better. Not much we can do about it, except perhaps add an explanatory note to the test failure message (if

[issue17564] test_urllib2_localnet fails

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Shannon
Mark Shannon added the comment: Bah, stupid BT :( I opened the URL in my browser and got a helpful message telling me Sorry, the website sadflkjsasf.i.nvali.d. cannot be found Perhaps we should just remove this test? I suspect this is only going to become more common. --

[issue17560] problem using multiprocessing with really big objects?

2013-03-27 Thread Richard Oudkerk
Richard Oudkerk added the comment: On 27/03/13 21:09, Charles-François Natali wrote: I could, but I don't have to: a shared memory won't incur any I/O or copy (except if it is swapped). A file-backed mmap will incur a *lot* of I/O: really, just try writting a 1GB file, and you'll see your

[issue17564] test_urllib2_localnet fails

2013-03-27 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I think we should instead have it email the ISP that their DNS is broken :) Seriously, though, complain to your ISP. My ISP at least provides name servers that don't have this feature if you prefer to use them, and they are the default for business

[issue12466] sporadic failures of test_close_fds and test_pass_fds in test_subprocess

2013-03-27 Thread Charles-François Natali
Charles-François Natali added the comment: Hummm... For those experiencing failures when /proc is mounted: do you have a grsecurity-patched kernel? If RBAC is enabled, /proc/self/fd is empty, so this approach won't work... -- nosy: +neologix ___

[issue16676] Segfault under Python 3.3 after PyType_GenericNew

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Shannon
Mark Shannon added the comment: This issue should be considered closed. PyType_GenericNew is a convenience function for typeobjects to put in their tp_new slots. Calling it directly only works for some types. It worked in 3.2 for dict, but that was happenstance. You could use ((PyTypeObject

[issue17491] Consolidate traceback.format_tb and traceback.print_tb

2013-03-27 Thread Radu Voicilas
Radu Voicilas added the comment: Is there anything else that I have to do in order for this patch to be looked at ? I am holding off a similar one for print_exception vs. format_exception -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue17565] segfaults during serialization

2013-03-27 Thread Daniele Raimondi
New submission from Daniele Raimondi: pickle and cPickle cause really often segfaults when dumping or loading user defined classes. It happens with python 2.7.3 on 64bits architecture, with any protocol (0,1,2). I attach an example of class afflicted by this problem. Solutions anyone?

[issue17502] unittest.mock: side_effect iterators ignore DEFAULT

2013-03-27 Thread Radu Voicilas
Changes by Radu Voicilas radu.voici...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +raduv ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17502 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue17563] Excessive resizing of dicts when used as a cache

2013-03-27 Thread STINNER Victor
Changes by STINNER Victor victor.stin...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +haypo ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17563 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue17565] segfaults during serialization

2013-03-27 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Please provide a self-contained explain, we can reproduce. -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17565 ___

[issue16676] Segfault under Python 3.3 after PyType_GenericNew

2013-03-27 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Changes by Benjamin Peterson benja...@python.org: -- resolution: - invalid status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16676 ___

[issue17491] Consolidate traceback.format_tb and traceback.print_tb

2013-03-27 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Thank you for the patch. It seems like it would make more sense to implement print_tb in terms of extract_tb. That is, print_tb should iterate through the result of extract_tb and do its printing. -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson

[issue17559] str.is* implementation seem suboptimal for single character strings

2013-03-27 Thread Ezio Melotti
Changes by Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, haypo, serhiy.storchaka versions: +Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17559

[issue17559] str.is* implementation seem suboptimal for single character strings

2013-03-27 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Benjamin Peterson added the comment: The shortcut seems fairly pointless to me. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17559 ___ ___

[issue17559] str.is* implementation seem suboptimal for single character strings

2013-03-27 Thread STINNER Victor
STINNER Victor added the comment: If you would like to improve Python, you have to focus on the development version which is Python 3.4. In this version, the code is different: if (length == 1) return PyBool_FromLong( Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE(PyUnicode_READ(kind, data, 0)));

[issue17559] str.is* implementation seem suboptimal for single character strings

2013-03-27 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Benjamin Peterson added the comment: There's still stuff in bytes_methods.c which looks like the old string code. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17559 ___

[issue17565] segfaults during serialization

2013-03-27 Thread STINNER Victor
STINNER Victor added the comment: ModelSettings.py requires globalSettings which is not attached. -- nosy: +haypo ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17565 ___

[issue17433] stdlib generator-like iterators don't forward send/throw

2013-03-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: -- stage: - committed/rejected status: open - closed superseder: - Implement generator interface in itertools.chain. ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17433

[issue17206] Py_XDECREF() expands its argument multiple times

2013-03-27 Thread STINNER Victor
STINNER Victor added the comment: I'm not sure that it is a good idea to patch such major function (macro) in a minor version (ex: Python 2.7.x). I changed the Versions field to only select Python 3.4. -- nosy: +haypo versions: -Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python

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