[issue21197] venv does not create lib64 directory and appropriate symlinks

Vinay Sajip added the comment: Issue #18807 relates to symlinks not being available, or not being wanted by the user creating the environment. The lib64 symlink is (currently) the only case where we symlink to a directory (in the other cases, such as aliases for the interpreter, we can use

[issue18807] Allow venv to create copies, even when symlinks are supported

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset ce1b8b2ddf07 by Vinay Sajip in branch '3.4': Issue #18807: If copying (no symlinks) specified for a venv, then the python interpreter aliases (python, python3) are now created by copying rather than symlinking.

[issue18807] Allow venv to create copies, even when symlinks are supported

Vinay Sajip added the comment: I've made the change - not exactly the same as your patch, which was missing an os.chmod() and doing an unnecessary os.path.join() - but thanks for submitting a patch :-). However, note that on 64-bit Linux systems (actually any POSIX other than OS X) a symlink

[issue21591] exec(a, b, c) not the same as exec a in b, c in nested functions

New submission from Robert Jordens: According to the documentation the exec a in b, c is equivalent to exec(a, b, c). But in the testcase below the tuple form causes a SyntaxError while the statement form works fine. diff -r e770d8c4291c Lib/test/test_compile.py ---

[issue10203] sqlite3.Row doesn't support sequence protocol

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 6e2833ae1718 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '2.7': Issue #10203: sqlite3.Row now truly supports sequence protocol. In particular http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6e2833ae1718 New changeset 6af865f1a59d by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.4': Issue

[issue10203] sqlite3.Row doesn't support sequence protocol

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Thank you Claudiu for your contribution. But please be more careful, your patches contained trailing whitespaces. Thank you Paul for your report. -- resolution: - fixed stage: commit review - resolved status: open - closed

[issue21208] Change default behavior of arguments with type bool when options are specified

Karl Richter added the comment: @paul.j3 That's interesting [1]. Documenting argparse.register seems crucial to me (- reopen or file a new request?). After dealing more with the very sophisticated and complex functionality of argparse I'm sure that this is the only use case where such an

[issue5950] Make zipimport work with zipfile containing comments

Thomas Heller added the comment: As for progress, the answer is no as the hope is to eventually replace zipimport with something in pure Python thanks to importlib. Does this mean there is no chance to put this into 3.4 and 3.3, do we really have to wait until 3.5 with it's pure-python

[issue20430] Make argparse.SUPPRESS work as an argument dest

jzwinck added the comment: Yes, I have a practical need for dest=SUPPRESS. One of the reasons is basically what you said: to implement things analogous to --help. In those cases you want to be able to invoke a function (e.g. via type=myfunc) but not store anything. Or you may need to

[issue21592] Make statistics.median run in linear time

New submission from Thomas Dybdahl Ahle: The statistics module currently contains the following comment: FIXME: investigate ways to calculate medians without sorting? Quickselect? This is important, because users expect standard library functions to use state of the art implementations, and

[issue21592] Make statistics.median run in linear time

Changes by Zachary Ware zachary.w...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +steven.daprano stage: - needs patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21592 ___

[issue5950] Make zipimport work with zipfile containing comments

Brett Cannon added the comment: I actually stopped development of a pure Python zip importer so it won't be in Python 3.5 either (http://bugs.python.org/issue17630). The motivation simply wasn't there if zipimport is going to be sticking around for bootstrapping reasons. This can still get

[issue5950] Make zipimport work with zipfile containing comments

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[issue3015] tkinter with wantobjects=False has been broken for some time

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset c69e8ea3bf10 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'default': Issue #3015: _tkinter.create() now creates tkapp object with wantobject=1 by http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c69e8ea3bf10 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue3015] tkinter with wantobjects=False has been broken for some time

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Lita Cho, originally reported issue is fixed. I asked Martin (and Guilherme if he is here). Are you agree to close this issue? See issue21585 about extending testing. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue21579] Python 3.4: tempfile.close attribute does not work

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: OK, O_TMPFILE is not related. But Windows is related. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21579 ___

[issue21593] Clarify re.search documentation first match

New submission from Joshua Landau: The documentation for re.search does not state that it returns the first match. This should be added, or a clarification added if this is implementation-defined. https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.search --- See also

[issue21592] Make statistics.median run in linear time

Thomas Dybdahl Ahle added the comment: I have written some proof of concept code here [1], I would appreciate you commenting on it, before I turn it into a patch, as I haven't contributed code to Python before. I have tried to write it as efficiently as possible, but it is of course possible

[issue1683368] object.__init__ shouldn't allow args/kwds

Changes by Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org: -- Removed message: http://bugs.python.org/msg219253 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue1683368 ___

[issue1683368] object.__init__ shouldn't allow args/kwds

Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: -- Removed message: http://bugs.python.org/msg219255 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue1683368 ___

[issue1683368] object.__init__ shouldn't allow args/kwds

Guido van Rossum added the comment: If you don't know enough about the base class you shouldn't be subclassing it. In this particular case you should be overriding __init__, not __new__. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue21579] Python 3.4: tempfile.close attribute does not work

Марк Коренберг added the comment: So, maybe API change? like delete=True|False|Maybe ? don't think that this is good decisions. My approach is based on ext4 behaviour about delayed allocation and atomic file replacements. In my case, either old file (with contents) or new file appear. In any

[issue21579] Python 3.4: tempfile.close attribute does not work

Марк Коренберг added the comment: why not to make tmpfileobj.delete as property that really sets self._closer.delete ? this will fix my problem. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21579

[issue21493] Add test for ntpath.expanduser

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 5e599b301ebd by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '2.7': Issue #21493: Added test for ntpath.expanduser(). Original patch by http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5e599b301ebd New changeset a981a088512c by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.4': Issue #21493: Added

[issue1683368] object.__init__ shouldn't allow args/kwds

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: From what I see, you do not need to change either __new__ or __init__, just add __enter__ and __exit__ , and you only need to do that in 2.6. Since Zipfile is written in Python, you could monkey-patch instead of subclassing, if that is easier in your

[issue19385] dbm.dumb should be consistent when the database is closed

Claudiu.Popa added the comment: Looks good to me. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19385 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue1683368] object.__init__ shouldn't allow args/kwds

Eric Snow added the comment: If you don't know enough about the base class you shouldn't be subclassing it. That's important when overriding any API in subclass and absolutely always essential when it comes to __new__ and __init__! That's something that isn't very obvious at first. :( In

[issue21402] tkinter.ttk._val_or_dict assumes tkinter._default_root exists

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 8e5c65719c12 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '2.7': Issue #21402: tkinter.ttk now works when default root window is not set. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/8e5c65719c12 New changeset 4a0987b8f630 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.4': Issue #21402:

[issue21493] Add test for ntpath.expanduser

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Thanks Claudiu. -- resolution: - fixed stage: - resolved status: open - closed versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21493

[issue19385] dbm.dumb should be consistent when the database is closed

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 95207bcd8298 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.4': Restore performance of some dumb database methods (regression introduced by #19385). http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/95207bcd8298 New changeset 2e59e0b579e5 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch

[issue21402] tkinter.ttk._val_or_dict assumes tkinter._default_root exists

Changes by Serhiy Storchaka storch...@gmail.com: -- resolution: - fixed stage: patch review - resolved status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21402 ___

[issue21402] tkinter.ttk._val_or_dict assumes tkinter._default_root exists

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Thank you for your report Stephen. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21402 ___ ___

[issue19385] dbm.dumb should be consistent when the database is closed

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Thanks Claudiu. -- stage: patch review - resolved status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19385 ___

[issue21343] os.path.relpath returns inconsistent types

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: OK. I say the original issue is not a bug. -- resolution: - not a bug stage: - resolved status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21343

[issue21594] asyncio.create_subprocess_exec raises OSError

New submission from Sebastian Kreft: In some cases asyncio.create_subprocess_exec raises an OSError because there are no file descriptors available. I don't know if that is expected, but IMO I think it would be better to just block until the required numbers of fds are available. Otherwise

[issue21594] asyncio.create_subprocess_exec raises OSError

STINNER Victor added the comment: I don't know if that is expected, but IMO I think it would be better to just block until the required numbers of fds are available. Does it mean that it can block forever? It sounds strange to try to make such error silent. Why not retrying in case of such

[issue21580] PhotoImage(data=...) apparently has to be UTF-8 or Base-64 encoded

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: All works to me. import tkinter b = tkinter.Button() with open('Lib/test/imghdrdata/python.gif', 'rb') as f: data = f.read() ... img = tkinter.PhotoImage(data=data) b['image'] = img b.pack() Could you please provide an example which demonstrates the

[issue21595] Creating many subprocess generates lots of internal BlockingIOError

New submission from Sebastian Kreft: Using the asyncio.create_subprocess_exec, generates lost of internal error messages. These messages are: Exception ignored when trying to write to the signal wakeup fd: BlockingIOError: [Errno 11] Resource temporarily unavailable Getting the messages

[issue21579] Python 3.4: tempfile.close attribute does not work

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Yes, it would be easy to restore this behavior on Posix. -- keywords: +easy stage: - needs patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21579 ___

[issue21596] asyncio.wait fails when futures list is empty

New submission from Sebastian Kreft: Passing an empty list/set of futures to asyncio.wait raises an Exception, which is a little annoying in some use cases. Probably this was the intended behavior as I see there's a test case for that. If such, then I would propose to document that behavior.

[issue20689] socket.AddressFamily is absent in pydoc output

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: We should discuss this suggestion on Python-Dev. It affects the use of enums in other modules. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue20689 ___

[issue21477] Idle: improve idle_test.htest

Saimadhav Heblikar added the comment: Summary for htest-28052014-34.diff and htest-28052014-27.diff 1. Add htest for GrepDialog,UndoDelegator and configDialog 2. Makes changes to the way the help string is displayed. The label has been replaced by a text widget made to look like a label, and

[issue21477] Idle: improve idle_test.htest

Changes by Saimadhav Heblikar saimadhavhebli...@gmail.com: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35387/htest-28052014-27.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21477 ___

[issue1683368] object.__init__ shouldn't allow args/kwds

Guido van Rossum added the comment: Sorry, I didn't realize why __new__ was being used. But what Jason's code is doing isn't any cleaner than monkey-patching. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue1683368

[issue18141] tkinter.Image.__del__ can throw an exception if module globals are destroyed in the wrong order

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: My worry about the patch is that is is a bandage covering up a problem elsewhere. 1. You indicate that you only have a problem with your custom build, but not on a standard build. This seems odd. Perhaps the problem is with your build. 2. turtledemo.__main__

[issue21585] Run Tkinter tests with wantobjects=False

Changes by Lita Cho lita@gmail.com: -- nosy: +Lita.Cho, jesstess ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21585 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue18132] buttons in turtledemo disappear on small screens

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: On my widescreen, the buttons are completely gone when I shrink vertically to about 720 pixels. So they must be gone on a 600x800 screen or 720x1280 small widescreen and perhaps on a non-fullscreen window on a 780x10xx screen. I agree with fixing this if

[issue21597] Allow turtledemo code pane to get wider.

New submission from Terry J. Reedy: Turtledemo (python -m turtledemo) has a text pane for code and a canvas pane for the actual demo. The code pane is fixed at about 60% of the width needed to display full-width code lines. If the window is expanded horizontally, all the expansion goes to the

[issue1054041] Python doesn't exit with proper resultcode on SIGINT

Changes by Samuel Bronson naes...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +SamB ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue1054041 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue21596] asyncio.wait fails when futures list is empty

Changes by STINNER Victor victor.stin...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +giampaolo.rodola, gvanrossum, haypo, pitrou, yselivanov ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21596 ___

[issue1820] Enhance Object/structseq.c to match namedtuple and tuple api

Stefan Krah added the comment: Sunny, is there a definition of visible positional fields? Currently, it seems to me that in os.stat_result we have the opposite problem, namely visible non-positional fields: For example, st_atime_ns is visible but not indexable: os.stat_result(st_mode=33188,

[issue18141] tkinter.Image.__del__ can throw an exception if module globals are destroyed in the wrong order

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: 1. 3.3 is in security fixes only mode and shutdowning mechanism was changed in 3.4. 2. Looks as some Tk root was not explicitly destroyed and deleted during shutdown stage. 3. Tk.destroy does nothing with images, it destroys only subcomponents and

[issue21595] Creating many subprocess generates lots of internal BlockingIOError

STINNER Victor added the comment: Exception ignored when trying to write to the signal wakeup fd message comes from the signal handler in Modules/signalmodule.c. The problem is that Python gets a lot of SIGCHLD signals (the test scripts creates +300 processes per second on my computer). The

[issue1683368] object.__init__ shouldn't allow args/kwds

Jason R. Coombs added the comment: Maybe I should have focused on a more trivial example to demonstrate the place where my expectation was violated. The use of a real-world example is distracting from my intended point. Consider instead this abstract example: class SomeClass(SomeParentClass):

[issue21595] Creating many subprocess generates lots of internal BlockingIOError

STINNER Victor added the comment: BaseProactorEventLoop._loop_self_reading() uses an overlapped read of 4096 bytes. I don't understand how it wakes up the event loop. When the operation is done, _loop_self_reading() is scheduled with call_soon() by the Future object. Is it enough to wake up

[issue20430] Make argparse.SUPPRESS work as an argument dest

paul j3 added the comment: In the attached file I tried another approach - a custom Action class. It gives you the custom behavior now, instead of 2-3 releases in the future. class Action2(Action): # custom action def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):

[issue1641] asyncore delayed calls feature

STINNER Victor added the comment: asyncore documentation now starts with this note (which was approved by the asyncore maintainer): This module exists for backwards compatibility only. For new code we recommend using asyncio. Since asyncio is now part of the stdlib, I don't think that it's

[issue777588] asyncore is broken for windows if connection is refused

STINNER Victor added the comment: This issue was opened 11 years ago, when Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000 and XP were used. Python is going to drop support of Windows XP, and most older versions are already no more supported. Does this issue still exist in recent Windows versions? I'm not aware of

[issue21208] Change default behavior of arguments with type bool when options are specified

paul j3 added the comment: In http://bugs.python.org/issue11588#msg212243 I explore the option of using decorators to 'register' custom functions with the parser. There I was adding exclusive/inclusive tests, but the same approach could be used to register custom types and actions. I

[issue1683368] object.__init__ shouldn't allow args/kwds

Jason R. Coombs added the comment: Based on the example above, I've created a blog post to publish my recommendation for overriding these special methods in a way that's safe regardless of the parent implementation, given the status quo:

[issue21119] asyncio create_connection resource warning

STINNER Victor added the comment: Can someone review close-3.patch please? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21119 ___ ___

[issue19662] smtpd.py should not decode utf-8

Maciej Szulik added the comment: I'm attaching file issue19662_v1.patch. David please have a look at it and let me know if this is it, if not I'm waiting for your suggestions. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35390/issue19662_v1.patch ___

[issue21252] Lib/asyncio/events.py has tons of docstrings which are just XXX

STINNER Victor added the comment: A first patch to fill remaining XXX docstring of events.py. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35391/asyncio_events_docstring.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue21376] asyncio docs refer to wrong TimeoutError

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 6d90e8df01f4 by Victor Stinner in branch '3.4': Issue #21376: document asyncio.TimeoutError http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6d90e8df01f4 New changeset 03bb1077b362 by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': (Merge 3.4) Issue #21376: document

[issue21376] asyncio docs refer to wrong TimeoutError

STINNER Victor added the comment: Thanks for the report. In fact, asyncio.TimeoutError was not documented at all. It should now be fixed. -- resolution: - fixed status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue21443] asyncio logging documentation clarifications

Changes by STINNER Victor victor.stin...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +giampaolo.rodola, gvanrossum, haypo, pitrou, yselivanov ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21443 ___

[issue21443] asyncio logging documentation clarifications

Guido van Rossum added the comment: Good idea. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21443 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue21454] asyncio's loop.connect_read_pipe makes pipes non-blocking contrary to the documentation

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 16f399588b2a by Victor Stinner in branch '3.4': Issue #21454: Fix asyncio.BaseEventLoop.connect_read_pipe doc http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/16f399588b2a New changeset 8391f99208f6 by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': (Merge 3.4) Issue #21454:

[issue21454] asyncio's loop.connect_read_pipe makes pipes non-blocking contrary to the documentation

STINNER Victor added the comment: Yes, the documentation was wrong. It should now be fixed. Thanks for the report. -- resolution: - fixed status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21454

[issue15014] smtplib: add support for arbitrary auth methods

Milan Oberkirch added the comment: Done. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35392/smtplib_auth.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue15014 ___

[issue13451] sched.py: speedup cancel() method

STINNER Victor added the comment: Serhiy, perhaps it would be useful to see if such optimizations can apply to Tulip's (or asyncio's) event loop, since it will probably be the new standard in 3.4. asyncio was designed differently. Cancelling a task doesn't remove it from a list of pending

[issue15014] smtplib: add support for arbitrary auth methods

Changes by Milan Oberkirch milan...@oberkirch.org: -- nosy: +jesstess ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue15014 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue21580] PhotoImage(data=...) apparently has to be UTF-8 or Base-64 encoded

Martin Panter added the comment: Thanks for looking at this. Originally the issue was found by reading the GIF and PNG images on various web pages, such as http://www.weatherzone.com.au/vic/north-central/castlemaine. However I was also able to produce the problem with the other formats of

[issue17172] Add turtledemo to IDLE menu

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: 0. My general interest is in running external programs and in particular, for this issue, python modules intended to be run as main. Some other scripts I would like to be able to easily launch from Idle include List/test.test_idle.py,

[issue18141] tkinter.Image.__del__ can throw an exception if module globals are destroyed in the wrong order

Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: -- versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue18141 ___ ___

[issue21326] asyncio: request clearer error message when event loop closed

STINNER Victor added the comment: I proposed a patch upstream (in Tulip) to solve this issue: http://code.google.com/p/tulip/issues/detail?id=169 -- nosy: +haypo ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21326

[issue1683368] object.__init__ shouldn't allow args/kwds

Guido van Rossum added the comment: Hrm. I've always thought that the key point of cooperative MI was the term *cooperative*. Consider a regular (non-constructor) method. You must have a common base class that defines this method, and *that* method shouldn't be calling the super-method

[issue21252] Lib/asyncio/events.py has tons of docstrings which are just XXX

STINNER Victor added the comment: Updated patch to address Guido's remarks. FYI I copied the documentation from the Doc repository and Lib/asyncio/unix_events.py (for child watchers), and so I copied typos :-) I tried to fix all copies of the documentation in my new patch. I didn't mention

[issue21585] Run Tkinter tests with wantobjects=False

Lita Cho added the comment: So I don't know what the best way to do this, but I changed the widget_tests.py in order to set tkinter.wantobjects = 0 if a 'wantobjects' flag was passed through test.support.use_resources. Then I added a new test called test_ttk_guionly_wantobj, where it turns

[issue21585] Run Tkinter tests with wantobjects=False

Lita Cho added the comment: Patches lived in my Linux machine. I've attached my patch. I will add my module next. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35394/test_wantobj.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue21585] Run Tkinter tests with wantobjects=False

Changes by Lita Cho lita@gmail.com: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35395/test_ttk_guionly_wantobj.py ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21585 ___

[issue21592] Make statistics.median run in linear time

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 02:43:29PM +, Thomas Dybdahl Ahle wrote: I have written some proof of concept code here [1], I would appreciate you commenting on it, before I turn it into a patch, as I haven't contributed code to Python before. Thanks

[issue3991] urllib.request.urlopen does not handle non-ASCII characters

Graham Oliver added the comment: hello I came across this bug when using 'ā' in a url To get around the problem I used the 'URL encoded' version '%C4%81' instead of 'ā' See this page http://www.charbase.com/0101-unicode-latin-small-letter-a-with-macron I tried using the 'puny code' for 'ā'

[issue21598] Is __getitem__ and __len__ implementations enough to make a user-defined class sliceable?

New submission from Santoso Wijaya: The reference doc for Python data model says that __getslice__ is deprecated [1], and that __getitem__ should be used instead: Deprecated since version 2.0: Support slice objects as parameters to the __getitem__() method. (However, built-in types in

[issue21598] Is __getitem__ and __len__ implementations enough to make a user-defined class sliceable?

Santoso Wijaya added the comment: Hm. The docstring for __getitem__ doesn't mention it can/should be accepting slice object as argument. That's what I'm missing. Doc patch? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue21598] Is __getitem__ and __len__ implementations enough to make a user-defined class sliceable?

Changes by Santoso Wijaya santoso.wij...@gmail.com: -- resolution: - not a bug status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21598 ___

[issue21599] Argument transport in attach and detach method in Server class in base_events file is not used

New submission from Vajrasky Kok: In Lib/asyncio/base_events.py, we have these lines of code: --- def attach(self, transport): assert self.sockets is not None self.active_count += 1 def detach(self, transport):

[issue21592] Make statistics.median run in linear time

Vajrasky Kok added the comment: Yeah, I remember I tried to improve the performance of the median in the past using median-of-k algorithm. But too bad I could not beat sorted C function efficiency. Maybe you have a better luck! -- nosy: +vajrasky

[issue17172] Add turtledemo to IDLE menu

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I withdraw my suggestion that turtledemo get anything added just for moving code to Idle. What is does need is the ability to widen the code pane so one can more easily read or cut (by normal means). See #21597. One of my concerns about putting turtledemo on

[issue21600] mock.patch.stopall doesn't work with patch.dict to sys.modules

New submission from fumihiko kakuma: It seems that stopall doesn't work when do start patch.dict to sys.modules. I show sample scripts the following. Using stopall test case seems to always refer the first mock foo object. But using stop it refers a new mock foo object. $ cat test_sampmod.py

[issue9351] argparse set_defaults on subcommands should override top level set_defaults

paul j3 added the comment: This is not getting much attention for several reasons: - there's quite a backlog of argparse patches and issues - 'set_defaults' is not commonly used. Setting default in 'add_argument' seems more common. - defining the same argument for both the parser and

[issue21601] Cancel method for Asyncio Task is not documented

New submission from Vajrasky Kok: https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/asyncio-task.html#task The cancel method is not documented although it is a part of public API. Here is the patch to fix the doc. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: fix_doc_asyncio_task.patch

[issue21602] smtplib.py socket.create_connection() also doesn't handle EINTR properly

New submission from Syou Ei: The smtplib.py also has the same problem. The EINTR cannot be handled properly. 2014-05-21 19:20:15,631 ERROR actions: Notification 'socket_noti' FAILED to send emails to set(['mailt...@tscoss.com']): class 'socket.error' - [Errno 4] Interrupted system

[issue21477] Idle: improve idle_test.htest

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 90dab7696e89 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '2.7': Issue #21477: Add htests for GrepDialog, UndoDelegator, and configDialog. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/90dab7696e89 New changeset d90905960803 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.4': Issue #21477:

[issue21477] Idle: improve idle_test.htest

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Ned, this patch includes a call to macosxSupport. _initializeTkVariantTests(root) in htest.run. Does this work on mac or is something else needed (like doing the same for individual tests that create another root)? --