[issue22305] Documentation on deepcopy's problems is misleading

Shailesh Hegde added the comment: Thanks. "Because deep copy copies everything it may copy too much, e.g., administrative data structures that need to be shared even between copies, which may not be the desired goal." helps me understand better. -- __

[issue22257] PEP 432: Redesign the interpreter startup sequence

Nick Coghlan added the comment: As far as the specific 5 phase vs 2 steps goes, the two steps in PEP 432 terms are the "Pre-Initialized -> Initializing" transition and the "Initializing -> Initialized" transition. What Gregory is talking about is a potentially good way to organise the second

[issue22309] distutils/spawn.py handle fork() not implemented.

John Malmberg added the comment: There are multiple degrees of Posix compliance. While X/Open documents the Posix requirements for implementing fork(), so far I have not found anything that requires that fork() be present. Configure tests for c-python also test for the presence of fork(). Ope

[issue22257] PEP 432: Redesign the interpreter startup sequence

Nick Coghlan added the comment: It's still deferred for the time being. Based on what I learned on my previous attempt at implementing it, there's some prep work I need to do where I believe reviewing someone else's attempt at doing it would actually be *more* work than doing the work myself (

[issue22307] os.getlogin() documentation has misleading side note

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 59f2edeb8443 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '2.7': getuid() returns real process id not effective (closes #22307) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/59f2edeb8443 New changeset c30163548f64 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '3.4': getuid() returns real pr

[issue22310] Report actual EOF character instead of assuming Ctrl-D

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[issue22310] Report actual EOF character instead of assuming Ctrl-D

New submission from John Malmberg: Have setquit() use the actual EOF character where available instead of assuming Ctrl-D. -- components: Library (Lib) files: lib_site_py.gdiff messages: 226154 nosy: John.Malmberg priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Report actual EOF c

[issue20421] expose SSL socket protocol version

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[issue22309] distutils/spawn.py handle fork() not implemented.

Ned Deily added the comment: As far as I can tell, a Posix-compliant system is required to implement fork(). Which platform doesn't? -- nosy: +ned.deily ___ Python tracker ___

[issue22283] "AMD64 FreeBSD 9.0 3.x" fails to build the _decimal module: #error "libmpdec version >= 2.4.1 required"

Stefan Krah added the comment: I've upgraded the system libmpdec to 2.4.1. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue22309] distutils/spawn.py handle fork() not implemented.

New submission from John Malmberg: Distutils currently can not handle a Posix platform that does not implement fork(). This patch retries with the _spawn_nt to use the spawn() methods if fork() is not implemented. A platform that does not implement fork() can provide spawn*() methods for pyt

[issue22215] "embedded NUL character" exceptions

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[issue22216] smtplip STARTTLS fails at second attampt due to unsufficiant quit()

R. David Murray added the comment: Thanks, Milan. I could swear I typed a '6' in the commit message, but apparently not... New changeset a058760cb069 by R David Murray in branch '3.4': #22215: have the smtplib 'quit' command reset the state. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a058760cb069 New ch

[issue22215] "embedded NUL character" exceptions

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset a058760cb069 by R David Murray in branch '3.4': #22215: have the smtplib 'quit' command reset the state. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a058760cb069 New changeset d0d4ab0ba70e by R David Murray in branch 'default': Merge #22215: have the smtplib '

[issue22297] 2.7 json encoding broken for enums

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: On Aug 30, 2014, at 07:34 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: >In other words, this was a bug that no one noticed for many many releases, >and I'm not sure we should fix it in 2.7 now. > >Arguments for fixing? -1 on fixing it, but we *can* document workarounds. Here's wh

[issue22297] 2.7 json encoding broken for enums

Ethan Furman added the comment: One argument against fixing: If we do fix in 2.7.9 then any program targeting it will be unable to target 3.0-3.3, as those versions do not have the fix from 3.4. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue20421] expose SSL socket protocol version

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Updated patch with doc. -- stage: needs patch -> patch review Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36509/ssl_version2.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue22297] 2.7 json encoding broken for enums

Ethan Furman added the comment: This is not a regression. json only deals with standard types (int, str, etc.), and Enum is not a standard type. Enum was introduced in 3.4, so corresponding changes were made to json to support int and float subclasses, of which IntEnum is one. In other words

[issue22308] add {implementation} to sysconfig.py

mattip added the comment: adding a diff patch to 2.7 -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36508/sysconfig_2_7.patch ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue22308] add {implementation} to sysconfig.py

New submission from mattip: An issue was reported on PyPy where a user had a ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages directory that contained cpython specific libraries. We trakced it down to posix_user in sysconfig.py being set to an implementation-specific cpython path, but used by pypy. This p

[issue22297] 2.7 json encoding broken for enums

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Edward, is this a regression? If yes, we should probably fix it. -- status: pending -> open ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue22297] 2.7 json encoding broken for enums

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: The enum types was added to the stdlib in 3.4. There are no the enum types in Python 2.7. There is no a bug, support for the enum types is new feature. -- nosy: +barry, eli.bendersky, ethan.furman, serhiy.storchaka resolution: -> not a bug status: op

[issue17620] Python interactive console doesn't use sys.stdin for input

Drekin added the comment: Antoine Pitrou: I understand. It would be nice to have that new Python string based readline hook. Its default implementation could be to call PyOS_Readline and decode the bytes using sys.stdin.encoding (as the tokenizer currently does). Tokenizer then woudn't need to

[issue1425127] os.remove OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

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[issue22307] os.getlogin() documentation has misleading side note

New submission from Carlo: The documentation for os.getlogin() says: ... ``pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]`` to get the login name of the currently effective user id Either, os.getuid() should be changed to os.geteuid(), or the wording should be changed. -- assignee: docs@python compone

[issue22306] Inconsistent division by 0 behaviour in decimal module

Stefan Krah added the comment: According to IEEE 754-2008 binary floats should use the same exceptions in this case. 7.2 Invalid operation ... e) division: division(0, 0) or division(∞, ∞) 7.3 Division by zero The divideByZero exception shall be signaled if and only if an exact infi

[issue22306] Inconsistent division by 0 behaviour in decimal module

Akima added the comment: Sorry. Scratch my last comment. I see from the docs ( https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html ) that the decimal module explicitly references that IBM spec. I imagine that standard python arithmatic doesn't even attempt to conform to this ibm spec. -

[issue22306] Inconsistent division by 0 behaviour in decimal module

Akima added the comment: Hi skrah. Thanks for the feedback. That specification is interesting. As this IBM spec appears to be a /general/ specification for performing decimal arithmatic and not targetted specifically at Python's decimal arithmatic implementation, I would expect all of Python

[issue6029] FAIL: test_longdouble (ctypes.test.test_callbacks.Callbacks) [SPARC/64-bit]

Peter Bray added the comment: Terry, I no longer have easy access to SPARC64 systems (they are in boxes), so unfortunately I will not be able to contribute to this issue in the near future. Peter -- components: -Tests ___ Python tracker

[issue22306] Inconsistent division by 0 behaviour in decimal module

Stefan Krah added the comment: The behavior is according to the specification: http://speleotrove.com/decimal/decarith.html The idea behind it is that 1/0 can be reasonably defined as infinity, whereas 0/0 is undefined. You can see that if you disable the exceptions: >>> c = getcontext() >

[issue22261] Document how to use Concurrent Build when using MsBuild

sbspider added the comment: Uploaded a new patch. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36506/readme.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue22305] Documentation on deepcopy's problems is misleading

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: > It should read: > "administrative data structures that should be not shared > even between copies" No. If they should NOT be shared, then making a deep copy is the correct thing to do. The problem with deepcopy is when you actually do want to share some de

[issue22306] Inconsistent division by 0 behaviour in decimal module

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[issue22306] Inconsistent division by 0 behaviour in decimal module

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[issue21965] Add support for Memory BIO to _ssl

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Nice work, thank you! The new API looks mostly good to me. I am wondering about a couple of things: - is it necessary to start exposing server_hostname, server_side and pending()? - SSLObject is a bit vague, should we call it SSLMemoryObject? or do you expect w

[issue6029] FAIL: test_longdouble (ctypes.test.test_callbacks.Callbacks) [SPARC/64-bit]

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Terry r59626 in the file's revision history refers to eefd521f19ce which I assume is what you're after. FWIW I get that on Windows 8.1 by right clicking on the file, select TortoiseHg, then Revision History. -- ___

[issue22306] Inconsistent division by 0 behaviour in decimal module

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[issue22298] Lib/warnings.py _show_warning does not protect against being called with a file like object which is closed

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: And so the original silencing came without a bug reference or an explanation: changeset: 25204:2e7fe55c0e11 branch: legacy-trunk user:Mark Hammond date:Wed Sep 11 13:22:35 2002 + files: Lib/warnings.py description: Ignore IOErro

[issue22298] Lib/warnings.py _show_warning does not protect against being called with a file like object which is closed

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: This is not about stderr though, this is about the `file` argument that is passed to showwarning(). That stderr may be an invalid file is a rather rare condition, for good reason (even if you want to silence any program output, it is generally better to redire

[issue21072] Python docs and downloads not available for Egypt

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[issue6029] FAIL: test_longdouble (ctypes.test.test_callbacks.Callbacks) [SPARC/64-bit]

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Mark, the rev #s are not being translated correctly. Better to use the 10 digit hex #. Can you find the commit again? We have a SPARC Solaris 10 buildbot http://buildbot.python.org/all/waterfall?category=3.x.stable&category=3.x.unstable The ctypes test is pass

[issue17620] Python interactive console doesn't use sys.stdin for input

STINNER Victor added the comment: The Python parser works well with UTF8. If you know the encoding, decode from your encoding and encode to UTF8. You should pass the UTF8 flag to the parser. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue22306] Inconsistent division by 0 behaviour in decimal module

New submission from Akima: 1 / 0 (where both numbers are decimal.Decimal) produces a decimal.DivisionByZero exception as I would expect. This is useful. I can use a simple try except block to catch a potential division by zero error in my code. 0 / 0 (where both numbers are decimal.Decimal)

[issue10598] Add test for curses haskey replacement

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: For some reason, rev73781 above links to rev55058:fb542ed91e7f, whereas the actual patch is bff927c8b410. I think testing the replacement is reasonable, but should be call something like 'test_haskey_backup' and it should test that the backup worked, that cur

[issue22305] Documentation on deepcopy's problems is misleading

New submission from Shailesh Hegde: https://docs.python.org//library/copy.html "Two problems often exist with deep copy operations that don’t exist with shallow copy operations: Recursive objects (compound objects that, directly or indirectly, contain a reference to themselves) may cause a re