[issue46175] Zero argument super() does not function properly inside generator expressions

New submission from Alex Walters : When zero argument super is used inside a generator expression, it raises 'TypeError: super(type, obj): obj must be an instance or subtype of type'. I can find no information on if this is working as intended, a bug, or a known issue, and the e

[issue38526] zipfile.Path has the wrong method name

New submission from Alex Walters : https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/zipfile.html#zipfile.Path.listdir The docs for zipfile.Path list a method named 'listdir', the closest approximation to the functionality described in the actual code is a method named 'iterdir' -

[issue33598] ActiveState Recipes links in docs, and the apparent closure of Recipes

Alex Walters added the comment: All recipes are MIT licensed unless otherwise noted on the recipe itself. However, AFAICT, all the recipes that are linked to in the docs are written by Raymond Hettinger, so I don't think licensing will be that big of an issue. We know where he is, w

[issue33598] ActiveState Recipes links in docs, and the apparent closure of Recipes

New submission from Alex Walters : ActiveState has stopped accepting new recipes on their website, and migrated all current recipes to a Github repo. I have seen no official announcement of a shutdown date for the code.activestate.com website, but it's future has to be in que

[issue27546] Integrate tkinter and asyncio (and async)

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[issue33351] Support compiling with clang-cl on Windows

Alex Walters added the comment: When supporting platforms comes up, there's a usual list of questions, especially for windows. I can remember two of them off the top of my head: * Are you suggesting that CPython's build system move away from MSVC as the platform compiler for Windo

[issue33351] Support compiling with clang-cl on Windows

Alex Walters added the comment: Is this the same as the clang/llvm C1 that you can enable from inside Visual Studio? -- nosy: +tritium ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue33

[issue26580] Documentation for ftplib still references ftpmirror.py

New submission from Alex Walters: in #23130 ftpmirror.py was removed from the python source distribution. The documentation still references this, and sends people looking for the file (ostensibly as an example of how to use ftplib). -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation

[issue19853] Add support for Bitrig to 2.7

Alex Walters added the comment: The vast majority of the patch is adding || Defined('bitrig') after Defined('openbsd'). I don't know if that is an argument for or against, but on its face, its just working around an issue of an openbsd fork not identifying as

[issue23496] Steps for Android Native Build of Python 3.4.2

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[issue24642] Will there be an MSI installer?

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[issue10716] Modernize pydoc to use better HTML and separate CSS

Alex Walters added the comment: Isn't this whats sphinx's apidoc is for? -- nosy: +tritium ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue10716> ___ ___

[issue24642] Will there be an MSI installer?

Alex Walters added the comment: on 2.5, I figured the answer would be along those lines. for 2, Linking to the documentation at least would be helpful (or otherwise indicating that there are arguments that are not listed and are in the docs) if the arguments cant be listed reasonably easily

[issue24642] Will there be an MSI installer?

Alex Walters added the comment: Having now worked with the new installer, there is nothing wrong with it, and provides sufficient scritpability, if that is a word. I only have two (and a half) thoughts on it: 1. This should be more prominently documented. The addition of the new web

[issue24642] Will there be an MSI installer?

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[issue24642] Will there be an MSI installer?

Alex Walters added the comment: Related to the exe installer... /? lists only 4 options, none of which are useful in restricting the installation, or changing its location. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue24

[issue24642] Will there be an MSI installer?

New submission from Alex Walters: I use the *.msi installers for python to automate deployment of... an absurd number of python installations. I have been able to do this relatively easily, as the Windows installer didn't change much between 2.6 and 3.4 (possibly much longer than that,

[issue23938] Deprecation of windows xp support missing from whats new

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[issue23938] Deprecation of windows xp support missing from whats new

New submission from Alex Walters: the Whats New in Python 3.5 lacks an indication that cpython is dropping support for that platform due to Microsoft dropping continuing support for it (see PEP 11). -- files: docs_unsupported_xp_35.patch keywords: patch messages: 240727 nosy: tritium