[issue15863] Fine-grained info about Python versions which support changes introduced in micro releases

2012-09-06 Thread Alexander Konovalenko
Alexander Konovalenko added the comment: Andrew, I don't get it. :( Why not? The docs for Python 2.7 generally inform the reader in which Python version every feature appeared. That's really helpful if your code should run on earlier version of Python. You don't have to dig through the docs

[issue15863] Fine-grained info about Python versions which support changes introduced in micro releases

2012-09-04 Thread Alexander Konovalenko
New submission from Alexander Konovalenko: Some security fixes and bug fixes that are simultaneously issued for multiple Python versions require changes to the documentation. I'm now looking at the hash randomization vulnerability that was fixed in 2.6.8 and 2.7.3. The docs always mention

[issue15840] Ambiguity with regard to the effect of accessing a closed IOBase instance

2012-09-01 Thread Alexander Konovalenko
New submission from Alexander Konovalenko: Two pieces of the documentation for io.IOBase seem to contradict each other: At http://docs.python.org/library/io.html#io.IOBase: Note that calling any method (even inquiries) on a closed stream is undefined. Implementations may raise IOError