[issue20863] IDLE not opening

2014-03-07 Thread Chester Burns
Chester Burns added the comment: I tried that and it came up with this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/idle3.3", line 5, in main() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/idlelib/PyShell.py",

[issue20863] IDLE not opening

2014-03-07 Thread Chester Burns
New submission from Chester Burns: I installed python 3.3.3 and it was working fine for the moment, however the next day when I tried to open it, the idle app showed on the dock for a second and straight away quit. I am using a macbook pro on osx version 10.9.1 -- messages: 212863

[issue3364] An ortographical typo in Zen of Python text

2008-07-17 Thread Chester
Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: You're a strange man, Mr. Peters, a strange man... On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > > I'm afraid you missed th

[issue3364] An ortographical typo in Zen of Python text

2008-07-15 Thread Chester
New submission from Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I hope I chose the correct component type for this issue report. Anyway, if you do import this in the Python 3.x interactive interpreter, you get the Zen of Python by Tim Peters. This text has a line which has an ortographical typo in it.

[issue3357] A bug in the __doc__ string of the sys module

2008-07-14 Thread Chester
New submission from Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This relates to Python 3.x. Do this please: import sys; print(sys.__doc__) Please fix the following line of text in that __doc__ file of the sys module: stdin -- standard input file object; used by raw_input() and input() This line o

[issue2962] Goodbye, 'global' statement!

2008-05-24 Thread Chester
New submission from Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The 'global' statement is used to mark a variable as global. It is used in functions to allow statements in the function body to rebind global variables. Using the 'global' statement is generally considered poor s

[issue2961] Two error messages inconsistent

2008-05-24 Thread Chester
Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: For the case a + 1 I recommend: TypeError: can't concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects And for the case 1 + a I recommend: TypeError: can't concatenate 'int' and 'str' objects Consiste

[issue2961] Two error messages inconsistent

2008-05-24 Thread Chester
New submission from Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I would like to report that two error messages of the Python parser are not consistent. Please take a look at this: >>> a = "hello" >>> a + 1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "", li

[issue2907] ZeroDivisionError error message needs clarification

2008-05-18 Thread Chester
New submission from Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Please fix the ZeroDivisionError error message string literal to clarify the error message: from if (y == 0) { PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ZeroDivisionError, "integer division or mod

[issue2842] Dictionary methods: inconsistency

2008-05-12 Thread Chester
New submission from Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Names of dictionary methods are not consistent with Python's coding style. Please fix the following method names: 1) fixdeepcopyto be deep_copy 2) fixfromkeysto be from_keys 3) fixpopitem to be pop_

[issue2826] safe_substitute() and substitute()

2008-05-11 Thread Chester
New submission from Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Please consider of removing safe_substitute() method and make the current substitute() method act like safe_substitute() method but being named substitute(). -- messages: 66675 nosy: chester, gvanrossum severity: normal status: open

[issue2825] Quote-type recognition bug [got a patch!]

2008-05-11 Thread Chester
Changes by Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- nosy: +gvanrossum versions: +3rd party, Python 2.1.1, Python 2.1.2, Python 2.2, Python 2.2.1, Python 2.2.2, Python 2.2.3, Python 2.3, Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 3.0 __ Tracker <[EMAIL

[issue2825] Quote-type recognition bug [got a patch!]

2008-05-11 Thread Chester
New submission from Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This is a patch I made to make this messages clear now. I hope you like it. -- files: test_eof.patch keywords: patch messages: 4 nosy: chester severity: normal status: open title: Quote-type recognition bug [got a patch!] Adde

[issue2822] Quote-type recognition bug [badly fixed last time]

2008-05-11 Thread Chester
New submission from Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have a suggestion that would make the http://svn.python.org/view?rev=63068&view=rev look ever more clear. It would be better to have this kind of error messages: expect = "End of line while scanning string (, line 1)" a

[issue2817] Make Python create a tuple with one element in a clean way

2008-05-11 Thread Chester
Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Martin I see the point now. I appologize for not having the clear head of seeing the possible damage that my feature request would make. I take my request back. __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://

[issue2816] Quote-type recognition bug

2008-05-11 Thread Chester
Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: It would be better to say "End of line while scanning string (, line 1)" and "End of f... while scanning multi-line string (, line 1)" These messages really need to be clear, so putting EOF for example (which I really

[issue2817] Make Python create a tuple with one element in a clean way

2008-05-11 Thread Chester
New submission from Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: To create a tuple with one element, you need to do this: >>> my_tuple = (1,)# Note the trailing comma after the value 1 >>> type(my_tuple) But if you do this >>> my_tuple = (1) >>> type(my_tupl

[issue2816] Quote-type recognition bug

2008-05-11 Thread Chester
Changes by Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- versions: +3rd party __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2816> __ ___ Python-bugs-list mailin

[issue2816] Quote-type recognition bug

2008-05-11 Thread Chester
Changes by Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- versions: +Python 2.1.1, Python 2.1.2, Python 2.2, Python 2.2.1, Python 2.2.2, Python 2.2.3, Python 2.3, Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 2.6 __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.pytho

[issue2816] Quote-type recognition bug

2008-05-11 Thread Chester
Changes by Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- versions: +Python 3.0 -Python 2.5 __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2816> __ ___ Python

[issue2816] Quote-type recognition bug

2008-05-11 Thread Chester
Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I have e-mailed Guido van Rossum about this. He replied: "Good find. Please file a bug on bugs.python.org." If that wasn't a bug, he wouldn't have said that, would he? __ Tracker

[issue2816] Quote-type recognition bug

2008-05-11 Thread Chester
New submission from Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Let's make an intentional syntax error... >>> print "Testing\" SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string Please focus on the part of the error message that states "while scanning single-quoted strin