Kevin Phillips added the comment:
This change has the adverse side effect of requiring users of Python 3.5 to use
the Visual Studio 2015 runtime library. Further, as is documented on
Microsoft's website, the minimum system requirements for installing and running
this runtime is Windows 7 SP1
Changes by Kevin Phillips (kmecpp) kme...@gmail.com:
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title: IDLE Bug - IDLE Text Output Bug with ASCII Codes
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Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org
http://bugs.python.org/issue24572
New submission from Kevin Phillips (kmecpp):
This appears to be a bug with IDLE that happens when printing out ASCII codes.
I posted the issue to stackoverflow when I came accross it because I didn't
know what the problem was, so there is a more detailed description of the
there: http
Changes by Kevin Phillips (kmecpp) kme...@gmail.com:
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title: IDLE Text Output Bug with ASCII Codes - IDLE Text Output With ASCII
Codes Not Working
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Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org
http://bugs.python.org/issue24572
New submission from Kevin Phillips:
I recently exploited a subtle bug with the msilib module's GetProperty method
on the SummaryInformation class. When retrieving string-typed properties from
the stream the last character in the string gets truncated, replaced by a
null-byte.
I am using
Kevin Phillips added the comment:
I should mention that I did discover some source code on GitHub, presumably for
this wrapper module, and I believe I found a few questionable parts in the
logic for this library that may help explain the cause of this problem:
https://github.com/python-git
