[issue44956] curses getch returns wrong value

2021-08-19 Thread Robert T McQuaid
New submission from Robert T McQuaid : This applies to Python 3.8 under Debian-11 Bullseye. Under curses getch should return the value of curses.KEY_B2 (350 decimal) when pressing the keypad 5. Instead it returns 574. The simple program following the signature block illustrates the problem

[issue42681] mistake in curses documentation

2020-12-18 Thread Robert T McQuaid
New submission from Robert T McQuaid : The description of color_pair starts with curses.color_pair(color_number) It should be curses.color_pair(pair_number) -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 383344 nosy: arbor, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal

[issue6212] piped input

2009-06-05 Thread Robert T McQuaid
New submission from Robert T McQuaid r...@fixcas.com: # # Python 3.0.1 can read piped input when invoked with a # program name as the argument of the interpreter, but not # when invoked implicitly by the file extension. On # Windows xp the first command below runs successfully

[issue1210] imaplib does not run under Python 3

2007-09-26 Thread Robert T McQuaid
New submission from Robert T McQuaid: imaplib does not run under Python 3. The following two-line python program, named testimap.py, works when run from a Windows XP system shell prompt using Python 2.5.1, but fails with Python 3.0. It appears that the logic does not follow the distinction

[issue1192] Python 3 documents crash Firefox

2007-09-23 Thread Robert T McQuaid
New submission from Robert T McQuaid: I downloaded python-3.0a1.msi for Windows XP and after install converted the documentation from chm format to html with the hh.exe utility in XP. The resulting files crashed Firefox version 2.0 (it slowly chokes to death in a dozen operations), but worked