[issue20344] subprocess.check_output() docs misrepresent what shell=True does

Tobias Klausmann added the comment: Hi! On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, Tuomas Savolainen wrote: Created a patch that adds notice of using shell=True and iterable to the documentation. Please do comment if the formatting is wrong (this my first documentation patch). I'd use articles, i.e

[issue20344] subprocess.check_output() docs misrepresent what shell=True does

New submission from Tobias Klausmann: The subprocess docs state that the first argument can be either a string or an iterable that contains the program and arguments to run. It also points out that using shell=True allows for shell constructs. It does not mention a subtlety that is introduced

[issue10570] curses.tigetstr() returns bytes, but curses.tparm() expects a string

Tobias Klausmann klaus...@gentoo.org added the comment: This bug is still not fixed and basically makes the curses module unusable except for very narrow use cases. Unfortunately, my C-fu is very weak, otherwise I'd try to make a patch. -- nosy: +klausman

[issue9447] Python 3.1.2 test suite segfaults on the alpha architecture

New submission from Tobias Klausmann klaus...@gentoo.org: During testing for inclusion in the Gentoo distribution, we ran into a test failure (actually a SEGV) when running the test suite on the alpha architecture. Log of test failure and backtrace in gdb is here: http://dev.gentoo.org

[issue9447] Python 3.1.2 test suite segfaults on the alpha architecture

Tobias Klausmann klaus...@gentoo.org added the comment: Nevermind, we messed this up ourselves. Sorry for the noise. -- status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9447