[issue20409] .readline() returned garble text

2014-01-27 Thread Xiaoqing Rong
New submission from Xiaoqing Rong: I'm using Windows 8. I created file 'weird1.txt' (attached) from an Excel worksheet using save as Unicode Text (*.txt). And this happened when I used Python 3.3.3 (v3.3.3:c3896275c0f6, Nov 18 2013, 21:19:30) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32: handle

[issue20135] mutate list

2014-01-05 Thread Xiaoqing Rong
New submission from Xiaoqing Rong: I was using IDLE (Python GUI) for Python 3.3.3. I don't know if this is a bug or you guys intend it to be this way: x=[1,2] y=x y.append(3) x [1, 2, 3] personally i'd prefer x stays as [1,2] when i'm trying to mutate y also: def f1(m,n=['haha