[issue3549] Missing IDLE Preferences on Mac

2008-08-16 Thread cfr
cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Also with Python 2.5.2 on OS X 10.4.11 (PPC but it is the universal installer): there is no Preferences... menu. The help mentions an Options menu. I don't know if that is the equivalent, but I cannot find that either. ------

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

2008-08-13 Thread cfr
cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Do you happen to know why it is returning 27? Is that correct or should it be returning something else (e.g. 39)? ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.pytho

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

2008-08-13 Thread cfr
cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I noticed there is an issue (http://bugs.python.org/issue1276) with Japanese Python users on Macs because the relevant codec is removed in Tools/unicode/Makefile. That file also removes a number of other codecs, including Mac Celtic. I just wonde

[issue1099] Mac compile fails with pydebug and framework enabled

2008-08-13 Thread cfr
cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Still fails for me on OS X 10.4.11 with latest available xcode (2.5). This is on PPC with the current stable release of python (2.5.2). ---configure script--- ../configure \ --enable-framework \ LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib \

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

2008-08-13 Thread cfr
cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: It returns 27. ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3362> ___ ___ Python-bugs

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

2008-08-12 Thread cfr
cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Just realised what I'm meant to do with it. Sorry - it is late (early, actually). Will report back when I get a chance to recompile. ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

2008-08-12 Thread cfr
cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Interesting. At least the "39" makes sense. I don't understand the documentation well enough to know what the "79" is about. I'm sorry but I can't work out what I should do with: printf("Encoding is %x\

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

2008-08-11 Thread cfr
cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I admit to not understanding the code involved, but I *thought* that the problem involved cases where there *is* a preferred encoding in the environment but it is not one of those covered by: case kCFStringEncodingMacRoman: return &quo

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

2008-07-22 Thread cfr
cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Altering ~/.CFUserTextEncoding so it has the contents "0:0" and then rebooting seems to prevent the crash for GUI applications, too. Would like to know how to fix this properly, of course, since I suspect that the value on my machine

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

2008-07-18 Thread cfr
cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: A work-around when using python from a shell environment (e.g. from a bash shell in Terminal) is to issue export __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0 before starting python. I haven't yet worked out how to apply this to GUI apps. I tr

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

2008-07-16 Thread cfr
cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: On the off chance this might be helpful: I get the same error with python 2.4.3. Python 2.4.3 (#1, Apr 7 2006, 10:54:33) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits&quo

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

2008-07-16 Thread cfr
cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Thanks. I couldn't get anything from gdb which wasn't already in the crash log - likely because I don't know how to elicit the information correctly. Output from a build with the augmented _localemodule.c: ./python.exe Python 2

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

2008-07-15 Thread cfr
cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I figured out how to do this: Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 16 2008, 01:44:22) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more informat

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

2008-07-15 Thread cfr
cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I downloaded the current source (2.5.2) and confirmed that (1) python will build as a framework (for me) and (2) that the problem occurs for my build, too. I did not build it as a universal binary just in case that helped but mostly to speed thi

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

2008-07-15 Thread cfr
cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Please ignore the second message. I thought I was creating a second bug report and cannot figure out anyway to edit it now I realise my error. I've just copied that to a second report with an appropriate header as I am assuming the two issues

[issue3363] python version incorrectly reported in crash reports on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

2008-07-15 Thread cfr
New submission from cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Although the active version of python on my machine is 2.5.2 and I have never had an alpha version installed, crash reports for python report the version as "2.5a0 (2.5alpha0)". Version details: active version of python is from the cu

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

2008-07-15 Thread cfr
Changes by cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- title: python version incorrectly reported in crash reports on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC -> locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC type: behavior -> crash ___ Python tra

[issue3362] python version incorrectly reported in crash reports on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

2008-07-15 Thread cfr
cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Although the active version of python on my machine is 2.5.2 and I have never had an alpha version installed, crash reports for python report the version as "2.5a0 (2.5alpha0)". Version details: active version of python is from the cu

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

2008-07-15 Thread cfr
New submission from cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 22 2008, 07:57:53) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright&qu