[issue44828] tkinter.filedialog linked with Tk 8.6.11 crashes on macOS 12 Monterey, breaking IDLE saves

2021-11-04 Thread Zack McCauley
Zack McCauley added the comment: If you use the older methods to detect OSVersion, Monterey will also identify as 10.16. iirc there’s an environment variable to enable or disable that. On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 7:54 AM Marc Culler wrote: > > Marc Culler added the comment: > &g

[issue44828] tkinter.filedialog linked with Tk 8.6.11 crashes on macOS 12 Monterey, breaking IDLE saves

2021-11-03 Thread Zack McCauley
Zack McCauley added the comment: Awesome, thanks for the clear update reason. Makes more sense now. I was able to get our software to patch around. An API to get the installer urls would be super helpful. Thanks Ned! On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 4:19 PM Ned Deily wrote: > > Ned Deily

[issue44828] tkinter.filedialog linked with Tk 8.6.11 crashes on macOS 12 Monterey, breaking IDLE saves

2021-11-03 Thread Zack McCauley
Zack McCauley added the comment: Could this be bumped to a version update to like 3.10.1 or just replace the old package with this updated one? The package name and format now break automations that relied on matching version names in the url. This pattern has worked since 2.7 releases

[issue43298] Windows build issue

2021-02-22 Thread Zack
Zack added the comment: Hello. I want to record a game in Windows 7 and I can not install it can you help me -- nosy: +Zack_Barton ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue43

[issue38727] setup.py sdist --format=gztar should use (equivalent of) `gzip -n`

2020-10-22 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: The code that needs to be changed is in distutils, setuptools just calls into it. I haven't checked flit but I expect it does the same. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue38

[issue18233] SSLSocket.getpeercertchain()

2020-06-29 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: I have yet another use case for the function implemented by this patch (i.e. retrieving the cert chain actually sent by the server, regardless of whether that gives a path to a trust anchor). I'm implementing a network forensics tool, and one

[issue38727] setup.py sdist --format=gztar should use (equivalent of) `gzip -n`

2019-11-06 Thread Zack Weinberg
New submission from Zack Weinberg : Recent versions of the gzip command-line utility have an option `-n` which causes it to omit the FNAME field of the gzip file header, and write out the MTIME field as zero. Both of these properties are desirable when constructing reproducible build

[issue38726] Add equivalent of `gzip -n` (omit timestamp and original file name) to tarfile module's auto-compression support

2019-11-06 Thread Zack Weinberg
New submission from Zack Weinberg : Recent versions of the gzip command-line utility have an option `-n` which causes it to omit the FNAME field of the gzip file header, and write out the MTIME field as zero. Both of these properties are desirable when constructing reproducible build

[issue38725] Documented equivalent of `gzip -n` (omit timestamp and original file name) in gzip module

2019-11-06 Thread Zack Weinberg
New submission from Zack Weinberg : Recent versions of the gzip command-line utility have an option `-n` which causes it to omit the FNAME field of the gzip file header, and write out the MTIME field as zero. Both of these properties are desirable when constructing reproducible build

[issue38632] setup.py sdist should honor SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

2019-10-29 Thread Zack Weinberg
New submission from Zack Weinberg : Reproducibility has so far been concerned primarily with binary packages, but it's also desirable for source tarballs to be reproducible starting from a version-control checkout. This is particularly important for Python, where 'setup.py sdist' can run

[issue18748] io.IOBase destructor silence I/O error on close() by default

2019-07-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: > To be clear: this issue is NOT a bug in Python I don't think that's entirely true. I think CPython needs to be linked against libgcc_s.so, so that this class of application bugs will no longer manifest as interpreter crashes. I filed #37

[issue37395] Core interpreter should be linked with libgcc_s.so on Linux

2019-06-24 Thread Zack Weinberg
New submission from Zack Weinberg : There are several existing issues (e.g. #18748 and #35866) where at least part of the problem is that GNU libc tried to dlopen() `libgcc_s.so` at a moment when that's not safe, e.g. during thread or process shutdown. This converts a recoverable error

[issue18748] libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work

2019-04-05 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: I have observed this problem in a production application using Python 3.5 and 3.6 (system-packaged interpreters from Ubuntu) and I would like to mention that this is an effective workaround: ``` import ctypes libgcc_s = ctypes.CDLL("libgcc_s

[issue34721] json module loads function

2018-09-18 Thread zack
New submission from zack : the json.loads function think a string variable is a json type, but the variable is "123" -- components: Library (Lib) files: json_test.py messages: 325639 nosy: jaihong priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: json module loads fun

[issue34156] Nail down and document the behavior of range expressions in RE character classes

2018-07-19 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: Also, whether or not the current behavior is the intended behavior, I think programmers would appreciate an explicit statement of whether or not it might change in the future. -- ___ Python tracker <ht

[issue34156] Nail down and document the behavior of range expressions in RE character classes

2018-07-19 Thread Zack Weinberg
New submission from Zack Weinberg : The documentation of the semantics of range expressions in regular expression character classes is not precise enough. All it says is Ranges of characters can be indicated by giving two characters and separating them by a '-', for example [a-z

[issue32511] Thread primitives do not report the OS-level error on failure

2018-01-07 Thread Zack Weinberg
New submission from Zack Weinberg <za...@panix.com>: [_]thread.start_new_thread can fail if the underlying OS primitive fails (pthread_create / _beginthreadex), but the exception that is thrown when this happens is a generic RuntimeError (it's _called_ ThreadError in the source

[issue31620] asyncio.Queue leaks memory if the queue is empty and consumers poll it frequently

2017-09-28 Thread Zack Elan
New submission from Zack Elan <b...@zackelan.com>: Repro: Call asyncio.wait_for(some_queue.get(), some_timeout) repeatedly, with no items in the queue, so that the call times out each time. Expected: No increase in memory while polling an empty queue Actual: The queue holds on to p

[issue27496] unicodedata.name() doesn't have names for control characters

2016-07-12 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: It looks to me as if NameAliases.txt is the better reference for the C0 and C1 controls. It matches the UnicodeData.txt field 10 names for most entries where the field 1 name is "", but it has names for U+0080, U+0081, U+0084, and U+0099, which hav

[issue27496] unicodedata.name() doesn't have names for control characters

2016-07-12 Thread Zack Weinberg
New submission from Zack Weinberg: unicodedata.name() doesn't have name information for the C0 and C1 control characters. To see this, run pprint.pprint(["U+{:04X} {}".format(n, unicodedata.name(chr(n), "")) for n in range(256)]) and you will observe printed for U+

[issue27446] struct: allow per-item byte order

2016-07-03 Thread Zack Weinberg
New submission from Zack Weinberg: Occasionally one encounters binary formats which do not stick to one byte order throughout. For example, I have a C program that reads and writes arrays of this struct: ``` struct conn_data { uint32_t ipv4_addr; /* read - network byte order - target IPv4

[issue26945] difflib.HtmlDiff().make_file() treat few change as whole line change

2016-05-04 Thread Fairuz Zack
New submission from Fairuz Zack: html diff threat 2.011 as whole line added instead of only "11" is changed. example file i want to diff is under bug_report.txt. seems the diff not reasonable for other line in the txt as well. -- components: Library (Lib) files: bug_

[issue26666] File object hook to modify select(ors) event mask

2016-03-29 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: > Obvious question: why not working on the asyncio support in this library? The whole point of a transparent SOCKS module is that it provides a function that's a *drop-in replacement* for socket.socket(). An asyncio-based SOCKS module would have a complet

[issue26666] File object hook to modify select(ors) event mask

2016-03-29 Thread Zack Weinberg
New submission from Zack Weinberg: This is pretty esoteric, please bear with me. I'm attempting to enhance a transparent-SOCKS module (https://github.com/Anorov/PySocks) to support non-blocking connect(). This means, you should be able to do this: socks.set_default_proxy(socks.SOCKS5

[issue25743] Clarify exactly what \w matches in UNICODE mode

2015-11-27 Thread Zack Weinberg
New submission from Zack Weinberg: The `re` module documentation does not do a good job of explaining exactly what `\w` matches. Quoting https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/re.html : > \w > For Unicode (str) patterns: > Matches Unicode word characters; this includes most characters &

[issue25743] Clarify exactly what \w matches in UNICODE mode

2015-11-27 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: FWIW, the actual behavior of \w matching "everything in Unicode general categories L* and N*, plus U+005F (underscore)" is consistent across all versions I can conveniently test (2.7, 3.4, 3.5). In 2.7, there are four characters in general category

[issue23518] Misplaced diagnostic caret for some SyntaxErrors

2015-02-25 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: In terms of the formal grammar of the language, you are correct. However, the position of the caret should be chosen based *not* on the formal grammar, but on a heuristic estimation of what the most probable mistake actually is. In both of the cases I listed

[issue23518] Misplaced diagnostic caret for some SyntaxErrors

2015-02-24 Thread Zack Weinberg
New submission from Zack Weinberg: I tripped over a couple of SyntaxError cases where the diagnostic caret is misplaced. While x: File stdin, line 1 While x: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax The caret should point to the capital W in 'While'. for x

[issue23473] Allow namedtuple to be JSON encoded as dict

2015-02-18 Thread Zack
Zack added the comment: From memory, something along the lines of from json import JSONEncoder class ExtendedJSONEncoder(JSONEncoder): def _iterencode(self, o, markers=None): if isinstance(o, tuple) and hasattr(obj, '_fields'): gen = self._iterencode_dict(o.__dict__

[issue23473] Allow namedtuple to be JSON encoded as dict

2015-02-17 Thread Zack
New submission from Zack: We used to be able to override _iterencode prior to 2.7 to get our namedtuples to be encoded as dict using json.dump(s) but now we can not. Namedtuples are automatically encoded as list but it would be more logical and convenient to have them encoded as dict

[issue14965] super() and property inheritance behavior

2014-12-27 Thread Simon Zack
Simon Zack added the comment: For those who want to use this right away, I've added a python implementation of the patch, which passes the unit tests. There's a slight difference in usage, where instead of using super() directly, super_prop(super()) needs to be used, so we can still use super

[issue14965] super() and property inheritance behavior

2014-12-10 Thread Simon Zack
Simon Zack added the comment: +1 to this feature, this will dramatically simplify property setting code. -- nosy: +simonzack ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue14965

[issue22961] ctypes.WinError OSError

2014-11-28 Thread Simon Zack
Simon Zack added the comment: Ok, my bad, I was creating my own OSErrors so I was just testing it out. I just found the default to be rather confusing as I thought None would not be mapped to anything. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue22961] ctypes.WinError OSError

2014-11-27 Thread Simon Zack
Changes by Simon Zack simonz...@gmail.com: -- components: +ctypes versions: +Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22961

[issue22961] ctypes.WinError OSError

2014-11-27 Thread Simon Zack
New submission from Simon Zack: The ctypes.WinError function returns: OSError(None, descr, None, code) However OSError does not appear to allow None as a first argument, and converts it to 22 which is the EINVAL Invalid Argument error. This is rather confusing as there was no invalid

[issue22944] Python argument tuple unpacking

2014-11-25 Thread Simon Zack
New submission from Simon Zack: Python already has tuple unpacking in many places, I wonder if this has been considered for arguments yet, it seems rather convenient and a natural extension to me. Here's what I mean: def func((a, b, c)): print(a, b, c) func((1, 2, 3)) should print 1 2

[issue22452] addTypeEqualityFunc is not used in assertListEqual

2014-09-21 Thread Simon Zack
New submission from Simon Zack: Functions added by addTypeEqualityFunc is not used for comparing list elements in assertListEqual, and only used in assertEqual. It would be nice to have assertListEqual use functions added by addTypeEqualityFunc for comparisons of list elements. I think

[issue22452] addTypeEqualityFunc is not used in assertListEqual

2014-09-21 Thread Simon Zack
Changes by Simon Zack simonz...@gmail.com: -- type: - enhancement ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22452 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue22250] unittest lowercase methods

2014-08-22 Thread Simon Zack
New submission from Simon Zack: The python unittest module currently uses camel case. This feels rather inconsistent with the rest of the python library, which is in lower case and follows PEP8. Would it be a good idea to add lower-case aliases, and possibly deprecate the camel case methods

[issue4709] Mingw-w64 and python on windows x64

2014-04-29 Thread Simon Zack
Simon Zack added the comment: The problem is still present in python 3.4 with mingw gcc 4.8.2. I was having trouble with compiling radare2's python swig bindings. The solution described here: http://ascend4.org/Setting_up_a_MinGW-w64_build_environment#Setup_Python_for_compilation_of_extensions

[issue16624] subprocess.check_output should allow specifying stdin as a string

2013-04-18 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: Here is a new patch vs latest trunk. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29924/issue16624-v34a.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16624

[issue16624] subprocess.check_output should allow specifying stdin as a string

2013-04-18 Thread Zack Weinberg
Changes by Zack Weinberg za...@panix.com: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file28247/issue16624-v34.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16624

[issue16624] subprocess.check_output should allow specifying stdin as a string

2013-04-18 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: I think that it will be better not introduce a new argument, but reuse stdin. Just allow io.BytesIO (or perhaps even any file object) be specified as stdin. If we were designing from scratch I might agree, but we aren't. Principle of least astonishment says

[issue16624] subprocess.check_output should allow specifying stdin as a string

2013-04-18 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: Note also that allowing `stdin=any filelike` in a clean fashion would require rather more surgery than you suggest, because a filelike can produce an infinite stream of data, and people would expect that to work when the subprocess only reads a finite prefix

[issue16624] subprocess.check_output should allow specifying stdin as a string

2013-04-18 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: My position is: * input= should be supported in check_output(), for consistency with communicate(). * I like the idea of making stdin= support file-like objects which don't have a fileno, in both communicate() and everything that calls it, but that does

[issue16624] subprocess.check_output should allow specifying stdin as a string

2013-04-18 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: ??? communicate() has always had input= AFAIK. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16624

[issue16624] subprocess.check_output should allow specifying stdin as a string

2013-04-18 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: OK, I get that, but what I'm saying is I think input= is still desirable even if stdin= becomes more powerful. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16624

[issue16624] subprocess.check_output should allow specifying stdin as a string

2013-01-28 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: Contributor agreement resent by email. Sorry for the delay. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16624

[issue16624] subprocess.check_output should allow specifying stdin as a string

2012-12-07 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: OK, here is a patch against the latest development version. Now also with tests and documentation updates. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file28247/issue16624-v34.diff ___ Python tracker rep

[issue16624] subprocess.check_output should allow specifying stdin as a string

2012-12-07 Thread Zack Weinberg
Changes by Zack Weinberg za...@panix.com: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file28218/subprocess-check-output-allow-input.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16624

[issue16624] subprocess.check_output should allow specifying stdin as a string

2012-12-07 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: I don't have the ability to test on Windows, but the construct you are concerned about was copied from other tests in the same file which were not marked as Unix-only. I have faxed in a contributor agreement

[issue16624] subprocess.check_output should allow specifying stdin as a string

2012-12-05 Thread Zack Weinberg
New submission from Zack Weinberg: subprocess.check_output calls Popen.communicate but does not allow you to specify its argument (i.e. data to send to the child process's stdin). It would be nice if it were enhanced to allow this. Proposed patch attached (to the 2.7 subprocess.py; should

[issue7962] Demo/ directory needs to be tested and pruned

2010-05-29 Thread Zack Goldstein
Zack Goldstein gol...@gmail.com added the comment: I've started going through the demos. So far I've gone through cgi and classes. If this is what you're looking for I'll try and go through the rest in the next week or so. Python 3.2a0 /cgi all work /classes Complex.py - fail

[issue7962] Demo/ directory needs to be tested and pruned

2010-05-29 Thread Zack Goldstein
Zack Goldstein gol...@gmail.com added the comment: I'm assuming tested means run, and that a good demo is one that works for some nominal input. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue7962