[issue18808] Thread.join returns before PyThreadState is destroyed

2013-09-06 Thread Tim Peters
Tim Peters added the comment: New patch (threadstate_join_4.patch) refactors so that is_alive() returns True until the tstate is cleared. This simplifies join() a lot (it doesn't have to roll its own timeout implementation anymore), but complicates is_alive(). Caution: I don't know anything

[issue18956] Document useful functions in ‘pydoc’ module

2013-09-06 Thread Ben Finney
New submission from Ben Finney: The library documentation for ‘pydoc’ expects that the ‘pydoc’ module will only ever be run as a command-line program. This ignores the general usefulness of several of the functions in that module when imported from the library. The documentation should

[issue18894] In unittest.TestResult.failures remove deprecated fail* methods

2013-09-06 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: -- nosy: +ezio.melotti, michael.foord ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue18894 ___ ___

[issue18896] Remove namedtuple 255 arguments restriction

2013-09-06 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: -- versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue18896 ___ ___

[issue18956] Document useful functions in ‘pydoc’ module

2013-09-06 Thread Berker Peksag
Berker Peksag added the comment: Looks like duplicate of issue 7798. * pydoc.getdoc http://docs.python.org/3.4/library/inspect.html#inspect.getdoc * pydoc.splitdoc See issue 12916 for inspect.splitdoc. * pydoc.cram This was rejected in issue 12914. * pydoc.allmethods This was

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