[issue10735] platform.architecture() gives misleading results for OS X multi-architecture executables

Ned Deily added the comment: "IMHO the change to 'bits' is bogus, it is supposed to return the bit-size of the executable, not that of the currently running executable." Perhaps but (1) the code currently does return the bit-size of the currently running executable if it can't parse the outpu

[issue1635741] Interpreter seems to leak references after finalization

Ray.Allen added the comment: > Does the title of this issue accurately reflect the current status of the > Python interpreter? Yes, here is the running result on current 3.3 latest code: [37182 refs] [39415 refs] [41607 refs] [43799 refs] [45991 refs] [48183 refs] [50375 refs] This seems to

[issue11477] Bug in code dispatching based on internal slots

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Second link to pydev should be http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/109130.html -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue11479] Add discussion of trailing slash in raw string to tutorial

Eli Bendersky added the comment: Would it not be better to just recommend Windows users not to put that last backslash in at all? IIUC it's only needed to later append file names to directory names, but that's better achieved with os.path.join -- nosy: +eli.bendersky

[issue11426] CSV examples can't close their files

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[issue11426] CSV examples can't close their files

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 52e1ad467edd by Eli Bendersky in branch '2.7': Issue #11426: use 'with' statements on open files in CSV examples http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/52e1ad467edd -- ___ Python tracker

[issue3493] No Backslash (\) in IDLE 1.2.2

Peter Nielsen added the comment: Yes, that is correct . Well, thanks for replying, anyway. I guess I'll have to use linux instead. On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > Ronald Oussoren added the comment: > > Do I understand it correctly when I write that you normally u

[issue7391] Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I discussed this with Moshe today and he agreed that the document is out-of-date and should be removed. -- nosy: +moshez resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue1271] Raw string parsing fails with backslash as last character

Glenn Linderman added the comment: On 3/12/2011 7:11 PM, R. David Murray wrote: > R. David Murray added the comment: > > I've opened issue 11479 with a proposed patch to the tutorial along the lines > suggested by Graham. Which is good, for people that use the tutorial. I jump straight to th

[issue7391] Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset e34b09c69dd3 by Raymond Hettinger in branch 'default': Issue #7391: Remove outdated HOWTO with permission of its author. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e34b09c69dd3 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tra

[issue1271] Raw string parsing fails with backslash as last character

R. David Murray added the comment: I've opened issue 11479 with a proposed patch to the tutorial along the lines suggested by Graham. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue11479] Add discussion of trailing slash in raw string to tutorial

New submission from R. David Murray : Here is a proposed addition to the tutorial noting the problem with using raw strings for windows paths and how to work around it. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: tutorial-raw-string.patch keywords: patch messages: 130720 n

[issue2650] re.escape should not escape underscore

SilentGhost added the comment: Here is the latest patch for test_re incorporating review suggestions by Ezio and some improvements along the way. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21096/test_re.diff ___ Python tracker

[issue11478] Docs list nonexistant PyObject_CopyToObject function

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[issue11478] Docs list nonexistant PyObject_CopyToData function

Thomas Wouters added the comment: Eh, I mean PyObject_CopyToObject. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsub

[issue11478] Docs list nonexistant PyObject_CopyToData function

New submission from Thomas Wouters : The buffer docs on http://docs.python.org/c-api/buffer.html list PyObject_CopyToData, but no such function seems to exist. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 130717 nosy: docs@python, twouters priority: normal severity: norm

[issue11282] 3.3 unittest document not kept consist with code

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Michael, what's the status of this? Do you think some of the removed methods should be added back even if they are marked as "removed in 3.3" in the 3.2 doc? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue11406] There is no os.listdir() equivalent returning generator instead of list

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > The downsides of os.listdir: a) You can't get a peek at the files so > far, it's all or nothing. I only wanted to know if a directory is > empty and I have to read the whole thing just to throw it away (maybe > I missed another library function?) This depend

[issue11406] There is no os.listdir() equivalent returning generator instead of list

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > I would like to have an iterator version as well, but I also dislike > another function (especially the "x" prefix). How about adding a > keyword argument to select iterator behaviour? Changing the return type based on an argument is generally frown upon so,

[issue11406] There is no os.listdir() equivalent returning generator instead of list

Torsten Landschoff added the comment: I would regard this as Type: resource usage, instead of performance. Given enough RAM, loading the whole directory at once will likely be faster. The downsides of os.listdir: a) You can't get a peek at the files so far, it's all or nothing. I only wanted

[issue8933] Invalid detection of metadata version

Filip Gruszczyński added the comment: Here is patch for distutils2. Or maybe you would prefer a patch made by hg export? -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21095/disutils2_8933.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue2771] Test issue

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset acd842ea10e6 by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default': closes #2771 http://hg.python.org/test/rev/acd842ea10e6 -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue2771] Test issue

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 93a15af3a8ce by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default': fixes #2771 http://hg.python.org/test/rev/93a15af3a8ce -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue2771] Test issue

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[issue11312] Confusing sentence in file.readline() doc

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: c017695acf19 -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue5154] OSX broken poll testing doesn't work

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Florent: I don't understand why the traceback you show is related to this issue. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue3493] No Backslash (\) in IDLE 1.2.2

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Do I understand it correctly when I write that you normally use "Option+Slash" to enter a backslash on your keyboard? That would explain why updating the keyboard bindings makes it possible to type a backslash. I'm not sure how we could fix this issue in a

[issue10735] platform.architecture() gives misleading results for OS X multi-architecture executables

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: IMHO the change to 'bits' is bogus, it is supposed to return the bit-size of the executable, not that of the currently running executable. I'd return all executable bitsizes in bits as '32bit', '64bit' or '32bit,64bit' (as appropriate) and only include the m

[issue670664] HTMLParser.py - more robust SCRIPT tag parsing

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Thanks for the patch, however it would be better if you could get a clone of the CPython repo and make a patch against it. The patch should also include tests. You can check http://docs.python.org/devguide/ for more information. --

[issue11476] StreamHandler code broken by change of parameter name

Changes by Vinay Sajip : -- assignee: docs@python -> vinay.sajip nosy: +vinay.sajip resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue11476] StreamHandler code broken by change of parameter name

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 6d56d2c63a04 by Vinay Sajip in branch '2.7': Fixes issue #11476: StreamHandler parameter name change documented. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6d56d2c63a04 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue11477] Bug in code dispatching based on internal slots

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[issue11426] CSV examples can't close their files

Ezio Melotti added the comment: This should be now fixed in 3.x, but not on 2.7. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list maili

[issue10665] Expand unicodedata module documentation

Ezio Melotti added the comment: I think Georg said that non-ascii chars shouldn't be used directly in the rst files, and one of the reasons is that they break `make pdf` (I haven't tried though). I added him to the nosy. -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___

[issue11477] Bug in code dispatching based on internal slots

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[issue11477] Bug in code dispatching based on internal slots

New submission from Terry J. Reedy : Example (which can serve as testcase with buggy output corrected). class C(object): def __iter__(self): yield 'yes!' def __radd__(self, other): other.append('bug!') return other def __rmul__(self, other): other *= 2

[issue11329] PyEval_InitThreads() not safe before Py_Initialize()

Gediminas Liktaras added the comment: I have attached a patch that fixes this issue. Please let me know if there are any problems. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +gliktaras Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21094/issue11329-1.patch ___ Python tracke

[issue3132] implement PEP 3118 struct changes

Mark Dickinson added the comment: I'm going to unassign for now; I still hope to look at this at some point, but can't see a time in the near future when it's going to happen. -- assignee: mark.dickinson -> ___ Python tracker

[issue3132] implement PEP 3118 struct changes

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Yes, there's interest (at least here). I've just been really short on Python-time recently, so haven't found time to review your patch. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue3132] implement PEP 3118 struct changes

Meador Inge added the comment: Is there still any interest in this work? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list U

[issue11475] trunc in documentation of numbers.Real should math.trunc

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: 7fd06773c3c2 -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue11476] StreamHandler code broken by change of parameter name

New submission from follower : The following change broke pre-existing code that used "strm" as the parameter name (as documented http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.6/library/logging.html#streamhandler): http://hg.python.org/cpython/diff/7391436d8a74/Lib/logging/__init__.py The parameter name

[issue11475] trunc in documentation of numbers.Real should math.trunc

New submission from MATSUI Tetsushi : In the documentation of numbers.Real: "In short, those are: a conversion to float, trunc(), round(), math.floor(), math.ceil(), divmod(), //, %, <, <=, >, and >=." where only "trunc" is not linked if we look at it in html pages. This is because the function

[issue11416] netrc module does not handle multiple entries for a single host

R. David Murray added the comment: I think whatever change we make it should be backward compatible, even though that is a bit annoying (especially given the current method name). So either a parameter that selects the new behavior and defaults to the old, or a new method that returns a list

[issue11464] Call Mac API Crash via ctypes

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: yufun, you better ask on python-list or the pythonmac-sig e-mail list (). The added bonus is that you'll get into contact with other users of Python on OSX. The ctypes API is explained here:

[issue1099] Mac compile fails with pydebug and framework enabled

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Good catch, and that would also allow dropping the change to configure.in (which would only ensure that -isysroot gets defined correctly). -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue11416] netrc module does not handle multiple entries for a single host

saffroy added the comment: I could spend some time on a small patch. Here are the changes I would consider: - netrc.authenticators() could return the first entry matching a given host (now it returns the last) - it could also accept an extra parameter (with default=None), a login to select th

[issue11466] getpass.getpass doesn't close tty file

Steffen Daode Nurpmeso added the comment: This patch makes getpass.getpass() comply with the documented behaviour and fixes #11466. It will require no further adjustments for #11236 (except what valhallasw's patch does, of course). It applies cleanly to: 16:32 ~/src/cpython $ hg identify ee

[issue11474] url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows

New submission from Bastian Kleineidam : Python 2.7 on Windows converts the URL path '/C|/' to a naked drive letter 'C:'. C:\src>c:\Python27\python.exe -c "import urllib;print urllib.url2pathname('/C|/')" C: C:\src> Expected and I believe the correct output would be C:\, not C:. Reason is that

[issue2142] difflib.unified_diff(...) produces invalid patches

Ray.Allen added the comment: > I re-read the discussion on python-dev, where it was suggested to add a > keyword argument to get the old behavior. Have you considered it? IIUC, at the time of that discusstion, 3.2 is pre-beta so the suitable option is to add "\No newline etc" by default and

[issue9856] Change object.__format__(s) where s is non-empty to a TypeError

Eric Smith added the comment: Next step is to make it a TypeError in 3.4. -- priority: normal -> release blocker title: Change object.__format__(s) where s is non-empty to a DeprecationWarning -> Change object.__format__(s) where s is non-empty to a TypeError versions: +Python 3.4 -Pyt

[issue9856] Change object.__format__(s) where s is non-empty to a DeprecationWarning

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset ee259a4f3eee by Eric V. Smith in branch 'default': Issue 9856: Change object.__format__ with a non-empty format string from a PendingDeprecationWarning to a DeprecationWarning. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ee259a4f3eee -- nosy: +python

[issue11468] Improve unittest basic example in the doc

Éric Araujo added the comment: LGTM. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org

[issue10461] Use with statement throughout the docs

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the catch! I was so used to the idiom where opening the file doesn’t fail but you protect the read or write that I didn’t think about the issue here. -- stage: commit review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed __

[issue10461] Use with statement throughout the docs

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset cebaf1bdaf78 by Éric Araujo in branch 'default': Fix example in atexit doc: Both open and read could raise the IOError (#10461 follow-up). http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/cebaf1bdaf78 -- status: pending -> open __

[issue2142] difflib.unified_diff(...) produces invalid patches

Éric Araujo added the comment: Patch does not look bad. I re-read the discussion on python-dev, where it was suggested to add a keyword argument to get the old behavior. Have you considered it? -- versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 3.2 ___ Python trac

[issue6981] locale.getdefaultlocale() envvars default code and documentation mismatch

Steffen Daode Nurpmeso added the comment: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:54:08PM +, Eugene Crosser wrote: > Steffen: can you please be more specific? I can't, dear Eugene, because you are completely right and i am completely wrong. > I believe that the correct "guessing order" [...] Well, th

[issue6981] locale.getdefaultlocale() envvars default code and documentation mismatch

Eugene Crosser added the comment: Steffen: can you please be more specific? As I read the seciton 8.2 of the cited document, I do not see a disparity with my statement. There is even an example: """ For example, if a user wanted to interact with the system in French, but required to sort Germ

[issue6981] locale.getdefaultlocale() envvars default code and documentation mismatch

Steffen Daode Nurpmeso added the comment: (Eugene, whereas i still disagree (i'm a C programmer in daily life), Python 3.3a0 (default, Mar 10 2011, 11:50:55) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import locale >

[issue1271] Raw string parsing fails with backslash as last character

Graham Wideman added the comment: Thanks to all for your patient comments. I think I am resigned to raw-string forever being medium-rare-string :-). Perhaps it's obvious once you get over the initial shock of non-rawness, but workarounds for the disallowed trailing backslash include (note th

[issue6981] locale.getdefaultlocale() envvars default code and documentation mismatch

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[issue1099] Mac compile fails with pydebug and framework enabled

Ned Deily added the comment: The patch, as is, fixes another build failure mode that has been reported (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/685151): ./configure --enable-framework ; make I verified that 3.2 builds without the patch fail on both 10.5 ppc and 10.4 ppc (10.4 fa

[issue6981] locale.getdefaultlocale() envvars default code and documentation mismatch

Steffen Daode Nurpmeso added the comment: Eugene: i disagree. The semantics are correct according to C standards: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html -- nosy: +sdaoden ___ Python tracker

[issue11131] decimal.py: plus/minus with ROUND_FLOOR

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Fixed in 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3. Closing. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue11131] decimal.py: plus/minus with ROUND_FLOOR

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 1c4be28cda5b by Mark Dickinson in branch '3.1': Issue 11131: Fix sign of zero result on decimal.Decimal plus and minus operations in ROUND_FLOOR rounding mode. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1c4be28cda5b New changeset 426057570bee by Mark Dickin

[issue11131] decimal.py: plus/minus with ROUND_FLOOR

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset d5fe8b33f711 by Mark Dickinson in branch '2.7': Issue 11131: Fix sign of zero result on plus and minus operations in ROUND_FLOOR rounding mode. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d5fe8b33f711 -- nosy: +python-dev ___

[issue6981] locale.getdefaultlocale() envvars default code and documentation mismatch

Eugene Crosser added the comment: I don't know if the solution suggested in the report is right, but I can confirm the the current logic of getdefaultlocale() produces wrong results. I have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US:en LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=ru_RU.UTF-8 which means, acco

[issue11244] Negative tuple elements produce inefficient code.

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[issue9516] sysconfig: $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET mismatch: now "10.3" but "10.5" during configure

Ned Deily added the comment: Another way this issue can show up: when building Python itself. If Parser/Python.asdl needs to be built (as with a new source checkout), the makefile target executes a python script (Parser/asdl_c.py) via /usr/bin/env python (a bootstrap dependency). If that pyt

[issue11244] Negative tuple elements produce inefficient code.

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Eugene's new patch looks good to me; +1 on applying it. Raymond, do you happen to remember why it was necessary to add the zero-check in the first place? -- ___ Python tracker