[issue21572] Use generic license web page rather than requiring release-specific license pages

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[issue21572] Use generic license web page rather than requiring release-specific license pages

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 151ac5aee7e7 by Ned Deily in branch 'default': Issue #21572: No longer need to create release-specific license page. http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/151ac5aee7e7 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue21572] Use generic license web page rather than requiring release-specific license pages

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 605349858156 by Ned Deily in branch '2.7': Issue #21572: Change license command to fallback to generic license URL. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/605349858156 New changeset 53fa2c9523d4 by Ned Deily in branch '3.4': Issue #21572: Change license c

[issue21618] POpen does not close fds when fds have been inherited from a process with a higher resource limit

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[issue21613] Installer for mac doesn't store the installation location

Ned Deily added the comment: Files are recorded during bundle-style installation, too. Without spending a lot of time looking at it right now, I believe the null location reported is a red herring; I think that has to do with packages that allow themselves to be installed in arbitrary locatio

[issue21618] POpen does not close fds when fds have been inherited from a process with a higher resource limit

Steven Stewart-Gallus added the comment: Oh right! I forgot a possible problem with my proposed patch. It is incompatible with Valgrind (see issue https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331311). Either this patch won't be applied, Valgrind compatibility is judged not essential or the Valgrind d

[issue21618] POpen does not close fds when fds have been inherited from a process with a higher resource limit

Steven Stewart-Gallus added the comment: Okay here's a stub patch that address FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux. I'm not sure how to address the other platforms. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35419/python.patch ___ Python tracke

[issue21541] Provide configure option --with-ssl for compilation with custom openssl

Ned Deily added the comment: "Isn't Modules/Setup used for builtin modules?" One of the better kept secrets of Python is that Modules/Setup can be used for building shared modules as well. I didn't know that until looking into it recently as a result of RDM's comment. See Issue17095. --

[issue21618] POpen does not close fds when fds have been inherited from a process with a higher resource limit

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[issue21618] POpen does not close fds when fds have been inherited from a process with a higher resource limit

New submission from Steven Stewart-Gallus: The sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) approach to closing fds is kind of flawed. It is kind of hacky and slow (see http://bugs.python.org/issue1663329). Moreover, this approach is incorrect as fds can be inherited from previous processes that have had higher reso

[issue19145] Inconsistent behaviour in itertools.repeat when using negative times

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[issue21476] Inconsitent behaviour between BytesParser.parse and Parser.parse

Vajrasky Kok added the comment: Thank you, Serhiy, for the review! Here is the updated patch. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35418/bytes_parser_dont_close_file_v2.patch ___ Python tracker __

[issue21573] Clean up turtle.py code formatting

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: When I re-read the top of the file, I remembered that turtle.py has unique issues in relation to code ownership. (I was once told that Gregor had to approve any substantive code change.) I asked about that and about code cleanups on pydev (thread 'updating tur

[issue21569] PEP 466: Python 2.7 What's New preamble changes

Changes by Nick Coghlan : -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35417/py27_whats_new_preamble_changes.diff ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue21592] Make statistics.median run in linear time

Tim Peters added the comment: I suggest this needs a measurable goal, like "minimize expected-case time" or "minimize worst-case time". "Use a state of the art implementation" isn't a measurable goal - it's an abstract wish with no measurable merit on its own ;-) Note that I wrote the "median

[issue21617] importlib reload can fail with AttributeError if module removed from sys.path

New submission from Ned Deily: There are significant differences in behavior between Python 2.7, 3.3, and 3.4 (or current default) when using import reload() while manipulating sys.path. These differences cause unexpected behavior in the "Run Script" command of the TextMate 2 editor's Python

[issue21306] PEP 466: backport hmac.compare_digest

Nick Coghlan added the comment: That restriction is deliberate (and documented). As a 3.x backport, this utility inherits some of Python 3's pedantry about requiring explicit conversions between binary and text data and being consistent as to which domain you're operating in. -- ___

[issue20383] Add a keyword-only spec argument to types.ModuleType

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Another thing to keep in the back of your minds: one of my goals for PEP 432 is to make it possible to have a fully functional embedded interpreter up and running *without* configuring the Python level import system. This is the state the interpreter would be in be

[issue21569] PEP 466: Python 2.7 What's New preamble changes

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[issue21569] PEP 466: Python 2.7 What's New preamble changes

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Ah, that *would* explain the lack of comments. I'll upload the missing patch later today. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue21516] pathlib.Path(...).is_dir() crashes on some directories (Windows)

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[issue1191964] asynchronous Subprocess

akira added the comment: > Does anyone have questions, comments, or concerns about the patch? It seems the current API doesn't distinguish between BlockingIOError (temporary error), BrokenPipeError (permanent error) and EOF (permanent non-error condition) -- everything is treated as EOF. Is it

[issue1570255] redirected cookies

Paul Suh added the comment: I found a repeatable, public test case: http://www.macupdate.com/download/26915/ScreenFlow-4.5.1.dmg Using urllib2 with the following code leads to a redirect loop: #!/usr/bin/python import urllib2 h = urllib2.HTTPHandler(debuglevel=1) h2 = urllib2.HTTPSHandler(

[issue21593] Clarify re.search documentation first match

Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue21504] can the subprocess module war using os.wait4 and so return usage?

donald petravick added the comment: Ok. I have a subclass with a copied out - then-modified wait method. ¹twill do for now. I¹m clueless as to what the windows analog of wait4() would be. On 5/30/14, 3:10 PM, "R. David Murray" wrote: > >R. David Murray added the comment: > >I think the answe

[issue21616] argparse explodes with nargs='*' and a tuple metavar

New submission from Vasilis Vasaitis: The title says it all really, but to demostrate: Let's say I'm building a program which takes another command as its argument(s) on the command line, to execute it in a special way or whatever. The natural way to do this then would be something like the fo

[issue21616] argparse explodes with nargs='*' and a tuple metavar

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[issue21306] PEP 466: backport hmac.compare_digest

Matthias Urlichs added the comment: Currently (Debian's 2.7.7-rc1 package) hmac.compare_digest accepts two bytestring arguments, or two Unicode stings, but not one bytestring and one unicode. I don't think that's a good idea. -- nosy: +smurfix ___

[issue21573] Clean up turtle.py code formatting

Lita Cho added the comment: Hi Terry, > is there project link? are any of the mentors core developers, with > commit rights? or would you need commits from someone like me? I am not 100% sure. Let me ask Jessica, who is my mentor, and get back to you. > I have read turtle.py and found that th

[issue21593] Clarify re.search documentation first match

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset f7bb1d73a341 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '2.7': Issue #21593: (from StackOverflow) minor doc clarification for re.search. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f7bb1d73a341 New changeset 6013a112aba0 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.4': Issue #21593: (fr

[issue21615] Curses bug report for Python 2.7 and Python 3.2

New submission from Richard s. Gordon: Curses bug report for Python 2.7 and Python 3.2 My Python code outputs text properly with xterm and xterm-16color. It does not work properly with xterm-88color and xterm-256color (after defining RGB color pallet) when run on Python-2.7 and Python-3.2 on C

[issue21603] IDLE SaveAs drops the extension in the prompted filename

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: On Win 7, I also see x.py in the save dialog, both 2.7 and 3.4 as installed. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue21614] Case sensitivity problem in multiprocessing.

New submission from Colin Davidson: On windows 7, if a Python app is run (under python 2.7.6) and the invoking filename is capitalized differently from the source file itself, a subsequent attempt to use the multiprocessing module to "fork" a process will fail in the "forking" module. This hap

[issue21462] PEP 466: upgrade OpenSSL in the Python 2.7 Windows builds

Zachary Ware added the comment: Looks like the AMD64 buildbot isn't happy with OpenSSL 1.0.1g: http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Windows7%20SP1%202.7/builds/1223/steps/compile/logs/stdio Here's my best stab-in-the-dark guess at fixing what's wrong; I don't have the ability to bui

[issue21577] Help for ImportError should show a more useful signature.

Eric Snow added the comment: Yeah, I also noticed that about **kwargs, but only a little while later and didn't get around to making a note here. As to ArgumentClinic, I imagine that this could be fixed when ModuleType (in Objects/moduleobject.c) gets converted to use it. I don't know too mu

[issue21593] Clarify re.search documentation first match

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Since I am 99.999% sure that first is intended, I will change 'a location' to 'the first location'. -- assignee: docs@python -> terry.reedy nosy: +terry.reedy stage: -> needs patch type: -> enhancement versions: -Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 _

[issue21592] Make statistics.median run in linear time

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: To accept contributions, we need a signed (possibly electronically) contribution form. https://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/ -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker _

[issue20383] Add a keyword-only spec argument to types.ModuleType

Eric Snow added the comment: Thanks for doing that Brett and for accommodating me. :) Also, the various little cleanups are much appreciated. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue21591] "exec(a, b, c)" not the same as "exec a in b, c" in nested functions

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The exception appears to be intentional, though I do not know what a 'qualified' exec would be. But since the tuple form is intended to mimic 3.x exec, and since a reduced version of your example c = ''' def g(): def f(): if True: exec(

[issue21583] use support.captured_stderr context manager - test_logging

Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- nosy: +vinay.sajip stage: -> patch review title: use support.catpured_stderr context manager - test_logging -> use support.captured_stderr context manager - test_logging type: -> enhancement ___ Python tracker

[issue21504] can the subprocess module war using os.wait4 and so return usage?

R. David Murray added the comment: I think the answer is that if you want that level of control you can't use communicate, you have to implement what you specifically need. I'm going to close this as rejected. It could be reopened if someone can find a way to propose something that makes sens

[issue21582] use support.captured_stdx context managers - test_asyncore

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Since asyncore is depracated, I don't know if tests are being updated, or if this should be closed. -- nosy: +josiahcarlson, stutzbach, terry.reedy title: use support.catpured context managers - test_asyncore -> use support.captured_stdx context manage

[issue21500] Make use of the "load_tests" protocol in test_importlib packages

R. David Murray added the comment: Personally I think the fact that this doesn't work by default is a bug in unittest. See issue 15007. Issue 16662 may also be related. -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker

[issue21577] Help for ImportError should show a more useful signature.

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Your example in #21578 suggests that **kwargs should be deleted. *args is right. >>> ImportError(3, 'a') ImportError(3, 'a') Should not this be fixed by ArgClinic conversion, and is not there an issue for that for exceptions? -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___

[issue20383] Add a keyword-only spec argument to types.ModuleType

Brett Cannon added the comment: After all the various revelations today about how much of a hassle and murky it would be to get types.ModuleType to do what we were after, I went ahead and kept importlib.util.module_from_spec(), but dropped the module argument bit. I also deconstructed _SpecMet

[issue20383] Add a keyword-only spec argument to types.ModuleType

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset b26d021081d2 by Brett Cannon in branch 'default': Issue #20383: Introduce importlib.util.module_from_spec(). http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b26d021081d2 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue21573] Clean up turtle.py code formatting

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am glad to see this. Gregor has been inactive for several years, Except for Ned's recent patch for OSX, it has been years since there was a turtle-specific code patch (from hg revision history). Questions: is there project link? are any of the mentors core d

[issue14097] Improve the "introduction" page of the tutorial

Zachary Ware added the comment: How's this for a 2.7 backport? The least direct part of the backport is the section on division; I pretty much had to completely rewrite the paragraph in 2.x terms and I'm not certain that I took the best approach. -- stage: commit review -> patch revie

[issue21608] logging.handlers.HTTPHandler.setFormatter() has no effect

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset e5373bfbe76b by Vinay Sajip in branch '2.7': Issue #21608: Updated HTTPHandler documentation. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e5373bfbe76b New changeset 220bed23696e by Vinay Sajip in branch '3.4': Issue #21608: Updated HTTPHandler documentation. h

[issue21462] PEP 466: upgrade OpenSSL in the Python 2.7 Windows builds

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset f6e47d27f67a by Steve Dower in branch '2.7': Issue #21462 PEP 466: upgrade OpenSSL in the Python 2.7 Windows builds http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f6e47d27f67a -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker <

[issue21476] Inconsitent behaviour between BytesParser.parse and Parser.parse

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Use try/finally to detach even if an exception is raised during parsing. -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue21569] PEP 466: Python 2.7 What's New preamble changes

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Did you intend to upload a diff with the current changes? My answers: * Just describe 466. Don't invite trouble. * Move the section to its logical place in temporal order, with a clear link. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___

[issue21568] Win32 pip doesn't use relative path to found site-packages.

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[issue21561] help() on enum34 enumeration class creates only a dummy documentation

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Devise a simple test (fail before, work after) that does not require enum34. If this fix is committed, the message could note that the same issue was fixed differently in 3.4 mixed in with other changes. -- nosy: +terry.reedy stage: -> test needed __

[issue21462] PEP 466: upgrade OpenSSL in the Python 2.7 Windows builds

Zachary Ware added the comment: Go ahead and commit; it will be up to Benjamin to cherry-pick it to his release branch (or to ask you to do it). -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue20383] Add a keyword-only spec argument to types.ModuleType

Eric Snow added the comment: But that part is less of a concern since we don't need namespace packages before or during bootstrapping, and afterward we have access to interp->importlib. Or am I missing something? > which gets us back into the whole question of whether types should > function

[issue13212] json library is decoding/encoding when it should not

Chris Rebert added the comment: Okay, so can this issue be closed in light of the existing docs and issue 21514 then? -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue20383] Add a keyword-only spec argument to types.ModuleType

Brett Cannon added the comment: And another complication is the compatibility hack to set loader when submodule_search_locations is set but loader is not since _NamespaceLoader is not exposed in C without importlib which gets us back into the whole question of whether types should function ent

[issue21608] logging.handlers.HTTPHandler.setFormatter() has no effect

Vinay Sajip added the comment: As far as POLA is concerned, IMO serializing to the HTTP request format isn't really a text formatting operation in the same way as for most other handlers. The point is, even if you could have a Formatter handle the operation, you can't usefully share this Forma

[issue21476] Inconsitent behaviour between BytesParser.parse and Parser.parse

Vajrasky Kok added the comment: Here is the simple patch based on David Murray's thought. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +vajrasky Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35413/bytes_parser_dont_close_file.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue20383] Add a keyword-only spec argument to types.ModuleType

Eric Snow added the comment: Yeah, it just looks too complicated to take the ModuleType signature approach, as much as I prefer it. :) I appreciate you taking a look though. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue21462] PEP 466: upgrade OpenSSL in the Python 2.7 Windows builds

Steve Dower added the comment: I can commit it, though I don't know how it'll affect Benjamin's release branch? (Obviously the build will be fine either way - I had the patch applied for 2.7.7rc1.) -- ___ Python tracker

[issue21476] Inconsitent behaviour between BytesParser.parse and Parser.parse

R. David Murray added the comment: I think the code should be using 'detach' after passing the fp to parser.parse, instead of using 'with'. -- versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker _

[issue21477] Idle: improve idle_test.htest

Changes by Saimadhav Heblikar : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35412/htest-docstring-27.diff ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-li

[issue21613] Installer for mac doesn't store the installation location

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: According to the manpage pkgutil is used with flat packages. The Python installer users older bundle-style packages. -- nosy: +ned.deily ___ Python tracker __

[issue21477] Idle: improve idle_test.htest

Changes by Saimadhav Heblikar : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35411/htest-docstring-34.diff ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-li

[issue21613] Installer for mac doesn't store the installation location

New submission from Artem Ustinov: I'm trying to automate the Python uninstallation on mac but I've found that the actual installation location is not stored for Python packages. That location is required since the pkgutil keeps track of installed files (if you run $ pkgutil --files org.python.

[issue21612] IDLE should not open multiple instances of one file

Changes by irdb : -- title: IDLE should should not open multiple instances of one file -> IDLE should not open multiple instances of one file ___ Python tracker ___

[issue21612] IDLE should should not open multiple instances of one file

New submission from irdb: Currently users can open multiple instances of one file in IDLE. Sometimes this leads to confusion and may cause loss of data. I'm not aware of any benefits of this behavior and I think it's better to be prevented by IDLE. Here are the steps to recreate the situation:

[issue21610] load_module not closing opened files

Brett Cannon added the comment: I don't have a Python 2.7 repo handy but the patch LGTM. -- nosy: +brett.cannon ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue21608] logging.handlers.HTTPHandler.setFormatter() has no effect

Bikram Zesto II added the comment: I see what you are saying about implementation kludginess and will likely subclass just to get my app done. On the other hand, I think the POLA(stonishment) violation of ignoring format-related configuration of the Handler (even tho it is a subclass) matters

[issue20383] Add a keyword-only spec argument to types.ModuleType

Brett Cannon added the comment: Another issue with the polymorphic argument is that the module type is one of those rare things written in C with keyword parameter support, so renaming the 'name' argument to 'name_or_spec' could potentially break code. -- _

[issue20383] Add a keyword-only spec argument to types.ModuleType

Brett Cannon added the comment: Giving Eric is polymorphic first argument to types.ModuleType() is going to be tricky thanks to the fact that it is not hard-coded anywhere in the C code nor documented that the first argument must be a string (the only way it might come up is from PyModule_GetN

[issue21592] Make statistics.median run in linear time

Thomas Dybdahl Ahle added the comment: If you have a good, realistic test set, we can try testing quick-select vs sorting. If it's still not good, I can also reimplement it in C. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue21552] String length overflow in Tkinter

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 59468bd68789 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '2.7': Issue #21552: Fixed possible integer overflow of too long string lengths in http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/59468bd68789 New changeset a90cddfd9e47 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.4': Issue #21552:

[issue21541] Provide configure option --with-ssl for compilation with custom openssl

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Isn't Modules/Setup used for builtin modules? The proposed configure flags are easier to find because similar flags are used by other projects using autoconf. Note that on OSX you could use "CFLAGS=-I/path/to/ssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/path/to/ssl/lib", because

[issue21571] Python build should check CPATH, C_INCLUDE_PATH for module dependencies

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: I'm pretty sure that I wrote the code Ned refers to, and that's indeed only targeting darwin to avoid breaking other platforms. That code could easily be made actively globally though, the only reason I didn't do so at the time is we were still getting used t

[issue1185124] pydoc doesn't find all module doc strings

Sunny K added the comment: Hi Victor, can you give this another look? -- versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue19662] smtpd.py should not decode utf-8

Maciej Szulik added the comment: I've included Leslie's comments in rst file. The 3rd version is attached in issue19662_v3.patch. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35409/issue19662_v3.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue1185124] pydoc doesn't find all module doc strings

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[issue19048] itertools.tee doesn't have a __sizeof__ method

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[issue1820] Enhance Object/structseq.c to match namedtuple and tuple api

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[issue1820] Enhance Object/structseq.c to match namedtuple and tuple api

Sunny K added the comment: Hi Stefan, There is a comment at the top in structseq.c /* Fields with this name have only a field index, not a field name. They are only allowed for indices < n_visible_fields. */ char *PyStructSequence_UnnamedField = "unnamed field"; This is the definition of os

[issue13742] Add a key parameter (like sorted) to heapq.merge

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[issue13742] Add a key parameter (like sorted) to heapq.merge

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset f5521f5dec4a by Raymond Hettinger in branch 'default': Issue #13742: Add key and reverse parameters to heapq.merge() http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f5521f5dec4a -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue21611] int() docstring - unclear what number is

New submission from Dmitry Andreychuk: https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/functions.html?highlight=int#int The docstring for int() function has these sentences: "If x is a number, return x.__int__()." "If x is not a number or if base is given..." Unfortunately the docstring doesn't describe ho

[issue14315] zipfile.ZipFile() unable to open zip File with a short extra header

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: This was never an enhancement. zipfile was failing to properly deal with real world data that other zip file tools on the planet were perfectly happy to deal with. That's a bug. Fixed. Practicality beats purity. Be lenient in what you accept. The zipfi