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or were you just reading the code?
I’m not sure how hard to fix this will be. The copy_file method delegates to
shutil.copyfile, but this does not have the arguments we need
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First, I’d like to remind that the robots spec is not an official Internet spec
backed up by an official body. It’s also not as important as (say) HTTP
parsing.
For this bug, IMO the guiding principle should be Postel’s Law. What harm is
there in being more
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Thanks, I’ve made some comments on Rietveld.
> Added a recommendation to only use keywords, which seems sane given
> the number of arguments.
I looked for that but couldn’t find it.
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I’ve spent some time on this.
First, I decided that the former name (reinitialize_command) of the method was
better. The get_* name could create the impression that the returned object
was independent from the internal caches (command_obj, have_run), but it
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A 1999 comment in build_py from Greg Ward agrees with me:
# XXX hey! we can't control whether we optimize or not; that's up
# to the invocation of the current Python interpreter (at least
# according to the py_compile docs). That sucks.
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> This problem was not trivial to find, because it appears that test execution
> order may not be
> entirely deterministic: I couldn't see any other reason why the flag would
> have different values
> on different machines.
On my machine, it
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> Right now the HEAD returns something :)
Ah, so this is a bug.
> I still need to propose a patch.
A patch to add a test (for 2.7 or 3.2, see devguide) would be a great first
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I find that assertIs(type(x), someclass) is very clear, whereas an
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I’ve found a distutils commit that shows that this option was removed on
purpose, because people might except that using “install -b foo” would affect
the build command, but it does not. I don’t think it’s a problem. For people
who run build and install in
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> That's "should", not "must".
I read that “should” as a polite “must”.
> Also, I thought people did undocumented things with distutils, and we
> had to support these undocumented uses?
People rely on undocumented features and s
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Paul Moore reported that a Python built in its checkout on Windows has no
problem installing, so I’d like to revisit this. The patch was also
incomplete: The install module was changed, but people could still call
“pysetup run install_dist”, and that command
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All three issues fixed, thanks! I can’t push today but I will as soon as
possible, probably Monday.
I will open another report for the change I reverted in config; it was done on
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so
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>I would say that this one is clear too:
> aelf.assertTrue(isinstance(obj, cls))
> except that the failure message is not very friendly:
> AssertionError: False is not true
Yeah, you have to give something as third argument to ease debugging.
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I had too the need to find out the value to pass when there are no flags, so a
mention of 0 in the doc would have been enough for me. -0 on a new constant.
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Here’s the patch produced by Mike and I so far.
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+1 for a comment too. I’d even make it shorter:
# don't look at <>, it's not a real operator (see PEP 401)
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> since the issue only applies when sdist --format gztar, I mention that here.
bztar will probably have the same issue.
> Also, issue8396 suggests encoding using sys.getfilesystemencoding().
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+# sake of a __future__ import described in PEP 401
If we wanted to be exact, the operator isn’t here for a __future__ import but
for a feature enabled by a __future_
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> Do we need an introductory page aimed to the readers that explains
> the conventions used in the doc?
Explaining notational conventions at the start of a technical reference sounds
like a best practice
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> not all OSes have vendors
I realized that because French is my native language, I interpret “vendor” as
“seller” (the meaning of “vendeur”), but I think that in English it just means
“distributor” and has no relation with selling. vendor-packages is argua
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+1 to most of the patch, except one piece of wording: “commit message hooks”.
This does not occur in the Mercurial documentation or help, and is misleading
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“hooks” or “Mercurial hooks
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I would not use a note directive. Notes and warnings distract and sometimes
scare readers. For a simple coding recommendation like this, I think a regular
paragraph would suffice. To make sure it’s not lost after pages of options
description, maybe it could
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a better name and we should use it again:
- it would make clear that it’s an evolution of distutils
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> Currently different environment variables are treated differently. For
> example,
> mistakes in PYTHONHOME and PYTHONIOENCODING cause fatal error while an error
> in
> PYTHONSTARTUP is reported but does not terminate python:
If PYTHONSTAR
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>>> C functions that have optional arguments but don't accept keyword arguments
>>> are a bit unusual,
>>> and IIUC in most of the cases that's an implementation detail that could be
>>> removed.
>> So would i
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>> I think we should fix C functions to accept kwargs for the sake of Python
>> programmers
> And also for compatibility for other implementations like PyPy.
Good point.
> I'm still not sure that is a good idea to do a mass conversion
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I’ve noticed that setuptools’ Command class also allows keyword arguments in
its constructor. I’m not sure if it would be useful, but I’ve not looked in
depth at the packaging codebase to see if there is code that could use that
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> I've added runTest to Tester
It turns out this was the only change needed. Tarek’s repo on bitbucket is not
up-to-date, I should have given you the hg.python.org link. (You can edit
.hg/hgrc in your repo and run “hg pull -u” to get missing changesets
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This module also fails to build on my Debian. I had the libcursesw headers
installed and one day it was not enough; installing libcurses headers fixes it.
I don’t know if it’s the same problem or something related to Debian multiarch.
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Is the '*' marker needed?
>self.callkwds = callkwds
These aren’t used in the module-level functions. What is the use case?
If you forgive me for the nitpick, the docstrings have to
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> Looking at sysconfig.cfg makes it all pretty clear, though it was hard to
> find this
> information a while ago.
Yeah, you had to be here when the resources code was committed, or to stumble
on it while reading the source code. It’s one of the big
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tracker: using O_CLOEXEC and replacing the unofficial 'c' mode (O_CREATE). I
think it’d be nice to have these as examples (maybe not in the docs of
TextIOWrapper which are al
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> Seems reasonable to me. When did/does unicodedata ever have a __file__
> attribute?
No idea. Maybe it has to do with static vs. dynamic linking? Or alternate VMs?
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> Well, actually SimpleHTTPRequesthandler extends BaseHTTPHandler with basic
> do_GET and
> do_HEAD methods.
> Unittests for http.server shows that this behavior is intended, since: [snip]
Not sure what this test
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> Ok, I found a similar problem with MMTK.
I don’t know what that is.
> I am currently altering my distutils package to add a function called
> nt_quote_dir
> that adds quotes to paths with spaces and then applies it to each path if the
> plat
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Hi David. Thanks for reporting the issue. I have to warn you that there is a
high bar for distutils changes; due to the mass of code out there that relies
on undocumented internal behavior or works around old bugs, a feature freeze is
in effect and we try to
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>> Regarding the output, I don't think is necessary to add it.
> I left it in because of a discussion in core-mentorship, where they
> mentioned that it would be beneficial to have it in.
Well, people can have diverging opinions. Terry’s was
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I worked on this a bit more and the current boring diff has more than 1000
deleted lines and more than 1000 added lines. After thinking about it, maybe I
should not make a mega-patch with markup/boring changes first but rather fix
markup as part of more
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> I've a project, in the setup.py file, I've a function called update_prefix,
> that updates the
> 'path_project' variable with prefix arguments from setup.py
> If you runs setup.py with --prefix=/usr, then the file in
> &#
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> The commit details (including its changeset, branch and commit message)
In Mercurial terminology, a changeset *is* a commit (or if you really want to
make a distinction, a commit is the action that creates a changeset). I think
you meant “diff”. Moreo
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> It's made my day. I get to boast at school now!
You could do more of that if you got a patch committed! See
http://docs.python.org/devguide and
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/core-mentorship for more info if you’re
interested.
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To go back to your original message:
> I think it would be very usefull to add a curry function to the functools
> module.
For what use cases?
> Curried functions could be used as follow.
>>> adder(2, 3, 4)
>>> adder(2, 3)(4)
>>
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+ To check for a specific type (without including superclasses) use
+ :func:`assertIs(type(obj), cls) `.
Don’t you mean “without accepting subclasses”, not superclasses?
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> I thought about having another class, but I couldn't come up with a
> decent name for it (ResponseWithCloseHook?).
If it’s used together with the base Response class (I don’t have the details in
memory anymore), you could try ClosingMixin or Fi
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#6027: test_xmlrpc_net fails when the ISP returns "302 Found"
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I agree with Mark. The Documenting Python docs were recently updated by
Raymond Hettinger to recommend not abusing notes and warnings, and the doc
maintainer Georg Brandl approved it: d5d91b14b238 (#12047).
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Another way to fix this would be to use Sphinx 1.0 for Python 2.7, but I don’t
know what’s the status of that, given the amount of changes needed.
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Thanks for the updated patch. I made a review, you should have received an
email. When you make a new patch, it would be most helpful if you could make
one patch with code and tests changes, and then we’ll remove the old versions.
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Hi Julian, thanks for your interest in improving Python and welcome! It is
Raymond who initially added these links, and I helped porting them between
versions. The criterion can be read in the commit message: “Provide links to
Python source in a handful of
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The patches I’ve discussed and committed were actually peripheral. The
original bug reported here is that shebangs shouldn’t use “/usr/bin/env python”
with an altinstall installation, as in that case you’re not creating a python
(or python3) binary but a
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No, I’m not talking about a rephrasing, but on a full change of meaning. I
don’t understand your use of “superclasses” at all; isinstance(x, T) checks if
x is an instance of T or any subclass, am I wrong
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> This is still a bothersome issue, but we've taken to patching every version
> of python
> downstream before deploying them. All for a simple three line patch.
Sorry about the unsatisfactory situation. Could we start anew and define
exactly wh
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I’ve found a way to make sure error messages always bubble up *and* clean up
the ugly code in resolve_name, but it’s a rather drastic one. The idea is to
restrict the function to work only with names defined at the module level, not
arbitrarily nested names
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Advice from Ezio Melotti:
> I would keep the flags even if you don't need them
> someone in the present or in the future might need them, and having them
> doesn't harm
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Your latest proposal is better. I would prefer mentioning subclasses, but
don’t feel strongly about it. One markup nit: I’d use ``code`` instead of
(ab)using :func:; the doc for assertIs is just a few paragraphs above, it won’t
be hard to find
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Patch looks good, but are you 100% sure that sys.executable is always absolute?
(On all OSes, under multiprocessing, etc?)
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Ah, thanks for clarifying, I didn’t understand what you meant with local/global
but now I see it’s about absolute imports and explicit relative imports. (I
don’t remember ever reading that terminology before looking at fix_import.)
I’m adding the “easy
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> It does stop with an error message. But when I reinvoke the command,
> converting is
> skipped (because the file is already copied).
Then that’s the bug: In case of error, the file in the build dir should be
removed.
By the way, I think this was not
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Thanks for the patch Meador, I hadn’t realized we had no tests for py_compile
(it is however used in test_import and test_compileall). I think it would be
nice to commit the tests first (except for the one that’s the object of this
bug report) in order to have
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technology anyway, I don’t see value in removing that, and propose that we
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When people find bugs in reindent.py (#12930 is a recent one), we have to try
to reproduce the bug manually, apply a fix and test manually again. The
alternative is to only read the code and trust that it works. I find both of
these positions unsatisfactory
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