Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.net added the comment:
Oh man, attaching the wrong diff and getting the diff wrong.
The issue I found with Python 2.7:
when creating a simple link in tar:
$ mkdir tar_test
$ cd tar_test
$ touch one
$ ln -s one two
$ cd ..
$ tar czf tar_test.tgz tar_test
Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.net added the comment:
Uh, I just noticed the python2.6 in the traceback.
Looks like I *was* using 2.6 because Cygwin decided
to downgrade for some reason.
Uh, sorry about that.
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New submission from Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.net:
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/reprlib.html
Formatting methods for specific types are implemented as methods with a name
based on the type name. In the method name, TYPE is replaced by
string.join(string.split(type(obj
Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.net added the comment:
Yes. Yes it would. In my opinion, it really shouldn't do this sort of name
mangling, as it's a terrible idea, but whatever.
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Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.net added the comment:
The documentation is just flat out wrong, actually:
if ' ' in typename:
parts = typename.split()
typename = '_'.join(parts)
The documentation is claiming the inverse.
I don't know why we would ever have a space
