[issue1337] Tools/msi/msi.py does not work with PCBuild8

New submission from Kevin Watters: The msi.py script for creating an Windows MSI installer from a Python source tree has hardcoded values for PCBuild. The newer MSVC 2005 build directory is PCBuild8 and has a slightly different structure. msi.py needs to be changed to be able to work

[issue1320] PCBuild8 Solution Support Changes

Kevin Watters added the comment: This patch did not work for me. After running build_ssl.bat, the last couple lines of my console are: cl /Fotmp32dll\cfb_enc.obj -Iinc32 -Itmp32dll /MD /Ox /O2 /Ob2 /W3 /WX /Gs0 /GF /Gy /nologo -DOPENSSL_SYSNAME_WIN32 -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DL_ENDIAN

[issue3905] subprocess failing in GUI applications on Windows

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[issue4143] ast.Node objects do not have column number information

New submission from Kevin Watters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I see column number information in ast.c, but it's not accessible via the information by the Node objects returned by compiler.parse. -- components: Library (Lib) messages: 74948 nosy: kevinwatters severity: normal status: open title

[issue3545] Python turning off assertions (Windows)

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[issue4260] ctypes.xFUNCTYPE are decorators.

Kevin Watters [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: As far as I know, the above code will fail randomly in release mode if you have multiple threads running Python, because when ctypes calls out to CFUNCTYPE functions, it releases the GIL. For decorating a python function to give to qsort

[issue4379] Py_SAFE_DOWNCAST in FILE_TIME_to_time_t_nsec failing

New submission from Kevin Watters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After releasing a Py_DEBUG build to some users who were experiencing problems, I noticed a pattern in some of the crash reports I got back: msvcr90d!_wassert+0xb64 python25_d!FILE_TIME_to_time_t_nsec+0xac python25_d!attribute_data_to_stat

[issue3001] RLock's are SLOW

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[issue4589] 'with' loses -bool exceptions

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[issue4868] Faster utf-8 decoding

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[issue4753] Faster opcode dispatch on gcc

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[issue4753] Faster opcode dispatch on gcc

Kevin Watters kevinwatt...@gmail.com added the comment: Does anyone know the equivalent ICC command line option for GCC's -fno- gcse? (Or if it has one?) I can't find a related option in the docs. It looks like ICC hits the same combining goto problem, as was mentioned: without changing any

[issue7753] newgil backport

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[issue3258] ctypes assertion failure in trunk

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[issue3258] ctypes assertion failure in trunk

Kevin Watters [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: From reading through PEP 3118 once I'm not entirely clear on the role stgdict-format is supposed to be taking here, but I did get comtypes to compile and run successfully by changing line 910 from stgdict-format = alloc_format_string

[issue3006] subprocess.Popen causes socket to remain open after close

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[issue3006] subprocess.Popen causes socket to remain open after close

Kevin Watters [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: I found a workaround for this issue (attached) via the kernel32.dll function SetHandleInformation. You can patch the socket class to set all newly created sockets as uninheritable. It's not perfect--another thread could still spawn a subprocess

[issue3554] ctypes.wstring_at and string_at call Python API without the GIL

New submission from Kevin Watters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: in Lib/ctypes/__init__.py the wstring_at and string_at functions are declared with CFUNCTYPE. This means that in Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c when the functions are invoked, Py_UNBLOCK_THREADS and Py_BLOCK_THREADS surround the call

[issue815646] thread unsafe file objects cause crash

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[issue836035] strftime month name is encoded somehow

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[issue5249] Fix strftime on windows.

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[issue1641] asyncore delayed calls feature

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[issue5711] socket.create_connection not in __all__

New submission from Kevin Watters kevinwatt...@gmail.com: socket.create_connection was added in 2.6, but does not get exposed in socket's __all__. Attached is the simple fix against 2.6's socket.py. -- components: Library (Lib) files: socket-all-26.diff keywords: patch messages: 85656

[issue5949] IMAP4_SSL spin because of SSLSocket.suppress_ragged_eofs

New submission from Kevin Watters kevinwatt...@gmail.com: I cannot reproduce this locally yet, but I have several bug reports from users showing that IMAP4_SSL connections can get stuck in an infinite loop during logout() File imaplib.pyo, line 529, in logout File imaplib.pyo, line 1059

[issue5949] IMAP4_SSL spin because of SSLSocket.suppress_ragged_eofs

Kevin Watters kevinwatt...@gmail.com added the comment: I wasn't sure--the docs for SSLSocket.read (http://docs.python.org/library/ssl.html#ssl.SSLSocket.read) say Reads up to nbytes bytes from the SSL-encrypted channel and returns them. With that up to I wasn't sure that an empty string

[issue6132] Implement the GIL with critical sections in Windows

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