[issue42359] tutorial: list is a class

2020-11-14 Thread Andy Harrington
New submission from Andy Harrington : Documentation in Tutorial section 9.3.3 seems to be stuck in Python 2: "In Python, the term method is not unique to class instances: other object types can have methods as well. For example, list objects have methods called append, insert, remove,

[issue22121] IDLE should start with HOME as the initial working directory

2019-07-13 Thread Andy Harrington
Andy Harrington added the comment: This is really important for newbies. They have no business being in the system Python folder. And Idle is for newbies! I was teaching an intro Python class, and tried to help a student who had been writing programs in Idle, but now could not get Python

[issue34864] In Idle, Mac tabs make bottom editor line with cursor location disappear

2018-10-01 Thread Andy Harrington
Andy Harrington added the comment: This appears to be a system settings option in Mac OS Sierra set under the Dock, "prefer tabs when opening documents". With that choice, when there is the tab bar in an Idle edit window (more than one window superimposed, with tabs) the the wh

[issue34864] In Idle, Mac tabs make bottom editor line with cursor location disappear

2018-10-01 Thread Andy Harrington
New submission from Andy Harrington : Mac now puts multiple tabs inside of application window instead of starting a separate window (with some OS settings). With just one file being edited in Idle (no tab line) the bottom line with the numerical cursor coordinates is visible. When

[issue34863] Idle Mac scrolling only down

2018-10-01 Thread Andy Harrington
New submission from Andy Harrington : In a source file in Idle I scroll down no matter which way I rotate the mouse wheel. This happens in no other app. Mac High Sierra OS. I have the Mac scrolling setup "natural" - backwards from the Windows directions. -- assignee: t

[issue6257] Idle terminates on source save while debugging

2012-07-18 Thread Andy Harrington
Andy Harrington ahar...@luc.edu added the comment: yes I certainly used breakpoints On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Roger Serwy rep...@bugs.python.org wrote: Roger Serwy roger.se...@gmail.com added the comment: The only was I get IDLE to crash is if the file has breakpoints enabled

[issue14454] argparse metavar list parameter with nargs=k

2012-03-30 Thread Andy Harrington
New submission from Andy Harrington ahar...@luc.edu: I now set the help string for an argparse option with two parameters: parser.add_argument('-s', '--substitute', nargs=2, help='Replace first string with second', metavar='string') which generates

[issue14454] argparse metavar list parameter with nargs=k

2012-03-30 Thread Andy Harrington
Andy Harrington ahar...@luc.edu added the comment: Withdrawn. My error. I missed the part of the documentation that says a *tuple*, not the list that I tried, does just what I wanted. -- assignee: - docs@python components: +Documentation -Library (Lib) nosy: +docs@python resolution

[issue11339] annotation for class being defined

2011-02-26 Thread Andy Harrington
New submission from Andy Harrington ahar...@luc.edu: You cannot make a self-referential annotation like class Graph: def reverse(self) - Graph: # ... This corresponds to a common coding situation. -- components: Interpreter Core messages: 129587 nosy: andyharrington

[issue4953] cgi module cannot handle POST with multipart/form-data in 3.x

2011-01-13 Thread Andy Harrington
Andy Harrington ahar...@luc.edu added the comment: I found a similar issue. If you want more simple files demonstrating the issue, I have attached some. If I start my localCGIServer.py, then I can use adder.html fine (uses get), but with adderpost.html (uses post) the cgi action file

[issue4953] cgi module cannot handle POST with multipart/form-data in 3.x

2011-01-13 Thread Andy Harrington
Changes by Andy Harrington ahar...@luc.edu: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file20392/localCGIServer.py ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4953

[issue4953] cgi module cannot handle POST with multipart/form-data in 3.x

2011-01-13 Thread Andy Harrington
Changes by Andy Harrington ahar...@luc.edu: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20393/adder.html ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4953

[issue4953] cgi module cannot handle POST with multipart/form-data in 3.x

2011-01-13 Thread Andy Harrington
Changes by Andy Harrington ahar...@luc.edu: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20394/adderpost.html ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4953

[issue4953] cgi module cannot handle POST with multipart/form-data in 3.x

2011-01-13 Thread Andy Harrington
Changes by Andy Harrington ahar...@luc.edu: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20395/localCGIServer.py ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4953

[issue4953] cgi module cannot handle POST with multipart/form-data in 3.x

2011-01-13 Thread Andy Harrington
Changes by Andy Harrington ahar...@luc.edu: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20396/adder.cgi ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4953

[issue8755] idle crash UnicodeDecodeError utf-8 codec

2010-05-18 Thread Andy Harrington
New submission from Andy Harrington ahar...@luc.edu: I was editing in idle in python 3.1, typing away. I had been doing it for hours. I do not think I had jumped to the shell window. Suddenly idle crashed, with this error message in the the ubuntu 9,10 terminal window: Traceback (most

[issue6257] Idle terminates on source save while debugging

2009-06-10 Thread Andy Harrington
New submission from Andy Harrington ahar...@luc.edu: When I am running the idle debugger, and change something in a source file and save it, the save works but idle immediately closes. I can see the debugger not liking it, but it would be much better if just the debugger stopped, not the whole

[issue3570] str.find docstring typo

2008-08-16 Thread Andy Harrington
New submission from Andy Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When you enter help(.find) you get ... such that sub is contained within s[start,end] ... s[start, end] makes no sense. It should be s[start:end]. -- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 71240 nosy

[issue1038909] pydoc method documentation lookup enhancement

2008-03-24 Thread Andy Harrington
Andy Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: Alexander, I have no idea why your patch languished. On the one hand I might have skipped this if I realized that before. On the other hand, I did add something extra, and I might not have had an open mind if I had looked at yours. Plus

[issue1038909] pydoc method documentation lookup enhancement

2008-03-23 Thread Andy Harrington
Changes by Andy Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file9823/pydoc.PATCH _ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue1038909

[issue1038909] pydoc method documentation lookup enhancement

2008-03-23 Thread Andy Harrington
Andy Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: HM, before writing my patch I tested pydoc to see the issue was still there. I did not look at the 2004 patch from aschmolck since it was so old and was clearly not implemented, and brett just listed this issue as one to deal with in 2008

[issue1038909] pydoc method documentation lookup enhancement

2008-03-22 Thread Andy Harrington
Andy Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: Several points: Additional note in pydoc output: I thought that 'inherited' docs should be marked, so I chose to add to the note for any function that gets docs displayed from an inherited function: ', docs from inherited inherited class

[issue1038909] pydoc method documentation lookup enhancement

2008-03-20 Thread Andy Harrington
Andy Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: After going to the sprint Monday, I am working on this as my first patch. There is no test file for pydoc. ?? -- nosy: +andyharrington _ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org