New submission from joseph.h.garvin joseph.h.gar...@gmail.com:
The following code will cause the interpreter to hang:
import subprocess
import signal
subprocess.Popen(/bin/echo, preexec_fn=signal.pause)
Replace /bin/echo with any valid program on your box, it's just the simplest
Linux example
New submission from joseph.h.garvin joseph.h.gar...@gmail.com:
The following code will result in a traceback 99% of the time, though it may
take two runs (sometimes the first run won't trigger it, I think due to the
changing in timing from genrating the .pyc file). It spawns an instance
joseph.h.garvin joseph.h.gar...@gmail.com added the comment:
Sorry I wasn't trying to make a request, just suggesting one potential 'fix' (I
agree that it isn't really though) to make things more intutive.
Unless the app is delayed from launching until after the assignment finishes
though I
New submission from joseph.h.garvin joseph.h.gar...@gmail.com:
shutil.copyfile's behavior is to replace the dst file if it already exists.
shutil.copytree requires that the destination not already exist, and throws an
OSError if it does. I see 3 problems with this behavior:
1. It's
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http://bugs.python.org/issue8125
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joseph.h.garvin joseph.h.gar...@gmail.com added the comment:
Sorry I wasn't terribly clear explaining the problem with mkdtemp. Say you
create your temporary folder, /tmp/foo. Now you have a regular folder bar laid
out like so:
bar/
blarg1.ext
blarg2.ext
subdir/
blarg3.ext
joseph.h.garvin joseph.h.gar...@gmail.com added the comment:
I think this bug still exists in Python 2.6.4, and I haven't tested 2.6.5, but
since 2.6.4 was released 6 months after this bug was closed I assume it's still
an issue. Running ndbecker's test program as is produces the following
