[python-committers] Deny nonbreaking spaces in the precommit script?

2010-11-07 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, I introduced nonbreaking spaces in Lib/os.py in a comment, because I kept Alt Gr. key pressed to write the space after # (stupid Xorg keyboard variant!). This change introduces a strange bug in "LANG=C ./python -m test.regrtest -v test_imp test_trace" command. The real bug was fixed in iss

Re: [python-committers] Deny nonbreaking spaces in the precommit script?

2010-11-07 Thread Guido van Rossum
Hm, tricky, the stdlib is already supposed to be ASCII only except for author names in comments and a few specific encoding test cases. But since your non-breaking space was in a comment you'd have to add another exception to whatever checker exists. How about fixing your personal tool chain so it

Re: [python-committers] Deny nonbreaking spaces in the precommit script?

2010-11-07 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2010/11/7 Victor Stinner : > Hi, > > I introduced nonbreaking spaces in Lib/os.py in a comment, because I kept Alt > Gr. key pressed to write the space after # (stupid Xorg keyboard variant!). > > This change introduces a strange bug in "LANG=C ./python -m test.regrtest -v > test_imp test_trace" co

[python-committers] Need help with read-write checkouts (Win/TortoiseSVN)

2010-11-07 Thread Terry Reedy
Wanting to finish up the difflib issue (#2986) with my first commits, I read http://www.python.org/dev/faq/ (especially 2.2.2 and 2.3), loaded TortoiseSVN, and successfully did a read-only checkout. But when I try to do the needed read-write checkout, I get a blank plink screen and ... nothing.