PySide: Python for Qt version 1.0.0~beta2 Mineshaft gap released

The PySide team is happy to announce the second beta release of PySide: Python for Qt. New versions of some of the PySide toolchain components (API Extractor and Shiboken) have been released as well. This is a source code release only; we hope our community packagers will be providing provide

Serialize my class as JSON causes __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'indent' ?

Hi - I've got a straightforward class I want to serialize as JSON (actually I want to a serialize a list of them but I believe that's irrelevant). I've subclassed JSONEncoder and defined my own version of the 'default' method ( based upon what I read at http://docs.python.org/library/json.html )

Re: Serialize my class as JSON causes __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'indent' ?

shearichard wrote: Hi - I've got a straightforward class I want to serialize as JSON (actually I want to a serialize a list of them but I believe that's irrelevant). I've subclassed JSONEncoder and defined my own version of the 'default' method ( based upon what I read at

Re: If/then style question

On 17/12/2010 0.51, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Don't get me wrong... spaghetti code is*bad*. But there are other ways of writing bad code too, and hanging around inside a function long after you've finished is also bad: def function(arg): done = False do_something() if

Re: Serialize my class as JSON causes __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'indent' ?

On Dec 18, 11:30 pm, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote: shearichard wrote: Hi - I've got a straightforward class I want to serialize as JSON (actually I want to a serialize a list of them but I believe that's irrelevant). I've subclassed JSONEncoder and defined my own version of the

Re: subprocess.Popen() and a .msi installer

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 17:57, Sebastian Alonso wrote: Hey everyone, I'm working on a script which uses subprocess to launch a bunch of installers, but I'm getting problems with .msi installers although .exe ones work fine. The output I get is this: import subprocess p =

Re: Newbie question about importing modules.

cronoklee cronok...@gmail.com wrote: Hey thanks for the help fellas. The links were helpful and the pyExe program looks great. I might well end up using this. I'm still a little confused as to how the directory structure works. PIL (http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/#pil117), for example

Re: Added Python, WSGI to XAMPP

On 12/17/2010 02:36 PM, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: How-To: Add VirtualEnv and Pylons (WSGI framework) to XAMPP http://www.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?f=17t=42981 Maybe, if there's no Zope. Or we'll run away screaming... That is rather pathetically true... Ah well, each to their own...

Re: Serialize my class as JSON causes __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'indent' ?

On 12/18/2010 6:32 AM, shearichard wrote: Brilliant - thank you very much. Now that you've explained it I can see why the documentation is written the way it is ! Before I saw your example I thought the documentation was a bit strange but I can see now what it was trying to tell me ! If you

Re: If/then style question

On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:29:31 +0100, Francesco wrote: [...] I agree to your point, but I'm afraid you chose a wrong example (AFAIK, and that's not much). Sure, the second version of function(arg) is much more readable, but why do you think the first one would do *lots* of unnecessary work?

Re: If/then style question

On Dec 17, 12:23 am, Steven D'Aprano steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:32:29 -0800, Carl Banks wrote: Even without the cleanup issue, sometimes you want to edit a function to affect all return values somehow.  If you have a single exit point you just make

True lists in python?

Is there any way to use a true lists (with O(c) insertion/deletion and O(n) search) in python? For example, to make things like reversing part of the list with a constant time. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: True lists in python?

On Dec 19, 9:18 am, Dmitry Groshev lambdadmi...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to use a true lists (with O(c) insertion/deletion and O(n) search) in python? For example, to make things like reversing part of the list with a constant time. I forgot to mention that I mean *fast* lists. It's

Re: True lists in python?

Dmitry Groshev wrote: Is there any way to use a true lists (with O(c) insertion/deletion and O(n) search) in python? For example, to make things like reversing part of the list with a constant time. if you're interested just in reverse a collection maybe you can take a look at the deque[0]

Re: True lists in python?

On Dec 19, 9:48 am, Vito 'ZeD' De Tullio zak.mc.kra...@libero.it wrote: Dmitry Groshev wrote: Is there any way to use a true lists (with O(c) insertion/deletion and O(n) search) in python? For example, to make things like reversing part of the list with a constant time. if you're

[issue10729] fwbackups python lib error

New submission from Ayman Elmasry elmasry.ay...@gmail.com: I hope this topic is not completely unfitting here. fwbackups error after backup attempt which concerned python lib: ERROR : Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/fwbackups/operations/backup.py,

[issue9775] Multiprocessing, logging and atexit play not well together

Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment: Not reproducable anymore. -- resolution: - out of date status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9775 ___

[issue9234] argparse: aliases for positional arguments (subparsers)

Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment: Looks good to me. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9234 ___ ___

[issue10728] argparse.ArgumentParser.print_help uses sys.stdout

Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment: Yep, this is a documentation bug. Help is definitely intended to print to stdout. -- versions: -Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10728

[issue9234] argparse: aliases for positional arguments (subparsers)

Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Steven, can you go ahead and apply this? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9234 ___

[issue9234] argparse: aliases for positional arguments (subparsers)

Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment: Applied in r87362. -- resolution: - fixed stage: - committed/rejected status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9234

[issue10730] add .svgz to mimetypes.suffix_map

New submission from Grygoriy Fuchedzhy grygoriy.fuched...@gmail.com: Please add '.svgz': '.svg.gz' map to mimetypes.suffix_map -- components: Library (Lib) messages: 124282 nosy: gry priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: add .svgz to mimetypes.suffix_map type: feature

[issue10729] fwbackups python lib error

Eric Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment: fwbackups is a third party package. See if you can submit a bug at http://www.diffingo.com/oss/fwbackups -- nosy: +eric.smith resolution: - invalid stage: - committed/rejected status: open - closed

[issue10729] fwbackups python lib error

Ayman Elmasry elmasry.ay...@gmail.com added the comment: thank you -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10729 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue5587] vars() no longer has a useful __repr__

Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com added the comment: Fixed in 3.2 (r87368) and 3.1 (r87370), thanks for the patch! -- assignee: - ezio.melotti resolution: - fixed stage: needs patch - committed/rejected status: open - closed ___ Python tracker

[issue9990] PyMemoryView_FromObject alters the Py_buffer after calling PyObject_GetBuffer when ndim 1

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: I'll take a look at this. -- assignee: - mark.dickinson ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9990 ___

[issue10731] UnicodeDecodeError in OS X tkinter when binding to MouseWheel

New submission from Marc Culler cul...@math.uic.edu: In OS X tkinter the two-finger scroll generates MouseWheel events. The following code: bug.py import tkinter def mouse_wheel(event): print('Mouse wheel event') tk = tkinter.Tk() list = tkinter.Listbox(tk) list.bind('MouseWheel',

[issue10573] Consistency in unittest assert methods: order of actual, expected

Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com added the comment: The attached patch changes the following things - assertDictContainsSubset(expected, actual, msg=None) + assertDictContainsSubset(subset, dictionary, msg=None) This doesn't change the order of the args, even though the name of the method

[issue10728] argparse.ArgumentParser.print_help uses sys.stdout

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: Fixed in r87372. -- resolution: - fixed stage: needs patch - committed/rejected status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10728

[issue10729] fwbackups python lib error

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: Ayman: FYI it looks like you are trying to run the program on a Python version older than what it requires (the delete keyword for NamedTemporaryFile was introduced in version 2.6, as you can find out by looking it up in the python

[issue10694] zipfile.py end of central directory detection not robust

Kevin Hendricks kevin.hendri...@sympatico.ca added the comment: Same problem exists in Python 3.1.3 and in later versions as well. Same patch should also work. -- versions: +Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue10573] Consistency in unittest assert methods: order of actual, expected

Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment: If Michael and Raymond reach a consensus, this can go in before beta2. -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10573

[issue10730] add .svgz to mimetypes.suffix_map

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: What are the media types, and are they registered with IANA? A citation from http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types will be needed in order for this addition to happen if they are not x- types. I checked out of

[issue7242] Forking in a thread raises RuntimeError

Oren Held o...@held.org.il added the comment: Just adding some info: This bug is not Solaris-specific; I reproduced it on HP-UX 11.31. On Python 2.6.4, thread_test.py fails with the same RunTime error exception. On Python 2.6.6, it passes and things look good. -- nosy: +Oren_Held

[issue6791] httplib read status memory usage

Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.com added the comment: In the morning, I had a comment on the patch wondering why read _MAXLENGH + 1 and then check for len of header _MAXLENGH. Instead of just reading _MAXLENGH (and if the length matched rejecting). ( Looks like it did not go through). I

[issue10404] IDLE on OS X popup menus do not work: cannot set/clear breakpoints

Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment: Looks fine, David, do you want to commit? -- assignee: ronaldoussoren - r.david.murray nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10404

[issue10731] UnicodeDecodeError in OS X tkinter when binding to MouseWheel

Changes by R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com: -- assignee: - ronaldoussoren components: +Macintosh -Tkinter nosy: +ned.deily, ronaldoussoren ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10731

[issue10731] UnicodeDecodeError in OS X tkinter when binding to MouseWheel

Changes by R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com: -- type: crash - behavior ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10731 ___ ___

[issue10730] add .svgz to mimetypes.suffix_map

Grygoriy Fuchedzhy grygoriy.fuched...@gmail.com added the comment: I'm not sure we are talking about the same table. I don't see .mp4 there. suffix_map = { '.tgz': '.tar.gz', '.taz': '.tar.gz', '.tz': '.tar.gz', '.tbz2': '.tar.bz2', } *.svgz is gzipped

[issue10404] IDLE on OS X popup menus do not work: cannot set/clear breakpoints

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: Committed to py3k in r87374, 3.1 in r87375, and 2.7 in r87376. -- resolution: - fixed stage: patch review - committed/rejected status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue10730] add .svgz to mimetypes.suffix_map

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: You are correct, I misread your message. However, my point still stands. .svg is not a file extension that appears in the types_map table, so adding the line you request to the suffix_map table is not something we would do by itself.

[issue10723] Undocumented built-in exceptions

Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment: Committed in r87378. -- resolution: - fixed status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10723 ___

[issue10730] add .svgz to mimetypes.suffix_map

Grygoriy Fuchedzhy grygoriy.fuched...@gmail.com added the comment: *.svg and *.svgz files have image/svg+xml media type. I have following in /etc/mime.types callisto ~ $ grep svg /etc/mime.types image/svg+xml svg svgz --

[issue6791] httplib read status memory usage

Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: Partially backported in r87382 (3.1) and r87383 (2.7). Not everything could be merged in because of HTTP 0.9 support and (in 2.7) a slightly different architecture. Thank you. -- stage: patch review - committed/rejected status: open -

[issue10573] Consistency in unittest assert methods: order of actual, expected

Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: These three changes look fine. The argument order for assertDictContainsSubset is problematic (doesn't match its own name and doesn't match the order for other __contains__ methods elsewhere in Python), but it's too late

[issue9286] email.utils.parseaddr returns garbage for invalid input

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: Committed in r87384. Barry, I've added you as nosy in case you disagree with this fix. The essential point is that before, parseaddr would turn 'merwok w...@example.com' into 'merwok...@example.com', and now it preserves the

[issue10573] Consistency in unittest assert methods: order of actual, expected

Michael Foord mich...@voidspace.org.uk added the comment: The argument order doesn't match the name (which isn't a huge deal I don't think) - but subset in dict does match the element in container order of assertIn. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue10716] Modernize pydoc to use CSS

Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: There's no rush on this one. There desired properties are: * separate content from presentation * validated CSS and HTML * simple CSS so that people can *easily* customize it * possibly offer two premade stylesheets 1) a

[issue10732] Wrong destructor function type in Python/getargs.c

New submission from Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr: In getargs.c, in addcleanup_convert(), PyCapsule_SetContext() is called with a second argument int (*destr)(PyObject*,void*), but it really expects a void (*PyCapsule_Destructor)(PyObject *). I'm not sure it's a good idea, although the ABI may

[issue10732] Wrong destructor function type in Python/getargs.c

Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: I fail to see the problem. The context is a plain void*, not (necessarily) a function pointer, and getargs uses it with the same type it put in. Why do you think PyCapsule_Destructor is of relevance? --

[issue10730] add .svgz to mimetypes.suffix_map

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: This media type does not appear in the official IANA registry. Has it not yet been officially approved? If you want to argue that its use is common enough and its approval immanent enough (I do see that it has been submitted) to

[issue10732] Wrong destructor function type in Python/getargs.c

Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: I fail to see the problem. The context is a plain void*, not (necessarily) a function pointer, and getargs uses it with the same type it put in. Why do you think PyCapsule_Destructor is of relevance? Woops, sorry. Apparently I messed up

[issue10732] Wrong destructor function type in Python/getargs.c

Changes by Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr: -- resolution: - invalid status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10732 ___

[issue10733] plistlib rejects strings containing control characters

New submission from Mitchell Model m...@acm.org: plistlib rejects control characters found in XML plists that Apple's 'plutil lint' accepts. I have attached my Terminal preferences as an example. (plistlib accepts the contents of the default Terminal preferences file) -- assignee:

[issue10622] WebKit browsers show superfluous scrollbars in html docs

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: Backport done in r87387 and r87388. -- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: - fixed stage: - committed/rejected status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue10733] plistlib rejects strings containing control characters

Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: This is tricky. It's clearly ill-formed XML, so I'm not sure that this needs to be bug-compatible with Apple's implementation. -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue10573] Consistency in unittest assert methods: order of actual, expected

Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com added the comment: Fixed in r87389. This can be backported to 3.1/2.7 where applicable. -- stage: needs patch - commit review Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20105/issue10573.diff ___ Python tracker

[issue10616] Change PyObject_AsCharBuffer() error message

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: Victor, I think you attached to the wrong issue. -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10616 ___

[issue10616] Change PyObject_AsCharBuffer() error message

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: Victor, I think you attached msg123266 to the wrong issue. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10616 ___

[issue10616] Change PyObject_AsCharBuffer() error message

Changes by R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com: -- Removed message: http://bugs.python.org/msg124315 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10616 ___

[issue6780] startswith error message is incomplete

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: The approach looks good to me. I think this issue is orthogonal to #10616, since the message here needs to be modified anyway, regardless of what happens to the underlying issue. -- nosy: +r.david.murray

[issue6780] startswith error message is incomplete

Changes by R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com: -- versions: -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue6780 ___ ___

[issue10727] intermittent test_cmd_line failure

Ned Deily n...@acm.org added the comment: This is a duplicate of Issue8458. Merging the nosy lists. -- nosy: +ned.deily resolution: - duplicate status: open - closed superseder: - buildbot: test_cmd_line failure on Tiger: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

[issue8458] buildbot: test_cmd_line failure on Tiger: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

Ned Deily n...@acm.org added the comment: See also msg124254. -- assignee: - gregory.p.smith nosy: +gregory.p.smith, ncoghlan, pitrou type: - behavior ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue8458

[issue8458] buildbot: test_cmd_line failure on Tiger: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: Perhaps there is a race condition with cleaning up the p2c pipe from a previous run? This would be rather strange, since it would have a different file descriptor. Or it means there's a bug somewgere (perhaps in subprocess, or perhaps even in

[issue4871] zipfile can't decrypt

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: What about bytearray? Apparently that works pre-patch for at least read, though setpassword rejects it via an assertion. Also, the error message should be expected bytes rather than bytes expected. Don't ask me why, that's just the

[issue9286] email.utils.parseaddr returns garbage for invalid input

Barry A. Warsaw ba...@python.org added the comment: On Dec 18, 2010, at 06:31 PM, R. David Murray wrote: Barry, I've added you as nosy in case you disagree with this fix. The essential point is that before, parseaddr would turn 'merwok w...@example.com' into 'merwok...@example.com', and now it

[issue10734] test_ttk failure under Windows

Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: I don't think this needs to block the beta release. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10734 ___

[issue10733] plistlib rejects strings containing control characters

Mitchell Model m...@acm.org added the comment: I can see where that does make it tricky. (I also tried reading the plist after opening the file as binary, but no luck.) The problem here, of course, is that the only reason for the existence of this library is to read Apple's plist files,

[issue10722] IDLE's subprocess didnit make connection ..... Python 2.7

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: I do not have much to add, but second the idea of inquiring on python-list or the gmane mirror, especially about alternatives (other than Notepad, which is what I started with). Happily, IDLE has nearly always worked fine on my xp machine, so

[issue10730] add .svgz to mimetypes.suffix_map

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: This issue is actually a request to add .svg to the types map and the the abbreviation .svgz for .svg.gx to the suffix_map. I believe Scalable Vector Graphics are well on the way to becoming *the* standard vector graphics format for the web,

[issue10730] add .svgz to mimetypes.suffix_map

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: Separate issue: from the mimetypes doc ... MimeTypes.types_map Dictionary mapping filename extensions to MIME types. This is initially a copy of the global types_map defined in the module. But on Windows, I get a *tuple*, not a dict, of two

[issue9857] SkipTest in tearDown is reported an as an error

Michael Foord mich...@voidspace.org.uk added the comment: Committed revision 87390. It is a stretch to see this as a bugfix rather than a new feature so probably *shouldn't* be backported to 2.7. On the other hand the fix is combined with the fix for issue 9857 which *is* a bugfix and

[issue9857] SkipTest in tearDown is reported an as an error

Michael Foord mich...@voidspace.org.uk added the comment: Correction, the fix is combined with the fix for issue 10611. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9857 ___

[issue10735] platform.architecture() gives misleading results for OS X multi-architecture executables

New submission from Ned Deily n...@acm.org: OS X Mach-O universal executable files often contain multiple architectures including a combination of 32-bit and 64-bit archs, as with the newer OS X installer variants provided on python.org. In such cases, the platform.architecture() function

[issue10730] add .svgz to mimetypes.suffix_map and .svg to types_map

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: I think a variance from the policy stated in mimetypes is quite possible, and the kind of information you provide, Terry, is a step in that direction. We would need release manager approval, of course, since we are in Beta, but this is

[issue10735] platform.architecture() gives misleading results for OS X multi-architecture executables

Changes by R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com: -- nosy: +lemburg ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10735 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue10735] platform.architecture() gives misleading results for OS X multi-architecture executables

Ned Deily n...@acm.org added the comment: The attached patches for py3k (3.2+) and 2.7 correct platform.architecture() to return the bit architecture ('32bit' or '64bit') of the running interpreter in the default case where executable = sys.executable. The linkage string will also contain

[issue10735] platform.architecture() gives misleading results for OS X multi-architecture executables

Changes by Ned Deily n...@acm.org: -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20106/issue10735-py3k.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10735 ___

[issue10735] platform.architecture() gives misleading results for OS X multi-architecture executables

Changes by Ned Deily n...@acm.org: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20107/issue10735-27.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10735 ___