Re: # of Months between two dates

> > > > I've written a function to return the months between date1 and date2 > but > > > I'd like to know if anyone is aware of anything in the standard library > > > to do the same? For bonus points, does anyone know if postgres can do > > > the same (we use a lot of date/time funcitons in

[issue18875] Idle: Auto insertion of the closing parens, brackets, and braces

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: My question about the idea is whether beginners would use this, or if it is the sort of 'expert' feature that IDLE should avoid. I may ask on python-list for more opinions.

Re: try-except syntax

On Thu, 05 Apr 2018 23:04:18 +0200, ElChino wrote: > I'm trying to simplify a try-except construct. E.g. how come this: >try: > _x, pathname, _y = imp.find_module (mod, mod_path) > return ("%s" % pathname) imp.find_module is deprecated and should not be used in new code. Putting

[issue33211] lineno and col_offset are wrong on function definitions with decorators

Ethan Smith added the comment: I have a branch with an implementation of my suggestion here: https://github.com/ethanhs/cpython/tree/decorlineno I was hoping to see if this was seen as a reasonable patch that might be accepted. Also, while I think it would be nice, I take

Re: install MySQL-python failed ....

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11107155/how-to-fix-address-space-is-already-occupied-error-on-fetch-commit On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 8:12 AM, yi zhao wrote: > $ python -m pip install MySQL-python > Collecting MySQL-python > Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip (108kB) >

Re: install MySQL-python failed ....

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 7:12 PM, yi zhao wrote: > $ python -m pip install MySQL-python > Collecting MySQL-python > Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip (108kB) > 100% || 112kB 260kB/s > 930 [main] python2.7 12948

install MySQL-python failed ....

$ python -m pip install MySQL-python Collecting MySQL-python Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip (108kB) 100% || 112kB 260kB/s 930 [main] python2.7 12948 child_info_fork::abort: address space needed by 'datetime.dll' (0x87) is already occupied

[issue33232] Segmentation fault in operator.attrgetter

Change by Raymond Hettinger : -- assignee: -> larry ___ Python tracker ___ ___

Re: try-except syntax

Ben Bacarisse wrote: Anyway, to coalesce two or more exception handlers, you are probably looking for except (ImportError, RuntimeError): To the OP: Are you sure you really want to mask RuntimeError here? Usually it means something has gone seriously wrong, and is a symptom that shouldn't

[issue24882] ThreadPoolExecutor doesn't reuse threads until #threads == max_workers

iunknwn added the comment: I've submitted a PR that should resolve this - it uses a simple atomic counter to ensure new threads are not created if existing threads are idle. One concern I do have - while writing the patch, I noticed the existing submit method (specifically

[issue24882] ThreadPoolExecutor doesn't reuse threads until #threads == max_workers

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Re: try-except syntax

ElChino writes: > I'm trying to simplify a try-except construct. E.g. how come > this: > try: > _x, pathname, _y = imp.find_module (mod, mod_path) > return ("%s" % pathname) > except ImportError: > pass > except RuntimeError: > pass > return ("") > >

[issue33234] Improve list() pre-sizing for inputs with known lengths

New submission from Raymond Hettinger : The list() constructor isn't taking full advantage of known input lengths or length hints. Ideally, it should pre-size and not over-allocate when the input size is known or can be reasonably estimated. Python 3.8.0a0

[issue33232] Segmentation fault in operator.attrgetter

Change by Ray Donnelly : -- nosy: +Ray Donnelly ___ Python tracker ___ ___

Re: try-except syntax

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:04 PM, ElChino wrote: > I'm trying to simplify a try-except construct. E.g. how come > this: > try: > _x, pathname, _y = imp.find_module (mod, mod_path) > return ("%s" % pathname) > except ImportError: > pass > except RuntimeError: >

Re: try-except syntax

On 04/05/2018 02:04 PM, ElChino wrote: I'm trying to simplify a try-except construct. E.g. how come this:   try:     _x, pathname, _y = imp.find_module (mod, mod_path)     return ("%s" % pathname)   except ImportError:     pass   except RuntimeError:     pass     return ("") Cannot be

try-except syntax

I'm trying to simplify a try-except construct. E.g. how come this: try: _x, pathname, _y = imp.find_module (mod, mod_path) return ("%s" % pathname) except ImportError: pass except RuntimeError: pass return ("") Cannot be simplified into this: try: _x, pathname, _y

[issue33217] x in enum.Flag member is True when x is not a Flag

Change by Ethan Furman : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +6100 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___

Re: logging.FileHandler diff Py2 v Py3

> I'll poke around a little and maybe open a bug report if I can't find any > explanation for the change in behavior. Turns out to be a known problem with a bit of history: https://bugs.python.org/issue27805 Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[issue27805] io.open('/dev/stdout', 'a') raises OSError with errno=ESPIPE

Skip Montanaro added the comment: I was bitten by this porting a system from Python 2.7 to 3.6. "/dev/stderr" is a very nice default for logfiles. Users will frequently override the default, so you really want to open the logfile in append mode. Having to jump

[issue33224] "RuntimeError: generator raised StopIteration" in difflib.mdiff

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Thanks for timely report. I appreciate you exercising the beta release to shake out bugs. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python

[issue33224] "RuntimeError: generator raised StopIteration" in difflib.mdiff

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset 8da15f09458fd4f4fe341861e41723892b25a11b by Raymond Hettinger (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.6': bpo-33224: PEP 479 fix for difflib.mdiff() (GH-6381) (GH-6391)

Re: RegEx to match set of lines

On 4/5/2018 11:03 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:09:23 +0530, Prahallad Achar wrote: I would like to match set of lines from the below data. this data comes from one of the network Good grief! You don't need to post your entire data set! We don't need or want to see

[issue33233] Suggest third-party cmd2 module as alternative to cmd

New submission from Ned Deily : The cmd module in the standard library has languished for many years. In the mean time, third-party replacements for it have arisen. Perhaps the most popular is cmd2 which seems to be actively maintained, provides upward compatibility from

[issue33224] "RuntimeError: generator raised StopIteration" in difflib.mdiff

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset 28c179094bcb7829d184fb3cfb3ef626505b9f77 by Raymond Hettinger (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.7': bpo-33224: PEP 479 fix for difflib.mdiff() (GH-6381) (GH-6390)

Re: want to export some of the packets from a big pacp file to another file.

On 2018-04-05, supsw...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I am using dpkt python package to parse .pcap file and I am able to do > successfully. > > My requirement is to filter some of the traffic from the big .pcap > file and to export the result to another file. > > I don't know

[issue33227] Cmd do_something only accepts one argument

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks for your suggested enhancement to the cmd module. cmd has been around a *long* time and, unfortunately, has received very little maintenance or enhancement attention for many years. In the meantime, third-party replacements for cmd have

[issue33224] "RuntimeError: generator raised StopIteration" in difflib.mdiff

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +6099 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue33224] "RuntimeError: generator raised StopIteration" in difflib.mdiff

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +6098 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue33224] "RuntimeError: generator raised StopIteration" in difflib.mdiff

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset 01b731fc2b04744a11e32f93aba8bfb9ddb3dd29 by Raymond Hettinger in branch 'master': bpo-33224: PEP 479 fix for difflib.mdiff() (GH-6381)

Re: want to export some of the packets from a big pacp file to another file.

På Thu, 5 Apr 2018 08:06:10 -0700 (PDT) supsw...@gmail.com skrev: > Hi, > > I am using dpkt python package to parse .pcap file and I am able to do > successfully. > > My requirement is to filter some of the traffic from the big .pcap file > and to export the result to another file. > > I don't

[issue33230] _decimal build failure (unsupported platform for that module) - evolution possible?

Ned Deily added the comment: > However, this is the first time in 6 years that anyone has reported an OS X > build failure. Yes, I've never seen one before, either. But I think the culprit is pointed to in the error message. It looks like you have another version of

[issue15817] Misc/gdbinit: Expose command documentation to gdb help

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks everyone! -- assignee: dmalcolm -> resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.8 -Python 3.7 ___ Python tracker

[issue15817] Misc/gdbinit: Expose command documentation to gdb help

Ned Deily added the comment: New changeset 7286dbd8b20bd0a26fabe1a07ff368082a9c5ed6 by Ned Deily (Skip Montanaro) in branch 'master': bpo-15817: Expose command documentation to gdb help (GH-6384)

[issue32823] Regression in test -j behavior and time in 3.7.0b1

Zachary Ware added the comment: I can't reproduce this. Even running `python -m test -j14` on a machine with 2 vCPUs, I get my first results at 2s, and even test___all__ passes in only 6 (though on my first run, with -j0 (== -j4), test___all__ took 41s but other

[issue33228] Use Random.choices in tempfile

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: -0 on making anything other than the doc change. For the most part, we avoid sweeping through the standard library to substitute-in new features and instead have a preference for code stability rather than code churn. FWIW,

[issue33219] x in IntFlag should test raise TypeError if x is not an IntFlag

Ethan Furman added the comment: issue33217 is tracking member-containment checks; modifying this one to track class-containment checks. Given class Color(Enum): RED = 1 class Fruit(Enum): APPLE = 1 then --> Fruit.APPLE in Color False --> Fruit.APPLE

[issue33203] random.choice: raise IndexError on empty sequence even when not using getrandbits internally

Change by Raymond Hettinger : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue33203] random.choice: raise IndexError on empty sequence even when not using getrandbits internally

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset e25af930a300c01aa043745058a8c7f6c32d89ae by Raymond Hettinger (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.6': bpo-33203: Ensure random.choice always raises IndexError on empty sequence (GH-6338) (GH-6388)

[issue33203] random.choice: raise IndexError on empty sequence even when not using getrandbits internally

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset baf304e82e1b54dbeee6b78ddf168e33ed8d557a by Raymond Hettinger (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.7': bpo-33203: Ensure random.choice always raises IndexError on empty sequence (GH-6338) (GH-6387)

[issue33203] random.choice: raise IndexError on empty sequence even when not using getrandbits internally

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +6097 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue33203] random.choice: raise IndexError on empty sequence even when not using getrandbits internally

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +6096 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue33203] random.choice: raise IndexError on empty sequence even when not using getrandbits internally

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset 091e95e9004b794280ab35becec2c3e30dd5e96e by Raymond Hettinger (Wolfgang Maier) in branch 'master': bpo-33203: Ensure random.choice always raises IndexError on empty sequence (GH-6338)

[issue33232] Segmentation fault in operator.attrgetter

Alexander Sturm added the comment: As mentioned, the code is compiled correctly by VS2017 - both in 3.5.5 and 3.6.5. So I cannot reproduce the issue with Python 3.6.5. Would it be possible to switch the default platform toolset used to compile Python 3.5 in the next source

want to export some of the packets from a big pacp file to another file.

Hi, I am using dpkt python package to parse .pcap file and I am able to do successfully. My requirement is to filter some of the traffic from the big .pcap file and to export the result to another file. I don't know how to do this. PFB the setup details I am using.

Re: RegEx to match set of lines

On Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:09:23 +0530, Prahallad Achar wrote: > Hello, > I would like to match set of lines from the below data. this data comes > from one of the network Good grief! You don't need to post your entire data set! We don't need or want to see hundreds of lines. Cut your data down to

[issue33232] Segmentation fault in operator.attrgetter

Zachary Ware added the comment: Python 3.5 is in security-fix-only mode now, which means we won't be releasing any more binaries for it, and thus can't really do much about this other than possibly recommending that Windows users build with VS2017 instead of VS2015 in

[issue33232] Segmentation fault in operator.attrgetter

Change by Alexander Sturm : Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file47522/annotated_dissasembly.txt ___ Python tracker ___

[issue33232] Segmentation fault in operator.attrgetter

New submission from Alexander Sturm : This issue can be reproduced using Python 3.5.2 - 3.5.5 compiled with VS2015 (tested both the official Python builds as well as local builds using VS2015 Version 14.0.25431.01 Update 3) on 64-bit Windows. To reproduce, run the attached

[issue33231] Potential memory leak in normalizestring()

New submission from Josh Rosenberg : Patch is good, but while we're at it, is there any reason why this multi-allocation design was even used? It PyMem_Mallocs a buffer, makes a C-style string in it, then uses PyUnicode_FromString to convert C-style string to

[issue33229] Documentation - io — Core tools for working with streams - seek()

Mikhail Zakharov added the comment: OK, I got it. Sorry for disturbing you. The should be called like: io.SEEK_* -- ___ Python tracker

[issue33229] Documentation - io — Core tools for working with streams - seek()

Mikhail Zakharov added the comment: Seems in my, quite old 3.4.5 version, it doesn't work: $ python3 Python 3.4.5 (default, Jun 1 2017, 13:52:39) [GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18)] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> f

[issue6721] Locks in the standard library should be sanitized on fork

Olivier Chédru added the comment: FWIW, I encountered the same kind of issue when using the mkstemp() function: under the hood, it calls gettempdir() and this one is protected by a lock too. Current thread 0x7ff10231f700 (most recent call first): File

[issue33229] Documentation - io — Core tools for working with streams - seek()

Josh Rosenberg added the comment: As indicated in the seek docs ( https://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html#io.IOBase.seek ), all three names were added to the io module in 3.1: > New in version 3.1: The SEEK_* constants. Since they're part of the io module

[issue33231] Potential memory leak in normalizestring()

Change by INADA Naoki : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +6095 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___

[issue33231] Potential memory leak in normalizestring()

Change by INADA Naoki : -- components: Interpreter Core nosy: inada.naoki priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Potential memory leak in normalizestring() type: resource usage versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8

RegEx to match set of lines

Hello, I would like to match set of lines from the below data. this data comes from one of the network Part of data : [ If circuit type is OCHCC then I need Circuit name and service ID from that group ] Circuit ID: ad8a0165:25 *Circuit Name: T3A_100G_SD20* Circuit Version: 0 Circuit Monitor:

[issue33228] Use Random.choices in tempfile

Wolfgang Maier added the comment: Actually, in Python2.7 random.choice is implemented with the same susceptibility to the rounding bug as Python3's choices, still nobody ever reported a tempfile IndexError problem (I guess). --

[issue33228] Use Random.choices in tempfile

Wolfgang Maier added the comment: sorry, should have been issue 24567, of course. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue33228] Use Random.choices in tempfile

Wolfgang Maier added the comment: @serhiy as I understand issue 33228, the double rounding problem potentially causing an IndexError can only affect choices() if the len of the sequence to choose from is greater than 2049, but the string in question

[issue33230] _decimal build failure (unsupported platform for that module) - evolution possible?

Stefan Krah added the comment: I don't have OS X. However, this is the first time in 6 years that anyone has reported an OS X build failure. Perhaps Ned knows the answer. -- nosy: +ned.deily, skrah ___ Python tracker

[issue33205] GROWTH_RATE prevents dict shrinking

INADA Naoki added the comment: @Mark.Shannon, @rhettinger How do you think this? -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue33230] _decimal build failure (unsupported platform for that module) - evolution possible?

New submission from Hubert Holin : _decimal fails to build on my platform due to lack of support: In file included from /Developer/Python/3.6/Python/Python-3.6.5/Modules/_decimal/_decimal.c:34: /usr/local/include/mpdecimal.h:201:4: error: "unsupported platform: need

[issue33228] Use Random.choices in tempfile

INADA Naoki added the comment: @wolma Would you split your PR? One for fix docstring and one for using Random.choices. Since former is document bug, I want to backport it. (while _RandomNameSequence is private) -- nosy: +inada.naoki

[issue33228] Use Random.choices in tempfile

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: See issue24567. It affects Random.choices(), but not Random.choice() because the latter uses getrandbits(). -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka ___ Python tracker

[issue15817] Misc/gdbinit: Expose command documentation to gdb help

Change by Skip Montanaro : -- versions: +Python 3.7 -Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue15817] Misc/gdbinit: Expose command documentation to gdb help

Skip Montanaro added the comment: This looks good to me. I added a pull request with a couple minor tweaks. Unfortunately, I can't tell how to add a "skip news" label. This doesn't seem "big" enough to warrant it. -- nosy: +skip.montanaro

[issue15817] Misc/gdbinit: Expose command documentation to gdb help

Change by Skip Montanaro : -- pull_requests: +6094 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___

[issue15257] Misc/.gdbinit:pystack is too brittle

Skip Montanaro added the comment: I would prefer if these macros remain standalone (and thus fragile). Despite Python support in gdb, not everyone (more than five years after the bug report) don't use a gdb which was built --with-python. There is better support for

[issue33229] Documentation - io — Core tools for working with streams - seek()

New submission from Mikhail Zakharov : Documentation for io.IOBase class and it's seek() method at https://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html mentions SEEK_* constants like: "SEEK_SET or 0 – start of the stream (the default); offset should be zero or positive

[issue33195] PyArg_Parse* should deprecate 'u' and 'z' family.

INADA Naoki added the comment: New changeset 29bc6f6347b1e05b22180fd296013bb2a104d589 by INADA Naoki in branch '3.6': bpo-33195: Doc: Deprecate Py_UNICODE in c-api/arg (GH-6329) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/29bc6f6347b1e05b22180fd296013bb2a104d589

[issue33211] lineno and col_offset are wrong on function definitions with decorators

Change by Ivan Levkivskyi : -- nosy: +levkivskyi ___ Python tracker ___ ___

Re: # of Months between two dates

On Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 11:46:51 PM UTC+5:30, MRAB wrote: > Greg Lindstrom wrote: > > I work for a company that processes claims for the health care industry > > (Novasys Health, recently purchased by Centene Corp). My current > > assignment has me writing a routine to compute insurance

[issue33228] Use Random.choices in tempfile

Change by Wolfgang Maier : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +6093 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker

[issue33228] Use Random.choices in tempfile

New submission from Wolfgang Maier : A rather trivial change: tempfile._RandomNameSequence could make use of random.Random.choices introduced in 3.6. IMO, the suggested change would give clearer and also faster code. It also updates the docstring of the

[issue33195] PyArg_Parse* should deprecate 'u' and 'z' family.

Change by INADA Naoki : -- pull_requests: +6092 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue33211] lineno and col_offset are wrong on function definitions with decorators

Change by Nitish : -- nosy: +nitishch ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue33222] Various test failures if PYTHONUSERBASE is not canonicalized

Change by Nitish : -- nosy: +nitishch ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue33227] Cmd do_something only accepts one argument

Change by Oz Tiram : -- components: +Library (Lib) type: -> enhancement ___ Python tracker ___

[issue33224] "RuntimeError: generator raised StopIteration" in difflib.mdiff

Change by Raymond Hettinger : -- versions: +Python 3.6, Python 3.8 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue33224] "RuntimeError: generator raised StopIteration" in difflib.mdiff

Change by Raymond Hettinger : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +6091 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___

Re: Asynchronous processing is more efficient -- surely not?

Steven D'Aprano writes: > So, I'm, still trying to wrap my brain around async processing, and I > started reading this tutorial: > > http://stackabuse.com/python-async-await-tutorial/ > > and the very first paragraph broke my brain. > > "Asynchronous

[issue33227] Cmd do_something only accepts one argument

New submission from Oz Tiram : Considering that I want to build an CLI interactive program using cmd.Cmd, which has multiple functions that accept two or more arguments, I always have to do parsing of arg inside my do_methods for example: class Calc(cmd.Cmd):

[issue33224] "RuntimeError: generator raised StopIteration" in difflib.mdiff

Change by Raymond Hettinger : -- assignee: -> rhettinger nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker ___