[issue13472] devguide doesn’t list all build dependencies

2012-01-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue13440] Explain the "status quo wins a stalemate" principle in the devguide

2012-01-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue12907] Update test coverage devguide page

2012-01-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue12296] Minor clarification in devguide

2012-01-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue13762] missing section: how to contribute to devguide

2012-01-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : I struggled to find how to contribute to the devguide. I even struggled to find where the VCS is. I think it would be kool if there was a section for this info (it's not always fun to search the intertubes). -- components: Devguide mes

[issue13124] Add "Running a Build Slave" page to the devguide

2012-01-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue12409] Moving "Documenting Python" to Devguide

2012-01-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue13275] Recommend xml.etree for XML processing

2012-01-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue13275] Recommend xml.etree for XML processing

2012-01-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: @Araujo bit offtopic, but which XML library have you found most elegant? Is it available in the stdlib? -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue13

[issue13763] rm obsolete reference in devguide

2012-01-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : this line: "commonly abbreviated svn, after the program name" was once changed to: "commonly abbreviated hg, after the program name" and it no longer makes sense -- components: Devguide files: rm-obsolete-reference.p

[issue13764] Misc/build.sh is outdated... talks about svn

2012-01-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : I am wondering what else is outdated in that file. Is it still useful? -- components: Build messages: 151052 nosy: tshepang priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Misc/build.sh is outdated... talks about svn

[issue13766] explain the relationship between Lib/lib2to3/Grammar.txt and Grammar/Grammar

2012-01-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : Lib/lib2to3/Grammar.txt seems like a modified copy of Grammar/Grammar. Can you state so somewhere, maybe in the beginning of Lib/lib2to3/Grammar.txt (the Note section). One problem with the way it is now, is that there are changes done to Grammar

[issue13762] missing section: how to contribute to devguide

2012-01-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: I guess I should have looked more carefully. Thanks and sorry for the noise. -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue2175] Expat sax parser silently ignores the InputSource protocol

2012-01-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue12779] Update packaging documentation

2012-01-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue13768] Doc/tools/dailybuild.py available only on 2.7 branch

2012-01-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue13763] rm obsolete reference in devguide

2012-01-12 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 00:12, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > Sandro Tosi added the comment: > > But we may explain what's behind: "after the mercury chemical element symbol" > - what do you think? Good idea. That's actuall

[issue13763] rm obsolete reference in devguide

2012-01-12 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: > Ezio Melotti added the comment: > > If 'program' refers to the executable, the sentence is still valid. Interesting. It didn't appear like that until you mentioned it. It was far more clear with subversion:svn than mercurial

[issue12246] create installation path if it's non-existent

2011-06-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : If I happen to not have the directory, $PREFIX/python3.3/site-packages, I get an erroneous message telling me that I don't write permissions. -- assignee: tarek components: Distutils2 files: create-dir-if-nonexistent.diff keywords:

[issue12249] add missing command

2011-06-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : It's not indicated where one should run the command 'make html' in the "Building the documentation" page, so when it failed for me when running it from the cpython distribution root, I was left a little puzzled, searching wh

[issue12246] create installation path if it's non-existent

2011-06-03 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 16:18 +, Éric Araujo wrote: > Éric Araujo added the comment: > > Ah, I understand; I have a $srcdir/Lib/site-packages directory, but packaging > wants to install into $prefix/site-packages, which does not e

[issue12249] add missing command

2011-06-03 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 15:47 +, Éric Araujo wrote: > Éric Araujo added the comment: > > Your patch adds the cd before running make, but other examples and filenames > (for example :file:`tools/sphinx`) are also relative to Doc. How abo

[issue12246] create installation path if it's non-existent

2011-06-04 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: But this part of the code runs only when you want to install a 3rd party module isn't it? What you are proposing simply adds a delay, for the use will have to then add that directory manually. Or is there something I'm mi

[issue12246] create installation path if it's non-existent

2011-06-04 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue12246] create installation path if it's non-existent

2011-06-05 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue12246] create installation path if it's non-existent

2011-06-05 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: I've changed the patch to represent what I've since learned. It now just displays a message, instead of silently creating the missing path. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file22259/display-wa

[issue12246] Warn when trying to install third-party module from an uninstalled checkout

2011-06-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: Find attached. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file22267/display-warning_try2.diff ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue12

[issue12246] Warn when trying to install third-party module from an uninstalled checkout

2011-06-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue12246] Warn when trying to install third-party module from an uninstalled checkout

2011-06-10 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 16:46 +, Éric Araujo wrote: > Éric Araujo added the comment: > > Fixed. Welcome to Misc/ACKS ! loveliness :) -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.or

[issue6715] xz compressor support

2011-05-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue11162] Add tuple/list sep to string split method

2011-02-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : I was hoping that I could use a list/tuple of separators for the split method: "abcde".split(["b", "d"]) vs. import re re.split("b|d", "abcde") That's one extra LOC, and (worse

[issue11162] Add tuple/list sep to string split method

2011-02-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue13768] Doc/tools/dailybuild.py available only on 2.7 branch

2012-01-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: > New submission from Georg Brandl : > > Why is that a concern?  It is not needed for the doc build and intended to be > used on python.org only. It's mentioned in http://hg.python.org/devguide/file/5d4a90e568ed/docquality.rst, so

[issue13768] Doc/tools/dailybuild.py available only on 2.7 branch

2012-01-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: ok, the url is http://hg.python.org/devguide/file/5d4a90e568ed/docquality.rst -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue13

[issue13808] url for Tutor mailing list is broken

2012-01-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : faq.rst: correct url is http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- components: Devguide messages: 151488 nosy: ezio.melotti, tshepang priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: url for Tutor mailing list is broken

[issue13810] refer people to Doc/Makefile when not using 'make' to build main documentation

2012-01-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : this is regarding "documenting.rst": The url for checking out Sphinx from svn has been outdated for a while, so I think it would be better to refer people to Doc/Makefile for the correct urls, instead of having to keep updating this fi

[issue13763] rm obsolete reference in devguide

2012-01-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: I included both suggestions in the latest patch. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24269/rm-obsolete-reference2.patch ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue13

[issue13948] rm needless use of set function

2012-02-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : I assume that the set() function was used to get rid of duplicates from self.versions, but there aren't any and the test would pass even if there were. -- assignee: tarek components: Distutils2 files: rm-needless-use-of-set-function.

[issue13949] rm needless use of pass statement

2012-02-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : I found the use of the pass statement redundant. -- assignee: tarek components: Distutils2 files: rm-needless-use-of-pass-keyword.patch keywords: patch messages: 152726 nosy: alexis, eric.araujo, tarek, tshepang priority: normal severity

[issue13950] rm commented-out code

2012-02-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : It does not appear that the commented-out code adds any value. If anything, it's maybe just a distraction. -- assignee: tarek components: Distutils2 files: rm-commented-out-code.patch keywords: patch messages: 152727 nosy: alexis, eric.a

[issue8255] Packaging step-by-step tutorial

2012-02-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue13953] test_packaging: unused test?

2012-02-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : I'm not sure what's happening here (not sure how doctest works), but I suspect that there is no test at all. Perhaps it was forgotten: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/567767a6df02/Lib/packaging/tests/test_version.py#l68. I say this

[issue13956] add a note regarding building on recent versions of Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : I was puzzled why the various parts, like readline and ssl, failed to be built into my Python. It was after seeing #11715 that I realized I needed to install dpkg-dev, whose binary, dpkg-architecture, helps detect the locations of those libraries

[issue13955] email: RFC 2822 has been obsoleted by RFC 5322

2012-02-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue13954] Add regrtest option to record test results to a file

2012-02-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue13963] dev guide has no mention of mechanics of patch review

2012-02-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue13967] also test for an empty pathname

2012-02-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : increases coverage by one line: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/58bd6a58365d/Lib/packaging/util.py#l110 -- assignee: tarek components: Distutils2 files: test-for-empty-string.patch keywords: patch messages: 152840 nosy: alexis, eric.araujo

[issue13782] xml.etree.ElementTree: Element.append doesn't type-check its argument

2012-02-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue11379] Remove "lightweight" from minidom description

2012-02-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue13969] path name must always be string

2012-02-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : I was writing a test that could return True for "if not pathname" (http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/58bd6a58365d/Lib/packaging/util.py#l109), and included all values I know that could return a False value, but then I realised that the onl

[issue13969] path name must always be string (or None)

2012-02-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Changes by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : -- assignee: -> tarek components: +Distutils2 nosy: +alexis, eric.araujo, tarek title: path name must always be string -> path name must always be string (or None) versions: +Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker

[issue13956] add a note regarding building on recent versions of Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: @Barry, it does work on Debian as well @Eric, I agree with closing it as a dupe -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue13

[issue11841] Bug in the version comparison

2012-02-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue13973] urllib.parse is imported twice in xmlrpc.client

2012-02-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : urllib.parse is imported twice in xmlrpc.client, and it also breaks pep8 -- components: Library (Lib) files: duplicate-imports.patch keywords: patch messages: 152932 nosy: tshepang priority: normal severity: normal status: open title

[issue13974] packaging: test for set_platform()

2012-02-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : slightly increases test coverage -- assignee: tarek components: Distutils2 files: test-set-platform.patch keywords: patch messages: 152933 nosy: alexis, eric.araujo, tarek, tshepang priority: normal severity: normal status: open title

[issue13975] packaging: change_root() test for os2

2012-02-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : increases coverage a bit -- assignee: tarek components: Distutils2 files: test-change_root-in-os2.patch keywords: patch messages: 152934 nosy: alexis, eric.araujo, tarek, tshepang priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: packaging

[issue13974] packaging: test for set_platform()

2012-02-10 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: It indeed was permanent. The new patch fixes the issue. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24480/test-set-platform-2.patch ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue13

[issue13988] Expose the C implementation of ElementTree by default when importing ElementTree

2012-02-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue2636] Adding a new regex module (compatible with re)

2012-02-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue13996] "What's New in Python" should have initial release date on heading

2012-02-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : As an example, the date near the top of this document http://docs.python.org/py3k/whatsnew/3.0.html matches that of today, which can be misleading (it appears as if the thing was released today). Also, by initial release, I mean the first "

[issue13997] Clearly explain the bare minimum Python 3 users should know about Unicode

2012-02-13 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue4966] Improving Lib Doc Sequence Types Section

2012-02-13 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue14034] the example in argparse doc is too complex

2012-02-16 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : The argparse example (http://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html#example) introduces way too many concepts too early. It's written as if targeted to existing users of optparse, instead of newcomers to Python's CLI handling. Perhaps t

[issue14034] the example in argparse doc is too complex

2012-02-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 19:03, Éric Araujo wrote: > > Éric Araujo added the comment: > > I really don’t think there was any willingness to “show off”, and wouldn’t be > surprised if the doc was written optparse users.  It’s just

[issue13248] deprecated in 3.2, should be removed in 3.3

2012-02-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue14034] first example in argparse doc is too complicated

2012-02-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: I chose to go the way of a howto. I find argparse complex enough to deserve one. note: I have checked each example on the 3 releases that possess the module (2.7, 3.2, and 3.3), and the differences in output are very small. -- keywords: +patch

[issue14050] Tutorial, list.sort() and items comparability

2012-02-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: An an aside, shouldn't that be "in-place" instead of "in place (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-place)? -- nosy: +tshepang ___ Python tracker <http://bug

[issue13605] document argparse's nargs=REMAINDER

2012-02-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: (this is only concerning the latest commit) Not sure if I should open a new issue, but why is there a print function at all, given that: >>> print(parser.parse_args('--foo B cmd --arg1 XX ZZ'.split())) Namespace(args=['--arg

[issue14074] argparse does not allow nargs>1 for positional arguments but doesn't allow metavar to be a tuple

2012-02-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : Here's four commands to demonstrate my problem: My sample code: $ cat prog.py import argparse parse = argparse.ArgumentParser() parse.add_argument("foo", nargs=2, metavar=("foo", "bar")) args = parse.parse_args(

[issue14075] argparse: unused method?

2012-02-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : It appears to me that the function I removed (see attached patch) is unused. Since I wasn't sure, I ran the entire test suite, and there wasn't a regression. -- components: Library (Lib) files: rm-unused-function.patch keywords: patc

[issue13447] Add tests for some scripts in Tools/scripts

2012-02-22 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue14100] expose a note a hidden note

2012-02-23 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : I wonder if this note was hidden deliberately. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: make-note-visible.patch keywords: patch messages: 154065 nosy: docs@python, tshepang priority: normal severity: normal status: open title

[issue14100] expose a hidden note

2012-02-23 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue10848] Move test.regrtest from getopt to argparse

2012-02-23 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue14081] Allow "maxsplit" argument to str.split() to be passed as a keyword argument

2012-02-24 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue14103] argparse: add ability to create a bash_completion script

2012-02-24 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue14102] argparse: add ability to create a man page

2012-02-24 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue14112] tutorial intro talks of "shallow copy" concept without explanation

2012-02-24 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : Relevant line: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/e2eccc906354/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst#l487 When the concept is introduced, it appears like there's an assumption that the reader would know what it means. I'm curious if it's tha

[issue14097] Improve the "introduction" page of the tutorial

2012-02-24 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue4256] argparse: provide a simple way to get a programmatically useful list of options

2012-02-24 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue14074] argparse allows nargs>1 for positional arguments but doesn't allow metavar to be a tuple

2012-02-24 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue14112] tutorial intro talks of "shallow copy" concept without explanation

2012-02-25 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 09:35, Éric Araujo wrote: > What about this: > >  All slice operations return a new list containing the requested elements.   > This > -means that the following slice returns a shallow copy of the list *a*:: &g

[issue14123] Doc change re old and new string formatting

2012-02-25 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue14112] tutorial intro talks of "shallow copy" concept without explanation

2012-02-25 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 00:11, Ned Deily wrote: > "shallow copy" and "deep copy" are both standard computer science terms by no > means unique to or invented by Python.  We should be cautious about > documentation bloat an

[issue14123] Indicate that there are no current plans to deprecate printf-style formatting

2012-02-25 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Changes by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : -- title: Doc change re old and new string formatting -> Indicate that there are no current plans to deprecate printf-style formatting ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue8739] Update to smtpd.py to RFC 5321

2012-02-27 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue14026] test_cmd_line_script should include more sys.argv checks

2012-02-27 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue14140] packaging tests: add helpers to create and inspect a tree of files

2012-03-04 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue14193] broken link on PEP 385

2012-03-04 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : The pymigr link on pep385 is broken. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 154890 nosy: docs@python, tshepang priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: broken link on PEP 385

[issue14194] typo in pep414

2012-03-04 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : in pep414: "in additional to" --> "in addition to" -- messages: 154895 nosy: tshepang priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: typo in pep414 ___ Python tracker

[issue14194] typo in pep414

2012-03-04 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue13183] pdb skips frames after hitting a breakpoint and running step

2012-03-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue14196] Unhandled exceptions in pdb return value display

2012-03-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue12913] Add a debugging howto

2012-03-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue1641544] rlcompleter tab completion in pdb

2012-03-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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[issue14210] add filename completion to pdb

2012-03-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : This would be extra nice because I would not have to fill in the entire path manually when I'm setting a b(reak). -- components: Library (Lib) messages: 155020 nosy: tshepang priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: add fil

[issue14217] text output pretends to be code

2012-03-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : The attached patch removes the highlighting. I hope there's a better way to do this, instead of this hack. I searched the Sphinx and docutils docs and failed to find something better. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation

[issue14218] include rendered output in addition to markup

2012-03-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : For devguide/documenting, If you show me markup, also show me what output it gives me. It's kinda tedious to keep building the markup just to verify how it's rendered. -- components: Devguide messages: 155061 nosy: ezio.melotti

[issue14219] start the Class tutorial in a more gentle manner

2012-03-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : Looking at Doc/tutorial/classes, the section "Python Scopes and Namespaces" is full of heavy/deep information. I expect that people who would be able to properly digest that info are people who are already advanced at Python, and therefor

[issue14219] start the Class tutorial in a more gentle manner

2012-03-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Changes by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : -- versions: +Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue14

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