[issue4989] 'calendar' module is crummy and should be removed
New submission from Michał Pasternak : I was looking for some library to handle calendar events. Something PIM- style, something useful, that could check if, for example, 2 weekly repeated events that start on Monday morning and last until December conflict with each other. Then I found 'calendar' module in the standard library. My question: how this thing ever made it to the standard library? Maybe it was useful back in the days, if somebody could not get BSD or GNU sources for cal(1) . Nowadays, even if it is able to print HTML calendars, lets face it - who will use that functionality? You can easily find HTML calendars with a lot of JavaScript support, that can be customised in a thousands of ways. I suggest we delete this module completly. -- components: None messages: 80115 nosy: dotz severity: normal status: open title: 'calendar' module is crummy and should be removed type: feature request versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue4989> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Michał Pasternak added the comment: I just hit this bug on 2.7.6, running on polish WinXP (I need to build some packages there, I hope I'll avoid a nasty py2exe bug). Any reasons this is not fixed yet? Do you need any assistance? -- nosy: +Michał.Pasternak ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9291> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Michał Pasternak added the comment: Another REG file, encoded with CP1250, I believe. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34188/issue9291-key.reg ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9291> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Michał Pasternak added the comment: Martin: the problematic key is "[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BDATuner.Składniki]". I am pasting its name, because I suppose, that as bugs.python.org is utf-8, special characters will be pasted properly. Included you will find a .REG file, which is Windows Registry Editor file, which is plaintext. It is encoded with CP-1250 charset (I believe). In any case of confusion, I inlcude also the same file encoded with utf-8. If you add those information to your Windows registry, you should be able to reproduce this bug just by simply using "pip install" anything. "pip install wokkel", for example. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34187/issue9291-key-utf8.ini ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9291> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Michał Pasternak added the comment: As for the fix, sitecustomize.py works for me, too, but I somehow believe, that adding sitecustomize.py for new Python installations would propably do more harm than good. I'll check those 2 patches and I'll let you know. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9291> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Michał Pasternak added the comment: 9291.patch works for me too, but I am unsure about its idea. Silently ignoring non-ASCII registry entries - does it sound like a good idea? Maybe. Is it pythonic? I doubt so. I don't exactly understand what 9291a.patch is doing. For me it does look like a re-iteration of the first patch. I have not tested it. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9291> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue6906] Tkinter sets an unicode environment variable on win32
New submission from Michał Pasternak : Hi, I was recently playing with txAmpoule & Twisted on win32. When Twisted spawns processess, the environment is checked for unicode variables (and an exception is raised in case of). Then it came to my attention, that importing Tkinter on win32 sets an environment variable, which value is Unicode. Just have a look: C:\>python ActivePython 2.6.2.2 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Apr 21 2009, 15:05:37) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import Tkinter >>> import os >>> os.environ['TK_LIBRARY'] u'C:\\Python26\\tcl\\tk8.5' >>> ^Z Why is it Unicode? Does it really have to be? Do we need that environment variable at all? On Linux, it is different: r...@foo:~# python Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:56:41) [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import Tkinter >>> import os >>> os.environ['TK_LIBRARY'] Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/lib/python2.6/UserDict.py", line 22, in __getitem__ raise KeyError(key) KeyError: 'TK_LIBRARY' -- components: Tkinter messages: 92594 nosy: dotz severity: normal status: open title: Tkinter sets an unicode environment variable on win32 versions: Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6906> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue6906] Tkinter sets an unicode environment variable on win32
Michał Pasternak added the comment: This patch works OK for me (Vista Home Premium + Python 2.6), thanks! -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6906> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue6906] Tkinter sets an unicode environment variable on win32
Michał Pasternak added the comment: I hit that bug with Twisted too - I tried to use AMP: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/3931 -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6906> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
