[issue19352] unittest loader barfs on symlinks

Martin Pitt added the comment: More precisely, it broke unittest's discovery (not specific to autopilot). For any installed test, you now get: $ python -m unittest discover lazr Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main "__main

[issue19790] ctypes can't load a c++ dll if the dll calls COM on Windows 8

yinkaisheng added the comment: After debugging, I found the reason. when ctypes loads the dll, CoCreateInstance blocks the flow. If I don't call CoCreateInstance in function DllMain. ctypes can load the dll. I should call function CoCreateInstance after DllMain was called. The problem was fix

[issue19787] tracemalloc: set_reentrant() should not have to call PyThread_delete_key()

Kristján Valur Jónsson added the comment: Only that issue #10517 mentions reasons to keep the old behavior, specifically http://bugs.python.org/issue10517#msg134573 I don't know if any of the old arguments are still valid, but I suggested changing this years ago and there was always some object

[issue19787] tracemalloc: set_reentrant() should not have to call PyThread_delete_key()

Charles-François Natali added the comment: AFAICT, there's no link (FWIW I wrote the patch for #10517, then the fix for threads created outside of Python calling into a subinterpreter - issue #13156). Actually, this "fix" would have avoided the regression in issue #13156. But since it's tricky, I

[issue19787] tracemalloc: set_reentrant() should not have to call PyThread_delete_key()

STINNER Victor added the comment: > Please see the rather long discussion in http://bugs.python.org/issue10517 > There were issues having to do with fork. Python has now a _PyGILState_Reinit() function. I don't see how fix_set_key_value.patch would make the situation worse. What is the link be

[issue19787] tracemalloc: set_reentrant() should not have to call PyThread_delete_key()

Kristján Valur Jónsson added the comment: Please see the rather long discussion in http://bugs.python.org/issue10517 There were issues having to do with fork. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue19787] tracemalloc: set_reentrant() should not have to call PyThread_delete_key()

Kristján Valur Jónsson added the comment: But yes, I'd like to see this behave like normal. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-

[issue19787] tracemalloc: set_reentrant() should not have to call PyThread_delete_key()

STINNER Victor added the comment: Attached patch fix PyThread_set_key_value() instead of adding a new function. I prefer fix_set_key_value.patch instead of pythread_set_key_value.patch because I feel bad of keeping a buggy function and having to decide between a correct and a buggy version of

[issue19352] unittest loader barfs on symlinks

Matthias Klose added the comment: see https://launchpad.net/bugs/1255505 -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list U

[issue19352] unittest loader barfs on symlinks

Matthias Klose added the comment: re-opening. the patch did break autopilot running with 2.7 on Ubuntu. I don't yet understand what this patch is supposed to fix. -- nosy: +doko resolution: fixed -> status: closed -> open ___ Python tracker

[issue19813] Add a new optional timeout parameter to socket.socket() constructor

STINNER Victor added the comment: I don't see what I can do against a -10 vote! :-) I opened the issue #19827 for the simple syscall optimization. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue19824] string.Template: Add PHP-style variable expansion example

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: A few notes about flufl.i18n's style. We chose this (extracted from the GNU Mailman project) because $strings are *way* less error prone for translators than %s strings, especially when you consider that some languages change the order of placeholders. The aut

[issue19827] Optimize socket.settimeout() and socket.setblocking(): avoid syscall

New submission from STINNER Victor: Attached patch avoids a syscall on socket.setblocking() and socket.settimeout() when possible: use ioctl(FIONBIO) when available (not only on VMS), or use fcntl() but only call fcntl() twice if the flags changed. The fcntl() optimization was suggested by Pet

[issue19821] pydoc.ispackage() could be more accurate

Claudiu.Popa added the comment: It was used by pydoc.py until 2006, when it was removed with this commit: Changeset: 37821 (3135648026c4) Second phase of refactoring for runpy, pkgutil, pydoc, and setuptools. Is it worth to fix this? -- nosy: +Claudiu.Popa __

[issue19822] PEP process entrypoint

Georg Brandl added the comment: Closing for the hopefully final time. Anatoly, if you keep reopening this ticket you have to expect removal of tracker privileges. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: postponed -> rejected status: open -> closed ___ Py

[issue19824] string.Template: Add PHP-style variable expansion example

anatoly techtonik added the comment: @Alex, have you seen http://pythonhosted.org/flufl.i18n/docs/using.html#substitutions-and-placeholders? I really like the brevity, and it is the function that does the magic, so it is fully transparent and you don't need to instantiate string.Template every

[issue19813] Add a new optional timeout parameter to socket.socket() constructor

Guido van Rossum added the comment: OK, let's forget about it. -- resolution: -> wont fix stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue19826] Document that bug reporting by email is possible

New submission from anatoly techtonik: I found this to be convenient: http://techtonik.rainforce.org/2013/11/roundup-tracker-create-issues-by-email.html And this is missing from here: http://docs.python.org/release/2.7/bugs.html#using-the-python-issue-tracker Anf from here: http://docs.python.

[issue19787] tracemalloc: set_reentrant() should not have to call PyThread_delete_key()

Kristján Valur Jónsson added the comment: See also issue #10517 -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscrib

[issue19787] tracemalloc: set_reentrant() should not have to call PyThread_delete_key()

Kristján Valur Jónsson added the comment: Deja vu, this has come up before. I wanted to change this because native TLS implementation become awkward. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-August/081847.html -- ___ Python tracker

[issue19813] Add a new optional timeout parameter to socket.socket() constructor

Charles-François Natali added the comment: I'm with Antoine, this is *really* going too far. SOCK_CLOEXEC and friends are useful to avoid race conditions: there's no such concern with the non-blocking flag. Shaving one or two syscalls is IMO completely useless, and doesn't justify the extra code

[issue19825] test b.p.o email interface

anatoly techtonik added the comment: Closing by email using [status=closed;resolution=invalid] suffix in header. -- resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue19822] PEP process entrypoint

Changes by Giampaolo Rodola' : -- nosy: +giampaolo.rodola ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https

[issue19825] test b.p.o email interface

New submission from anatoly techtonik: -- anatoly t. -- messages: 204688 nosy: techtonik priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: test b.p.o email interface ___ Python tracker _

[issue19824] string.Template: Add PHP-style variable expansion example

Alex Gaynor added the comment: Using locals() in this fashion is a serious anti-pattern, I'm -∞ on the docs suggesting it. -- nosy: +alex ___ Python tracker ___

[issue19824] string.Template: Add PHP-style variable expansion example

anatoly techtonik added the comment: There is nothing to add to the class itself. It is about expanding docs section with helpful examples. `string.Template` is undervalued, because it is hard to see how it can be more useful than standard string formatting functions. But for people coming fro

[issue19822] PEP process entrypoint

STINNER Victor added the comment: Anatoly, please stop reopening the issue, it's *really* annoying. Not only you failed to understand correctly your problem (it looks like nor Christian nor Marc-Andre nor me understood your request), but it looks like you don't care of our answers. > PEP reposit

[issue19824] string.Template: Add PHP-style variable expansion example

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: On Nov 28, 2013, at 05:07 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: >This class could be more useful with the following example: > from string import Template t = Template('$who likes $what') who = 'tim' what = 'kung pao' t.substitute(locals()) >'ti

[issue19509] No SSL match_hostname() in ftp, imap, nntp, pop, smtp modules

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > The patches in the dependency tickets are using SNI. They all check for HAS_SNI, which is simple enough. If you want to discuss a minimum supported OpenSSL version, that's fine with me, but it should be a separate discussion (on python-dev?). If you think yo

[issue19824] string.Template: Add PHP-style variable expansion example

Changes by Barry A. Warsaw : -- nosy: +barry ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.pytho

[issue19509] No SSL match_hostname() in ftp, imap, nntp, pop, smtp modules

Christian Heimes added the comment: The patches in the dependency tickets are using SNI. The problem is, a non-None server_hostname argument raises an error when OpenSSL doesn't support the feature. Here is a demo patch for my idea. It makes it very easy to add hostname matching to existing c

[issue19787] tracemalloc: set_reentrant() should not have to call PyThread_delete_key()

STINNER Victor added the comment: > The question is why does it behave this way in the first place? > Maybe for sub-interpreters? The code is old. I don't think that it's related to subinterpreter. PyThread_set_key_value() is used in _PyGILState_Init() and PyGILState_Ensure(), but its behaviou

[issue19822] PEP process entrypoint

anatoly techtonik added the comment: > The ticket has been closed by two people. Why do you keep re-opening the > ticket? Because you're not providing any arguments. If it is not important for you, just ignore. If something is not clear - ask. What you do is just closing the stuff, because yo

[issue14910] argparse: disable abbreviation

paul j3 added the comment: For a programmer who needs to turn off this abbreviation matching now, a simple solution is to subclass ArgumentParser: class MyParser(ArgumentParser): def _get_option_tuples(self, option_string): return [] This could be the place to implement

[issue19824] string.Template: Add PHP-style variable expansion example

New submission from anatoly techtonik: http://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#template-strings This class could be more useful with the following example: >>> from string import Template >>> t = Template('$who likes $what') >>> who = 'tim' >>> what = 'kung pao' >>> t.substitute(locals())

[issue19509] No SSL match_hostname() in ftp, imap, nntp, pop, smtp modules

Changes by Christian Heimes : Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file32831/check_hostname.patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue19787] tracemalloc: set_reentrant() should not have to call PyThread_delete_key()

Charles-François Natali added the comment: > Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > > Calling it _PyThread_set_key_value is prone to confusion. > Ideally we would fix PyThread_set_key_value's behaviour. Are there users of > the function outside from CPython? The question is why does it behave this

[issue19764] subprocess: use PROC_THREAD_ATTRIBUTE_HANDLE_LIST with STARTUPINFOEX on Windows Vista

STINNER Victor added the comment: I read again the following blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/12/16/10248328.aspx I understood the purpose of PROC_THREAD_ATTRIBUTE_HANDLE_LIST. Let say that two Python threads create a Popen object with a pipe for stdout: * Thread A :

[issue19787] tracemalloc: set_reentrant() should not have to call PyThread_delete_key()

STINNER Victor added the comment: 2013/11/28 Antoine Pitrou : > Calling it _PyThread_set_key_value is prone to confusion. > Ideally we would fix PyThread_set_key_value's behaviour. Are there users of > the function outside from CPython? PyThread_set_key_value() is defined and used in CPython, a

[issue19509] No SSL match_hostname() in ftp, imap, nntp, pop, smtp modules

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > My patch could be much simpler and easier if we could just drop > support for ancient versions of OpenSSL. My idea requires at least > OpenSSL 0.9.8f (release 2007) with SNI support. What are you talking about? Your patch doesn't use HAS_SNI. -- ___

[issue19509] No SSL match_hostname() in ftp, imap, nntp, pop, smtp modules

Christian Heimes added the comment: My patch could be much simpler and easier if we could just drop support for ancient versions of OpenSSL. My idea requires at least OpenSSL 0.9.8f (release 2007) with SNI support. Six years are a lot for crypto software. All relevant platforms with vendor sup

[issue19822] PEP process entrypoint

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: On 28.11.2013 15:45, anatoly techtonik wrote: > > anatoly techtonik added the comment: > >> The process you are describing is not correct. In particular, the discussion >> happens before sending in a pull request. > > Post the link to correct process into

[issue19823] for-each on list aborts earlier than expected

cost6 added the comment: Sorry for that, i will move it to python-list. -- resolution: -> works for me status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue19823] for-each on list aborts earlier than expected

Matthew Barnett added the comment: This issue is best posted to python-list and only posted here if it's agreed that it's a bug. Anyway: 1. You have "self.flows" and "flows", but haven't said what they are. 2. It's recommended that you don't modify a collection while iterating over it, but,

[issue19799] Clarifications for the documentation of pathlib

Eli Bendersky added the comment: Committed in 90b56ec318b6 -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 3.4, Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker

[issue19822] PEP process entrypoint

Christian Heimes added the comment: The ticket has been closed by two people. Why do you keep re-opening the ticket? -- resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue19624] Switch constants in the errno module to IntEnum

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: I'm not sure whether changing the errno module to use enums would be conceptually correct: enums declare a fixed set of permitted values, but errno values can be any integer, are platform dependent and are sometimes not unique (e.g. EWOULDBLOCK = EAGAIN,

[issue19822] PEP process entrypoint

anatoly techtonik added the comment: > The process you are describing is not correct. In particular, the discussion > happens before sending in a pull request. Post the link to correct process into README.rst and then this issue can be closed. As for python-dev, I thought it is too obvious an

[issue19814] Document prefix matching behavior of argparse, particularly for parse_known_args

Eli Bendersky added the comment: If I don't see any further objections I'll go ahead and commit this by the end of the week -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue19624] Switch constants in the errno module to IntEnum

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Note that even if errno is migrated to enum, OSErrors raised by the interpreter will still have a raw int errno... -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue19624] Switch constants in the errno module to IntEnum

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > An option is to rename the C errno module to _errno and leave it > unchanged, and provide a Python errno module which enum API. I agree it sounds reasonable. > Using enum for errno should not slow down Python startup time. enum imports OrderedDict from colle

[issue19815] ElementTree segmentation fault in expat_start_ns_handler

Eli Bendersky added the comment: Thanks for the report & patches. Fixed in all active branches. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker __

[issue19815] ElementTree segmentation fault in expat_start_ns_handler

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 68f1e5262a7a by Eli Bendersky in branch '3.3': Issue #19815: Fix segfault when parsing empty namespace declaration. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/68f1e5262a7a New changeset 2b2925c08a6c by Eli Bendersky in branch 'default': Issue #19815: Fix segf

[issue19787] tracemalloc: set_reentrant() should not have to call PyThread_delete_key()

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Calling it _PyThread_set_key_value is prone to confusion. Ideally we would fix PyThread_set_key_value's behaviour. Are there users of the function outside from CPython? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue19822] PEP process entrypoint

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Anatoly, please read http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0012/ The process you are describing is not correct. In particular, the discussion happens before sending in a pull request. As for discussion of the PEP process: that should happen on python-dev, not

[issue19822] PEP process entrypoint

anatoly techtonik added the comment: The "entrypoint" here means the point of entry for new Python Enhancement Proposals. Christian, what you propose is a 4th order link for someone who knows what PEPs are, and clones PEP repository to submit own proposal. What I propose it to make PEP reposit

[issue19819] reversing a Unicode ligature doesn't work

Changes by Ezio Melotti : -- components: +Unicode nosy: +ezio.melotti stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected ___ Python tracker ___

[issue19815] ElementTree segmentation fault in expat_start_ns_handler

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 395a266bcb5a by Eli Bendersky in branch '2.7': Issue #19815: Fix segfault when parsing empty namespace declaration. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/395a266bcb5a -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker <

[issue19822] PEP process entrypoint

STINNER Victor added the comment: > PEP process entrypoint Do you work with developers of the distutils-* objects? It looks like Daniel Holth works on such PEP for example: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-July/021854.html You may join this mailing list: https://mail.python

[issue19822] PEP process entrypoint

Christian Heimes added the comment: The process is well explained in the PEP templates right at the top of the PEP list: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0009/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0012/ New PEP authors should get in touch with experienced core developers or mentors in order t

[issue19823] for-each on list aborts earlier than expected

New submission from cost6: for-each does not iterate over all entries of collection, if one removes elements during the iteration. Example (misbehaving) code: def keepByValue(self, key=None, value=[]): for row in self.flows: if not row[key] in value: flows.remove(row)

[issue19822] PEP process entrypoint

New submission from anatoly techtonik: https://bitbucket.org/rirror/peps PEP repository readme lacks information about how to send Python Enhancement Proposal step-by-step. 1. hg clone https://bitbucket.org/rirror/peps 2. cd peps 3. # choose number 4. cp ??? pep-{{number}}.txt 5. # commit 6. #

[issue19814] Document prefix matching behavior of argparse, particularly for parse_known_args

Eli Bendersky added the comment: I don't see how these implementation details are relevant. The patch adds a link to the existing abbreviations section, which mentions parse_args - so it's clear that this behavior exists in both. Yes, #14910 (to which I pointed in the original message in this

[issue13655] Python SSL stack doesn't have a default CA Store

Christian Heimes added the comment: All these paths are on directories that are supposed to be read-only for untrusted users. You can't protect yourself against a malicious admin anyway. For Python 3.4 the ssl module uses the cert path that are configured with OpenSSL. The paths and configurat

[issue15495] enable type truncation warnings for gcc builds

Changes by STINNER Victor : -- nosy: +haypo ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python

[issue13655] Python SSL stack doesn't have a default CA Store

Dima Tisnek added the comment: re: cert_paths = [...] This approach is rather problematic, there's no guarantee that a path trusted on one system is trusted on another. I saw this in setuptools branch, where it does: for path in cert_path: if os.path.exists(path) return path Let'

[issue19702] Update pickle to PEP 451

Nick Coghlan added the comment: The specific proposal was to use __spec__.name when __name__ == "__main__" to avoid the pickle compatibility issues described in PEP 395 when using the -m switch. runpy has to be updated first, though. -- ___ Python tr

[issue19814] Document prefix matching behavior of argparse, particularly for parse_known_args

paul j3 added the comment: `parse_args` just calls `parse_known_args`, and then raises an error if `rest` is not empty. So it is `parse_known_args` that is doing the abbreviation matching. Abbreviation matching is done relatively early, when `_parse_known_args` first loops through the stri