[issue6213] Incremental encoder incompatibility between 2.x and py3k

STINNER Victor added the comment: Codecs are inconsistents: utf-32 has working getstate() / setstate() methods, whereas utf-8-sig and utf-16 don't (getstate() always return 0, setstate() does nothing). > Simply moving py3ks getstate/setstate implementation > over to 2.x might do the trick.

[issue6517] configparser: add possibility to escape formatstrings

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I disagree. The documentation should promote RawConfigParser, and note SafeConfigParser and ConfigParser as remaining for backward compatibility for existing software. Maintainers of legacy software using ConfigParser should be encouraged to convert to Saf

[issue2986] difflib.SequenceMatcher not matching long sequences

Eli Bendersky added the comment: Here's a patch for Doc/library/difflib.rst of the 2.6 branch, following Terry's suggested addition to the docs of the SequenceMatcher class. Tested 'make html'. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18171/issue2986.docs26.1.patch

[issue9364] some problems with the documentation of pydoc

New submission from Eli Bendersky : The first paragraph in its documentation says: """ In the Python interpreter, do "from pydoc import help" to provide online help. Calling help(thing) on a Python object documents the object. """ Which is no longer accurate, because the help() function has lo

[issue9362] Make exit/quit hint more novice friendly

Ron Adam added the comment: I agree it could be improved a bit. A little experimenting comes up with the following inconsistencies. >>> quit Use quit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit >>> exit Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit help(exit) and help(quit) is not helpful. It instead shows the

[issue9365] Installing a distro without sqlite3 will require a reinstall of python to function if installed at a later date

New submission from Anthony Long : install a distro of without sqlite3 support. now you should have a /usr/lib/python2.6/sqlite3, which obviously isn't usable. now if you install sqlite3, and try a 'import sqlite3' it still doesn't work. so you have to compile/install python2.6 again. after wh

[issue9365] Installing a distro without sqlite3 will require a reinstall of python to function if installed at a later date

Anthony Long added the comment: Same behaviour on python 3, http://pastebin.ca/1907343 -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue6517] configparser: add possibility to escape formatstrings

Łukasz Langa added the comment: > The documentation should promote RawConfigParser, and note > SafeConfigParser and ConfigParser as remaining for backward > compatibility for existing software. That is another way to go around this. Anyway, ConfigParser is the least predictable of all three f

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