[issue9690] Cannot distinguish b"str" from "str" in ast module.

2010-08-27 Thread Kay Hayen
Kay Hayen added the comment: This is to inform you that I worked around the bug by reading the source file in question and checking the indicated position. This is currently the only way to decide if a literal should be unicode or str with unicode_literals from future imported. It goes like

[issue9119] Python download page needs to mention crypto code in Windows installer

2010-08-27 Thread Marc-Andre Lemburg
Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > > Which specific clause of the license do you consider violated? * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this *software must display the following acknowledgment:

[issue9119] Python download page needs to mention crypto code in Windows installer

2010-08-27 Thread Marc-Andre Lemburg
Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: I'd suggest to add a paragraph like this to the release pages: """ The Python Windows installers include OpenSSL, which provides cryptographic services to Python. Please note that downloading or using cryptographic code may not be legal in your country of r

[issue9694] argparse: Default Help Message Lists Required Args As Optional

2010-08-27 Thread Steven Bethard
Steven Bethard added the comment: I guess one possibility might be "flag arguments". It's not great, but I guess it's more accurate. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue9694] argparse: Default Help Message Lists Required Args As Optional

2010-08-27 Thread Steven Bethard
Steven Bethard added the comment: And I guess the bigger issue to think about is how to add this in a backwards compatible way. I guess we could just add methods like "set_positionals_group_name(name)" and then fiddle with "self._positionals.title" in there. Not sure that's a great solution t

[issue8797] urllib2 basicauth broken in 2.6.5: RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp

2010-08-27 Thread Mads Kiilerich
Mads Kiilerich added the comment: On 08/27/2010 03:47 AM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > I agree with you respect to the other error codes, there is already > another bug open to handle this. The reset counter is reset on success > too, in another part of the code. FWIW: From Mercurial it is our expe

[issue9695] Return from generators in Python 3.2

2010-08-27 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: Why is a run-time exception better than a SyntaxError in this case? And your patch now allows: x = None return x What's the rationale of this change? -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc ___ Python tracker

[issue9699] invalid call of Windows API _popen() generating The input line is too long error message

2010-08-27 Thread sorin
New submission from sorin : Behavior: you get "The input line is too long." error message when you try to run an external process by using os.system(), subprocess.Popen() or other similar methods. The real command line limit is 8192 under Windows and in most cases (if not all) the cause for g

[issue8695] Issue while installing Python 2.6.5 in IBM AIX 6.1

2010-08-27 Thread Sébastien Sablé
Sébastien Sablé added the comment: I used to have the same problem with Python 2.6.5 and AIX 6.1. Since I updated to Python 2.6.6, the problem does not appear anymore. So I think it has been corrected between 2.6.5 and 2.6.6. regards -- nosy: +sable _

[issue8695] Issue while installing Python 2.6.5 in IBM AIX 6.1

2010-08-27 Thread Sébastien Sablé
Sébastien Sablé added the comment: Actually, I had the problem with Python 2.6.4 on AIX 6.1, I did not try Python 2.6.5. But Python 2.6.6 compiles fine on AIX 6.1. -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue9205] Parent process hanging in multiprocessing if children terminate unexpectedly

2010-08-27 Thread Ask Solem
Ask Solem added the comment: > Does the problem make sense/do you have any ideas for an alternate > solution? Well, I still haven't given up on the trackjobs patch. I changed it to use a single queue for both the acks and the result (see new patch attached: multiprocessing-tr...@82502-termin

[issue9119] Python download page needs to mention crypto code in Windows installer

2010-08-27 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis added the comment: >> Which specific clause of the license do you consider violated? > > * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this > *software must display the following acknowledgment: > *"This product includes software developed by the OpenSS

[issue9119] Python download page needs to mention crypto code in Windows installer

2010-08-27 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > I'd suggest to add a paragraph like this to the release pages: -1, unless the PSF lawyer advises that such a paragraph is indeed necessary. It may shy away users from using Python, which is clearly undesirable. -- __

[issue9700] semaphore errors on AIX 6.1

2010-08-27 Thread Sébastien Sablé
New submission from Sébastien Sablé : Hi, The same problem that was reported in issue 1106262 is appearing again on AIX 6.1 (the following error messages appear sometime when runnning python: sem_trywait: Permission denied sem_post: Permission denied sem_destroy: Permission denied) It can be e

[issue9652] Tidy argparse default output

2010-08-27 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue9694] argparse: Default Help Message Lists Required Args As Optional

2010-08-27 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Well, there's also issue 9652, which speaks to having a more general facility, I suppose. Maybe an exposed dictionary attribute containing the constant strings? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue9698] When reusing an handler, urllib(2)'s digest authentication fails after multiple regative replies

2010-08-27 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue5573] multiprocessing Pipe poll() and recv() semantics.

2010-08-27 Thread Ask Solem
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[issue8797] urllib2 basicauth broken in 2.6.5: RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp

2010-08-27 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: See also new issue 9698. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue3125] test_multiprocessing causes test_ctypes to fail

2010-08-27 Thread Ask Solem
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[issue9701] Update ZSH profile on Mac OS installation

2010-08-27 Thread Sylvain Mora
Changes by Sylvain Mora : -- components: Build files: postflight.patch-profile.diff keywords: patch nosy: ronaldoussoren, solevis priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Update ZSH profile on Mac OS installation versions: Python 2.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18

[issue9701] Update ZSH profile on Mac OS installation

2010-08-27 Thread Sylvain Mora
New submission from Sylvain Mora : Hi, The Update Shell Profile.command script does not allow to update ZSH profile on Mac OS. I wrote a small patch to allow it. It simply adds the modified PATH in the file .zprofile. R

[issue9699] invalid call of Windows API _popen() generating The input line is too long error message

2010-08-27 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Python does not call _popen, though it does call cmd.exe (through CreateProcess) when shell=True in subprocess. Can you provide an example that shows this error occurring? -- nosy: +r.david.murray versions: -Python 2.5, Python 3.3

[issue9690] Cannot distinguish b"str" from "str" in ast module.

2010-08-27 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Benjamin Peterson added the comment: 2010/8/27 Kay Hayen : > > Kay Hayen added the comment: > > This is to inform you that I worked around the bug by reading the source file > in question and checking the indicated position. This is currently the only > way to decide if a literal should be un

[issue9698] When reusing an handler, urllib(2)'s digest authentication fails after multiple regative replies

2010-08-27 Thread Mads Kiilerich
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[issue3111] multiprocessing ppc Debian/ ia64 Ubuntu compilation error

2010-08-27 Thread Ask Solem
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[issue6056] socket.setdefaulttimeout affecting multiprocessing Manager

2010-08-27 Thread Ask Solem
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[issue6362] multiprocessing: handling of errno after signals in sem_acquire()

2010-08-27 Thread Ask Solem
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[issue6407] multiprocessing Pool should allow custom task queue

2010-08-27 Thread Ask Solem
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[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread david
New submission from david : Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods. def foo(bar): bar = bar + bar def listy(bar): bar = [1] def dicty(bar): bar['1'] = '1' if __name__ == "__main__": bar = 1 foo

[issue6417] multiprocessing Process examples: print and getppid

2010-08-27 Thread Ask Solem
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[issue3518] multiprocessing: BaseManager.from_address documented but doesn't exist

2010-08-27 Thread Ask Solem
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[issue6653] Potential memory leak in multiprocessing

2010-08-27 Thread Ask Solem
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[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > I feel this breaks most people's expectations... I think you are quite mistaken in this assumption. Sure, object references are difficult to grasp at first, but they are a highly useful concept, and follow very simple, systematic principles - you just need

[issue9699] invalid call of Windows API _popen() generating The input line is too long error message

2010-08-27 Thread sorin
sorin added the comment: I'm currently building some samples (one that could be run on any Windows machine). -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue7123] Multiprocess Process does not always exit when run from a thread.

2010-08-27 Thread Ask Solem
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[issue7060] test_multiprocessing dictionary changed size errors and hang

2010-08-27 Thread Ask Solem
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[issue9119] Python download page needs to mention crypto code in Windows installer

2010-08-27 Thread Marc-Andre Lemburg
Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > >>> Which specific clause of the license do you consider violated? >> >> * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this >> *software must display the following acknow

[issue5862] multiprocessing 'using a remote manager' example errors and possible 'from_address' code leftover

2010-08-27 Thread Ask Solem
Ask Solem added the comment: Duplicate of 3518? -- nosy: +asksol ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue9624] 2755

2010-08-27 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: Jay, is one of these links relevant to your case: http://www.appdeploy.com/msierrors/detail.asp?id=130 http://blog.colinmackay.net/archive/2007/06/21/36.aspx -- ___ Python tracker

[issue3735] allow multiple threads to efficiently send the same requests to a processing.Pool without incurring duplicate processing

2010-08-27 Thread Ask Solem
Ask Solem added the comment: This is a nice feature, but it's also very specific and can be implemented by extending what's already there. Could you make a patch for this that applies to the py3k branch? If no one has the time for this, then we should probably just close the issue, until someo

[issue9624] Error 2755, "failure to find drive" when installing Python

2010-08-27 Thread Brian Curtin
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[issue9624] Error 2755, "failure to find drive" when installing Python

2010-08-27 Thread Brian Curtin
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[issue9652] Tidy argparse default output

2010-08-27 Thread Steven Bethard
Steven Bethard added the comment: Looks like "usage" is almost always lowercase in the programs I tried (ssh, svn, cat, etc.). So it probably wouldn't be a good idea to change the default. Seems like both this and issue 9694 need a better way to customize the text in argparse mesages. As a t

[issue9699] invalid call of Windows API _popen() generating The input line is too long error message

2010-08-27 Thread sorin
sorin added the comment: Here is a test file. It does contain 3 command lines that are similar but one of them is not working (cmd_2). -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18662/bug_line_too_long.py ___ Python tracker

[issue9119] Python download page needs to mention crypto code in Windows installer

2010-08-27 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > Since we are not following those old-style BSD license requirements You state that is if it was a fact, which is it not. We, indeed, fully comply with the license requirements. > The python.org site is full of references to OpenSSL. Most > prominently in th

[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread david
david added the comment: I strongly suggest you reconsider as *most* programmers will not think about it this way. No you failed to understand my bug report apparently. I understand the behaviour. However, you failed to understand the problem. *PLEASE* read and think about it. -- _

[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread david
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[issue6234] cgi.FieldStorage is broken when given POST data

2010-08-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
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[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread david
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[issue9119] Python download page needs to mention crypto code in Windows installer

2010-08-27 Thread Marc-Andre Lemburg
Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > >> Since we are not following those old-style BSD license requirements > > You state that is if it was a fact, which is it not. We, indeed, fully > comply with the license requirements. > >>

[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: What you describe is the way Python is *designed* to work at a very fundamental level. Read about 'namespaces', and look at the computer science literature on 'call by object'. -- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: later -> invalid status: open -> cl

[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread david
david added the comment: def list_again(foo): foo.append("bar") def list_again_again(foo): foo = foo + ["1"] if __name__ == "__main__": bar = [] list_again(bar) print bar list_again_again(bar) print bar Ok so let me without running the

[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread david
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[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread david
david added the comment: In c pointers are *explicit*, ditto in c++, in java everything is a pointer. In asm, well that is asm. This behaviour in python, makes python code *really* hard to read and *hard* to understand. Can you python devs / people stop calling a bug reporter stupid when they

[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread Benjamin Peterson
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[issue8695] Issue while installing Python 2.6.5 in IBM AIX 6.1

2010-08-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
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[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread david
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[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread david
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[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread david
david added the comment: If you like I can look for this new security bugs in existing python projects and show you why this is a *very* bad idea. Please stop this python isolated mentality and autistic behaviour and consider the possibility of being wrong. -- _

[issue3125] test_multiprocessing causes test_ctypes to fail

2010-08-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Is this still a problem or can this be closed, given r65883? -- components: +Tests nosy: +BreamoreBoy stage: -> patch review type: -> behavior ___ Python tracker _

[issue6056] socket.setdefaulttimeout affecting multiprocessing Manager

2010-08-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
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[issue6653] Potential memory leak in multiprocessing

2010-08-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
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[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread david
david added the comment: Excuse me for reporting weird and not expected behaviour on behalf of *most* coders. Here https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkbox/+bug/625076 I understand python fine. If I have to find security bugs in *lots* more python projects to prove my point I w

[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread Benjamin Peterson
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[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread david
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[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Benjamin Peterson added the comment: 2010/8/27 david : > > david added the comment: > > Excuse me for reporting weird and not expected behaviour on behalf of *most* > coders. Your assumption that most coders are confused by this comes from where? > > Here https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubun

[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread Raymond Hettinger
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[issue3111] multiprocessing ppc Debian/ ia64 Ubuntu compilation error

2010-08-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence added the comment: Can this be closed as it looks to me like a 2 year old test error and not an extension module error, am I correct? Refer to msg68349 and msg68363. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy type: -> behavior ___ Python tracker

[issue9699] invalid call of Windows API _popen() generating The input line is too long error message

2010-08-27 Thread sorin
sorin added the comment: True about tee, I forgot to remove it. By the way, in case the other patch does not solve the issue we can use the quote_command() from http://github.com/ssbarnea/tendo/blob/master/tendo/tee.py to solve it. -- versions: +Python 2.5 ___

[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread david
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[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Please use a language that makes sense to you then. -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson resolution: later -> invalid status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker __

[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger added the comment: The current design has existed for almost twenty years. It is deeply embedded in the language. For better or worse, it cannot and won't change. -- nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker

[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread Benjamin Peterson
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[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread david
david added the comment: "Please stop this python isolated mentality and autistic behaviour and consider the possibility of being wrong." ... No I didn't, did you read what I said? Also, repeatedly closing this bug isn't going to make it go away. You are kidding your self if you think that 99%

[issue6362] multiprocessing: handling of errno after signals in sem_acquire()

2010-08-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
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[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
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[issue9699] invalid call of Windows API _popen() generating The input line is too long error message

2010-08-27 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Thanks, sorin. This issue is at least affected by the fix to issue 2304. I don't currently have an up-to-date version of 2.7 trunk on my windows VM, so I can't test your code there. (Note that 'import tee' needs to be removed before your test program will

[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis added the comment: david, please accept that regardless of whether this is a bug or not, people dealing with bug reports will always determine that it is no bug, and close it. *Please stop reopening this report*. If you want to appeal to this decision, please post a message to

[issue6407] multiprocessing Pool should allow custom task queue

2010-08-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
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[issue9699] invalid call of Windows API _popen() generating The input line is too long error message

2010-08-27 Thread Tim Golden
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[issue1674555] sys.path in tests contains system directories

2010-08-27 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue9697] python 2.3.4 installation error on 64 bit env

2010-08-27 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: Bug fixes also go into the development version, 3.2 (branch named py3k). (http://python.org/download/ tells what the stable versions are, but http://python.org/ does not clearly.) -- ___ Python tracker

[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread david
david added the comment: To quote the zen of python: "Readability counts. Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules." -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue9702] Python violates most users expectations via the modification differences of immutable and mutable objects in methods

2010-08-27 Thread david
david added the comment: Just to clarify that last comment. By exhibiting this behaviour python, introduces the potential for a lot more errors in code that seems to be correct to most people. Remember this bug is about the differences in behaviour for 'mutable' and 'immutable' objects. ---

[issue9632] Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding()

2010-08-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > >> Think of e.g. embedded Python interpreters or py2exe-style applications > >> running on Linux or other systems that don't use Unicode APIs > >> for FS-interaction or have fixed FS-encodings. > > > > What is the problem here? Python does guess the filesyst

[issue6822] Error calling .storlines from ftplib

2010-08-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > But I can tell you that I've never had another FTP program fail like > Python 3 is failing for me trying to what seems like a simple transfer > of a text file (expecting the line endings to be adjusted). Python 3 is not failing, you are just using it the wr

[issue9205] Parent process hanging in multiprocessing if children terminate unexpectedly

2010-08-27 Thread Greg Brockman
Greg Brockman added the comment: Hmm, a few notes. I have a bunch of nitpicks, but those can wait for a later iteration. (Just one style nit: I noticed a few unneeded whitespace changes... please try not to do that, as it makes the patch harder to read.) - Am I correct that you handle a cra

[issue9652] Tidy argparse default output

2010-08-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: 2.7 is closed to new features and I cannot see making a non-bug change in a maintenance release that could break something. Should this be closed in favor of #9694? (Or vice versa?). Perhaps one of the issues should be renamed something like "Improve argparse

[issue9694] argparse: Default Help Message Lists Required Args As Optional

2010-08-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Is this really a behavior bug or doc bug? Or a feature request for better message customization? -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue9699] invalid call of Windows API _popen() generating The input line is too long error message

2010-08-27 Thread Tim Golden
Tim Golden added the comment: I'll pick this up and try to decide what's best to do. I'm away from home for a few weeks and have only intermittent internet access. Thanks, Sorin, for a reproducible test case. -- title: invalid call of Windows API _popen() generating The input line is to

[issue9668] strings in json.dump in '' instead of ""

2010-08-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: 2.6.6 is the final 2.6 bugfix release. A bug would have to be demonstrated with 2.7 or 3.1/2. On 3.1, winxp, I get this also: >>> import json >>> json.dumps('foo') '"foo"' -- nosy: +terry.reedy status: pending -> open versions: -Python 2.6 __

[issue9668] strings in json.dump in '' instead of ""

2010-08-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue9668] strings in json.dump in '' instead of ""

2010-08-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue9668] strings in json.dump in '' instead of ""

2010-08-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue6822] Error calling .storlines from ftplib

2010-08-27 Thread STINNER Victor
STINNER Victor added the comment: pitrou> The FTP class is not supposed to guess in which charset pitrou> your data should be encoded. pitrou> (the "encoding" argument on the FTP class is meant pitrou> for protocol commands (such as file names), not for file pitrou> contents) I agree, my patc

[issue9672] test_xpickle fails on Windows: invokes pythonx.y instead of pythonxy

2010-08-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue9672] test_xpickle fails on Windows: invokes pythonx.y instead of pythonxy

2010-08-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: This is not a failure, it just indicates that the tests get skipped. While I agree that ideally the tests should be able to run on all systems, it should also be noted that the pickle protocols are (supposed to be) platform-agnostic and, therefore, it is not m

[issue9669] regexp: zero-width matches in MIN_UNTIL

2010-08-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue9205] Parent process hanging in multiprocessing if children terminate unexpectedly

2010-08-27 Thread Ask Solem
Ask Solem added the comment: New patch attach (termination-trackjobs3.patch). > Hmm, a few notes. I have a bunch of nitpicks, but those > can wait for a later iteration. (Just one style nit: I > noticed a few unneeded whitespace changes... please try > not to do that, as it makes the patch hard

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