[issue8914] Run clang's static analyzer

2011-01-26 Thread Brett Cannon
Brett Cannon added the comment: Well, there is no upload because the compressed file is 70 MB. But you can download the file from https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B7CvitGf6YffMGFlYTg2N2UtMjY3Yi00ZTg1LWI2NWUtNmRiMmEwYzZjMTQ1&sort=name&layout=list&num=50 . -- _

[issue11003] os.system should be deprecated in favour of subprocess module

2011-01-26 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I wasn't around when that decision was made, but looking at the posixmodule.c source, system is a straightforward wrapper, but popen gets...byzantine on anything but unix. -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python track

[issue11017] optparse: error: invalid integer value

2011-01-26 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: 09 is still an invalid token in python3. Since int('09') works in python2 it might be worth looking in to this further. -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker

[issue10848] Move test.regrtest from getopt to argparse

2011-01-26 Thread Nick Coghlan
Nick Coghlan added the comment: As I recall, STDTESTS is there to check we have a basically functioning interpreter (i.e. the compiler works, etc). The idea is that if any of those fail, everything else is likely to go belly up as well. If regrtest is being used to run some other set of tests

[issue3849] FUD in documentation for urllib.urlopen()

2011-01-26 Thread Eli Bendersky
Changes by Eli Bendersky : -- nosy: +eli.bendersky ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.p

[issue7659] Attribute assignment on object() instances raises wrong exception

2011-01-26 Thread Nick Coghlan
Nick Coghlan added the comment: Object instances don't get a __dict__ by default to save the space the pointer and dict instance would require. Most builtins are missing that pointer. It is also the main memory saving provided by the use of __slots__. As far as AttributeError vs TypeError goe

[issue7659] Attribute assignment on object() instances raises wrong exception

2011-01-26 Thread Nick Coghlan
Nick Coghlan added the comment: Along the lines of RDM's last post, see: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52308-the-simple-but-handy-collector-of-a-bunch-of-named/ Or, if you do a few web searches for terms like "bethard coghlan namespaces" or "bethard generic objects" you'll get results al

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