[issue16218] Python launcher does not support unicode characters

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[issue1207589] IDLE: Right Click Context Menu

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[issue16218] Python launcher does not support unicode characters

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 884c2e93d3f7 by Andrew Svetlov in branch 'default': Issue #16218: Fix broken test for supporting nonascii characters in python launcher http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/884c2e93d3f7 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue16218] Python launcher does not support unicode characters

Andrew Svetlov added the comment: I like to follow Stefan suggestion. New test is simple and it works. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ P

[issue16309] "PYTHONPATH=" different from no PYTHONPATH at all

Alexey Kachayev added the comment: Unit test added. pythonpath2.diff is included into issue16309.diff. -- nosy: +kachayev Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27848/issue16309.diff ___ Python tracker

[issue16218] Python launcher does not support unicode characters

Stefan Krah added the comment: I think this is what went wrong on Windows in the previous test (see Lib/test/test_cmd_line_script.py:43): >>> s = '\udcf1\udcea\udcf0\udce8\udcef\udcf2' >>> f = open(s, "w") >>> f.write("print('%s\\n' % __file__)") >>> f.close() C:\Users\stefan\pydev\cpython>PCbu

[issue16353] add function to os module for getting path to default shell

Taras Lyapun added the comment: Diff with implementation, test and doc. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +lyapun Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27849/issue16353.diff ___ Python tracker

[issue13238] Add shell command helpers to subprocess module

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[issue16284] concurrent.futures ThreadPoolExecutor keeps unnecessary references to worker functions.

Taras Lyapun added the comment: Added comments to patch -- nosy: +lyapun Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27850/issue16284_with_comments.diff ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue16309] "PYTHONPATH=" different from no PYTHONPATH at all

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 05f8f7544f92 by Andrew Svetlov in branch 'default': Issue #16309: Make PYTHONPATH= behavior the same as if PYTHONPATH not set at all. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/05f8f7544f92 -- nosy: +python-dev __

[issue16309] "PYTHONPATH=" different from no PYTHONPATH at all

Andrew Svetlov added the comment: Fixed. Thanks. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: commit review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue16218] Python launcher does not support unicode characters

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 95d1adf144ee by Andrew Svetlov in branch 'default': Issue #16218: skip test if filesystem doesn't support required encoding http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/95d1adf144ee -- ___ Python tracker

[issue16392] frozen importlib crashes on circular imports in ext modules

New submission from Stefan Behnel: After compiling the stdlib with Cython with the attached script, modules that use circular imports fail to initialise. That includes os and posixpath, as well as shutil and tarfile. Example: $ ./python -c 'import shutil' Traceback (most recent call last): F

[issue16298] httplib.HTTPResponse.read could potentially leave the socket opened forever

Eran Rundstein added the comment: The patch is probably trivial - however I would still like some verification. Would it be correct to call self.close() when fp.read returns ''? In case self.length is not present, I don't see a way around this anyway. When it is present, and fp.read returns '',

[issue15641] Clean up importlib for Python 3.4

Taras Lyapun added the comment: Deleted code, docs, tests, and tests related stuff (like mocks). Test passes. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +lyapun Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27852/issue15641.diff ___ Python tracker

[issue16393] typo in pkgutil.py

New submission from Stefan Behnel: My guess is that line 454 in pkgutil.py should pass "pkg_name" into the import_module() function, not "pkg". I get the following error when compiling it with Cython: Error compiling Cython file: ...

[issue7317] Display full tracebacks when an error occurs asynchronously

Alexey Kachayev added the comment: Updated test case for traceback printing, fixed test_cmd_line crashing with new ignored exception message formatting (test was based on regular expression). Patch is attached. -- nosy: +kachayev Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27853/issue7317.d

[issue16284] concurrent.futures ThreadPoolExecutor keeps unnecessary references to worker functions.

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 70cef0a160cf by Andrew Svetlov in branch 'default': Issue #16284: Prevent keeping unnecessary references to worker functions in concurrent.futures ThreadPoolExecutor. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/70cef0a160cf -- nosy: +python-dev _

[issue16284] concurrent.futures ThreadPoolExecutor keeps unnecessary references to worker functions.

Andrew Svetlov added the comment: Committed. Thanks. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> test needed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue16353] add function to os module for getting path to default shell

Andrew Svetlov added the comment: I would to prefer *get_default_shell* as function name (it's a bit shorter). Also please add ".. versionadded:: 3.4" tag to docs. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue16218] Python launcher does not support unicode characters

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Andrew, you shod a flea. 1. Now the test skipped on non Cyrillic-compatible locales (such as en_US.ISO-8859-1). 2. On UTF-8 locale the test does not test the bug (it passed even without the patch). Here is a new patch. It should fail on FreeBSD with ASCII l

[issue16284] concurrent.futures ThreadPoolExecutor keeps unnecessary references to worker functions.

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[issue16353] add function to os module for getting path to default shell

Taras Lyapun added the comment: > I would to prefer *get_default_shell* as function name (it's a bit shorter). Hm... I'm not sure, because someone can imagine that function returns some object or something like this... 'path' indicates that function returns something like string. > Also pleas

[issue7317] Display full tracebacks when an error occurs asynchronously

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset a281604a5c9a by Andrew Svetlov in branch 'default': Issue #7317: Display full tracebacks when an error occurs asynchronously. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a281604a5c9a -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python

[issue16353] add function to os module for getting path to default shell

Christian Heimes added the comment: which('sh') isn't correct here. 'which' searches in all PATH environ parts. However the shell must be looked up in CS_PATH only. >From man sh(1posix): > Applications should note that the standard PATH to the shell cannot be > assumed to be either /bin/sh or

[issue16353] add function to os module for getting path to default shell

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: +++ b/Lib/shutil.py Sat Nov 03 13:32:05 2012 +0200 + +def get_default_shell_path(): Why is the patch putting the function in the shutil module? The function should go in the os module as the title and comments of this issue state. shutil seems misplaced

[issue16393] typo in pkgutil.py

Berker Peksag added the comment: Duplicate of issue 16163. -- nosy: +berker.peksag ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue16393] typo in pkgutil.py

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[issue16389] re._compiled_typed's lru_cache causes significant degradation of the mako_v2 bench

mike bayer added the comment: in response to ezio, I poked around the source here, since I've never been sure if re.compile() cached its result or not. It seems to be the case in 2.7 and 3.2 also - 2.7 uses a local caching scheme and 3.2 uses functools.lru_cache, yet we don't see as much of

[issue7317] Display full tracebacks when an error occurs asynchronously

Andrew Svetlov added the comment: Committed. Thanks, guys! -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue16353] add function to os module for getting path to default shell

Christian Heimes added the comment: I'm with Chris. The information should be stored in the os module. I suggest os.shell var or os.get_shell() function like this: def get_shell(): for path in confstr("CS_PATH").split(pathsep): sh = sep.join((path, "sh")) try: mo

[issue16353] add function to os module for getting path to default shell

Andrew Svetlov added the comment: Is it ok to import *which* functions from shutil in *os* module? There is only reason to put function into shutil. But I like Christian's sketch. Also, what reason to get shell name from COMSPEC? What should we do if COMSPEC points to some another shell, not c

[issue16389] re._compiled_typed's lru_cache causes significant degradation of the mako_v2 bench

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Now that Brett has a substantial portion of the benchmark suite running on Py3k, we should see a bit more progress on the PyPy-inspired speed.python.org project (which should make it much easier to catch this kind of regression before it hits a production releas

[issue16353] add function to os module for getting path to default shell

R. David Murray added the comment: I think it would not be ok to import shutil in os, so I'm glad there is an alternative. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue16394] Improving tee() memory footprint

New submission from Carsten Milkau: The memory footprint of itertools.tee can be reduced substantially by using a shared buffer for the child iterators (see sample code). If local queues are desired for efficient threading support, they can be combined with a global queue, allowing to constrai

[issue16395] Documentation claims that PySequence_Fast returns a tuple, when it actually returns a list.

New submission from Simon Law: The documentation in Python 2.7, 3.2, and 3.3 claim that: PyObject* PySequence_Fast(PyObject *o, const char *m) Return value: New reference. Returns the sequence o as a tuple, unless it is already a tuple or list, in which case o is returned... Unfortunately, the

[issue16396] Importing ctypes.wintypes on Linux gives a traceback

New submission from anatoly techtonik: >>> import ctypes.wintypes Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/lib/python3.2/ctypes/wintypes.py", line 20, in class VARIANT_BOOL(ctypes._SimpleCData): ValueError: _type_ 'v' not supported >>> Shouldn't it just impor

[issue16396] Importing ctypes.wintypes on Linux gives a traceback

anatoly techtonik added the comment: Perhaps the patch already there - see http://www.themacaque.com/?p=826 -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue16395] Documentation claims that PySequence_Fast returns a tuple, when it actually returns a list.

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[issue16395] Documentation claims that PySequence_Fast returns a tuple, when it actually returns a list.

Simon Law added the comment: It looks like this was caught in the 3.3 branch, but only fixed it in the comment: changeset: 75448:d8f68195210e user:Larry Hastings date:Mon Mar 05 22:59:13 2012 -0800 summary: Fix a comment: PySequence_Fast() creates a list, not a tuple. Th

[issue16395] Documentation claims that PySequence_Fast returns a tuple, when it actually returns a list.

Éric Araujo added the comment: Larry, any objection to backporting this? -- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation -Interpreter Core nosy: +docs@python, eric.araujo, larry stage: -> patch review versions: -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker

[issue5184] Add -3 warning for extension types that implement tp_compare but not tp_richcompare

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[issue5720] ctime: I don't think that word means what you think it means.

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[issue16389] re._compiled_typed's lru_cache causes significant degradation of the mako_v2 bench

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: This is not only 3.3 regression, this is also 3.2 regression. 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 have different caching implementation. Mikrobenchmark: $ ./python -m timeit -s "import re" "re.match('', '')" Results: 3.1: 2.61 usec per loop 3.2: 5.77 usec per loop 3.3: 11.8 u

[issue5141] C API for appending to arrays

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[issue6933] Threading issue with Tkinter Frame.insert

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[issue16152] Trailing whitespace makes tokenize.generate_tokens pathological

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset eb7ea51e658e by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7': #16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when no newline is found. Patch by Ned Batchelder. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/eb7ea51e658e New changeset 31798ed5 by Ezio Melo

[issue16152] Trailing whitespace makes tokenize.generate_tokens pathological

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Fixed, thanks for the report and the patch! -- assignee: -> ezio.melotti nosy: +ezio.melotti resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed type: -> behavior versions: +Python 3.2 _

[issue16048] Tutorial-classes-remarks: replace paragraph

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[issue9625] argparse: Problem with defaults for variable nargs when using choices

Cédric Krier added the comment: Here is a new version of the patch with tests -- nosy: +ced Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27858/issue9625.patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue16383] Python 3.3 Permission Error with User Library on Windows

Jim Pattee added the comment: You have been in contact with my friends at Mensa. Further information: Just branching into the library causes a problem with permissions when opening files, even if the library just immediately returns. Opening the file in the library, before returning to the call

[issue4711] Wide literals in the table of contents overflow in documentation

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[issue14302] Rename Scripts directory to bin and move python.exe to bin

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- stage: needs patch -> title: Move python.exe to bin/ -> Rename Scripts directory to bin and move python.exe to bin versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker

[issue3561] Windows installer should add Python and Scripts directories to the PATH environment variable

Éric Araujo added the comment: Can this issue be closed? If there are still disagreements about the UI or UX, it could be a separate 3.4 report. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue16353] add function to os module for getting path to default shell

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: > Also, what reason to get shell name from COMSPEC? What should we do if > COMSPEC points to some another shell, not cmd.exe? FWIW, the subprocess module does this (with surrounding code linked after): comspec = os.environ.get("COMSPEC", "cmd.exe") http://hg.

[issue4711] Wide literals in the table of contents overflow in documentation

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset cae65dd22826 by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7': #4711: break long words in the docs sidebar to avoid overflow. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/cae65dd22826 New changeset 1046110a819d by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2': #4711: break long words in the doc

[issue4711] Wide literals in the table of contents overflow in documentation

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[issue15641] Clean up importlib for Python 3.4

Brett Cannon added the comment: Thanks for the patch, Taras! It looks good and I will apply it when I have time (or some other core dev beats me to it). -- stage: needs patch -> commit review ___ Python tracker __

[issue16392] frozen importlib crashes on circular imports in ext modules

Brett Cannon added the comment: I don't mean for this to sound rude, but this seems like a Cython issue and not one for the stdlib. Can you reproduce the problem without using Cython? The new per-module locking mechanism Antoine prevents this from being a problem normally, so it makes me think

[issue16163] Wrong name in Lib/pkgutil.py:iter_importers

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[issue13615] setup.py register fails with -r argument

anatoly techtonik added the comment: It is ok with http://pypi.python.org/pypi, but not with http://pypi.python.org, for example. Complaining that http://pypi.python.org is not found in .pypirc -- ___ Python tracker

[issue16392] frozen importlib crashes on circular imports in ext modules

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Well, it might be a legitimate issue, but due to the setup needed to reproduce, I would hope a Cython developer could do the diagnosis and possibly submit a patch. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue16353] add function to os module for getting path to default shell

Christian Heimes added the comment: The os module can't import shutil as it would create a circular import. Also shutil.which() does lots of stat calls and we don't want additional stat calls in a core module like os. My implementation requires just one stat() call. COMSPEC can point to an alt

[issue16394] Improving tee() memory footprint

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Why do you think that your implementation uses less memory? You have some measurements confirming it? -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka versions: -Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tra

[issue16395] Documentation claims that PySequence_Fast returns a tuple, when it actually returns a list.

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: PySequence_Tuple() was changed to PySequence_List() in the changeset 4714aff4bf75 in 2004. Are there any measurements which show PySequence_List() faster than PySequence_Tuple() on modern Python? I don't see any references in 4714aff4bf75 description. ---

[issue15125] argparse: positional arguments containing - in name not handled well

Simon Law added the comment: >> But patching the module to allow explicitly setting dest via keyword >> argument shouldn't hurt anybody. > > I agree that it wouldn't hurt anybody. If you can find a way to do > this, feel free to provide a patch. > > However, the correct way to have one name for

[issue15125] argparse: positional arguments containing - in name not handled well

Simon Law added the comment: Sorry, there was a small typo in the previous patch. Here's the newer version. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27860/15125-1.patch ___ Python tracker _

[issue3561] Windows installer should add Python and Scripts directories to the PATH environment variable

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: As Eric says: any further issues with this change should be reported separately. -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue16397] UserString doesn't combine nicely with strings

New submission from Jorge Cardona: Hi, I think UserString must play nicely with other standard objects to be useful. For example, right now is not possible to join a list of UserString with a string. This shouldn't fail: from UserString import UserString '.'.join([UserString('some')])

[issue15125] argparse: positional arguments containing - in name not handled well

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[issue16394] Improving tee() memory footprint

Carsten Milkau added the comment: No. The sample code is a demonstration how to do it, it's by no means a full-fledged patch. The drawback of the current implementation is that if you tee n-fold, and then advance one of the iterators m times, it fills n queues with m references each, for a to

[issue15125] argparse: positional arguments containing - in name not handled well

Simon Law added the comment: Note that 15125-1.patch applies to Python 2.7 cleanly as it is a bugfix. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue16397] UserString doesn't combine nicely with strings

Changes by Serhiy Storchaka : -- components: +Library (Lib) nosy: +rhettinger versions: +Python 3.3, Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue16397] UserString doesn't combine nicely with strings

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: This is not a bug, but a potential new feature. Therefore, it can go only into 3.4 (if at all). -- nosy: +loewis versions: -Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker

[issue16397] UserString doesn't combine nicely with strings

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: If you want a class that behaves like a string object, you should subclass from str. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue10395] new os.path function to extract common prefix based on path components

Éric Araujo added the comment: Rafik is working on os.path.commonpath for the bug day. -- versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue12759] "(?P=)" input for Tools/scripts/redemo.py raises unnhandled exception

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 5b5c2c3b2268 by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7': #12759: sre_parse now raises a proper error when the name of the group is missing. Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5b5c2c3b2268 New changeset 29983dd7191e by Ezio Me

[issue12759] "(?P=)" input for Tools/scripts/redemo.py raises unnhandled exception

Ezio Melotti added the comment: I updated the patch to use 'missing group name' instead of 'bad group name', and added a couple more tests. This also fixes the issue in redemo.py. Thanks Serhiy and Masha for the patches! -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected

[issue13349] Non-informative error message in index() and remove() functions

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[issue13349] Non-informative error message in index() and remove() functions

Sean Ochoa added the comment: Working on issue as part of Python Bug Day, Oct 2012. -- nosy: +Sean.Ochoa ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue6683] smtplib authentication - try all mechanisms

A.M. Kuchling added the comment: The attached patch against trunk (3.4) exercises the multiple-authentication functionality; the SMTP server advertises four different authentication methods, and the code will try CRAM-MD5 first, which will fail, but LOGIN succeeds. If this patch is OK, or if ha

[issue16397] UserString doesn't combine nicely with strings

Jorge Cardona added the comment: mm, I thought that was impossible, and that I should be using UserString actually. I didn't notice the big warning at the beginning of the section at the docs. Sorry, I will change my code. Thanks. On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > Mar

[issue7976] warnings should provide a public API for accessing its option parsing code

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[issue16394] Improving tee() memory footprint

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > The documentation explicitly mentions this is unfortunate. Ah, here's the thing. The code in the documentation is provided only for the explanation. In fact tee() is implemented in the same way that you suggest (but uses a more efficient deque implementa

[issue8401] Strange behavior of bytearray slice assignment

Mark Dickinson added the comment: The patch looks fine to me. -- nosy: +mark.dickinson ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mail

[issue9109] absolute import cleanups for Python 3

A.M. Kuchling added the comment: It seems to me that this issue was fixed for Python 3.3 by commit 2dd046be2c88 for #2377, which made importlib the implementation of __import__(). Python/import.c now raises a ValueError if level < 0, and the docstring has been corrected to have 'level=0' as t

[issue12634] Random Remarks in class documentation

Éric Araujo added the comment: +1 to something like Terry’s proposal. -- keywords: +easy stage: -> needs patch type: enhancement -> versions: +Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue12614] Allow to explicitly set the method of urllib.request.Request

Éric Araujo added the comment: Senthil, any objections on committing this? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue16394] Improving tee() memory footprint

Carsten Milkau added the comment: Oh great! Then I can use it as-is. How about reassigning the issue to documentation (for clarifying the inefficiency warning)? -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue16394] Improving tee() memory footprint

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[issue14794] slice.indices raises OverflowError

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Here's a patch. -- keywords: +patch stage: needs patch -> patch review type: behavior -> enhancement versions: -Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27862/issue14794.patch ___ Pyt

[issue8401] Strange behavior of bytearray slice assignment

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 1bd2b272c568 by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7': #8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now raises an error. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1bd2b272c568 New changeset 8f00af8abaf9 by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2': #8401: assig

[issue15125] argparse: positional arguments containing - in name not handled well

Simon Law added the comment: 15125-2.patch applies to the default branch. It makes dest behave the same for positional and optional arguments in terms of name mangling. Also, there is a backward-compatibility path in Namespace to support old-style getattr() access. However, it's not documente

[issue16394] Improving tee() memory footprint

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[issue14794] slice.indices raises OverflowError

Mark Dickinson added the comment: I should note that this patch fixes/changes one other aspect of slice.indices: namely that it used to accept a negative length, and return essentially meaningless results in that case: >>> slice(0, 10, 1).indices(-3) (-3, -3, 1) With the patch, it no

[issue16398] deque.rotate() could be much faster

New submission from Simon Law: If you look at the implementation of deque.rotate(), it does the equivalent of deque.append(deque.popleft()) or deque.appendleft(deque.pop()). Unfortunately, for larger rotations, the pop() and append() calls just do too much work. Since the documentation recomme

[issue16349] Document whether it's safe to use bytes for struct format string

Mark Dickinson added the comment: > but also discovered that example outputs are wrong That's documented to some extent: there's a line in the docs that says: "All examples assume a native byte order, size, and alignment with a big-endian machine". Given that little-endian machines are much m

[issue8401] Strange behavior of bytearray slice assignment

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset a7ebc0db5c18 by Ezio Melotti in branch 'default': Merge typo fixes (and the fix for #8401 that I wrongly merged) with 3.3. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a7ebc0db5c18 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue16349] Document whether it's safe to use bytes for struct format string

Mark Dickinson added the comment: > Also it would be nice to clarify if struct.Struct.format is meant to be > a > byte string. Hmm. That seems wrong to me. After all, the format string is supposed to be a piece of human-readable text rather than a collection of bytes. I think it's borderli

[issue16398] deque.rotate() could be much faster

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