[issue1019882] hotshot start / stop stats bug

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[issue873150] pickletools support for multiple pickles in a string

Fred L. Drake, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I can't remember why I wanted this; guess this should indeed go in the pickleeverydamnfoolfunctionicanthinkof module, not the standard library. -- resolution: -> rejected stage: -> committed/rejected statu

[issue1055234] cgi.py does not correctly handle fields with ';'

Fred L. Drake, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: This is now fixed for Python 2.6.?, 2.7, 3.0.1, and 3.1. I've no idea why I didn't write a test for this sooner. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected

[issue935117] pkgutil doesn't understand case-senseless filesystems

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Antoine: I agree programmers shouldn't try to create situations like this. Consider however an application assembled using a build tool like zc.buildout, which installs each package into a separate installation location (based on setuptool

[issue935117] pkgutil doesn't understand case-senseless filesystems

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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

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[issue38351] Modernize email example from %-formatting to f-string

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Does it make sense to change just one example? I'm not sure what the long-term stance is on whether %-formatting should be replaced at this point, but shouldn't this be a matter of which string formatting approach we want overall, rather than

[issue38351] Modernize email example from %-formatting to f-string

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I agree that it's less invasive and easier to review. My question (and it's just that) is whether we've made a decision to prefer one formatting syntax over others (outside of examples discussing the formatting approaches themselves). I

[issue38351] Modernize email example from %-formatting to f-string

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Definitely agree with Eric on this; code modernization is definitely on the risky side, so judicious updates are important. (Of course, not updating is also a risk, eventually. But not much of one in this case.) This issue is really about whether the

[issue38351] Modernize email example from %-formatting to f-string

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I'd like to see consistent usage by default, with specific examples using the older forms as appropriate. The use cases Raymond identified are worth discussing (and the tutorial may be a good place for this), and well as mentioned in the reference

[issue14009] Clearer documentation for cElementTree

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Developers with existing code can reasonably be expected to look it up based on what they're currently importing, so an entry that points to the new recommended practice is good. -- nosy: +fdrake ___ P

[issue34226] cgi.parse_multipart() requires undocumented CONTENT-LENGTH in Python 3.7

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[issue37741] importlib.metadata docs not showing up in the module index

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Provisional status should not cause a module or other API element to be omitted from the indexes. So long as it's marked provisional where it's described, it should be locatable. -- nosy: +fdrake

[issue31055] All Sphinx generated pages could have a new "Edit This Page" link adjacent to the existing "Show Source"

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Mariatta Wijaya wrote: > I don't think we should add this link. > > When we make edits to the docs, even simple typo fixes, it should first be > done > in the master branch, instead of the maintenanc

[issue31055] All Sphinx generated pages could have a new "Edit This Page" link adjacent to the existing "Show Source"

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > If the link went to an edit form with the version of the content the > user was reading, > and includes an explanation of the multiple-versions issue, it might > prove reasonable Eg

[issue35831] Format Spec example says limited to 3.1+ but works in 2.7

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: The 3.X docs generally don't refer to the 2.X series. What that comment is pointing out is that leaving the field identifier out (the number inside the {...} placeholder syntax) was not in the 3.0, but added in 3.1. Unfortunately, I don't

[issue29997] Suggested changes for https://docs.python.org/3.6/extending/extending.html

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[issue29996] Use terminal width by default in pprint

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: This is not a problem for doctests, since the output stream is not a terminal; the check for terminal-ness seems reasonable. (Though I don't have any idea if it works on Windows, but it seems properly fac

[issue29996] Use terminal width by default in pprint

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I wouldn't go so far as to say it's never come up; it's something I've thought about a number of times, and I've waffled on it a few times. It's not fundamentally unreasonable to want it to adapt to the current terminal wind

[issue9883] minidom: AttributeError: DocumentFragment instance has no attribute 'writexml'

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[issue36138] Improve documentation about converting datetime.timedelta to scalars

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[issue31822] Document that urllib.parse.{Defrag, Split, Parse}Result are namedtuples

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Unfortunately, when the implementation was migrated to use collections.namedtuple (a benefit), the _replace method wasn't extended to support the additional computed addresses for these types. That would really be useful. -- nosy: +f

[issue31822] Document that urllib.parse.{Defrag, Split, Parse}Result are namedtuples

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[issue36418] urllib.parse.*Result: support _replace for additional computed addresses

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[issue9883] minidom: AttributeError: DocumentFragment instance has no attribute 'writexml'

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[issue36532] Example of logging.formatter with new str.format style

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[issue36532] Example of logging.formatter with new str.format style

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[issue36705] Unexpected Behaviour of pprint.pprint

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Eric nailed it; pprint was not designed as a replacement for print, and was never intended to serve that purpose. Rejecting as out of scope. -- resolution: -> rejected stage: -> resolved status: open -&g

[issue14149] argparse: Document how to use argument names that are not Python identifiers

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[issue32706] test_check_hostname() of test_ftplib started to fail randomly

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[issue1644818] Allow built-in packages and submodules as well as top-level modules

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[issue33274] minidom removeAttributeNode returns None

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: While I've no strong objection to updating to follow the specification, I also don't see any real value here. The current minidom implementation has been considered sufficient for many years now (if you consider the DOM desirable at all), so t

[issue29400] Add instruction level tracing via sys.settrace

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[issue31766] Python 3.5 missing from documentation

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: The 3.5 docs should really remain in the main docs UI via the pulldown as long as it's so widely used. The fact that it won't be changing much just means it can be served efficiently. -- nos

[issue31803] Remove not portable time.clock(), replaced by time.perf_counter() and time.process_time()

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[issue32143] os.statvfs lacks f_fsid

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[issue32143] os.statvfs lacks f_fsid

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I think Giuseppe's patch is good, but there's a Windows failure on AppVeyor, so I'm a little wary. It doesn't look related, but I haven't looked at Python on Windows since... 2001, maybe? -- _

[issue32143] os.statvfs lacks f_fsid

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: New changeset 96a5e50a5de3683b2afd6d680c7ecc4b525986f6 by Fred Drake (Giuseppe Scrivano) in branch 'master': bpo-32143: add f_fsid to os.statvfs() (#4571) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/96a5e50a5de3683b2afd6d680c7ecc

[issue32143] os.statvfs lacks f_fsid

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: This has landed on master and will be part of Python 3.7. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.or

[issue33274] minidom removeAttributeNode returns None

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Python 2.7 is in security-fix-only mode, and this doesn't fit that. While I wouldn't object to a note in the documentation, see my comments in my patch review (there's just no pla

[issue33274] minidom removeAttributeNode returns None

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I should stop relying on wetware memory; it's not working out. Sorry for the mis-information. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/is

[issue33274] minidom removeAttributeNode returns None

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: New changeset 5bfa058e65897567889354d7eb34af2b93a20f18 by Fred Drake (arikrupnik) in branch 'master': bpo-33274: Compliance with DOM L1: return removed attribute (#7465) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5bfa058e65897567889354d7eb34af

[issue33274] minidom removeAttributeNode returns None

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: > I saw what looked to me like a bug that's been in the code for 18 years, > and I saw that it was a simple fix. And you're right: It is a bug, the fix is simple, and the risk is low. Ten years ago, I'd have probably just

[issue33832] Make "magic methods" a little more discoverable in the docs

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: A quick grep on the 3.7 branch indicates that the standard documentation includes each of the terms "magic method" and "special method" about the same number of times. (I didn't check for instances that wrapped lines.) Perhaps

[issue33832] Make "magic methods" a little more discoverable in the docs

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[issue33832] Make "magic methods" a little more discoverable in the docs

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[issue33869] doc Add set, frozen set, and tuple entries to Glossary

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[issue15474] Differentiate decorator and decorator factory in docs

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I like Éric's terminology; giving a concrete name to the concept makes it a lot easier to grasp, and this doesn't require inventing any new component terms. Andrés, if you'd like to tackle this, that's great! I'd be happy to

[issue34789] doc xml.sax.make_parser expects a list not just any sequence

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I'm just going to presume this issue has been around a long time, but I think that's a pretty safe presumption. Accepting a general sequence instead of only a list would reasonable, and I'd support a fix that caused the code to accept a g

[issue34789] doc xml.sax.make_parser expects a list not just any sequence

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: It probably makes more sense to keep that PR for the maintenance branches, and create a new branch / PR to land on master. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue34

[issue34789] doc xml.sax.make_parser expects a list not just any sequence

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: The existing PR can be re-targeted to merge to a maintenance branch (I'd be inclined to merge manually, myself, but will have to check the current devguide to make sure that's still allowed). A new PR can be made for the non-documentation fix

[issue11233] clarifying Availability: Unix

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: A PR for this would be good, and would certainly accelerate getting this accomplished. Thanks, Cheryl! -- nosy: +fdrake ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue11

[issue33381] Incorrect documentation for strftime()/strptime() format code %f

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[issue17987] test.support.captured_stderr, captured_stdin not documented

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Joining the documentation for captured_stderr and captured_stdout makes sense, as they can really use a single example, and the usage is completely parallel. I'd rather see captured_stdin handled separately, perhaps with some additional comments i

[issue17987] test.support.captured_stderr, captured_stdin not documented

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[issue18085] Verifying refcounts.dat

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I'm a little surprised that still exists. The first version was generated manually. -- nosy: +fdrake ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue18085] Verifying refcounts.dat

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Were I adding that today, I'd use a more verbose (but more standard) format, like configparser or JSON. If any further use is going to be made of it, that should be considered. Colon-delimited is a pretty fragile f

[issue17987] test.support.captured_stderr, captured_stdin not documented

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: >From v5 of the patch: + A context managers that temporarily replaces the :data:`sys.stdin` / + :data:`sys.stdout` / :data:`sys.stderr` stream with :class:`io.StringIO` + object. I'd go with singular nouns instead of trying to map across t

[issue18501] _elementtree.c calls Python callbacks while a Python exception is set

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[issue18840] Tutorial recommends pickle module without any warning of insecurity

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Advising the reader to be aware of the security warnings in the API documentation seems sufficient. JSON isn't intended to support arbitrary data, and that's what this section is discussing. Another section about data interchange with other ap

[issue18840] Tutorial recommends pickle module without any warning of insecurity

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: When I read "... that can take almost any Python object ...", I don't think the recommendation is about just a few types. The Zope and ZODB communities certainly use pickle extensively, we're aware of the security implications, and

[issue18840] Tutorial recommends pickle module without any warning of insecurity

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[issue15120] Different behavior of html.parser.HTMLParser

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[issue16240] Document a way to escape metacharacters in glob/fnmatch

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Better (IMO): Wrap the meta-characters in brackets for a literal match. For example, ``'[?]'`` matches the character ``'?'``. -- nosy: +fdrake ___ Python tracker <http://bug

[issue17150] pprint could use line continuation for long string literals

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I like this. It would be especially nice if it were smart enough to split the segments after sequences of line-ends (r'(\r?\n)+'). -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.o

[issue19504] Change "customise" to "customize".

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Not a foolish consistency; Guido ruled long ago that American spellings should be used. -- nosy: +fdrake ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue19

[issue19100] Use backslashreplace in pprint

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[issue6811] add a filename argument to marshal.load*

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[issue6517] configparser: add possibility to escape formatstrings

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[issue7005] ConfigParser does not handle options without values

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[issue7005] ConfigParser does not handle options without values

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: The test "value is not None" in line 620 (of the new version) could be just "value" and get a little more value from less code. I don't think I've ever run across a sample .ini-style file that used unspecified values, though

[issue7005] ConfigParser does not handle options without values

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I just looked at some MySQL configuration examples, and wonder if the guys that made that configuration-style choice were on crack. MySQL's syntax is sufficient justification for this feature (however abhorrent I consider it). (I've not read

[issue7311] Bug on regexp of HTMLParser

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[issue1495229] W3C <-> Python DOM type mapping docs need updating

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I presume you're referring to the documentation for the xml.dom package (as found at http://docs.python.org/library/xml.dom.html#type-mapping) rather than the Python <--> OMG IDL mapping (the link for which appears to have gone stale). I&#x

[issue8818] urlsplit and urlparse add extra slash when using scheme

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:41 PM, AdamN wrote: > Although I see that nowhere in the documentation. It needn't be in the urlparse documentation; the RFCs on URL syntax apply here. None of what's going on with the urlparse module is Python spe

[issue8818] urlsplit and urlparse add extra slash when using scheme

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: The module is documented as supporting "Relative Uniform Resource Locators", in which a value with a non-rooted path is supported using simply "non/rooted/path". See the third paragraph in the Python 2.6 documentation, starting

[issue8818] urlsplit and urlparse add extra slash when using scheme

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:03 PM, AdamN wrote: > I'm still confused about when anybody would use a relative path with a > default scheme and no netloc but I'll leave that decision to you guys. The strings are not pseudo-URLs, they'r

[issue8832] automate minidom.unlink() with a context manager

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[issue8939] Use C type names (PyUnicode etc;) in the C API docs

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[issue3874] documentation bug: HTMLParser needs to document unknown_decl

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[issue9056] Adding additional level of bookmarks and section numbers in python pdf documents.

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:00 PM, pengyu.ut wrote: > Current pdf version of python documents don't have bookmarks for > sussubsection. For example, there is no bookmark for the following > section in python_2.6.5_reference.pdf. This would b

[issue9051] Improve pickle format for aware datetime instances

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: As part of this, we should ensure references to common timezones, like UTC, only create references to a single instance rather than filling memory with multiple instances. One consequence of this is that shared instances should probably be immutable

[issue9120] Reduce pickle size for an empty set

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: > Fred was a proponent of small pickle sizes in the past, > so I am adding him to the nosy list. Thanks! I am a proponent of small pickle sizes, in cases where it matters. I'm not convinced this is such a case. The case for a small pick

[issue9182] argparse: optional argument w/ narg='+' conflicts w/ positional argsument

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: > Using “--” to explicitly signal positional arguments is most certainly > right and standard, but people have to read about that for the first > time somewhere. In a perfect world, that would be

[issue9233] json.load failure when C optimizations aren't built

New submission from Fred L. Drake, Jr. : The json decoder doesn't pass tests when the C optimizations in the _json module aren't available. The actual test failures appear fairly superficial, but aren't the limit of the problems. Empty objects are converted to empty lists i

[issue5723] Incomplete json tests

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: This lack of tests is an issue for Python 2.6 as well. Issue 9233 might have been avoided were the pure-Python implementation tested. -- nosy: +fdrake versions: +Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker <h

[issue9233] json.load failure when C optimizations aren't built

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: The attached test only fails for Python 2.7; removing Python 2.6 from this issue. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9

[issue9305] Don't use east/west of UTC in date/time documentation

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:46 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > I believe the correct convention is "Return timedelta...". This is handled inconsistently in the documentation; I'm hoping the current maintainers reinforce the "Retur

[issue9305] Don't use east/west of UTC in date/time documentation

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:08 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > I've took the convention from here. I thought docs are generated from > docstrings. They're not, but I don't think that really matters. Older documentation used the imperat

[issue9328] str.__format__.__doc__ backport glitch

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > Although why all of the methods say "string" and not "str" isn't clear to me. > Probably historical. Indeed; we used "string" in the docs as an informal w

[issue9328] str.__format__.__doc__ backport glitch

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[issue9173] logger statement not guarded in shutil._make_tarball

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Patch looks good, but needs a test. -- keywords: +easy nosy: +fdrake ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9

[issue9173] logger statement not guarded in shutil._make_tarball

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[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

[issue6517] configparser: add possibility to escape formatstrings

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: We're in agreement; I was specifically adding weight to *not* selecting the second optoin Łukasz Langa presented: > 2. We deprecate ConfigParser in the code and in the documentation. -- ___ Python

[issue803422] sgmllib doesn't support hex or Unicode character references

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Rejected since this didn't make it into Python 2.7. -- resolution: -> rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.o

[issue9452] configparser support for reading from strings and dictionaries

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Reading from a string is certainly fairly common, though I'm pretty happy with using an io.StringIO seems reasonable and straightforward. I've never stumbled over the need to "read" from dictionaries as described.

[issue5412] extend configparser to support mapping access(__*item__)

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[issue9292] Dead code in Modules/pyexpat.c

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