[issue4144] 3 tutorial documentation errors

Georg Brandl added the comment: I fixed the three docs issues in r72703 and r72704. The doctest "issue" is not an issue; the single backslash is already removed by Python's tokenizer, so that doctest only sees 'doesn't' which is obviously a syntax error. You n

[issue6017] Dict fails to notice addition and deletion of keys during iteration

Georg Brandl added the comment: OK, I now changed it to "may raise ... or fail to iterate over all entries" in r72708. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.

[issue5951] email.message : get_payload args's documentation is confusing

Georg Brandl added the comment: Will be fixed along with all other such instances. -- resolution: -> postponed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue5942] Ambiguity in dbm.open flag documentation

Georg Brandl added the comment: I think you meant anydbm? It's already documented well for dbm.open -- I've copied over that table to anydbm in r72710. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <htt

[issue6045] Fix dbm interfaces

New submission from Georg Brandl : All the dbm.* modules currently have different interfaces, and different levels of supporting the Python3-style dictionary interface -- while the docs claim they all have (most of) the dict interface. For example, both dbm.gnu and dbm.ndbm only have keys

[issue5937] Problems with dbm documentation

Georg Brandl added the comment: Superseded by #6045. -- resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed superseder: -> Fix dbm interfaces ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.o

[issue5935] Better documentation of use of BROWSER environment variable

Georg Brandl added the comment: Fixed in r72712. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue5935> ___ __

[issue6044] Exception message in int() when trying to convert a complex

Georg Brandl added the comment: That no unambiguous conversion between complex and int is defined is exactly the reason for this error message. You could want the absolute value, the real part, the imaginary part, or even the polar angle... int(abs(z)) works as intended, giving you the

[issue6042] Document and slightly simplify lnotab tracing

Georg Brandl added the comment: Jeffrey, while you're at lnotab stuff, could you have a look at #1689458 as well? -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue6023] Search does not intelligently handle module.function queries on docs.python.org

Georg Brandl added the comment: This is already done in Sphinx trunk, and will be used for Python as soon as it is released. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6045] Fix dbm interfaces

Georg Brandl added the comment: First, lowering priority. > I disagree that this is release-critical. I think it is desirable to > say that the dbm modules support most of a dict-style interface, > and I also think that it is factually correct to claim that they > currently do.

[issue6047] "install" target in python 3.x makefile should be "fullinstall"

Georg Brandl added the comment: fullinstall should be removed -- I have the same recollection as Ronald, so if someone really wants python == python3, he can create the link himself. -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.

[issue5980] Add bug tracker tasks to PEP 101

Georg Brandl added the comment: Applied in r72756. -- resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue4215] Running Python 2.6 GUI on Windows Vista

Changes by Georg Brandl : -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue4215> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscri

[issue5942] Ambiguity in dbm.open flag documentation

Georg Brandl added the comment: It was my mistake -- anydbm is called dbm in py3k. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue5942> ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue6063] pydoc_data package is not installed

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks for fixing! There's no need to backport; the pydoc_data package is new in 2.7/3.1. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python

[issue6072] unittest.TestCase._result is very likely to collide (and break) with application-defined TestCase attributes

Changes by Georg Brandl : -- assignee: -> michael.foord nosy: +michael.foord ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6072> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mai

[issue6055] References to "pysqlite" in documentation of sqlite3 should be changed.

Georg Brandl added the comment: pysqlite is an alias of sqlite3; it's developed outside of the core under that name. I agree that this can be confusing, and I've now removed almost all mentions (and qualified the remaining one) in r72801. I will not touch occurrences in source code;

[issue6057] sqlite3 error classes should be documented

Changes by Georg Brandl : -- assignee: georg.brandl -> ghaering nosy: +ghaering ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6057> ___ ___ Python-bugs-lis

[issue6051] smtplib docs should link to email module examples

Georg Brandl added the comment: Added a note and a reference in r72802. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue4547] Long jumps with frame_setlineno

Georg Brandl added the comment: I think you can apply this. -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue4547> ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue6084] documentation of zip function is error

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, fixed in r72822. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6086] Correct minor typos in doanddont.rst and urllib2.rst howto documents.

Georg Brandl added the comment: Committed in trunk r72830 and py3k r72831. Thanks! -- resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6079] SyntaxError in xmlrpc.client examples

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, fixed in r72832. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6078] freeze.py doesn't work

Georg Brandl added the comment: Added in r72833. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6083] Reference counting bug in setrlimit

Georg Brandl added the comment: That is a good point. IMHO we'll be fine with a warning in the docs, and fixing our own two instances. Martin, what do you think? -- assignee: -> loewis nosy: +georg.brandl, loewis ___ Python tracke

[issue5079] time.ctime docs refer to "time tuple" for default

Georg Brandl added the comment: None will be made. -- resolution: -> out of date status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue5797] there is en exception om Create User page

Changes by Georg Brandl : -- resolution: -> invalid status: pending -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue5797> ___ ___ Python-bugs-

[issue4385] Py_Object_HEAD_INIT in Py3k

Changes by Georg Brandl : -- status: pending -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue4385> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscri

[issue6070] Python 2.6 makes .pyc/.pyo bytecode files executable

Georg Brandl added the comment: Are these S_IX... constants available on every platform we support? -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6

[issue6112] scheduler.cancel does not raise RuntimeError

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, fixed in r72932. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6115] Header and doc related to PyNumber_Divide and PyNumber_InPlaceDivide should be removed in py3k

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, fixed in r72941. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6118] urllib.parse.quote_plus ignores optional arguments

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, applied in r72943. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6121] help('modules ') causes IndexError.

Georg Brandl added the comment: Looks good, please apply. -- assignee: -> r.david.murray nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/iss

[issue6129] 2to3 does not convert imports of the form 'import sub.mod' to relative import

Georg Brandl added the comment: Is there also a sub/__init__.py? -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6129> ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue5274] sys.exc_info()[1] - different handling from str() and unicode() - py 2.6

Georg Brandl added the comment: Duplicate of #6108. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed superseder: -> unicode(exception) behaves differently on Py2.6 when len(exception.args) > 1 ___ Python tr

[issue6141] missing first argument on subprocess.Popen w/ executable

Georg Brandl added the comment: Patch looks good, just replace `ps` by :program:`ps` please. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6141> ___ ___

[issue6139] Typo in email.base64mime

Georg Brandl added the comment: Fixed in r73028. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6148] Help well execute code it is called on

Georg Brandl added the comment: Ezio is correct. The file is already created while importing bug, not due to the call to help(). -- resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6146] markup error in Doc/library/rlcompleter.rst

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, applied in r73045. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue5922] Multi-with patch

Georg Brandl added the comment: I overlooked it, yes. But it also seems to me that it's no major problem :) -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue6155] "logging" example uses unavailable cPickle module

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, fixed in r73075. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue5675] string module requires bytes type for maketrans, but calling method on regular string does not

Georg Brandl added the comment: Should be fixed in r73086. -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue5675> ___ ___ Python-

[issue6156] Error compiling valid regex

Georg Brandl added the comment: Just taking out the "raise" seems questionable to me; are you sure there are no valid errors that can be caught there? -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.

[issue6190] Tutorial 3.1.2 (Strings) has duplicate lines

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, fixed in r73185. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6174] What's new in 2.6, wrong indentation in code sample

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, fixed in r73186. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue5767] xmlrpclib loads invalid documents

Georg Brandl added the comment: Applied in r73201, r73202. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue3613] base64.encodestring does not actually accept strings

Georg Brandl added the comment: Applied a patch to rename (and keep old aliases) in r73204. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue3684] traceback.format_exception_only() misplaces the caret for certain SyntaxErrors

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, committed as r73206. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue3791] bsddb not completely removed

Georg Brandl added the comment: Removed the last traces of bsddb in r73208. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: accepted -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue3798] SystemExit incorrectly displays unicode message

Georg Brandl added the comment: Ping? -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue3798> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsub

[issue433028] SRE: (?flag:...) is not supported

Changes by Georg Brandl : -- resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed superseder: -> Major reworking of Python 2.5.2 re module ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org

[issue4186] type() doesn't accept bases and dict keyword arguments

Georg Brandl added the comment: 2.6 has been released and out there some time, and there was no cry about this, so I guess this can be ignored. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> pending ___ Python tracker

[issue4199] add shorthand global and nonlocal statements

Georg Brandl added the comment: Postponed to 3.2. -- nosy: +georg.brandl versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue4

[issue5967] PyList_GetSlice does not indicate negative ranges dont work as in python.

Georg Brandl added the comment: Documented in r73213. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6176] Reference to a wrong version of flock's documentation

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, fixed in r73215. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6175] inet_aton documentation kind of lies

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, updated the docs in r73217. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue3684] traceback.format_exception_only() misplaces the caret for certain SyntaxErrors

Georg Brandl added the comment: Good point. Added a test in r73232. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue3684> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailin

[issue6193] urllib: ... IOError: ... unknown url type: 'c'

Georg Brandl added the comment: You should use file:// to open local files with urllib. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6191] HTMLParser attribute parsing - 2 test cases when it fails

Georg Brandl added the comment: I do not think HTMLParser should guess. Guessing always opens the door to misinterpretation. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.p

[issue6191] HTMLParser attribute parsing - 2 test cases when it fails

Georg Brandl added the comment: > Throwing an exception and giving up is just not good enough. Yes it is, in some cases. There are "forgiving" HTML parsers out there, HTMLParser does not strive to be one. There are *so many* cases where HTML is a bit malformed that it takes more

[issue6191] HTMLParser attribute parsing - 2 test cases when it fails

Georg Brandl added the comment: So BeautifulSoup is using HTMLParser? That is interesting, because they claim to support "broken" HTML. In any case, if a "quirky" mode is added, it should have to be turned on explicitly by a flag. --

[issue6212] piped input

Georg Brandl added the comment: This is a bug in Windows Python can do nothing about, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321788. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.p

[issue6206] Correct a trivial typo introduced by r73238.

Georg Brandl added the comment: Fixed in r73252. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6211] [Tutorial] Section 4.7.2 has a wrong description of an example

Georg Brandl added the comment: Fixed in r73257. Please respect the limit of 80 chars per line in future patches :) -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6204] Missing reference in section 4.6 to chapter on classes

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, applied in r73258! -- resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6224] References to JPython

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, fixed in r73260. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6235] \d missing from effects of re.ASCII flag

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, fixed in r73285. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue2947] subprocess (Replacing popen) - add a warning / hint

Georg Brandl added the comment: Patch looks good, except for strange code indentation in the replaced example. -- assignee: georg.brandl -> r.david.murray ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/iss

[issue4309] ctypes documentation

Georg Brandl added the comment: I fixed this, and a few other bytes/string issues, in r73293. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6203] 3.x locale does not default to C, contrary to the documentation and to 2.x behavior

Georg Brandl added the comment: Deferring to Martin which one is correct :) -- assignee: georg.brandl -> loewis nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/iss

[issue6194] fcntl footnote about O_SHLOCK and O_EXLOCK is misleading

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, fixed in r73294. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6238] string.ljust documentation is missing optional fillchar description

Georg Brandl added the comment: Fixed in r73296. You shouldn't have been looking at those anyway :) -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python

[issue6239] c_char_p return value returns string, not bytes

New submission from Georg Brandl : If you assign a function a restype of c_char_p, you get back a Unicode string, but you should get a bytes object. >>> from ctypes import * >>> strchr = cdll['libc.so.6'].strchr >>> strchr.restype = c_char_p >>> s

[issue6249] Error Prompt

Georg Brandl added the comment: Please consult a Python mailing list or newsgroup to learn how to use the command box. This is not a Python bug. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue6275] let unittest.assertRaises() return the exception object caught

Changes by Georg Brandl : -- assignee: -> michael.foord nosy: +michael.foord ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6275> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mai

[issue1489051] keyword and topic help broken in Pythonwin IDE

Georg Brandl added the comment: Very good :) -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1489051> ___ __

[issue6295] curses doc : getch is blocking by default

Georg Brandl added the comment: I've committed a similar change in r73462. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python

[issue5641] Local variables not freed when Exception raises in function called from cycle

Georg Brandl added the comment: Well, it's the basic principle that an object is not destroyed until there are no more references to it. The documented semantics I referred to are that a variable assigned to in an "except X, Y" clause lives beyond the scope

[issue6255] PyInt_FromSize_t is undocumented.

Georg Brandl added the comment: Documented in r73463. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6298] http://python.org/download says Python 2.4.5, but I think it means Python 2.4.6.

New submission from Georg Brandl : Fixed in pydotorg r12342. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6301] Error in tutorial section 7.2

Georg Brandl added the comment: Even if the Win32 API functions do not have a concept of text/binary files, the C library functions that MS provides, and Python uses, have. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yeby3zcb(VS.71).aspx -- resolution: -> works for me status: o

[issue6303] print does not appear in the 3.x documentation index

Georg Brandl added the comment: If you're referring to the general index, there is a "print() (built-in function)" entry in http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/genindex-P.html. Am I missing another index? -- resolution: -> works for me stat

[issue6304] Confusing error message when passing bytes to print with file pointing to a binary file

Georg Brandl added the comment: How would you propose to fix this? print() should certainly not catch all TypeErrors and raise a new one... Maybe exception chaining could be used, so that print raises a TypeError of its own with the cause being the original message? -- nosy

[issue6301] Error in tutorial section 7.2

Georg Brandl added the comment: I'm -0 about that change. However, I'd like to defend the original wording; it is *not* Python that makes the text/binary distinction. Python just calls fopen(), which is what portable C programs are supposed to do, with the mode it is given by the

[issue6276] Fix contextlib.nested DeprecationWarning for test_signal.

Changes by Georg Brandl : -- assignee: -> rhettinger nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6276> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mai

[issue6276] Fix contextlib.nested DeprecationWarning for test_signal.

Georg Brandl added the comment: Fixed in r73471. -- assignee: rhettinger -> georg.brandl nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.o

[issue6318] HTMLParser Attributes Containing Escaped Quotes

Georg Brandl added the comment: That snippet is not valid HTML. The attribute string is not a JS string, so quotes in it must be escaped with '"', not '\"'. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed __

[issue6332] typo on man page warning control

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, applied in r73544. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6296] Native (and default) tarfile support for setup.py sdist in distutils on Windows

Georg Brandl added the comment: > Because I'm a unix weenie, and zip files feel like an intrusion from the > Windows world. I expect source tarballs to be, well, tarballs. I don't > say zip shouldn't be the default, I just noted that I personally would > find t

[issue4536] SystemError if invalid arguments passed to range() and step=-1

Georg Brandl added the comment: Seems to be fixed in current 3k head. -- resolution: -> out of date status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6372] Make all switches keyword-only

Georg Brandl added the comment: Closing this for now; it really needs some serious discussion so a tracker item is not appropriate. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.p

[issue6385] two lines of typographical inconsistency in doc of exception class hierarchy

Georg Brandl added the comment: Fixed in Pygments trunk. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6376] description of Decinal.logical_invert is incorrect

Georg Brandl added the comment: Fixed in r73704. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6376> ___ __

[issue6374] Confused by subprocess API documentation

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, committed in r73705. -- resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6384] Permalink to built-in exception class hierarchy documentation

Georg Brandl added the comment: I added a new heading there in r73706. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue6389] os.chmod() documentation refers to non-existent documentation in stat

Georg Brandl added the comment: I agree with David. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6389> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue6371] Minor internal link errors in Optparse doc

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, fixed in r73707. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue8783] The external link to a "Hash Collision FAQ" points to some company's homepage

Georg Brandl added the comment: The FAQ can still be found in the internet archive, http://web.archive.org/web/20070928160638/http://www.cryptography.com/cnews/hash.html but of course this is not a good link, especially because it's not updated. I've added the link to the wikiped

[issue8694] python3 FAQ mentions unicode()

Georg Brandl added the comment: This was due to a review of the programming FAQ not yet having been merged to the 3.1 branch. Now fixed in r81407. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

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