[issue1058305] HTMLParser.locatestartagend regex too stringent

2010-09-04 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Closing this issue as out of date was inappropriate. It may be a duplicate, but someone with an interest should go through and evaluate all the related 'tolerant HTML parser' issues. Issue 1486713 could perhaps serve as a master issue fo

[issue1486713] HTMLParser : A auto-tolerant parsing mode

2010-09-04 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: See also issue 1058305, which may be a duplicate. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1486713> ___ ___ Pytho

[issue6656] locale.format_string fails on escaped percentage

2010-09-05 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Well, I let this bake so long I missed 2.6, but I've backported the fix to 3.1 in r84543. -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.or

[issue1467619] Header.decode_header eats up spaces

2010-09-05 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue1466065] base64 module ignores non-alphabet characters

2010-09-05 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Comments on patch: 1) if I'm reading the RFC correctly, to be validating strictly in compliance with the RFC \r and \n should also raise an error. Do you agree? 2) We've pretty much dropped the convention of adding history notes to the file

[issue9733] Can't iterate over multiprocessing.managers.DictProxy

2010-09-05 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue4769] b64decode should accept strings or bytes

2010-09-05 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: After thinking about it, I'm inclined to reject this and say that quopri should be fixed to reject string input to decode. On python-dev Guido opined that a kind of polymorphism in the stdlib was good (bytes in --> bytes out, string in -->

[issue9741] msgfmt.py generates invalid mo because msgfmt.make() does not clear dictionary

2010-09-05 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue6484] No unit test for mailcap module

2010-09-06 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Thanks for contributing this; sorry it took so long to get a review. Overall the tests look good (I didn't work through the logic of each test that looks up data; I'm trusting you on that part :) Here are some comments: 1) In test_listmailcap

[issue9664] Make gzip module not require that underlying file object support seek

2010-09-07 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Matt: if you want to learn the file format and propose a patch, I think it would be OK for gzip to duck-type the file object and only raise an error when a seek is explicitly requested. After all, that's the way real file objects work. A quick glan

[issue9759] GzipFile object should raise ValueError on .read() after .close()

2010-09-07 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue9761] stale .pyc files aren't cleaned out

2010-09-07 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Note that issue 6074 may be relevant to your problem. -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9

[issue9763] Crashes upon run after syntax error encountered in OSX 10.5.8

2010-09-07 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: If this is a problem with the Apple supplied tk there isn't much we can do about it from the Python end. We've had a number of other bugs like that... -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python trac

[issue9779] argparse.ArgumentParser not support unicode in print help

2010-09-07 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue9509] argparse FileType raises ugly exception for missing file

2010-09-07 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue8518] small typo in http://docs.python.org/howto/doanddont.html

2010-09-07 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I've included my take on this in my proposed patch for issue 9608. -- stage: -> committed/rejected superseder: -> Re-phrase best way of using exceptions in doanddont.rst type: -> behavior ___

[issue9608] Re-phrase best way of using exceptions in doanddont.rst

2010-09-07 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Here is a more extensive rewrite that I think makes things clearer and (I hope) makes the text read better. I also updated the preceding section per the confusion expressed in issue 8518. Note that this patch is somewhat Python3 specific, since it assumes

[issue9608] Re-phrase best way of using exceptions in doanddont.rst

2010-09-07 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: (1) and (2) are good ideas. For (3), would it be clear enough if it read "``except:`` catches *all* exceptions, [...] and GeneratorExit (which is not an error and should not normally be caught by user

[issue8849] python.exe problem with cvxopt

2010-09-08 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: cvxopt looks like it includes a C-based extension module. Have you reported the bug to cvxopt? They are more likely to be able to spot the problem and determine if it is a bug in Python or their code. -- nosy: +r.david.murray

[issue9805] Documentation on old-style formatting of dicts is overly restrictive

2010-09-08 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Python 3.2a2+ (py3k:84613, Sep 7 2010, 19:17:31) [GCC 4.4.4] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> "%s %(abc)s" % dict(abc=2) "{'abc': 2}

[issue9807] deriving configuration information for different builds with the same prefix

2010-09-08 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue9808] Implement os.getlogin on Windows

2010-09-08 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue2745] Add support for IsWow64Process

2010-09-09 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: See also Issue7860. -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue2745> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list m

[issue9811] strftime strips '%' from unknown format codes on OS X

2010-09-09 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Python's strftime is a thin wrapper around the system strftime. This means, for example, that a slightly different set of % codes is supported on windows vs linux. So, from Python's point of view this is at *most* a doc bug. That said, I think

[issue9805] Documentation on old-style formatting of dicts is overly restrictive

2010-09-09 Thread R. David Murray
Changes by R. David Murray : -- resolution: -> duplicate stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> %-formatting and dicts ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.pytho

[issue9822] windows batch files are dependent on cmd current directory

2010-09-10 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: The general rule for submitting patches is to make them against development trunk (which is currently the py3k branch). Unified diffs from the top level of the checkout are preferred; whole files are not useful. However, it is not clear what bug you are

[issue9822] windows batch files are dependent on cmd current directory

2010-09-10 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I did not realize the build instructions recommended using the buildbot tool. It is clearly past time I got around to doing windows build myself. Please regenerate the diffs from the top level of the checkout, and we'll see if one of the windows

[issue1466065] base64 module ignores non-alphabet characters

2010-09-10 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: If you could update it that would be great. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1466065> ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue9608] Re-phrase best way of using exceptions in doanddont.rst

2010-09-10 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Here is another edit pass, incorporating Éric's suggestions and adding some additional tweaks. In particular, I eliminated the anti-pattern of catching (IOError, OSError) in one of the earlier examples in favor of the correct EnvironmentError, and

[issue9829] Unexpected Fraction.from_float() Behavior

2010-09-11 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Please read about floating point arithmetic in the tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/floatingpoint.html Also observe that this works: >>> Fraction(Decimal('1.23')) Fraction(123, 100) So yes, it is a limitation in ho

[issue9830] Python 2.7 x64 not properly installed on Windows 7 (registry)

2010-09-11 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: That bug (the link works fine for me) leads to this bug: Issue6792. Closing this one as duplicate. -- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed superseder: -> Distutils-based installer does not detect 64bit ve

[issue9835] ZipFile unix external attributes incorrect for entry written with writestr

2010-09-11 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I'm not very familiar with zipfile, but my immediate reaction is, why should it? It can't know that the file is a unix file, and indeed if the program is running on windows it may not be. Perhaps instead there's something missing in the API

[issue5729] Allows tabs for indenting JSON output

2010-09-11 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Is this merge going to happen before 3.2 beta? -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue5

[issue9608] Re-phrase best way of using exceptions in doanddont.rst

2010-09-11 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Committed in r84719 and r84720, backported to 2.7 in r84721 with the addition of a sentence admitting that sometimes you need a bare except to catch third-party exceptions that don't inherit from Exception. -- resolution: -> fixed stag

[issue9811] strftime strips '%' from unknown format codes on OS X

2010-09-11 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: But if it is a bug, it is a bug in OS/X, not in Python. Python could potentially fix it for python programs by providing our own strftime, but until someone does that the best we can do is a doc mention of this platform quirk

[issue9837] ZipFileExt.read() reads more data than requested

2010-09-12 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue9842] Document ... used in recursive repr of containers

2010-09-12 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: ... is also the Ellipsis object, and it is probably even more important that the index cross reference that usage :) -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9

[issue2118] smtplib.SMTP() raises socket.error rather than SMTPConnectError

2010-09-12 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I discussed this issue with Antoine Pitrou on #python-dev, and his opinion is that SMTPSocketConnectError doesn't add enough value to be worthwhile. So he is in favor of making this a doc fix. However, the suggestion also came up to have SMTPExce

[issue9716] The inittab modules cannot be packages

2010-09-13 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: We use versions to track which versions we are going to fix, not which versions are affected (which is why we don't list any versions pre-2.5...2.5 and 2.6 occasionally get security fixes, but no earlier versions even get those). Now, why Brett remove

[issue9820] Windows : os.listdir(b'.') doesn't raise an errorfor unencodablefilenames

2010-09-13 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: After the decision to ignore undecodable file names in os.listdir but before PEP 383 there was a long discussion on python-dev (in which I was a participant) about how horrible just ignoring the undecodable filenames was. This applies *especially* to the

[issue9820] Windows : os.listdir(b'.') doesn't raise an errorfor unencodablefilenames

2010-09-13 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: But in the case of BZ2File and ssl.SSLContext.load_cert_chain(), isn't it the case that they are trying to open the files? So producing an early error about the decoding problem makes sense. Are there any functions other than listdir where the de

[issue9360] nntplib cleanup

2010-09-13 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Assuming we can break backward compatibility, it sounds fine to me. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9

[issue9846] ZipExtFile provides no mechanism for closing the underlying file object

2010-09-13 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Antoine, any reason not to put the close in the ZipFileExt close method instead of a __del__ method? (And document it, of course). -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9

[issue9851] multiprocessing socket timeout will break client

2010-09-14 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue678264] test_resource fails when file size is limited

2010-09-15 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: The test does not fail if FSIZE is not max on linux/py3k, but max is still represented as -1 on linux. So the reported bug is no longer valid, but Martin's concern has not been addressed. -- nosy: +r.david.m

[issue9859] Add tests to verify API match of modules with 2 implementations

2010-09-15 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Shouldn't the test suite catch such discrepancies by testing all of the API? So your script catching something would be the equivalent of "oops, we forgot a test" (or "oops, this name shouldn't be public"). Which is not a bad

[issue678264] test_resource fails when file size is limited

2010-09-15 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: As a point of information, on my gentoo linux system without largefile support in the kernel, any value 4294967295 or above results in getrlimit reporting -1. Any smaller value is set and reported as itself. (If a sufficiently large value is passed in to

[issue9863] threading, signals, atexit: different execution with different versions

2010-09-15 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I can confirm this, and that it works on python2.5 (I don't have a 2.6.2 around to test). It also has the looping behavior on 2.7 and 3.2. Given the timing, I wonder if this is the result of the fix to issue 1722344. (Note, I removed 2.6 because it do

[issue1633863] AIX: configure ignores $CC

2010-09-15 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Sébastien, you could email Martin (tracker id loewis) about adding your buildbot to our unstable fleet (or even to stable if it is stable; that is, the tests normally pass and don't randomly fail). As long as you are around to help fix bugs it wou

[issue9863] threading, signals, atexit: different execution with different versions

2010-09-15 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I'm closing this as invalid, but I note that this kind of behavior change is not something we would normally have done in a point release if we had realized the consequences. -- resolution: -> invalid stage: -> committed/rejected s

[issue8077] cgi handling of POSTed files is broken

2010-09-15 Thread R. David Murray
Changes by R. David Murray : -- nosy: +r.david.murray title: urlparse -> cgi handling of POSTed files is broken ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/iss

[issue9874] Message.attach() loses empty attachments

2010-09-16 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Can you provide a simple example program that demonstrates the problem? -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9

[issue9873] Allow bytes in some APIs that use string literals internally

2010-09-16 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue9807] deriving configuration information for different builds with the same prefix

2010-09-16 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I've only been on the periphery of the distutils/makefile discussion, but I thought the goal was to *autogenerate* a module containing the relevant information at python build time, instead of (as now) parsing the makefile at run time. Whether or not

[issue416670] MatchObjects not deepcopy()able

2010-09-16 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue9874] Message.attach() loses empty attachments

2010-09-16 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Got your off-ticket email. I was hoping for something that *just* demonstrated the problem (just enough code to show the issue). It may be a bit before I can find the time to reduce your code to such a test case. -- stage: -> unit test nee

[issue1648923] HP-UX: -lcurses missing for readline.so

2010-09-16 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: It could still exist since we don't seem to have many people building python on hpux. That said, unless the op confirms the problem still exists in 2.7 or later this can stay closed. -- nosy: +r.david.m

[issue460474] codecs.StreamWriter: reset() on close()

2010-09-16 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue9885] Function Round does not work properly in some conditions

2010-09-17 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Please read http://docs.python.org/tutorial/floatingpoint.html Although your case isn't directly covered there, the root cause is the same. Floating point can't exactly represent 10.3. Note that in Python2.7 and 3.x, the repr will be shorten

[issue1724822] provide a shlex.split alternative for Windows shell syntax

2010-09-17 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: No, this feature request has not been satisfied. Georg fixed some subsidiary issues, but they did not in fact address the feature request for an shlex.split equivalent for Windows. Since no one has expressed interest in working on this, even though model

[issue1729930] 2.5.1 latest svn fails test_curses and test_timeout

2010-09-17 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: The bug probably does still exist (see issue 7038 for a recent similar report). However, without a repeatable test case we can't fix it, so leaving this closed is fine. If the OP can still reproduce it we can try working on it again. --

[issue1708652] Exact matching

2010-09-17 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I would say you should make the call on whether or not it is worth adding. IIUC it would mean there was more than one way to do something (\Z vs 'exact'), so I personally am -0 on the feature request. But I'm not a frequent regex user, so I

[issue1732367] Document the constants in the socket module

2010-09-17 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Resolution "won't fix" is inappropriate. We'd love to fix it, but someone has to volunteer to (re)write the doc update... -- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: wont fix -> type: -> feature request

[issue2236] Distutils' mkpath implementation ignoring the "mode" parameter

2010-09-17 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: This update appears to be turning the windows buildbots red. See for example http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/x86 XP-4 3.1/builds/1230/steps/test/logs/stdio. -- nosy: +r.david.murray status: closed -> o

[issue9888] int overflow in datetime causes seg fault from datetime.ctime()

2010-09-17 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue9888] int overflow in datetime causes seg fault from datetime.ctime()

2010-09-17 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: This does not reproduce for me on python2.6.5 gentoo linux; however, gentoo linux does have some additional post 2.6.5 patches applied. It also does not reproduce on 2.7. -- nosy: +barry, r.david.murray ___ Python

[issue9441] increase logging handlers test coverage

2010-09-17 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: It looks like we are getting buildbot failures as a result of this checkin: http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/i386 Ubuntu 3.x/builds/2216/steps/test/logs/stdio -- nosy: +r.david.murray status: closed -> o

[issue9889] PyUnicode_FormatV and Py_UNICODE*?

2010-09-17 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue9360] nntplib cleanup

2010-09-19 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I tested this against my existing py3k nttp client code. Why is it a good thing to make file a keyword only parameter? But given that it is, line 720 needs to use it as such, which omission means your missing at least one test :) On line 193 you index fmt

[issue9360] nntplib cleanup

2010-09-19 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Gah. I reviewed patch4, didn't noticed today's update :( -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9360> ___ __

[issue9583] Document startup option/environment interaction

2010-09-20 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I understood the documentation snippet Terry quoted as saying exactly what you say the code does. The doc could be clearer by replacing "multiple times" with "that number of times". Not that more than two has any meaning currently... C

[issue9360] nntplib cleanup

2010-09-20 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: OK. It doesn't seem all that likely that we'll be adding parameters, but you never know. So I'm OK with file becoming keyword only. As for the overview headers...if they aren't decoded through decode_header already, why are they unico

[issue678250] test_mmap failling on AIX

2010-09-21 Thread R. David Murray
Changes by R. David Murray : -- resolution: out of date -> status: closed -> open ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue678250> ___ ___ Pyth

[issue4661] email.parser: impossible to read messages encoded in a different encoding

2010-09-21 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: OK, I'm not entirely sure I want to post this, but Antoine and I were having a conversation about nntplib and email and I noted that unicode as an email transmission channel acts as if it required 7bit clean data. That is, that there's no

[issue4661] email.parser: impossible to read messages encoded in a different encoding

2010-09-21 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: The 'str' around get_param shouldn't be there, that was left over from an earlier version of the patch. I use surrogateescape rather than latin1 because using surrogateescape with ascii encoding gives me a reliable way to know whether or n

[issue678264] test_resource fails when file size is limited

2010-09-21 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: That's what the original report is about, as opposed to the linux repr issue that Martin wants to break out into a new ticket (which I will do). Any ideas how to fix the test? It didn't fail for me on linux, so I don't have a good test plat

[issue9917] resource max value represented as signed when should be unsigned

2010-09-21 Thread R. David Murray
New submission from R. David Murray : Breaking out the library bug discussed in issue 678264 from the test bug the issue is about. See msg14344 and msg116479. -- components: Library (Lib) messages: 117123 nosy: ajaksu2, loewis, mdr0, nnorwitz, r.david.murray, sable priority: normal

[issue9864] email.utils.{parsedate, parsedate_tz} should have better return types

2010-09-21 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Yes, email6 should make use of datetime objects. For email5 Antoine's proposal is better, but the question is will it happen before 3.2 beta :) -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue9918] Installation "make test", two fails if non-ascii path

2010-09-22 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I'm amazed you only got two failures. Victor has been doing a lot of work in 3.2 trying to make non-ascii paths work reliably. -- nosy: +haypo, r.david.murray ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue9918] Installation "make test", two fails if non-ascii path

2010-09-22 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: oh, wait, victor's work is for undecodable non-ascii characters. I think flox did the work on decodable non-ascii characters, and that may well have gone into 3.1. -- nosy: +flox ___ Python tracker

[issue9917] resource max value represented as signed when should be unsigned

2010-09-22 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: And here is Martin's summary of the issue: I think we really should create new issues for any remaining problems. AFAICT, the remaining problems are: - resource.RLIM_INFINITY is -1 on Linux, when it is meant to be a really large value - (as you rep

[issue9921] os.path.join('x','') behavior

2010-09-22 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Since changing the implementation would be a backward incompatible behavior change to a behavior that has existed for a long time, it's the docs that should be updated. -- assignee: -> d...@python components: +Documentation -Library (Lib)

[issue1491804] Simple slice support for list.sort() and .reverse()

2010-09-22 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: In fact, I find the proposed syntax *less* obvious than the slice syntax, for sorted. IOW, I'd be -1 on adding these to sorted. The potentially useful case is between l[a:b] = sorted(l[a:b}) vs l.sort(start=a, stop=b) where the interestin

[issue1491804] Simple slice support for list.sort() and .reverse()

2010-09-22 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue9864] email.utils.{parsedate, parsedate_tz} should have better return types

2010-09-22 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I'm assigning this to myself because I'm assigned on all email issues, but that shouldn't prevent someone from working on a patch implementing Antoine's suggestion. -- ___ Python tracker <

[issue9864] email.utils.{parsedate, parsedate_tz} should have better return types

2010-09-22 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue9272] CGIHTTPServer poisons os.environ

2010-09-23 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Anatoly, last we heard you did not wish to sign the contributor agreement and so were not submitting patches. We are respecting your wishes by not applying this. Have you changed your mind? -- ___ Python

[issue9930] Incorrect semantics of __radd__ method for builtin types

2010-09-23 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Could you post some simple examples and an explanation of what you think the problem is? I have no clue what problem your code is trying to show just by looking at it. (Maybe it will be clear to someone else, but still, simple examples are usually better

[issue9401] automatically try forward operations when reverse operations are NotImplemented

2010-09-23 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: No, but you could bring it up on python-ideas. (It would have to wait until after the moratorium in any case.) -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9

[issue9905] subprocess.Popen fails with stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE if standard descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed.

2010-09-23 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue2052] Allow changing difflib._file_template character encoding.

2010-09-23 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I believe that charset is the standard default for html, which would make this a feature request. -- assignee: tim_one -> nosy: +r.david.murray stage: unit test needed -> needs patch type: behavior -> feature request versions: +Python 3.

[issue2005] posixmodule expects sizeof(pid_t/gid_t/uid_t) <= sizeof(long)

2010-09-23 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: It appears as though this was fixed as part of issue 1983. Antoine, can you confirm that? -- nosy: +pitrou, r.david.murray -BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 -Python 2.6, Python 3.0

[issue9933] os module does not have the documented EX_NOTFOUND attribute

2010-09-23 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Perhaps this constant existed at some point on some linux systems...google found one comment about it referencing posix.2. I also found it mentioned in a specific version of sendmail, and in bash. When it appears it seems to most often have the value 127

[issue9933] os module does not have the documented EX_NOTFOUND attribute

2010-09-23 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: s/linux/unix/ -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9933> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue1794] Hot keys must work in any keyboard layout

2010-09-23 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: it does seem that the consensus is that this is not a generally desirable feature. -- nosy: +r.david.murray -BreamoreBoy resolution: -> rejected stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed _

[issue1763] Winpath module - easy access to Windows directories like My Documents

2010-09-23 Thread R. David Murray
Changes by R. David Murray : -- status: closed -> languishing ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1763> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Un

[issue9864] email.utils.{parsedate, parsedate_tz} should have better return types

2010-09-24 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: http://launchpad.net/python-email6 -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9864> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailin

[issue9929] subprocess.Popen unbuffered not work

2010-09-27 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: But if line buffering doesn't work, disabling buffering on stdout/stderr does have a functional consequence: it allows process output to appear as generated instead of coming in chunks when the buffer is full. Of course, I could be compl

[issue9864] email.utils.{parsedate, parsedate_tz} should have better return types

2010-09-28 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Thanks, Jeffrey. I've applied your patch (with minor doc tweaks) to the email6 branch. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue6031] BaseServer.shutdown documentation is incomplete

2010-09-28 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Hmm. It seems as though since issue 2302 is now closed, the comment about deadlocking if called before serve_forever may no longer be true. Gabriel? -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker <h

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