[issue29352] provide the authorative source for s[i:j] negative slice indices (<-len(s)) behavior for standard sequences

2017-03-17 Thread Akira Li
Changes by Akira Li <4kir4...@gmail.com>: -- pull_requests: +576 ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29352> ___ __

[issue29352] provide the authorative source for s[i:j] negative slice indices (<-len(s)) behavior for standard sequences

2017-03-17 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: I prefer the wording in the current patch. Though I don't have strong feelings one way or the other as long as the behavior is specified explicitly. -- ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.p

[issue28876] bool of large range raises OverflowError

2017-03-17 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: > Akira, could you open a pull request on GitHub? Done. PR 699 -- ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.or

[issue28876] bool of large range raises OverflowError

2017-03-17 Thread Akira Li
Changes by Akira Li <4kir4...@gmail.com>: -- pull_requests: +572 ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28876> ___ __

[issue29352] provide the authorative source for s[i:j] negative slice indices (<-len(s)) behavior for standard sequences

2017-01-23 Thread Akira Li
New submission from Akira Li: I've failed to find where the behavior for negative indices in s[i:j] expression (i, j < -len(s)) for standard sequences (str, list, etc) is formally defined. The observed behavior implemented in PySlice_GetIndicesEx(): If "len(s) + i" or "len(s

[issue28876] bool of large range raises OverflowError

2017-01-23 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: I've updated the patch to use 4-space indent (pep-7). I've added space around "=" (pep-7); unlike the usual "dict(designator=value)" -- no space around "=" for keyword argument (pep-8). -- Added file: http://bugs.pytho

[issue28876] bool of large range raises OverflowError

2017-01-22 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Following the python-dev discussion [1] I've added a variant of the patch that uses c99 designated initializers [2] [1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-January/147175.html [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html

[issue28180] sys.getfilesystemencoding() should default to utf-8

2016-12-21 Thread Akira Li
Changes by Akira Li <4kir4...@gmail.com>: -- nosy: +akira ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28180> ___ ___ Python

[issue28876] bool of large range raises OverflowError

2016-12-05 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: I've removed the documentation changes from the patch. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file45773/range_bool-no_docs.patch ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue28876] bool of large range raises OverflowError

2016-12-05 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Here's a patch with range_bool() implementation, tests and the docs update. I'm not sure how it should be documented. I've specified it as versionchanged:: 3.6 -- keywords: +patch nosy: +akira Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file45765/range_bool.patch

[issue27079] Bugs in curses.ascii predicates

2016-07-01 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: I'm not sure anything should be done (e.g., it is "undefined behavior" to pass a negative value such as CHAR_MIN (if *char* type is signed) to a character classification function in C. Though EOF value (-1 traditionally) should be handled). If you want

[issue27079] Bugs in curses.ascii predicates

2016-06-30 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: There is an overlapping issue from 2010: "curses.ascii.isblank() function is broken. It confuses backspace (BS 0x08) with tab (0x09)" http://bugs.python.org/issue9770 Your patch fixes it too (it should be closed). Note: the patch does not pass tests fro

[issue27273] subprocess.run(cmd, input='text') should pass universal_newlines=True to Popen

2016-06-08 Thread Akira Li
New submission from Akira Li: At the moment, subprocess.run(cmd, input='text') raises TypeError. It would be nice if universal_newlines=isinstance(input, str) if *input* is set. I've attached a corresponding patch with the necessary changes to the docs, tests and the subprocess.run() code

[issue27050] Demote run() below the high level APIs in subprocess docs

2016-06-08 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: > setting "universal_newlines=True" switches to UTF-8 encoded text pipes It uses locale.getpreferredencoding(False) encoding -- something like cp1252,cp1251,etc on Windows, and UTF-8 on *nix with proper locale settings. It is ASCII (C/POSIX l

[issue22274] subprocess.Popen(stderr=STDOUT) fails to redirect subprocess stderr to stdout

2016-05-08 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Updated the patch to address vadmium's review comments. -- versions: -Python 3.4 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file42777/subprocess-stderr_redirect_with_no_stdout_redirect-2.diff ___ Python tracker <

[issue23220] Documents input/output effects of how IDLE runs user code

2016-03-14 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: IDLE can implement functionality similar to what colorama [1] module does on Windows: translate ANSI escape character sequences into corresponding GUI method calls. For example, \b might be implemented using a .delete() call, \r using .mark_set(), etc. [1] https

[issue23570] Change "with subprocess.Popen():" (context manager) to ignore broken pipe error

2016-02-17 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Should this issue be reopened in light of http://bugs.python.org/issue26372 (Popen.communicate not ignoring BrokenPipeError)? If .close() shouldn't raise BrokenPipeError in .communicate() (and it shouldn't) then it seems logical that .close() shouldn't raise

[issue25536] use sys.platform instead of os.name in asyncio docs consistently

2015-11-02 Thread Akira Li
New submission from Akira Li: asyncio code uses "sys.platform == 'win32'" to detect OS. asyncio docs use both os.name and sys.platform. As far as I can tell there is no *practical* difference between "os.name == 'nt" and "sys.platform == 'win32'" for choosing asy

[issue25288] readline.py file in current directory caused unexpected code execution.

2015-10-02 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: python3 -I could be used as a workaround. -- nosy: +akira ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue25286] views are not sequences

2015-10-01 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Thank you for `view`, hint. I did look for :term:`view` that was obviously not enough. The new patch contains the renamed entry in the correct place. All `view`, ` occurrences dictionary view are updated now. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file40654

[issue25286] views are not sequences

2015-09-30 Thread Akira Li
New submission from Akira Li: The entry for *dict view* in the glossary may be clarified, to avoid confusion with collection.abc.Sequence i.e., from: They are lazy sequences that will see changes in the underlying dictionary. to something like: They provide a dynamic view

[issue22798] time.mktime doesn't update time.tzname

2015-09-29 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: > Would issue22798.diff patch address your issue? No. The issue is that C mktime() may update C tzname on some platforms but time.mktime() does not update time.tzname on these platforms while the time module docs suggest that it might be expected e.g.: M

[issue24773] Implement PEP 495 (Local Time Disambiguation)

2015-09-29 Thread Akira Li
Changes by Akira Li <4kir4...@gmail.com>: -- nosy: +akira ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24773> ___ ___ Python

[issue22798] time.mktime doesn't update time.tzname

2015-09-29 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Marc-Andre Lemburg <rep...@bugs.python.org> writes: ... > tzname is set when the module is being loaded and not updated > afterwards (unless you call tzset()). I can't really see why you > would expect a module global in Python to follow the semantics

[issue22798] time.mktime doesn't update time.tzname

2015-08-31 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: The C code produces correct values according to the tz database. If TZ=Europe/Moscow then tzname={"MSK", "MSD"} at 2010-07-01 and tzname={"MSK", "MSK"} at 2015-07-01. Notice the difference! The code calls C mktime() w

[issue22798] time.mktime doesn't update time.tzname

2015-08-31 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: > C mktime itself should not change timezone globals, but it may indirectly if > it calls tzset() and TZ changed between calls. You should have run the attached test_mktime_changes_tzname.c which demonstrates that (at least on some systems) C mktime *does*

[issue24881] _pyio checks that `os.name == 'win32'` instead of 'nt'

2015-08-21 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: To make _pyio correspond to the C version I've added sys.platform in {'win32', 'cygwin'} condition. See the attached pyio_setmode.diff It is not clear why the absence of _setmode(fd, os.O_BINARY) is not detected by tests. (a) a corresponding test should

[issue24842] Mention SimpleNamespace in namedtuple docs

2015-08-16 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: People do have problems that SimpleNamespace can solve: - Why Python does not support record type i.e. mutable namedtuple [1] - Does Python have anonymous classes? [2] - How to create inline objects with properties in Python? [3] - python create object and add

[issue19007] precise time.time() under Windows 8: use GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime

2015-07-20 Thread Akira Li
Changes by Akira Li 4kir4...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +akira ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19007 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue1191964] add non-blocking read and write methods to subprocess.Popen

2015-03-25 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: I'm going to be honest; seeing None being returned from a pipe read feels *really* broken to me. When I get None returned from an IO read operation, my first instinct is there can't be anything else coming, why else would it return None? It is how it is done

[issue10482] subprocess and deadlock avoidance

2015-03-22 Thread Akira Li
Changes by Akira Li 4kir4...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +akira ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10482 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue23574] datetime: support leap seconds

2015-03-12 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: POSIX timestamp doesn't count (literally) past/future leap seconds. It allows to find out that the timestamp 2**31-1 corresponds to 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z (UTC) regardless of how many leap seconds will occur before 2038: from datetime import datetime, timedelta

[issue21619] Cleaning up a subprocess with a broken pipe

2015-03-02 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: On Windows behavior http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23688492/oserror-errno-22-invalid-argument-in-subprocess -- nosy: +akira ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21619

[issue23494] adding timedelta to datetime object is not timezone aware

2015-03-02 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: pytz explicitly documents this case (crossing DST boundary). There is tz.normalize() method. the tzinfo object is responsible for handling daylight savings time. This looks like a bug in pytz. Are any of tzinfo methods even called during `before + timedelta

[issue22524] PEP 471 implementation: os.scandir() directory scanning function

2015-02-13 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: As I've mentioned in http://bugs.python.org/issue22524#msg231703 os.walk size 7925376343, scandir.walk size 5534939617 -- NOT EQUAL! os.walk and scandir.walk do a different work here. I don't see that it is acknowledged so I assume the benchmark is not fixed

[issue22799] wrong time.timezone

2015-01-28 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Isn't this a duplicate of #13466? In what way is it a duplicate? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22799

[issue22799] wrong time.timezone

2015-01-28 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: I agree that time.timezone, time.altzone is not enough in the general case. Because UTC offset may be different at different dates for reasons unrelated to DST transitions therefore any solution that doesn't take into account a given date/time into account will fail

[issue23251] mention in time.sleep() docs that it does not block other Python threads

2015-01-25 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: I've removed mentioning of GIL and uploaded a new patch. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file37850/docs-time.sleep-other-threads-are-not-blocked-2.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http

[issue23315] tempfile.mkdtemp fails with non-ascii paths on Python 2

2015-01-25 Thread Akira Li
New submission from Akira Li: Python 2.7.9 (default, Jan 25 2015, 13:41:30) [GCC 4.9.2] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. import os, sys, tempfile d = u'\u20ac'.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding()) # non-ascii if not os.path.isdir(d

[issue23320] devguide should mention rules about paragraph reflow in the documentation

2015-01-25 Thread Akira Li
New submission from Akira Li: It is suggested in https://bugs.python.org/issue23251 that only a core Python developer may reflow paragraphs while submitting patches for the Python documentation. It should be codified in devguide: I haven't found the word *reflow* in it. -- components

[issue23251] mention in time.sleep() docs that it does not block other Python threads

2015-01-18 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Only if the behaviour was unintuitive (i.e. if it *didn't* release the GIL) would it make sense to document it. There is no intuitive interface, not even the nipple. It's all learned. [1] Yes, on consideration I agree with Antoine. That last sentence should

[issue23251] mention in time.sleep() docs that it does not block other Python threads

2015-01-17 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: I think it's superfluous to mention the GIL here, since it has no impact on the function. If GIL is not released then all Python code in other threads is effectively blocked. It is worth mentioning explicitly that it is guaranteed to be released during the sleep

[issue23251] mention in time.sleep() docs that it does not block other Python threads

2015-01-16 Thread Akira Li
New submission from Akira Li: There is the corresponding StackOverflow question with 60K view time.sleep — sleeps thread or process? [1] The documentation patch is attached. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/92928/time-sleep-sleeps-thread-or-process -- assignee: docs@python

[issue23251] mention in time.sleep() docs that it does not block other Python threads

2015-01-16 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: I do not understand. Have you tried to look at the patch in Rietveld? The new content is highlighted in a darker green. It is clearly visible. I've tested on Chromium, Firefox, Safari. If I won't reflow then the first line will be longer than the recommended 80

[issue22932] email.utils.formatdate uses unreliable time.timezone constant

2015-01-11 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: @mitya57: Please, combine the code changes, tests, docs into a single rietveld-compatible patch (hg diff); read devguide and http://bugs.python.org/issue13963 Make sure review link appears on the right near the patch. Example: http://bugs.python.org/issue22798

[issue22932] email.utils.formatdate uses unreliable time.timezone constant

2014-12-24 Thread Akira Li
Changes by Akira Li 4kir4...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +akira ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22932 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue22673] document the special features (eg: fdclose=False) of the standard streams

2014-12-24 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Two minor details: 1. It is possible that `fileno(stdout) != 1` even in C [1]. I don't know what happens if the code from the answer is run on Windows. In principle, it may break eryksun's workaround. I don't know how likely it is in practice. 2. you

[issue23017] string.printable.isprintable() returns False

2014-12-13 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: C standard defines locale-specific *printing characters* that are [ -~] in C locale for implementations that use 7-bit US ASCII character set i.e., SP (space, 0x20) is a printing character in C (isprint() returns nonzero). There is isgraph() function that returns

[issue22356] mention explicitly that stdlib assumes gmtime(0) epoch is 1970

2014-12-02 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: I've provide the direct quote from *C* standard ... I understand that C standard uses the word encoding, but it does so for a reason that is completely unrelated to the choice of epoch. Encoding is how the bytes in memory

[issue22356] mention explicitly that stdlib assumes gmtime(0) epoch is 1970

2014-12-01 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: 1. It is not the job of the time module documentation to warn about many functions in the stdlib. What are these functions, BTW? The e-mail linked in the first message of this issue msg226539 enumerates some

[issue22356] mention explicitly that stdlib assumes gmtime(0) epoch is 1970

2014-12-01 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: In the context of Python library documentation, the word encoding strongly suggests that you are dealing with string/bytes. The situation may be different in C. If you want to refer to something that is defined

[issue22799] wrong time.timezone

2014-11-27 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: This issue could be fixed using sync-time-timezone-attr-with-c.diff patch from http://bugs.python.org/issue22798 -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22799

[issue22524] PEP 471 implementation: os.scandir() directory scanning function

2014-11-26 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: STINNER Victor added the comment: scandir is slower on my machine: Please share more information about your config: OS, disk type (hard drive, SSD, something else), filesystem, etc. Ubuntu 14.04, SSD, ext4 filesystem. Results for different python versions

[issue22524] PEP 471 implementation: os.scandir() directory scanning function

2014-11-26 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: To see what happens at syscall level, I've run various implementations of get_tree_size() functions (see get_tree_size_listdir.diff) with strace: get_tree_size_listdir_fd -- os.listdir(fd) + os.lstat get_tree_size -- os.scandir(path) + entry.lstat

[issue22524] PEP 471 implementation: os.scandir() directory scanning function

2014-11-26 Thread Akira Li
Changes by Akira Li 4kir4...@gmail.com: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file37284/get_tree_size_listdir.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22524

[issue22798] time.mktime doesn't update time.tzname

2014-11-25 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: One of the ways to fix this issue is to synchronize time.tzname attribute with the corresponding C tzname variable. I've uploaded sync-time-timezone-attr-with-c.diff patch that synchronizes tzname, timezone, altzone, daylight attributes. The patch also includes

[issue22798] time.mktime doesn't update time.tzname

2014-11-25 Thread Akira Li
Changes by Akira Li 4kir4...@gmail.com: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file37132/test_mktime_changes_tzname.c ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22798

[issue22524] PEP 471 implementation: os.scandir() directory scanning function

2014-11-25 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: scandir is slower on my machine: $ git clone https://github.com/benhoyt/scandir $ cd scandir/ $ ../cpython/python benchmark.py /usr/ Using slower ctypes version of scandir Comparing against builtin version of os.walk() Priming the system's cache

[issue22752] incorrect time.timezone value

2014-11-24 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: C standard delegates to implementations: The local time zone and Daylight Saving Time are implementation-defined. gcc (one of the implementations) says [1]: [timezone] contains the difference between UTC and the latest local standard time, in seconds west

[issue21872] LZMA library sometimes fails to decompress a file

2014-11-21 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: If lzma._BUFFER_SIZE is less than 2048 then all example files are decompressed successfully (at least lzma module produces the same results as xz utility) -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file37241/decompress-example-files.py

[issue21872] LZMA library sometimes fails to decompress a file

2014-11-21 Thread Akira Li
Changes by Akira Li 4kir4...@gmail.com: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file37240/decompress-example-files.py ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21872

[issue21872] LZMA library sometimes fails to decompress a file

2014-11-20 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: @Esa changing the buffer size helps with some bad files but lzma module still fails on some files. I've uploaded decompress-example-files.py script that demonstrates it. -- nosy: +akira Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file37239/decompress-example-files.py

[issue21872] LZMA library sometimes fails to decompress a file

2014-11-20 Thread Akira Li
Changes by Akira Li 4kir4...@gmail.com: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file37240/decompress-example-files.py ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21872

[issue21872] LZMA library sometimes fails to decompress a file

2014-11-20 Thread Akira Li
Changes by Akira Li 4kir4...@gmail.com: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file37239/decompress-example-files.py ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21872

[issue22536] subprocess should include filename in FileNotFoundError exception

2014-11-19 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: It would be inconsitent to provide filename only if exec is called e.g.: import subprocess subprocess.call(not used, cwd=nonexistent) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'nonexistent' The error message shows the filename (cwd) despite

[issue22536] subprocess should include filename in FileNotFoundError exception

2014-11-17 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: I can confirm that without the patch the filename attribute is None despite being mentioned in strerror. Travis, you should use `orig_executable` instead of `args[0]` to cover: subprocess.call(exit 0, shell=True, executable='/nonexistent bash') case. And use

[issue22536] subprocess should include filename in FileNotFoundError exception

2014-11-17 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: If the_oserror.filename is not None then str(the_oserror) appends the filename twice: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'nonexistent': 'nonexistent' You could remove `err_msg += ':' ...` statements to avoid the repeatition. It may break the code that uses

[issue22791] datetime.utcfromtimestamp() shoud have option for create tz aware datetime

2014-11-09 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: I agree the documentation should nudge towards aware datetime objects. I've attached a documentation patch as an example. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file37162/issue22791-utcfromtimestamp-aware.diff

[issue22791] datetime.utcfromtimestamp() shoud have option for create tz aware datetime

2014-11-08 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: from datetime import datetime, timezone datetime.fromtimestamp(0, timezone.utc) datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc) already works and it is documented [1] [1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html

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

2014-11-06 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Matt Frank added the comment: In msg230720 Akira Li (akira) wrote: os.defpath is supposed to be ':'+CS_PATH, e.g., look at glibc (C library used on Linux) sysdeps/posix/spawni.c I don't know whether it is possible to change CS_PATH without recompiling every

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

2014-11-06 Thread Akira Li
Changes by Akira Li 4kir4...@gmail.com: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file37140/os.get_shell_executable-3.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16353

[issue22798] time.mktime doesn't update time.tzname

2014-11-05 Thread Akira Li
New submission from Akira Li: time.tzname is initialized from C tzname variable or tm_zone around Jan, Jul of the current year. If time.mktime() is called with a time tuple from the past/future then after the call time.tzname might be out-of-sync with the corresponding C tzname and tm_zone

[issue22798] time.mktime doesn't update time.tzname

2014-11-05 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: I've attached test-timezone-info-is-updated.diff file -- a patch for Lib/test/test_time.py that demonstrates that time functions fail to update the timezone info. The test uses Europe/Moscow timezone but most timezones around the world had/will have different

[issue22798] time.mktime doesn't update time.tzname

2014-11-05 Thread Akira Li
Changes by Akira Li 4kir4...@gmail.com: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file37134/test_mktime_changes_tzname.c ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22798

[issue22799] wrong time.timezone

2014-11-05 Thread Akira Li
New submission from Akira Li: $ TZ=:Europe/Moscow ./python -mtest -v test_time == FAIL: test_localtime_timezone (test.test_time.TestPytime) -- Traceback

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

2014-11-05 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Matt Frank added the comment: Unfortunately os.defpath seems to be hardcoded. And hardcoded to the wrong value on every system I have looked at, including Linux. os.defpath is supposed to be ':'+CS_PATH, e.g., look at glibc (C library used on Linux) sysdeps

[issue22749] remove obsolete remark in time.clock() docs

2014-10-28 Thread Akira Li
New submission from Akira Li: time.clock() documentation [1] says: this is the function to use for benchmarking Python or timing algorithms. and Deprecated since version 3.3: The behaviour of this function depends on the platform: use perf_counter() or process_time() instead, depending

[issue22709] restore accepting detached stdin in fileinput binary mode

2014-10-23 Thread Akira Li
New submission from Akira Li: The patch for Issue #21075: fileinput.FileInput now reads bytes from standard stream if binary mode is specified broke code that used sys.stdin = sys.stdin.detach() with FileInput(mode='rb') in Python 3.3 I've attached the patch that makes FileInput to accept

[issue22709] restore accepting detached stdin in fileinput binary mode

2014-10-23 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: It is incorrect that sys.stdin is *always* a text stream. It often is, but not always. There are cases when it is not e.g., $ tar zcf - stuff | gpg -e | ssh user@server 'cat - stuff.tar.gz.gpg' tar's stdout is *not* a text stream. gpg's stdin/stdout

[issue22709] restore accepting detached stdin in fileinput binary mode

2014-10-23 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: This is not related to Python. Terms character, string, text, file can have different meaning in different domains. In Python we use Python terminology. There is no such thing as sys.stdin in Posix-compatible shell, because Posix-compatible shell has no the sys

[issue11820] idle3 shell os.system swallows shell command output

2014-10-19 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: It looks like the issue can be reduced to whether or not to show this output: import os os.write(1, b'should we see this in idle?\n') should we see this in idle? 28 assuming sys.__stdout__.fileno() == fileno(stdout) == 1. If should we see this in idle

[issue22627] Calling timestamp() on a datetime object modifies the timestamp of a different datetime object.

2014-10-14 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Christopher, About your script http://paste.ubuntu.com/8562027/ dateutil may break if the local timezone had different UTC offset in the past. You could use tzlocal module to get pytz timezone that can handle such timezones. To get the correct time

[issue22524] PEP 471 implementation: os.scandir() directory scanning function

2014-10-06 Thread Akira Li
Changes by Akira Li 4kir4...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +akira ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22524 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue22472] OSErrors should use str and not repr on paths

2014-09-30 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: I meant, in general, repr() is better for an error message because it should be unambigous unlike str() but in your particular case you could use filename attribute to format the way you like it for your UI. -- ___ Python

[issue22472] OSErrors should use str and not repr on paths

2014-09-29 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: OSError has *filename* attribute. Could it be passed to the UI instead? -- nosy: +akira ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22472

[issue22477] GCD in Fractions

2014-09-25 Thread Akira Li
Changes by Akira Li 4kir4...@gmail.com: -- nosy: -akira ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22477 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue22477] GCD in Fractions

2014-09-24 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Whether or not gcd(a, b) == gcd(|a|, |b|) depends on the definition if we believe to Stepanov of C++ STL fame who mentions in his lecture [1] [1] http://www.stepanovpapers.com/gcd.pdf that the current implementation that uses two operation __bool__ and __mod__

[issue22442] subprocess.check_call hangs on large PIPEd data.

2014-09-21 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: What do you think? I would prefer to deprecate PIPE argument for subprocess.call(): issue DeprecationWarning in 3.5 and raise ValueError in 3.6+ I've uploaded a patch that issues the warning. -- keywords: +patch type: - enhancement versions: +Python 3.5

[issue21332] subprocess bufsize=1 docs are misleading

2014-09-21 Thread Akira Li
Changes by Akira Li 4kir4...@gmail.com: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36679/subprocess-line-buffering-issue21332-ps5.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21332

[issue22442] subprocess.check_call hangs on large PIPEd data.

2014-09-21 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: @juj: DeprecationWarning is generated if PIPE is passed to call() as any positional or keyword argument in particular stdin, stdout, stderr. It also applies to check_call() that uses call() internally. -- ___ Python

[issue22442] subprocess.check_call hangs on large PIPEd data.

2014-09-21 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Victor, the message in my patch is copied almost verbatim from the current subprocess' documentation [1] [1] https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/850a62354402/Doc/library/subprocess.rst#l57 People use `call(cmd, stdout=PIPE)` as a *broken* way to suppress output

[issue22442] subprocess.check_call hangs on large PIPEd data.

2014-09-19 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: This is a documented failure on the python subprocess page, but why not just fix it up directly in python itself? If you want to discard the output; you could use: check_call(args, stdin=DEVNULL, stdout=DEVNULL, stderr=STDOUT) check_call() passes its parameters

[issue22377] %Z in strptime doesn't match EST and others

2014-09-19 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: I don't think we are going to support a timezone list like that without PEP 431. PEP 431 won't fix this issue. See below. You should attach your patch to a new issue. When I said this should the doc issue, that is because only a doc fix is acceptable for 3.4

[issue22443] read(1) blocks on unflushed output

2014-09-19 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25923901/last-unbuffered-line-cant-be-read Make sure you follow the links in the comments. -- nosy: +akira ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org

[issue22426] strptime accepts the wrong '2010-06-01 MSK' string but rejects the right '2010-06-01 MSD'

2014-09-16 Thread Akira Li
New submission from Akira Li: import os import time os.environ['TZ'] = 'Europe/Moscow' time.tzset() time.strptime('2010-06-01 MSK', '%Y-%m-%d %Z') time.struct_time(tm_year=2010, tm_mon=6, tm_mday=1, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=1, tm_yday=152, tm_isdst=0

[issue22426] strptime accepts the wrong '2010-06-01 MSK' string but rejects the right '2010-06-01 MSD'

2014-09-16 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: Correction: The correct offset is +0400: dt = datetime(2010, 5, 31, 20, tzinfo=timezone.utc).astimezone() And _timezones dict is defined in Lib/email/_parseaddr.py -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http

[issue22377] %Z in strptime doesn't match EST and others

2014-09-16 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: If the current implementation is considered correct (%Z not recognizing EST) then indeed extending the list of recognized timezones is another issue. And the docs should be changed to match the implementation. The current behavior is broken, see also issue22426

[issue22426] strptime accepts the wrong '2010-06-01 MSK' string but rejects the right '2010-06-01 MSD'

2014-09-16 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: My patch for issue22377 also fixes this bug. With the patch applied. Both MSK and MSD are accepted if the new timezones parameter is false (default for Python 3.5, will be changed to True in Python 3.6 If timezones is True then MSD return a correct aware datetime

[issue22426] strptime accepts the wrong '2010-06-01 MSK' string but rejects the right '2010-06-01 MSD'

2014-09-16 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: MSD variant works on my machine because C library uses the historical timezone database there. I'm not sure whether it works on old Windows versions. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org

[issue22377] %Z in strptime doesn't match EST and others

2014-09-13 Thread Akira Li
Akira Li added the comment: if PEP 431 is implemented (or anything that gives access to zoneinfo) then strptime could extend the list of timezones it accepts (utc + local timezone names) to include names from the tz database: import pytz # $ pip install pytz {tzname for tz in map

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