[issue24550] maxint on 64 bit platforms breaks os.read

New submission from Brian Mingus: The lower range for this bug may be anything greater than 32 bit maxint. Other modules such as multiprocessing are limited passing objects of size 32 bit maxint, even on 64 bit systems, likely due to this issue. I have demonstrated this by modifying

[issue18914] Python docs link to terrible outsi

New submission from Brian Mingus: The python documentation links to an outside website for info and examples on http basic auth. This documentation is terrible and confusing. The link should be removed, and user's should be advised to use the Requests library. # this example is from http

[issue18914] Confusing documentation in the urllib2 HOWTO

Brian Mingus added the comment: The documentation is confusing. Consider this comment: # All calls to urllib2.urlopen will now use our handler # Make sure not to include the protocol in with the URL, or # HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm will be very confused. # You must (of course) use it when

[issue18914] Confusing documentation in the urllib2 HOWTO

Brian Mingus added the comment: Yes - this link was a waste of my time. It would have been better if it had not been there. I propose to replace it with nothing. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue18914