[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

Changes by Serhiy Storchaka : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

Mariatta Wijaya added the comment: New changeset 130c4ec5fbeb0878b88ec6aa06e47c9672566c17 by Mariatta in branch '3.6': bpo-29557: Remove ambiguous line in binhex docs (GH-90) (GH-475) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/130c4ec5fbeb0878b88ec6aa06e47c9672566c17 --

[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

Mariatta Wijaya added the comment: New changeset 6b7bc45e33ec953c542788420adc305ec026fa40 by Mariatta in branch '3.5': bpo-29557: Remove ambiguous line in binhex docs (GH-90) (GH-474) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6b7bc45e33ec953c542788420adc305ec026fa40 -- nosy: +Mariatta

[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: See also issue29566. Perhaps hexbin() bug is related to that bug. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

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[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

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[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

Georg Brandl added the comment: I don't remember anything specific about this, sorry. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: File flags are saved in binhex format, therefore it is possible to distinguish text files from binary files. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: I think the comment about needing translation on non-mac systems is incorrect. Binhex is (or rather was) a textual encoding for binary files used on classic MacOS. The encoded file is more likely to be binary data than a text file and replacing b'\r' by the

[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Georg, do remember why this admonition was present? -- nosy: +georg.brandl, rhettinger ___ Python tracker ___

[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

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[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: I think this should be read in the context of previous lines: If you code or decode textfiles on non-Macintosh platforms they will still use the old Macintosh newline convention (carriage-return as end of line). And may be related to the in-code

[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

Changes by Berker Peksag : -- stage: -> patch review type: -> behavior versions: +Python 3.5, Python 3.6 ___ Python tracker

[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

Berker Peksag added the comment: New changeset 6de2b7817fa9403e81dc38f13f3690f0bbf3d064 by Berker Peksag in branch 'master': bpo-29557: Remove ambiguous line in binhex docs (#90) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6de2b7817fa9403e81dc38f13f3690f0bbf3d064 -- nosy: +berker.peksag

[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

New submission from David Wilemski: The binhex documentation has a line in it that says "As of this writing, hexbin() appears to not work in all cases." This is a bit ambiguous and there is no context for what the bug may be. It appears this line is from the first commit to the hexbin