Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-02-18 16:25 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote: This has to be a stupid question, but :) I have some generators that do stuff, then start yielding results. On occasion, I don't want them to yield anything ever-- they're only really generators because I want to call them /as/ a generator as part

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:15:46 -0800, Steve Howell wrote: Just to be clear, I'm not saying it's unforgivable to occasionally ship software with bugs. It happens. Occasionally? Oh, if only. I would say that there probably isn't a non-trivial application in the world that is entirely bug-free.

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread sjdevn...@yahoo.com
On Feb 18, 11:15 am, Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com wrote:     def print_numbers()         [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].map { |n|             [n * n, n * n * n]         }.reject { |square, cube|             square == 25 || cube == 64         }.map { |square, cube|             cube         }.each {

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Sorry for breaking the threading, but Stephen's original post hasn't come through to my provider. On 2010-02-18 16:25 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote: This has to be a stupid question, but :) I have some generators that do stuff, then start yielding results. On occasion, I don't want them to yield

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Robert Kern
On Feb 18, 5:08 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote: On 2010-02-18 16:25 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote: This has to be a stupid question, but :) I have some generators that do stuff, then start yielding results. On occasion, I don't want them to yield anything

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Ben Finney
Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com writes: On 2010-02-18 16:25 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote: The only way I can figure out how to make an empty generator is: def gen(): # do my one-time processing here return yield Is there a better way? The

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Xavier Ho
I don't think it's a stupid question at all. =]. But wouldn't it solve the problem if you call the generator the first time you need it to yield? Cheers, Xav On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 18, 5:08 pm, Steven D'Aprano

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Stephen Hansen
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: class once(object): def __init__(self, func, *args, **kwds): self.func = func self.args = args self.kwds = kwds def __iter__(self): return self def next(self):

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Stephen Hansen
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote: On 2010-02-18 16:25 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote: The only way I can figure out how to make an empty generator is: def gen(): # do my one-time processing here return

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Stephen Hansen
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Stephen Hansen apt.shan...@gmail.comwrote: My motivation is clarity, I can just see a colleague a year from now asking me, ... what the hell is return / yield? and although this is more expensive, its less clear to me. MORE clear to me. A class / decorator /

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread John Bokma
Jonathan Gardner jgard...@jonathangardner.net writes: On Feb 18, 8:15 am, Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com wrote:     def print_numbers()         [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].map { |n|             [n * n, n * n * n]         }.reject { |square, cube|             square == 25 || cube == 64        

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
On 18 Feb, 23:33, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: [...] No need to define functions or classes; let a generator expression take care of it for you::     foo = (x for x in list())     foo.next()     Traceback (most recent call last):       File stdin, line 1, in module    

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread John Bokma
John Bokma j...@castleamber.com writes: Jonathan Gardner jgard...@jonathangardner.net writes: On Feb 18, 8:15 am, Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com wrote:     def print_numbers()         [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].map { |n|             [n * n, n * n * n]         }.reject { |square, cube|          

Re: Why this doesn't work?

2010-02-18 Thread John Posner
On 2/18/2010 12:28 PM, mk wrote: Sorry to bother everyone again, but I have this problem bugging me: #!/usr/bin/python -i class Foo(object): def nostat(self,val): print val nostat.__orig_get__ = nostat.__get__ @staticmethod def nostatget(*args, **kwargs): print 'args:', args, 'kwargs:',

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Terry Reedy
On 2/18/2010 5:25 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote: This has to be a stupid question, but :) I have some generators that do stuff, then start yielding results. On occasion, I don't want them to yield anything ever-- they're only really generators because I want to call them /as/ a generator as part of

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-02-18 17:33 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Robert Kernrobert.k...@gmail.com writes: On 2010-02-18 16:25 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote: The only way I can figure out how to make an empty generator is: def gen(): # do my one-time processing here return yield Is

Re: The future of frozen types as the number of CPU cores increases

2010-02-18 Thread Rhodri James
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:11:24 -, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:58 AM, John Nagle na...@animats.com wrote: snip On that note, I went to a talk at Stanford yesterday by one of the designers of Intel's Nelahem core. The four-core, eight thread version is

Re: Upgrading Py2exe App

2010-02-18 Thread Ryan Kelly
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 07:46 -0800, T wrote: I have a Python app which I converted to an EXE (all files separate; single EXE didn't work properly) via py2exe - I plan on distributing this and would like the ability to remotely upgrade the program (for example, via HTTP/HTTPS). Looks like it's

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-02-18 17:36 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com mailto:robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: class once(object): def __init__(self, func, *args, **kwds): self.func = func self.args = args

Re: string to list when the contents is a list

2010-02-18 Thread Rhodri James
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:52:29 -, nn prueba...@latinmail.com wrote: Wes James wrote: I have been trying to create a list form a string. The string will be a list (this is the contents will look like a list). i.e. [] or ['a','b'] The [] is simple since I can just check if value == [] then

Bypassing properties on an object (also with __slots__?)

2010-02-18 Thread Andrey Fedorov
Two questions: 1 - is it documented that o.__dict__[attr] is a reliable way to bypass property methods? 2 - can one bypass a property method if the class has __slots__? Reason: I have a couple of different flavors of request objects which I need to make lazily conform to a standard interface. As

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:30:54 -0600, Robert Kern wrote: If all you want is a generator that doesn't yield anything, then surely there isn't any one-time processing and you don't need the comment? Sure there is. Python doesn't know that nothing gets yielded until it hits the return

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Ben Finney
Arnaud Delobelle arno...@googlemail.com writes: What about foo = iter('') That doesn't return a generator. foo = iter('') foo listiterator object at 0xf7cd3ed0 Whether the OP needs to create a generator, or just any iterable type, isn't clear. Robert Kern

Re: How secure are temp files created via tempfile.TemporaryFile()?

2010-02-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:09:28 -0500, python wrote: That's my concern - can other applications really read my temp files created with tempfile.TemporaryFile( delete=True )? import tempfile x = tempfile.TemporaryFile(delete=True) Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:12:10 -0600, Robert Kern wrote: He wants an iterator that executes some given side-effect-producing code then immediately raises the StopIteration. Ah, that's the bit I missed! Yewww. Programming by side-effect... I hope the original poster has a good reason for such a

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Jonathan Gardner
On Feb 18, 3:04 pm, sjdevn...@yahoo.com sjdevn...@yahoo.com wrote: You could do it without intermediate names or lambdas in Python as: def print_numbers():     for i in [ cube for (square, cube) in                          [(n*n, n*n*n) for n in [1,2,3,4,5,6]]                if square!=25

Re: MODULE FOR I, P FRAME

2010-02-18 Thread Rhodri James
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:50:14 -, DANNY danijel.gv...@gmail.com wrote: If I want to have a MPEG-4/10 coded video and stream it through the network and than have the same video on the client side, what should I use and of course I don't want to have raw MPEG data, because than I couldn't

Re: Creating Import Hooks

2010-02-18 Thread Jonathan Gardner
On Feb 18, 1:28 am, Sreejith K sreejith...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 18, 1:57 pm, Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:03:51 -0800, Jonathan Gardner wrote: On Feb 17, 10:48 pm, Sreejith K sreejith...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I need

Re: Sounding Off, IDLE (Win7)

2010-02-18 Thread rantingrick
On Feb 18, 6:10 pm, W. eWatson wolftra...@invalid.com wrote: In Win7 IDLE, when I type in something with a syntax problem, a bell rings. How do I stop that? I've looked at Control Panel Sounds, but don't see anything of apparent use. Monkey Patch Said: Turn off your speakers --

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Steve Howell
On Feb 18, 3:00 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au wrote: [...] You wouldn't name your functions: f01, f02, f03, f04, ... f99 Exactly. (say), unless you were trying to deliberately obfuscate your code. Anonymous functions are even more obfuscated than that. You can

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Steve Holden
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:15:20 -0800, Steve Howell wrote: [...] There really ought to be a special level of Hell for people who misuse strawman to mean a weak or invalid argument instead of what it actually means, which is a weak or invalid argument NOT HELD by your

Re: Few questions on SOAP

2010-02-18 Thread Steve Holden
Brendon Wickham wrote: On 19 February 2010 08:07, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Muhammad Alkarouri wrote: Your question is borderline if not out of topic in this group. I will make a few comments though. This might be a Python group, but threads often drift way off topic, which

Re: Sounding Off, IDLE (Win7)

2010-02-18 Thread MRAB
rantingrick wrote: On Feb 18, 6:10 pm, W. eWatson wolftra...@invalid.com wrote: In Win7 IDLE, when I type in something with a syntax problem, a bell rings. How do I stop that? I've looked at Control Panel Sounds, but don't see anything of apparent use. Monkey Patch Said: Turn off your

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Steve Howell
On Feb 18, 3:04 pm, sjdevn...@yahoo.com sjdevn...@yahoo.com wrote: On Feb 18, 11:15 am, Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com wrote:     def print_numbers()         [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].map { |n|             [n * n, n * n * n]         }.reject { |square, cube|             square == 25 || cube

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Steve Holden
Stephen Hansen wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com mailto:robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: class once(object): def __init__(self, func, *args, **kwds): self.func = func self.args = args self.kwds = kwds

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Paul Rubin
Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com writes: But frankly, although there's no reason that you _have_ to name the content at each step, I find it a lot more readable if you do: def print_numbers():     tuples = [(n*n, n*n*n) for n in (1,2,3,4,5,6)]     filtered = [ cube for (square, cube) in

Re: How secure are temp files created via tempfile.TemporaryFile()?

2010-02-18 Thread python
Steven, Thank you very much for your wonderful reply!! I had read the Fine Manual, but as you pointed out the documentation only mentions visibility of file names. Exclusive locks are advisory, not mandatory, on some operating systems, so you can't rely on it. That comment and your list

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread sjdevn...@yahoo.com
On Feb 18, 10:58 pm, Paul Rubin no.em...@nospam.invalid wrote: Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com writes: But frankly, although there's no reason that you _have_ to name the content at each step, I find it a lot more readable if you do: def print_numbers():     tuples = [(n*n, n*n*n) for n

Re: Upgrading Py2exe App

2010-02-18 Thread CM
On Feb 18, 7:19 pm, Ryan Kelly r...@rfk.id.au wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 07:46 -0800, T wrote: I have a Python app which I converted to an EXE (all files separate; single EXE didn't work properly) via py2exe - I plan on distributing this and would like the ability to remotely upgrade the

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Steve Howell
On Feb 18, 2:49 pm, Jonathan Gardner jgard...@jonathangardner.net wrote: On Feb 18, 8:15 am, Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com wrote:     def print_numbers()         [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].map { |n|             [n * n, n * n * n]         }.reject { |square, cube|             square == 25

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Steve Howell
On Feb 18, 7:58 pm, Paul Rubin no.em...@nospam.invalid wrote: Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com writes: But frankly, although there's no reason that you _have_ to name the content at each step, I find it a lot more readable if you do: def print_numbers():     tuples = [(n*n, n*n*n) for n

Using compileall to create -OO type .pyo files

2010-02-18 Thread python
I've read the documentation on compileall and tried using this module directly. Nowhere can I find how to specify to compileall that it should create .pyo vs. .pyc files. Goal: I would like to use the compileall.compile_dir() method to generate -OO type .pyo files as part of a larger Python

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Steve Howell
On Feb 18, 8:27 pm, sjdevn...@yahoo.com sjdevn...@yahoo.com wrote: On Feb 18, 10:58 pm, Paul Rubin no.em...@nospam.invalid wrote: Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com writes: But frankly, although there's no reason that you _have_ to name the content at each step, I find it a lot more

best way to create a dict from string

2010-02-18 Thread Tim Arnold
Hi, I've got some text to parse that looks like this text = ''' blah blah blah \Template[Name=RAD,LMRB=False,LMRG=True]{tables} ho dee ho ''' I want to extract the bit between the brackets and create a dictionary. Here's what I'm doing now: def options(text): d = dict() options =

Re: The future of frozen types as the number of CPU cores increases

2010-02-18 Thread Gregory Ewing
John Nagle wrote: One way to implement locking is something like this: Mutable objects have a reference count field, a lock field, and an owner field. Initially, the owner of an object is its thread. If an object's only reference is a field of a synchronized object, the owner is the

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Kurt Smith
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com wrote: On Feb 18, 2:49 pm, Jonathan Gardner jgard...@jonathangardner.net wrote: On Feb 18, 8:15 am, Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com wrote:     def print_numbers()         [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].map { |n|             [n *

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Steve Howell
On Feb 18, 7:58 pm, Paul Rubin no.em...@nospam.invalid wrote: Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com writes: But frankly, although there's no reason that you _have_ to name the content at each step, I find it a lot more readable if you do: def print_numbers():     tuples = [(n*n, n*n*n) for n

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Paul Rubin
Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com writes: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.4/html/users_guide/syntax-extns.html... might be of interest.  Maybe Ruby and/or Python could grow something similar. Can you elaborate? List comprehensions are a Python feature you're probably familiar with, and I think

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:48:21 -0500, Steve Holden wrote: Next week: Lesson 2 - Ad Hominem Attacks I wouldn't pay any attention to Steve, all Stevens are notorious liars. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Gregory Ewing
Steve Howell wrote: Python may not support the broadest notion of anonymous functions, but it definitely has anonymous blocks. You can write this in Python: for i in range(10): print i print i * i print i * i * i There's a clear difference between this and a Ruby

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:57:35 -0800, Steve Howell wrote: The names you give to the intermediate results here are terse--tuples and filtered--so your code reads nicely. In a more real world example, the intermediate results would be something like this: departments

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Steve Howell
On Feb 18, 9:41 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:48:21 -0500, Steve Holden wrote: Next week: Lesson 2 - Ad Hominem Attacks I wouldn't pay any attention to Steve, all Stevens are notorious liars. -- Steven Especially when their last

Re: How secure are temp files created via tempfile.TemporaryFile()?

2010-02-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:34:58 -0800, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:09:28 -0500, pyt...@bdurham.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: 2. As soon as my process terminates (voluntarily or involuntarily), the temp file gets deleted. Which only means

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:52:20 +1300, Gregory Ewing wrote: The Ruby approach has the advantage of making it possible to implement user-defined control structures without requiring a macro facility. You can't do that in Python. [...] Also, most people who advocate adding some form of

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Steve Howell
On Feb 18, 9:46 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:57:35 -0800, Steve Howell wrote: The names you give to the intermediate results here are terse--tuples and filtered--so your code reads nicely. In a more real world example, the

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-02-18 19:28 PM, Mel wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:30:54 -0600, Robert Kern wrote: If all you want is a generator that doesn't yield anything, then surely there isn't any one-time processing and you don't need the comment? Sure there is. Python

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-02-18 18:33 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Robert Kernrobert.k...@gmail.com writes: He doesn't want *any* empty generator. He wants an iterator that executes some given side-effect-producing code then immediately raises the StopIteration. Ah, hm. That's a rather perverse use case, but I'm

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:15:20 -0600, Robert Kern wrote: What's the point of the wheel spinning? Did I miss something? I wonder whether it's for some kind of framework with a main loop like for it in list_of_iterables: for x in it: do_this_or_that (x) where, every once in a

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Steve Howell
On Feb 18, 9:37 pm, Kurt Smith kwmsm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com wrote: On Feb 18, 2:49 pm, Jonathan Gardner jgard...@jonathangardner.net wrote: On Feb 18, 8:15 am, Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com wrote:     def print_numbers()

Re: How to make an empty generator?

2010-02-18 Thread Ben Finney
Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com writes: On 2010-02-18 18:33 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Robert Kernrobert.k...@gmail.com writes: He doesn't want *any* empty generator. He wants an iterator that executes some given side-effect-producing code then immediately raises the StopIteration.

ANN: PiCloud cloud library 1.8 release

2010-02-18 Thread Ken Elkabany
PiCloud, a cloud-computing platform for the Python Programming Language, has released version 1.8 of its client library, cloud. PiCloud enables Python users to leverage the power of an on-demand, high performance, and auto scaling compute cluster with as few as three lines of code! No server

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-18 Thread Steve Howell
On Feb 18, 9:52 pm, Gregory Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: Steve Howell wrote: Python may not support the broadest notion of anonymous functions, but it definitely has anonymous blocks.  You can write this in Python:     for i in range(10):         print i         print i * i

with statement and standard library

2010-02-18 Thread nobrowser
Hi. The with statement is certainly nifty. The trouble is, the *only* two documented examples how it can be used with the library classes are file objects (which I use all the time) and thread locks which I almost never use. Yet there are many, many classes in the library whose use would be

[issue7712] Add a context manager to change cwd in test.test_support and run the test suite in a temp dir.

2010-02-18 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com added the comment: Ported to py3k in r78214. I will think about the cleanups later, they are not so important right now. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue7712

[issue5604] imp.find_module() mixes UTF8 and MBCS

2010-02-18 Thread Florent Xicluna
Florent Xicluna la...@yahoo.fr added the comment: Still an issue for some buildbot: http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/x86%20XP-4%203.x/builds/1487 http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/x86%20XP-4%203.x/builds/1491 It is loosely related with #7712, because now the tests

[issue7956] unittest.Testcase assertDictContainsSubset with integer keys

2010-02-18 Thread Michael Newman
New submission from Michael Newman michael.b.new...@gmail.com: The attached example unit test file shows that assertDictContainsSubset cannot handle error messages that need to show integer keys. Below is the output of the test suite, where test_mixed_keys_fail has an error (code mistake),

[issue7942] Inconsistent error types/messages for __len__ (and __nonzero__) between old and new-style classes

2010-02-18 Thread Paul Boddie
Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk added the comment: Actually, in the issue reported, the initial problem occurs in the evaluation of an object in a boolean context (and the subsequent problem occurs with an explicit len invocation):

[issue7633] decimal.py: type conversion in context methods

2010-02-18 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah stefan-use...@bytereef.org added the comment: It looks good (I agree on number_class), but I'd change these: - Add raiseit=True to context.copy_decimal() - Remove wrong comment from context.is_infinite() - Add _convert_other(a, raiseit=True) to context.logical_invert() -

[issue5604] imp.find_module() mixes UTF8 and MBCS

2010-02-18 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com added the comment: Also the test has a few problems: 1) the keys of known_locales are lowercase, but locale_encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding() can return uppercase encodings (e.g. UTF-8); 2) this masks another error: the b'\xe4' is not a valid utf-8

[issue7950] subprocess.Popen documentation should contain a good warning about the security implications when using shell=True

2010-02-18 Thread Christoph Neuroth
Christoph Neuroth christoph.neur...@googlemail.com added the comment: You're right, that has been improved in regard to how you can do it instead. However, I still think it lacks to mention the security risk involved - compare this to e.g. os.tempnam(), which has a warning in a red box.

[issue7950] subprocess.Popen documentation should contain a good warning about the security implications when using shell=True

2010-02-18 Thread Eric Smith
Eric Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment: If you want to generate some more discussion, I suggest you close this issue and reopen the other one, since that has more people on the nosy list. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue7950] subprocess.Popen documentation should contain a good warning about the security implications when using shell=True

2010-02-18 Thread Christoph Neuroth
Christoph Neuroth christoph.neur...@googlemail.com added the comment: Good idea :) -- status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue7950 ___

[issue6760] patch to subprocess docs to better explain Popen's 'args' argument

2010-02-18 Thread Christoph Neuroth
Christoph Neuroth christoph.neur...@googlemail.com added the comment: As recommended by eric.smith on #7950, I'd like to suggest further extending the documentation to include a security warning about (quite easily) possible code injection bugs when using the shell=True parameter (similar to

[issue7633] decimal.py: type conversion in context methods

2010-02-18 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: Tweaked some doctests in r78218: - add integer argument doctest for logical_invert - fix integer literals with a leading zero for the other logical_*** methods, since they're illegal in Python 3. Merged to py3k in r78219. Thanks,

[issue7957] Tutorial issue regarding the sys module

2010-02-18 Thread Ronald Oussoren
Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com added the comment: That's odd, they should exist and do for me: Python 2.6.4 (r264:75821M, Oct 27 2009, 19:48:32) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. import sys sys.ps1 ' '

[issue7958] test_platform failure on OS X 10.6

2010-02-18 Thread Mark Dickinson
New submission from Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com: With a 64-bit debug non-framework builds of the trunk and py3k, on OS X 10.6, I'm consistently getting the following failure in test_platform: trunk dickinsm$ ./python.exe Lib/test/regrtest.py -uall test_platform test_platform [18064 refs]

[issue7957] Tutorial issue regarding the sys module

2010-02-18 Thread Lucian Ursu
Lucian Ursu lucian_u...@yahoo.com added the comment: Then it must be an issue with my Python. This is what I get. import sys dir(sys) ['__displayhook__', '__doc__', '__excepthook__', '__name__', '__package__', '__stderr__', '__stdin__', '__stdout__', '_clear_type_cache', '_current_frames',

[issue7958] test_platform failure on OS X 10.6

2010-02-18 Thread Ronald Oussoren
Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com added the comment: This test seems to trigger an issue in site.py, adding '-v' to the code that starts the interpreter in test_platform.py gives the following output (amongst a lot more text that doesn't seem to be relevant): 'import site' failed;

[issue6040] bdist_msi does not deal with pre-release version

2010-02-18 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: The problem is that the version number goes into the MSI ProductVersion property, which MUST be numeric, or else Windows will refuse to install the package. So this is not just an arbitrary choice (at least not by bdist_msi). I'm not sure

[issue5839] RegOpenKeyEx key failed on Vista 64Bit with return 2

2010-02-18 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: Closing because of lack of feedback. -- nosy: +loewis resolution: - out of date status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5839

[issue7955] TextIOWrapper Buffering Inconsistent Between _io and _pyio

2010-02-18 Thread Andrew McNabb
Andrew McNabb amcn...@mcnabbs.org added the comment: This seems like a common need (particularly for stdout and stderr), and setting `stdout._CHUNK_SIZE = 1` is relying on an implementation detail. 1) Can the documentation for TextIOWrapper be updated to clearly describe this extra buffering

[issue7955] TextIOWrapper Buffering Inconsistent Between _io and _pyio

2010-02-18 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: I agree this deserves documentation. I'm not convinced it's a common need, though. Usually you either use stdin/stdout in binary mode or in text mode, but you don't interleave both quite frequently. -- assignee: - georg.brandl

[issue7955] TextIOWrapper Buffering Inconsistent Between _io and _pyio

2010-02-18 Thread Andrew McNabb
Andrew McNabb amcn...@mcnabbs.org added the comment: I would imagine that this would come up in most programs that read data from a pipe or from a socket (which are binary data) and then output to stdout or stderr. I ran across the problem in my first non-trivial port to Python 3, and it

[issue1540] Refleak tests: test_doctest and test_gc are failing

2010-02-18 Thread Jeremy Hylton
Jeremy Hylton jhyl...@gmail.com added the comment: I'm trying to figure out the attached script. If I run Python 3.0, the script doesn't run because of the undefined gc.DEBUG_OBJECTS. If I just remove that, the script runs without error. Does that mean the problem is fixed? Or is running

[issue1578269] Add os.symlink() and os.path.islink() support for Windows

2010-02-18 Thread Eric Smith
Eric Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment: At the language summit we okay'd using ctypes in the tests for standard lib modules, specifically for this issue. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue1578269

[issue7956] unittest.Testcase assertDictContainsSubset with integer keys

2010-02-18 Thread Michael Foord
Michael Foord mich...@voidspace.org.uk added the comment: Thanks for reporting this. I can fix this particular error easily by repr'ing the keys. In the process I've found another fun way of killing this assert method: one = ''.join(chr(i) for i in range(255)) two = u'\uFFFD'

[issue7959] ctypes memory leak

2010-02-18 Thread Thomas Heller
New submission from Thomas Heller thel...@ctypes.org: This little script 'ctypes-leak.py' leaks memory: import gc from ctypes import * PROTO = WINFUNCTYPE(None) class Test(object): def func(self): pass def __init__(self): self.v = PROTO(self.func) while 1: try:

[issue7960] test.support.captured_output has invalid docstring example

2010-02-18 Thread Michael Newman
New submission from Michael Newman michael.b.new...@gmail.com: test.support.captured_output is not covered in the online documents: http://docs.python.org/3.1/library/test.html http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/test.html However, it does have a docstring in C:\Python31\Lib\test\support.py

[issue7961] Py3k: decoding empty bytestring with invalid encoding throws no error

2010-02-18 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: Specifically, the behaviour comes from an early check for empty strings in the PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject function: /* Convert to Unicode */ if (len == 0) { Py_INCREF(unicode_empty); v = (PyObject *)unicode_empty;

[issue7434] pprint doesn't know how to print a namedtuple

2010-02-18 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Will ponder this a bit more but will likely close this specific request (leaving open the possibility of a more general rewrite of pprint). -- assignee: - rhettinger priority: - low versions: +Python 2.7, Python

[issue7961] Py3k: decoding empty bytestring with invalid encoding throws no error

2010-02-18 Thread Ori Avtalion
Ori Avtalion o...@avtalion.name added the comment: OK. The attached patch removes the empty string check before decoding. I'm not sure where tests should go, since I can only find them in Lib/test/ and this is not a library change. -- keywords: +patch Added file:

[issue1726687] Bug found in datetime for Epoch time = -1

2010-02-18 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopol...@gmail.com added the comment: I wonder: with year bounds being checked in gettmarg() and mktime accepting arbitrary values for the rest of the tm structure members (at least it appears to on my Mac), is it possible trigger mktime argument out of range?

[issue7961] Py3k: decoding empty bytestring with invalid encoding throws no error

2010-02-18 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: Thanks for the patch. Rather than remove that optimization entirely, I'd consider pushing it into PyUnicode_Decode. All tests (whether for the standard library or for the core) go into Lib/test, so that would be the right place.

[issue7961] Py3k: decoding empty bytestring with invalid encoding throws no error

2010-02-18 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: I take that back: test_codecs_errors isn't the right function to add these tests to. I actually don't see any current tests for invalid codecs. Part of the problem would be coming up with an invalid codec name in the first place: as I

[issue7961] Py3k: decoding empty bytestring with invalid encoding throws no error

2010-02-18 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: And PyUnicode_Decode doesn't look up the encoding in the registry either: that's somewhere in PyCodec_Decode. I'm going to butt out now and leave this to those who know the code better. :) --

[issue7961] Py3k: decoding empty bytestring with invalid encoding throws no error

2010-02-18 Thread Ori Avtalion
Ori Avtalion o...@avtalion.name added the comment: Ignoring the custom utf-8/latin-8 conversion functions, the actual checking if a codec exists is done in Python/codecs.c's PyCodec_Decode. Is that where I should move the aforementioned optimization to? Is it safe to assume that the decoded

[issue2736] datetime needs an epoch method

2010-02-18 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopol...@gmail.com added the comment: Victor, As you explain in your own documentation, the proposed method is equivalent to ``(time.mktime(self.timetuple()), self.microsecond)``, so all it does is replacing a less than a one-liner. Moreover, I am not sure

[issue7963] Misleading error message from object(arg)

2010-02-18 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
New submission from Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopol...@gmail.com: object(1) Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in module TypeError: object.__new__() takes no parameters This is misleading because object.__new__() takes one parameter: object.__new__(object)

[issue2636] Regexp 2.7 (modifications to current re 2.2.2)

2010-02-18 Thread Vlastimil Brom
Vlastimil Brom vlastimil.b...@gmail.com added the comment: Thanks for fixing the argument positions; unfortunately, it seems, there might be some other problem, that makes my code work differently than the builtin re; it seems, in the character classes the ignorcase flag is ignored somehow:

[issue7250] wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler caches os.environ, leaking info between requests

2010-02-18 Thread Phillip J. Eby
Phillip J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com added the comment: What sort of test did you have in mind? To test the desired outcome, it seems we'd need to poison os.environ, reload wsgiref.handlers, remove the poison, and then make sure it didn't get in. That seems a bit like overkill (as well as

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