New submission from Georgiy Treyvus:
The conditions under which this bug occurs I can't explain. I will provide as
much other information as I can.
This is an issue with both Python2 and Python3. More specifically Python 2.7.3
and Python 3.2.3 as those are what come with the Fedora 17 repositories. Not
that it matters I made sure my program is written portably and so works on
both. This involved stunts like:
if sys.version_info[0]==2:
input=raw_input
Getting back to the point since strings in Python are immutable I instead have
code that tries to assign a character string to a list of one character strings
at a given index in that list. Now normally this works quite splendidly. For
example:
[georgiy@PANTHER mess]$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Jul 24 2012, 10:05:38)
[GCC 4.7.0 20120507 (Red Hat 4.7.0-5)] on linux2
Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information.
l=list('test')
l
['t', 'e', 's', 't']
l[0]='b'
l
['b', 'e', 's', 't']
[georgiy@PANTHER mess]$ python3
Python 3.2.3 (default, Jun 8 2012, 05:36:09)
[GCC 4.7.0 20120507 (Red Hat 4.7.0-5)] on linux2
Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information.
l=list('test')
l
['t', 'e', 's', 't']
l[0]='b'
l
['b', 'e', 's', 't']
[georgiy@PANTHER mess]$
See all is well.
However when I attempt to do the same exact thing namely assign a one character
string to a list of one character strings at a given index in that list I get
an error.
Here's what happens when I run my program:
[georgiy@PANTHER mess]$ python gcipher.py
Enter a command. Valid ones are encrypt, decrypt, and exit.
command: encrypt
Enter plaintext. Only alphabetic characters allowed.
plaintext: secretmessagehere
Enter the encryption key. Only alphabetic characters allowed.
key: secretkeyhere
The encrypted version of your input with the given key is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File gcipher.py, line 214, in module
print(encrypt(inText,encryptionKey))
File gcipher.py, line 127, in encrypt
letters[index]=letterAdd(letters[index],keystream[index])
TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment
[georgiy@PANTHER mess]$ python3 gcipher.py
Enter a command. Valid ones are encrypt, decrypt, and exit.
command: encrypt
Enter plaintext. Only alphabetic characters allowed.
plaintext: secretmessagehere
Enter the encryption key. Only alphabetic characters allowed.
key: secretkeyhere
The encrypted version of your input with the given key is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File gcipher.py, line 214, in module
print(encrypt(inText,encryptionKey))
File gcipher.py, line 127, in encrypt
letters[index]=letterAdd(letters[index],keystream[index])
TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment
[georgiy@PANTHER mess]$
Anyway here is the final proof that we have a bug here and that I am not a
complete moron that assigned to a string. It says there's a problem on line
127. Well here are are few very relevant lines 120-126 right before 127 you
might want to take a look at:
assert(type(plaintext)==str)
letters=list(plaintext)
assert(type(letters)==list)
assert(type(letters[0])==str)
assert(len(letters[0])==1)
for roundNumber in range(17):
for index in range(plaintextLength):
The point is that all the assertions in the above assert statements held true.
No AssertionErrors were raised. What was instead raised is a TypeError because
Python thought I was assigning to an index in a string. Yet clearly right
before that we have asserted that the variable letters is bound to a list
type. And in line 127 I was assigning a one character string to an index in
letters which again is a list and not a string.
Please look into this. If you need more information let me know and I will do
my best to provide it. If you want I can also provide you folks with the
complete source code if you feel it will help you. (I do warn in advance that
it is quite messy/hacky/unPythonic to the point of me quite possibly becoming
the laughingstock of the Python developer community. Of course considering the
rather complicated nature of the transformations made on text during
(en|de)cryption I'd like to see any critics do it better. Please do not laugh
too hard when I show it.)
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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 184501
nosy: wfatp
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: I can't make assignments to a list.
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