[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

[Serhiy Storchaka]

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[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

[Mariatta Wijaya]

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


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[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

[Mariatta Wijaya]

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


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[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

See also issue29566. Perhaps hexbin() bug is related to that bug.

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[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

[Mariatta Wijaya]

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[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

[Mariatta Wijaya]

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[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

[Georg Brandl]

Georg Brandl added the comment:

I don't remember anything specific about this, sorry.

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[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

File flags are saved in binhex format, therefore it is possible to distinguish 
text files from binary files.

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[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

[Ronald Oussoren]

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 line ending of the current platform could well corrupt 
that data.

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[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger added the comment:

Georg, do remember why this admonition was present?

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[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

[Serhiy Storchaka]

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[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

[Serhiy Storchaka]

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 comment:

#  Do translation on non-mac systems

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[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

[Berker Peksag]

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versions: +Python 3.5, Python 3.6

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[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

[Berker Peksag]

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


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[issue29557] binhex documentation claims unknown bug

[David Wilemski]

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 function's 
documentation in 1995 (https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3911d4a89ab0#l4.40) 
but the commit also has no information about what this bug may be. I also see 
no current open bugs for the binhex module that seem related.

In 2009, there was a patch for the hexbin function but I have no idea if this 
is the bug from the original documentation or if it was something else 
entirely: https://bugs.python.org/issue6369

Given this, I believe the line should be removed unless more details about the 
referenced buggy behavior can be found.

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