[issue5465] No edit in IDLE in right click context menu

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: That's not a bug. When you installed 2.5, you had defined that files are associated with 2.5. When you uninstalled 2.5, those associations were removed. In "Add and Remove Programs", find 2.6, and run a "Repair" installation to get the files associated with 2.6

[issue2706] datetime: define division timedelta/timedelta

Fredrik Johansson added the comment: I think datetime division would be a fine application for Fractions. -- message_count: 18.0 -> 19.0 nosy: +fredrikj nosy_count: 7.0 -> 8.0 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5370] unpickling vs. __getattr__

Mike Meyer added the comment: QAD patch for 2.6 pickle.py to fix this bug. Passes the 2.6 pickle unit tests. -- message_count: 5.0 -> 6.0 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13290/pp ___ Python tracker _

[issue5237] Allow auto-numbered replacement fields in str.format() strings

Senthil added the comment: Would someone like to point the python-ideas discussion which rationalizes this request? And what would be written in the documentation? As much as I understand this, emptry braces {} for replacement fields is kind of unseen and leaves much thinking if this can be simp

[issue5370] unpickling vs. __getattr__

Mike Meyer added the comment: I don't believe in documenting bugs instead of fixing them. If this bug is going to stay in the code, I can either fix my install of Python to have non-broken Pickle modules, or I can fix every third-party libraries objects I use whose authors didn't worry about pic

[issue2706] datetime: define division timedelta/timedelta

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[issue5465] No edit in IDLE in right click context menu

Changes by Eddie Slimak : -- type: -> behavior ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.pyth

[issue5465] No edit in IDLE in right click context menu

New submission from Eddie Slimak : I was mucking around attempting to get WConio working and so had an installation for both python 2.5 and 2.6 at the same time. After I uninstalled python 2.5 windows somehow stopped associating .py files with python. -- components: IDLE, Windows messag

[issue5460] Python 3.0 grammar is ambiguous with the addition of star_expr

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[issue5464] msgfmt.py does not work with plural form

Changes by Martin v. Löwis : -- assignee: -> loewis nosy: +loewis nosy_count: 1.0 -> 2.0 priority: -> high ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > I've been far too busy in the new year to keep up with all your updates > to this issue, but since Martin wanted some clarification on direction > and copyright, Thanks for the clarification. So I think we should focus on Matthew's patches first, and come

[issue5457] ZipFile writes incorrect modification time (second is off-by-one)

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[issue5428] Pyshell history management error

Michel Weinachter added the comment: Hello, Ok, you are right I'm currently working using latex and I should have made a copy from the pdf. Sorry. 2009/3/5 Georg Brandl : > > Georg Brandl added the comment: > > The code you pasted contains a non-ASCII quote (’). > > -- > nosy: +georg

[issue5237] Allow auto-numbered replacement fields in str.format() strings

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Excellent feature - with this, I would actually see some hope for dropping all of my remaining uses of %-formatting at some point in the future. -- message_count: 17.0 -> 18.0 nosy: +ncoghlan nosy_count: 7.0 -> 8.0 ___

[issue5445] codecs.StreamWriter.writelines problem when passed generator

Facundo Batista added the comment: When fixing this, note that the builtin name "list" should not be overwritten by the argument name. -- message_count: 1.0 -> 2.0 nosy: +facundobatista nosy_count: 1.0 -> 2.0 ___ Python tracker

[issue5464] msgfmt.py does not work with plural form

New submission from Stephen George : It seems that C:\Python26\Tools\i18n\msgfmt.py does not work with PO files that use plural form. Get the following error. ERRORTraceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python26\Tools\i18n\msgfmt.py", line 203, in main() File "C:\Python26\Tools\

[issue5463] Compiler warning get_ulong is never used 3.x

New submission from Andreas Schawo : When compiling the newest 3.x trunk I've got a compiler warning that get_ulong is defined but never used. I moved the function near the only place where it is used (disabled code). Now I have no more warnings. I don't know if it's of any use. -- co

[issue5456] io.StringIO's universal newlines support is broken in 3.0.1

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Thanks, fixed in r70285. -- message_count: 1.0 -> 2.0 nosy: +benjamin.peterson nosy_count: 1.0 -> 2.0 resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5411] add xz compression support to distutils

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: > I guess such a test would belong in Lib/distutils/test_dist.py no, rather in test_bdist_rpm, test_sdist and so on, but I can do it, it'll just take more time. -- message_count: 3.0 -> 4.0 ___ Python tracker

[issue5462] Pythonwin Vista Compatibility

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Please direct your question to the win32 or Python mailing lists. This tracker is for reporting bugs in Python, not support. -- message_count: 1.0 -> 2.0 nosy: +benjamin.peterson nosy_count: 1.0 -> 2.0 resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed

[issue5462] Pythonwin Vista Compatibility

New submission from Julie Earls : Hello- I am trying to install a version of Python that includes Pythonwin and is compatible with a 32-bit Winsows Vista computer. Can anyone tell me which version works? I have tried several and so far no luck. Thanks -- components: Windows message

[issue5411] add xz compression support to distutils

Per Øyvind Karlsen added the comment: hmm, I'm unsure about how this should be done.. I guess such a test would belong in Lib/distutils/test_dist.py, but I'm uncertain about how it should be done, ie. should it be a test for doing 'bdist', 'bdist_rpm' and 'sdist' for each of the formats suppor

[issue5461] python3 symlink

New submission from David Ripton : When Python 2.x is manually installed on Linux, a python2 symlink is created, like this: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 24 00:03 /usr/bin/python2 -> python2.6 ("make install" updates the symlink; "make altinstall" does not). When Python 3.x is installed, no pyt

[issue5233] Enhance 2.7 IDLE to exec IDLESTARTUP/PYTHONSTARTUP on restart

Guilherme Polo added the comment: Assigning to kbk since 5234 was assigned to him. -- assignee: -> kbk message_count: 2.0 -> 3.0 nosy: +gpolo, kbk nosy_count: 1.0 -> 3.0 ___ Python tracker

[issue5234] Enhance 3.1 IDLE to exec IDLESTARTUP/PYTHONSTARTUP on restart

Guilherme Polo added the comment: Closing in favor of 5233, I see the fix being applied to both 2.7 and 3.1 if accepted. -- message_count: 3.0 -> 4.0 nosy: +gpolo nosy_count: 3.0 -> 4.0 resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed superseder: -> Enhance 2.7 IDLE to exec IDLESTARTUP

[issue5450] test_tcl testLoadTk fails if DISPLAY defined but connect fails, instead of being skipped

Guilherme Polo added the comment: It should be okay to move tk tests to somewhere in Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/ (answering the final question). Even the rest of test_tcl could be relocated to that place. -- message_count: 4.0 -> 5.0 ___ Python tra

[issue5450] test_tcl testLoadTk fails if DISPLAY defined but connect fails, instead of being skipped

Guilherme Polo added the comment: Please use test_support.TestSkipped instead of showing a skip message using print. -- message_count: 3.0 -> 4.0 nosy: +gpolo nosy_count: 1.0 -> 2.0 ___ Python tracker _

[issue5460] Python 3.0 grammar is ambiguous with the addition of star_expr

New submission from Fabio Zadrozny : Note: A discussion related to this bug was raised on: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-March/086939.html The following constructs are ambiguous in the Python 3.0 grammar: arglist: (argument ',')* (argument [',']

[issue5237] Allow auto-numbered replacement fields in str.format() strings

Guido van Rossum added the comment: Please go ahead and finish this. I'm glad this is going in! -- message_count: 16.0 -> 17.0 nosy: +gvanrossum nosy_count: 6.0 -> 7.0 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5448] Add precision property to decimal.Decimal

Daniel Lescohier added the comment: I had other code to check scale, but you are right, I should use quantize. There is certainly a lot to absorb in the IBM decimal specification. I really appreciate you pointing me to quantize and Inexact. I guess I inadvertently used the issue tracker for

[issue5450] test_tcl testLoadTk fails if DISPLAY defined but connect fails, instead of being skipped

R. David Murray added the comment: Patch uploaded as bzr branch to Launchpad at bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/~rdmurray/python/bug5450-test -- message_count: 2.0 -> 3.0 ___ Python tracker __

[issue4847] csv fails when file is opened in binary mode

Skip Montanaro added the comment: me> What should be the default? Scratch that. If the iterator passed to csv.reader is in a mode which will cause it to emit bytes instead of unicode objects the caller must give an encoding. The csv.reader code will then perform the necessary bytes-to-unicode

[issue5406] asyncore doc issue

Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: You're right, my fault. -- message_count: 3.0 -> 4.0 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue5455] csv module no longer works as expected when file opened in binary mode

Skip Montanaro added the comment: Jervis> So the returned lineobj is a bytes type and then the Jervis> PyUnicode_Check throws the error. Right, but given that fact how do you get a Unicode string out of the bytes without an encoding? You can't open a file in binary mode and give the encodi

[issue5223] infinite recursion in PyErr_WriteUnraisable

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: python 3.0 does not crash. And it has better code for infinite recursion (r55850, r66186) I suggest to backport the py3k code, patch attached. Martin, your comments are welcome. Are there compatibility issues? -- keywords: +patch message_count: 4

[issue5237] Allow auto-numbered replacement fields in str.format() strings

Eric Smith added the comment: Also note that this patch causes a few tests to fail, since they're trying to ensure that '{}'.format will fail. If we go forward I'll address that too, of course. -- message_count: 15.0 -> 16.0 ___ Python tracker

[issue5237] Allow auto-numbered replacement fields in str.format() strings

Eric Smith added the comment: I'm attaching a patch that delivers the basic functionality in str.format. This patch is against trunk, although it will probably work elsewhere. DO NOT USE THIS PATCH IN ANY SERIOUS WORK It doesn't implement all of the needed functionality, it probably has a memo

[issue4847] csv fails when file is opened in binary mode

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > I had already read it. I gave it a prize for "least intuitive arg in the > language". Please open a bug, then :) > So you plan to use that, reading "lines" instead of blocks? > You'll still have to examine which CRs and LFs are embedded and which > are line

[issue4111] Add DTrace probes

Changes by Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen : -- nosy: +danchr nosy_count: 12.0 -> 13.0 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list ma

[issue5443] trivial typo in itertools documentation

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: r70261 -- message_count: 1.0 -> 2.0 nosy: +rhettinger nosy_count: 2.0 -> 3.0 resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue4847] csv fails when file is opened in binary mode

John Machin added the comment: pitrou> Please look at the doc for open() and io.TextIOWrapper. The `newline` parameter defaults to None, which means universal newlines with newline translation. Setting to '' (yes, the empty string) enables universal newlines but disables newline translation ...

[issue5448] Add precision property to decimal.Decimal

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: FWIW, there is a public API to get at the same information: Decimal.as_tuple(). That being said, I don't see how your len(value._int) test could be correct. The exponent will potentially shift the value way out-of-bounds for a database. Consider Decimal('

[issue4847] csv fails when file is opened in binary mode

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Not good. It should preserve ALL characters in the field. Please look at the doc for open() and io.TextIOWrapper. The `newline` parameter defaults to None, which means universal newlines with newline translation. Setting to '' (yes, the empty string) enables

[issue5458] threading.Thread.join() documentation: missing 'from version' for RuntimeError exceptions

New submission from Eyal Gordon : In threading documentation: http://www.python.org/doc/current/library/threading.html?highlight=threading#threading.Thread.join It is not specified from which python version the join() call raises the RuntimeError exception. In python version 2.4.3 join asserts o

[issue5457] ZipFile writes incorrect modification time (second is off-by-one)

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: This appears to be an intrinsic limitation built into a zipfile's standard file header format. The header conforms to http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT where the date and time fields are specified to be stored in the MS-DOS standard dat

[issue2889] curses for windows (alternative patch)

Zach Hirsch added the comment: > * test_curses: I'd be happier to see the 'if' statement as sys.platform > != 'win32' and (not term or term == 'unknown') -- easier to read. OK, fixed. > * test_curses: does putp() make PDCurses crash, or is it not available? > If the latter, I'd prefer to see

[issue5457] ZipFile writes incorrect modification time (second is off-by-one)

New submission from Christian Theune : See the attached unit test. On seconds that are > 0 and < 60 the written second is reduced by 1. (The test doesn't explicitly prove that this happens during writing, but we checked this manually. The read function is fine.) -- components: Library (

[issue5447] future unicode literals and r'\u'

Zach Hirsch added the comment: I've hit this, too, and it's annoyed me. So here's a patch against trunk that should fix it. The idea is: whenever unicode_literals are turned on (or the -U command line flag is passed), to convert r"\u" to "\u005c\u0075" and r"\U" to "\u005c\u0055" for every str

[issue5406] asyncore doc issue

Josiah Carlson added the comment: Well...the loop can also die if an uncaptured exception is raised, but I'm not sure that is necessary to spell out explicitly. -- message_count: 2.0 -> 3.0 ___ Python tracker

[issue5406] asyncore doc issue

Josiah Carlson added the comment: Actually, that's exactly what it does. If the count is missing, it defaults to None. The code that is executed is exactly: if count is None: while map: poll_fun(timeout, map) It will loop until the map is empty. -- message_c