[issue5077] 2to3 fixer for the removal of operator functions

Alexandre Vassalotti added the comment: Patch committed in r83740. I will make the documentation update in a separate commit. Thanks! -- resolution: -> accepted stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed versions: -Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1

[issue9452] configparser support for reading from strings and dictionaries

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: (Apparently I don't have the right permissions on Rietveld.) - Docstrings should be written in the standard PEP-8 way (single line summary + additional explanation as needed following a blank line). - read_sting and read_dict should still take a `filenam

[issue5077] 2to3 fixer for the removal of operator functions

Alexandre Vassalotti added the comment: Documentation added in r83741. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Uns

[issue1474680] pickling files works with protocol=2.

Alexandre Vassalotti added the comment: Although it is tempting to fix this, it feels to much like a feature. I am closing as won't fix because we don't add new features to 2.x. -- resolution: -> wont fix stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed versions: -Pyth

[issue6290] cPickle can misread data type

Alexandre Vassalotti added the comment: It is too late for 2.6.6 now that it is released. -- resolution: -> wont fix stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue5671] Speed up pickling of lists in cPickle

Alexandre Vassalotti added the comment: It is too late now for the 2.x version. And, the huge patch in issue 9410 includes an updated version of this patch for 3.x. -- resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> Add Unladen Swallow's o

[issue6361] I/O object wrappers shouldn't close their underlying file when deleted.

Alexandre Vassalotti added the comment: OK I am convinced, the current behavior is fine. Let's close this one. -- resolution: -> wont fix stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue9427] logging.error('...', exc_info=True) should display upper frames, too

Thomas Guettler added the comment: Until exc_info=True prints the current stack, I use this pattern: import traceback logging.error(u's...\nStack: %s' % ( ''.join(traceback.format_stack())), exc_info=True) -- ___ Python tracker

[issue9410] Add Unladen Swallow's optimizations to Python 3's pickle.

Alexandre Vassalotti added the comment: Ah, that's right Skip. You did fixed it in Unladen Swallow's trunk. I will take a look at your solution. http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/source/diff?spec=svn1167&r=1038&format=side&path=/trunk/Modules/cPickle.c&old_path=/trunk/Modules/cPickle.c&

[issue5683] Speed up cPickle's pickling generally

Alexandre Vassalotti added the comment: Too late to make this change in 2.x. And the patch in issue 9410 includes the optimization for 3.x. -- resolution: -> duplicate stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> Add Unladen Swallow's optimizations

[issue9514] platform.linux_distribution() under Ubuntu returns ('debian', 'squeeze/sid', '')

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: I think we'll start to use the lsb_release command if available and as suggested in issue1322. Note that if you test the API, make sure that you use a Python build from sources available on python.org - the Debian and Ubuntu packagers tend to patch Pytho

[issue5871] email.header.Header allows to embed raw newlines into a message

Jakub Wilk added the comment: Sorry if that wasn't clear in the first place: this is not a feature request. I agree that current behavior for email.header.Header (as shown in the first message) is bizarre, confusing, unnecessary, and potentially leading to vulnerabilities - that's why I filed

[issue4806] Function calls taking a generator as star argument can mask TypeErrors in the generator

Hagen Fürstenau added the comment: IIUC, the only change you suggest for my patch is using "finite iterable" instead of "sequence" or "iterable", right? I've looked at the docs and there seems to be no precedent for "finite iterable". I think it's just as obvious that the iterable has to yiel

[issue9521] xml.etree.ElementTree strips XML declaration and procesing instructions

New submission from Mark Summerfield : If you read in an XML file using xml.etree.ElementTree.parse() and then write it out again using xml.etree.ElementTree.write() what is written may not be the same as what was read. In particular any XML declaration and processing instructions are stripped

[issue9522] xml.etree.ElementTree forgets the encoding

New submission from Mark Summerfield : If you read in an XML file that specifies its encoding and then later on use xml.etree.ElementTree.write(), it is always written using US-ASCII. I think the behaviour should be different: (1) If the XML that was read included an encoding, that encoding sh

[issue9510] sqlite3.Warning isnt a subclass of exceptions.Warning

Nick Craig-Wood added the comment: I think the fact that sqlite may not be using the warnings properly is independent of this problem. Warnings should be filterable, but if sqlite isn't notifying them properly - that would be a different bug. BTW I came across this problem when trying to swa

[issue9510] sqlite3.Warning isnt a subclass of exceptions.Warning

Éric Araujo added the comment: I agree with Antoine. You say you want to filter warnings, but you can’t since they are not warnings. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue9520] Add Patricia Trie high performance container

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the request Dmitry. You may want to read http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0002/ to know which steps are required to add a module to the stdlib. In particular, the module has to be proven on the field and the author needs to sign a contributor agreem

[issue9520] Add Patricia Trie high performance container

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[issue9510] sqlite3.Warning isnt a subclass of exceptions.Warning

Gerhard Häring added the comment: PEP 0249 says that the module's Warning class must be a subclass of StandardError. So I reject your proposed change. There are only two cases where pysqlite raises Warning, and these could be changed to ProgrammerError anyway. -- assignee: -> ghaeri

[issue9520] Add Patricia Trie high performance container

Dmitry Chichkov added the comment: Thank you for your comment. Perhaps we should try separate this into two issues: 1) Bug. Python's dict() is unusable on datasets with 10,000,000+ keys. Here I should provide a solid test case showing a deviation from O(1); 2) Feature request/idea. Add Patrici

[issue3210] subprocess.Popen does not release process handles if process cannot be started

Tim Golden added the comment: Patch attached with code & test which fixes this within _subprocess.c at least for Windows -- assignee: -> tim.golden Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18398/3210.r83741.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue9517] Make test.script_helper more comprehensive, and use it in the test suite

Nick Coghlan added the comment: (The email daemon was not in a happy place, so posting directly) On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > - perhaps improve the existing functions (kill_python() does a strange dance > instead of calling communicate() on the subprocess.Popen obje

[issue9520] Add Patricia Trie high performance container

Mark Dickinson added the comment: > 1) Bug. Python's dict() is unusable on datasets with 10,000,000+ keys. > Here I should provide a solid test case showing a deviation from O(1); That would be helpful. Are you sure that the slow-down you're seeing isn't simply due to running out of system me

[issue8184] multiprocessing.managers will not fail if listening ocket already in use

Jesse Noller added the comment: Mark - did you observe the behavior in the Op? He's not stating the the code snippet runs fine, but that the second run at the same time on windows to cause a conflict. We need to show that either running it twice, at the same time against the same socket fails

[issue9509] argparse FileType raises ugly exception for missing file

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[issue8041] No documentation for Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_STACKLESS_EXTENSION or Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG.

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I don't think these flags need documenting or even deserve mentioning. Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_STACKLESS_EXTENSION seems to be two bits reserved for use by Stackless, while Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG should be considered by extension authors an internal implementati

[issue9520] Add Patricia Trie high performance container

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > 1) Bug. Python's dict() is unusable on datasets with 10,000,000+ keys. > Here I should provide a solid test case showing a deviation from O(1); Try to disable the cyclic garbage collector before the test (gc.disable()). -- nosy: +pitrou ___

[issue9512] logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler - mode argument not respected

Friðrik Már Jónsson added the comment: Thank you. I should have been more clear about what I meant. This this condition was introduced in r38631 by Vinay Sajip having the log message "Added optional encoding argument to file handlers." I can't easily see why this piece of code is necessary, wh

[issue9512] logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler - mode argument not respected

Friðrik Már Jónsson added the comment: It may not have been entirely obvious that what I meant with the Extended Log File Format example is that read access would be optimal. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue9518] PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT does not explicitly initialize all fields of m_base

Changes by Antoine Pitrou : -- nosy: +loewis versions: -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscrib

[issue917120] imaplib: incorrect quoting in commands

Dave Baggett added the comment: Piers Lauder, author of imaplib, emailed me the following comment about this bug: The regex for "mustquote_cre" looks bizarre, and I regret to say I can no longer remember its genesis. Note however, that the term CTL in the RFC definition for "atom-

[issue9510] sqlite3.Warning isnt a subclass of exceptions.Warning

Nick Craig-Wood added the comment: Reading PEP 0249 I can see Gerhard is correct, this patch would violate the PEP. I think that the PEP is slightly flawed in that users are encouraged to raise exceptions called "Warning". IMHO a Warning is never an exceptional condition and should be notifi

[issue2400] from .foo import * should work

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[issue2400] from .foo import * should work

Jason R. Coombs added the comment: Is there any chance this can be back-ported to Python 2.7? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue1343] XMLGenerator: nice elements

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Can a committer look at this please. -- stage: commit review -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue1812] doctest _load_testfile function -- newline handling seems incorrect

Mark Lawrence added the comment: can committers take a look please. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubs

[issue6683] smtplib authentication - try all mechanisms

Gerhard Häring added the comment: Fixed in r83742. I implemented this without a test case, because if we wait for a test case for this, we can wait forever (would need a SMTP server implementation in Python for the various auth methods). -- ___ Pyt

[issue8196] sqlit3.paramstyle reported as 'qmark'

Gerhard Häring added the comment: There is too little value changing the paramstyle attribute. I think the documentation clearly states that both parameter binding methods are supported. -- resolution: -> rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python

[issue2521] ABC caches should use weak refs

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Can a committer take a look at this please. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing li

[issue3210] subprocess.Popen does not release process handles if process cannot be started

Tim Golden added the comment: Patch added for 31 branch -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18399/3210.release31-maint.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue3210] subprocess.Popen does not release process handles if process cannot be started

Tim Golden added the comment: Patch added for 27 branch -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18400/3210.release27-maint.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue3210] subprocess.Popen does not release process handles if process cannot be started

Brian Curtin added the comment: Tim, I updated your test to use some of the newer and preferred unittest features and made a change to do the common stuff in loops. The _subprocess.c changes look fine to me. See attached issue3210_py3k.diff. -- nosy: +brian.curtin Added file: http://b

[issue3210] subprocess.Popen does not release process handles if process cannot be started

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[issue3210] subprocess.Popen does not release process handles if process cannot be started

Tim Golden added the comment: Brian, I'm not sure that the test as rewritten will exercise the error. The key is that the traceback object will prevent the handles from being finalised until it is itself finalised. After your change I expect the handles to release anyway since the traceback is

[issue3210] subprocess.Popen does not release process handles if process cannot be started

Brian Curtin added the comment: Ah ok. I got hooked onto new unittest stuff and overdid it. Whoops. In that case, I guess just the last lines converting your "assert_" to "assertFalse" would be my only suggestion. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue9523] Improve dbm module

New submission from Ray.Allen : During the patching work of issue8634, I found several problems about the module dbm.gnu and dbm.ndbm, I feel it's better to address them on a separate issue. 1. As issue8634 said, the dbm.gnu, dbm.ndbm and dbm.dumb should have the similar interface, since they

[issue8634] get method for dbm interface

Ray.Allen added the comment: See issue9523. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.pyth

[issue2521] ABC caches should use weak refs

Jack Diederich added the comment: This is a change in the codepath for instances that don't have __class__ defined. subclass = getattr(instance, '__class__', None) -if subclass in cls._abc_cache: +if subclass is not None and subclass in cls._abc_cache: I think the same

[issue5476] datetime: timedelta(minutes = i) silently fails with numpy.int32 input

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: Terry, Realistically, though, if you close this issue it is virtually guaranteed that not further action will be taken. I have not been involved with numpy for a couple of years now, so it would take me some time to find their tracker and restore my c

[issue7574] PyUnicode_FromFormat broken and not documented for 2.x

Ray.Allen added the comment: It seems there is pretty much problems in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(). see issue7330. -- nosy: +ysj.ray ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue2651] Strings passed to KeyError do not round trip

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: Unassigning because others seem to be ahead of me reviewing this patch. I will keep an eye on this, though. Please note that I marked issue #614557 to depend on this one. Adding 'key' attribute to exceptions is the subject of that issue. While I sup

[issue614557] LookupError etc. need API to get the key

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[issue7567] Messed up terminal after calling curses.initscr() twice.

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: Doko asks in IRC to apply this for 2.6.6. Approved. -- nosy: +barry status: pending -> open ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue5871] email.header.Header too lax with embeded newlines

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: My apologies for misunderstanding. Feature removal requests are sufficiently rare that I thought you were posting a mockup of what you wanted to be able to do, as many others have done. So we definitely agree on that example. I changed the title to be a littl

[issue5905] strptime fails in non-UTF locale

Mark Lawrence added the comment: I can't reproduce this on Windows Vista with 3.1 or 3.2 despite trying several Western & Eastern European, Chinese & Japanese locales. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker

[issue4806] Function calls taking a generator as star argument can mask TypeErrors in the generator

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Ok, leave iterable as is. More important, you have two disjoint patches that I believe should be combined. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue2651] Strings passed to KeyError do not round trip

Changes by Brett Cannon : -- nosy: -brett.cannon ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.py

[issue9512] logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler - mode argument not respected

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Given that you decided to argue for a code change (which my comment implicitly invited), adding someone (VS in this case) to nosy to respond is the right thing to do and fairly common. Assigning to someone is not, as least not any more. If someone agrees to c

[issue9079] Make gettimeofday available in time module

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: Updated the patch to reflect recent datetimemodule.c renaming to _datetimemodule.c. No other changes between issue9079b.diff and issue9079c.diff. I am going to commit issue9079c.diff soon unless someone wants more time to review. -- Added fi

[issue9079] Make gettimeofday available in time module

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: Committed issue9079c.diff as r83744. This commit does not provide time.gettimeofday() and therefore does not close the issue. -- keywords: -needs review, patch stage: commit review -> needs patch ___ Python

[issue9315] The trace module lacks unit tests

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: Eli, Are you still working on this? Please note that Georg committed "beginnings of a trace.py unittest" in r83527, so your tests will need to be merged with his. -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker <

[issue9315] The trace module lacks unit tests

Eli Bendersky added the comment: Alexander, Yes, I plan to work on this during the weekend (which starts tomorrow where I'm at). Georg, Are you having plans for writing comprehensive tests for the module, or is this just a placeholder? I have no problem merging with this change, but if you

[issue9315] The trace module lacks unit tests

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Eli Bendersky wrote: .. > Georg, > > Are you having plans for writing comprehensive tests for the module, or is > this just a placeholder? I think I can answer for Georg (subject to being corrected, of course.) Georg's c

[issue9524] CTRL_C_EVENT and CTRL_BREAK_EVENT cannot be registered by signal.signal() method on windows

New submission from Valentine Gogichashvili : When executing the following code on Windows 7 64-bit :: import sys import signal import time print 'Version:' print sys.executable or sys.platform, sys.version print print def h(s, f): print s signal.signal(signal.CTRL_BREAK_EVEN

[issue9524] Document CTRL_C_EVENT and CTRL_BREAK_EVENT usage on Windows

Brian Curtin added the comment: Those two signals are only intended to work with os.kill -- they are specific to the GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent function in Modules/posixmodule.c. I'll have to change the documentation to note that. If you want to send those events to other processes, have a look

[issue8285] IDLE not smart indenting correctly in nested statements

Mark Dickinson added the comment: I don't think this is specific to IDLE; it also happens when launching the python interpreter directly from a terminal on OS X or Linux. (BTW, what platform are you on?) As far as I can tell, the TAB character is simply advancing to the next tab stop; tho

[issue4032] distutils cannot recognize ".dll.a" as library on cygwin

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[issue4032] distutils cannot recognize ".dll.a" as library on cygwin

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: With development of disutils2, distutils issues are not getting much separate attention. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue1274324] 'setup.py install' fail on linux from read-only storage

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: With development of disutils2, distutils issues are not getting much separate attention. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue9524] Document CTRL_C_EVENT and CTRL_BREAK_EVENT usage on Windows

Brian Curtin added the comment: Fixed the first part, denoting that signal.CTRL_C_EVENT and signal.CTRL_BREAK_EVENT are for os.kill only. Done in r83745 (py3k) and r83746 (release27-maint). Leaving open for the second part about their usage. -- __

[issue1011113] distutils install with -b / --build-base

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: With development of disutils2, distutils issues are not getting much separate attention. Is this still an issue with 2.7 or later? -- components: +Distutils -None nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker

[issue5936] Add MSI suport for uninstalling individual versions

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am just responding so this will not show up on the 'unanswered issues' list. -- components: +Distutils nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker _

[issue6466] duplicate get_version() code between cygwinccompiler and emxccompiler

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am just responding so this will not show up on the 'unanswered issues' list. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5936] Add MSI suport for uninstalling individual versions

Éric Araujo added the comment: Terry, why? It is, after all, still unanswered. -- nosy: +merwok ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs

[issue6696] Profile objects should be documented

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am just responding so this will not show up on the 'unanswered issues' list. It appears that GB has accepted this as something that needs to be done. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker

[issue6466] duplicate get_version() code between cygwinccompiler and emxccompiler

Éric Araujo added the comment: Tarek, does this still apply? -- components: +Distutils2 nosy: +merwok versions: -Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue1703178] link_objects in setup.cfg crashes build

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Is there still a problem with 2.7 or 3.x? -- nosy: +terry.reedy status: open -> pending versions: +Python 2.7 -Python 2.6, Python 3.0 ___ Python tracker

[issue7694] DeprecationWarning from distuils.commands.build_ext needs stacklevel

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: With development of disutils2, distutils issues are not getting much separate attention. This may or may not get folded in to disutils2. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker _

[issue7726] Remove required metadata warnings for sdist

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: With development of disutils2, distutils issues are not getting much separate attention. This may or may not get folded in to disutils2. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker _

[issue8306] ctypes.create_string_buffer should only accept bytes

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am just responding so this will not show up on the 'unanswered issues' list. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___

[issue4806] Function calls taking a generator as star argument can mask TypeErrors in the generator

Hagen Fürstenau added the comment: Attaching a combined patch against the current py3k. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18404/combined.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue7894] too aggressive dependency tracking in distutils

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: With development of disutils2, distutils issues are not getting much separate attention. This may or may not get folded in to disutils2. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker _

[issue8315] ./python -m unittest test.test_importlib doesn't work

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am just responding so this will not show up on the 'unanswered issues' list. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___

[issue3854] Document sqlite3 vs. threads

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Do you have any specific suggestion that something should be added somewhere, or is this a report that should be closed? -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker _

[issue1011113] distutils install with -b / --build-base

Éric Araujo added the comment: Tarek maintains distutils and heads the development of distutils2; he’s very busy because of new work and baby these months. I have reviewed, updated and sometimes closed a bunch of distutils issues in April, before I started my GSoC work on distutils2, and I ha

[issue8285] IDLE not smart indenting correctly in nested statements

Tofystedeth added the comment: You're right, it also does it when I use the Python shell from the command prompt. I'm running Windows Vista 32bit SP2. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue1274324] 'setup.py install' fail on linux from read-only storage

Éric Araujo added the comment: Alexander, thank you for the report. I’m sorry there was no reply earlier. Distutils was without dedicated maintainer for a long time, now Tarek has taken it over and fixes bugs. He’s very busy these months, so I’ll investigate this later this month when I get s

[issue8299] Improve GIL in 2.7

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: For better or worse, this did not make it into 2.7. Is it the sort of thing that could still go into a bug-fix release, without alpha/beta testing? Or should this be closes as out-of-date? -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___

[issue8411] Improve condition variable emulation on NT

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: This patches ceval_gil.h. Can these changes be unit tested? Or is this intended to be an internal performance, invisible-to-the-user, code improvement? Antoine, are you going to look at this? -- nosy: +terry.reedy stage: -> patch review type: -> perf

[issue8416] python 2.6.5 documentation can't search

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: With FireFox, searching from http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.5/ does not get 404 Not Found for me, but neither does it return any hits. The 2.7, 3.1.2, 3.2a pages work fine. Georg, I do not see a 2.6.6 page. Can you verify that it will work when released?

[issue8426] multiprocessing.Queue fails to get() very large objects

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: By 'crash', do you actually mean 'hang'? Jesse, is it reasonable to stuff pickles of 100s of megabytes through the connections? -- nosy: +terry.reedy versions: -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker

[issue8491] Need readline command and keybinding information

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Can you suggest a specific link and a specific location where to add it? -- assignee: georg.brandl -> d...@python nosy: +d...@python, terry.reedy versions: -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker

[issue8426] multiprocessing.Queue fails to get() very large objects

Jesse Noller added the comment: I don't know that it's unreasonable to send that much data, but it would certainly be slow, and I would not recommend it. Therefore, this is still on the list for when I have time -- ___ Python tracker

[issue9525] webbrowser: open new tab in unobtrusive way

New submission from Filip Gruszczyński : webbrowser module doesn't allow to open url in an unobtrusive way. Right now if browser is minimized it is brought to the top. Furthermore if you browser is already in the top, new tab is opened and user is moved to this top. It would be useful, if tab

[issue1684] CGIHTTPServer does not chdir prior to executing the CGI script

Fazal Majid added the comment: Well, CGI/1.1 was formally documented by RFC 3875 in October 2004 (a full 11 years after CGI was introduced...). http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3875.txt The RFC is classified as "informative", but it's as close to a definitive spec for CGI as we will ever get.

[issue8416] python 2.6.5 documentation can't search

Santiago Gala added the comment: I got this trying to reply: This is the mail system at host psf.upfronthosting.co.za. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaste

[issue8548] Building on CygWin 1.7: PATH_MAX redefined

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: None of the developers are much up on Cygwin and I am not sure it is directly supported by the core distribution. If it is not, this should be closed unless you have a specific patch. In any case, you might do better with your question on python-list. Also, P

[issue9514] platform.linux_distribution() under Ubuntu returns ('debian', 'squeeze/sid', '')

Matthias Klose added the comment: IMO using lsb_release is not an option, because it can take some time to complete. So maybe it's better for the Ubuntu change to guard the check with the existance of /etc/debian_version. Please could you attach a Mandriva lsb-release file? -- _

[issue8299] Improve GIL in 2.7

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: That question should probably raised on python-dev, not the bug tracker. -- nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker ___

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