[issue7450] document that os.chmod accepts an octal digit mode

2010-08-07 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti added the comment: I guess you mean 0o755. I think it would be better to mention explicitly octal literals, since they are not so common and, especially in 2.x, 0755 might be confused with a "normal" decimal number. -- ___ Python track

[issue9541] node.pre_order() does not do preorder traversal

2010-08-07 Thread Joe Amenta
Joe Amenta added the comment: Fixed in r83811. -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsu

[issue9541] node.pre_order() does not do preorder traversal

2010-08-07 Thread Joe Amenta
New submission from Joe Amenta : In Lib/lib2to3/pytree.py, Node.pre_order() calls the post_order() method of its children, instead of pre_order(). As a result, the only difference between the two orderings is that pre_order() yields the original node first, whereas post_order() yields the ori

[issue9539] python-2.6.4: test failure in test_distutils due to linking to system libpython2.6

2010-08-07 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the report. Can you reproduce with a more recent 2.6, or even the current stable version 2.7? -- assignee: -> tarek nosy: +merwok, tarek ___ Python tracker __

[issue9511] CharacterEncoderError when reading from sys.stdin from piped input in cmd.exe

2010-08-07 Thread Éric Araujo
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[issue5027] xml namespace not understood by xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator

2010-08-07 Thread Troy J. Farrell
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[issue5027] xml namespace not understood by xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator

2010-08-07 Thread Troy J. Farrell
Troy J. Farrell added the comment: I'm attaching new patches for 2.7 and 3.2, now with comments. :) -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18429/issue5027.py27.diff ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5027] xml namespace not understood by xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator

2010-08-07 Thread Troy J. Farrell
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[issue5027] xml namespace not understood by xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator

2010-08-07 Thread Troy J. Farrell
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[issue7871] Duplicate test method in test_heapq

2010-08-07 Thread Raymond Hettinger
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[issue9025] Non-uniformity in randrange for large arguments.

2010-08-07 Thread Raymond Hettinger
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[issue7796] No way to find out if an object is an instance of a namedtuple

2010-08-07 Thread Raymond Hettinger
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[issue4570] Bad example in set tutorial

2010-08-07 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Fixed in r83809 and r83810. -- resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue9540] argparse: combine subparsers with global positional args

2010-08-07 Thread Michael . Elsdörfer
New submission from Michael.Elsdörfer : >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() >>> subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(title="commands") >>> subparser = subparsers.add_parser('make') >>> parser.add_argument('jobs', nargs='*') >>> parser.print_help() usage: [-h] {make} ... [jobs [jobs ...]] While

[issue5479] Add an easy way to provide total ordering now that __cmp__ is deprecated/gone

2010-08-07 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Applied in r79810 Thanks for the suggestion. -- resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue1210680] Split email headers near a space

2010-08-07 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Yes, if there's a bug here and it can be fixed without a major behavior change then it could be backported. I'm not clear on what the bug is, though, since there is no example given. If the Hebrew is encoded as encoded words, it can and will be split in the

[issue7734] discuss mark-as-invalid trick in heapq docs

2010-08-07 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Applied in r83793 Thanks for the suggestion. -- resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue9507] namedtuple should not hardcode the class name in __repr__

2010-08-07 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Applied in r83808 for Python 3.2. Am not backporting because I don't consider it a bug and the documented subclassing technique is: class A(namedtuple('A', 'x y')): ... -- resolution: -> accepted stage: patch review -> committed/rejected

[issue724459] Add documentation about line endings in email messages.

2010-08-07 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: These guidelines need to be revamped for Python3. The place it should go is the developer docs, which I believe will soon be moved into the main documentation tree. It's not actually clear what the guidelines should be at this point. We haven't really fin

[issue6864] IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6

2010-08-07 Thread Richard
Richard added the comment: I'm thinking that the Snow Leopard abort trap when invoking IDLE from the command line is a permissions problem somewhere because it works ok when invoked with sudo. The console displays an odd message "2010-08-07 20:38:23.375 Python[25858:170b] __CFServiceControlle

[issue4356] Add "key" argument to "bisect" module functions

2010-08-07 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Added a link to the a SortedCollections recipe, added example of how to do searches, and noted the O(n) performance of the insort() functions. See r83786 -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue8387] use universal newline mode in csv module examples

2010-08-07 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: "The doc has been fixed" refers to the fact that the lineterminator dialect option is now documented as applying only to writing, not to reading. The docs could certainly be improved to discuss using universal newline mode. I'm not clear on whether or not t

[issue8814] functools.WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS should include __annotations__

2010-08-07 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Backported to Py3.1 in r83807 -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-li

[issue9386] Bad indentation in urllib import fixer with multiple imports

2010-08-07 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Fixed in r83798. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pytho

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

2010-08-07 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: FYI, distutils is frozen because even minor bug fixes have broken third-party tools in the past, that’s why new features and bug fixes land in distutils2. Only some bug fixes that are sure not to break things make their way into distutils. distutils2 will be rei

[issue9539] python-2.6.4: test failure in test_distutils due to linking to system libpython2.6

2010-08-07 Thread Valeo de Vries
New submission from Valeo de Vries : I'm under the impression that this is issue is known about, however I couldn't find an existing bug, so I'm creating a new one for the following test failure: test_distutils /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot

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

2010-08-07 Thread Brian Harring
Brian Harring added the comment: This change isn't hugely friendly API wise- for code that invokes setupterm() multiple items (and does so knowing what it's doing), they're now silently locked into whatever the first term invocation was. Personally, an override here has major usage- especiall

[issue9431] 2to3 reapplies fix_dict

2010-08-07 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Benjamin Peterson added the comment: I don't experience this with the bleeding-edge version of 2to3. Can you try with that? -- resolution: -> out of date status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with distutils

2010-08-07 Thread Руслан Ижбулатов
Руслан Ижбулатов added the comment: New version of my patch. Addresses some issues i've found since the last one. Diff against a recent trunk is attached. Changes (relative to previous patch): Python/pythonrun.c: * Added a call to _set_abort_behavior(). That should fix http://bugs.python.org

[issue6105] json.dumps doesn't respect OrderedDict's iteration order

2010-08-07 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Benjamin Peterson added the comment: I think we should close it. -- resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue8722] Documentation for __getattr__

2010-08-07 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: Old-style classes can’t have descriptors, hence no properties, static methods, class methods or super. -- nosy: +merwok ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue9538] Replace confusing pseudoname 'object' in special methods section.

2010-08-07 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: Good catch! Names listed under language reference section 3.3.1 actually all exist on object, e.g. object.__new__¹. It is section 3.3.2 that lists names that *can* be defined but don’t have a default implementation on object, so +1 on using “someclass” here to

[issue7790] struct_time documentation entry should point to the table defining the tuple

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue9031] distutils uses invalid "-Wstrict-prototypes" flag when compiling C++ extension module

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1744] readline module - set/get quote delimiters

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue740495] API enhancement: poplib.MailReader()

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue4892] Sending Connection-objects over multiprocessing connections fails

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue6519] Reorder 'with' statement for files in Python Tutorial

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1722] Undocumented urllib functions

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: When internal functions lack '_', perhaps the doc should say "xys,uie, and ooe are intentionally undocumented internal functions." Otherwise, how is one supposed to know? -- nosy: +terry.reedy versions: -Python 2.6 __

[issue1294232] Error in metaclass search order

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Is the 3.1/2 doc still lacking in this area? -- nosy: +terry.reedy versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker _

[issue7798] document pydoc methods

2010-08-07 Thread Ron Adam
Ron Adam added the comment: I think a good place for the pager is in the cmd module. I have a separated version of it I could upload if there is consensus on this. I've extracted the text server, but it's in a minimum 'works for pydoc' stage. (See issue 2001) Both of these need some more ey

[issue1353344] python.desktop

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I see lots of interest and several translations. Was there an intention to add this to the distribution (or has it been)? Or is it out-of-date? -- nosy: +terry.reedy stage: -> patch review versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.6, Python 3.0 ___

[issue2057] difflib: add patch capability

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I would like to see this more easily available, perhaps in /Scripts. Are unified diffs the type usually posted to the tracker? I am not sure what you meant by ' diff/patch lib is not.' -- nosy: +terry.reedy stage: -> unit test needed versions: +Python

[issue1095821] The doc for DictProxy is missing

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: In 3.x, DictProxy and other internal types are gone from types. -- nosy: +terry.reedy resolution: -> rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue1546442] subprocess.Popen can't read file object as stdin after seek

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: In the absence of a doc patch, I am following Daniel's suggestion to close this. -- nosy: +terry.reedy resolution: -> later status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker

[issue5501] Update multiprocessing docs re: freeze_support

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue5501] Update multiprocessing docs re: freeze_support

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I think that question is covered by "If the module is being run normally by the Python interpreter then freeze_support() has no effect." Jesse, do you think anything more is needed, like '(on any platform)' after 'interpreter', or should be close this? -

[issue433024] SRE: (?flag) isn't properly scoped

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue416670] MatchObjects not deepcopy()able

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The OP has no interest in this, there is no patch, and re2 is coming. Should we close this? -- nosy: +terry.reedy stage: -> unit test needed versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.6, Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker

[issue1173134] improvement of the script adaptation for the win32 platform

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue433030] SRE: Atomic Grouping (?>...) is not supported

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Does the re2 work (#2636) make this outdated? -- nosy: +terry.reedy stage: -> patch review versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker _

[issue2786] Names in traceback should have class names, if they're methods

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue7962] Demo and Tools need to be tested and pruned

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1203650] Allow larger programs to be frozen under Win32

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I added this as a dependency to #7962. I believe there was some thought on the pydev list of removing freeze (because not-working or obsolete). -- nosy: +terry.reedy versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.6 ___ Python trac

[issue1605] Semi autogenerated _types module

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1062] nice to have a way to tell if a socket is bound

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1945] Document back ported C functions

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue7790] struct_time documentation entry should point to the table defining the tuple

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue8834] Define order of Misc/ACKS entries

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Only a few days left for 2.6 ;-) -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list m

[issue9105] pickle security note should be more prominent

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: FWIW, I agree too. The current location is a bit odd. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue9105] pickle security note should be more prominent

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue8340] bytearray undocumented on trunk

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue2920] Patch to print symbolic value or errno in EnvironmentError.__str__()

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1098749] Single-line option to pygettext.py

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue724459] Add documentation about line endings in email messages.

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Sorry this slipped thru the cracks so long. RDM is revamping email, most likely for 3.3, and will consider open issues in doing so. -- nosy: +terry.reedy versions: -Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1 ___ Python tra

[issue8145] Documentation about sqlite3 isolation_level

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue9538] Replace confusing pseudoname 'object' in special methods section.

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I filed this because I just reread the __getattr(ibute)__ entries to respond to #8722 and found myself again stumbling over the 'object' confusion. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue9538] Replace confusing pseudoname 'object' in special methods section.

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I also think that in "In order to avoid infinite recursion in this method, its implementation should always call the base class method with the same name to access any attributes it needs, for example, object.__getattribute__(self, name).", 'the base class' s

[issue9538] Replace confusing pseudoname 'object' in special methods section.

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
New submission from Terry J. Reedy : In 3.3. Special method names, 'object' is used as a pseudo class name to prefix all the special method entries. This conflicts with the usual two Python meanings. 1. 'object' is the name of a specific class. So the entry for object.__getattribute__(self, n

[issue8722] Documentation for __getattr__

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: /raise/raises/ I am pretty sure that when __getattribute__ is bypassed, so is __getattr__. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue8722] Documentation for __getattr__

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The problem with changing 2.7 docs is that object access is different for old- and new-style properties. Does your example work if you remove 'object'? (IE, can old style classes have properties?) For new-style classes, the example behavior is clear if you 1.

[issue7352] python2.6-config --ldflags out of /usr and missing -L

2010-08-07 Thread Joel Brobecker
Joel Brobecker added the comment: I agree that more testing in head would be useful before possibly considering inclusion in one of the bug-fix releases. Given that this only affects binaries installed at a different location than the configure prefix, this seems hardly critical (and easy to

[issue8387] use universal newline mode in csv module examples

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: In the current 2.7 docs, files are opened with 'rb' or 'wb'. In msg106210 of #1072404, RDM says "The doc has been fixed;". I am not sure if this refers a change in the open or just removal of reference to non-working delimiter option. David? Any opinion on this

[issue9529] Converge re.findall and re.finditer

2010-08-07 Thread Matthew Barnett
Matthew Barnett added the comment: Ah, I see what you mean. I still think you're wrong, though! :-) The 'for' loop is doing is basically this: it = re.finditer(r'(\w+):(\w+)', text) try: while True: match_object = next(it) # body of loop except StopI

[issue8269] Missing return values for PyUnicode C/API functions

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue7867] Proposed FAQ entry on pass-by-? semantics and the meaning of 'variable' in python

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue4965] Can doc index of html version be separately scrollable?

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1865] Bytes alias for 2.6

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1643712] Emphasize buffering issues when sys.stdin is used

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1626300] 'Installing Python Modules' does not work for Windows

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1554133] PyOS_InputHook() and related API funcs. not documented

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue5962] Ambiguity about the semantics of sys.exit() and os._exit() in multithreaded program

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue6678] inspect.currentframe documentation omits optional depth parameter

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue5784] raw deflate format and zlib module

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue7352] python2.6-config --ldflags out of /usr and missing -L

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am not sure that such a change to python-config.in could go into a bugfix release as it might need more testing on a variety of systems than bugfix releases tend to get. Does (in your opinion) 3.1/2 need the same change? Martin, who should look at Linux bui

[issue6824] help for a module should list supported platforms

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue9127] subprocess.Popen.communicate() and SIGCHLD handlers

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Can you suggest a specific doc patch with new text and location? -- nosy: +terry.reedy versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue4086] support %z format in time.strftime and _strptime?

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1371826] distutils is silent about multiple -I/-L/-R

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1038909] pydoc method documentation lookup enhancement

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue8713] multiprocessing needs option to eschew fork() under Linux

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue1944] Documentation for PyUnicode_AsString (et al.) missing.

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue6926] socket module missing IPPROTO_IPV6, IPPROTO_IPV4

2010-08-07 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
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[issue7798] document pydoc methods

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Pydoc has a number of useful things that might be moved elsewhere and imported. An example is the no-yes filter _split_list. Documenting them in place would create something of a jumble. So I think this issue should be either closed (and possibly another open

[issue8228] pprint, single/multiple items per line parameter

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue7450] document that os.chmod accepts an octal digit mode

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: (3.1.2) 15.1.5. Files and Directories os.chmode entry: I recommend changing the first sentence "Change the mode of path to the numeric mode." to "Change the mode of path to the integer mode (such as 0x755)." For 2.7, delete the 'x'. This should make it clear t

[issue6804] IDLE: Detect Python files even if name doesn't end in .py

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am a little puzzled by this issue. 1. Why would a Windows user use any extention other than .py or .pyw, which IDLE opens fine. How many people do something senseless like hand-registering, say 'xiq', as a python file? 2. .pyc files are binary files and NOT

[issue1306248] Add 64-bit Solaris 9 build instructions to README

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: In the absence of a patch submission, I am closing this. Perhaps it is obsolete anyway. -- resolution: -> out of date status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.6, Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker

[issue2628] ftplib Persistent data connection

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue2628] ftplib Persistent data connection

2010-08-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

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