[issue9399] Provide a 'print' action for argparse

Steven Bethard added the comment: Argparse's wrapping behavior is determined by the formatter_class: http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html#formatter-class Is it reasonable to assume that if you're wrapping your own messages you're already specifying formatter_class=argparse.RawTextHelp

[issue9334] argparse does not accept options taking arguments beginning with dash (regression from optparse)

Steven Bethard added the comment: Maybe dont_assume_everything_that_looks_like_a_flag_is_intended_to_be_one should actually be a new class, e.g. parser = AllowFlagsAsPositionalArgumentsArgumentParser() Then you just wouldn't provide parse_known_args on that parser. -- __

[issue11158] Python VM deadlock

Pham Cong Dinh added the comment: Hi Vinay, Your example use a child process to receive log messages. I am implementing a thread-based solution. Do you think that multiprocessing.Queue() has major issues with threads or this problem happens only on Mac OSX implementations? I still reproduce

[issue11148] Crash and error message from Python VM

Pham Cong Dinh added the comment: I just simplified my script into a smaller one that can be easier to understand and find out what happens https://gist.github.com/819979 Thanks -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue11158] Python VM deadlock

Pham Cong Dinh added the comment: Sorry, just ignore my latest comment. It is for another issue -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-

[issue11158] Python VM deadlock

Pham Cong Dinh added the comment: I just simplified my script into a smaller one that can be easier to understand and find out what happens https://gist.github.com/819979 Thanks -- resolution: invalid -> status: pending -> open ___ Python tracker

[issue4681] mmap offset should be off_t instead of ssize_t, and size calculation needs corrected

Ross Lagerwall added the comment: > will this patch support off_t for "mmap.resize" as well? > ftruncate uses off_t for the length of a file as well. No, it doesn't because resize() resizes the amount mmapped in memory which can't be more than ssize_t anyway. However, resizing does work on a 1

[issue11166] No exit when daemon thread is running.

New submission from Dan Mahn : I have a python-based test script that creates a daemon thread. The foreground basically runs a loop of commands, while the daemon thread sends some UDP data on the network. To stop the script, I use Control-C. This is running under 64-bit Windows (Vista) with

[issue10966] eliminate use of ImportError implicitly representing SkipTest

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[issue4681] mmap offset should be off_t instead of ssize_t, and size calculation needs corrected

wrobell added the comment: will this patch support off_t for "mmap.resize" as well? ftruncate uses off_t for the length of a file as well. -- nosy: +wrobell ___ Python tracker _

[issue10966] eliminate use of ImportError implicitly representing TestSkipped

Brett Cannon added the comment: Here is a patch which has added the necessary changes to test.support.import_module() and placed the necessary changes in the test suites themselves. I still need to rip out the (un)expected test stuff from regrtest before I consider the patch complete. --

[issue9298] binary email attachment issue with base64 encoding

Yves Dorfsman added the comment: #!/usr/bin/python3.1 import unittest import email.mime.image class emailEncoderTestCase(unittest.TestCase): def setUp(self): # point to an image binaryfile = '' #binaryfile = '/usr/share/openclipart/png/animals/mammals/happy_monkey_benji_park_0

[issue9298] binary email attachment issue with base64 encoding

Yves Dorfsman added the comment: Here's a better version (sorry I don't know how to remove msg128255: -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue9298] binary email attachment issue with base64 encoding

Yves Dorfsman added the comment: #!/usr/bin/python3.1 import unittest import email.mime.image class emailEncoderTestCase(unittest.TestCase): def setUp(self): # point to an image binaryfile = '/usr/share/openclipart/png/animals/mammals/happy_monkey_benji_park_01.png' while len

[issue9298] binary email attachment issue with base64 encoding

Yves Dorfsman added the comment: Solution: In /usr/lib/python3.1/email/encoders.py, use encodebytes instead of b64encode: --- encoders.py 2011-02-08 09:37:21.025030051 -0700 +++ encoders.py.yves2011-02-08 09:38:04.945608365 -0700 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ ] -from base64 import b64encode as

[issue11038] Some commands should stop if Name and Version are missing

Éric Araujo added the comment: gawel confirmed on IRC that this was an oversight. On second thought, I decided to remove the constant, which I deemed unneeded: it doesn’t save time for programmers (there is code checking various subsets of the fields everywhere, just one constant does not re

[issue4676] python3 closes + home keys

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[issue1208304] urllib2's urlopen() method causes a memory leak

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[issue6626] show Python mimetypes module some love

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for working on cleaning up that module. I have to agree with Nick though (see also minor comments on Rietveld): code in the stdlib just can’t move as freely as outside of it. I’m updating the version to 3.3, given that this patch adds new features and r

[issue11163] iter() documentation code doesn't work

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[issue10361] Fix issue 9995 - distutils forces developers to store password in cleartext (issue2874041)

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[issue8853] getaddrinfo should accept port of type long

Sandro Tosi added the comment: Hi Mark, would you like to write some tests about the proposed change? Antoine gave a fast look at the issue and believe it's acceptable for 2.7. -- nosy: +sandro.tosi stage: -> test needed versions: +Python 2.7 -Python 2.6 _

[issue11165] Document PyEval_Call* functions

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Removed the easy tag, since this may involve some python-dev discussion as to where to put them in C API docs (they don't really fit in any of the current sections). Perhaps an "advanced APIs" section, for things that most C extensions or embedding application

[issue11165] Document PyEval_Call* functions

New submission from Nick Coghlan : There are currently undocumented PyEval_Call* equivalents to a number of the PyObject_Call* functions. Since there are resources out there on the web that direct people to use the currently undocumented PyEval functions, it would be good to document those pr

[issue9995] "setup.py register sdist upload" requires pass to be saved

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the editions. Further comments on rietveld. Miscellaneous things: 1) Storing passwords in an hashed form is false security. An attacker that can read a config file with plain text passwords can also just run commands that use hashed passwords from

[issue10361] Fix issue 9995 - distutils forces developers to store password in cleartext (issue2874041)

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[issue10361] Fix issue 9995 - distutils forces developers to store password in cleartext (issue2874041)

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[issue10361] Fix issue 9995 - distutils forces developers to store password in cleartext (issue2874041)

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[issue10361] Fix issue 9995 - distutils forces developers to store password in cleartext (issue2874041)

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[issue10361] Fix issue 9995 - distutils forces developers to store password in cleartext (issue2874041)

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[issue10361] Fix issue 9995 - distutils forces developers to store password in cleartext (issue2874041)

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[issue6626] show Python mimetypes module some love

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[issue8797] urllib2 basicauth broken in 2.6.5: RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp

Ole Martin Handeland added the comment: Thanks Sam! I can confirm that your patch is working well with basic auth. I have not tried other authentication methods, though. I'm not sure about the unredirected headers, but your fix looks like the cleanest. -- nosy: +olemartinorg

[issue10361] Fix issue 9995 - distutils forces developers to store password in cleartext (issue2874041)

Éric Araujo added the comment: self.distribution.username: I’d prefer a clearer comparison, please use “is [not] None” and parens. >>> Are you sure you want an empty username in config file to override name set from >>> 'register' command? >> This is a crazy case. PyPI won’t allow it to pa

[issue2228] Imaplib speedup patch

Sandro Tosi added the comment: Sean, could you please explain a bit more what are your concerns about this patch? Anyhow, the code has slightly changed and currently John is not maintaining offlineimap anymore, but what seems the most recent version can be found at: https://github.com/nicola

[issue8652] Minor improvements to the "Handling Exceptions" part of the tutorial

Éric Araujo added the comment: > Removes the two instances I noticed of treating exception instances as > sequences. Looks good. > Adds a warning explaining ``except FooException, BarException:`` does not do > what you might think. Ditto. > There are two things I'm not entirely happy about:

[issue10517] test_concurrent_futures crashes with "--with-pydebug" on RHEL5 with "Fatal Python error: Invalid thread state for this thread"

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[issue11164] xml shouldn't use _xmlplus

New submission from Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis : Lib/xml/__init__.py since r16544 tries to replace xml package with _xmlplus package from PyXML. PyXML is no longer maintained and doesn't support Python 3, so it should be safe to remove PyXML-related code in Lib/xml/__init__.py in Pyt

[issue11161] futures.ProcessPoolExecutor hangs

Brian Quinlan added the comment: ProcessPoolExecutor is not expected to work with any interactive shell on Windows because it uses the multiprocessing module behind the scenes, which has that limitation. I'm reclassifying this as a documentation bug since either a reference to http://docs.py

[issue11144] int(float) may return a long for no reason

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[issue4696] email module does not unfold headers

R. David Murray added the comment: Yes, when I said "new version", I meant "new major version", as in email6. I have plans for this, but I'm waiting until after the release of 3.2 to make a presentation about it to the email-sig. -- versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 3.2

[issue11163] iter() documentation code doesn't work

New submission from Michael Grazebrook : This code fragment from the documentation of iter() doesn't work as intended. Change "STOP" to "STOP\n". Maybe also check for EOF as it hangs. with open("mydata.txt") as fp: for line in iter(fp.readline, "STOP"): process_line(line) Or maybe

[issue11144] int(float) may return a long for no reason

Mark Dickinson added the comment: This turns out to be a one-line fix (modulo comments and tests); see attached patch. The new code depends on the assumption that C longs are represented using two's complement, but note that this assumption is (a) already present elsewhere in the Python core

[issue4681] mmap offset should be off_t instead of ssize_t, and size calculation needs corrected

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > I left the off_t handling as is (it seems to work on *nix testing). > Perhaps someone can handle the Windows side? Ok, after looking at the code, it appears Windows already should have proper handling of 64-bit sizes under 32-bit builds. -- ___

[issue11162] Add tuple/list sep to string split method

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: > Does this suggested 'improvement' make sense? Sorry, it doesn't make sense for a number of reasons. * First the str.split() is already too complex. It took years to get the docs for it to be correct and informative (two different algorithms, etc). * Se

[issue11162] Add tuple/list sep to string split method

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[issue11162] Add tuple/list sep to string split method

New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : I was hoping that I could use a list/tuple of separators for the split method: "abcde".split(["b", "d"]) vs. import re re.split("b|d", "abcde") That's one extra LOC, and (worse still) forces me to learn regexp. Does this suggested 'impro

[issue11158] Python VM deadlock

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[issue4216] subprocess.Popen hangs at communicate() when child exits

Arty added the comment: You can try subprocess.call() with close_fds=True. It helped me, at least. -- nosy: +elmysnail ___ Python tracker ___

[issue11161] futures.ProcessPoolExecutor hangs

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[issue11158] Python VM deadlock

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[issue11158] Python VM deadlock

Vinay Sajip added the comment: I don't believe this is an interpreter or stdlib problem. See this post from September last year: http://plumberjack.blogspot.com/2010/09/using-logging-with-multiprocessing.html which shows how to use multiprocessing and logging together with rotating logs. The

[issue6544] Fix refleak in kqueue implementation

Sandro Tosi added the comment: Hi Georg, are you planning to backport this patch also to 3.1 or else can we close this issue? Cheers! -- nosy: +sandro.tosi stage: -> committed/rejected ___ Python tracker

[issue4696] email module does not unfold headers

Sandro Tosi added the comment: Hi David, AFAIUI in py3k branch I see email module has version 5.1.0 so I guess the new email module will be targetting 3.3 - am I correct? what should we do with this issue? -- nosy: +sandro.tosi stage: -> patch review

[issue5833] readline update

Sandro Tosi added the comment: How should we move forward with this issue? J Evens: are you willing to split the patch in smaller ones that can be more easily managed/reviewed/applied? Antoine: do you think it's worth the effort? I can also try to split the patch, but what branch should I targ

[issue11161] futures.ProcessPoolExecutor hangs

New submission from paul clinch : The example ``16.4.3.1. ProcessPoolExecutor Example`` hangs in IDLE silently, and hangs the interactive python shell with ``AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'is_prime'``. is_prime(9) was tested before running. Platform is windows XP. ``c:\Py

[issue11154] Alternate name for __pycache__

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I just saw a post from Guido saying that he doesn't want the directory to be invisible. -- resolution: -> rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker _

[issue10882] Add os.sendfile()

Ross Lagerwall added the comment: OK, I'm happy to not return the file offset. However, I still think that headers and trailers should remain as is since this matches the native interface very closely. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue11154] Alternate name for __pycache__

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: That makes sense. Making it configurable would lose some of the benefits. What we could do though, before 3.2 goes out, is change the name to ".pycache" to follow the dot-file naming convention and avoid cluttering directory listings. -- priority

[issue11154] Alternate name for __pycache__

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I agree with barry's argument and also with Marc-André's argument on python-ideas. Your directories are far cleaner than before with pyc files all around, so what is the problem exactly? -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python

[issue10882] Add os.sendfile()

Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: On a second thought I have two complaints. There is no reason to return the file offset, also because this is only supported on Linux. On all other platforms we are calculating the file offset by making a sum of offset + number of bytes sent. Despite this

[issue11154] Alternate name for __pycache__

Dave Malcolm added the comment: On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 16:41 +, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > IIRC we thought about something like this during the PEP discussions and > Guido nixed it. FWIW, the closest I could find was this mail: http://www.mail-archive.com/python-dev@python.org/msg45203.htm

[issue11154] Alternate name for __pycache__

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[issue11154] Alternate name for __pycache__

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: Hmm. That's problematic. How would that interact with a system Python that is already looking in __pycache__ for its pyc files? Would it suddenly start ignoring those and wanting to write them to .pycache? IIRC we thought about something like this during t

[issue11154] Alternate name for __pycache__

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[issue11156] email.encoders.encode_base64 create a single long line

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[issue9298] binary email attachment issue with base64 encoding

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[issue9298] binary email attachment issue with base64 encoding

R. David Murray added the comment: See also duplicate issue 11156. -- nosy: +y...@zioup.com ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-lis

[issue11156] email.encoders.encode_base64 create a single long line

R. David Murray added the comment: This appears to be a duplicate of issue 9298. Yves, if you disagree let me know what's different. -- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed type: -> behavior versions: +Python 3.2, Python

[issue10694] zipfile.py end of central directory detection not robust

R. David Murray added the comment: Xuanji: yes, your test_ignores_stuff_appended_past_comments is exactly what I was asking for. I've put this patch on my review list, but I may not get to it until after 3.2 final. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue11160] ZipFile.comment expects bytes

New submission from Xuanji Li : The documentation for zipfile describes ZipFile.comment as "The comment text associated with the ZIP file." From reading this I expect that setting it to a string is ok; however ZipFile.comment must actually be set to bytes (or a bytes-like object, I am not very

[issue10694] zipfile.py end of central directory detection not robust

Xuanji Li added the comment: I've attached a patch copying rep's patch from issue 10298, as i think it is cleaner (but it seems to do the same thing as kevin's patch) together with 2 test cases. David Murray: I'm not really sure what you mean by "test comments with trailing data"; as I unde

[issue4681] mmap offset should be off_t instead of ssize_t, and size calculation needs corrected

Ross Lagerwall added the comment: OK, this new patch applies cleanly, uses support.unlink and hexadecimal constants. I left the off_t handling as is (it seems to work on *nix testing). Perhaps someone can handle the Windows side? -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20722/mmap_r

[issue941346] AIX shared library fix

Michael Haubenwallner added the comment: Sébastien, why did you need to add '-L$(srcdir)' to BLDSHARED in these patches? As LDLIBRARY points to the immediate file 'libpython$(VERSION).so' instead of '-lpython$(VERSION)', I don't see the need for '-L$(srcdir)' at all. The problem is that '-L$(

[issue11156] email.encoders.encode_base64 create a single long line

Yves Dorfsman added the comment: In case this does not get fixed for a long time, here is a work around (re-implement the encoder yourself): . . . def myencoder(msg): from base64 import encodebytes as _bencode orig = msg.get_payload() encdata = str(_bencode(orig), 'ascii') msg.set_pa

[issue11159] Sax parser crashes if given unicode file name

New submission from Rickard Lindberg : The error is the following: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 4, in File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/__init__.py", line 31, in parse parser.parse(filename_or_stream) File "/usr/lib64/python

[issue11145] '%o' % user-defined instance

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: It's a magic method in 2.7 but not 3.x. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing l

[issue4681] mmap offset should be off_t instead of ssize_t, and size calculation needs corrected

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Thanks for doing this. Looking at the patch: Modules/_io/_iomodule.h has macros for dealing with off_t (it also defines Py_off_t for Windows), perhaps you want to use them. Also, support.unlink() takes care of ignoring ENOENT for you. Regardling the sizes us

[issue11158] Python VM deadlock

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[issue10115] Support accept4() for atomic setting of flags at socket creation

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Duplicated in issue11157. -- nosy: +mmarkk ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue11157] Use socket.accept4 syscall under linux

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: This is a duplicate of issue10115. -- nosy: +pitrou resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed superseder: -> Support accept4() for atomic setting of flags at socket creation ___ Python tracker

[issue11145] '%o' % user-defined instance

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[issue11145] '%o' % user-defined instance

Armin Rigo added the comment: Eric: that's wrong, it is a magic method. See for example "__oct__" in Objects/typeobject.c. I'm not sure I understand why you would point this out, though. A "SystemError: bad argument to internal function" or an "Assertion failed" are both bugs anyway.

[issue11153] urllib2 basic auth parser handle unquoted realm in WWW-Authenticate header

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[issue11158] Python VM deadlock

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[issue11158] Parent process did not quit after sys.exit()

New submission from Pham Cong Dinh : Hi, I was implementing a multiple process compatible logging which child processes are expected to send all messages to the parent process via a queue and then the parent process serializes and flushes them into a log file. The idea is built around multipr