[issue4147] xml.dom.minidom toprettyxml: omit whitespace for text-only elements

anatoly techtonik added the comment: I would revert this patch (leaving several test cases though) until a proper fix is available. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue13386] Document documentation conventions for optional args

Eli Bendersky added the comment: ""So would it be worth the effort to identify each such place in the built-ins/stdlib and eventually change them all? I've seen support for doing so in other tracker issues and think it's a good idea personally."" Probably, if this will bring some added value

[issue13405] Add DTrace probes

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[issue13405] Add DTrace probes

Jesús Cea Avión added the comment: Based on work done by skip.montanaro for issue4111. 05fde8943685.diff compiles correctly under Solaris 10 & derivatives, both in 32 and 64 bits. I am working on 2.7 because I consider this feature important enough for providing a patch against 2.7, availabl

[issue13405] Add DTrace probes

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[issue13380] ctypes: add an internal function for reseting the ctypes caches

Meador Inge added the comment: > - you duplicated the part with "CFUNCTYPE(c_int)(lambda: None)" without > removing the original chunk of code > - some platforms can't compile ctypes, you must handle that case in > regrtest Both fixed. Thanks for the review. Second patch attached.

[issue13249] argparse.ArgumentParser() lists arguments in the wrong order

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I agree with Eric both as to placement (first paragraph) and wording (with explanation). I don't have time to review otherwise at the moment. -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue1298835] Add a vendor-packages directory for system-supplied modules

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: In English also, to vend is to sell, direct from Fr. *vendre*. However, ideas are not necessarily sold for money, but for assent, adoption, or other action. My dictionary has 'publish' as a secondary meaning of vend. So 'vendor-packages' is fine within the co

[issue13333] utf-7 inconsistent with surrogates

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I made a little fix to the patch for wide unicode builds and then committed it. Thank you! -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue13333] utf-7 inconsistent with surrogates

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset ddfcb0de564f by Antoine Pitrou in branch '3.2': Issue #1: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ddfcb0de564f New changeset 250091e60f28 by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default': Issue #1: The UTF-7 deco

[issue4147] xml.dom.minidom toprettyxml: omit whitespace for text-only elements

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[issue13333] utf-7 inconsistent with surrogates

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: LGTM. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python

[issue13333] utf-7 inconsistent with surrogates

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Here is a non-git diff then :) -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23688/utf7-nogit.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue13391] string.strip Does Not Remove Zero-Width-Space (ZWSP)

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I would also object to the feature creep. -- nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python

[issue13391] string.strip Does Not Remove Zero-Width-Space (ZWSP)

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Making it a feature request would procedurally be ok. However, I'd immediately refuse that as feature creep. Use regular expressions for more advanced stripping than what the .strip method provides. -- ___ Python

[issue13333] utf-7 inconsistent with surrogates

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Please don't use git-style diffs then, since otherwise the review can't figure out what the patch applies to (and neither could I figure that out). -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue13391] string.strip Does Not Remove Zero-Width-Space (ZWSP)

Dave Mankoff added the comment: So I contacted the Unicode Technical Committee about the issue and received a promptly received a response back. They pointed that the ZWSP was, once upon a time considered white space but that was changed in Unicode 4.0.1 http://www.unicode.org/review/resolved

[issue13404] Add support for system.methodSignature() to XMLRPC Server

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: How do you infer the data types for the parameters? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue13333] utf-7 inconsistent with surrogates

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[issue13333] utf-7 inconsistent with surrogates

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Can you please regenerate the patch against default's head? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-b

[issue13389] Clear lists and dicts freelist in gc.collect()

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[issue12659] Add tests for packaging.tests.support

Francisco Martín Brugué added the comment: Hi Éric, I've mutated test_support.py a bit and now passes in https://bitbucket.org/tarek/distutils2 changeset:6c3d67ed3adb. I've added runTest to Tester, used os.unlink also removed the test fake_dec test as in support.py from distutils2 version is

[issue13406] Deprecation warnings when running the test suite

New submission from Antoine Pitrou : Now that the unicode-internal codec is deprecated, the test suite spouts some warning (in test_codecs, test_codeccallbacks and test_unicode). Example: [344/361] test_codecs /home/antoine/cpython/default/Lib/test/test_codecs.py:1024: DeprecationWarning: unic

[issue13389] Clear lists and dicts freelist in gc.collect()

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 910986542a75 by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default': Issue #13389: Full garbage collection passes now clear the freelists for http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/910986542a75 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python

[issue13393] Improve BufferedReader.read1()

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[issue13401] test_argparse fails with root permissions

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[issue13404] Add support for system.methodSignature() to XMLRPC Server

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[issue13333] utf-7 inconsistent with surrogates

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Here is a patch. -- keywords: +patch stage: -> patch review Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23686/utf7.patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue13391] string.strip Does Not Remove Zero-Width-Space (ZWSP)

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > But why are they not a space? Because the Unicode standard says they are not. We have a good tradition in Python to follow standards where they apply, and it appears that the Unicode standard is crystal clear that the characters in question are *not* white

[issue13405] Add DTrace probes

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[issue2775] Implement PEP 3108

Eric Snow added the comment: For the stat module in the "Obsolete" section[1], should the entry be updated to indicate that the module was left alone (see issue 2874)? Would it be worth having the "Merging C and Python Impl..." section[2] include a reference to PEP 399? [1] http://www.pytho

[issue11836] multiprocessing.queues.SimpleQueue is undocumented

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Wouldn't a better alternative be to have a wait function which can > deal with readable pipe connections and integer handles? > > On Unix this would just delegate to select(). > > On Windows it could work as follows: > * initiate an overlapped read on each c

[issue13249] argparse.ArgumentParser() lists arguments in the wrong order

Roy Smith added the comment: Before I build another patch, would you be OK with leaving it as a note, but adding the "due to the number of arguments" language? There's a lot of text here, and people tend to just zoom in on the bits and pieces they need right now. I think there is value in m

[issue13405] Add DTrace probes

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[issue4111] Add Systemtap/DTrace probes

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[issue13386] Document documentation conventions for optional args

Eric Snow added the comment: >> 4) she got annoyed that two completely different notations where used >> for two very close concepts > > This is a good point, and we are trying to move to the arg=default > notation. Unfortunately there are still places that use the old > notation. C functions

[issue11836] multiprocessing.queues.SimpleQueue is undocumented

sbt added the comment: > Well, the sentinels argument, right now, is meant to be used > internally. I don't think it's a good thing to document it, > since I don't think it's a very clean API (I know, I introduced > it :-)) Wouldn't a better alternative be to have a wait function which can d

[issue7732] imp.find_module crashes Python if there exists a directory named "__init__.py"

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 555871844962 by Victor Stinner in branch '2.7': Issue #7732: Try to fix the a failing test on Windows http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/555871844962 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue13405] Add DTrace probes

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[issue13405] Add DTrace probes

New submission from Jesús Cea Avión : I want this to 3.3. I will concentrate in DTrace under Solaris and derivatives, for now. No SystemTap. Original details, useful for context: issue4111. My reference is going to be Solaris/OpenIndiana patches for Python DTrace support. -- assignee

[issue6397] Implementing Solaris "/dev/poll" in the "select" module

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[issue6397] Implementing Solaris "/dev/poll" in the "select" module

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 8f7ab4bf7ad9 by Jesus Cea in branch 'default': Issue #6397: Support '/dev/poll' polling objects in select module, under Solaris & derivatives. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/8f7ab4bf7ad9 -- nosy: +python-dev

[issue2377] Replace __import__ w/ importlib.__import__

Brett Cannon added the comment: Just some notes on the branch: The FAILING file contains tests known to fail. There is a comment explaining the failure and possible fixes. If something makes it here and stays for a while it probably means upstream changes are needed (eg. test_pydoc needs Imp

[issue2775] Implement PEP 3108

Brett Cannon added the comment: Just so people know, if the profile situation isn't resolved by 3.3 I'm considering PEP 3108 done. IOW, if anyone wants to step forward and deal with cProfile/profile, that would be appreciated. =) -- ___ Python tra

[issue13396] new method random.getrandbytes()

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[issue13404] Add support for system.methodSignature() to XMLRPC Server

New submission from Raymond Hettinger : Currently, the server has a stub method that returns: 'signatures not supported'. Using the inspect module, it shouldn't be difficult to provide function/method signatures for over-the-wire introspection. -- components: Library (Lib) messages: 1

[issue13403] Option for XMLPRC Server to support HTTPS

New submission from Raymond Hettinger : The xmlrpc.client module supports secure transport using https; however, the xmlrpc.server does not have an https option. Adding this support isn't difficult. Here's an example of how to it could be implemented: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/496

[issue1200313] HTMLParser fails to handle charref in attribute value

Ezio Melotti added the comment: There was actually a bug with entities in unquoted attribute values. I fixed it and added tests for all the cases (quoted and unquoted). -- versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker

[issue12629] HTMLParser silently stops parsing with malformed attributes

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Fixed, thanks for the report! Apparently the correct way to parse is: starttag y attribute z with value "" attribute o"" with no value So this is what HTMLParser does now. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open ->

[issue755670] improve HTMLParser attribute processing regexps

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Fixed, thanks for the report! -- dependencies: -allow HTMLParser to continue after a parse error resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed versions: +Python 2.7 ___ Python

[issue1745761] Bad attributes/data handling in SGMLib

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Fixed, thanks for the report! -- resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue11836] multiprocessing.queues.SimpleQueue is undocumented

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Well, the sentinels argument, right now, is meant to be used internally. I don't think it's a good thing to document it, since I don't think it's a very clean API (I know, I introduced it :-)) - it's just so that concurrent.futures can detect dead processes.

[issue13249] argparse.ArgumentParser() lists arguments in the wrong order

Éric Araujo added the comment: I would not use a note directive. Notes and warnings distract and sometimes scare readers. For a simple coding recommendation like this, I think a regular paragraph would suffice. To make sure it’s not lost after pages of options description, maybe it could b

[issue1745761] Bad attributes/data handling in SGMLib

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 3c3009f63700 by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7': #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: improve attribute handling in HTMLParser. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3c3009f63700 New changeset 16ed15ff0d7c by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2': #1745761

[issue1200313] HTMLParser fails to handle charref in attribute value

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 3c3009f63700 by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7': #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: improve attribute handling in HTMLParser. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3c3009f63700 New changeset 16ed15ff0d7c by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2': #1745761

[issue13357] HTMLParser parses attributes incorrectly.

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 3c3009f63700 by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7': #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: improve attribute handling in HTMLParser. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3c3009f63700 New changeset 16ed15ff0d7c by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2': #1745761

[issue755670] improve HTMLParser attribute processing regexps

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 3c3009f63700 by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7': #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: improve attribute handling in HTMLParser. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3c3009f63700 New changeset 16ed15ff0d7c by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2': #1745761

[issue12629] HTMLParser silently stops parsing with malformed attributes

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 3c3009f63700 by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7': #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: improve attribute handling in HTMLParser. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3c3009f63700 New changeset 16ed15ff0d7c by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2': #1745761

[issue13388] document hg commit hooks in the devguide

Éric Araujo added the comment: +1 to most of the patch, except one piece of wording: “commit message hooks”. This does not occur in the Mercurial documentation or help, and is misleading (commits happen on your maching, the hooks run on the server). I’d just use “hooks” or “Mercurial hooks”

[issue13402] Document absoluteness of sys.executable

New submission from Éric Araujo : I wanted to know if sys.executable was always an absolute path but the doc does not talk about that. (My use case is that I’d like to reload a process and I wonder if I can call os.execve or if I need to use os.execvpe.) -- assignee: docs@python compo

[issue1298835] Add a vendor-packages directory for system-supplied modules

Éric Araujo added the comment: > not all OSes have vendors I realized that because French is my native language, I interpret “vendor” as “seller” (the meaning of “vendeur”), but I think that in English it just means “distributor” and has no relation with selling. vendor-packages is arguably

[issue5819] Add PYTHONPREFIXES environment variable

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[issue13391] string.strip Does Not Remove Zero-Width-Space (ZWSP)

Dave Mankoff added the comment: But why are they not a space? I mean, they literally have the word space in their name and are used as separators between words. I can't really see any reason why you wouldn't want this behavior - there's not time when I would be thankful that strip removed all

[issue13391] string.strip Does Not Remove Zero-Width-Space (ZWSP)

Ezio Melotti added the comment: I think those shouldn't be considered whitespace, so they shouldn't be stripped either. Even if _PyUnicode_IsWhitespace doesn't match exactly the Unicode definition of White_Space, they both agree that ZWSP and ZWNBSP are not whitespace. ZWNBSP is also used as

[issue13386] Document documentation conventions for optional args

Baptiste Carvello added the comment: Le 14/11/2011 13:40, Ezio Melotti a écrit : >> 1) she naturally understood the meaning of the [opt] notation > > I guess this depends on her background, I've seen people trying to use [] in > function calls because they saw them in the doc or confusing them

[issue13391] string.strip Does Not Remove Zero-Width-Space (ZWSP)

Dave Mankoff added the comment: I appreciated the quick turnaround on this. Perhaps I am misunderstanding the resolution. I understand that strip uses _PyUnicode_IsWhitespace, and that _PyUnicode_IsWhitespace "Returns 1 for Unicode characters having the bidirectional type 'WS', 'B' or 'S' or

[issue13401] test_argparse fails with root permissions

Changes by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis : -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23685/python-test_argparse.patch ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue13401] test_argparse fails with root permissions

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[issue13401] test_argparse fails with root permissions

New submission from Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis : $ python3.3 -B -m test.test_argparse ... == FAIL: test_failures_many_groups_listargs (__main__.TestFileTypeW)

[issue13399] Don't print traceback for unrecognized actions, commands and options in packaging

Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis added the comment: $ pysetup3.3 unknown_action Unrecognized action "unknown_action" Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/packaging/run.py", line 650, in main dispatcher = Dispatcher(args) File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/packaging/ru

[issue13400] packaging: build command should accept --compile, --no-compile and --optimize options

New submission from Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis : build command of packaging should accept --compile, --no-compile and --optimize options and pass them to build_py command. -- assignee: tarek components: Distutils2 keywords: easy messages: 147600 nosy: Arfrever, alexis, eric.ar

[issue13399] Don't print traceback for unrecognized options in packaging

Changes by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis : -- title: Don't print traceback for recognized options in packaging -> Don't print traceback for unrecognized options in packaging ___ Python tracker __

[issue13399] Don't print traceback for recognized options in packaging

New submission from Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis : $ python3.3 setup.py build --some-option usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...] or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...] or: setup.py --help-commands or: setup.py cmd --help error: option --some-option

[issue12386] packaging fails in install_distinfo when writing RESOURCES

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset cb49bc384957 by Éric Araujo in branch 'default': Fix writing of the RESOURCES file (#12386). http://hg.python.org/distutils2/rev/cb49bc384957 New changeset 2d469ccfe30e by Éric Araujo in branch 'python3': Merge fixes for #13170 and #12386 and other

[issue12915] Add inspect.locate and inspect.resolve

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 5df1065ddb8b by Éric Araujo in branch 'default': Expand tests and fix bugs in util.resolve_name. http://hg.python.org/distutils2/rev/5df1065ddb8b -- ___ Python tracker

[issue13170] distutils2 test failures

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 5b096fc6e65d by Éric Araujo in branch 'default': Fix import in install_data (#13170). Thanks to David Barnett. http://hg.python.org/distutils2/rev/5b096fc6e65d New changeset 2d469ccfe30e by Éric Araujo in branch 'python3': Merge fixes for #13170 a

[issue11751] Increase distutils.filelist / packaging.manifest test coverage

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 3dda26cfc1d7 by Éric Araujo in branch 'default': Increase test coverage for manifest (#11751). http://hg.python.org/distutils2/rev/3dda26cfc1d7 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue13386] Document documentation conventions for optional args

Éric Araujo added the comment: > Do we need an introductory page aimed to the readers that explains > the conventions used in the doc? Explaining notational conventions at the start of a technical reference sounds like a best practice to me. -- ___

[issue13264] Monkeypatching using metaclass

Éric Araujo added the comment: Artem, if you have further information to make us reconsider this issue, please add a new message. -- resolution: -> invalid stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue13239] Remove <> operator from Grammar/Grammar

Éric Araujo added the comment: +# <> isn't actually a valid comparison operator in Python. It's here for the +# sake of a __future__ import described in PEP 401 If we wanted to be exact, the operator isn’t here for a __future__ import but for a feature enabled by a __future__ import. But I do

[issue13398] _cursesmodule does not build, doesn't find Python.h on Solaris

Jesús Cea Avión added the comment: BTW, have you tried to compile with GCC? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing li

[issue13398] _cursesmodule does not build, doesn't find Python.h on Solaris

Jesús Cea Avión added the comment: Maciej, could you possibly provide a "diff" file to apply?. I care about Solaris support, but I don't have a Solaris 9 around for testing. Only Solaris 10 and OpenIndiana. Try to provide a minimal patch, please. -- nosy: +jcea stage: -> needs patch

[issue13396] new method random.getrandbytes()

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[issue6397] Implementing Solaris "/dev/poll" in the "select" module

Jesús Cea Avión added the comment: New changeset. The only change is: """ diff --git a/Modules/selectmodule.c b/Modules/selectmodule.c --- a/Modules/selectmodule.c +++ b/Modules/selectmodule.c @@ -685,8 +685,16 @@ return -1; } if (n < size) { -PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IO

[issue1745761] Bad attributes/data handling in SGMLib

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[issue755670] improve HTMLParser attribute processing regexps

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[issue12629] HTMLParser silently stops parsing with malformed attributes

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[issue13357] HTMLParser parses attributes incorrectly.

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[issue3932] HTMLParser cannot handle '&' and non-ascii characters in attribute names

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[issue12681] unittest expectedFailure could take a message argument like skip does

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Maybe we could add an expected_issue(id) decorator to test.support. -- nosy: +ezio.melotti ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue6397] Implementing Solaris "/dev/poll" in the "select" module

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[issue13386] Document documentation conventions for optional args

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Thanks for the feedback! > 1) she naturally understood the meaning of the [opt] notation I guess this depends on her background, I've seen people trying to use [] in function calls because they saw them in the doc or confusing them for lists, so I guess that e

[issue13386] Document documentation conventions for optional args

Baptiste Carvello added the comment: Hi all, here is a relevant user story. I'm afraid it won't help you much, but it highlights the importance of consistent conventions in doc. My girlfriend is learning Python with no prior programing experience. She quite naturally got used to calling help(

[issue13386] Document documentation conventions for optional args

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[issue13386] Document documentation conventions for optional args

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