[issue16202] sys.path[0] security issues

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Definite +1 on distutils needing to be fixed in the upcoming maintenance releases for 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3. -1 on doing the strict path security checks on a normal invocation, -0 on doing them when -S or -E have been passed in, +0 if it is *just* a warning to users

[issue16209] add a "class str" entry to the docs

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: Let me start over with what I'm suggesting, because the idea wasn't fully developed when I first filed this issue. I'm thinking that we should create a class entry for str that contains the current string methods nested beneath it -- a bit like issue 12901. :)

[issue16203] Proposal: add re.fullmatch() method

Tim Peters added the comment: Matthew, Guido wrote "check that the whole input string matches" (or slice if pos and (possibly also) endpos is/are given). So, yes, \Z is more to the point than $ if people want to continue wasting time trying to implement this as a Python-level function ;-) I

[issue16202] sys.path[0] security issues

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[issue16209] add a "class str" entry to the docs

Éric Araujo added the comment: This sort of request came up before, the last time only a few months ago if memory serves. The shot answer is that str is a built-in function as well as a class, and trying to split hairs over that does not really add value to the docs. I can dig up the issue(s

[issue16212] mmap() dumps core upon resizing the underlying file

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[issue16211] MacInstalls break PyDev

Ned Deily added the comment: There is *no* way to install Python using a python.org installer and *not* have the .py files installed. You would have to go in and remove those files yourself. You should be able to see the .py files yourself by looking at /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/V

[issue16211] MacInstalls break PyDev

Doug Ransom added the comment: The problem described was in respect to the python installed by the installer from python.org, not the python that ships with mac. Using OSX 10.8.1. Installing python from python.org binary installer does not fix the problem. I ran the installer before submitti

[issue16216] Arithmetic operations with NULL

STINNER Victor added the comment: > I think it is unsafe to do with NULL. Could you please elaborate? -- nosy: +haypo ___ Python tracker ___

[issue16216] Arithmetic operations with NULL

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: In the function STRINGLIB(fastsearch_memchr_1char) in the file Objects/stringlib/fastsearch.h NULL returned by memchr/memrchr casted to intptr_t, then some arithmetic operations performed on this integer, and result casted back to pointer. I think it is un

[issue16215] Possible double memory free in str.replace

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: In the function replace() in the file Objects/unicodeobject.c possible double free memory pointed by buf1. release1 indicates if memory was allocated and deallocation needed. However there are places where memory temporary deallocated but flag was not clea

[issue16213] Expose private functions in marshal used by importlib

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > AFAIR, the problem is that you first need to import the locale > module (and its dependencies) before you can decide what the > filesystem encoding is. I don't think this is true. The file system encoding works fine all along, and also doesn't have to do

[issue16086] tp_flags: Undefined behaviour with 32 bits long

STINNER Victor added the comment: Can anyone review my new patch, unsigned_tp_flags-2.patch? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs

[issue16201] socket.gethostbyname incorrectly parses ip

STINNER Victor added the comment: > Buggy due to the use of scanf at Modueles/socketmodule.c:868 I don't think so. The following test fails because sscanf() returns 5 instead of 4: if (sscanf(name, "%d.%d.%d.%d%c", &d1, &d2, &d3, &d4, &ch) == 4 && ...) So '192.168.1.1 ' is passed to geta

[issue16208] getaddrinfo returns wrong results if IPv6 is disabled

Ralf Schmitt added the comment: Thanks for looking at this. loewis told me in http://bugs.python.org/issue7735#msg172726 the following: """The switch --disable-ipv6 is supported and works as intended. It is not the intention of the switch to disable lookups. Instead, it disables support

[issue16212] mmap() dumps core upon resizing the underlying file

Charles-François Natali added the comment: > You can use file locks to be protected against such race condition. > See for example: Those are advisory locks, not mandatory locks. It's possible to do some mandatory locking on some systems, but on every file, and it's not portable. -- _

[issue16208] getaddrinfo returns wrong results if IPv6 is disabled

STINNER Victor added the comment: > getaddrinfo returns wrong results if IPv6 is disabled If IPv6 support is disabled, Python is unable to decode an IPv6 address. So don't ask for IPv6 addresses if you disabled IPv6 support. I don't understand this issue. -- nosy: +haypo

[issue16202] sys.path[0] security issues

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[issue12268] file readline, readlines & readall methods can lose data on EINTR

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[issue16212] mmap() dumps core upon resizing the underlying file

STINNER Victor added the comment: "Well, there are some higly non-portable ways to try to escape this (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2663456/write-a-signal-handler-to-catch-sigsegv), but it won't fly in our case." There is also the libsigsegv library, but it's hard and unsafe to handle

[issue16212] mmap() dumps core upon resizing the underlying file

Charles-François Natali added the comment: > I think, handling the signal would do. You can't. Handling a signal like SIGSEGV or SIGBUS in any other way that exiting the process will result in an infinite loop (as soon as the signal handler returns the faulty instruction will be re-executed). We

[issue16213] Expose private functions in marshal used by importlib

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > As for fix_co_filename, I think it would indeed be useful if > marshal.load(s) supported an optional filename= parameter, which then > fills rf.current_filename. AFAIR, the problem is that you first need to import the locale module (and its dependencies) befo

[issue16061] performance regression in string replace for 3.3

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: The performance numbers are very nice, but the patch needs a comment about the optimization, IMO. -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue16213] Expose private functions in marshal used by importlib

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: marshal currently has a simple, coherent, high-level interface: dump and load serializations. _fix_co_filename sounds a bit hackish and ad hoc. Martin's suggestion looks to me like a better way to publicly expose filename setting. Making a function public inde

[issue16210] combine the two type() definitions in built-in function docs

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: In other words, change ''' type(object) Return the type of an object. ... ... With three arguments, type() functions as a constructor as detailed below. type(name, bases, dict) Return a new type object ''' to something like ''' type(object)

[issue12268] file readline, readlines & readall methods can lose data on EINTR

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 751a91e332d9 by Gregory P. Smith in branch '2.7': Fixes Issue #12268 for the io module - File readline, readlines and http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/751a91e332d9 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue16206] dict() docs should display multiple signatures

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: Attaching proposed patch. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27546/issue-16206-1-default.patch ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue16203] Proposal: add re.fullmatch() method

Matthew Barnett added the comment: '$' will match at the end of the string or just before the final '\n': >>> re.match(r'abc$', 'abc\n') <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00F15448> So shouldn't you be using r'\Z' instead? >>> re.match(r'abc\Z', 'abc') <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00F15410> >>> re.mat

[issue16213] Expose private functions in marshal used by importlib

Brett Cannon added the comment: _w_long and _r_long originally came from marshal; forgot I re-implemented them in pure Python in the end. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue2350] 'exceptions' import fixer

Brett Cannon added the comment: I don't remember. -- resolution: fixed -> stage: -> patch review status: closed -> open ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue2350] 'exceptions' import fixer

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Brett: Why did you close the issue? Benjamin's change was never committed... -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue16213] Expose private functions in marshal used by importlib

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: I don't understand this issue at all: a) _bootstrap does not currently use any private API of marshal. Instead, it has functions _w_long and _r_long implemented in pure Python. So where is the special functionality that only importlib has? Anybody could easil

[issue16214] 2to3 does not remove exceptions import

New submission from Chris Mayo: Create file a.py: #!/usr/bin/python import exceptions and run: 2to3 a.py ... RefactoringTool: No files need to be modified. Issue 2350 is marked as closed but this is still present for me in 2to3 of Python 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3. -- components: 2to3 (2.x to 3

[issue16061] performance regression in string replace for 3.3

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > The patch should be completed to optimize also other Unicode kinds. I'm working on it. Here are benchmark scripts which I use. First tests regular strings (replace every n-th char), second tests random strings (replace 1/n of total randomly distributed c

[issue16202] sys.path[0] security issues

Robert Bradshaw added the comment: Good point about cleanup, patch updated. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27543/fix_distutils.patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue15472] Itertools doc summary table misdocuments some arguments

Petri Lehtinen added the comment: cycle() doesn't use seq, but p (p0, p1, ...). Others use seq (seq[0], seq[1], ...). How do you think these should be changed? -- nosy: +petri.lehtinen ___ Python tracker _

[issue16202] sys.path[0] security issues

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: disutils should definitely be fixed. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue16212] mmap() dumps core upon resizing the underlying file

Vladimir Ushakov added the comment: I think, handling the signal would do. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue15936] Add link from os.urandom to random.SystemRandom

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[issue16202] sys.path[0] security issues

Christian Heimes added the comment: Ultimately it's Benjamin's and Georg's decision. They are the release managers of 2.7 to 3.3 and need to come to an agreement. You have to convince them that the proposed security restriction is worth the risk of breaking 3rd party software. It would help

[issue16213] Expose private functions in marshal used by importlib

Brett Cannon added the comment: http://bugs.python.org/issue15031 would deal with not needing to expose _r_long and _w_long, but that still means people are screwed for _fix_co_filename. You could argue that is a margin use-case, though. -- dependencies: +Split .pyc parsing from module

[issue16191] ceval cleanup

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[issue16202] sys.path[0] security issues

Jeroen Demeyer added the comment: If you don't plan any further Python-2 releases, it would be pity that this cannot be fixed. If you do plan a further Python-2 release, I find backwards compatibility a poor excuse. I'm not saying that backwards compatibility should be totally ignored, but i

[issue16212] mmap() dumps core upon resizing the underlying file

Charles-François Natali added the comment: No, it's not. That's why I think there's nothing that can be done. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue16212] mmap() dumps core upon resizing the underlying file

Christian Heimes added the comment: The fstat() check isn't bullet proof, too. It has a race condition as another process could truncate the file between the fstat() check and the code lines that access the mmapped file. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue16212] mmap() dumps core upon resizing the underlying file

Charles-François Natali added the comment: That's normal. You're truncating the file after having it mapped, so touching the pages corresponding to the truncated part of the file will result in a segfault. See mmap's man page: """ Use of a mapped region can result in these signals:

[issue16213] Expose private functions in marshal used by importlib

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Le vendredi 12 octobre 2012 à 16:23 +, Brett Cannon a écrit : > Well, it means importlib becomes a special library and that no one > could ever replicate it as a third-party library. Well, it *is* a special library. It is tightly integrated with the interpre

[issue16213] Expose private functions in marshal used by importlib

Brett Cannon added the comment: Well, it means importlib becomes a special library and that no one could ever replicate it as a third-party library. Now if we can expose the various APIs around this such that they are abstracted away then it isn't a big deal. That can be done for the _r_long a

[issue16202] sys.path[0] security issues

Christian Heimes added the comment: I'm all in favor for the proposal to add a warning when the script is in a world-writable directory. But any modification can't be added to stable version as it's a new feature. Robert, you have to cleanup and remove the directory manually at the end of the

[issue16202] sys.path[0] security issues

Robert Bradshaw added the comment: Here's a fix to distutils. I think at least a warning is in order for running scripts from insecure directories, and ideally some happy medium can be found. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27542/fix_distutils.patch _

[issue16213] Expose private functions in marshal used by importlib

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Why is it a problem for importlib to use internal APIs? I don't think support these low-level APIs as public helps anyone. -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker _

[issue15853] IDLE crashes selecting Preferences menu with OS X ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5.12.1

Roger Serwy added the comment: It appears that Kevin's patch is working around a bug in Tkinter's tkFont object configuration. I would suggest removing the editFont object entirely from configDialog if it is truly the root cause of Tk crashing. Kevin, is the .textHighlightSample causing the cr

[issue16191] ceval cleanup

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset ac30a1b1cf17 by Benjamin Peterson in branch 'default': ceval cleanup http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ac30a1b1cf17 -- nosy: +python-dev resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed _

[issue16213] Expose private functions in marshal used by importlib

New submission from Brett Cannon: IOW make _w_long, _r_long, and __fix_co_filename public so as to not be some special ability that only importlib has. -- components: Library (Lib) messages: 172751 nosy: brett.cannon priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open titl

[issue16202] sys.path[0] security issues

Christian Heimes added the comment: Robert Bradshaw's idea is the only feasible option for Python 2.7 or any other version except for 3.4dev. Your suggested modification to sys.path is out of option as it would create a backwards incompatibility with existing software. I'm adding 2.6 to 3.4 as

[issue15350] {urllib,urllib.parse}.urlencode.__doc__ is unclear

samwyse added the comment: Look good. I'd fix the last line, however: "sent the quote_plus" -> "sent to the quote_plus function", maybe. On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Brian Brazil wrote: > > Brian Brazil added the comment: > > How does the attached patch look? > > I also reworded the first

[issue16211] MacInstalls break PyDev

Ned Deily added the comment: In current OS X releases, it is true that the system Pythons as shipped by Apple do not include the .py files in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework; only .pyc and .pyo files are present. However, those .py files are added when you install the "Command Lin

[issue13440] Explain the "status quo wins a stalemate" principle in the devguide

Mike Hoy added the comment: Patch affects faq.rst/index.rst. In faq I put the two links along with some text as Chris suggested. In index I changed resources to Additional Resources and split up the old 'Resources' into 'Additional Resources/Essential Reading'. Feedback appreciated I will inco

[issue16212] mmap() dumps core upon resizing the underlying file

Christian Heimes added the comment: I'm able to reproduce the bug. Here is a stack trace: #0 0x005a650d in PyBytes_FromStringAndSize (str=0x7f44c127a000 , size=1) at Objects/bytesobject.c:82 82 (op = characters[*str & UCHAR_MAX]) != NULL) (gdb) bt #0 0x005a650

[issue16212] mmap() dumps core upon resizing the underlying file

New submission from Vladimir Ushakov: The following code crashes the interpreter on Linux: #!/usr/bin/python3 import mmap with open('test', 'wb') as f: f.write(bytes(1)) with open('test', 'r+b') as f: m = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0) f.truncate() a = m[:] --- It's not specific t

[issue16211] MacInstalls break PyDev

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: The binary installers for OSX do install all of the std library, and AFAIK the same is true for the version of python that ships with the OS. Please explains how to reproduce the problem you are having: * What release of OSX * Which python version (/usr/bin/

[issue16211] MacInstalls break PyDev

New submission from Doug Ransom: A number of .py files are not installed in the mac installer. While python programs run OK, this thwarts users from using IDEs like Aptana Studio/PyDev. For those of us who are python dabblers, this makes it nearly impossible to write/debug python code. urll

[issue16191] ceval cleanup

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I won't examine the patch in detail, but the cleanup is welcome and I trust you (and the test suite :-)) that it works fine. -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker __

[issue16205] update :class:`str` references to link to the str type section

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: > If :class:`str` and :func:`str` point respectively to stdtypes.rst and > functions.rst once a class directive is added to stdtypes.rst, then we can do > that. I agree. I would suggest starting small by adding a stub class entry above the string methods. T

[issue16205] update :class:`str` references to link to the str type section

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Adding a class directive for str is tracked in #16209. -- dependencies: +add a "class str" entry to the docs ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue16205] update :class:`str` references to link to the str type section

Ezio Melotti added the comment: If :class:`str` and :func:`str` point respectively to stdtypes.rst and functions.rst once a class directive is added to stdtypes.rst, then we can do that. We might than need to update a few links to use :class: instead of :func:, and possibly use :ref:`textseq`

[issue11009] urllib.splituser is not documented

Vinay Sajip added the comment: Note that at least splituser is being used outside the stdlib: packaging (which was intended to be part of the stdlib) used it, and hence so do distutils2 and distlib (by sharing parts of their codebases). Of course these last two are outside the stdlib. Similar f

[issue16202] sys.path[0] security issues

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[issue15853] IDLE crashes selecting Preferences menu with OS X ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5.12.1

Kevin Walzer added the comment: The crash occurs during a "self.editFont.config" call, when the sample text in the font dialog is updated with new font properties. My changes re-structures the configure event to first create a tuple with new font properties, then apply that to the parent label

[issue16202] sys.path[0] security issues

Volker Braun added the comment: The fact that Python's own testsuite tripped over this proves that this is subtle enough to merit some special handling. 1) It is not, and has never been, a good idea to run/compile anything off /tmp. This isn't specific to Python, it is just common sense that y

[issue16192] ctypes - documentation example

Ezio Melotti added the comment: The note at the beginning could be turned in an actual note using the `.. note:` markup. This will make it more visible. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue16210] combine the two type() definitions in built-in function docs

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[issue16210] combine the two type() definitions in built-in function docs

New submission from Chris Jerdonek: [Found by Ezio] The built-in function documentation has what looks like two separate definitions of the built-in function type(): http://docs.python.org/dev/library/functions.html#type These two definitions should be combined into one with a multi-line sign

[issue16207] distinguish methods from non-methods in classes in the stdtypes docs

Changes by Chris Jerdonek : -- title: add class name to method signatures in stdtypes docs -> distinguish methods from non-methods in classes in the stdtypes docs ___ Python tracker ___

[issue16209] add a "class str" entry to the docs

New submission from Chris Jerdonek: This issue is to add a str class entry to the built-in types page like we have for dict, set, memoryview, etc: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/stdtypes.html This will let us reference ``str`` the class separately from ``str()`` the built-in function. It

[issue16207] add class name to method signatures in stdtypes docs

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: So it looks like the class name gets stripped when rendering if you prefix the method name with the class name and the methods are nested beneath the class. So it seems like the options are to either (1) move the non-methods outside the class (e.g. before the

[issue12268] file readline, readlines & readall methods can lose data on EINTR

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[issue16201] socket.gethostbyname incorrectly parses ip

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[issue7735] python creates IPv6 DNS requests even when built with --disable-ipv6

Ralf Schmitt added the comment: btw lookups do not work if python is configured with --disable-ipv6, see http://bugs.python.org/issue16208 -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue16208] getaddrinfo returns wrong results if IPv6 is disabled

New submission from Ralf Schmitt: I'm running the following code on python 2.7.3 on a 64 bit linux. import socket print "has_ipv6", socket.has_ipv6 res = socket.getaddrinfo("python.org", 80, socket.AF_INET6, socket.SOCK_STREAM) print "python.org is", res With IPv6 enabled, I get the following

[issue16208] getaddrinfo returns wrong results if IPv6 is disabled

Changes by Ralf Schmitt : -- nosy: schmir priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: getaddrinfo returns wrong results if IPv6 is disabled ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue7735] python creates IPv6 DNS requests even when built with --disable-ipv6

Ralf Schmitt added the comment: The switch disables support for IPv6 sockets, and since IPv6 support is disabled, there is no need to try to lookup IPv6 addresses in create_connection. They just cannot be used afterwards. I didn't request that the switch disables any code that somehow deals wi

[issue16207] add class name to method signatures in stdtypes docs

Georg Brandl added the comment: > I think I would be more okay with this if it weren't for the fact that > some functions also appear indented under their class entries (making > them look like methods). I see, yes. In this case I agree. -- ___ P

[issue16207] add class name to method signatures in stdtypes docs

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: I think I would be more okay with this if it weren't for the fact that some functions also appear indented under their class entries (making them look like methods). Right now, there's no visual distinction between the functions and the methods. Prefixing th

[issue7735] python creates IPv6 DNS requests even when built with --disable-ipv6

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: The switch --disable-ipv6 is supported and works as intended. It is not the intention of the switch to disable lookups. Instead, it disables support for IPv6 sockets. Requesting that the switch disables any code that somehow deals with IPv6 is unreasona

[issue15853] IDLE crashes selecting Preferences menu with OS X ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5.12.1

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks for the patch, Kevin. It does need to be updated a bit for the current 2.7 branch as there have been changes since 2.7.3. Can you outline what you believe the problem is that your patch is trying to workaround? Certainly, nothing that IDLE or any other tki

[issue16207] add class name to method signatures in stdtypes docs

Georg Brandl added the comment: This is by design: these method descriptions are indented under their class entries; no need to repeat the class name. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> works for me status: open -> pending ___ Python tracker

[issue16201] socket.gethostbyname incorrectly parses ip

Michele Orrù added the comment: > Attaching patch to trim leading and trailing whitespaces prior to > processing. Note that tests are incorrect: the parsing is of the form %d.%d.%d.%d%c, so the parser should accept trailing spaces. That's the same for ping iirc: $ ping "192.168.1.1" PING 1

[issue16202] sys.path[0] security issues

Jeroen Demeyer added the comment: Robert: I don't think that running scripts in /tmp is inherently unsafe. It is Python's sys.path handling which makes it unsafe. That being said, I am not against distutils being "fixed" but I do think the root issue should be fixed. And of course you're rig

[issue14937] IDLE's deficiency in the completion of file names (Python 32, Windows XP)

Francisco Gracia added the comment: In my machine with Windows XP and Python 3.3.0 both variants work, the only difference being that 'c:/ brings up the selection box authomatically and 'c:\ requieres that it be summoned with the tab key, as indicated. 2012/10/12 Terry J. Reedy > > Terry J.

[issue16207] add class name to method signatures in stdtypes docs

New submission from Chris Jerdonek: The method signatures for some of the classes documented in library/stdtypes lack the class name. For example, the list, dict, set, and memoryview methods lack the class name. Adding the class name will help to distinguish methods from functions.

[issue15853] IDLE crashes selecting Preferences menu with OS X ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5.12.1

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[issue7735] python creates IPv6 DNS requests even when built with --disable-ipv6

Ralf Schmitt added the comment: It's not quite true what I wrote. Actually you get a "error: getsockaddrarg: bad family" error. But regardless of the error, there just is no need to ask for IPv6 addresses! -- ___ Python tracker

[issue16206] dict() docs should display multiple signatures

New submission from Chris Jerdonek: The documentation for dict() (for both the built-in function and the class constructor) should display multiple signatures as do dict.__doc__ and the documentation for, say, str(). Currently, the dict() documentation just has one signature: dict([arg]) Som