[issue4079] new urllib2.Request 'timeout' attribute needs to have a default

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[issue18417] urlopen() has a hidden default for its timeout argument

R. David Murray added the comment: Please see issue 14425 and then let us know if this is still valid. It's been a while since I looked at the code and I no longer remember the details, but I seemed confident in my conclusion at the time... :) -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___

[issue18411] signal.SIGINT in windows cause process exit directly.

R. David Murray added the comment: Windows doesn't support posix signals, sending one just kills the process, as you have observed. See the documentation for the os.kill function. -- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> invalid stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___

[issue12641] Remove -mno-cygwin from distutils

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[issue18420] os.rename FileNotFound complaining about dst, but it is src which is missing

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks for the report. This problem is being tracked in Issue16074. -- nosy: +ned.deily resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> bad error message in os.rename ___ Pyt

[issue18419] For reasons I can't explain Python in some cases says that getstatusoutput is not an attribute of the commands module but it is and should be

Georgiy Treyvus added the comment: I realized my mistake too late. It should have been if sys.version_info[0]==2: On the other hand if sys.version_info==2: while syntactically correct wasn't semantically correct. My apologies for wasting your time and for my stupidity. -- _

[issue16665] doc for builtin hex() is poor

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Personally, I think this is overkill. Can you capture the essence of what you want to say in something short and sweet that gets to the point? We're not looking for a complete spec. You just need to say basically what the function does. --

[issue16665] doc for builtin hex() is poor

Michael Dickens added the comment: I used the wording suggested by rurpy with some changes. I also added a few examples. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +MTGandP Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file30882/issue16665.diff ___ Python tracker

[issue18419] For reasons I can't explain Python in some cases says that getstatusoutput is not an attribute of the commands module but it is and should be

Ezio Melotti added the comment: That's because subprocess.getstatusoutput exists only in Python 3, and not Python 2.7. The "if sys.version_info==2:" is also wrong, so subprocess is always selected, resulting in an error when the program is run with Python 2. -- components: +Library (L

[issue18338] python --version should send output to STDOUT

Michael Dickens added the comment: Patch for issue 18338. Changes output for --version and updates unit test accordingly. -- nosy: +MTGandP Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file30881/issue18338.diff ___ Python tracker

[issue18420] os.rename FileNotFound complaining about dst, but it is src which is missing

New submission from Dun Peal: # The following reproduction is running on Ubuntu 13.04, Python 3.3.1: $ ls bar $ python3 -c "import os; os.rename('foo', 'bar')" Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'bar' -- comp

[issue18419] For reasons I can't explain Python in some cases says that getstatusoutput is not an attribute of the commands module but it is and should be

New submission from Georgiy Treyvus: Basically in a lot of situations in recent times I've had to make sure a bunch of files are all the same. Now diff is great but it only lets me pass two files. diff3 and sdiff also aren't what I'm looking for. So I decided to write my own little script that

[issue18418] Thread.isAlive() sometimes True after fork

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[issue18414] random.choices(seq, k)

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: How about [random.choice(seq) for i in range(k)]? Isn't it obvious enough? -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue18418] Thread.isAlive() sometimes True after fork

New submission from A. Jesse Jiryu Davis: In threading.Thread.__bootstrap_inner(), the thread sets self.__started before adding itself to the _active collection. If a different thread forks between these two operations, we're left with a thread that believes it's alive although it isn't. _afte

[issue18414] random.choices(seq, k)

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[issue17558] gdb debugging python frames in optimised interpreters

Marcus Cobden added the comment: Is there anyone who could take a look at this? I'd rather it not bit-rot into oblivion. I know the code quality is rather poor, but I can fix that. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue18408] Fixes crashes found by pyfailmalloc

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[issue18100] socket.sendall() cannot send buffers of 2GB or more

STINNER Victor added the comment: > ssize_t send(int socket, const void *buffer, size_t length, int flags); Oh, I didn't notice that. I hope that the result always fit in a ssize_t. If it is not the case, it is probably a bug in the kernel. An example of such bug: http://xorl.wordpress.com/2009

[issue18415] Normalize single/double quote usage in importlib

Brett Cannon added the comment: String constants in importlib/_bootstrap.py; pylint noticed the discrepancy. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue18416] Move to absolute file paths for module.__file__

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[issue13788] os.closerange optimization

STINNER Victor added the comment: FreeBSD and other OSes provide closefrom(). Why not exposing this function which is probably implemented as a single syscall? -- nosy: +haypo ___ Python tracker __

[issue18415] Normalize single/double quote usage in importlib

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[issue18415] Normalize single/double quote usage in importlib

STINNER Victor added the comment: Do you mean in .c and .py files, or in error messages? -- nosy: +haypo ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue18417] urlopen() has a hidden default for its timeout argument

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: Targeting only 3.4 because, while this should no break any (reasonable ) backward compatibility, it is technically an API change and thus should not get backported. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue18416] Move to absolute file paths for module.__file__

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[issue18417] urlopen() has a hidden default for its timeout argument

New submission from Barry A. Warsaw: urllib.request.urlopen() takes a `timeout` argument with a default value, but the default value is "hidden" and undocumented. As implemented, the value is socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT, but even this isn't really correct or useful. The problem comes if yo

[issue18416] Move to absolute file paths for module.__file__

New submission from Brett Cannon: $ touch blah.py; ./python -c "import blah; print(blah.__file__)" ./blah.py Should really change that to be an absolute path since the file's location is not accurate if you call os.chdir(). -- components: Interpreter Core messages: 192772 nosy: brett.c

[issue18415] Normalize single/double quote usage in importlib

New submission from Brett Cannon: Importlib has ended up with a mixed use of single and double quotes. Should clean it up to be consistent. -- assignee: brett.cannon components: Library (Lib) keywords: easy messages: 192771 nosy: brett.cannon priority: low severity: normal stage: needs

[issue18397] Python with MinGW

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[issue17457] Unittest discover fails with namespace packages and builtin modules

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[issue18406] unicodedata.itergraphemes / str.itergraphemes / str.graphemes

Matthew Barnett added the comment: This is basically what the regex module does, written in Python: def get_grapheme_cluster_break(codepoint): """Gets the "Grapheme Cluster Break" property of a codepoint. The properties defined here: http://www.unicode.org/

[issue18308] checkRecvmsgAddress wrong in test_socket.py (AIX failures)

Charles-François Natali added the comment: Fixed, thanks! -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue18308] checkRecvmsgAddress wrong in test_socket.py (AIX failures)

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 330c7aa2922b by Charles-François Natali in branch '3.3': Issue #18308: don't take the scope ID into account when comparing IPv6 http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/330c7aa2922b New changeset b44749cee660 by Charles-François Natali in branch 'default':

[issue12641] Remove -mno-cygwin from distutils

Oscar Benjamin added the comment: On 9 July 2013 17:36, Éric Araujo wrote: > > Don’t forget that distutils is used during CPython’s build process to compile > extension modules: subprocess may not be importable then. Subprocess is imported at at the top of the module in 3.x [1]. The whole dist

[issue10984] argparse add_mutually_exclusive_group should accept existing arguments to register conflicts

paul j3 added the comment: This approach of simply adding the existing actions to the group's _group_actions works fine, at least when it comes catching the error. It may be difficult to get a useful usage line. In usage, arguments appear in the order in which they were created, optionals fir

[issue12641] Remove -mno-cygwin from distutils

Éric Araujo added the comment: Don’t forget that distutils is used during CPython’s build process to compile extension modules: subprocess may not be importable then. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue12641] Remove -mno-cygwin from distutils

Oscar Benjamin added the comment: On 9 July 2013 16:25, Christian Heimes wrote: > > The is_cygwingcc() function can be simplified a lot with > subprocess.check_output(). My initial thought was to do that but then I based it on _find_exe_version which for whatever reason uses Popen directly [1]

[issue18397] Python with MinGW

R. David Murray added the comment: @Martin: you are probably correct, though I think there was at least one closed issue that did deal with mingw/msys build. As I recall it wasn't coherent enough to produce useful patches, but may have some clues. -- _

[issue18389] document that os.path.relpath does not interrogate the file system

R. David Murray added the comment: That's a good point. -- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation -Library (Lib) nosy: +docs@python resolution: rejected -> stage: committed/rejected -> needs patch status: closed -> open title: os.path.relpath gives incorrect results if sta

[issue13788] os.closerange optimization

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: _posixsubprocess already uses the Linux getdent64 syscall when available (though for different reasons: readdir is not safe in that context). http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/3f3cbfd52f94/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c#l227 Probing for procfs at configure time

[issue18397] Python with MinGW

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: @David: I don't think any of the other open issues actually addresses building Python with mingw (but I may misremember). @Friedrich: This is only going to be productive if you are willing to look into the issues yourself, and propose changes. If I had time t

[issue12641] Remove -mno-cygwin from distutils

Christian Heimes added the comment: The is_cygwingcc() function can be simplified a lot with subprocess.check_output(). -- nosy: +christian.heimes ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue17778] Fix test discovery for test_multiprocessing.py

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[issue17778] Fix test discovery for test_multiprocessing.py

Zachary Ware added the comment: Since there's been another test added since the last version of this patch, here's a new patch again. I'll also be attaching a patch to 3.3, which includes backports of the 4 changesets mentioned in my last message, as well as the changes for this issue. -

[issue13418] Embedded Python memory leak

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Ok, closing it. -- status: languishing -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailin

[issue18389] os.path.relpath gives incorrect results if start parameters is not a directory

Jonathan Eldridge added the comment: At the very least, the documentation should be updated to explain this. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue18397] Python with MinGW

R. David Murray added the comment: I believe there are open (and some closed) issues in this tracker related to mingw support, though many of them are for support for compiling extensions using mingw, which is actually a harder problem. They will probably provide clues if nothing else. What

[issue18389] os.path.relpath gives incorrect results if start parameters is not a directory

R. David Murray added the comment: I understand your concern, but the API is that 'start' is a directory. The function does not interrogate the file system, and should not do so. It is purely a path computation, and as such the current behavior is correct. -- nosy: +r.david.murray re

[issue18384] Add devhelp build instructions to the documentation makefile

R. David Murray added the comment: I'm not sure that this belongs in core, but I'll certainly defer to Georg on that :). If it does go in, the help string should explain what 'devhelp' does, since it isn't obvious from the name (for a non-GNOME user...I had to google it). -- nosy: +r

[issue18382] multiprocessing's overlapped PipeConnection issues on Windows 8

R. David Murray added the comment: All the buildbots are volunteer hosted and run, so we need someone to volunteer to run a Windows 8 buildbot. That said, I'm not sure if we are formally supporting Windows 8 yet or not. Actually, given the lack of a buildbot, I suppose the answer is "not" :)

[issue18412] Minor problem in PEP 8

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: I clarified the wording. -- nosy: +barry resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue12645] test.support. import_fresh_module - incorrect doc

Eli Bendersky added the comment: A single patch for both the ReST doc and docstring would be helpful. Except formatting, their contents can be the same. -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue12645] test.support. import_fresh_module - incorrect doc

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[issue18414] random.choices(seq, k)

New submission from Christian Heimes: The random module has no method to obvious way to select k elements from a sequence without enforcing unique values in the result set. It's a rather useful feature for salts, randomly generated passwords and other applications. See #18405 The patch implem

[issue4079] new urllib2.Request 'timeout' attribute needs to have a default

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[issue18413] logging.error('asdf', extra={'msg':123}) raise KeyError exception

Christian Heimes added the comment: The issue is covered by the docs: http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/logging.html#logging.Logger.debug > The keys in the dictionary passed in extra should not clash with the keys > used by the logging system. You can't use a couple of reserved keys like 'ms

[issue10042] functools.total_ordering fails to handle NotImplemented correctly

Nick Coghlan added the comment: I think I spotted a logic bug in _not_op_and_not_eq (it uses "or" instead of "and" in the final line) , so I suspect we still have a missing test case in the latest patch. (My fault - I should have suggested using coverage.py to ensure all the branches were covere

[issue18413] logging.error('asdf', extra={'msg':123}) raise KeyError exception

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[issue18413] logging.error('asdf', extra={'msg':123}) raise KeyError exception

New submission from Артем Меженин: Hello. I noticed strange behavior of logging module, when debugging my code: $ python Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug 1 2012, 05:14:39) [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import logging >>> logging.erro

[issue1445781] install fails on hard link

Christian Heimes added the comment: Our Makefile still uses a hard link in two place: libpython$(LDVERSION).so python$(LDVERSION)$(EXE) python$(VERSION)$(EXE)) -- nosy: +christian.heimes stage: test needed -> needs patch versions: +Python 3.3, Python 3.4 -Python 3.2 _

[issue1193610] Expat Parser to supply document locator in incremental parse

Christian Heimes added the comment: Does anybody want to work on a patch? -- assignee: loewis -> nosy: +christian.heimes priority: normal -> low stage: -> needs patch status: open -> languishing versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker

[issue10482] subprocess and deadlock avoidance

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[issue12115] some tests need to be skipped on threadless systems

Christian Heimes added the comment: I assume that you have fixed it two years ago. Right? -- nosy: +christian.heimes resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker _

[issue2554] test_ioctl failed Python 2.6a2 Solaris 10 SUN C

Christian Heimes added the comment: It looks like the bug is gone. The ioctl test is passing on Solaris 10 and 11 with Sun's CC. http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/SPARC%20Solaris%2010%20%28cc%2C%2032b%29%20%5BSB%5D%202.7/builds/336 -- nosy: +christian.heimes resolution: -> fixed

[issue18412] Minor problem in PEP 8

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[issue13788] os.closerange optimization

Christian Heimes added the comment: In case someone is wondering if the approach really reduces the amount of syscalls: yes, it does. readdir() doesn't do a syscall for each entry. On Linux it uses the internal syscall getdents() to fill a buffer of directory entry structs. http://man7.org/lin

[issue13788] os.closerange optimization

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Two small technical comments: 1) I'd add a configure or compile-time check to determine if the procfs interface might be available. I don't like probing for features that you know are not available. 2) MacOSX has simular functionality using /dev/fd inste

[issue18412] Minor problem in PEP 8

New submission from Xue Fuqiao: PEP 8 says: --- |The closing brace/bracket/parenthesis on multi-line constructs may |either line up under the last item of the list, as in: | |my_list = [ |1, 2, 3, |4, 5, 6, |] |resul

[issue4708] os.pipe should return inheritable descriptors (Windows)

Richard Oudkerk added the comment: Oops. I confused os.popen() with os.spawn*(). os.spawnv() IS still implemented using spawnv() in Python 3. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue18100] socket.sendall() cannot send buffers of 2GB or more

Anton Tyurin added the comment: I could be wrong, but: ssize_t send(int socket, const void *buffer, size_t length, int flags); so length is size_t, but Py_ssize_t is ssize_t (signed to unsigned). PS. sorry for my bad English -- ___ Python tracker

[issue18100] socket.sendall() cannot send buffers of 2GB or more

STINNER Victor added the comment: > But the use of Py_ssize_t (len and n) hides the potential type conversion. Which type conversion? -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue4708] os.pipe should return inheritable descriptors (Windows)

Richard Oudkerk added the comment: > - would improve POSIX compatibility, it mimics what os.pipe() > does on those OS I disagree. On Windows fds can only be inherited if you start processes using the spanwn*() family of functions. If you start them using CreateProcess() then the underlying *

[issue18100] socket.sendall() cannot send buffers of 2GB or more

Anton Tyurin added the comment: There seems to be no, because there's this bug is already fixed in Python 3, according to http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/c1a400501db6/Modules/socketmodule.c#l3290. But the use of Py_ssize_t (len and n) hides the potential type conversion. -- __

[issue18397] Python with MinGW

Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld added the comment: I've installed the MSYS gawk Utility and configure succeeded (thank you!), but now make failed. Should I upload the entire log file or ony the error messages? -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file30876/make_test.txt

[issue10042] functools.total_ordering fails to handle NotImplemented correctly

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Nick, let me know when you think it is ready and I'll review the patch. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue2528] Change os.access to check ACLs under Windows

Christian Heimes added the comment: Do you want to provide an updated patch for 3.4? -- nosy: +christian.heimes status: open -> languishing versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker __

[issue17911] Extracting tracebacks does too much work

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > If we keep a reference to f_globals for each line in the traceback, we > can defer this to later (ideally we'd just keep the __loader__ value, > but that would require changing the linecache interface as well). Or you could add a *new* linecache interface. Ke

[issue14518] Add bcrypt $2a$ to crypt.py

Christian Heimes added the comment: I can't find any system that supports $2a$. My Ubuntu box returns a string of 13 chars (plain crypt) and the BSD box returns just ":". -- assignee: christian.heimes -> priority: normal -> low ___ Python tracker <

[issue18404] Memory leak in gdbmmodule

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[issue18397] Python with MinGW

Christian Heimes added the comment: Please install awk and try again. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsu

[issue18397] Python with MinGW

Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld added the comment: @ Christian Heimes Thank you for your hint. Martin v. Löwis made an interesting commend, if his way succeed, it would be worth considering to make a paragraph in the devguide how to build Python with MinGW. The way Forward depends on the results.

[issue18406] unicodedata.itergraphemes / str.itergraphemes / str.graphemes

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: It may be useful to also add the start position of the grapheme to the iterator output. Related to this, please also see this pre-PEP I once wrote for a Unicode indexing module: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-July/015938.html --

[issue18404] Memory leak in gdbmmodule

Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda added the comment: I just tried rebuilding with my patch and running test suite + I did some manual testing and everything seems to work fine - and the memory leak is not there. -- ___ Python tracker