[issue23951] Update devguide style to use a similar theme as Docs

Lisa Roach added the comment: I have updated the conf.py and added a "tools" folder that contains the themes, templates, etc. to make the devguide match more closely with the pydoctheme. I altered the theme a little bit to keep the colors more consistent with the original devguide, hopefully t

[issue1732367] Document the constants in the socket module

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[issue27413] Add an option to json.tool to bypass non-ASCII characters.

Wei-Cheng Pan added the comment: If the arguments should be aligned with those in dump/load, then maybe "--no-ensure-ascii" is an option? -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue27417] Call CoInitializeEx on startup

Mark Hammond added the comment: I've a few reservations here: * CoInitialize will load a number of COM DLLs into the process, which isn't free and will have some memory and performance costs for programs that don't use COM. I see around 10 such DLLs loaded. * pythoncom uses sys.coinit_flags b

[issue27418] Tools/importbench/importbench.py is broken

Brett Cannon added the comment: I don't see anything obviously wrong with it. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing l

[issue27417] Call CoInitializeEx on startup

Steve Dower added the comment: > pythoncom and comtypes use the value of sys.coinit_flags when imported Good to know. Assume we'll add that as well. Also, with respect to threading, we'd want to initialize on all new threads too. That will require a way to specify that a new thread should be S

[issue27417] Call CoInitializeEx on startup

Steve Dower added the comment: I'm also okay to discuss whether MTA or STA should be the default, but I'll also be seeking advice from work colleagues on this who know COM really well. -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue27417] Call CoInitializeEx on startup

Steve Dower added the comment: > But do I understand correctly that, if you implement this, there's no way for > me to select MTA? MTA would be the default, with no -X argument. But we could support a no-op "-X:MTA" as well. Because of the potential for use in security features, I don't want

[issue27418] Tools/importbench/importbench.py is broken

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Following patch seems fixes importbench. -- keywords: +patch stage: -> patch review Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file43583/importbench.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue27418] Tools/importbench/importbench.py is broken

Brett Cannon added the comment: Feel free to do whatever you need/want to with the benchmark. I originally created it when switching __import__ to importlib to prove that it didn't impact performance. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue27417] Call CoInitializeEx on startup

Eryk Sun added the comment: pythoncom and comtypes use the value of sys.coinit_flags when imported, and otherwise default to calling CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED). Setting this value should ease problems, but something like -X:STA is still necessary. Note that the launcher all

[issue27417] Call CoInitializeEx on startup

Tim Golden added the comment: As it happens, all the code I use which calls CoInitialise[Ex] does so with STA. But do I understand correctly that, if you implement this, there's no way for me to select MTA? If so I would consider that a major drawback. --

[issue27417] Call CoInitializeEx on startup

Steve Dower added the comment: > If it allowed user code to access COM without needing a 3rd party dependency, > I'd be +1, but I don't think that's being proposed here. It's a prerequisite to adding features to the stdlib that access COM (whether or not COM is directly exposed to the user). B

[issue27417] Call CoInitializeEx on startup

Paul Moore added the comment: Things I know that call CoInitialize - pywin32/pythoncom and comtypes. I assume the proposal is to call CoInitializeEx in a way that won't break those? I'm not sure I see how this would affect the user (i.e. Python code). Brett mentions detecting the user's browse

[issue27392] Add a server_side keyword parameter to create_connection

Jim Fulton added the comment: :) I'm not a fan of monkey patching code in production, unless the code I'm monkey patching is code I control. (And since releasing code now is a lot easier than it used to be, I have much less occasion to monkey-patch code I control.) (I'm a big fan of and am al

[issue27392] Add a server_side keyword parameter to create_connection

Yury Selivanov added the comment: > Rather tham monkey-patching, in general I recommend just copying some code from the asyncio library and calling that. In this case you'd be copying a tiny bit of code from create_connection(). You'd still be calling an internal API, _make_ssl_transport(), but y

[issue27392] Add a server_side keyword parameter to create_connection

Guido van Rossum added the comment: Rather tham monkey-patching, in general I recommend just copying some code from the asyncio library and calling that. In this case you'd be copying a tiny bit of code from create_connection(). You'd still be calling an internal API, _make_ssl_transport(), but y

[issue27417] Call CoInitializeEx on startup

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[issue27417] Call CoInitializeEx on startup

Steve Dower added the comment: It would enable wrapping up anything from this list too, and more: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb774328(v=vs.85).aspx Plenty of cool potential features in there :) -- ___ Python tracker

[issue27418] Tools/importbench/importbench.py is broken

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Just now I'm writing a patch for optimizing __import__. Maybe importbench would be helpful. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue27417] Call CoInitializeEx on startup

Brett Cannon added the comment: Steve has also told me this would enable querying the OS for what the default web browser is. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue27418] Tools/importbench/importbench.py is broken

Brett Cannon added the comment: If you don't have any use for it I say just delete the benchmark. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python

[issue27392] Add a server_side keyword parameter to create_connection

Jim Fulton added the comment: With SSL, the protocol is a little different clients and servers, although that may just be in the handshake. I'm no SSL expert by any means. When you call wrap_socket on an SSLContext, you can pass server_side, which defaults to False. If you get this wrong, you

[issue27418] Tools/importbench/importbench.py is broken

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: $ ./python Tools/importbench/importbench.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "Tools/importbench/importbench.py", line 8, in from test.test_importlib.source import util as source_util ImportError: cannot import name 'util' -- components:

[issue26137] [idea] use the Microsoft Antimalware Scan Interface

Steve Dower added the comment: This now depends on issue27417, since we can't enable AMSI without enabling COM, and doing that has a number of back-compat implications. -- dependencies: +Call CoInitializeEx on startup ___ Python tracker

[issue27417] Call CoInitializeEx on startup

New submission from Steve Dower: I'd like to enable calling CoInitializeEx on Python startup for 3.6 (and into the future). See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms695279.aspx This would enable us to use more advanced Windows features within Python that require COM, suc

[issue27392] Add a server_side keyword parameter to create_connection

Guido van Rossum added the comment: Hm. The docs in PEP 3156 do mention that create_connection() is for clients (though it weakens this with "typically"): https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3156/#internet-connections I always think of TCP connections (which is what create_connection() is abou

[issue27386] Asyncio server hang when clients connect and immediately disconnect

Yury Selivanov added the comment: > It also doesn't occur with uvloop, which I assume still uses sockets. No, uvloop doesn't use python sockets or select for IO at all. All IO is done in libuv. > WRT CPython/sockets this problem doesn't happen if I use asyncore to accept > connections and ha

[issue27392] Add a server_side keyword parameter to create_connection

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[issue27392] Add a server_side keyword parameter to create_connection

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[issue27386] Asyncio server hang when clients connect and immediately disconnect

Jim Fulton added the comment: WRT CPython/sockets this problem doesn't happen if I use asyncore to accept connections and hand them off to create_connection. :) It also doesn't occur with uvloop, which I assume still uses sockets. Also, FWIW, the relevant ZEO test passes if I use SSL, which is

[issue27386] Asyncio server hang when clients connect and immediately disconnect

Guido van Rossum added the comment: No, I just don't have a computer right now, only a phone. --Guido (mobile) -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue27386] Asyncio server hang when clients connect and immediately disconnect

Yury Selivanov added the comment: Running out of time to debug this today. I think this is a bug in CPython, in either socket or select module. When I inject some debug code in selectors.py and replace KQueue with select(), I can see that the server thread's selector stops working at some po

[issue27416] typo / missing word in docs.python.org/2/library/copy.html

Paul Killey added the comment: Ah, I see now -- your comment clarified it for me. Thanks. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-l

[issue27386] Asyncio server hang when clients connect and immediately disconnect

Jim Fulton added the comment: Yuri, right you are. Thanks. Марк, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/zodb/+bug/135108/comments/9 -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue27392] Add a server_side keyword parameter to create_connection

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[issue27386] Asyncio server hang when clients connect and immediately disconnect

Jim Fulton added the comment: Guido, are you saying that the script runs without hanging for you? (If you get a boatload of tracebacks, that's due to another asyncio bug in error handling.) Are you running the version with prints? This is an adaptation of the echo server and client from the do

[issue27363] Complex numbers with negative zero imaginary parts do not roundtrip properly

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[issue27410] DLL hijacking vulnerability in Python 3.5.2 installer

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[issue27386] Asyncio server hang when clients connect and immediately disconnect

Yury Selivanov added the comment: Jim, I think you wanted to post this link in this issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zodb/+bug/135108/comments/9 instead of in #27392. I can reproduce this on my mac, but so far I've no idea what's going on. -- ___ P

[issue27386] Asyncio server hang when clients connect and immediately disconnect

Guido van Rossum added the comment: I can't personally run that code and get the results you are getting; could you please walk us through what happens (as far as you can tell)? Reading the code I find myself quite confused about which parts of the code might be active or not. E.g. is self.mes

[issue27392] Add a server_side keyword parameter to create_connection

Jim Fulton added the comment: See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zodb/+bug/135108/comments/9 Sorry, I should have sent that link sooner. In my flailing to come up with a simple case, I forgot the importance of that setting. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue27392] Add a server_side keyword parameter to create_connection

Jim Fulton added the comment: >> Yury, I'm curious what you think the socket argument to create_connection is >> about. > > :) The current intended purpose of create_connection is to create a client > connection. You're proposing to add a new argument -- server_side -- which I > think will c

[issue27386] Asyncio server hang when clients connect and immediately disconnect

Jim Fulton added the comment: Here's a version sans prints -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file43581/echo-no-print.py ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue27386] Asyncio server hang when clients connect and immediately disconnect

Марк Коренберг added the comment: One more thing. Why you set socket.SO_LINGER ? and why lingering timeout is 0 seconds ? Removing that eliminate problem completely. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue27392] Add a server_side keyword parameter to create_connection

Yury Selivanov added the comment: > Yury, I'm curious what you think the socket argument to create_connection is > about. :) The current intended purpose of create_connection is to create a client connection. You're proposing to add a new argument -- server_side -- which I think will confus

[issue27416] typo / missing word in docs.python.org/2/library/copy.html

R. David Murray added the comment: No, the text is correct. Perhaps it would be clearer if the 'even' were moved to the front of the phrase? "...it may copy too much, even data structures that should be shared between copies." -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___

[issue26988] Add AutoNumberedEnum to stdlib

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: I don't really think much more needs to be done other than agree on this tracker issue that it's something we want, and that Ethan's implementation is good enough. It's been a while since I looked that the code but it seemed good to me before, so if Ethan is

[issue27386] Asyncio server hang when clients connect and immediately disconnect

Jim Fulton added the comment: OK, I *was* able to simplify it a fair bit. I'm uploading a new version. I left prints in because I think you'd find them helpful, but I'll upload another version without prints. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file43580/echo.py ___

[issue27386] Asyncio server hang when clients connect and immediately disconnect

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[issue27386] Asyncio server hang when clients connect and immediately disconnect

Марк Коренберг added the comment: Also I recommend you to use asyncio streams, instead of reinventing wheels. So, reading your command will look like: data = await stream.read_exactly(4) (len,) = unpack(">I", data) command = await stream.read_exactly(len) -- __

[issue27392] Add a server_side keyword parameter to create_connection

Jim Fulton added the comment: BTW, a problem with this proposal that I realized after submitting it is that it changes an API that has multiple implementations, including implementations outside of the Python codebase. Arguably, this would require a PEP, at which point the change is no-longer

[issue27392] Add a server_side keyword parameter to create_connection

Jim Fulton added the comment: Yury, I'm curious what you think the socket argument to create_connection is about. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue27416] typo / missing word in docs.python.org/2/library/copy.html

Paul Killey added the comment: I'm sorry, 'not' could be missing between 'should' and 'be' --- 'should not be shared' -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue27392] Add a server_side keyword parameter to create_connection

Yury Selivanov added the comment: > However, IMO, it's useful to be able to accept a connection outside of an > asyncio event loop and then hand the loop the connected socket. Looks like what you're asking for is a way to wrap existing socket object into a (transport, protocol) pair. I'm -1 t

[issue27416] typo / missing word in docs.python.org/2/library/copy.html

New submission from Paul Killey: I wonder if the word 'not' is missing between 'that' and 'should' in this sentence in https://docs.python.org/2/library/copy.html? Because deep copy copies everything it may copy too much, e.g., administrative data structures that should be shared even between

[issue27391] server_hostname should only be required when checking host names

Jim Fulton added the comment: OK, sure, I'll make a PR. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http

[issue27391] server_hostname should only be required when checking host names

Jim Fulton added the comment: No need to apologize! My capitulation was just due to the fact that this isn't a big deal. (My tone probably came across as cranky; sorry) WRT backward compatibility, I suspect that there's a bit of wiggle here between loop implementations and I doubt this would

[issue27391] server_hostname should only be required when checking host names

Yury Selivanov added the comment: > SSL contexts, https://docs.python.org/3/library/ssl.html#ssl-contexts, have an attribute, check_hostname, which controls whether hostname checking is required. If set to false in a context passed to create_connection, then it makes no sense to require server_

[issue27391] server_hostname should only be required when checking host names

R. David Murray added the comment: Sorry, I've been having trouble communicating on this ticket. I thought I'd posetd an apology but I don't see it...I wonder where I did post it? Bad morning :(. Anyway, create_connection was what I was asking for. Reading the docs, I, at least, agree with

[issue27415] BaseEventLoop.create_server does not accept port=None

New submission from Marcus Cobden: With the most recent 3.4 bugfix, calling create_server with port=None stopped working. This also affects 3.5, and I would imagine also 3.6, but haven't checked that. Test case: import asyncio; l = asyncio.get_event_loop(); l.run_until_complete(l.create_serve

[issue26686] email.parser stops parsing headers too soon when given a defective message.

Changes by ppperry : -- title: email.parser stops parsing headers too soon. -> email.parser stops parsing headers too soon when given a defective message. ___ Python tracker ___

[issue27363] Complex with negative zero imaginary part

R. David Murray added the comment: Ah, I haven't used Fractions and Decimal much, so I hadn't noticed. Those postdate complex, I think, but do follow the model Mark is suggesting. Seems like it would be reasonble to make complex do the same...the concern of course is backward compatibilty.

[issue27391] server_hostname should only be required when checking host names

Jim Fulton added the comment: Consider this a suggestion. Do with it what you will. I'm closing this as I don't want to spend more time on it other than creating a PR if requested. -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue27412] float('∞') returns 8.0

David Howlett added the comment: I am sorry about misattributing this bug and wasting your time. I have opened two new bugs against Komodo: https://github.com/Komodo/KomodoEdit/issues/1760 https://github.com/Komodo/KomodoEdit/issues/1759 They are looking into it. -- _

[issue27391] server_hostname should only be required when checking host names

Jim Fulton added the comment: I'm not sure I understand your question. The documentation for create_connection, https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-eventloop.html#creating-connections states that server_hostname is required if the host is empty. (I'm generalizing "empty" to include None

[issue27414] http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler inconsistence with Content-Length value

R. David Murray added the comment: Sorry once again for the infelicitous phrasing. I meant to say "sorry, what I was unclearly asking for was what you were calling that..." Too bad I don't drink coffee or I could blame it on not having had any yet today... -- ___

[issue27414] http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler inconsistence with Content-Length value

R. David Murray added the comment: For reference, the changeset that introduced that was ee34cb049a10. An interesting feature of that changset is the trace command in the test...I guess the wrong patch was comitted and no one noticed. The trace was obvious fixed but no one appears to have no

[issue27363] Complex with negative zero imaginary part

Vedran Čačić added the comment: ...but hopefully not the last. People are playing (with BDFL's blessing) with the idea of types having just (qual)name as str. By "first stdlib case" you mean "first builtin case", right? fractions.Fraction and decimal.Decimal are in stdlib. :-) Yes, not all cl

[issue27391] server_hostname should only be required when checking host names

R. David Murray added the comment: You still haven't told me what you are passing the context to that objects to not having server_hostname. I suppose the asyncio experts would know immediately, so I should probably just leave it to them...or wait for your PR. --

[issue27414] http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler inconsistence with Content-Length value

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[issue27413] Add an option to json.tool to bypass non-ASCII characters.

R. David Murray added the comment: Maybe name it --no-insure-ascii? Or --insure-ascii=no/yes. (or true/false). -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue12319] [http.client] HTTPConnection.request not support "chunked" Transfer-Encoding to send data

Rolf Krahl added the comment: Here comes a new version of the patch. I believe, I addressed all review comments made on issue12319_7.patch, with the exception of the EncodingError mentioned in the last post. Most relevant changes compared to last patch: * Do not try to dertermine the conten

[issue27363] Complex with negative zero imaginary part

R. David Murray added the comment: Right, that isn't the invariant. Eval is the normal invariant, but not all classes *can* meet it, in which case if they can provide a repr that *can* be turned back into the value losslessly somehow, that's better than not doing so at all. Still, changing t

[issue27285] Document the deprecation of pyvenv in favor of `python3 -m venv`

R. David Murray added the comment: In this case I think one patch is good. The deprecation should mention pyvenv in the main venv docs (and maybe installing), but probably nowhere else. See the deprecated-removed sphinx tag. -- nosy: +r.david.murray _

[issue27392] Add a server_side keyword parameter to create_connection

Jim Fulton added the comment: I agree that if create_server (or asyncio.Server) is buggy, it should be fixed! However, IMO, it's useful to be able to accept a connection outside of an asyncio event loop and then hand the loop the connected socket. -- __

[issue27392] Add a server_side keyword parameter to create_connection

Jim Fulton added the comment: Guido, IMO, there's value in having the ability to accept connections independently of handling them. It wasn't clear to me from reading the documentation that create_connection is only meant for making client connections, especially given that it can take an alr

[issue27392] Add a server_side keyword parameter to create_connection

Jim Fulton added the comment: Tests are also unstable with uvloop. (Although uvloop doesn't have http://bugs.python.org/issue27386 at least.) I was eventually able to wrestle the test into submission using asyncio.Server. I suspect that some of this had to do with issues closing connections at

[issue27414] http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler inconsistence with Content-Length value

Mathieu Xhonneux added the comment: It's line 469 in the latest Lib/http/server.py (and not 473). -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python

[issue27410] DLL hijacking vulnerability in Python 3.5.2 installer

Steve Dower added the comment: Unless you can show that it's loaded after the installer elevates, I'm not concerned. "User can run arbitrary code as themselves" is not a security vulnerability. (Hint: when the bundle elevates, it copies the exe to a new directory and runs it from there to avoi

[issue27386] Asyncio server hang when clients connect and immediately disconnect

Марк Коренберг added the comment: Plese reduce even more. I mean remove debugging, specifi commands, and all extra code, that is not related to original problem. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue27414] http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler inconsistence with Content-Length value

New submission from Mathieu Xhonneux: With Python 3.5, when I subclass SimpleHTTPRequestHandler, which itself subclasses BaseHTTPRequestHandler, and I try to access a non-existing file, the server responds with a 404 code, but send_error (see Lib/http/server.py, line 473) adds the Content-Leng

[issue27386] Asyncio server hang when clients connect and immediately disconnect

Jim Fulton added the comment: This is already pretty minimal. There are no external dependencies. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python

[issue27391] server_hostname should only be required when checking host names

Jim Fulton added the comment: It's not bug, it's a misfeature, IMO. If you pass an SSL context and either don't pass a hostname or pass an empty string, then server_hostname is required, even if check_hostname is false for the context. The fix is trivial. I'd be happy to provide a PR. --

[issue27412] float('∞') returns 8.0

STINNER Victor added the comment: """ In the Komodo REPL I see the following behaviour: >>> '∞' '8' """ Ok, it's now obvious that the issue comes from Komodo REPL, not from Python. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue27412] float('∞') returns 8.0

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[issue27412] float('∞') returns 8.0

David Howlett added the comment: I am using python 3.5 in a REPL in an IDE called Komodo running on Windows. After reading your comments I wrote the following python file: try: x = float('∞') except ValueError: print('Value error was correctly thrown') This throws a ValueError as you d

[issue26844] Wrong error message during import

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: __qualname__ itself is not much more informative than __name__. You should use it together with __module__ to get the full qualified name. But 1) it is never used in error messages, 2) the code becomes more verbose, 3) the output becomes more verbose, and ex

[issue27410] DLL hijacking vulnerability in Python 3.5.2 installer

Eryk Sun added the comment: > installer attempts to load DLLs from the current directory It's actually the application directory that's the culprit, not the current directory. All supported versions of Windows default to SafeDllSearchMode, which moves the current directory after system directo

[issue27412] float('∞') returns 8.0

STINNER Victor added the comment: On Windows, the ∞ character (U+221E) is replaced with the letter 8 (U+0038) by the WideCharToMultiByte() function for most code pages: http://unicodebook.readthedocs.io/operating_systems.html#encode-and-decode-functions Can you please describe how and where you

[issue26721] Avoid socketserver.StreamRequestHandler.wfile doing partial writes

Martin Panter added the comment: Committed for 3.6. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue27413] Add an option to json.tool to bypass non-ASCII characters.

New submission from Wei-Cheng Pan: This patch adds a command line option "--no-escape" that allows json.tool to display non-ASCII characters. e.g.: $ echo '"測試"' | python -m json.tool "\u6e2c\u8a66" $ echo '"測試"' | python -m json.tool --no-escape "測試" -- components: Library (Lib) fil

[issue27412] float('∞') returns 8.0

Eryk Sun added the comment: There's something wrong with however you're testing this. >>> s = '\N{infinity}' >>> s == '∞' == '\u221e' True '∞' isn't numeric. It's a math symbol (Sm): >>> unicodedata.category(s) 'Sm' >>> s.isdecimal() False >>> s.isdigit() F

[issue27412] float('∞') returns 8.0

Ashwini Chaudhary added the comment: float('∞') raised ValueError as expected: ValueError: could not convert string to float: '∞' I am not sure how you ended up with 8.0. -- nosy: +ashwch ___ Python tracker _

[issue26988] Add AutoNumberedEnum to stdlib

John Hagen added the comment: @Ethan/Barry what needs to be done now to accept or reject this for Python 3.6? Should I propose it onto python-dev? If accepted, would be nice to get it in before alpha 3 (~2 weeks). What's nice about this proposal is Ethan has already written the code, so it'

[issue27412] float('∞') returns 8.0

New submission from David Howlett: float('inf') returns a float with a value of inf float('∞') returns a float with a value of 8.0 I can't think of any justification for returning 8.0 other then ∞ looks like an 8 turned sideways. I believe float('∞') should return inf. -- components: U

[issue26721] Avoid socketserver.StreamRequestHandler.wfile doing partial writes

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 4ea79767ff75 by Martin Panter in branch 'default': Issue #26721: Change StreamRequestHandler.wfile to BufferedIOBase https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4ea79767ff75 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue27348] traceback (and threading) drops exception message

Martin Panter added the comment: Yeah sure I can give you a chance to consider this (I assume you meant “chance” :). But neither of the tests I mentioned were added by you as far as I know. Maybe you are thinking of some other test. -- ___ Python tr

[issue27348] traceback (and threading) drops exception message

STINNER Victor added the comment: I agree that ignoring the exception message if str(exc) == 'None' is wrong. -- nosy: +haypo ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue27348] traceback (and threading) drops exception message

Robert Collins added the comment: hmm, can you give me a change to page this in? I'm pretty sure I saw breakage in external libraries prompting me to add the test and fix. I'd rather not recause that. -- ___ Python tracker

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