[issue2943] Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is not installed

2015-04-11 Thread Steven Samuel Cole
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[issue7434] general pprint rewrite

2011-09-20 Thread Steven Samuel Cole
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[issue13004] pprint: add option to truncate sequences

2011-09-20 Thread Steven Samuel Cole
Steven Samuel Cole added the comment: @anand: as the names say, the depth parameter limits the depth of display while the length parameter limits the length. for example, with a data structure of a list of lists of lists and a depth of 2, only the first two levels would be shown, the third

[issue13010] devguide doc: ./python.exe on OS X

2011-09-19 Thread Steven Samuel Cole
Steven Samuel Cole added the comment: from my observations, david is correct, but this is not limited to os x. i have checked out and rebuilt python twice on a linux system (kubuntu 10.10 i386 virtual machine): 1. in a 'conventional' setup using a local (i.e. guest) harddrive forma

[issue13010] devguide doc: ./python.exe on OS X

2011-09-19 Thread Steven Samuel Cole
Steven Samuel Cole added the comment: i've gone through the process of checking out and building python as described in the devguide; it seems the python executable is indeed called python.exe under mac osx. i find this confusing. a comment on the reason for this unusual suffix wou

[issue13010] devguide doc: ./python.exe on OS X

2011-09-19 Thread Steven Samuel Cole
New submission from Steven Samuel Cole : it says in the last paragraph of the chapter at http://docs.python.org/devguide/setup.html#unix: [...] ./python.exe on OS X [...] .exe seems to indicate that should probably be './python.exe on Windows' -- assignee: docs@python

[issue13004] pprint: add option to truncate sequences

2011-09-19 Thread Steven Samuel Cole
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[issue11843] distutils doc: duplicate line in table

2011-04-14 Thread Steven Samuel Cole
New submission from Steven Samuel Cole : in the first table on http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html (search for 'available formats for built distributions'), the line with 'rpm / RPM / (5)' is in there twice -- assignee: docs@python components: Do

[issue10043] UnboundLocalError with local variable set by setattr, caused by code run later

2010-10-07 Thread Steven Samuel Cole
Steven Samuel Cole added the comment: thank you very much for the clarification. i did indeed not come across the page you've linked to, mainly because i did not really know what to google for. actually, i do not recall ever looking into the python language reference in 6+ years of p

[issue10043] UnboundLocalError with local variable set by setattr, caused by code run later

2010-10-07 Thread Steven Samuel Cole
Steven Samuel Cole added the comment: I'm just a developer, I don't know anything about Python internals or what Python sees or does at what stage. Looking at the sample file, code executed later has an influence on code executed earlier - and that behavior is unexpected, confusin

[issue10043] UnboundLocalError with local variable set by setattr, caused by code run later

2010-10-07 Thread Steven Samuel Cole
New submission from Steven Samuel Cole : inside a function, I create a local variable by using setattr with the current module as object, as in setattr(modules[__name__], 'name', 'value') if I _later_ in the code set name to None, the attribute becomes unavailable e