[issue33125] Windows 10 ARM64 platform support

2021-07-13 Thread Jay Swanson
Jay Swanson added the comment: I know this is closed, but is it possible that the ARM64EC support coming in Windows 11 that allows mixed native/emulated code is something that would help this along? That along with the sunsetting of 32-bit systems. -- nosy: +jay.swanson

[issue24700] array compare is hideously slow

2015-07-23 Thread swanson
New submission from swanson: Comparing two array.array objects is much slower than it ought to be. The whole point of array.array is to be efficient: "array — Efficient arrays of numeric values" But comparing them is orders of magnitude less efficient than comparing tuples o

[issue24650] Error in yield expression documentation

2015-07-17 Thread swanson
swanson added the comment: Okay, interesting - I hadn't checked the glossary. I don't ultimately care what it's called as long as the documentation is clear and consistent. But for anyone just looking at the names of the classes and the class hierarchy, they'd come away

[issue23792] help crash leaves terminal in echo off mode

2015-07-17 Thread swanson
swanson added the comment: Changing the title in case anyone else is looking for this bug. This is not raw mode. It's just that echo is turned off. It is sufficient to type (invisibly, of course): stty echo to resume normal use of the terminal. -- nosy: +swanson title: help

[issue24650] Error in yield expression documentation

2015-07-16 Thread swanson
New submission from swanson: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html in 6.2.9. Yield expressions end of 1st paragraph: "Using a yield expression in a function’s body causes that function to be a generator." NO! As the very next sentence explains, a generator is what&

[issue24243] behavior for finding an empty string is inconsistent with documentation

2015-05-20 Thread swanson
swanson added the comment: Thanks for pointing out how count and replace operate. I don't mind the "ValueError: empty separator" on split and partition - makes sense to me. re: "at least as long as the slice indexes are within range" If the slices indexes had to b

[issue24243] behavior for finding an empty string is inconsistent with documentation

2015-05-19 Thread swanson
New submission from swanson: Background: --- Perhaps this has been addressed elsewhere, but I couldn't find it. To me, semantically, the whole idea of finding nothing, whether in something or in nothing is complete and utter nonsense. I'm a fail-quickly, fail-loudly kind o

[issue22335] Python 3: Segfault instead of MemoryError when bytearray too big

2014-09-04 Thread swanson
New submission from swanson: On Python 3, but not Python 2, you crash with a Segmentation Fault instead of getting a MemoryError as expected. It seems to only be a problem with bytearray, not with other things like tuple: $ python3 Python 3.4.0 (default, Apr 11 2014, 13:05:18) [GCC 4.8.2

[issue15346] Tkinter extention modules have no documentation

2012-12-06 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: There is documentation of these modules, it's just that it's in the modules themselves. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.o

[issue15346] Tkinter extention modules have no documentation

2012-12-04 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: We could at least put links to some documentation. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue15346> ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue15346] Tkinter extention modules have no documentation

2012-11-16 Thread Daniel Swanson
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[issue15346] Tkinter extention modules have no documentation

2012-11-16 Thread Daniel Swanson
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[issue15844] weird import errors

2012-09-01 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: correcting self. >>> And now I've got one trying to import something on the same level and it >>> says it doesn't exist! Should have been: And now I've got the top one importing one that's importing one on the s

[issue15844] weird import errors

2012-09-01 Thread Daniel Swanson
New submission from Daniel Swanson: I'm dealing with a bunch of nested folders and my imports have gone crazy. When I try to test one of the lower level scripts that imports one of the higher level one it gives me an error message. But, when I run the top one, (which cascadingly imports

[issue15346] Tkinter extention modules have no documentation

2012-08-15 Thread Daniel Swanson
Changes by Daniel Swanson : -- title: Tkinter extention modules no documentation -> Tkinter extention modules have no documentation ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue15346] Tkinter extention modules no documentation

2012-08-15 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: For that matter, none of the following have docs: tkinter.colorchooser tkinter.commondialog tkinter.filedialog tkinter.font tkinter.messagebox tkinter.simpledialog tkinter.dnd Perhaps this should be remidied? One sentence usualy does not describe the use of an

[issue6804] IDLE: Detect Python files even if name doesn't end in .py

2012-07-22 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: No. When I try to open the file a small window entitled "Specify file encoding" pops up that says "The file's encoding is invalid in Python 3.x. Idle will convert it to UTF-8. What is the current encoding of the file?" followed by

[issue6804] IDLE: Detect Python files even if name doesn't end in .py

2012-07-16 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: I am also somewhat puzzled by this issue. The other day I was able to open some .txt files just to see if I could and they opened just fine. Just now I tryed to open a .jpg file and I got an error message, but then again, why would someone save a python file

[issue15346] Tkinter dnd has no documentation

2012-07-13 Thread Daniel Swanson
New submission from Daniel Swanson : The title should be self explanatory. I needed Drag-and-drop for a project I was working on, (maybe I shouldn't be refering to it in the past tense as I haven't started yet) so I checked the documentation for tkinter and found: 3.3.0 b1 tkinter

[issue15041] tkinter documentation "see also" list in Python3 is from Python2

2012-06-09 Thread Daniel Swanson
Changes by Daniel Swanson : -- title: tkinter "see also" list is from Python2 -> tkinter documentation "see also" list in Python3 is from Python2 type: -> enhancement ___ Python tracker <http

[issue15041] tkinter "see also" list is from Python2

2012-06-09 Thread Daniel Swanson
New submission from Daniel Swanson : I was looking for information about menus in tkinter and checked the "see also" list. The second is copyrighted 1999, the third says Python 2.5 and the first is pretty much just links to the second and third. The forth is a book. It is my op

[issue14901] Python Windows FAQ is Very Outdated

2012-06-02 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: >>> 1a) Update all Windows references to Windows 7 or Vista/7. We can include >>> XP, but I think Microsoft is dropping support next year. According to wikipedia Windows XP is the second most popular operating system, probably better

[issue14901] Python Windows FAQ is Very Outdated

2012-05-24 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: I agree that Such things are most outdated and I think that if any Python users are still using platforms that old, that they are an extreme minority and also wonder what on (or off) Earth a Freeze is. -- nosy: +weirdink13

[issue14872] subprocess is not safe from deadlocks

2012-05-21 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: what sort of machine has infinite memory? -- nosy: +weirdink13 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue14872> ___ ___

[issue14847] AttributeError: NoneType has no attribute 'utf_8_decode'

2012-05-19 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: I attempted to reproduce the error. I didn't, all I got was 'str' object has no attribute 'decode' here is the whole test. Python 3.2.2 (default, Sep 4 2011, 09:51:08) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "copyright"

[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)

2012-05-12 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: What's the start menu? hahaha I think that this issue is pointless, it takes 3 clicks to make a desktop shortcut (if have a lot of programs on your computer, maybe 4) any Windows user should know how to

[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)

2012-04-29 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: Never mind. I think I used the start menu to do it myself. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue14672> ___ ___

[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)

2012-04-26 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: I am using windows and as I recall, it installed a desktop shortcut for me. but I could be wrong. -- nosy: +weirdink13 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue14

[issue13749] socketserver can't stop

2012-04-06 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: I tryed to fix the problem, here is my attemt. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file25148/tryfixsocketserver.py ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue13

[issue13749] socketserver can't stop

2012-04-06 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: Or even better: def __init__(...): ... self.stop = False while not self.stop: (do stuff) def quit(or whatever it's called): self.stop = True -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.py

[issue13749] socketserver can't stop

2012-04-06 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: what about this? def __init__(...): ... self.stop = False while True: (do stuff) if self.stop: break def quit(or whatever it's called): self.stop = True That would work without the backwards copatability issue

[issue13749] socketserver can't stop

2012-03-29 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: What about os._exit? or CTR-ALT-DEL (windows only) I'd say that socketserver.serveforever is very well named (Hey, if you can't turn it off then it's serving forever) -- nosy: +weirdink13 ___ Python

[issue14447] marshal.load() reads entire remaining file instead of just next value

2012-03-29 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: The previous test was on linux mint 10 (Julia) with python 3.1.2 here is the same test on windows XP with python 3.2.2 Python 3.2.2 (default, Sep 4 2011, 09:51:08) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "copyright", "credits" or

[issue14447] marshal.load() reads entire remaining file instead of just next value

2012-03-29 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: You are correct. I got: Python 3.1.2 (release31-maint, Dec 9 2011, 20:50:50) [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import marshall Traceback (most rece

[issue14361] No link to issue tracker on Python home page

2012-03-24 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: i don't remember -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue14361> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubsc

[issue4652] IDLE does not work with Unicode

2012-03-23 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: ok -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue4652> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.pyth

[issue14361] No link to issue tracker on Python home page

2012-03-22 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: I agree that the link to the bug tracker should be more obvious (yesterday it took me almost an hour to find it) -- nosy: +weirdink13 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue14

[issue4652] IDLE does not work with Unicode

2012-03-21 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: I would say that alt-c is not a problem at all, but, some people might use 'ç' more that me, (I never have used 'ç' spesificaly) -- ___ Python tracker <http://bu

[issue4652] IDLE does not work with Unicode

2012-03-21 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: alt-c does nothing for me -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue4652> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsub

[issue4652] IDLE does not work with Unicode

2012-03-21 Thread Daniel Swanson
Daniel Swanson added the comment: I opened my IDLE (v. 3.2.2 windows xp) and pasted in print('ここ') it printed ここ just fine. -- nosy: +weirdink13 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.