[issue21954] str(b'text') returns b'text' in interpreter

2014-07-10 Thread Dev Player
New submission from Dev Player: str(b'text') returns double quoted item with b prefix within the str() object as so: b'text' in python interpreter. It seems the b shouldn't be within the outter quotes or apart of the str() instance data. Is this a bug or new syntax? I personally haven't see

[issue12902] help(modules) executes module code

2014-07-10 Thread Dev Player
Dev Player added the comment: Mentioned for informational purposes only. I too experience the running of external packages with a different library when doing help('modules') in the interpreter. This is a fresh install of Python 3.4 on WinXP. The text I get in the python.exe interpreter

[issue13582] IDLE and pythonw.exe stderr problem

2013-07-03 Thread Dev Player
Dev Player added the comment: I may be mistaken but I thought, as of not too long ago, that pythonw.exe is no longer needed by current versions. 2.7.5 -- nosy: +devplayer ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13582

[issue10060] python.exe crashes or hangs on help() modules when bad modules found

2011-04-27 Thread Dev Player
Dev Player devpla...@gmail.com added the comment: mhammond added a recent note at: python.exe help() modules crashes - ID: 3150027 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=3150027group_id=78018atid=551954 Scroll down below the detail and click the Comments link. View the note from

[issue10060] python.exe crashes or hangs on help() modules when bad modules found

2011-04-27 Thread Dev Player
Dev Player devpla...@gmail.com added the comment: What about this application modal popup window appearing behind the DOS window? (See attached) That popup window may only need to have a system style flag to push it to the top of the window z-order stack. What causes that popup to appear

[issue10060] python.exe crashes or hangs on help() modules when bad modules found

2011-04-27 Thread Dev Player
Dev Player devpla...@gmail.com added the comment: This is an acedmic note. This is not really the place and perhaps better moved to a PEP or a forum. In my search to discover more about Python ( and its interactive interpreter and its help() function? statement? on my own) I noticed

[issue10060] python.exe crashes or hangs on help() modules when bad modules found

2011-04-27 Thread Dev Player
Dev Player devpla...@gmail.com added the comment: Just delete the previous message... please. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10060

[issue8232] webbrowser.open incomplete on Windows

2011-01-14 Thread Dev Player
Dev Player devpla...@gmail.com added the comment: Don't forget to check if the MS Internet Explorer's advanced option to open new URLS in a seperate windows effects this. Users can have this advanced setting set differently on different computers(or even accounts). Also different browser

[issue10060] python.exe crashes or hangs on help() modules when bad modules found

2011-01-03 Thread Dev Player
Dev Player devpla...@gmail.com added the comment: It was suggested that a corrupt package would be where I'm experiencing the lockup or crash of python.exe when issuing help() and then modules. And that if I or someone could verify that a corrupt package has this effect by creating a corrupt

[issue10060] python.exe crashes or hangs on help() modules when bad modules found

2011-01-02 Thread Dev Player
Dev Player devpla...@gmail.com added the comment: import win32ui from win32ui import GetMainFrame dir(win32ui.GetMainFrame) ['__call__', '__class__', '__cmp__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__le__', '__lt__

[issue10060] python.exe crashes or hangs on help() modules when bad modules found

2011-01-02 Thread Dev Player
Dev Player devpla...@gmail.com added the comment: from GetMainFrame import GetWindowText Traceback (most recent call last): File input, line 1, in module ImportError: No module named GetMainFrame Also, I installed from the MS-Windows installer file: pywin32-214.win32-py2.7.exe not from

[issue10060] python.exe crashes or hangs on help() modules when bad modules found

2011-01-02 Thread Dev Player
Dev Player devpla...@gmail.com added the comment: Oh I am running on an Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz/3.2Ghz. Windows XP Pro SP3 32 bit So I presume I should not have used the AMD 64 versions of course. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20214

[issue10060] python.exe crashes or hangs on help() modules when bad modules found

2010-10-29 Thread Dev Player
Dev Player devpla...@gmail.com added the comment: Another thing I've noticed that makes the issue more complicated (or perhaps less complicated depending on your view). When running the python.exe at the DOS prompt (in a window on WinXP), then issuing the help() then modules commands

[issue10060] python.exe crashes or hangs on help() modules when bad modules found

2010-10-11 Thread Dev Player
Dev Player devpla...@gmail.com added the comment: I believe that a 3rd party package is corrupt. Whether it is or not I don't know. However whether or not a package is corrupt or not is not what I am reporting as a bug. I am reporting that python.exe crashes when I do help() modules. In GUI

[issue10060] python.exe crashes or hangs on help() modules when bad modules found

2010-10-11 Thread Dev Player
Dev Player devpla...@gmail.com added the comment: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:43 PM, R. David Murray rep...@bugs.python.orgwrote: R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: Can you reproduce the problem using a pure Python 'corrupt' module? -- When in python.exe

[issue10060] python.exe crashes or hangs on help() modules when bad modules found

2010-10-09 Thread Dev Player
New submission from Dev Player devpla...@gmail.com: 2010-10-10 python.exe crashes or hangs on help() modules when bad modules found ### SUMMARY The python.exe command line interpreter crashes or hangs when typing first help