Re: Cult-like behaviour [was Re: Kindness]

2018-07-15 Thread James Lee
On 7/15/2018 3:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: No. The real ten billion dollar question is how people in 2018 can stick their head in the sand and take seriously the position that Latin-1 (let alone ASCII) is enough for text strings. Easy - for many people, 90% of the Python code they

[issue1303434] Please include pdb with windows distribution

2010-08-03 Thread James Lee
James Lee j...@jbit.net added the comment: Attached is a simple patch against msi.py from the py3k branch. It generates a .zip file containing all the PDB files (minus a select few) in the PCbuild directory. I imagine most people only want python31.pdb, but it is very frustrating when you

[issue1303434] Please include pdb with windows distribution

2010-08-01 Thread James Lee
James Lee j...@jbit.net added the comment: Right now if you have any moderately complex Python based application (or extension set) the only way to easily debug it on windows is by building Python yourself, which is a horrible solution since it means you may end up with a subtly different

[issue1303434] Please include pdb with windows distribution

2010-08-01 Thread James Lee
James Lee j...@jbit.net added the comment: Ah, sorry, I see what you mean now... I thought the request for patch was to modify the installer itself, but it meant just make the msi.py script generate a separate zip file alongside the .msi installer. I'll take a look at providing a patch

[issue9243] sndhdr erroneously detects files as vox

2010-07-13 Thread James Lee
New submission from James Lee j...@jbit.net: http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/py3k/Lib/sndhdr.py?r1=56957r2=56987 seems to have broken sndhdr as it incorrectly detects files as voc (all that time ago and nobody has noticed...): [j...@miku]~$ xxd test.wav | head -n 1 000: 5249

[issue9243] sndhdr erroneously detects files as vox

2010-07-13 Thread James Lee
James Lee j...@jbit.net added the comment: Thanks for the update... The link was actually just a diff to previous of the changelist that caused the problem (r56987), sorry for the confusion. :) Attached is a quick and dirty unittest complete with some test files. It only tests the format