Mailman 3 April 2010 - docs

[issue8557] subprocess portability issue
by Dave Abrahams March 5, 2021

March 5, 2021

New submission from Dave Abrahams <dave(a)boostpro.com>: On POSIX systems, the PATH environment variable is always used to look up directory-less executable names passed as the first argument to Popen(...), but on Windows, PATH is only considered when shell=True is also passed. Actually I think it may be slightly weirder than that when shell=False, because the following holds for me: C:\>rem ##### Prepare minimal PATH ##### C:\>set "PATH=C:\Python26\Scripts;C:\Python26;C:\… [View More]

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[issue8556] Confusing string formatting examples
by Jeff McNeil Oct. 17, 2010

Oct. 17, 2010

New submission from Jeff McNeil <jeff(a)jmcneil.net>: I was going through the string formatting examples this evening and noticed this: print '%(language)s has %(#)03d quote types.' % \ {'language': "Python", "#": 2} The example uses a '#' as a map key. This is somewhat misleading as if we had simply left the parenthesis off, the '#' would have been interpreted as an alternate conversion flag. Should be updated to use a more verbose (and less confusing) dictionary key. -----… [View More]

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[issue8562] hasattr(open, 'newlines') example gives incorrect results from PEP0278
by AdamN Aug. 2, 2010

Aug. 2, 2010

New submission from AdamN <adam(a)varud.com>: This bug from the Ubuntu list is being moved here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-defaults/+bug/570737 Newlines support is enabled on Ubuntu but the example from: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0278/ Does not give the correct results (of True): if hasattr(open, 'newlines'): print 'We have universal newline support' I don't know if this is a documentation problem or whether there is another attr that … [View More]

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[issue8564] Update documentation on doctest/unittest2 integration
by Peter Fein July 10, 2010

July 10, 2010

New submission from Peter Fein <pfein(a)pobox.com>: The documentation on integrating doctests in a file of unittests is confusing and out of date. This patch updates the documentation to use unittest2 test discovery. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: doctest_unittest_integration_doc.diff keywords: patch messages: 104468 nosy: docs@python, pfein priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Update documentation on doctest/unittest2 integration … [View More]

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ftplib nit
by Larry Tjoelker May 10, 2010

May 10, 2010

in ftplib docs, http://docs.python.org/library/ftplib.html?highlight=ftplib#module-ftplib, description of ftplib.all_errors 3rd line: "errors made by the caller). This set includes the four exceptions listed below as" It should be: "errors made by the caller). This set includes the four exceptions listed above as"

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[issue8543] asynchat documentation issues
by Giampaolo Rodola' April 29, 2010

April 29, 2010

New submission from Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rodola(a)gmail.com>: I recently took a look at asynchat doc and found out it has some issues which should be addressed. In my opinion the following methods and functions should NOT be mentioned: - async_chat.refill_buffer() this has been removed in Python 2.6 and no longer exists, plus there was no reason to override it in the first place as it was an internal method - asynchat.find_prefix_at_end(haystack, needle) there's really no reason … [View More]

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Error in unittest deprecation notice
by Nick Coghlan April 29, 2010

April 29, 2010

Just spotted this in the docs for 2.7: """ Deprecated since version 2.7: failUnless(); use one of the assert variants. assert_(); use assertTrue().""" Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan(a)gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------

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I found a bug in tutorial document
by DongWoo Son April 29, 2010

April 29, 2010

Hi. in this document, http://docs.python.org/py3k/tutorial/datastructures.html >>> basket = {'apple', 'orange', 'apple', 'pear', 'orange', 'banana'}>>> print(basket){'orange', 'banana', 'pear', 'apple'}>>> fruit = ['apple', 'orange', 'apple', 'pear', 'orange', 'banana']>>> fruit = set(basket) # create a set without duplicates the last sentence should be like below one. basket was originally set, so we don't need to change to set redundantly I … [View More]

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[issue8558] StringIO().truncate causes zero-bytes in getvalue()
by Antoine Pitrou April 28, 2010

April 28, 2010

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou(a)free.fr> added the comment: I've updated the doc in r80591. Sorry for the inconvenience! ---------- resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8558> _______________________________________

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py2 fileConfig in module logging.config missing description for disable_existing_loggers
by Reimar Bauer April 28, 2010

April 28, 2010

Hi disable_existing_loggers should be described also for py versions < 3k fileConfig(fname, defaults=None, disable_existing_loggers=1) from the http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/logging.html If disable_existing_loggers is true, any existing loggers that are not children of named loggers will be disabled. cheers Reimar

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