Mailman 3 May 2010 - docs

[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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[issue8602] documentation of bz2 module mildly erroneous
by Matt Wartell Aug. 1, 2010

Aug. 1, 2010

New submission from Matt Wartell <matt.wartell+pt(a)gmail.com>: This is related to http://bugs.python.org/issue8601 "bz2.BZ2File should support "with" protocol per PEP 343" The documentation at http://docs.python.org/library/bz2.html states: "This module provides a comprehensive interface for the bz2 compression library. It implements a complete file interface,..." although bz2.BZ2File does not support the __enter__ and __exit__ methods so arguably doesn't implement the "complete … [View More]

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[issue8638] Remove suggestion for name mangling from the tutorial
by Lucian Ursu July 31, 2010

July 31, 2010

New submission from Lucian Ursu <lucian_ursu(a)yahoo.com>: I suggest that name mangling should not be recommended as a way of having private attributes. Instead, one underscore should be suggested as a signal that the attribute is private. This suggestion comes after discussing with some of the helpers from #python. Basically, they said that name mangling should never be used, so it would be appropriate to remove this recommendation from the tutorial. ---------- assignee: docs@python … [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: The documentation on integrating doctests in a file of unittests is confusing and out of date.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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[issue8653] urlparse.urlparse/urlsplit doc missing
by Dave Abrahams June 28, 2010

June 28, 2010

New submission from Dave Abrahams <dave(a)boostpro.com>: The docstrings for these functions don't explain the 'scheme' parameter. Even renaming it to default_scheme would help. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 105221 nosy: dabrahams, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: urlparse.urlparse/urlsplit doc missing _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8653> _______________________________________

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[issue8865] select.poll is not thread safe
by Christian Schubert June 15, 2010

June 15, 2010

New submission from Christian Schubert <bugs(a)apexo.de>: invoking select.poll.poll() concurrently from multiple threads frequently yields garbage in one thread: while poll_poll in thread 1 is parsing its result, another thread 2 calling poll may overwrite revents; assuming poll_result was 1 in thread 1 and thread 2 managed to clear all revents before thread 1 started scanning ufds, thread 1 would iterate straight through all ufds, past its bounds (no bound checks there), and return the … [View More]

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Bug in documentation of os.mkdir()
by Raphael.Mankin＠rbs.com June 12, 2010

June 12, 2010

The web page http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#file-object-creation does not specify what os.mkdir() does if the directory already exists. Makedirs() does, but mkdir() does not. *********************************************************************************** The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Registered in Scotland No 90312. Registered Office: 36 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 2YB. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. The Royal Bank of Scotland N.V. is … [View More]

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Small documentation typo
by Charles Reinman June 12, 2010

June 12, 2010

In the sentence: “Private” instance variables that cannot be accessed except from inside an > object, don’t exist in Python. The comma is extraneous and should be removed. http://docs.python.org/tutorial/classes.html#private-variables Thanks, - Charles

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[issue8788] urllib.urlencode documentation unclear on doseq
by Jeroen Habraken June 2, 2010

June 2, 2010

New submission from Jeroen Habraken <vexocide(a)gmail.com>: The urllib.urlencode documentation is unclear with regard to the 'doseq' option. In my opinion it does not clearly state what its functionality is. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 106311 nosy: VeXocide, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: urllib.urlencode documentation unclear on doseq _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.… [View More]

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[issue8481] doc: ctypes no need to explicitly allocate writable memory with Structure
by Éric Araujo May 29, 2010

May 29, 2010

Changes by Éric Araujo <merwok(a)netwok.org>: ---------- assignee: flox -> theller nosy: +theller -flox priority: -> normal _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8481> _______________________________________

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