Mailman 3 April 2013 - docs

[issue15940] Time module: effect of locale
by Terry J. Reedy 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

New submission from Terry J. Reedy: "Module locale Internationalization services. The locale settings can affect the return values for some of the functions in the time module." This is vague and perhaps misleading. The doc also says "Locale information is not used by asctime()." "Locale information is not used by ctime()." Since ctime() = asctime(localtime()), this implies to me that locale is also not used by localtime. Otherwise, locale information would indirectly be used by ctime. (I did not test this directly because I do not know what a legal locale name is on Windows. The doc example 'de_DE' does not work.) Doc also says "time.strftime(format[, t]) %a Locale’s abbreviated weekday name. ... <similar for many other format characters> " So perhaps the doc should say "The locale setting affects the interpretation of many format specifiers in strftime and strptime". If is does anything else, what? ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 170448 nosy: belopolsky, docs@python, haypo, terry.reedy priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Time module: effect of locale versions: Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15940> _______________________________________

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[issue13249] argparse.ArgumentParser() lists arguments in the wrong order
by Mark Lawrence 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Can someone please review the latest patch and commit if appropriate. ---------- nosy: +BreamoreBoy _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13249> _______________________________________

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[issue17624] Confusing TypeError in urllib.urlopen
by R. David Murray 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

R. David Murray added the comment: In Python3 the equivalent urllib.request.urlopen call produces: ValueError: unknown url type: So this is effectively already fixed (although that error message should be doing a repr on the value, so I fixed that). We don't in general document every exception that might be raised by a function. Here the TypeError is coming from treating the url as a local filename. I don't think it is appropriate to document all the errors that can arise from treating the URL as a filename in the urllib docs, so I don't believe any changes should be made here. I've added the 'doc' componennt, so if someone from the doc team disagrees with me they can reopen the issue. As for your specific concern, the application has more problems (as in, security problems) than crashing because of a TypeError if it is composing the URL from user input such that the URL gets treated as a local filename. (This is arguably a bug in urllib, that it appears has been fixed in Python3.) ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +docs@python, r.david.murray resolution: -> invalid stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17624> _______________________________________

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[issue17623] Typo in Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
by Thomas Heller 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

New submission from Thomas Heller: Typo: trucate instead of truncate ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: work.patch keywords: patch messages: 185901 nosy: docs@python, theller priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Typo in Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29664/work.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17623> _______________________________________

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[issue17583] IDLE HOWTO
by Amit Saha 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Amit Saha added the comment: Hello Éric Araujo, thanks. Oh I thought it did support, and hence I created the diff in exactly the way you mention. i also went ahead and tested it by 'hg import' -ing it into a cpython clone and i was all excited to see all my images there :-) But, yeah I can certainly attach the images separately. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17583> _______________________________________

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[issue17583] IDLE HOWTO
by Éric Araujo 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Éric Araujo added the comment: This is a great idea, thank you. FYI You can share text and images with a diff file: if you call “hg add path/to/images” and create the diff with the --git option, it will use an extended unified diff format which includes binary changes. Our review system is not compatible with that format though, so you can simply attach the files here. ---------- nosy: +eric.araujo _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17583> _______________________________________

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[issue10379] locale.format() input regression
by Eric V. Smith 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Eric V. Smith added the comment: So I guess the question is: would this be a bug fix and applied to 2.7 and 3.3, or just an enhancement for 3.4? I think it would be a bug fix and thus should be backported. It's not like we'd be breaking any working code, unless it was expecting the exception. ---------- versions: +Python 3.3, Python 3.4 -Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10379> _______________________________________

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[issue10379] locale.format() input regression
by Eric V. Smith 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Eric V. Smith added the comment: Barry meant that the upstream program that triggered this error has been changed to call format_string() instead of format(). The bug still exists in format(). My suggestion is to have format() be an alias for format_string(). Deprecating format() is an optional step, but may not be worth the hassle. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10379> _______________________________________

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[issue17583] IDLE HOWTO
by Amit Saha 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Amit Saha added the comment: I have tried to incorporate most of the suggestions and made some other changes as well. Hope it looks better now. I haven't yet split it into two separate versions. ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29654/idle.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17583> _______________________________________

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[issue10379] locale.format() input regression
by Mark Lawrence 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

Mark Lawrence added the comment: msg120978 "The bug has been fixed upstream...". Have I missed something as on Windows Vista...? c:\Users\Mark\MyPython>python Python 3.3.1rc1 (v3.3.1rc1:92c2cfb92405, Mar 25 2013, 22:39:19) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import locale; print(locale.format('%.0f KB', 100)) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "c:\python33\lib\locale.py", line 193, in format "format specifier, %s not valid") % repr(percent)) ValueError: format() must be given exactly one %char format specifier, '%.0f KB' not valid ---------- nosy: +BreamoreBoy _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10379> _______________________________________

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