Mailman 3 April 2014 - docs

[issue20701] warning in compileall.rst
by Antoine Pitrou 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

New submission from Antoine Pitrou: When building the docs, I get the following message: /home/antoine/cpython/default/Doc/library/compileall.rst:23: WARNING: Malformed option description u'[directory|file]...', should look like "-opt args", "--opt args" or "/opt args" ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 211733 nosy: docs@python, pitrou priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: warning in compileall.rst type: behavior versions: Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20701> _______________________________________

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[issue21204] published examples don't work
by Martin v. Löwis 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: jmaki: not sure what the issue is that you are reporting. I can see three different possible issues. 1. "Would you consider putting examples...". As R. David said: yes, we consider it. If you really wanted to know whether we consider it, we could close the issue as fixed. 2. "Please make examples ...". This would be a (near) duplicate of #15939, so I should close this issue as a duplicate. 3. "The specific example does not work on Windows". This issue should stay open until it is analysed an possibly fixed. If that is the issue, then it would be helpful if you could report how exactly the example fails. I'd like to see a strict "one issue at a time" policy in this tracker, so please let us know how you would like us to proceed. ---------- nosy: +loewis _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21204> _______________________________________

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[issue21204] published examples don't work
by R. David Murray 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

R. David Murray added the comment: Testing the documentation examples is a long term goal, which people occasionally contribute to. I think there is an open issue about using the Sphinx doctest support, that for a long time was blocked by the documentation tool chain not using python3. Some examples are very hard to run in an automated fashion, as well. Perhaps the examples can be tweaked...but in some cases they can't, without losing their teaching value. I have a feeling the multiprocessing examples fall into this category, as I seem to remember doing a pass of testing of them a (python3) release or two ago. I did not test them on windows, though. ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation -Cross-Build nosy: +docs@python, r.david.murray _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21204> _______________________________________

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str.translate documentation error 3.3.3
by bob gailer 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

str.translate(map) Return a copy of the s where all characters have been mapped through the map which must be a dictionary of Unicode ordinals (integers) to Unicode ordinals, strings or None. However map can also be a string or byte string of arbitrary length! >>> 'asdf'.translate('qwer') 'asdf' >>> 'asdf'.translate(b'qwer') 'asdf' >>> 'asdf'.translate('qwer'*100) 'wrqe' >>> 'asdf'.translate(b'qwer'*100) 'wrqe'

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[issue7951] Should str.format allow negative indexes when used for __getitem__ access?
by Eric V. Smith 12 Apr '14

12 Apr '14

Changes by Eric V. Smith <eric(a)trueblade.com>: ---------- assignee: eric.smith -> docs@python nosy: +docs@python _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7951> _______________________________________

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[issue21170] Incorrect signature for unittest.TestResult.startTestRun(), .stopTestRun()
by Volodymyr Sapsai 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

New submission from Volodymyr Sapsai: Steps to reproduce: 1. Open docs for unittest.TestResult class. 2. Look at startTestRun() and stopTestRun() methods signatures (https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/unittest.html#unittest.TestResult.start…) Actual result: It is stated that aforementioned methods accept 1 argument 'test'. Expected result: These methods don't accept any arguments, it should be stated so in the docs. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 215710 nosy: Volodymyr.Sapsai, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Incorrect signature for unittest.TestResult.startTestRun(), .stopTestRun() versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21170> _______________________________________

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[issue21179] Rounding half to even
by Clinton Curry 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

New submission from Clinton Curry: In the current Python 2.7 documentation, Section 5.4 https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/stdtypes.html the result of the round function is described as "x rounded to n digits, rounding half to even. If n is omitted, it defaults to 0." However, my observed behavior (Python 2.7.4 (default, Apr 6 2013, 19:55:15) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32) does not round half to even, but rounds half away from zero. >>> round(1.5) 2.0 >>> round(2.5) 3.0 >>> round(-1.5) -2.0 >>> round(-2.5) -3.0 I observe similar behavior on other platforms. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 215753 nosy: Clinton.Curry, docs@python, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Rounding half to even versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21179> _______________________________________

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how to transfer a xml format file to txt format
by 李英 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

Hi, here I want to extrat the flag of a xml file, to transfer to a txt file Such as: <html> <head> <title>Example page</title> </head> <body> <p>Moved to <a href="http://example.org/">example.org</a> or <a href="http://example.com/">example.com</a>.</p> </body> </html> To: Example page Moved to example.org or example.com with Python xml,how to do ? Thanks! -- Regards Ying Li

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[issue16395] Documentation claims that PySequence_Fast returns a tuple, when it actually returns a list.
by Roundup Robot 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset b2187b82a658 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '3.4': PySequence_Fast generally returns a list not a tuple (closes #16395) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b2187b82a658 New changeset b235db467cd5 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '2.7': PySequence_Fast generally returns a list not a tuple (closes #16395) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b235db467cd5 New changeset c833c35aa13a by Benjamin Peterson in branch 'default': merge 3.4 (#16395) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c833c35aa13a ---------- nosy: +python-dev resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16395> _______________________________________

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[issue16395] Documentation claims that PySequence_Fast returns a tuple, when it actually returns a list.
by Larry Hastings 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Larry Hastings added the comment: I have no objections to someone backporting this. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16395> _______________________________________

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