Mailman 3 March 2019 - docs

[issue13277] tzinfo subclasses information
by Senthil Kumaran March 16, 2019

March 16, 2019

New submission from Senthil Kumaran <senthil(a)uthcode.com>: This was in the docs mailing list, not translated to bug report Paul Koning wrote: Section 8.1.6 of the library manual talks about utcoffset(dt)-dst(dt) as the "standard offset" and says that this should not depend on the date or +time but only on the location. This is not true as there cases were certain locations changed the time offsets as per their convenience. It is either a doc fix to remove that sentence if the datetime.astimezone does not depend upon utcoffset(dt)-dst(dt), or if it does, then it is a code fix. ---------- assignee: docs@python messages: 146501 nosy: docs@python, orsenthil priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: tzinfo subclasses information type: behavior _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13277> _______________________________________

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[issue8387] use universal newline mode in csv module examples
by Mark Lawrence March 15, 2019

March 15, 2019

Change by Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy(a)gmail.com>: ---------- nosy: -BreamoreBoy _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue8387> _______________________________________

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[issue13074] Improve documentation of locale encoding functions
by Geoffrey Bache March 15, 2019

March 15, 2019

New submission from Geoffrey Bache <gjb1002(a)users.sourceforge.net>: The locale module provides locale.getdefaultlocale and locale.getpreferredencoding. The encodings returned by each are generally subtly different ('ISO8859-1' vs 'ISO-8859-1'), but the difference between these methods is not explained. A comment by Martin von Löwis from 2003 in http://bugs.python.org/issue813449 indicates that "getdefaultlocale should not be used in new code", if this is really the case then this should be in the docs. Anyone reading the docs from the top will currently encounter getdefaultlocale first and believe that this is the way to get the encoding. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 144677 nosy: docs@python, gjb1002 priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Improve documentation of locale encoding functions versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13074> _______________________________________

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[issue12622] failfast argument to TextTestRunner not documented
by Mark Lawrence March 15, 2019

March 15, 2019

Change by Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy(a)gmail.com>: ---------- nosy: -BreamoreBoy _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue12622> _______________________________________

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[issue9739] Output of help(...) is wider than 80 characters
by Mark Lawrence March 15, 2019

March 15, 2019

Change by Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy(a)gmail.com>: ---------- nosy: -BreamoreBoy _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue9739> _______________________________________

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[issue1576313] os.execvp[e] on win32 fails for current directory
by Mark Lawrence March 15, 2019

March 15, 2019

Change by Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy(a)gmail.com>: ---------- nosy: -BreamoreBoy _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue1576313> _______________________________________

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[issue8997] Write documentation for codecs.readbuffer_encode()
by Mark Lawrence March 15, 2019

March 15, 2019

Change by Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy(a)gmail.com>: ---------- nosy: -BreamoreBoy _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue8997> _______________________________________

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[issue7057] tkinter doc: more 3.x updates
by Mark Lawrence March 15, 2019

March 15, 2019

Change by Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy(a)gmail.com>: ---------- nosy: -BreamoreBoy _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue7057> _______________________________________

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[issue23311] Update PC/example_nt and extending/windows.rst
by Steve Dower March 15, 2019

March 15, 2019

New submission from Steve Dower: The installer for 3.5 will include an option to install debug binaries alongside the release ones, so we should update extending/windows.rst to explain that and generally describe how to build an extension. It should also refer to python3.dll at least once... The example project in PC/example_nt is fairly outdated. It could be updated to automatically find a 3.5 install and use the debug or release binaries/libraries from there. We could also include a 'test' project for PTVS (http://pytools.codeplex.com/) that helps write Python code for testing the extension and also has mixed-mode debugging enabled so people can step between the Python and the C code. (In fact, the PTVS team wants to do a sample project like this anyway, so maybe we can remove PC/example_nt and point to theirs...) ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation, Windows messages: 234624 nosy: docs@python, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Update PC/example_nt and extending/windows.rst versions: Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23311> _______________________________________

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[issue20749] shutil.unpack_archive(): security concerns not documented
by Jakub Wilk March 15, 2019

March 15, 2019

New submission from Jakub Wilk: shutil.unpack_archive() uses tarfile.extractall() under the hood, so it's not suitable for unpacking untrusted archives. But this fact is not documented. Please add a security warning to shutil.unpack_archive() documentation. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 212029 nosy: docs@python, jwilk priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: shutil.unpack_archive(): security concerns not documented _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20749> _______________________________________

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