Mailman 3 September 2000 - Python-Dev

problems importing _tkinter on Linux build
by Trent Mick Sept. 20, 2000

Sept. 20, 2000

I get the following error trying to import _tkinter in a Python 2.0 build: > ./python ./python: error in loading shared libraries: libtk8.3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Here is the relevant section of my Modules/Setup: _tkinter _tkinter.c tkappinit.c -DWITH_APPINIT \ -I/usr/local/include \ -I/usr/X11R6/include \ -L/usr/local/lib \ -ltk8.3 -ltcl8.3 \ -L/usr/X11R6/lib \ -lX11 I got the Tcl/Tk 8.3 source from dev.scriptics.com, and … [View More]

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Missing API in re modle
by Guido van Rossum Sept. 19, 2000

Sept. 19, 2000

When investigating and fixing Tim's report that the Replace dialog in IDLE was broken, I realized that there's an API missing from the re module. For search-and-replace, IDLE uses a regular expression to find the next match, and then needs to do whatever sub() does to that match. But there's no API to spell "whatever sub() does"! It's not safe to call sub() on just the matching substring -- the match might depend on context. It seems that a new API is needed. I propose to add the following … [View More]

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Python 1.5.2 modules need porting to 2.0 because of unicode - comments please
by Martin v. Loewis Sept. 19, 2000

Sept. 19, 2000

> I doubt that we can fix all Unicode related bugs in the 2.0 > stdlib before the final release... let's make this a project > for 2.1. Exactly my feelings. Since we cannot possibly fix all problems, we may need to change the behaviour later. If we now silently do the wrong thing, silently changing it to the then-right thing in 2.1 may break peoples code. So I'm asking that cases where it does not clearly do the right thing produces an exception now; we can later fix it to accept … [View More]

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fileno function in file objects
by Martin von Loewis Sept. 19, 2000

Sept. 19, 2000

Section 2.1.7.9 of the library reference explains that file objects support a fileno method. Is that a mandatory operation on file-like objects (e.g. StringIO)? If so, how should it be implemented? If not, shouldn't the documentation declare it optional? The same question for documented attributes: closed, mode, name, softspace: need file-like objects to support them? Regards, Martin

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sizehint in readlines
by Martin von Loewis Sept. 19, 2000

Sept. 19, 2000

I've added support for the sizehint parameter in all places where it was missing and the documentation referred to the file objects section (socket, StringIO, cStringIO). The only remaining place with a readlines function without sizehint is in multifile.py. I'll observe that the documentation of this module is quite confused: it mentions a str parameter for readline and readlines. Should multifile.MultiFile.readlines also support the sizehint? (note that read() deliberately does not support a … [View More]

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Deja-Search on python.org defunct
by M.-A. Lemburg Sept. 19, 2000

Sept. 19, 2000

The search button on python.org doesn't search the c.l.p newsgroup anymore, but instead doea a search over all newsgroups. This link works: http://www.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/qs.xp?ST=PS&svcclass=dnyr&firstsearch=yes&QR… -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/

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Python 1.5.2 modules need porting to 2.0 because of unicode - comments please
by Martin v. Loewis Sept. 19, 2000

Sept. 19, 2000

> The smtplib problem may be easily explained -- AFAIK, the SMTP > protocol doesn't support Unicode, and the module isn't > Unicode-aware, so it is probably writing garbage to the socket. I've investigated this somewhat, and noticed the cause of the problem. The send method of the socket passes the raw memory representation of the Unicode object to send(2). On i386, this comes out as UTF-16LE. It appears that this behaviour is not documented anywhere (where is the original … [View More]

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Python 1.5.2 modules need porting to 2.0 because of unicode - comments please
by Barry Scott Sept. 19, 2000

Sept. 19, 2000

I have managed to get all our critical python code up and running under 2.0b1#4, around 15,000 lines. We use win32com and wxPython extensions. The code drive SourceSafe and includes a Web server that schedules builds for us. The only problem I encounted was the problem of mixing string and unicode types. Using the smtplib I was passing in a unicode type as the body of the message. The send() call hangs. I use encode() and all is well. Is this a user error in the use of smtplib or a bug? I … [View More]

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test_minidom now failing on Windows
by Tim Peters Sept. 19, 2000

Sept. 19, 2000

http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=114775&group_id=5470 Add info (fails on Linux? Windows-specific?) or fix or something; assigned to Paul.

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Speaking of bug triage...
by Greg Ward Sept. 18, 2000

Sept. 18, 2000

... just what are the different categories supposed to mean? Specifically, what's the difference between "Library" and "Modules"? The library-related open bugs in the "Library" category cover the following modules: * anydbm * rfc822 (several!) * mimedecode * urlparse * cmath * CGIHTTPServer And in the "Modules" category we have: * mailbox * socket/os * re/sre (several) * anydbm * xml/_xmlplus * cgi/xml Hmmm... looks to me like there's no difference between "Library" … [View More]

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