Mailman 3 October 2012 - Python-Dev

AUTO: Jon K Peck is out of the office
by Jon K Peck Oct. 15, 2012

Oct. 15, 2012

I am out of the office until 10/16/2012. I will be out of the office Monday 10/15/12. I will not have email access during this time. Note: This is an automated response to your message "Python-Dev Digest, Vol 111, Issue 31" sent on 10/15/2012 4:00:04. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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PEP or formal description of Python module structure
by anatoly techtonik Oct. 15, 2012

Oct. 15, 2012

Hi, I am trying to figure out what Python module is internally (WIP http://wiki.python.org/moin/techtonik)? Is there already a good piece of documentation that I missed that can answer all these questions already? ...what properties do you get in empty Python module (__doc__, __name__, ...)? ...what of those properties are set by the language standard (required) and what are just optional helpers from/for the interpreter? ...what is the proper way to inspect modules and access their … [View More]

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urlretrieve regression in Python 3
by anatoly techtonik Oct. 15, 2012

Oct. 15, 2012

Can anybody raise the priority of this issue to make it visible during the next bug hunting day? http://bugs.python.org/issue10836

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Re: [Python-Dev] [Core-mentorship] Issues Pending Review
by Michele Orrù Oct. 14, 2012

Oct. 14, 2012

> In case nobody picks it up, my 5-for-1 offer still stands: if you review > five issues, I'll review one of yours. :D merwork saves™ >> HTTPServer does not correctly handle bad headers / >> http://bugs.python.org/issue16083 > It does not seem clear what should be done and which versions to change. If there is something more than than the "security" flag, may you explain further what is unclear on the bugtracker? > And it was reviewed 2 days after posting. So why … [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] cpython: Force 32bit Keccak implementation on SPARC. It look like the Solaris CC
by Antoine Pitrou Oct. 14, 2012

Oct. 14, 2012

On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:53:51 +0200 (CEST) christian.heimes <python-checkins(a)python.org> wrote: > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b397b0c08f69 > changeset: 79717:b397b0c08f69 > parent: 79715:3465ef48d0f5 > user: Christian Heimes <christian(a)cheimes.de> > date: Sun Oct 14 02:52:01 2012 +0200 > summary: > Force 32bit Keccak implementation on SPARC. It look like the Solaris CC compiler doesn't like the address alignment. I think SPARC (… [View More]

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ConfigParser argparse integration module
by S Joshua Swamidass Oct. 13, 2012

Oct. 13, 2012

Hello, It seemed like there were several requests to enable ini file parsing with argparse. I wrote module to do this. I'd be curious to know if this is useful and anyone has a better approach. See the code here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ConfArgParse Thanks! S Joshua Swamidass http://swami.wustl.edu/

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Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (merge 3.3 -> 3.3): merge heads
by Chris Jerdonek Oct. 13, 2012

Oct. 13, 2012

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:05 AM, benjamin.peterson <python-checkins(a)python.org> wrote: > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/de8787029fe4 > changeset: 79702:de8787029fe4 > branch: 3.3 > parent: 79701:d4ab5859721e > parent: 79690:0cddf0bd19f8 It looks like this 3.3 check-in also reverted previous valid work. The following command shows the diff from the "mainline", which isn't visible in the e-mail contents below: hg diff -r 0cddf0bd19f8 -r de8787029fe4 It'… [View More]s hard for me to piece together exactly what happened, or else I would try to fix it myself. --Chris > user: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin(a)python.org> > date: Fri Oct 12 12:05:01 2012 -0400 > summary: > merge heads > > files: > Doc/howto/unicode.rst | 2 +- > Doc/library/exceptions.rst | 4 ++-- > Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 8 ++++---- > Doc/library/string.rst | 2 +- > Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst | 2 +- > Misc/NEWS | 2 ++ > 6 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > > diff --git a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst > --- a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst > +++ b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst > @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ > ---------- > > The ``str`` type is described in the Python library reference at > -:ref:`typesseq`. > +:ref:`textseq`. > > The documentation for the :mod:`unicodedata` module. > > diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst > --- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst > +++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst > @@ -275,8 +275,8 @@ > .. exception:: StopIteration > > Raised by built-in function :func:`next` and an :term:`iterator`\'s > - :meth:`__next__` method to signal that there are no further items to be > - produced by the iterator. > + :meth:`~iterator.__next__` method to signal that there are no further > + items produced by the iterator. > > The exception object has a single attribute :attr:`value`, which is > given as an argument when constructing the exception, and defaults > diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst > --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst > +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst > @@ -1358,8 +1358,8 @@ > object: io.StringIO > > > -Textual data in Python is handled with :class:`str` objects, which are > -immutable sequences of Unicode code points. String literals are > +Textual data in Python is handled with ``str`` objects, which are immutable > +:ref:`sequences <typesseq>` of Unicode code points. String literals are > written in a variety of ways: > > * Single quotes: ``'allows embedded "double" quotes'`` > @@ -1377,8 +1377,8 @@ > including supported escape sequences, and the ``r`` ("raw") prefix that > disables most escape sequence processing. > > -Strings may also be created from other objects with the :ref:`str <func-str>` > -built-in. > +Strings may also be created from other objects with the built-in > +function :func:`str`. > > Since there is no separate "character" type, indexing a string produces > strings of length 1. That is, for a non-empty string *s*, ``s[0] == s[0:1]``. > diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst > --- a/Doc/library/string.rst > +++ b/Doc/library/string.rst > @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ > > .. seealso:: > > - :ref:`typesseq` > + :ref:`textseq` > > :ref:`string-methods` > > diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst > --- a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst > +++ b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst > @@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ > > .. seealso:: > > - :ref:`typesseq` > + :ref:`textseq` > Strings are examples of *sequence types*, and support the common > operations supported by such types. > > diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS > --- a/Misc/NEWS > +++ b/Misc/NEWS > @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ > Library > ------- > > +- Issue #16176: Properly identify Windows 8 via platform.platform() > + > - Issue #16114: The subprocess module no longer provides a misleading error > message stating that args[0] did not exist when either the cwd or executable > keyword arguments specified a path that did not exist. > > -- > Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython > > _______________________________________________ > Python-checkins mailing list > Python-checkins(a)python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-checkins > [View Less]

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Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (merge 3.3 -> default): merge 3.3
by Chris Jerdonek Oct. 13, 2012

Oct. 13, 2012

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:05 AM, benjamin.peterson <python-checkins(a)python.org> wrote: > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6e721c72683f > changeset: 79703:6e721c72683f > parent: 79700:d3d4737fa093 > parent: 79702:de8787029fe4 > user: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin(a)python.org> > date: Fri Oct 12 12:05:09 2012 -0400 > summary: > merge 3.3 It looks like this check-in reverted previous valid work. --Chris > > files: > Doc/… [View More]howto/functional.rst | 5 ++--- > Doc/library/functions.rst | 25 +++++++++---------------- > 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) > > > diff --git a/Doc/howto/functional.rst b/Doc/howto/functional.rst > --- a/Doc/howto/functional.rst > +++ b/Doc/howto/functional.rst > @@ -292,14 +292,13 @@ > Applying :func:`iter` to a dictionary always loops over the keys, but > dictionaries have methods that return other iterators. If you want to iterate > over values or key/value pairs, you can explicitly call the > -:meth:`~dict.values` or :meth:`~dict.items` methods to get an appropriate > -iterator. > +:meth:`~dict.values` or :meth:`~dict.items` methods to get an appropriate iterator. > > The :func:`dict` constructor can accept an iterator that returns a finite stream > of ``(key, value)`` tuples: > > >>> L = [('Italy', 'Rome'), ('France', 'Paris'), ('US', 'Washington DC')] > - >>> dict(iter(L)) #doctest: +SKIP > + >>> dict(iter(L)) > {'Italy': 'Rome', 'US': 'Washington DC', 'France': 'Paris'} > > Files also support iteration by calling the :meth:`~io.TextIOBase.readline` > diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst > --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst > +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst > @@ -122,8 +122,6 @@ > > Without an argument, an array of size 0 is created. > > - See also :ref:`binaryseq` and :ref:`typebytearray`. > - > > .. _func-bytes: > .. function:: bytes([source[, encoding[, errors]]]) > @@ -137,8 +135,6 @@ > > Bytes objects can also be created with literals, see :ref:`strings`. > > - See also :ref:`binaryseq`, :ref:`typebytes`, and :ref:`bytes-methods`. > - > > .. function:: callable(object) > > @@ -692,8 +688,6 @@ > *sentinel*, :exc:`StopIteration` will be raised, otherwise the value will > be returned. > > - See also :ref:`typeiter`. > - > One useful application of the second form of :func:`iter` is to read lines of > a file until a certain line is reached. The following example reads a file > until the :meth:`readline` method returns an empty string:: > @@ -714,7 +708,7 @@ > :noindex: > > Rather than being a function, :class:`list` is actually a mutable > - sequence type, as documented in :ref:`typesseq-list` and :ref:`typesseq`. > + sequence type, as documented in :ref:`typesseq`. > > > .. function:: locals() > @@ -1088,7 +1082,7 @@ > :noindex: > > Rather than being a function, :class:`range` is actually an immutable > - sequence type, as documented in :ref:`typesseq-range` and :ref:`typesseq`. > + sequence type, as documented in :ref:`typesseq`. > > > .. function:: repr(object) > @@ -1213,8 +1207,7 @@ > .. function:: str(object='') > str(object[, encoding[, errors]]) > > - Return a :ref:`string <textseq>` version of an object, using one of the > - following modes: > + Return a string version of an object, using one of the following modes: > > If *encoding* and/or *errors* are given, :func:`str` will decode the > *object* which can either be a byte string or a character buffer using > @@ -1237,9 +1230,11 @@ > Objects can specify what ``str(object)`` returns by defining a :meth:`__str__` > special method. > > - For more information on strings and string methods, see the :ref:`textseq` > - section. To output formatted strings, see the :ref:`string-formatting` > - section. In addition, see the :ref:`stringservices` section. > + For more information on strings see :ref:`typesseq` which describes sequence > + functionality (strings are sequences), and also the string-specific methods > + described in the :ref:`string-methods` section. To output formatted strings, > + see the :ref:`string-formatting` section. In addition see the > + :ref:`stringservices` section. > > > .. function:: sum(iterable[, start]) > @@ -1316,7 +1311,7 @@ > :noindex: > > Rather than being a function, :class:`tuple` is actually an immutable > - sequence type, as documented in :ref:`typesseq-tuple` and :ref:`typesseq`. > + sequence type, as documented in :ref:`typesseq`. > > > .. function:: type(object) > @@ -1349,8 +1344,6 @@ > ... > >>> X = type('X', (object,), dict(a=1)) > > - See also :ref:`bltin-type-objects`. > - > > .. function:: vars([object]) > > > -- > Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython > > _______________________________________________ > Python-checkins mailing list > Python-checkins(a)python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-checkins > [View Less]

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Summary of Python tracker Issues
by Python tracker Oct. 12, 2012

Oct. 12, 2012

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2012-10-05 - 2012-10-12) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue. Do NOT respond to this message. Issues counts and deltas: open 3789 (+19) closed 24201 (+52) total 27990 (+71) Open issues with patches: 1694 Issues opened (47) ================== #8489: Support UTF8SMTP as part of RFC 5336 in smptlib http://bugs.python.org/issue8489 reopened by r.david.murray #14700: Integer overflow … [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (merge 3.2 -> default): Merge 3.2
by Chris Jerdonek Oct. 11, 2012

Oct. 11, 2012

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:13 PM, brian.curtin <python-checkins(a)python.org> wrote: > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2802b26c64a9 > changeset: 79670:2802b26c64a9 > parent: 79667:c3c188a0325a > parent: 79668:8245333db1e5 > user: Brian Curtin <brian(a)python.org> > date: Thu Oct 11 16:12:47 2012 -0500 > summary: > Merge 3.2 FYI, it looks like a merge from 3.3 to default is missing from this set of changes. --Chris > > … [View More]

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