Could someone submit this to the sf-bug tracker, please?(Was: Re: __imul__ broken for 'objects' in 2.2.1)

[Alexander Schmolck]

Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> writes:

> Hmm.  You should file a bug on sf so this doesn't get forgotten
> (unless it's already been reported, but I don't think so).

Well yes, but then I *can't* which is why I've posted the previous
message. Could someone else please submit this bug to the sourceforge
bug-tracker? I tried again today, but logging in from the submission form has
no effect, I'm back to the same form that tells me to "please log-in" *after*
I have completed the log-in step (if I submit the wrong password, however I do
get an error message). I've tried 3 different browsers (mozilla .94, konqueror
and netscape 4.7) -- to no avail. Now helpfuly, just giving my email address
instead of logging in doesn't work either, because anonymous bug reports
aren't permitted.

If my problems don't reflect the weirdness of the proxy I'm forced to use, I'd
really suggest that either the decision not to allow anonymous bug reports
should be reviewed again.

alex


> Alexander Schmolck <a.schmolck at gmx.net> writes:
> 
> > OK, after unsuccessfully trying for about half an hour to submit this to the
> > sf bug tracker, I gave up:
> > 
> > class Breaky(object):
> >     def __imul__(self, other):
> >         print "imuling"
> >         return self
> > sq = Breaky()
> > sq *=1.
> > 
> > gives:
> > 
> > Traceback (most recent call last):[...] line 10, in ?
> >     sq *=1.
> > TypeError: can't multiply sequence to non-int
> > 
> > Unless I'm overlooking something, this is a fairly serious bug and I
> > can't see a way to work around it (getattribute would presumably
> > work, but slow everything down unacceptably, so the only 'solution'
> > seems to be to have no inplace-multiplication).
> > 
> > I had the same behavior on two different machines (running Mandrake 8.2 and
> > Suse 7.3).
> 
> Hmm.  You should file a bug on sf so this doesn't get forgotten
> (unless it's already been reported, but I don't think so).
> 
> Cheers,
> M.

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                       University of Exeter
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