Bug reporting impossible

[Georg Brandl]

Nick Maclaren wrote:
> Currently logins are disabled to sourceforge.net, and (despite the
> comments) it won't let me report a bug anonymously.  Does anyone
> know whether this is short or long term?  I have a bug in 2.5 to
> report - which has been there for a while and isn't overwhelmingly
> critical and has been there for a while.
> 
> Create a file called '<stdin>' in your current directory containing
> 'print "Oh, yeah?\n"' and then import a module that doesn't exist.
> Don't include the single quotes.

You should have said what the bug is.
To save others reproducing this: you get a traceback akin to

$ python
Python 2.4.3 (#1, May  8 2006, 18:29:03)
[GCC 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import xyzzy
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
    print "Oh, yeah?\n"
ImportError: No module named xyzzy
>>>

The problem is that Python does not know whether a file name is bogus
or an actual file. So it was assumed that names like "<stdin>" or "<string>"
are safe enough to use them as subsitutes.

I don't know whether this is worth fixing.

Geor