Opened 14 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#15867 closed New feature (wontfix)

Document which Python versions show subtle QuerySet bugs

Reported by: Jacob Owned by: nobody
Component: Documentation Version: 1.3
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: yes
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

​http://bugs.python.org/issue1242657 continually bites users of Django: see #14766, #2705, #13204, #7786. Also see ​http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/cf2b76a9b69f794c/ac09404089bfd185.

The basic problem is that certain versions of Python swallow exceptions in __len__, causing various weird QuerySet behaviors. We've mostly worked around these in the test suite by skipping tests on particular Python versions, but this doesn't help users who see weird stuff on their side.

We need to add some sort of "Python version notes" document (similar to the ​database notes) that document this problem (and another others we know of). We should probably also add a link to the install notes to pre-warn people on OSX -- one of the affected versions is the Python that ships with 10.6.

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Jacob, 13 years ago

milestone: 1.4

Milestone 1.4 deleted

comment:2 by Aymeric Augustin, 13 years ago

UI/UX: unset

Change UI/UX from NULL to False.

comment:3 by Aymeric Augustin, 13 years ago

Easy pickings: unset

Change Easy pickings from NULL to False.

comment:4 by Tim Graham, 11 years ago

Resolution: → wontfix
Status: new → closed

Closing given the lack of activity here and the fact that this was an issue on Python 2.6 which won't be supported in Django 1.7.

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