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Title: Second run of 2to3 continues to modify output
Type: behavior Stage: resolved
Components: 2to3 (2.x to 3.x conversion tool) Versions: Python 3.7
process
Status: closed Resolution: not a bug
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: Nosy List: benjamin.peterson, bers, p-ganssle, xtreak
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2019-02-26 11:51 by bers, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (4)
msg336653 - (view) Author: bers (bers) Date: 2019-02-26 11:51
I did this on Windows 10:

P:\>python --version
Python 3.7.2

P:\>echo print 1, 2 > Test.py

P:\>python Test.py
  File "Test.py", line 1
    print 1, 2
          ^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(1, 2)?

P:\>2to3 -w Test.py
RefactoringTool: Skipping optional fixer: buffer
RefactoringTool: Skipping optional fixer: idioms
RefactoringTool: Skipping optional fixer: set_literal
RefactoringTool: Skipping optional fixer: ws_comma
RefactoringTool: Refactored Test.py
--- Test.py     (original)
+++ Test.py     (refactored)
@@ -1 +1 @@
-print 1, 2
+print(1, 2)
RefactoringTool: Files that were modified:
RefactoringTool: Test.py

P:\>python Test.py
1 2

P:\>2to3 -w Test.py
RefactoringTool: Skipping optional fixer: buffer
RefactoringTool: Skipping optional fixer: idioms
RefactoringTool: Skipping optional fixer: set_literal
RefactoringTool: Skipping optional fixer: ws_comma
RefactoringTool: Refactored Test.py
--- Test.py     (original)
+++ Test.py     (refactored)
@@ -1 +1 @@
-print(1, 2)
+print((1, 2))
RefactoringTool: Files that were modified:
RefactoringTool: Test.py

P:\>python Test.py
(1, 2)

Note how "print 1, 2" first becomes "print(1, 2)" (expected), then becomes "print((1, 2))" in the following run. This changes the output of Test.py
msg336655 - (view) Author: Karthikeyan Singaravelan (xtreak) * (Python committer) Date: 2019-02-26 12:00
This seems to be same as issue35417 and some resolution on detecting these type of cases at issue10375.
msg336673 - (view) Author: Paul Ganssle (p-ganssle) * (Python committer) Date: 2019-02-26 14:14
Because what's being printed is a tuple, I think it's not exactly the same as issue35417, because in fact this is the correct behavior for 2to3, note that in Python 2:

Python 2.7.15 (default, Jul 21 2018, 11:13:03) 
>>> print 1, 2 
1 2
>>> print(1, 2)
(1, 2)

And in Python 3:

Python 3.7.2 (default, Feb  9 2019, 13:18:43) 
>>> print(1, 2)
1 2
>>> print((1, 2))
(1, 2)

I think this bug report is based on an understandable misunderstanding of what 2to3 does - 2to3 is not intended to be idempotent or to generate code the works for both Python 2 and Python 3, it's intended to translate Python 2 code into Python 3, so passing it something that is *already Python 3 code* you are not guaranteed to get a meaningful output from it.

In this case, it first translates `print 1, 2` (Python 2) into `print(1, 2)` (Python 3), then when you run it a second time, it translates `print(1, 2)` (Python 2) into `print((1, 2))` (Python 3) - in both cases it's doing the right thing.

@bers I hope that this has helped to clarify the situation. Thank you for taking the time to report this.
msg336675 - (view) Author: bers (bers) Date: 2019-02-26 14:21
Yes, understood! Thanks for the explanation.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:59:11adminsetgithub: 80303
2019-03-01 03:29:25terry.reedysettype: enhancement -> behavior
resolution: not a bug
2019-02-26 14:21:39berssetstatus: open -> closed

messages: + msg336675
stage: resolved
2019-02-26 14:14:16p-gansslesetnosy: + p-ganssle
messages: + msg336673
2019-02-26 12:00:21xtreaksetnosy: + benjamin.peterson, xtreak
messages: + msg336655
2019-02-26 11:51:13berscreate