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ACTIVITY SUMMARY (08/14/09 - 08/21/09)
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2353 open (+40) / 16226 closed (+15) / 18579 total (+55)

Open issues with patches: 928

Average duration of open issues: 656 days.
Median duration of open issues: 411 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
open 2322 (+40)
pending 30 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (57)
_______________________________

Allow buffering for HTTPResponse 08/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4879 reopened r.david.murray
patch, patch

Py3.1 hangs in coroutine and eats up all memory 08/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6673 reopened scoder
64bit

cross platform failure and silly test in doctest 08/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6703 created cjw296


better col_offset for AST in statements like "for a,b in ..." 08/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6704 created fwierzbicki
patch

'''3,5'''.strip(r''',''') does not strip comma, returns '3,5' 08/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6705 created mgruen


asyncore's accept() is broken 08/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6706 created giampaolo.rodola


dir() on __new__'d module w/o dict crashes 2.6.2 08/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6707 created DinoV


raw_input() calls generate compile errors. 08/15/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6708 created starz


It's possible to create TryExcept with no handlers 08/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6709 created benjamin.peterson


hotshot stats load causes TypeError when multiple files are load 08/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6710 created j1m


macurl2path has typos that raise AttributeError 08/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6711 created joe.amenta
patch

sys._getframe is not available on all Python implementations 08/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6712 created johannes.janssen


Integer & Long types: Performance improvement of 1.6x to 2x for 08/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6713 created gawain


memmove fails with unicode strings 08/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6714 created verigak


xz compressor support 08/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6715 created devurandom


Windows install error when choosing to compile .py files 08/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6716 created pds


Some problem with recursion handling 08/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6717 created gregorlingl


ValueError in 21.17.4.2. SocketServer.UDPServer Example 08/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6718 created ericpope


pdb messes up when debugging an non-ascii program 08/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6719 created smu


multiprocessing logging 08/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6720 created benliles


Locks in python standard library should be sanitized on fork 08/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6721 created gregory.p.smith


collections.namedtuple: confusing example 08/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6722 created ash


csv.writer: example does not work 08/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6723 created nicolasg


r74463 causes failures in test_xmlrpc 08/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6724 created r.david.murray


Inconsistency in Documentation: "Name Spaces" vs "Namespaces" 08/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6725 created CarGuy37


pyuic4.bat has bad path to python.exe and pyuic.py 08/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6726 created maar


ImportError when package is symlinked on Windows 08/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6727 created jaraco


To avoid hang up in using CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler under IIS 7.x 08/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6728 created sjtuer


Add support for ssize_t 08/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6729 created Nikratio


dict.fromkeys() should not cross reference mutable value by defa 08/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6730 created maxlem


Add option of non-zero exit status of setup.py when building of 08/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6731 created Arfrever
patch

PyInit_shoddy() in shoddy.c does not return anything on success 08/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6732 created kajiyama


curses line wrap broken when mixing full- and half-width unicode 08/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6733 created fugounashi


Imap lib implicit conversion from bytes to string 08/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6734 created surprising42
patch

restype pointer to Structure subclass never initialized 08/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6735 created dontbugme


File handling in Python 08/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6736 created SallaS07


PEP 372 odict.__eq__ behaves incorrectly 08/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6737 created cegner


Wrong doc strings in itertools 08/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6738 created hagen
patch

IDLE window won't start or show up after assgining new key in op 08/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6739 created CaribbeanCruise
patch

Compounded expressions with lambda functions are evaluated incor 08/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6740 created mvyskocil


Garbage collector release method 08/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6741 created gardster


Embedding python into shared library crash on AIX 08/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6742 created damahay123


pprint.pprint should support no objects to print blank lines & a 08/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6743 created marystern


calling kevent repr raises a TypeError 08/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6744 created jesstess
patch

(curses) addstr() takes str in Python 3 08/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6745 created Trundle


ValueError raised by IDLE during tooltip open on 64-bit Centos 5 08/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6746 created srid


test test_multiprocessing failed 08/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6747 created LinuxDonald


test test_telnetlib failed 08/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6748 created LinuxDonald


Support for encrypted zipfiles when interpreting zipfile as scri 08/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6749 created manis


threading issue in __builtins__.print 08/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6750 created nullnil
patch, needs review

Default return value in ConfigParser 08/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6751 created jjdominguezm


-1**2=-1 08/21/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6752 created rahul1618


Python 3.1.1 test_cmd_line fails on Fedora 11 08/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6753 created Pif


Non-existent member 'nb_inplace_divide' in PyNumberMethods 08/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6754 created kajiyama


Patch: new method get_wch for ncurses bindings: accept wide char 08/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6755 created inigoserna
patch

ftplib documentation does not document what the acct parameter i 08/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6756 created tarjei


Marshal's documentation incomplete (Bools) 08/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6757 created serprex




Issues Now Closed (38)
______________________

Allow buffering for HTTPResponse 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4879 r.david.murray
patch, patch

Unable to launch IDLE on Windows 151 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5528 srid


Missing labelside option for Tix option menu (fix included) 103 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5961 gpolo


Fix O(n**2) performance problem in socket._fileobject 81 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6117 gregory.p.smith
patch, patch, easy, needs review

Support for tcl 8.6 69 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6244 gpolo
patch

Bug in hashlib 64 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6281 gregory.p.smith


multiline exception logging via syslog handler 43 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6444 vsajip


IDLE with Tk-Cocoa: Edit, format menus hang 37 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6463 wordtech


"HOME" is not a standard environment variable on Windows 29 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6556 tarek


urllib.urlopen creates bad requests when location header of 301 23 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6557 orsenthil


test_pickle fails on AIX -- 6.9999999999999994e-308 != 6.9999999 10 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6646 marketdickinson


codecs documentation does not mention surrogateescape 13 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6648 ash


logging config - using of FileHandler's delay argument? 14 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6667 vsajip


CGI module documentation references method 'toupper'; should be 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6685 r.david.murray


New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths 8 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6693 tarek
patch

better col_offset for AST in statements like "for a,b in ..." 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6704 benjamin.peterson
patch

'''3,5'''.strip(r''',''') does not strip comma, returns '3,5' 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6705 eric.smith


dir() on __new__'d module w/o dict crashes 2.6.2 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6707 benjamin.peterson


raw_input() calls generate compile errors. 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6708 benjamin.peterson


macurl2path has typos that raise AttributeError 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6711 orsenthil
patch

memmove fails with unicode strings 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6714 eric.smith


csv.writer: example does not work 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6723 skip.montanaro


pyuic4.bat has bad path to python.exe and pyuic.py 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6726 benjamin.peterson


dict.fromkeys() should not cross reference mutable value by defa 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6730 r.david.murray


restype pointer to Structure subclass never initialized 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6735 theller


File handling in Python 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6736 amaury.forgeotdarc


PEP 372 odict.__eq__ behaves incorrectly 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6737 rhettinger


Compounded expressions with lambda functions are evaluated incor 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6740 eric.smith


ValueError raised by IDLE during tooltip open on 64-bit Centos 5 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6746 gpolo


-1**2=-1 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6752 amaury.forgeotdarc


ScrolledText allows Frame.bbox to hide Text.bbox 1651 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1119673 gpolo
patch

Tix: PanedWindow.panes nonfunctional 1477 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1250469 gpolo
patch

Tix CheckList 'radio' option cannot be changed 1465 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1259434 gpolo
patch

Tix.py class HList missing info_bbox, info_dragsite and info_dro 1373 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1356969 gpolo
patch, easy

urllib.FancyURLopener.redirect_internal looses data on POST! 1293 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1424148 orsenthil
easy

Tix.Grid patch 1131 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1522587 gpolo
patch

Fix numerous bugs in unittest 1084 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1550273 jonozzz
patch

functools.compose to chain functions together 912 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1660179 rhettinger
patch



Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________

17 Add option of non-zero exit status of setup.py when building of 3 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6731

15 PyXXX_ClearFreeList for dict, set, and list 8 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6695

7 Imap lib implicit conversion from bytes to string 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6734

7 sys._getframe is not available on all Python implementations 5 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6712

7 Python 3.1 segfaults when invalid UTF-8 characters are passed f 8 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6697

7 c_char_p return value returns string, not bytes 74 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6239

7 Conversion of longs to bytes and vice-versa. 1810 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue1023290

6 httplib read() very slow due to lack of socket buffer 501 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue2576

6 urllib.FancyURLopener.redirect_internal looses data on POST! 1293 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1424148

5 fnmatch fails on filenames containing \n character 14 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6665

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (08/21/09 - 08/28/09)
Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/

To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue
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2370 open (+23) / 16247 closed (+15) / 18617 total (+38)

Open issues with patches: 935

Average duration of open issues: 657 days.
Median duration of open issues: 410 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
open 2339 (+23)
pending 30 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (39)
_______________________________

add conversion table to time module docs 08/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5365 reopened cvrebert


implement new setuid-related calls and a standard way to drop al 08/21/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6758 created solinym


zipfile.ZipExtFile.read() is missing universal newline support 08/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6759 created ryles
patch

patch to subprocess docs to better explain Popen's 'args' argume 08/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6760 created cvrebert
patch

Class calling 08/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6761 created onlyme


strange string representation of xrange in print 08/22/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6762 created mintaka


Crash on mac os x leopard in mimetypes.guess_type (or PyObject_M 08/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6763 created santagada


os.path.join should call os.path.normpath on result 08/22/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6764 created michael.foord
easy

math.log, log10 inconsistency 08/23/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6765 created steve21


Cannot modify dictionaries inside dictionaries using Managers fr 08/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6766 created carlosdf


Python as zip package 08/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6767 created Joe


asyncore file_wrapper leaking file descriptors? 08/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6768 created keysers


in xmlrpclib.py: NameError: global name 'HTTPSConnection' is not 08/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6769 created ivank


PDF download links of docs for 3.1.1 are broken 08/24/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6770 created Radiant


documentation/implementation error 08/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6771 created steve21


Missing alias utf-8 in Standard Encodings list. 08/24/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6772 created mintaka


subprocess issue on Win 7 x64 08/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6773 created tesla


socket.shudown documentation: on some platforms, closing one hal 08/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6774 created nicdumz
patch

readme: correct python.org/community/lists url 08/24/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6775 created nicdumz
patch

A few tests are failing when zlib is not supported 08/24/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6776 created nicdumz


Python 2.6 tutorial still recommends using Exception.message att 08/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6777 created cito


False positives given through bisect module (binary search) 08/24/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6778 created kaashif


NotImplementedError on for statement 08/24/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6779 created sbq


startswith error message is incomplete 08/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6780 created srid


even exponentiation of negative numbers 08/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6781 created benlbroussard


Scoping of variables in closures 08/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6782 created bitfort


Add a builtin method to 'int' for base/radix conversion 08/25/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6783 created ubershmekel


byte/unicode pickle incompatibilities between python2 and python 08/26/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6784 created RonnyPfannschmidt


IncompleteRead / BadStatus when parsing http://peakoil.mobi 08/26/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6785 created kmoon


readline and zero based indexing 08/26/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6786 created purpleidea


thread docs contain an incorrect link in a reference to the 'exi 08/27/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6787 created r.david.murray


codecs.open on Win32 does not force binary mode 08/27/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6788 created EnigmaCurry


ftplib storelines does not honor strings returned in fp.readline 08/27/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6789 created aymanhs


httplib and array do not play together well 08/27/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6790 created jakemcguire
easy

httplib read status memory usage 08/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6791 created m.sucajtys
patch

Distutils-based installer does not detect 64bit versions of Pyth 08/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6792 created erluk


decimal.py: div_nearest ==> _div_nearest 08/28/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6793 created skrah
26backport

decimal.py: incorrect results in NaN comparisons 08/28/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6794 created skrah


decimal.py: minor issues && usability 08/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6795 created skrah




Issues Now Closed (26)
______________________

Extension module build fails for MinGW: missing vcvarsall.bat 483 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2698 hagen


Allow buffering for HTTPResponse 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4879 gregory.p.smith
patch, patch

let unittest.assertRaises() return the exception object caught 75 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6275 michael.foord
patch, patch, easy, needs review

Add "path" to the xmrlpc dispatcher method 22 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6654 krisvale


buffer c-api: memoryview object documentation 20 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6659 benjamin.peterson


Desire python.org documentation link to user contribution wiki ( 18 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6660 keenethery


Place the term "delete" within the documentation for os.remove() 14 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6677 mcow


ValueError in 21.17.4.2. SocketServer.UDPServer Example 7 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6718 georg.brandl


Inconsistency in Documentation: "Name Spaces" vs "Namespaces" 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6725 georg.brandl


dict.fromkeys() should not cross reference mutable value by defa 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6730 georg.brandl


implement new setuid-related calls and a standard way to drop al 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6758 exarkun


strange string representation of xrange in print 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6762 rhettinger


os.path.join should call os.path.normpath on result 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6764 michael.foord
easy

math.log, log10 inconsistency 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6765 tim_one


PDF download links of docs for 3.1.1 are broken 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6770 benjamin.peterson


Missing alias utf-8 in Standard Encodings list. 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6772 georg.brandl


readme: correct python.org/community/lists url 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6775 georg.brandl
patch

A few tests are failing when zlib is not supported 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6776 ezio.melotti


False positives given through bisect module (binary search) 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6778 r.david.murray


NotImplementedError on for statement 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6779 r.david.murray


even exponentiation of negative numbers 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6781 marketdickinson


Scoping of variables in closures 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6782 benjamin.peterson


thread docs contain an incorrect link in a reference to the 'exi 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6787 georg.brandl


decimal.py: div_nearest ==> _div_nearest 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6793 marketdickinson
26backport

decimal.py: incorrect results in NaN comparisons 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6794 marketdickinson


Wide-character curses 2357 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue700921 gpolo




Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________

9 byte/unicode pickle incompatibilities between python2 and pytho 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6784

9 zipfile.ZipExtFile.read() is missing universal newline support 6 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6759

9 implement new setuid-related calls and a standard way to drop a 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6758

7 Patch: new method get_wch for ncurses bindings: accept wide cha 7 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6755

6 Support for encrypted zipfiles when interpreting zipfile as scr 7 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6749

6 (curses) addstr() takes str in Python 3 8 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6745

5 expose setresuid 42 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6508

4 Add a builtin method to 'int' for base/radix conversion 3 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6783

4 Python as zip package 5 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6767

4 math.log, log10 inconsistency 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6765

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (08/28/09 - 09/04/09)
Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/

To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue
number. Do NOT respond to this message.


2374 open (+24) / 16285 closed (+18) / 18659 total (+42)

Open issues with patches: 939

Average duration of open issues: 661 days.
Median duration of open issues: 415 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
open 2341 (+23)
pending 32 ( +1)

Issues Created Or Reopened (45)
_______________________________

Multiple buffer overflows in unicode processing 09/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue2620 reopened brett.cannon
patch

os.getpwent returns unsigned 32bit value, os.setuid refuses it 09/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5705 reopened brett.cannon
patch, 64bit

math.log, log10 inconsistency 08/28/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6765 reopened tjreedy


invalid print in tkinter\test\test_ttk\test_widgets.py 08/28/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6796 created keithc


When Beginning Expression with Lookahead Assertion I get no Matc 08/28/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6797 created jwindle


Argument for sys.settrace() callbacks documented incorrectly 08/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6798 created robert.kern


mimetypes does not give cannonical extension for guess_extension 08/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6799 created ptarjan


os.exec* raises "OSError: [Errno 45] Operation not supported" in 08/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6800 created rnk


symmetric_difference_update documentation fix 08/30/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6801 reopened r.david.murray


build fails on Snow Leopard 08/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6802 created jmr
patch

Context manager docs refer to contextlib.contextmanager as conte 08/29/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6803 created dhaffey
patch

IDLE: Detect Python files even if name doesn't end in .py 08/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6804 created gagenellina
patch

Should be URL for documentation of current release of Python 3 ( 08/30/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6805 created MLModel


test_platform fails under Snow Leopard 08/30/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6806 created brett.cannon
easy

No such file or directory: 'msisupport.dll' in msi.py 08/30/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6807 created pds


python 3.1 documentation tutorial classes 08/30/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6808 created tom_morse


Python string.lstrip bug? 08/31/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6809 created mushywushy


add link to the documentation of signal.signal 08/31/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6810 created Yinon


add a filename argument to marshal.load* 08/31/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6811 created brett.cannon


Snow Leopard python program fails because _PyType_Modified is mi 08/31/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6812 created soshea


update format() documentation and tutorial 09/01/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6813 created grooverdan
patch

xrange removal from documentation 09/01/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6814 created grooverdan
patch

UnicodeDecodeError in os.path.expandvars 09/01/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6815 created shura_zam


Provide CPython command line functionality via runpy module 09/01/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6816 created ncoghlan


char buffer in function posix_getcwdu should not be fix length 09/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6817 created boya
patch

remove/delete method for zipfile/tarfile objects 09/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6818 created rossmclendon


Typo in datamodel.rst ("Custon" -> "Custom") 09/02/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6819 created jon
patch

Redefinition of HAVE_STRFTIME can cause compiler errors. 09/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6820 created rgpitts


incorrect doc for PyBuffer_Release 09/02/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6821 created egreen


Error calling .storlines from ftplib 09/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6822 created rdevaughn


time.strftime does unnecessary range check 09/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6823 created rshapiro
easy

help for a module should list supported platforms 09/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6824 created rickysarraf


Minor documentation bug with os.path.split 09/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6825 created evaned


Add __contains__ to range type 09/02/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6826 created hpesoj


deepcopy erroneously doesn't call __setstate__ if __getstate__ r 09/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6827 created shauncutts


wrongly highlighted blocks in the Tutorial 09/03/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6828 created gagenellina
patch

Frendly error message when inheriting from function 09/04/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6829 reopened techtonik
easy

Some uniformness in defaultdict 09/03/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6830 created t-kamiya


2to3 assignment division conversion 09/03/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6831 created highfestiva


Outputting unicode crushes when printing to file on Linux 09/03/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6832 created Orlowski


incorrect: failed local variable referenced before assignment 09/03/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6833 created paultjuhatwork


use different mechanism for pythonw on osx 09/03/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6834 created ronaldoussoren
easy

doctest problem with decorated function when decorator is define 09/03/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6835 created goetzpf


Mismatching use of memory APIs 09/04/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6836 created krisvale
patch

Mark the compiler package as deprecated 09/04/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6837 created exarkun




Issues Now Closed (45)
______________________

poss. patch for fnmatch.py to add {.htm,html} style globbing 505 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2649 georg.brandl


webbrowser.py doesn't properly handle BROWSER env var 500 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2666 georg.brandl
patch

os.getcwd fails for long path names on linux 490 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2722 boya
patch, easy

bytearrays are not thread safe 440 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3139 loewis
patch

math.log(x, 10) gives different result than math.log10(x) 368 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3724 tjreedy
patch

library.pdf - Section 12.13.2 Connection Objects - example cut o 316 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4160 ezio.melotti


Remove Monterey support from configure.in 222 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5047 georg.brandl
patch

compiler.parse raises SyntaxErrors without line number informati 221 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5064 georg.brandl


test_funcattrs truncated during unittest conversion 218 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5101 georg.brandl


help related topic doesn't exist 204 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5221 georg.brandl
easy

BaseCookie.load doesn't create Morsel objects for mappings 200 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5275 georg.brandl


add conversion table to time module docs 13 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5365 georg.brandl


tarfile normalizes arcname 102 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6054 lars.gustaebel


should we include argparse 81 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6247 r.david.murray


Added Misc/python.pc to 'distclean' Rule 75 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6297 marketdickinson
patch

inserting None into sys.modules does not raise ImportError with 36 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6563 brett.cannon


No update about automatic numbering of fields in format strings 38 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6579 eric.smith


test_telnetlib doesn't test Telnet.write 39 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6582 rwanderley
patch, easy

optparse parse_args argument references wrong 28 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6638 georg.brandl


PyInit_shoddy() in shoddy.c does not return anything on success 13 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6732 georg.brandl


threading issue in __builtins__.print 9 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6750 amaury.forgeotdarc
patch, needs review

Non-existent member 'nb_inplace_divide' in PyNumberMethods 11 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6754 georg.brandl


ftplib documentation does not document what the acct parameter i 14 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6756 georg.brandl


Marshal's documentation incomplete (Bools) 13 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6757 georg.brandl


math.log, log10 inconsistency 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6765 georg.brandl


Python 2.6 tutorial still recommends using Exception.message att 11 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6777 georg.brandl


invalid print in tkinter\test\test_ttk\test_widgets.py 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6796 keithc


When Beginning Expression with Lookahead Assertion I get no Matc 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6797 marketdickinson


symmetric_difference_update documentation fix 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6801 georg.brandl


Context manager docs refer to contextlib.contextmanager as conte 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6803 georg.brandl
patch

Should be URL for documentation of current release of Python 3 ( 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6805 georg.brandl


test_platform fails under Snow Leopard 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6806 brett.cannon
easy

python 3.1 documentation tutorial classes 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6808 georg.brandl


Python string.lstrip bug? 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6809 marketdickinson


add link to the documentation of signal.signal 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6810 georg.brandl


update format() documentation and tutorial 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6813 eric.smith
patch

xrange removal from documentation 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6814 georg.brandl
patch

Typo in datamodel.rst ("Custon" -> "Custom") 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6819 georg.brandl
patch

incorrect doc for PyBuffer_Release 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6821 georg.brandl


Add __contains__ to range type 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6826 marketdickinson


wrongly highlighted blocks in the Tutorial 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6828 georg.brandl
patch

Some uniformness in defaultdict 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6830 georg.brandl


Outputting unicode crushes when printing to file on Linux 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6832 Orlowski


incorrect: failed local variable referenced before assignment 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6833 marketdickinson


Deleted files are reinstalled 1900 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue977470 georg.brandl




Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________

15 build fails on Snow Leopard 6 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6802

8 Outputting unicode crushes when printing to file on Linux 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6832

6 remove/delete method for zipfile/tarfile objects 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6818

6 Support TLS SNI extension in ssl module 156 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue5639

6 improve xrange.__contains__ 764 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue1766304

5 symmetric_difference_update documentation fix 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6801

4 help for a module should list supported platforms 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6824

4 bytearrays are not thread safe 440 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3139

4 Add os.link() and os.symlink() and os.path.islink() support for 1054 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue1578269

3 attribute error after non-from import 1876 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue992389

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (09/04/09 - 09/11/09)
Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/

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2394 open (+32) / 16312 closed (+15) / 18706 total (+47)

Open issues with patches: 950

Average duration of open issues: 660 days.
Median duration of open issues: 416 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
open 2361 (+32)
pending 32 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (48)
_______________________________

should we include argparse 09/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6247 reopened michael.foord


httplib's _read_chunked extremely slow for lots of chunks 09/04/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6838 created cjw296
easy

zipfile can't extract file 09/04/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6839 created NewerCookie


genericpath: _splitext returns '.ext', '' instead of '', '.ext' 09/04/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6840 created optimix
patch

A typo in Doc/library/stdtypes.rst 09/05/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6841 created cheeselee
patch

program run in interpreter, fails at command line 09/05/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6842 created jvanpraag


No documentation for the module argument to warnings.filterwarni 09/05/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6843 reopened exarkun


BaseException DeprecationError raises inappropriately 09/05/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6844 created aisaac


Restart support in binary upload for ftplib 09/05/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6845 created pablomouzo
patch

bytearray.pop() returns negative ints 09/05/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6846 created hagen
patch

Exception strings for bytearray say "bytes" 09/05/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6847 created hagen
patch

curses module build failure (ncurses 5.7) 09/06/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6848 created marketdickinson


Tutorial changes 09/06/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6849 created michael.foord
easy

decimal.py: format_dict 09/06/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6850 created skrah


urllib.urlopen crashes in a thread on Snow Leopard 09/07/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6851 created jweber


Unicode IO not working in cgi applet 09/07/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6852 created loveminix


system proxy not used for https (on windows) 09/07/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6853 created ldeller
patch

UnicodeDecodeError when retrieving binary data from cgi.FieldSto 09/07/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6854 created loveminix


ihooks support for relative imports 09/07/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6855 created nascheme


allow setting uid and gid when creating tar files 09/07/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6856 created tarek
patch

float().__format__() default alignment 09/07/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6857 created skrah


This is a python file, apply syntax highlighting 09/07/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6858 created gert


stdint (eg. uint64_t) for ctypes 09/07/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6859 created haypo


Inconsistent naming of custom command in setup.py help output 09/08/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6860 created herzbube


bytearray.__new__ doesn't subclass 09/08/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6861 created kaizhu


exec(), locals() and local variable access 09/08/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6862 created ooev


Wrong linker command if CXX set to "ccache g++" 09/08/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6863 created perttikellomaki
patch

IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6 09/08/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6864 created dpogg1


Refcount error in pwd module 09/08/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6865 created caglar10ur
patch

TestLoader.loadTestsFromName does not use suiteClass attribute t 09/08/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6866 created MarkRoddy
patch

return value of epoll.register 09/09/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6867 created shaovie


Check errno of epoll_ctrl 09/09/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6868 created shaovie


Embedded python crashed on 4th run, if "ctypes" is used 09/09/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6869 created warlock


sybase module for python3.1 09/09/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6870 created pravinpchavan


decimal.py: more format issues 09/09/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6871 created skrah


Support system readline on OS X 10.6 09/09/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6872 created marketdickinson
patch

posix_lchown: possible overflow of uid, gid 09/09/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6873 created boya
patch

sequence method .count() and .index() shoud be in immutable seq 09/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6874 created s7v7nislands


add os.close() suggestion to mkstemp documentation 09/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6875 created vincele
patch

readline documentation example error 09/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6876 created schwarz


enable compilation of readline module on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 09/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6877 created zvezdan
patch

outdated docstring in tkinter.Canvas.coords 09/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6878 created SilentGhost


misstatement in example explanation using raise 09/11/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6879 created bluebloodpole


class needs forward reference 09/11/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6880 created bluebloodpole


incorrect signature in doc for PyByteArray_Resize 09/11/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6881 created egreen


uuid creates zombies 09/11/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6882 created dhg


OptionParser.allow_interspersed_args is undocumented 09/11/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6883 created skip.montanaro


Impossible to include file in sdist that starts with 'build' on 09/11/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6884 created cjw296




Issues Now Closed (32)
______________________

IDLE - configDialog - new layout for key config 659 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1457 amaury.forgeotdarc
patch

Cmd module doesn't support readline completion on OSX Leopard 492 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2740 ronaldoussoren


Cannot build _multiprocessing, math, mmap and readline of Python 320 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4204 zvezdan
patch

Mac DMG install missing version.plist required by bundlebuilder. 236 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4937 ronaldoussoren


PEP 372: OrderedDict 191 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5397 matthieu.labbe
patch

Darwin framework libpython3.0.a is not a normal static library 172 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5514 ronaldoussoren


[HP-UX] ld: Unrecognized argument: +s -L<dir> 100 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6163 tarek
patch

c_char_p return value returns string, not bytes 92 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6239 haypo
patch

Native (and default) tarfile support for setup.py sdist in distu 82 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6296 tarek


Build Applet.app 45 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6552 ronaldoussoren


decimal.py: minor issues && usability 11 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6795 marketdickinson


build fails on Snow Leopard 8 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6802 blb
patch

Mark the compiler package as deprecated 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6837 georg.brandl


httplib's _read_chunked extremely slow for lots of chunks 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6838 cjw296
easy

genericpath: _splitext returns '.ext', '' instead of '', '.ext' 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6840 benjamin.peterson
patch

A typo in Doc/library/stdtypes.rst 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6841 georg.brandl
patch

program run in interpreter, fails at command line 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6842 marketdickinson


No documentation for the module argument to warnings.filterwarni 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6843 georg.brandl


bytearray.pop() returns negative ints 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6846 marketdickinson
patch

Exception strings for bytearray say "bytes" 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6847 marketdickinson
patch

curses module build failure (ncurses 5.7) 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6848 marketdickinson


decimal.py: format_dict 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6850 marketdickinson


Unicode IO not working in cgi applet 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6852 marketdickinson


stdint (eg. uint64_t) for ctypes 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6859 haypo


bytearray.__new__ doesn't subclass 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6861 benjamin.peterson


exec(), locals() and local variable access 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6862 amaury.forgeotdarc


Refcount error in pwd module 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6865 benjamin.peterson
patch

sybase module for python3.1 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6870 loewis


Packaging without disturbing an existing installation 2314 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue734115 ronaldoussoren
patch

os.path.splitext don't handle unix hidden file correctly 1674 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1115886 optimix


size_t warnings on OSX 10.3 1246 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1467201 ronaldoussoren


Universal MacPython 2.5.1 installation fails 813 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1738250 ronaldoussoren




Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________

14 BaseException DeprecationError raises inappropriately 6 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6844

12 Integer & Long types: Performance improvement of 1.6x to 2x fo 26 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6713

9 build fails on Snow Leopard 8 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6802

9 [HP-UX] ld: Unrecognized argument: +s -L<dir> 100 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6163

7 Support system readline on OS X 10.6 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6872

6 posix_lchown: possible overflow of uid, gid 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6873

6 zipfile can't extract file 7 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6839

6 Mark the compiler package as deprecated 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6837

6 Add os.link() and os.symlink() and os.path.islink() support for 1061 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue1578269

5 decimal.py: more format issues 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6871

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (09/11/09 - 09/18/09)
Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/

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2396 open (+27) / 16366 closed (+29) / 18762 total (+56)

Open issues with patches: 953

Average duration of open issues: 664 days.
Median duration of open issues: 420 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
open 2363 (+27)
pending 32 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (56)
_______________________________

pdb documentation shows running as script using "python" not "py 09/11/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6885 created MLModel


cgi.py runs python, not python3 09/11/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6886 created MLModel


executables in lib use /usr/bin/env python, not python3 09/11/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6887 created MLModel


pdb alias command with no arguments is broken 09/11/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6888 created MLModel


«Python’s default encoding is the ‘ascii’ encoding.» 09/11/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6889 created flox


IOError has no __unicode__ method - and loses information 09/11/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6890 created michael.foord
26backport

small typo in «unicode.rst»: «the Uniode APIs should be used 09/11/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6891 created flox


optparser example in optparse documentation is broken 09/12/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6892 created MLModel


defaultdict example in py3 doc should mention the new Counter cl 09/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6893 created ezio.melotti


urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment (python2.6.2) 09/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6894 created xelnor
patch

locale._parse_localename fails when localename does not contain 09/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6895 created santhosh.thottingal
patch

Intermittent failures in test_mailbox 09/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6896 created ezio.melotti


imaplib fails during login 09/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6897 created debatem1


Unicode Error 09/13/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6898 created vitvn


Base.replace breaks tree 09/13/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6899 created loewis
patch

Sub-optimal "Locate" button behaviour in Windows CHM file 09/13/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6900 created tom_seddon


Runaway programs often become unresponsive to CTRL-C 09/13/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6901 created bernie


Built-in types format incorrectly with 0 padding. 09/13/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6902 created eric.smith


pdb - print in for iteration prints None after printing 09/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6903 created MLModel


Broken URL for pyqt 09/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6904 created thijs


inspect.getargspec(print) fails 09/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6905 created ubershmekel


Tkinter sets an unicode environment variable on win32 09/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6906 created dotz


xmlrpclib.make_connection() is not thread safe 09/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6907 created haypo


Minor markup error in hashlib docs 09/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6908 created lehmannro
patch

python 3.1 - filecmp.cmp exception based on file name 09/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6909 created jdeifik


1-char typo in language reference doc of import 09/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6910 created MLModel


Document changes in asynchat 09/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6911 created lehmannro
patch

Add 'with' block support to Tools/Scripts/pindent.py 09/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6912 created tjreedy


Py_SetPythonHome incorrectly documented py3.x (rev 74792) 09/15/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6913 created ideasman42
patch

Py_SetPythonHome, undocumented behavoir 09/15/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6914 created ideasman42


os.listdir inconsistenly releases the GIL on win32 09/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6915 created rfk
patch

Remove deprecated items from asynchat 09/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6916 created lehmannro
patch

".et_folder" instead of "get_folder" in mailbox documentation 09/15/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6917 created dauerbaustelle


ctypes compilation error on SnowLeopard 09/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6918 created ronaldoussoren


Link CRT Statically 09/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6919 created hankdane


IDLE 3 crashes on Ctrl+Space with "'utf8' codec can't decode byt 09/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6920 created Yinon


recursion wierdness ... related to variable scoping? 09/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6921 created mrdiskodave


Interpreter hangs up while trying to decode invalid utf32 stream 09/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6922 created mwizard
patch

Need pthread_atfork-like functionality in CPython 09/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6923 created twouters


struct.unpack weird behavior with "bi" (byte then integer) 09/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6924 created Manux


Doc for locals and vars 09/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6925 created tjreedy


socket module missing IPPROTO_IPV6, IPPROTO_IPV4 09/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6926 created jaraco


Metaclass doc (Ref 3.3.3) errors 09/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6927 created tjreedy


Doc: Class statements and metaclass = xxx 09/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6928 created tjreedy


Confusion between "write" method of rowiobase and rawfileio 09/17/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6929 created pakal


[PATCH] PyUnicode_DecodeUTF16 docs wrong (byteorder param) 09/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6930 created JonFoster
patch

dreadful performance in difflib: ndiff and HtmlDiff 09/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6931 created heidar.rafn


Open shelves fail when Python exits 09/17/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6932 created lehmannro
patch

Threading issue with Tkinter Frame.insert 09/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6933 created moraygrieve


[PATCH] postflight.framework script (from the Mac OS X .dmg inst 09/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6934 created slavi
patch

Version updates needed in tutorial 09/17/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6935 created MLModel


Import needed to quit Python? 09/17/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6936 created MLModel


multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core 09/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6937 created aaditya


Incorrect multiprocessing log string in managers.py (python 2.6. 09/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6938 created ftofficer
patch

shadows around the io truncate() semantics 09/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6939 created pakal


cannot compute sizeof wchar_t on OS X 10.5.7, Python 2.6.2 09/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6940 created rajarshi




Issues Now Closed (60)
______________________

xmlrpclib closes connection after each call 580 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2076 haypo


Error when printing an exception containing a Unicode string 535 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2517 ezio.melotti
patch

Windows installer should add Python and Scripts directories to t 396 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3561 srid


Issue with RotatingFileHandler logging handler on Windows 99 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4749 gagenellina


Add description of special case to "Assignment statements" secti 169 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5621 georg.brandl
patch

test_(zipfile|zipimport|gzip|distutils|sqlite) fail if zlib is n 121 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6026 ezio.melotti


Add "intel" universal architecture on OSX 99 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6245 ronaldoussoren


Bug in hashlib 93 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6281 Eloff


Error in tutorial section 7.2 88 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6301 michael.foord


Tkinter cannot find *64 bit* Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X 69 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6441 ronaldoussoren
patch

Make inf be almost equal to inf 50 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6567 michael.foord


unittest test discovery improvements 51 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6568 michael.foord


List the __future__ features in a table 50 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6574 lehmannro
patch, easy

Profiler doesn't print usage (indexError instead) 41 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6635 doko
patch

sys._getframe is not available on all Python implementations 28 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6712 michael.foord


Python as zip package 25 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6767 senthil.kumaran


2to3 assignment division conversion 9 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6831 benjamin.peterson


BaseException DeprecationError raises inappropriately 11 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6844 georg.brandl
patch

Tutorial changes 7 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6849 michael.foord
easy

allow setting uid and gid when creating tar files 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6856 lars.gustaebel
patch

TestLoader.loadTestsFromName does not use suiteClass attribute t 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6866 michael.foord
patch

sequence method .count() and .index() shoud be in immutable seq 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6874 tjreedy


add os.close() suggestion to mkstemp documentation 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6875 georg.brandl
patch

readline documentation example error 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6876 georg.brandl


misstatement in example explanation using raise 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6879 ezio.melotti


class needs forward reference 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6880 georg.brandl


pdb documentation shows running as script using "python" not "py 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6885 georg.brandl


pdb alias command with no arguments is broken 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6888 benjamin.peterson


«Python’s default encoding is the ‘ascii’ encoding.» 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6889 benjamin.peterson


IOError has no __unicode__ method - and loses information 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6890 georg.brandl
26backport

small typo in «unicode.rst»: «the Uniode APIs should be used 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6891 georg.brandl


optparser example in optparse documentation is broken 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6892 georg.brandl


Unicode Error 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6898 ezio.melotti


Runaway programs often become unresponsive to CTRL-C 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6901 bernie


pdb - print in for iteration prints None after printing 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6903 georg.brandl


Broken URL for pyqt 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6904 ezio.melotti


inspect.getargspec(print) fails 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6905 georg.brandl


xmlrpclib.make_connection() is not thread safe 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6907 krisvale


Minor markup error in hashlib docs 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6908 georg.brandl
patch

python 3.1 - filecmp.cmp exception based on file name 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6909 r.david.murray


1-char typo in language reference doc of import 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6910 ezio.melotti


Add 'with' block support to Tools/Scripts/pindent.py 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6912 georg.brandl


Py_SetPythonHome incorrectly documented py3.x (rev 74792) 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6913 benjamin.peterson
patch

Py_SetPythonHome, undocumented behavoir 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6914 benjamin.peterson


".et_folder" instead of "get_folder" in mailbox documentation 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6917 ezio.melotti


Link CRT Statically 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6919 hankdane


IDLE 3 crashes on Ctrl+Space with "'utf8' codec can't decode byt 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6920 ezio.melotti


recursion wierdness ... related to variable scoping? 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6921 mrdiskodave


Interpreter hangs up while trying to decode invalid utf32 stream 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6922 georg.brandl
patch

struct.unpack weird behavior with "bi" (byte then integer) 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6924 mark.dickinson


Confusion between "write" method of rowiobase and rawfileio 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6929 pitrou


Open shelves fail when Python exits 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6932 georg.brandl
patch

Version updates needed in tutorial 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6935 georg.brandl


Import needed to quit Python? 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6936 georg.brandl


Incorrect multiprocessing log string in managers.py (python 2.6. 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6938 georg.brandl
patch

distutils ignores configure's --includedir 1840 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1019715 senthil.kumaran


os.path.splitext don't handle unix hidden file correctly 1684 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1115886 senthil.kumaran


Function-level import in os triggering an threaded import deadlo 104 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1590864 twouters
patch

xmlrpclib ServerProxy uses old httplib interface 1010 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1613573 techtonik
patch

Make xmlrpc use HTTP/1.1 and keepalive 772 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1767370 haypo
patch



Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________

14 should we include argparse 8 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6247

10 BaseException DeprecationError raises inappropriately 11 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6844

9 uuid creates zombies 7 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6882

9 xmlrpclib ServerProxy uses old httplib interface 1010 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1613573

7 multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core 0 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6937

7 expose setresuid 63 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6508

7 encode and decode should accept 'errors' as a keyword argument 93 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6300

5 Confusion between "write" method of rowiobase and rawfileio 0 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6929

5 Link CRT Statically 2 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6919

5 IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6 10 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6864

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (09/18/09 - 09/25/09)
Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/

To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue
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2410 open (+34) / 16406 closed (+20) / 18816 total (+54)

Open issues with patches: 955

Average duration of open issues: 667 days.
Median duration of open issues: 423 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
open 2373 (+31)
pending 36 ( +3)

Issues Created Or Reopened (54)
_______________________________

Socket error when launching IDLE 09/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6941 created 08jpurcell


email.generator.Generator memory consumption 09/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6942 created rpatterson


setup.py fails to find headers of system libffi 09/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6943 created Arfrever
patch, easy

socket.getnameinfo raises SystemError on bogus input 09/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6944 created marienz
patch

pprint.pprint does not pprint unsortable dicts in Python 3 09/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6945 created aronacher


Document: Missing link to datetime.datetime 09/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6946 created ocean-city


Fix distutils test on windows (SO extension) 09/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6947 created ocean-city
patch

list 09/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6948 created nutregina


Support Berkeley DB 4.8 09/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6949 created Arfrever
patch

online documentation error: PyObject* PyByteArray_Resize(PyObjec 09/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6950 created kaizhu


OS X IDLE has two Preferences menus on 2.6.x with Tk > 8.4.7 09/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6951 created ned.deily
easy

deprecated conversion from string constant to char * 09/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6952 created barry-scott


readline documenation needs work 09/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6953 created ronaldoussoren


DISTUTILS_DEBUG causes stack trace, really simple fix 09/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6954 created nedbat


Max() Not Working Properly 09/21/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6955 created lovelygoo2


Test creation in unittest.TestProgram should be done in one plac 09/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6956 created michael.foord


Extension modules fail to build on OS X 10.6 using python.org 2. 09/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6957 created ned.deily


Add Python command line flags to configure logging 09/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6958 created theller
patch

OS X 10.6 / Snow Leopard: building 2.6 maintenance release fails 09/21/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6959 created cscscs


test_telnetlib gives spurious output 09/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6960 created pitrou


test_distutils failure 09/21/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6961 created pitrou


traceback.format_exception_only does not return SyntaxError caro 09/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6962 created thewtex


Add worker process lifetime to multiprocessing.Pool - patch incl 09/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6963 created charlesc
patch

import new fails 09/22/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6964 created illume


tmpnam should not be used if tempfile or mkstemp are available 09/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6965 created djc


Ability to refer to arguments in TestCase.fail* methods 09/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6966 created tuben


codec windows1256 should be windows windows-1256 09/22/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6967 created DerSascha
patch

numpy extensions to distutils... are a source of improvements fo 09/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6968 created illume


configparser 09/22/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6969 created exe


Redundant calls made to comparison methods. 09/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6970 created mark.dickinson
needs review

Add the SIO_KEEPALIVE_VALS option to socket.ioctl 09/22/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6971 created krisvale
patch, patch, easy

zipfile.ZipFile overwrites files outside destination path 09/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6972 created schmir


subprocess.Popen.send_signal doesn't check whether the process h 09/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6973 created milko.krachounov


test_posix getcwd test leaves tmp dir 09/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6974 created iandekit


symlinks incorrectly resolved on Linux 09/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6975 created swarecki


getcwd hangs and leaks mem on Solaris <= 9 in very long file nam 09/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6976 created iandekit


Getopt documentation ambiguity 09/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6977 created SilentGhost


compiler.transformer dict key bug d[1,] = 1 09/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6978 created kees
patch

Passing output arguments to an ActiveX application 09/23/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6979 created benji13


fix ctypes build failure on armel-linux-gnueabi with -mfloat-abi 09/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6980 created doko


locale.getdefaultlocale() envvars default code and documentation 09/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6981 created scop


make clean does not remove pickle files 09/23/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6982 created egreen
patch

Add specific get_platform() for freebsd 09/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6983 created stefw
patch

typo in Unicode HOWTO 09/24/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6984 created Yinon


range() fails with long integers 09/24/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6985 created kszawala


_json crash on scanner/encoder initialization error 09/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6986 created haypo
patch

Idle not start 09/24/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6987 created dorina_n2005


shlex.split() converts unicode input to UCS-4 output 09/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6988 created fenner


Compile error for Python-2.6.2 on Solaris 09/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6989 created ashish


threading.local subclasses don't cleanup their state and it gets 09/25/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6990 created pjenvey
patch, needs review

logging encoding failes some situation 09/25/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6991 created naoki
patch

multiple authors in setup.by 09/25/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6992 created techtonik


importing of "time" module is terribly slow 09/25/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6993 created ndyankov


enumerate dosctring has a typo 09/25/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6994 created nessita




Issues Now Closed (41)
______________________

Passing 'None' if argtype is set to POINTER(...) doesn't always 283 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4606 theller
patch

Structure sub-subclass does not initialize with base class posit 237 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5042 theller
patch

urllib ctypes error on Mac OS X Server 10.5 200 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5413 ronaldoussoren
patch

2.6.2 Python Manuals CHM file seems broken 159 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5764 dx617


os.popen causes illegal seek on AIX in Python 3.1rc 106 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6236 nestor
patch

Upgrading xml.etree to ElementTree 1.3 104 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6272 senthil.kumaran


encode and decode should accept 'errors' as a keyword argument 93 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6300 benjamin.peterson
patch, easy

solaris/aix: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard stream 87 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6348 pitrou


ctypes.PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc does not work on linux 64bit ma 49 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6613 theller


time.strftime does unnecessary range check 19 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6823 brett.cannon
patch, easy

urllib.urlopen crashes in a thread on Snow Leopard 13 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6851 ronaldoussoren
patch, 26backport

Support system readline on OS X 10.6 15 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6872 mark.dickinson
patch

enable compilation of readline module on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 12 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6877 zvezdan
patch, 26backport, needs review

incorrect signature in doc for PyByteArray_Resize 9 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6881 ezio.melotti


pdb documentation shows running as script using "python" not "py 7 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6885 georg.brandl


ctypes compilation error on SnowLeopard 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6918 ronaldoussoren


Doc for locals and vars 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6925 tjreedy


[PATCH] PyUnicode_DecodeUTF16 docs wrong (byteorder param) 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6930 georg.brandl
patch

[PATCH] postflight.framework script (from the Mac OS X .dmg inst 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6934 ronaldoussoren
patch

multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6937 ronaldoussoren


cannot compute sizeof wchar_t on OS X 10.5.7, Python 2.6.2 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6940 rajarshi


socket.getnameinfo raises SystemError on bogus input 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6944 georg.brandl
patch

pprint.pprint does not pprint unsortable dicts in Python 3 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6945 aronacher


Document: Missing link to datetime.datetime 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6946 georg.brandl


Fix distutils test on windows (SO extension) 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6947 tarek
patch

list 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6948 mark.dickinson


online documentation error: PyObject* PyByteArray_Resize(PyObjec 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6950 ezio.melotti


OS X IDLE has two Preferences menus on 2.6.x with Tk > 8.4.7 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6951 ronaldoussoren
easy

DISTUTILS_DEBUG causes stack trace, really simple fix 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6954 tarek


Max() Not Working Properly 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6955 benjamin.peterson


OS X 10.6 / Snow Leopard: building 2.6 maintenance release fails 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6959 cscscs


test_distutils failure 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6961 tarek


import new fails 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6964 georg.brandl


codec windows1256 should be windows windows-1256 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6967 georg.brandl
patch

configparser 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6969 georg.brandl


Add the SIO_KEEPALIVE_VALS option to socket.ioctl 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6971 krisvale
patch, patch, easy

Passing output arguments to an ActiveX application 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6979 mark.dickinson


make clean does not remove pickle files 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6982 mark.dickinson
patch

typo in Unicode HOWTO 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6984 georg.brandl


range() fails with long integers 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6985 brett.cannon


Idle not start 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6987 amaury.forgeotdarc




Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________

19 Add Python command line flags to configure logging 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6958

12 enable compilation of readline module on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 12 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6877

9 improve xrange.__contains__ 785 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue1766304

8 IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6 17 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6864

7 shlex.split() converts unicode input to UCS-4 output 1 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6988

7 Add specific get_platform() for freebsd 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6983

7 Add gamma function, error functions and other C99 math.h functi 437 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3366

6 make clean does not remove pickle files 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6982

5 range() fails with long integers 0 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6985

5 deprecated conversion from string constant to char * 5 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6952

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (09/25/09 - 10/02/09)
Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/

To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue
number. Do NOT respond to this message.


2410 open (+17) / 16447 closed (+24) / 18857 total (+41)

Open issues with patches: 958

Average duration of open issues: 673 days.
Median duration of open issues: 430 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
open 2376 (+17)
pending 33 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (44)
_______________________________

Mismatching use of memory APIs 09/28/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6836 reopened r.david.murray
patch

threading.local subclasses don't cleanup their state and it gets 09/29/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6990 reopened pitrou
patch, needs review

PEP 314 inconsistency (authors/author/maintainer) 09/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6992 reopened techtonik


Python 3.1 interpreter Fatal Error on windows with unknown encod 09/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6995 created bahaelaila7


Python 2.6.2 & 3.1.1 Installer 09/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6996 created deepakp


python26 compiled on snow leopard x86_64 09/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6997 created monway


Bug in Tutorial (introduction.rst) 09/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6998 created cofi


TypeError in pathfix.py 09/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6999 created amcnabb
patch

optional second argument of string.capwords not documented 09/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7000 created MLModel


turtle.py bug-fixes, backported from 3.1 [issue5923] 09/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7001 created gregorlingl
patch

help me to set variables - 64 bit 09/26/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7002 created ashish


finish documentation of user local paths 09/26/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7003 created benjamin.peterson


Py_RETURN_BOOL() convenience macro 09/27/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7004 created jon
patch

ConfigParser does not handle options without values 09/27/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7005 created mkindahl
patch

The replacement suggested for callable(x) in py3k is not equival 09/27/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7006 created milko.krachounov


Tiny inconsistency in the orthography of "url encoded" in the do 09/27/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7007 created MLModel


str.title() misbehaves with apostrophes 09/27/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7008 created nickd


random.randint docs 09/28/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7009 created jgsack


Rounding when converting float tuple to str 09/28/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7010 created scientist47


tarinfo has problems with longlinks 09/28/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7011 created do3cc


Tabs is better than spaces for indentation 09/28/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7012 created rohdef


Httplib read routine is not tolerant to not well-formed chunked 09/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7013 created Andrei Korostelev
patch

Logging incompatible with IronPython 09/28/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7014 created michael.foord


Getting call trace while executing "modules spam" at help prompt 09/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7015 created rishikesh
patch

.pyc files are set executable if the .py file is too 09/29/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7016 created stevenjd


os.listdir behaviour 09/29/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7017 created bigaddo


Recommend "*" over "#" in getargs.c typecodes 09/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7018 created pitrou


unmarshaling of artificial strings can produce funny longs. 09/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7019 created cfbolz
patch

regression in pywin32 build due to 2.6.3rc1 09/30/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7020 created srid


subprocess.Popen doesn't work without "executable=" 09/30/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7021 created hc


Doc update for io module 09/30/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7022 created pakal


Marshal doesn't release GIL while dumping 09/30/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7023 created zengke
patch

webbrowser : Could not open ftp server using webbrowser.open() 09/30/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7024 created hmo


Python 3.1 and 3.2 (dev) opensearch.xml still references 3.0 09/30/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7025 created jon


test_urllib: unsetting missing 'env' variable 10/01/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7026 created srid


test_io.py: codecs.IncrementalDecoder is sometimes None 10/01/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7027 created srid


Add int.hex for symmetry with float.hex 10/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7028 reopened mark.dickinson


Improve pybench 10/01/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7029 created krisvale
patch

Update version{added,changed} entries in py3k unittest docs 10/01/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7030 created mark.dickinson


add assertIsInstance 10/01/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7031 created georg.brandl
patch, patch, easy, needs review

Make assertMultilineEqual default for unicode string comparison 10/01/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7032 created michael.foord


C/API - Document exceptions 10/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7033 created lekma


While Loop Bug on a game of 21, help! 10/02/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7034 created PixelHead777


codecs error handlers lack documentation 10/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7035 created olau




Issues Now Closed (42)
______________________

Subprocess error with I/O redirection to Pipes 341 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4192 pakal


os.popen2 and os.popen3 in python 2.6 incompatible with os.popen 221 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5329 pjenvey
patch

Python 3.0 grammar is ambiguous with the addition of star_expr 201 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5460 benjamin.peterson


http://docs.python.org/dev/library/unittest.html#load-tests-prot 71 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6515 michael.foord


csv.Sniffer.sniff on data with doublequotes doesn't set up the d 60 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6606 jtate
patch

Integer & Long types: Performance improvement of 1.6x to 2x for 42 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6713 mark.dickinson
patch

httplib and array do not play together well 33 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6790 pitrou
patch, easy

Mismatching use of memory APIs 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6836 krisvale
patch

Test creation in unittest.TestProgram should be done in one plac 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6956 michael.foord


Extension modules fail to build on OS X 10.6 using python.org 2. 8 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6957 ronaldoussoren


Add Python command line flags to configure logging 10 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6958 vinay.sajip
patch

numpy extensions to distutils... are a source of improvements fo 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6968 tjreedy


Add the SIO_KEEPALIVE_VALS option to socket.ioctl 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6971 krisvale
patch, patch, easy

Compile error for Python-2.6.2 on Solaris 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6989 ashish


threading.local subclasses don't cleanup their state and it gets 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6990 pitrou
patch, needs review

logging encoding failes some situation 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6991 naoki
patch

importing of "time" module is terribly slow 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6993 ndyankov


enumerate dosctring has a typo 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6994 ezio.melotti


Python 3.1 interpreter Fatal Error on windows with unknown encod 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6995 r.david.murray


Python 2.6.2 & 3.1.1 Installer 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6996 deepakp


python26 compiled on snow leopard x86_64 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6997 monway


Bug in Tutorial (introduction.rst) 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6998 ezio.melotti


TypeError in pathfix.py 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6999 benjamin.peterson
patch

optional second argument of string.capwords not documented 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7000 ezio.melotti


turtle.py bug-fixes, backported from 3.1 [issue5923] 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7001 r.david.murray
patch

help me to set variables - 64 bit 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7002 brett.cannon


Py_RETURN_BOOL() convenience macro 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7004 jon
patch

str.title() misbehaves with apostrophes 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7008 gvanrossum


random.randint docs 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7009 orsenthil


Rounding when converting float tuple to str 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7010 rhettinger


tarinfo has problems with longlinks 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7011 do3cc


Tabs is better than spaces for indentation 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7012 gvanrossum


Logging incompatible with IronPython 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7014 michael.foord


.pyc files are set executable if the .py file is too 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7016 r.david.murray


os.listdir behaviour 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7017 bigaddo


regression in pywin32 build due to 2.6.3rc1 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7020 srid


subprocess.Popen doesn't work without "executable=" 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7021 hc


Doc update for io module 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7022 pitrou


Marshal doesn't release GIL while dumping 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7023 benjamin.peterson
patch

Python 3.1 and 3.2 (dev) opensearch.xml still references 3.0 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7025 benjamin.peterson


add assertIsInstance 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7031 georg.brandl
patch, patch, easy, needs review

While Loop Bug on a game of 21, help! 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7034 PixelHead777




Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________

27 str.title() misbehaves with apostrophes 2 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7008

27 PEP 314 inconsistency (authors/author/maintainer) 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6992

23 zipfile.ZipFile overwrites files outside destination path 10 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6972

14 no longer possible to hash arrays 135 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6071

11 ssl.SSLSocket.recv() implementation may not work with non-block 380 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3890

10 regression in pywin32 build due to 2.6.3rc1 2 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7020

9 unmarshaling of artificial strings can produce funny longs. 3 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7019

9 httplib and array do not play together well 33 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6790

7 Add int.hex for symmetry with float.hex 0 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7028

6 threading.local subclasses don't cleanup their state and it get 0 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6990

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2444 open (+44) / 16471 closed (+14) / 18915 total (+58)

Open issues with patches: 976

Average duration of open issues: 670 days.
Median duration of open issues: 420 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
open 2410 (+44)
pending 33 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (59)
_______________________________

traceback.format_exception_only does not return SyntaxError caro 10/07/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6962 reopened thewtex
patch

Doc/reference/datamodel: Slots description needs update 10/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7036 created Byron
patch

test_asynchat fails on os x 10.6 10/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7037 created chuck


test_curses fails on os x 10.6 10/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7038 created chuck


test_distutils fails on os x 10.6 10/02/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7039 created chuck


test_smtplib fails on os x 10.6 10/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7040 created chuck


test_macostools fails on os x 10.6 10/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7041 created chuck


test_signal fails on os x 10.6 10/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7042 created chuck
patch

test_urllib: constructLocalFileUrl returns invalid URLs on Windo 10/03/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7043 created srid


urllib.urlopen crashes when used on Mac OS 10.6.1 through a prox 10/03/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7044 created jweber


utf-8 encoding error 10/03/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7045 created ArcRiley


decimal.py: use DivisionImpossible and DivisionUndefined 10/03/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7046 created skrah


decimal.py: NaN payload conversion 10/03/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7047 created skrah


decimal.py: logb: round the result if it is greater than prec 10/03/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7048 created skrah
patch

decimal.py: NaN result in pow(x, y, z) with prec 1 10/03/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7049 created skrah
patch

Augmented assignment of tuple crashes IDLE 10/03/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7050 created mfitz


'g'/'G' format docs need a little more explanation 10/03/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7051 created benjamin.peterson


"from logging import *" causes an error under Ubuntu Karmic 10/04/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7052 created vak


wrong overload of slot wrapper 10/04/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7053 created omatt


Python25.chm seems to be broken 10/04/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7054 created Mark77


Automatic test___all__ 10/04/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7055 created pitrou
patch

regrtest runtest_inner calls findtestdir unnecessarily 10/04/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7056 created r.david.murray
patch

tkinter doc: more 3.x updates 10/04/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7057 created tjreedy


Add some test execution environment protection to regrtest 10/04/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7058 created r.david.murray
patch

'checking getaddrinfo bug' doesn't output the result during ./co 10/05/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7059 created ezio.melotti


test_multiprocessing dictionary changed size errors and hang 10/05/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7060 created r.david.murray


Improve 24.5. turtle doc 10/05/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7061 created tjreedy


No docs for module 'IN' 10/05/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7062 created RSokolov


Memory errors in array.array 10/05/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7063 created chuck


Python 2.6.3 / setuptools 0.6c9: extension module builds fail wi 10/05/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7064 reopened tarek


bytes.maketrans segfaults 10/05/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7065 created egreen
patch

archive_util.make_archive doesn't restore the cwd if an error is 10/05/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7066 created ezio.melotti


Suggest better documentation of 2 versus 3 on 3.1.1 site. 10/05/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7067 created srl


2.6.3 does not use specified compiler 10/06/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7068 created gotoh


inspect.isabstract to return boolean values only 10/06/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7069 created gagenellina
patch

round(x) gives wrong result for large odd integers 10/06/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7070 created mark.dickinson
easy

distutils and IronPython compatibility 10/06/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7071 created michael.foord
26backport

isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X 10/06/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7072 created naoki


Python 2.6.3 final windows installer installs a release candida 10/06/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7073 created jamartinh


Turtle module crashes python 10/06/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7074 created tjreedy


Bug while put a set on a dict 10/07/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7075 created chucheng


Documentation add note about SystemRandom 10/07/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7076 created sligocki
patch

SysLogHandler can't handle Unicode 10/07/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7077 created rszefler


struct help in the interpreter does not explain about the fmt op 10/07/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7078 created orsenthil
patch, easy

file_close() ignores return value of close_the_file 10/07/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7079 created stutzbach
patch

locale.strxfrm raises MemoryError 10/07/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7080 created egreen
patch

">" formatting behaving like "=" formatting 10/08/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7081 created ncoghlan


Patch for get_filename in email.message when content-disposition 10/08/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7082 created DazWorrall
patch

locals() behaviour differs when tracing is in effect 10/08/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7083 created andbj


printing a list releases the GIL carelessly 10/08/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7084 created pitrou


strptime problem 10/08/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7085 created kakacek


logging.handlers.SysLogHandler with TCP support 10/08/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7086 created enigma
patch

use keyword 'as' in _xmlplus 10/09/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7087 created s7v7nislands


New (in 2.6) functions in signal module are not documented as un 10/09/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7088 created stutzbach


shlex behaves unexpected if newlines are not whitespace 10/09/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7089 created jjdmol2
patch

encoding uncode objects greater than FFFF 10/09/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7090 created msaghaei


Distutils build ignores the --compiler command line option 10/09/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7091 created jmb


Test suite emits many DeprecationWarnings when -3 is enabled 10/09/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7092 created exarkun


xmlrpclib.ServerProxy() doesn't support unicode uri 10/09/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7093 created haypo
patch



Issues Now Closed (30)
______________________

fromfd() and dup() for _socket on WIndows 701 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1378 planders
patch

unittest.py sys.exit error 510 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2821 mfitz


fix_idioms.py generates bad code 418 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3563 benjamin.peterson
patch

distutils.util.get_platform() is wrong for universal builds on m 366 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4064 ronaldoussoren
patch, needs review

make io.BufferedWriter observe max_buffer_size limits 318 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4428 pitrou
patch, needs review

PEP 383 implementation 157 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5915 exarkun
patch

reset owner/group to root for distutils tarballs 80 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6516 bheemesh


subprocess issue on Win 7 x64 44 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6773 tesla


unmarshaling of artificial strings can produce funny longs. 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7019 mark.dickinson
patch

Doc update for io module 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7022 pakal


webbrowser : Could not open ftp server using webbrowser.open() 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7024 orsenthil


test_urllib: unsetting missing 'env' variable 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7026 orsenthil


Add int.hex for symmetry with float.hex 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7028 mark.dickinson


Improve pybench 8 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7029 krisvale
patch

test_distutils fails on os x 10.6 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7039 ned.deily


decimal.py: NaN payload conversion 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7047 mark.dickinson


Augmented assignment of tuple crashes IDLE 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7050 benjamin.peterson


"from logging import *" causes an error under Ubuntu Karmic 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7052 srid


wrong overload of slot wrapper 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7053 georg.brandl


Python25.chm seems to be broken 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7054 Mark77


Python 2.6.3 / setuptools 0.6c9: extension module builds fail wi 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7064 schmir


2.6.3 does not use specified compiler 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7068 tarek


Python 2.6.3 final windows installer installs a release candida 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7073 ezio.melotti


Bug while put a set on a dict 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7075 benjamin.peterson


">" formatting behaving like "=" formatting 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7081 ncoghlan


locals() behaviour differs when tracing is in effect 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7083 andbj


use keyword 'as' in _xmlplus 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7087 benjamin.peterson


encoding uncode objects greater than FFFF 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7090 ezio.melotti


urllib doesn't correct server returned urls 2030 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue918368 AdamN
patch

Generate numeric/space/linebreak from Unicode database. 1098 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1571184 amaury.forgeotdarc
patch



Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________

16 UnicodeEncodeError - I can't even see license 250 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue5127

13 'g'/'G' format docs need a little more explanation 6 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7051

13 test_signal fails on os x 10.6 7 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7042

11 "from logging import *" causes an error under Ubuntu Karmic 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7052

11 decimal.py: NaN result in pow(x, y, z) with prec 1 6 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7049

11 decimal.py: logb: round the result if it is greater than prec 6 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7048

9 Python 2.6.3 / setuptools 0.6c9: extension module builds fail w 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7064

9 expat parser throws Memory Error when parsing multiple files 60 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6676

9 array.fromfile not checking I/O errors 223 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue5395

8 utf-8 encoding error 7 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7045

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (10/09/09 - 10/16/09)
Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/

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2468 open (+37) / 16504 closed (+20) / 18972 total (+57)

Open issues with patches: 982

Average duration of open issues: 669 days.
Median duration of open issues: 423 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
open 2432 (+37)
pending 35 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (58)
_______________________________

Python 2.6.3 / setuptools 0.6c9: extension module builds fail wi 10/12/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7064 reopened barry


Add alternate float formatting styles to new-style formatting. 10/09/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7094 created mark.dickinson


Multiprocessing.Array(lock=False) fails 10/09/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7095 created schlesin


test_curses fails on 3.1 when run under regrtest 10/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7096 created r.david.murray


urlparse.urljoin of simple "http://" and "somedomain.com" produc 10/10/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7097 created ssteiner


g formatting for decimal types should always strip trailing zero 10/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7098 created mark.dickinson
patch

Decimal.is_normal should return True even for numbers with expon 10/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7099 created mark.dickinson


test_xmlrpc: global name 'stop_serving' is not defined 10/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7100 created pitrou


tarfile: OSError with TarFile.add(..., recursive=True) about non 10/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7101 created denis


Problems building pyhton from source on Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10/11/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7102 created FredrikHedman


Error in config parser example (w/ Patch) 10/11/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7103 created tcourbon
patch

test_descr uses __cmp__ which will never be called 10/11/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7104 created stutzbach


weak dict iterators are fragile because of unpredictable GC runs 10/11/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7105 created pitrou
patch

Python crashed in the middle of an argument between wx and boa_c 10/11/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7106 created bvn


Missing uninstallation instructions for mac 10/11/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7107 created gradha


test_commands.py failing on OS X 10.5.7 due to '@' in ls output 10/11/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7108 created minge
patch

broken link on news page 10/12/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7109 created mkiever


Output test failures on stderr in regrtest.py 10/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7110 created ezio.melotti


core dump when stderr is moved 10/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7111 created petere


unicodetype_db.h warning: integer constant is too large for 'lon 10/12/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7112 created ocean-city


ConfigParser load speedup 10/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7113 created aioryi
patch

HTMLParser doesn't handle <![CDATA[ ... ]]> 10/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7114 created ggbaker


extension module builds fail when using paths in the extension n 10/12/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7115 created tarek


str.join() should be documented as taking an iterable 10/12/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7116 created jess.austin
patch

Backport py3k float repr to trunk 10/13/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7117 created mark.dickinson


urllib2.urlopen() timeout argument ignored after redirect 10/13/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7118 created gthaler


email: msg.items() returns different values before and after ms 10/13/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7119 created jnelson


logging depends on multiprocessing 10/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7120 created gvanrossum


ImportError of urllib.request & http.client under PYTHONHOME/Lib 10/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7121 created mikezp59


multiprocessing.Pool() problem in windows 10/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7122 created SirLalala


Multiprocess Process does not always exit when run from a thread 10/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7123 created pajs@fodder.org.uk


idle.py -n : help() doesn't work in a reopened shell window 10/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7124 created gregorlingl


typo (English) in threading.py 10/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7125 created Yinon


Contradictory documentation for os.putenv and os.system 10/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7126 created stutzbach


regrtest -j fails when tests write to stderr 10/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7127 created r.david.murray
easy

cPickle looking for non-existent package copyreg 10/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7128 created joequant
patch, easy

'filling' missing in __all__ ot turtle.py 10/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7129 created gregorlingl
patch

json uses sre_* modules which may not work on alternate implemen 10/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7130 created DinoV


Extension module build fails for MinGW: missing vcvarsall.bat 10/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7131 created dieterv


Regexp: capturing groups in repetitions 10/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7132 created verdy_p


test_ssl failure 10/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7133 created pitrou
patch

Add looping capability to regrtest 10/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7134 created jnoller


AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSConnectio 10/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7135 created awelch


Idle File Menu Option Improvement 10/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7136 created tjd


Socket documentation not updated 10/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7137 created yang


elementtree segfaults on invalid xml declaration 10/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7138 created whichlinden


ElementTree: Incorrect serialization of end-of-line characters i 10/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7139 created moriyoshi


imp.new_module does not function correctly if the module is retu 10/15/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7140 created jkp


2to3 should add from __future__ import print_statement 10/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7141 created stutzbach


__repr__ of memoryview object has type unicode; should be str. 10/15/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7142 created mark.dickinson
patch

get_payload(decode=True) eats last newline 10/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7143 created athomas


imp.load_module in thread causes core dump on OSX 10.6 10/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7144 created peterhunt


UTF-16 BOM is not written by socket.makefile (but is expected by 10/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7145 created yang


[PATCH] platform.uname()[4] returns 'amd64' on Windows and 'x86- 10/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7146 created zooko


Remove WITHOUT_COMPLEX from 3.x trunk 10/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7147 created skip.montanaro
patch, patch, easy, needs review

socket.py: r75412 broke build 10/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7148 created kbk


2.6.4rc1 regression: test_urllib2 fails on OS X with UnboundLoca 10/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7149 created ned.deily


datetime operations spanning MINYEAR give bad results 10/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7150 created mark.leander




Issues Now Closed (37)
______________________

sys.exit() called from optparse - bad, bad, bad 491 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3079 pfeldman@verizon.net
easy

distutils.util.get_platform() is wrong for universal builds on m 369 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4064 ned.deily
patch, needs review

ihooks module cannot handle absolute imports 359 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4152 nascheme


PEP 383 implementation 163 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5915 loewis
patch

distutils builds extension modules to root package directory 103 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6403 srid


ihooks support for relative imports 38 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6855 brett.cannon


urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment (python2.6.2) 29 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6894 orsenthil
patch

test_urllib: constructLocalFileUrl returns invalid URLs on Windo 11 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7043 orsenthil


Automatic test___all__ 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7055 pitrou
patch

Python 2.6.3 / setuptools 0.6c9: extension module builds fail wi 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7064 tarek


bytes.maketrans segfaults 9 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7065 pitrou
patch

inspect.isabstract to return boolean values only 9 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7069 benjamin.peterson
patch

logging.handlers.SysLogHandler with TCP support 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7086 vinay.sajip
patch

Distutils build ignores the --compiler command line option 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7091 tarek


Multiprocessing.Array(lock=False) fails 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7095 jnoller


urlparse.urljoin of simple "http://" and "somedomain.com" produc 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7097 brett.cannon


Error in config parser example (w/ Patch) 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7103 r.david.murray
patch

test_descr uses __cmp__ which will never be called 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7104 benjamin.peterson


Python crashed in the middle of an argument between wx and boa_c 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7106 bvn


broken link on news page 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7109 mkiever


unicodetype_db.h warning: integer constant is too large for 'lon 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7112 amaury.forgeotdarc


extension module builds fail when using paths in the extension n 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7115 tarek


str.join() should be documented as taking an iterable 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7116 georg.brandl
patch

logging depends on multiprocessing 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7120 vinay.sajip


ImportError of urllib.request & http.client under PYTHONHOME/Lib 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7121 ezio.melotti


multiprocessing.Pool() problem in windows 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7122 amaury.forgeotdarc


typo (English) in threading.py 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7125 georg.brandl


Contradictory documentation for os.putenv and os.system 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7126 georg.brandl


'filling' missing in __all__ ot turtle.py 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7129 georg.brandl
patch

json uses sre_* modules which may not work on alternate implemen 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7130 pitrou


AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSConnectio 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7135 r.david.murray


imp.new_module does not function correctly if the module is retu 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7140 benjamin.peterson


__repr__ of memoryview object has type unicode; should be str. 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7142 mark.dickinson
patch

socket.py: r75412 broke build 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7148 kbk


dict subclass breaks cPickle noload() 1736 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1101399 nascheme


Digest Authentication not working in all cases 1499 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1285440 orsenthil
patch, easy

Tighter co_stacksize computation in stackdepth_walk 823 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1754094 nascheme
patch



Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________

23 Regexp: capturing groups in repetitions 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7132

19 logging depends on multiprocessing 3 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7120

13 Compilation error if configuref --with-computed-gotos 78 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6603

11 Multiprocess Process does not always exit when run from a threa 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7123

9 elementtree segfaults on invalid xml declaration 1 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7138

7 Python 2.6.3 / setuptools 0.6c9: extension module builds fail w 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7064

7 test_multiprocessing dictionary changed size errors and hang 12 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7060

7 Unicode case mappings are incorrect 311 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4610

6 core dump when stderr is moved 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7111

6 Test suite emits many DeprecationWarnings when -3 is enabled 7 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7092

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (10/16/09 - 10/23/09)
Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/

To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue
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2474 open (+27) / 16541 closed (+16) / 19015 total (+43)

Open issues with patches: 987

Average duration of open issues: 673 days.
Median duration of open issues: 428 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
open 2436 (+27)
pending 37 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (43)
_______________________________

regrtest -j sometimes fails if output gets written to stderr by 10/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7151 created r.david.murray
patch, patch

urllib2.build_opener() skips ProxyHandler 10/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7152 created barry


add "start" arg to max and min functions 10/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7153 created phr


urllib.request system proxy configuration lookup broken for OS X 10/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7154 created ned.deily


urllib2 and python 3 urllib do not document default use of syste 10/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7155 created ned.deily
patch

curses can't find _curses 10/17/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7156 created Archon


Fix Download Current Documentation link 10/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7157 created ryles


os.path.basename/split fails 10/17/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7158 created kuiper


Urllib2 authentication memory. 10/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7159 created bradobro


Crash when returning a 64-bit char pointer in Python 2.6.3 ctype 10/17/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7160 created creachadair


raise of SyntaxError in codeop was ported incorrectly to Py3 10/17/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7161 created Trundle
patch

2to3 does not convert __builtins__.file 10/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7162 created joe.amenta


IDLE suppresses sys.stdout.write() return value 10/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7163 created tjreedy


pickle test failure after test_imp/test_import (_make_stat_resul 10/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7164 created r.david.murray


xmlrpc.server assumes sys.stdout will have a buffer attribute 10/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7165 created ncoghlan
patch

IDLE (python 3.1.1) syntax coloring for b'bytestring' and u'unic 10/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7166 created lieryan
easy

Smarter FTP passive mode 10/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7167 created pitrou
patch

Document PyFloat_AsString and PyFloat_AsReprString as deprecated 10/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7168 created eric.smith
patch

zipfile leaves a file handle open if file is zero size 10/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7169 created skelker


subclasses of (some) built-in types are not weakref-able 10/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7170 created stutzbach


Add inet_ntop and inet_pton support for Windows 10/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7171 created jaraco


BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.responses[405] has a small 10/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7172 created dalke


Cython compiler run crashes CPython 3.1.1 and 3.2 10/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7173 created scoder
patch

modeule: queue class: PriorityQueue 10/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7174 created asuiu


unify pydistutils.cfg and distutils.cfg and use .local 10/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7175 created tarek


sum() doesn't work for lists. 10/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7176 created oggust


Unclear warning for subprocess.call 10/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7177 created azumanga


open function's buffering parameter is not completely doc'ed 10/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7178 created kuhnsjohn


Unportable test(1) construct 10/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7179 created wiz
patch

"pydoc -k" can generate AttributeError on Mac OS X 10/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7180 created kmgrant


No logging when two loggers with same qualname 10/21/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7181 created cristiroma


For non-debug builds, the cygwinccompiler.py should define NDEBU 10/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7182 created stutzbach


did 2.6.3 regress for some uses of the __doc__ property? 10/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7183 created zooko


build failures on Snow Leopard 10/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7184 created richard


csv reader utf-8 BOM error 10/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7185 created W00D00


Document specialness of __doc__, and possibly other "special" at 10/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7186 created ssteiner


importlib/_bootstrap.py write_bytecode raises an IOError if it c 10/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7187 created dmalcolm
patch

optionxform documentation confusing 10/23/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7188 created loewis


struct.calcsize returns strange size 10/23/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7189 created igor.mikushkin


TCP/IP? 10/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7190 created jlr2383


Odd behaviour with zlib.decompressobj optional parameter "wbits" 10/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7191 created pythonhacker


webbrowser.get("firefox") does not work on Mac with installed Fi 10/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7192 created dalke
patch

Popen blocks program from another thread 10/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7193 created dgriff1




Issues Now Closed (41)
______________________

fromfd() and dup() for _socket on WIndows 716 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1378 planders
patch

GC optimization: don't track simple tuples and dicts 303 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4688 esam
patch

optimize bytecode for conditional branches 299 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4715 esam
patch

Bugs in _ssl object read() when a buffer is specified 278 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4967 pitrou
patch

"in" expression falls back to __iter__ before __getitem__ 122 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6324 georg.brandl


Printing the 'The Python Tutorial' 76 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6670 brimac


uuid creates zombies 42 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6882 eric.smith
patch

Metaclass doc (Ref 3.3.3) errors 36 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6927 georg.brandl


Getopt documentation ambiguity 29 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6977 georg.brandl


codecs error handlers lack documentation 20 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7035 georg.brandl


Doc/reference/datamodel: Slots description needs update 20 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7036 georg.brandl
patch

urllib.urlopen crashes when used on Mac OS 10.6.1 through a prox 15 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7044 ronaldoussoren


No docs for module 'IN' 17 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7062 georg.brandl


Python 2.6.3 / setuptools 0.6c9: extension module builds fail wi 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7064 ned.deily


Suggest better documentation of 2 versus 3 on 3.1.1 site. 17 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7067 srl


locale.strxfrm raises MemoryError 12 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7080 pitrou
patch

New (in 2.6) functions in signal module are not documented as un 13 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7088 georg.brandl


Problems building pyhton from source on Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 7 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7102 ronaldoussoren


regrtest -j fails when tests write to stderr 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7127 r.david.murray
easy

test_ssl failure 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7133 pitrou
patch

Socket documentation not updated 7 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7137 georg.brandl


Remove WITHOUT_COMPLEX from 3.x trunk 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7147 skip.montanaro
patch, patch, easy, needs review

2.6.4rc1 regression: test_urllib2 fails on OS X with UnboundLoca 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7149 ned.deily


regrtest -j sometimes fails if output gets written to stderr by 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7151 r.david.murray
patch, patch

add "start" arg to max and min functions 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7153 rhettinger


urllib2 and python 3 urllib do not document default use of syste 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7155 orsenthil
patch

curses can't find _curses 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7156 georg.brandl


os.path.basename/split fails 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7158 ezio.melotti


Crash when returning a 64-bit char pointer in Python 2.6.3 ctype 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7160 creachadair


raise of SyntaxError in codeop was ported incorrectly to Py3 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7161 benjamin.peterson
patch

pickle test failure after test_imp/test_import (_make_stat_resul 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7164 ncoghlan


Document PyFloat_AsString and PyFloat_AsReprString as deprecated 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7168 eric.smith
patch

subclasses of (some) built-in types are not weakref-able 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7170 georg.brandl


modeule: queue class: PriorityQueue 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7174 r.david.murray


sum() doesn't work for lists. 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7176 rhettinger


open function's buffering parameter is not completely doc'ed 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7178 benjamin.peterson


No logging when two loggers with same qualname 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7181 vinay.sajip


optionxform documentation confusing 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7188 georg.brandl


struct.calcsize returns strange size 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7189 mark.dickinson


os.path, %HOME% set: realpath contradicts expanduser on '~' 993 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1646838 ezio.melotti


PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc and the main thread 788 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1779233 pitrou




Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________

10 add ftp-tls support to ftplib - RFC 4217 623 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue2054

9 did 2.6.3 regress for some uses of the __doc__ property? 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7183

9 unify pydistutils.cfg and distutils.cfg and use .local 3 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7175

9 Add gamma function, error functions and other C99 math.h functi 465 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3366

6 add "start" arg to max and min functions 2 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7153

6 locale.strxfrm raises MemoryError 12 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7080

5 subclasses of (some) built-in types are not weakref-able 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7170

5 os.path.basename/split fails 0 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7158

5 2.6.4rc1 regression: test_urllib2 fails on OS X with UnboundLoc 3 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7149

5 deprecated conversion from string constant to char * 33 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6952

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (10/23/09 - 10/30/09)
Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/

To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue
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2483 open (+31) / 16582 closed (+19) / 19065 total (+50)

Open issues with patches: 989

Average duration of open issues: 675 days.
Median duration of open issues: 430 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
open 2447 (+31)
pending 35 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (53)
_______________________________

distutils and IronPython compatibility 10/27/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7071 reopened michael.foord
26backport

Popen blocks program from another thread 10/23/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7193 reopened dgriff1


test_thread is flaky 10/23/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7194 created pitrou


Value error 'path is on drive c: start on drive d:' in os.path.r 10/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7195 created jaraco


Clarify str.split() behavior 10/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7196 created gagenellina
patch

test_multiprocessing crashes under Windows when run in verbose m 10/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7197 created pitrou
patch

csv.writer 10/24/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7198 created zacktu


Doc: Logging level order seems inconsistent 10/24/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7199 created tjreedy


multiprocessing deadlock on Mac OS X when queue collected before 10/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7200 created bquinlan


double Endian problem and more on arm 10/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7201 created mancausoft


"python setup.py MYCOMMAND --verbose" does not yield an unrecogn 10/25/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7202 created zooko


fixer for map(None, ...) needs to consider multi-argument case 10/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7203 created georg.brandl


Strange shebang line in test_pep263 10/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7204 created wiz


bz2file deadlock 10/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7205 created rbcollins
patch

64 bit python fails on Windows 7 10/25/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7206 created richo


test_telnetlib fails on OS X 10.6 10/26/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7207 created mark.dickinson
patch, needs review

Getpass echo's password to screen on 2.6, but not on 2.5 or 3.1 10/26/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7208 created pajs@fodder.org.uk
patch

Prevents uint_t from being used on QNX 10/26/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7209 created kraai
patch

Proposed Syntax Checks in Test Suite 10/26/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7210 created ChuckRhode
patch

select module - kevent ident field 64 bit issue 10/26/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7211 created mbroughton
patch

Retrieve an arbitrary element from a set without removing it 10/26/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7212 created wrichert
patch

Popen.subprocess change close_fds default to True 10/26/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7213 created milko.krachounov


TreeBuilder.end(tag) differs between cElementTree and ElementTre 10/26/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7214 created merrellb


TreeBuilder.end(tag) differs between cElementTree and ElementTre 10/26/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7215 created merrellb


low performance of zipfile readline() 10/27/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7216 created volker_siepmann


IDLE Subprocess Startup Error 10/27/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7217 created irdb


test_site failure under Windows 10/27/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7218 created pitrou


Unhelpful error message when a distutils package install fails d 10/27/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7219 created michael.foord
26backport

python -m no longer executes packages directly 10/27/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7220 created Martijn


DispatcherWithSendTests_UsePoll with test_asyncore does nothing 10/27/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7221 created pitrou


thread reaping is imperfect 10/27/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7222 created pitrou
patch

Simplify and improve Thread.join() 10/27/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7223 created pitrou
patch

One obvious way to do interning 10/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7224 created belopolsky
patch

fwrite() compiler warnings 10/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7225 created benjamin.peterson


IDLE right-clicks don't work on Mac OS 10.5 10/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7226 created MLModel


Shell Support for installation of Python Packages (.EGG) 10/28/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7227 created djlyon


%lld for PyErr_Format (Modules/_io/bufferedio.c) 10/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7228 created ocean-city


Manual entry for time.daylight can be misleading 10/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7229 created napik


test_hotshot fails on solaris 10/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7230 created csernazs


Windows installer does not add \Scripts folder to the path 10/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7231 created sorin


Support of 'with' statement fo TarFile class 10/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7232 created jaime.buelta
patch

decimal.py: two rotate() issues 10/29/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7233 created skrah


Complete your registration to Python tracker -- keyRVZuTYMju0Lif 10/29/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7234 created kaka


IO libary have some error 10/29/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7235 created kaka


the reply's additional "Re:" is ok 10/29/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7236 created kaka


Syntax error with not 10/29/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7237 created LambertDW


frame.f_lineno doesn't get updated after local trace function as 10/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7238 created eggy


Error when running a code 10/29/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7239 created MNilson


subprocess.Popen.stdout.flush fails os OS-X 10.6.1 10/30/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7240 created petegibson


tkinter fails to import 10/30/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7241 reopened python.noob


Forking in a thread raises RuntimeError 10/30/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7242 created csernazs


mac binary download link for 2.6.4 broken 10/30/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7243 created beard


0.0 and -0.0 identified, with surprising results 10/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue1678380 reopened mark.dickinson
patch



Issues Now Closed (47)
______________________

Option to ignore or substitute ~/.pydistutils.cfg 769 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1180 tarek
patch, easy

Extension module build fails for MinGW: missing vcvarsall.bat 550 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2698 tarek


py3k warn on use of frame.f_exc* 486 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3223 benjamin.peterson
easy

'dictionary changed size' error in test_multiprocessing 433 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3578 pitrou


tarfile keeps excessive dir structure in compressed files 307 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4750 lars.gustaebel
patch

tarfile: path problem in arcname under windows 226 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5500 lars.gustaebel


Incorrect DST transition 217 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5582 acummings


Fix reference leak in io.StringIO 138 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6242 pitrou
patch

zipfile: Invalid argument when opening zero-sized files 102 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6511 skelker


PEP 314 inconsistency (authors/author/maintainer) 28 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6992 tarek


utf-8 encoding error 25 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7045 benjamin.peterson


'g'/'G' format docs need a little more explanation 24 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7051 mark.dickinson


Automatic test___all__ 23 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7055 pitrou
patch

Add some test execution environment protection to regrtest 23 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7058 r.david.murray
patch

archive_util.make_archive doesn't restore the cwd if an error is 19 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7066 tarek


distutils and IronPython compatibility 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7071 r.david.murray
26backport

struct help in the interpreter does not explain about the fmt op 20 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7078 mark.dickinson
patch, easy

Patch for get_filename in email.message when content-disposition 19 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7082 r.david.murray
patch

printing a list releases the GIL carelessly 19 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7084 pitrou
patch

Decimal.is_normal should return True even for numbers with expon 17 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7099 mark.dickinson


Extension module build fails for MinGW: missing vcvarsall.bat 12 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7131 tarek


Fix Download Current Documentation link 10 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7157 georg.brandl


zipfile leaves a file handle open if file is zero size 9 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7169 r.david.murray


sum() doesn't work for lists. 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7176 ezio.melotti


Popen blocks program from another thread 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7193 dgriff1


test_thread is flaky 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7194 ned.deily


csv.writer 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7198 zacktu


Doc: Logging level order seems inconsistent 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7199 vinay.sajip


fixer for map(None, ...) needs to consider multi-argument case 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7203 segfaulthunter


Strange shebang line in test_pep263 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7204 georg.brandl


bz2file deadlock 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7205 pitrou
patch

test_telnetlib fails on OS X 10.6 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7207 mark.dickinson
patch, needs review

TreeBuilder.end(tag) differs between cElementTree and ElementTre 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7215 r.david.murray


test_site failure under Windows 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7218 tarek


python -m no longer executes packages directly 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7220 benjamin.peterson


Simplify and improve Thread.join() 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7223 pitrou
patch

Shell Support for installation of Python Packages (.EGG) 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7227 tarek


decimal.py: two rotate() issues 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7233 mark.dickinson


Complete your registration to Python tracker -- keyRVZuTYMju0Lif 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7234 eric.smith


IO libary have some error 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7235 kaka


the reply's additional "Re:" is ok 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7236 eric.smith


Syntax error with not 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7237 benjamin.peterson


Error when running a code 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7239 MNilson


tkinter fails to import 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7241 python.noob


bdist_deb - Debian packager 251 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1054967 tarek
patch

long int bitwise ops speedup (patch included) 1773 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1087418 mark.dickinson
patch

Thread shutdown exception in Thread.notify() 630 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1722344 pitrou
patch



Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________

19 Backport py3k float repr to trunk 17 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7117

12 %lld for PyErr_Format (Modules/_io/bufferedio.c) 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7228

11 unify pydistutils.cfg and distutils.cfg and use .local 10 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7175

10 64 bit python fails on Windows 7 5 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7206

10 long int bitwise ops speedup (patch included) 1773 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1087418

9 select module - kevent ident field 64 bit issue 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7211

9 bz2file deadlock 2 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7205

9 Python 2.5 64 bit compile fails on Solaris 10/gcc 4.1.1 1029 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue1628484

7 Proposed Syntax Checks in Test Suite 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7210

7 fixer for map(None, ...) needs to consider multi-argument case 2 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7203

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (10/30/09 - 11/06/09)
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2479 open (+15) / 16616 closed (+15) / 19095 total (+30)

Open issues with patches: 991

Average duration of open issues: 683 days.
Median duration of open issues: 437 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
open 2444 (+15)
pending 34 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (31)
_______________________________

mac binary download link for 2.6.4 broken 10/30/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7243 reopened beard


itertools.zip_longest behaves strangely with an iterable class 10/31/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7244 created durban
patch

better Ctrl-C support in pdb (program can be resumed) 10/31/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7245 created isandler


getpass raises IOError when several returns are in stdin before 11/01/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7246 created avihu


test_fcntl_64_bit from test_fcntl.py fails in Python 2.6.4 11/01/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7247 created Chainsaw


test_importlib uses a fixed name in /tmp 11/01/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7248 created pitrou


Consider allowing io.BytesIO sizes to be passed as 'long' in 2.6 11/02/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7249 created ryles


wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler caches os.environ, leaking info betw 11/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7250 created snprbob86
patch, easy, 26backport

Mark expected failures of test_math, test_cmath and test_round a 11/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7251 created mark.dickinson
buildbot

list().index() should provide better error reporting 11/02/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7252 created djc


AssertionError Tree is insane with *args and reduce 11/02/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7253 created jaraco


Class members not properly initialized if declared outside of fu 11/02/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7254 created vladc6


"Default" word boundaries for Unicode data? 11/03/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7255 created RegEx4All


parse_qs and parse_qsl in urlparse are not documented as New in 11/03/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7256 created VeXocide


Improve documentation of list.sort and sorted() 11/03/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7257 created olau


test_multiprocessing leaves a temporary directory 11/04/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7258 created pitrou


Documentation update for operator module 11/04/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7259 created gagenellina
patch

SyntaxError with a not-existing offset for unicode code 11/04/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7260 created noam


Document 2.x -> 3.x round changes in "What's New" documents. 11/04/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7261 created mark.dickinson


codecs.open() + eol (windows) 11/04/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7262 created shamilbi


Fix set.intersection docstring 11/04/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7263 created belopolsky
patch

test_threading_local sometimes hangs when run with -R 11/04/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7264 created pitrou
patch

IDLE not working 11/05/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7265 created Carey


test_lib2to3 failure under Windows 11/05/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7266 created pitrou
easy

format method: c presentation type broken 11/05/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7267 created doerwalter


2to3 execfile conversion changes behavior 11/06/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7268 created flashk


Windows buildbot occasional DBFileExistsError failures in test_b 11/06/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7269 created r.david.murray
buildbot

Tests for synchronization primitives 11/06/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7270 created pitrou
patch

Typo in turtle module documentation. 11/06/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7271 created mark.dickinson


test_multiprocessing fails consistently with 'signal 12' on Free 11/06/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7272 created mark.dickinson
buildbot

struct.pack adding extra '\x00' character in very specific case 11/06/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7273 created cmadrigal




Issues Now Closed (37)
______________________

Minor Change For Better cross compile 788 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1115 gregory.p.smith
patch

IDLE fails to launch 669 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1743 richjtd


IDLE won't start in custom directory. 414 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3881 srid
patch

Add "key" argument to "bisect" module functions 348 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4356 rhettinger
patch

xml.etree does not escape CR, LF and TAB characters within attri 110 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6492 ezio.melotti


Compilation error if configuref --with-computed-gotos 93 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6603 mark.dickinson
patch, easy

fnmatch fails on filenames containing \n character 86 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6665 gregory.p.smith


Intermittent failures in test_mailbox 51 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6896 pitrou
patch

test_signal fails on os x 10.6 29 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7042 mark.dickinson
patch

SysLogHandler can't handle Unicode 29 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7077 vinay.sajip


Value error 'path is on drive c: start on drive d:' in os.path.r 8 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7195 ncoghlan


Getpass echo's password to screen on 2.6, but not on 2.5 or 3.1 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7208 gregory.p.smith
patch

Proposed Syntax Checks in Test Suite 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7210 ChuckRhode
patch

select module - kevent ident field 64 bit issue 9 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7211 pitrou
patch

IDLE Subprocess Startup Error {Solved} 8 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7217 amaury.forgeotdarc


thread reaping is imperfect 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7222 pitrou
patch

One obvious way to do interning 9 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7224 rhettinger
patch

test_hotshot fails on solaris 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7230 pitrou


subprocess.Popen.stdout.flush fails os OS-X 10.6.1 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7240 pjenvey


mac binary download link for 2.6.4 broken 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7243 beard


itertools.zip_longest behaves strangely with an iterable class 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7244 rhettinger
patch

getpass raises IOError when several returns are in stdin before 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7246 avihu


test_importlib uses a fixed name in /tmp 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7248 brett.cannon


Consider allowing io.BytesIO sizes to be passed as 'long' in 2.6 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7249 pitrou


list().index() should provide better error reporting 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7252 benjamin.peterson


AssertionError Tree is insane with *args and reduce 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7253 benjamin.peterson


Class members not properly initialized if declared outside of fu 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7254 r.david.murray


parse_qs and parse_qsl in urlparse are not documented as New in 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7256 georg.brandl


test_multiprocessing leaves a temporary directory 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7258 pitrou


Documentation update for operator module 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7259 georg.brandl
patch

SyntaxError with a not-existing offset for unicode code 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7260 ezio.melotti


test_threading_local sometimes hangs when run with -R 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7264 pitrou
patch

IDLE not working 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7265 loewis


2to3 execfile conversion changes behavior 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7268 flashk


struct.pack adding extra '\x00' character in very specific case 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7273 mark.dickinson


socket.inet_aton returns 8 bytes on LP64 platforms 265 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1008086 gregory.p.smith
64bit, easy

Investigated ref leak report related to thread regrtest.py 866 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1739118 ocean-city
patch



Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________

14 itertools.zip_longest behaves strangely with an iterable class 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7244

14 64 bit python fails on Windows 7 12 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7206

14 Python 2.5 64 bit compile fails on Solaris 10/gcc 4.1.1 1036 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue1628484

11 2to3 execfile conversion changes behavior 0 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7268

11 test_debuglevel from test_telnetlib.py fails 78 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6748

10 Intermittent failures in test_mailbox 51 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6896

9 cross compile patch 1915 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue1006238

8 One obvious way to do interning 9 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7224

7 wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler caches os.environ, leaking info bet 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7250

7 Documentation add note about SystemRandom 30 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7076

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2491 open (+27) / 16645 closed (+14) / 19136 total (+41)

Open issues with patches: 993

Average duration of open issues: 684 days.
Median duration of open issues: 442 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
open 2455 (+27)
pending 35 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (42)
_______________________________

test_debuglevel from test_telnetlib.py fails 11/06/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6748 reopened r.david.murray
patch, buildbot

json module apparently fails regression found at http://json.org 11/06/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7274 created DougShawhan


CoverageResult fails to merge input file with non-empty callers 11/06/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7275 created glinsvad
patch

UnboundLocalError scoping problem with nested functions 11/06/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7276 created olau


online docs out-of-sync with sources and distributed .chm files 11/07/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7277 created gagenellina


decimal.py: New instance vs. new reference 11/07/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7278 created skrah


decimal.py: == and != comparisons involving NaNs 11/07/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7279 created skrah


PCBuild instruction says to use nasmw.exe but it no longer exist 11/07/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7280 created blep
patch

copysign() with NaN arguments on OpenSolaris 11/07/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7281 created skrah


RLocks leak references when used in raw threads 11/08/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7282 created pitrou
patch

test_site failure when .local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages hasn't 11/08/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7283 created pitrou


optparse - display version in usage by default 11/08/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7284 created techtonik


multiprocessing module, example code error 11/08/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7285 created hsmtkk
patch

odd exec() behavior or documentation 11/08/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7286 created pmawhorter


import hook demo does not work 11/08/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7287 created blep


Detect improper leading whitespace in C files for Vim 11/08/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7288 created brett.cannon
easy

bad import in redemo.py script in v3.1 11/08/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7289 created alan.gauld@btinternet.com


Update 'how do I set a global variable' faq entry 11/09/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7290 created r.david.murray
patch

urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth 11/09/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7291 created tsujikawa
patch

Multiprocessing Joinable race condition? 11/09/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7292 created jonathan


test_msvc9compiler test_reg_class failure on new Windows box 11/09/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7293 created db3l


MSDN URL in subprocess.py is incorrect 11/09/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7294 created eric.smith
easy

test_tarfile uses a hardcoded file name 11/09/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7295 created pitrou
patch

OverflowError: signed integer is greater than maximum on mips64 11/09/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7296 created jasper


--spam-- 11/10/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7297 created brandon.dixon


reversed(range(x, -1, -1)) is empty when x > 1 11/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7298 created ledave123
patch

setup.py install doesn't honor PYTHONUSERBASE 11/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7299 created doko
patch, patch

Unicode arguments in str.format() 11/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7300 created doerwalter


Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS 11/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7301 created barry


Wrong link to Python Language Mapping Specification 11/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7302 created efrerich


pkgutil lacks documentation for useful functions 11/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7303 created englabenny


email.message.Message.set_payload and as_string given charset 'u 11/10/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7304 created r.david.murray


urllib2.urlopen() segfault using SSL on Solaris 11/11/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7305 created rtarnell


Patch - skip winsound tests if no default sound is configured 11/11/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7306 created brian.curtin
patch

test_distutils failure under Windows 7 11/11/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7307 created pitrou


Named group regex error 11/11/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7308 created pythonmeister


crasher in str(Exception()) 11/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7309 created arigo


Unhelpful __repr__() in os.environ 11/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7310 created kjohnson


Bug on regexp of HTMLParser 11/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7311 created pluskid


Run some tests in a loop until failure 11/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7312 created pitrou
patch

2to3 fails when source file starts with BOM 11/13/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7313 created gagenellina


test_multiprocessing hangs on Windows 7 64 bit 11/13/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7314 created krisvale
64bit



Issues Now Closed (31)
______________________

CGIHTTPRequestHandler.run_cgi() does not run on Windows if sys.e 769 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1235 orsenthil
patch

Management of KeyboardInterrupt in cmd.py 710 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1294 gvanrossum
patch

RLock's are SLOW 530 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3001 pitrou
patch

Real segmentation fault handler 406 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3999 Rhamphoryncus
patch

No universal newline support for compile() when using bytes 337 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4628 benjamin.peterson


Auto-detect indentation in C source in vimrc 223 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5611 brett.cannon
patch

Subclassing property doesn't preserve the auto __doc__ behavior 195 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5890 moriyoshi
patch, needs review

test_codecs fails when ran after test_zipimport and test_mailbox 114 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6551 pitrou
patch

test_debuglevel from test_telnetlib.py fails 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6748 jackdied
patch, buildbot

round(x) gives wrong result for large odd integers 34 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7070 mark.dickinson
easy

Add looping capability to regrtest 29 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7134 pitrou


importlib/_bootstrap.py write_bytecode raises an IOError if it c 16 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7187 brett.cannon
patch

test_multiprocessing crashes under Windows when run in verbose m 18 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7197 pitrou
patch

2to3 execfile conversion changes behavior 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7268 gagenellina
patch

Tests for synchronization primitives 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7270 pitrou
patch

Typo in turtle module documentation. 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7271 georg.brandl


json module apparently fails regression found at http://json.org 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7274 DougShawhan


UnboundLocalError scoping problem with nested functions 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7276 r.david.murray


online docs out-of-sync with sources and distributed .chm files 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7277 r.david.murray


decimal.py: New instance vs. new reference 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7278 rhettinger


decimal.py: == and != comparisons involving NaNs 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7279 mark.dickinson


copysign() with NaN arguments on OpenSolaris 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7281 mark.dickinson


RLocks leak references when used in raw threads 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7282 pitrou
patch

bad import in redemo.py script in v3.1 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7289 benjamin.peterson


Update 'how do I set a global variable' faq entry 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7290 r.david.murray
patch

MSDN URL in subprocess.py is incorrect 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7294 eric.smith
easy

test_tarfile uses a hardcoded file name 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7295 pitrou
patch

--spam-- 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7297 rhettinger


test_distutils failure under Windows 7 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7307 amaury.forgeotdarc


Named group regex error 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7308 mark.dickinson


'compile' built-in function failures when missing EOL 1293 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1479099 benjamin.peterson




Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________

19 Enable short float repr() on Solaris/x86 208 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue5792

10 RLock's are SLOW 530 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3001

7 reversed(range(x, -1, -1)) is empty when x > 1 3 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7298

7 test_multiprocessing dictionary changed size errors and hang 40 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7060

6 OverflowError: signed integer is greater than maximum on mips64 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7296

6 CGIHTTPRequestHandler.run_cgi() does not run on Windows if sys. 769 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1235

5 Management of KeyboardInterrupt in cmd.py 710 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1294

4 Run some tests in a loop until failure 1 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7312

4 copysign() with NaN arguments on OpenSolaris 2 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7281

4 test_debuglevel from test_telnetlib.py fails 0 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6748

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (11/13/09 - 11/20/09)
Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/

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2506 open (+41) / 16686 closed (+15) / 19192 total (+56)

Open issues with patches: 1000

Average duration of open issues: 685 days.
Median duration of open issues: 440 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
open 2471 (+41)
pending 34 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (59)
_______________________________

textwrap doesn't linebreak on "\n" 11/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue1859 reopened gvanrossum


float compared to decimal is silently incorrect. 11/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue2531 reopened mark.dickinson
patch

2to3 execfile conversion changes behavior 11/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7268 reopened benjamin.peterson
patch

os.path.normpath doesn't normalize ../path/something.py 11/13/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7315 created purpleidea


Add a timeout functionality to common locking operations 11/13/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7316 created pitrou
patch

Display full tracebacks when an error occurs asynchronously 11/13/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7317 created pitrou


multiprocessing should not wait endlessly 11/13/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7318 created pitrou
patch

Silence DeprecationWarning by default 11/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7319 created brett.cannon
patch

Unable to load external modules on build slave with debug python 11/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7320 created db3l


PyIter_Check(obj) fails when obj is of type PySetType 11/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7321 created damianeads


Socket timeout can cause file-like readline() method to lose dat 11/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7322 created beazley


decimal.Decimal greater than/less than sometimes gives wrong ans 11/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7323 created adamtj


Add sanity-check else case to regrtest option parsing 11/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7324 created r.david.murray
patch, patch

tempfile.mkdtemp() does not return absolute pathname when dir is 11/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7325 created roysmith
easy

SOLUTION pls? /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/visual/__init__.p 11/15/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7326 created pveloz


format: minimum width: UTF-8 separators and decimal points 11/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7327 created skrah


pydoc doesn't work from the command line 11/15/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7328 created pitrou


global statements outside functions/methods should raise SyntaxE 11/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7329 created ezio.melotti


PyUnicode_FromFormat segfault when using widths. 11/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7330 created mark.dickinson


Command line testing consistency between 2.x and 3.x 11/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7331 created ncoghlan
easy

python script segment fault at PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile 11/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7332 created liang


Add initgroups to the posix/os modules 11/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7333 created exarkun
patch

XML file locking in Jython 2.5 (OSError on Windows) 11/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7334 created gdoutch


int/long discrepancy when formatting zero with "%.0d" 11/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7335 created mark.dickinson


traceback module not properly printing exceptions on interpreter 11/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7336 created rtyler


Add lossy queue to queue library module 11/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7337 created bpb


recursive __attribute__ -> Fatal Python error: Cannot recover fr 11/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7338 created kaizhu


bsddb crashes when transaction limit occurs 11/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7339 created pc


Doc for sys.exc_info has warning that is no longer valid 11/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7340 created ghewgill


test_tarfile failing (file in use when deleting) on Windows buil 11/17/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7341 created pmoore
patch, buildbot

str(datetime_obj) doesn't include microseconds if their value is 11/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7342 created ezio.melotti


"What's new in 3.0" says % operator will be deprecated in 3.1 11/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7343 created jaredgrubb


wsgiref tests failing on Windows 7 buildbot 11/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7344 created ncoghlan
buildbot

calendar.TextCalendar().formatyear wrong argument list 11/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7345 created dingle


Redirected stdout fires [Errno 9] 11/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7346 created ecir.hana


Patch - add RegCreateKeyEx to _winreg 11/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7347 created brian.curtin
patch

StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1) returns the wrong result compare 11/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7348 created exarkun


StringIO.StringIO, io.BytesIO, and io.StringIO accept None in pl 11/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7349 created exarkun


csv doesn't handle escaped characters properly 11/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7350 created est_python_tracker


Documentation typos found in "zipfile — Work with ZIP archives 11/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7351 reopened Retro
patch

python2.6-config --ldflags out of /usr and missing -L<install_li 11/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7352 created mauger


cporting docs recommend using Include/intobject.h, which was rem 11/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7353 created dmalcolm


distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can have va 11/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7354 created pmoore
patch, patch, buildbot

Struct incorrectly compiles format strings 11/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7355 reopened mark.dickinson
easy

parsing of ldconfig output in ctypes/utils.py depends on the loc 11/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7356 created doko
patch

tarfile doesn't detect disk full error on extraction 11/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7357 created eliv


cPickle crash on failed assertion 11/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7358 created rybesh


mailbox cannot modify mailboxes in system mail spool 11/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7359 created doko


[mailbox] race: mbox may lose data with concurrent access 11/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7360 created doko


Strange importlib error during test_multiprocessing failure 11/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7361 created r.david.murray


Incorrect error message with def((x)=0) 11/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7362 created james.lingard


Inconsistent indentation in SocketServer docs 11/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7363 created ubershmekel
patch

Traceback contains incorrect line number for duplicate argument 11/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7364 created james.lingard


grp and pwd should treat uid and gid as unsigned 11/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7365 created eplese
patch

weakref module example relies on behaviour not guaranteed by id( 11/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7366 created jamesh


IDLE OSError [errno 13] permission denied accessing help files 11/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7367 created Quik_Foot


Internal error in threading.py 11/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7368 created 3Jane


Fibonacci example does not include 0; section 4.6 11/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7369 created prm225


patch: BaseHTTPServer reinventing rfc822 11/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7370 created schmiddy
patch



Issues Now Closed (50)
______________________

py3k os.popen result is not iterable, patch attached 806 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1087 ezio.melotti
patch

"python -m pydoc -g" fails 650 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2029 ncoghlan


add ftp-tls support to ftplib - RFC 4217 648 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2054 pitrou
patch

Fold unary + and not on constants 601 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2499 rhettinger
patch

IDLE won't start in custom directory. 426 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3881 gagenellina
patch

single architecture framework build fails on OS X 10.5 418 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3962 ronaldoussoren


pprint._safe_repr is not general enough in one instance 418 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3976 rhettinger


IDLE does not open too 405 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4049 loewis
patch

mimetypes on Windows should read MIME database from registry (w/ 302 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4969 pitrou
patch

unicode(x) for weakref.proxy objects invokes __str__ instead of 299 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5037 benjamin.peterson
patch, needs review

Malloc errors in test_io 232 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5614 ronaldoussoren


Enable short float repr() on Solaris/x86 210 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5792 mark.dickinson
patch, easy

Subclassing property doesn't preserve the auto __doc__ behavior 202 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5890 moriyoshi
patch, needs review

normpath() sometimes maps unicode to str 127 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6450 ezio.melotti


Wrong doc strings in itertools 91 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6738 rhettinger
patch

Provide CPython command line functionality via runpy module 79 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6816 cjw296


enable compilation of readline module on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 68 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6877 srid
patch, 26backport, needs review

Redundant calls made to comparison methods. 54 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6970 mark.dickinson
needs review

strptime problem 42 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7085 ronaldoussoren


imp.load_module in thread causes core dump on OSX 10.6 35 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7144 ronaldoussoren


Unportable test(1) construct 30 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7179 ronaldoussoren
patch

"pydoc -k" can generate AttributeError on Mac OS X 29 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7180 ronaldoussoren


64 bit python fails on Windows 7 24 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7206 richo


Mark expected failures of test_math, test_cmath and test_round a 13 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7251 mark.dickinson
buildbot

Fix set.intersection docstring 14 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7263 rhettinger
patch

odd exec() behavior or documentation 8 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7286 georg.brandl


test_msvc9compiler test_reg_class failure on new Windows box 9 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7293 tarek


reversed(range(x, -1, -1)) is empty when x > 1 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7298 mark.dickinson
patch

Wrong link to Python Language Mapping Specification 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7302 georg.brandl


Run some tests in a loop until failure 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7312 r.david.murray
patch

2to3 fails when source file starts with BOM 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7313 benjamin.peterson


test_multiprocessing hangs in TestZZZNumberOfObjects after unitt 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7314 krisvale
buildbot

os.path.normpath doesn't normalize ../path/something.py 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7315 georg.brandl


multiprocessing should not wait endlessly 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7318 krisvale
patch

PyIter_Check(obj) fails when obj is of type PySetType 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7321 pitrou


decimal.Decimal greater than/less than sometimes gives wrong ans 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7323 mark.dickinson


Add sanity-check else case to regrtest option parsing 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7324 r.david.murray
patch, patch

SOLUTION pls? /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/visual/__init__.p 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7326 Arfrever


pydoc doesn't work from the command line 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7328 ncoghlan


test_tarfile failing (file in use when deleting) on Windows buil 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7341 lars.gustaebel
patch, buildbot

"What's new in 3.0" says % operator will be deprecated in 3.1 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7343 rhettinger


wsgiref tests failing on Windows 7 buildbot 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7344 amaury.forgeotdarc
buildbot

distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can have va 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7354 tarek
patch, patch, buildbot

Incorrect error message with def((x)=0) 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7362 benjamin.peterson


Inconsistent indentation in SocketServer docs 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7363 r.david.murray
patch

Traceback contains incorrect line number for duplicate argument 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7364 benjamin.peterson


Internal error in threading.py 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7368 r.david.murray


fix for scheme identification in urllib2? 1448 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1368312 orsenthil
easy

cp720 encoding map 1066 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1616979 bialix
patch, needs review

[PATCH] Fix ptcp154 encoding cyrillic_asian alias 851 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1757126 pjenvey
patch



Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________

19 crasher in str(Exception()) 8 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7309

14 test_msvc9compiler test_reg_class failure on new Windows box 9 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7293

13 Provide CPython command line functionality via runpy module 79 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6816

12 test_multiprocessing dictionary changed size errors and hang 47 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7060

11 test_tarfile failing (file in use when deleting) on Windows bui 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7341

9 reversed(range(x, -1, -1)) is empty when x > 1 6 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7298

9 add ftp-tls support to ftplib - RFC 4217 648 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue2054

7 Struct incorrectly compiles format strings 1 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7355

7 Documentation typos found in "zipfile — Work with ZIP archive 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7351

6 Add initgroups to the posix/os modules 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7333

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (11/20/09 - 11/27/09)
Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/

To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue
number. Do NOT respond to this message.


2506 open (+19) / 16719 closed (+14) / 19225 total (+33)

Open issues with patches: 999

Average duration of open issues: 689 days.
Median duration of open issues: 444 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
open 2471 (+19)
pending 34 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (34)
_______________________________

multiprocessing logging support test 11/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6615 reopened jnoller
patch

Windows 64-bit build "skips" several projects in VS 2008 11/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7371 created srid


Regression in pstats 11/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7372 created belopolsky
patch

Use PyModule_AddIntMacro() in Modules/gcmodule.c 11/21/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7373 created jon
patch

Property accessor/getter called twice 11/22/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7374 created mliddle


2to3 - does not translate urllib2 to urllib.request correctly fo 11/22/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7375 created orsenthil


"python -m doctest" results in FAIL: Doctest: __main__.DebugRunn 11/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7376 created flox
patch

Slight difference: math.floor returns an Integral 11/22/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7377 created flox


unexpected truncation of traceback 11/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7378 created ghewgill
patch

Docstring for fractions.Fraction.limit_denominator fails 11/23/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7379 created flox


uuid.UUID.bytes gives a bytearray() instead of bytes 11/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7380 created flox
patch

subprocess.check_output: "docstring has inconsistent leading whi 11/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7381 created flox
patch

bytes.__getnewargs__ is broken; copy.copy() therefore doesn't wo 11/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7382 created sh
patch, easy

test_multiprocessing leaks 11/23/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7383 created pitrou


test_curses crash on FreeBSD buildbots 11/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7384 created mark.dickinson
buildbot

MemoryView_FromObject crashes if PyBuffer_GetBuffer fails 11/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7385 created pv


More precise document on os.path.normpath() 11/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7386 created pengyu.ut


More precise document on os.path.normpath() 11/24/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7387 created pengyu.ut


Documentation: capitalizations of the word 'python' needed when 11/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7388 created Retro
easy

Make decimal floating point be default, remove binary floating p 11/24/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7389 created Retro


inconsistent type return 11/24/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7390 created surkamp


Re-title the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" anti-idiom 11/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7391 created Horpner


cPickle test failure on release26-maint branch 11/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7392 created alexandre.vassalotti


Executing Python program of sum of 2 nos. 11/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7393 created mayur78


sqlite3: some OperationalError exceptions should be ProgrammingE 11/25/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7394 created dontbugme


pstats add command raises unhandled exception 11/25/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7395 created exarkun


regrtest single: iterator not subscriptable 11/26/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7396 created jgsack


__import__ docs should reference importlib.import_module 11/26/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7397 created ncoghlan
easy

Issue with _PyLong_Format while trying to build Python on HP-UX 11/26/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7398 created paulh_irl


Possible bug in Python Tutorial 11/26/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7399 created dh


Small typo in Python's library documentation: set 11/26/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7400 created trovao
patch

os.write and os.close on pipe from separate threads hangs on Mac 11/26/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7401 created hughsw


reduce() is an anti-example in "Idioms and Anti-Idioms" 11/27/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7402 created cito


Race condition in logging._acquireLock()? 11/27/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7403 created allenap




Issues Now Closed (34)
______________________

Traceback doesn't run back all the way 412 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4097 benjamin.peterson


compilation of sqlite3 fails 400 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4158 brett.cannon


urllib2 HTTPS connection failure (BadStatusLine Exception) 307 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5007 orsenthil
easy

multiprocessing example wrong 224 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5738 jnoller
patch

datetime.timedelta is inconvenient to use... 222 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5788 pitrou
patch

tarfile: opening an empty tar file fails 179 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6123 lars.gustaebel
patch

OS X: python3 from python-3.1.dmg crashes at startup 146 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6393 ronaldoussoren
patch, needs review

expose setresuid 133 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6508 loewis
patch

Restart support in binary upload for ftplib 83 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6845 pitrou
patch

Backport py3k float repr to trunk 43 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7117 mark.dickinson
patch

cPickle looking for non-existent package copyreg 41 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7128 alexandre.vassalotti
patch, easy

%lld for PyErr_Format (Modules/_io/bufferedio.c) 28 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7228 mark.dickinson
patch

global statements outside functions/methods should raise SyntaxE 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7329 rhettinger


calendar.TextCalendar().formatyear wrong argument list 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7345 georg.brandl


csv doesn't handle escaped characters properly 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7350 tjreedy


Fibonacci example does not include 0; section 4.6 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7369 mark.dickinson


Windows 64-bit build "skips" several projects in VS 2008 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7371 srid


Use PyModule_AddIntMacro() in Modules/gcmodule.c 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7373 benjamin.peterson
patch

Property accessor/getter called twice 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7374 mliddle


2to3 - does not translate urllib2 to urllib.request correctly fo 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7375 benjamin.peterson


Slight difference: math.floor returns an Integral 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7377 r.david.murray


Docstring for fractions.Fraction.limit_denominator fails 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7379 mark.dickinson


test_multiprocessing leaks 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7383 r.david.murray


More precise document on os.path.normpath() 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7387 benjamin.peterson


Make decimal floating point be default, remove binary floating p 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7389 mark.dickinson


inconsistent type return 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7390 pitrou


Executing Python program of sum of 2 nos. 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7393 rhettinger


Issue with _PyLong_Format while trying to build Python on HP-UX 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7398 eric.smith


Small typo in Python's library documentation: set 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7400 georg.brandl
patch

Race condition in logging._acquireLock()? 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7403 vinay.sajip


Handle ungzipped man pages in rpm builds correctly 1705 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1169193 dmalcolm
patch

difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters 1288 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1488943 orsenthil
patch

urllib2 proxy does not work in 2.4.3 1233 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1519816 orsenthil


csv module broken for unicode 1091 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1606092 r.david.murray




Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________

21 multiprocessing logging support test 3 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6615

8 test_multiprocessing fails consistently with 'signal 12' on Fre 21 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7272

6 test_multiprocessing leaks 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7383

6 Cython compiler run crashes CPython 3.1.1 and 3.2 38 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7173

5 "python -m doctest" results in FAIL: Doctest: __main__.DebugRun 5 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7376

5 Fibonacci example does not include 0; section 4.6 3 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7369

5 cPickle looking for non-existent package copyreg 41 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7128

5 Backport py3k float repr to trunk 43 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7117

5 bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages 2557 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue644744

5 deepcopy doesn't copy instance methods 730 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue1515

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (11/27/09 - 12/04/09)
Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/

To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue
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2501 open (+17) / 16755 closed (+14) / 19256 total (+31)

Open issues with patches: 998

Average duration of open issues: 695 days.
Median duration of open issues: 451 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
open 2466 (+17)
pending 34 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (31)
_______________________________

optparse Documentation References Example Files that do not Exis 11/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7404 created MarkRoddy
patch

compiling python 3.1.1 using cygwin 1.7.0 and gcc 4.3.4 11/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7405 created lopgok


int arithmetic relies on C signed overflow behaviour 11/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7406 created mark.dickinson


Minor Queue doc improvement 11/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7407 created flub
patch

test_distutils fails on Mac OS X 10.5 11/29/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7408 created titus


cleanup now deepcopy copies instance methods 11/29/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7409 created rbcollins
patch

deepcopy of itertools.count resets the count 11/30/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7410 created rbcollins


allow import from file having name containing hyphen or blank 11/30/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7411 created pfeldman@verizon.net


distutils install race condition 11/30/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7412 created illume


datetime.datetime.isoformat truncation problem 12/01/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7413 created exarkun
patch, needs review

Format code "C" is missing from skipitem() in getargs.c 12/01/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7414 created casevh
patch

PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() uses PyObject_AsCharBuffer() 12/01/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7415 created scoder


select module compile errors breaks OS X multi-architecture buil 12/01/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7416 created ned.deily


open builtin has no signature in docstring 12/01/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7417 created englabenny
patch

hashlib : the names of the different hash algorithms 12/01/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7418 created chaica_
patch

Crash in _locale.setlocale on windows 12/01/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7419 created amaury.forgeotdarc


turtle - turtle.update() doesn't override turtle.tracer() 12/01/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7420 created dragon


Given 12/01/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7421 created Fallen


Document inspect.get(full)argspec limitation to Python function 12/01/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7422 created tjreedy


nested generator expression produces strange results 12/02/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7423 created bogklug


segmentation fault in listextend during install 12/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7424 created jon.buller


[PATCH] Improve the robustness of "pydoc -k" in the face of brok 12/02/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7425 created dmalcolm
patch

StringIO and with statement 12/03/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7426 created jmfauth


BadStatusLine is hell to debug 12/03/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7427 created djc


Possible memory issue with optparse 12/03/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7428 created wfspotz


PrettyPrinter cannot print dicts with unsortable keys 12/03/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7429 created maranos


"cmp" still sends messages 12/03/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7430 created LambertDW


UnboundLocalError during test.test_linecache.LineCacheTests 12/03/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7431 created ivank
patch

Py3k doc: "from __future__ import division" not necessary 12/03/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7432 created jaredgrubb


MemoryView memory_getbuf causes segfaults, double call to tp_rel 12/03/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7433 created pv


pprint doesn't know how to print a namedtuple 12/04/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue7434 created afoglia




Issues Now Closed (40)
______________________

deepcopy doesn't copy instance methods 731 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1515 pitrou
patch

Automatically disable pymalloc when running under valgrind 624 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2422 benjamin.peterson
patch

Mac build_install.py script fetches unavailable SQLite version 623 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2441 ghaering
patch

Make '%F' and float.__format__('F') convert results to upper cas 500 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3382 eric.smith
patch, easy

PyObject_GetAttr() to get special methods 486 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3471 benjamin.peterson


faster long multiplication 431 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3944 mark.dickinson
patch

Popen(..., cwd=...) does not set PWD environment variable 421 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4057 r.david.murray


Do not embed manifest files in *.pyd when compiling with MSVC 415 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4120 loewis
patch

10e667.__format__('+') should return 'inf' 366 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4482 eric.smith
patch

Exception traceback is incorrect for strange exception handling 361 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4486 pitrou
patch, needs review

Objects/bytesobject.c should include stringdefs.h, instead of de 230 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5748 eric.smith
easy

Unicode issue with tempfile on Windows 193 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6077 amaury.forgeotdarc
patch, needs review

test_posix getcwd test leaves tmp dir 70 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6974 r.david.murray


range() fails with long integers 70 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6985 mark.dickinson


decimal.py: use DivisionImpossible and DivisionUndefined 58 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7046 rhettinger


decimal.py: logb: round the result if it is greater than prec 62 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7048 mark.dickinson
patch

urllib2.urlopen() timeout argument ignored after redirect 48 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7118 orsenthil


Unclear warning for subprocess.call 43 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7177 pjenvey


select module - kevent ident field 64 bit issue 36 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7211 ned.deily
patch

test_multiprocessing fails consistently with 'signal 12' on Free 22 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7272 db3l
patch, buildbot

format: minimum width: UTF-8 separators and decimal points 19 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7327 eric.smith


Add initgroups to the posix/os modules 16 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7333 pitrou
patch

os.write and os.close on pipe from separate threads hangs on Mac 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7401 ronaldoussoren


Race condition in logging._acquireLock()? 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7403 vinay.sajip


test_distutils fails on Mac OS X 10.5 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7408 titus


cleanup now deepcopy copies instance methods 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7409 benjamin.peterson
patch

deepcopy of itertools.count resets the count 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7410 rhettinger


allow import from file having name containing hyphen or blank 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7411 pitrou


Format code "C" is missing from skipitem() in getargs.c 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7414 mark.dickinson
patch

select module compile errors breaks OS X multi-architecture buil 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7416 ronaldoussoren


Crash in _locale.setlocale on windows 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7419 amaury.forgeotdarc


turtle - turtle.update() doesn't override turtle.tracer() 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7420 r.david.murray


Given 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7421 eric.smith


nested generator expression produces strange results 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7423 r.david.murray


Possible memory issue with optparse 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7428 loewis


PrettyPrinter cannot print dicts with unsortable keys 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7429 r.david.murray


"cmp" still sends messages 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7430 mark.dickinson


UnboundLocalError during test.test_linecache.LineCacheTests 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7431 r.david.murray
patch

0.0 and -0.0 identified, with surprising results 35 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1678380 mark.dickinson
patch

chown broken on 64bit 882 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1747858 pitrou
64bit



Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
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14 test_distutils fails on Mac OS X 10.5 0 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7408

14 format: minimum width: UTF-8 separators and decimal points 19 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7327

10 open builtin has no signature in docstring 3 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7417

7 os.write and os.close on pipe from separate threads hangs on Ma 5 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7401

6 deepcopy doesn't copy instance methods 731 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1515

5 MemoryView memory_getbuf causes segfaults, double call to tp_re 1 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7433

5 10e667.__format__('+') should return 'inf' 366 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4482

5 Popen(..., cwd=...) does not set PWD environment variable 421 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4057

5 Make '%F' and float.__format__('F') convert results to upper ca 500 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3382

4 datetime.datetime.isoformat truncation problem 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7413