[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@manatee.mojam.com
Sun, 9 Feb 2003 07:00:20 -0600

Bug/Patch Summary

336 open / 3310 total bugs (-15) 123 open / 1962 total patches (+2)

New Bugs

Security review of pickle/marshal docs (2001-10-16) http://python.org/sf/471893 long(3.1415) gives zero on Solaris 8 (2003-02-03) http://python.org/sf/679520 Header loses lines, formats strangely (2003-02-03) http://python.org/sf/679827 'compile' refuses BOM. (2003-02-03) http://python.org/sf/679880 zipfile.py - pack filesize as unsigned allows files > 2 gig (2003-02-03) http://python.org/sf/679953 Incorrect permissions set in lib-dynload. (2003-02-04) http://python.org/sf/680379 module broken for extension classes (2003-02-04) http://python.org/sf/680429 urllib2 authentication problem (2003-02-04) http://python.org/sf/680577 repr() of large array objects takes quadratic time (2003-02-05) http://python.org/sf/680789 C subtypes do not inherit tp_as_buffer (2003-02-05) http://python.org/sf/681367 Source encoding rules are extreme. (2003-02-06) http://python.org/sf/681960 Carbon.CF.CFString should require ASCII (2003-02-07) http://python.org/sf/682215 plistlib.py selftest fails (2003-02-07) http://python.org/sf/682317 email: preamble must be \n terminated (2003-02-07) http://python.org/sf/682504 urllib2 HTTPDigestAuthHandler misnamed class attr (2003-02-07) http://python.org/sf/682648 dircache.listdir doesn't signal error (2003-02-08) http://python.org/sf/682813 gzip module cannot write large files (2003-02-08) http://python.org/sf/683061

New Patches

xmlrpclib: better string encoding in responce package (2003-02-03) http://python.org/sf/679383 SimpleXMLRPCServer: optional 'encoding' argument (2003-02-03) http://python.org/sf/679392 Deprecate rotor module (2003-02-03) http://python.org/sf/679505 Fix for the bug #679880: 'compile' refuses BOM. (2003-02-04) http://python.org/sf/680474 replace() method in unicode objects (2003-02-05) http://python.org/sf/680863 Tiny patch for bug 612074: sre unicode escapes (2003-02-05) http://python.org/sf/681152 using gcc on cygwin for config (2003-02-05) http://python.org/sf/681504 smtpd.py move setuid, allow dashes (2003-02-05) http://python.org/sf/681515 Faster commonprefix (OS independent) (2003-02-06) http://python.org/sf/681780 bundlebuilder: Add dylibs, frameworks to the bundle (2003-02-06) http://python.org/sf/681927 lookbehind tests (2003-02-07) http://python.org/sf/682432 Optional output streams for dis (2003-02-08) http://python.org/sf/683074 Patch for bug 580952: import lock should be exposed (2003-02-08) http://python.org/sf/683257

Closed Bugs

pydoc should be integrated with HTML doc (2001-03-02) http://python.org/sf/405554 sdist can't create empty directories (2001-04-02) http://python.org/sf/413144 urllib and socket fail with MS proxy (2001-05-23) http://python.org/sf/426866 distutils does not deduce dependencies (2001-10-19) http://python.org/sf/472881 popen3 file objects hanging (2001-11-14) http://python.org/sf/481896 python 2.2 shelve (2002-01-16) http://python.org/sf/504282 pydoc fails to generate html doc (2002-02-07) http://python.org/sf/514627 Interpreter crashes when recoding (2002-04-13) http://python.org/sf/543344 Inconsistent behaviour in re grouping (2002-07-01) http://python.org/sf/576079 Subclassing WeakValueDictionary impossib (2002-07-11) http://python.org/sf/580107 add way to detect bsddb version (2002-07-21) http://python.org/sf/584409 SMTP.login() uses invalid base64 enc. (2002-09-18) http://python.org/sf/611052 help(UNICODE) -- reference page missing (2002-10-17) http://python.org/sf/624860 Move bdist_wininst source code into PC (2002-11-14) http://python.org/sf/638595 Discovered typo in zlib test. (2002-11-18) http://python.org/sf/640230 help() fails for some builtin topics (2002-11-21) http://python.org/sf/642168 typeobject provides incorrect mul (2002-12-30) http://python.org/sf/660144 urllib2 exceptions need improvement (2003-01-04) http://python.org/sf/662099 Crash in binascii_a2b_uu (2003-01-09) http://python.org/sf/665460 'help' makes linefeed only under Win32 (2003-01-11) http://python.org/sf/666444 Abort with "negative ref count" (2003-01-15) http://python.org/sf/668433 time module: time tuple not returned by certain functions (2003-01-21) http://python.org/sf/671731 setting socket timeout crashes SSL? (2003-01-23) http://python.org/sf/673797 re.compile fails for verbose re with more than one group (2003-01-24) http://python.org/sf/674264 os.environ leaks under FreeBSD and Mac OS X (2003-01-26) http://python.org/sf/675259 BaseHTTPServer; HTTP/1.1 spec not "vague" (2003-01-28) http://python.org/sf/676273 BaseHTTPServer incorrectly parses protocol (2003-01-28) http://python.org/sf/676292 after using pdb readline does not work correctly (2003-01-28) http://python.org/sf/676342 add warning to os.getlogin (2003-01-31) http://python.org/sf/678077 list.append memory leak ? (2003-01-31) http://python.org/sf/678352 test_long fails (2003-01-31) http://python.org/sf/678375

Closed Patches

start docs for PyEval_* functions (2002-04-12) http://python.org/sf/543098 cmd.py: add instance-specific stdin/out (2002-05-20) http://python.org/sf/558544 PEP 269 Implementation (2002-08-23) http://python.org/sf/599331 build_ext forgets libraries par w MSVC (2002-08-28) http://python.org/sf/601314 Modulefinder doesn't handle PyXML (2002-11-13) http://python.org/sf/637835 PEP 298 implementation (2002-12-12) http://python.org/sf/652857 gzip shouldn't ValueError on corruptfile (2002-12-15) http://python.org/sf/654421 apply() should get PendingDeprecation (2003-01-02) http://python.org/sf/661437 distutils config exe_extension on Mac OS X, Linux (2003-01-07) http://python.org/sf/664131 Expand dbshelve to have full shelve/dict interface (2003-01-24) http://python.org/sf/674396 Cygwin _tkinter Tcl/Tk 8.4 patch (2003-01-29) http://python.org/sf/676835 zlib module needs decompress flush. (2003-01-31) http://python.org/sf/678531 Use ifilter in sets module (2003-02-01) http://python.org/sf/678899