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

Kurt B. Kaiser kbk at shore.net
Mon Mar 12 01:27:51 CET 2007

Patch / Bug Summary

Patches : 380 open (-36) / 3658 closed (+65) / 4038 total (+29) Bugs : 965 open ( -9) / 6555 closed (+35) / 7520 total (+26) RFE : 272 open ( +4) / 253 closed ( +2) / 525 total ( +6)

New / Reopened Patches

Extension documentation for subclasses (2007-03-01) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1671450 opened by Pete Shinners

MultiCall bug crashing the config dialog (2007-03-02) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1672481 opened by Tal Einat

urllib2 requests history + HEAD support (2007-03-03) http://python.org/sf/1673007 opened by KDanilov aka koder

README update: Bash default on ac OS X (2007-03-03) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1673121 opened by Witten

Mac OS X: libtool (2007-03-03) http://python.org/sf/1673122 opened by Witten

change repr(...) from 'Ellipsis' to '...' (2007-03-04) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1673355 opened by John Reese

Identify modules to be built and not built (2007-03-04) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1673619 opened by Skip Montanaro

'G' formatting doesn't catch same errors as 'g' (2007-03-04) http://python.org/sf/1673759 opened by Eric V. Smith

Identify modules which couldn't be built (2007-03-04) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1673619 reopened by loewis

sq_ass_slice ignored if sq_slice not defined (2007-03-05) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1674228 opened by ?iga Seilnacht

Epoll wrapper (2007-03-06) http://python.org/sf/1675118 opened by TH

Draft implementation for PEP 364 (2007-03-06) http://python.org/sf/1675334 opened by Barry A. Warsaw

PEP 3114 -- next() -> next() (2007-03-07) http://python.org/sf/1675363 opened by Georg Brandl

Make PyComplex_AsCComplex use complex (2007-03-07) http://python.org/sf/1675423 opened by Mark Dickinson

Zipfile tweaks and test coverage improvement (2007-03-06) http://python.org/sf/1675424 opened by Alan McIntyre

Use getaddrinfo() in urllib2.py for IPv6 support (2007-03-07) http://python.org/sf/1675455 opened by David Cantrell

Refactor test_pty.py to use unittest. (2007-03-06) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1675471 opened by Jerry Seutter

[gzip] Performance for small reads and fix seek problem (2007-03-07) http://python.org/sf/1675951 opened by Florian Festi

Remove dead code in typeobject's type_new() (2007-03-07) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1675981 opened by ?iga Seilnacht

Remove trailing slash from --prefix (2007-03-07) http://python.org/sf/1676135 opened by Björn Lindqvist

New File I/O type for Python 3000, plus .h and unit tests (2007-02-28) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1671314 reopened by collinwinter

Add a PeriodicTimer to threading (2007-03-08) http://python.org/sf/1676820 opened by Björn Lindqvist

Adding timeout to socket.py and httplib.py (2007-03-08) http://python.org/sf/1676823 opened by Facundo Batista

Refactor test_popen2.py to use unittest. (2007-03-08) http://python.org/sf/1676994 opened by Jerry Seutter

Support CREATE_SUSPENDED flag in subprocess.py for Win32 (2007-03-09) http://python.org/sf/1677688 opened by Chris Heller

site.py small ?bug fix | change? (2007-03-10) http://python.org/sf/1677862 opened by KDanilov aka koder

Efficient reverse line iterator (2007-03-10) http://python.org/sf/1677872 opened by Mark Russell

Removal of Tuple Parameter Unpacking [PEP3113] (2007-03-10) http://python.org/sf/1678060 opened by Tony Lownds

improve telnetlib.Telnet so option negotiation becomes easie (2007-03-10) http://python.org/sf/1678077 opened by Björn Lindqvist

Refactor test_operations.py to use unittest. (2007-03-10) http://python.org/sf/1678088 opened by Jerry Seutter

Adding a testcase for the bug in find_longest_match (2007-03-11) http://python.org/sf/1678339 opened by Denys Rtveliashvili

A fix for the bug #1528074 [warning: quite slow] (2007-03-11) http://python.org/sf/1678345 opened by Denys Rtveliashvili

Patches Closed

Extension documentation for subclasses (2007-03-01) http://python.org/sf/1671450 closed by gbrandl

MultiCall bug crashing the config dialog (2007-03-02) http://python.org/sf/1672481 closed by gbrandl

README update: Bash default on Mac OS X (2007-03-03) http://python.org/sf/1673121 closed by gbrandl

change repr(...) from 'Ellipsis' to '...' (2007-03-04) http://python.org/sf/1673355 closed by gvanrossum

Use a set to keep interned strings (2006-06-16) http://python.org/sf/1507011 closed by loewis

Add support for the If-Modified-Since header (2006-03-04) http://python.org/sf/1442867 closed by loewis

N-d array interface for array object (2006-03-18) http://python.org/sf/1452906 closed by loewis

Fix for win32 proxy bypass support (no_proxy) in urllib(2) (2005-03-01) http://python.org/sf/1154227 closed by loewis

Names conflict with QT (on linux) (2005-03-08) http://python.org/sf/1158926 closed by loewis

PYTHONBYTECODEBASE patch (PEP 304) (2003-01-29) http://python.org/sf/677103 closed by loewis

Identify modules which couldn't be built (2007-03-04) http://python.org/sf/1673619 closed by montanaro

Identify modules which couldn't be built (2007-03-04) http://python.org/sf/1673619 closed by loewis

sq_ass_slice ignored if sq_slice not defined (2007-03-05) http://python.org/sf/1674228 closed by gbrandl

Add syntax for dynamic attribute access (2007-02-11) http://python.org/sf/1657573 closed by bennorth

ZipFile.open - read-only file-like obj for files in archive (2005-02-12) http://python.org/sf/1121142 closed by loewis

2 Tools for easy inter-thread communication->Queue,threading (2006-03-20) http://python.org/sf/1454452 closed by loewis

Patch to implement PEP 351 (2005-10-23) http://python.org/sf/1335812 closed by bwarsaw

PEP 343 implementation (2005-07-11) http://python.org/sf/1235943 closed by gbrandl

Fix for #947380 - sys.path is wrong on windows sometimes (2004-05-04) http://python.org/sf/947386 closed by zseil

enable "python -m doctest FILE" to run tests in FILE (2007-02-19) http://python.org/sf/1663234 closed by gbrandl

small sanity checks for user-defined mros (2005-03-15) http://python.org/sf/1163731 closed by loewis

add None values in SimpleXMLRPCServer (2006-12-18) http://python.org/sf/1618485 closed by collinwinter

HTMLParser should support entities in attributes (2004-03-09) http://python.org/sf/912410 closed by loewis

Little (improvement and standarization) to asyncore. (2004-03-11) http://python.org/sf/914096 closed by josiahcarlson

gzip.GzipFile to accept stream as fileobj. (2004-03-11) http://python.org/sf/914340 closed by gbrandl

operator.c slice functions need to parse ssize_t (2007-02-07) http://python.org/sf/1654417 closed by gbrandl

ConfigParser getboolean() consistency (2007-01-28) http://python.org/sf/1646432 closed by gbrandl

clarify comparison return values (2006-11-24) http://python.org/sf/1602128 closed by gbrandl

Fix to the long("123\0", 10) problem (2007-01-18) http://python.org/sf/1638879 closed by gbrandl

Implementation of PEP 362 (2006-08-22) http://python.org/sf/1544909 closed by bcannon

Improved profiler (2005-06-01) http://python.org/sf/1212837 closed by arigo

fix bug #670311: sys.exit and PYTHONINSPECT (2003-03-04) http://python.org/sf/697613 closed by gbrandl

Fix strange warnings from interpreter if PYTHONSTARTUP used (2003-03-14) http://python.org/sf/703779 closed by gbrandl

glob doesn't return unicode with no dir in unicode filename (2004-08-01) http://python.org/sf/1001604 closed by gbrandl

dircache fix; raise like os.listdir, plus optimization (2004-07-25) http://python.org/sf/997726 closed by gbrandl

Refactor test_pty.py to use unittest. (2007-03-07) http://python.org/sf/1675471 closed by gbrandl

More precise realm parsing in AbstractBasicAuthHandler (2003-09-25) http://python.org/sf/812285 closed by gbrandl

Add a test suite for unittest (2006-09-01) http://python.org/sf/1550272 closed by gbrandl

Fix numerous bugs in unittest (2006-09-01) http://python.org/sf/1550273 closed by gbrandl

unittest.py: Custom TestRunners and --verbose (2003-08-13) http://python.org/sf/787789 closed by gbrandl

set comprehensions (2006-08-29) http://python.org/sf/1548388 closed by gbrandl

ConfigParser to save with order (2006-01-07) http://python.org/sf/1399309 closed by facundobatista

Remove dead code in typeobject's type_new() (2007-03-07) http://python.org/sf/1675981 closed by zseil

Fixes SocketServer Bug 1531963 (2006-08-22) http://python.org/sf/1545011 closed by collinwinter

Unification of list-comp and for syntax (2006-05-21) http://python.org/sf/1492509 closed by collinwinter

Complex representation (2006-05-19) http://python.org/sf/1491866 closed by collinwinter

Remove operator.truth() and operator.abs() (2006-07-13) http://python.org/sf/1522059 closed by collinwinter

XML Test Runner for unittest module (2006-07-14) http://python.org/sf/1522704 closed by collinwinter

New File I/O type for Python 3000, plus .h and unit tests (2007-02-28) http://python.org/sf/1671314 closed by collinwinter

New File I/O type for Python 3000, plus .h and unit tests (2007-02-28) http://python.org/sf/1671314 closed by gvanrossum

ast branch changed interactive module name (2006-06-25) http://python.org/sf/1512007 closed by collinwinter

Patch for bug #1380970 (2006-01-25) http://python.org/sf/1414934 closed by collinwinter

email.utils.parsedate documentation (2007-01-19) http://python.org/sf/1639973 closed by collinwinter

Module fixedlenfields for standard lib (2005-11-29) http://python.org/sf/1369028 closed by collinwinter

don't use '-' and '_' in mkstemp (2007-02-25) http://python.org/sf/1668482 closed by collinwinter

Strobe Timer for guis (2005-09-26) http://python.org/sf/1304895 closed by collinwinter

Fix for bug 494589 (2002-12-25) http://python.org/sf/658599 closed by nnorwitz

Support of HTTP_REFERER in CGIHTTPServer.py (2006-05-03) http://python.org/sf/1481079 closed by collinwinter

Improves an error message from setattr (2006-06-26) http://python.org/sf/1512942 closed by collinwinter

RFE: Extend smtplib.py with support for LMTP (2004-05-19) http://python.org/sf/957003 closed by loewis

TCPServer option to bind and activate (2006-11-20) http://python.org/sf/1599845 closed by collinwinter

os.py: base class _Environ on dict instead of UserDict (2005-01-02) http://python.org/sf/1094387 closed by collinwinter

Add missing types to builtin (2004-08-16) http://python.org/sf/1009811 closed by collinwinter

Patch for 1115886 - splitext incorrectly handles filenames l (2006-03-31) http://python.org/sf/1462106 closed by loewis

New / Reopened Bugs

python code fails with "MemoryError" on HP-UX 11.11 PA_RISC (2007-03-01) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1671411 opened by shashi

test_mailbox is hanging while doing gmake test on HP-UX v3 (2007-03-01) http://python.org/sf/1671676 opened by shashi

shutil.copy2 modifies decimal part of last modification time (2007-03-01) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1671965 opened by Guy Dalberto

cPickle can pickle, but cannot unpickle on 64bit machines (2007-03-02) http://python.org/sf/1672332 opened by Bartlomiej Ogryczak

Building python 2.5 for AMD64 (windows) and VS2005 (2007-03-02) http://python.org/sf/1672336 opened by fred2k

datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative fractional times (2007-01-28) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1646728 reopened by gvanrossum

silent error in email.message.Message.get_payload (2007-03-02) http://python.org/sf/1672568 opened by Renaud Blanch

Error reading files larger than 4GB (2007-03-03) http://python.org/sf/1672853 opened by Case Van Horsen

date-datetime comparison doesn't work (2007-03-04) http://python.org/sf/1673403 opened by Jon Ribbens

None-datetime comparison doesn't work (2007-03-04) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1673405 opened by Jon Ribbens

datetime module missing some important methods (2007-03-04) http://python.org/sf/1673409 opened by Jon Ribbens

string and unicode formatting are missing a test for "G" (2007-03-04) http://python.org/sf/1673757 opened by Eric V. Smith

2.4.4 Logging LogRecord attributes broken (2007-02-26) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1669498 reopened by murrayg

Unicode xmlcharrefreplace produces backslash not xml style. (2007-03-05) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1674223 opened by Stanley Sokolow

execfile() response to syntax errors (2007-03-05) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1674503 opened by Jonathan Griffitts

Python 2.5 testsuite sys.path contains system dirs (2007-03-06) http://python.org/sf/1674555 opened by Theodoros V. Kalamatianos

Redirect cause invalid descriptor error (2007-03-06) http://python.org/sf/1675026 opened by Jean-Marc Ranger

Python still uses broken -xcode option on Solaris/x86 (2007-03-07) http://python.org/sf/1675511 opened by Carson Gaspar

random.randint fails on lists (2007-03-07) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1675516 opened by sardonics

setup.py LDFLAGS regexp is wrong (2007-03-07) http://python.org/sf/1675533 opened by Carson Gaspar

Python2.5 can't read a (complex) pickle build by python2.4 (2007-03-07) http://python.org/sf/1675967 opened by Michael Vogt

Problem linking to readline lib on x86(64) Solaris (2007-03-07) http://python.org/sf/1676121 opened by Alexander Belopolsky

scheduler.empty() in module sched appears broken (2007-03-08) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1676321 opened by Mark

Stdlib reference is in italics (2007-03-08) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1676656 opened by Björn Lindqvist

Complex OverflowError has a typo (2007-03-09) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1676971 opened by John Dong

test_timeout refactoring (2007-03-10) http://python.org/sf/1677694 opened by Björn Lindqvist

zlib.crc32() not cross-platform (2007-03-10) http://python.org/sf/1678102 opened by Ben Collver

0.0 and -0.0 identified, with surprising results (2007-03-11) http://python.org/sf/1678380 reopened by marketdickinson

0.0 and -0.0 identified, with surprising results (2007-03-11) http://python.org/sf/1678380 opened by Mark Dickinson

StringIO / cStringIO inconsistency with unicode (2007-03-11) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1678411 opened by Armin Rigo

Weird behavior Exception with unicode string (2007-03-11) http://python.org/sf/1678647 opened by Leandro Lucarella

Bugs Closed

python code fails with "MemoryError" on HP-UX 11.11 PA_RISC (2007-03-01) http://python.org/sf/1671411 closed by loewis

Python needs a way to detect implementation (2007-02-27) http://python.org/sf/1669743 closed by loewis

Pydoc sets choices for doc locations incorrectly (2007-01-05) http://python.org/sf/1628895 closed by gbrandl

shutil.copy2 modifies decimal part of last modification time (2007-03-01) http://python.org/sf/1671965 closed by loewis

datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative fractional times (2007-01-29) http://python.org/sf/1646728 closed by gbrandl

datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative fractional times (2007-01-28) http://python.org/sf/1646728 closed by gvanrossum

Clarify PyMem_Realloc and PyMem_Resize docs (2007-02-26) http://python.org/sf/1669304 closed by gbrandl

PyMem_Realloc docs don't specifiy out-of-mem behavior (2007-02-24) http://python.org/sf/1668032 closed by gbrandl

PyMem_Resize docs don't specify that it modifies an argument (2007-02-24) http://python.org/sf/1668036 closed by gbrandl

None-datetime comparison doesn't work (2007-03-04) http://python.org/sf/1673405 closed by tim_one

2.4.4 Logging LogRecord attributes broken (2007-02-26) http://python.org/sf/1669498 closed by vsajip

Unicode xmlcharrefreplace produces backslash not xml style. (2007-03-05) http://python.org/sf/1674223 closed by doerwalter

curses should reset curses.{COLS,LINES} when term. resized (2007-01-12) http://python.org/sf/1633621 closed by doerwalter

execfile() response to syntax errors (2007-03-05) http://python.org/sf/1674503 closed by gbrandl

PyType_IsSubtype segfaults (2007-02-19) http://python.org/sf/1663392 closed by sf-robot

sys.path is wrong in some cases (2004-05-04) http://python.org/sf/947380 closed by gbrandl

inspect.getargspec() fails with keyword-only arguments (2007-02-25) http://python.org/sf/1668565 closed by bcannon

os.path.splitext don't handle unix hidden file correctly (2005-02-04) http://python.org/sf/1115886 closed by loewis

sys.exit and PYTHONINSPECT (2003-01-18) http://python.org/sf/670311 closed by gbrandl

-xcode=pic32 option is not supported on Solaris x86 Sun C (2006-09-19) http://python.org/sf/1561333 closed by gbrandl

random.randint fails on lists (2007-03-07) http://python.org/sf/1675516 closed by quiver

document that shutil.copyfileobj does not seek() (2007-02-26) http://python.org/sf/1669331 closed by gbrandl

shutil.copyfileobj description is incomplete (2007-02-10) http://python.org/sf/1656578 closed by gbrandl

Enhance and correct unittest's docs (redux) (2006-09-01) http://python.org/sf/1550263 closed by gbrandl

Handle: class MyTest(unittest.TestSuite) (2004-01-16) http://python.org/sf/878275 closed by gbrandl

scheduler.empty() in module sched appears broken (2007-03-08) http://python.org/sf/1676321 closed by rhettinger

Stdlib reference is in italics (2007-03-08) http://python.org/sf/1676656 closed by gbrandl

evaluated code filename changed to instead of ? (2006-06-29) http://python.org/sf/1514617 closed by collinwinter

make_table in difflib does not work with unicode (2007-01-17) http://python.org/sf/1637850 closed by rhettinger

Complex OverflowError has a typo (2007-03-08) http://python.org/sf/1676971 closed by nnorwitz

documentation of email.utils.parsedate is confusing (2007-01-06) http://python.org/sf/1629566 closed by collinwinter

ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) is seen as zero-terminated-string (2007-01-28) http://python.org/sf/1646630 closed by theller

test_logging fails with reference count-checking enabled (2006-07-04) http://python.org/sf/1516995 closed by vsajip

ctypes.Structure formal parameter dies given tuple (2007-02-03) http://python.org/sf/1651235 closed by theller

SocketServer.TCPServer returns different ports (2006-07-31) http://python.org/sf/1531963 closed by collinwinter

Nested class name (2002-11-05) http://python.org/sf/633930 closed by gvanrossum

SocketServer allow_reuse_address checked in constructor (2006-11-13) http://python.org/sf/1595742 closed by collinwinter

StringIO / cStringIO inconsistency with unicode (2007-03-11) http://python.org/sf/1678411 closed by arigo

New / Reopened RFE

add identity function (2007-03-04) http://python.org/sf/1673203 opened by paul rubin

Make threading.Event().wait(timeout=3) return isSet (2007-03-05) http://python.org/sf/1674032 opened by David Fraser

funcName and module incorrectly reported in logging (2007-03-05) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1674315 opened by Michael Garvin

RFE Closed

funcName and module incorrectly reported in logging (2007-03-05) http://python.org/sf/1674315 closed by gbrandl

Interpreter should be interruptable everywhere (2004-10-08) http://python.org/sf/1043446 closed by rhettinger

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