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ACTIVITY SUMMARY (08/15/08 - 08/22/08) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/

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1976 open (+67) / 13495 closed (+21) / 15471 total (+88)

Open issues with patches: 626

Average duration of open issues: 717 days. Median duration of open issues: 1688 days.

Open Issues Breakdown open 1963 (+67) pending 13 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (92)

Can't pickle partial functions 08/15/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue1398 reopened alexandre.vassalotti

Operator precedence misdocumented 08/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3558 reopened tjreedy

Windows installer should add Python and Scripts directories to t 08/15/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3561 created jasonspiro

Intermitent failure in test_multiprocessing.test_number_of_objec 08/15/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3562 created pitrou

fix_idioms.py generates bad code 08/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3563 created hawking
patch

making partial functions comparable 08/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3564 created erickt

array documentation, method names not 3.0 compliant 08/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3565 created mgiuca
patch

httplib persistent connections violate MUST in RFC2616 sec 8.1.4 08/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3566 created cananian

test_ossaudiodev fails when run with -bb 08/16/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3567 created pitrou

list enumeration corrupt when remove() 08/16/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3568 created jacek

Glitch in eval() doc 08/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3569 created tjreedy

str.find docstring typo 08/16/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3570 created andyharrington

test_closerange in test_os can crash the test suite 08/16/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3571 created pitrou
patch

with closed file descriptor #2 (stderr), py3k hangs when trying 08/16/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3572 created pitrou

IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(ies 08/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3573 created gpolo
patch, needs review

compile() cannot decode Latin-1 source encodings 08/17/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3574 created brett.cannon
patch, needs review

[py3k] tell() fails in some situation 08/17/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3575 created ocean-city
patch

Demo/embed builds against old version 08/17/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3576 created mgiuca
patch

Interpreter name: python vs. python-3.0 08/17/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3577 created jjlee

'dictionary changed size' error in test_multiprocessing 08/17/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3578 created marketdickinson

Faites Attention en Utilisant Cette Merveille! 08/17/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3579 created MrJean1

failures in test_os 08/17/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3580 created pitrou
patch

failures in test_uuid 08/17/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3581 created pitrou

thread_nt.c update 08/17/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3582 created krisvale
patch, patch

test_urllibnet.test_bad_address() fails when using OpenDNS 08/17/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3583 created brett.cannon

Exception for test_urllib2_localnet 08/17/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3584 created jimhermann

pkg-config support 08/18/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3585 created ClintonRoy
patch

pwd.getpwnam('nobody') produces incorrect results if sizeof(uid_ 08/18/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3586 created marketdickinson

Bad parsing of compiling regex with re.MULTILINE 08/18/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3587 created misha

sysconfig variable LINKFORSHARED has wrong value for MacOS X fra 08/18/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3588 created khinsen

Misleading names for multiprocessing "convenience" functions 08/18/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3589 created ncoghlan

sax.parser considers XML as text rather than bytes 08/18/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3590 created edreamleo

elementtree tests do not include bytes handling 08/18/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3591 created pitrou

Patch to add imp.get_codingspec() 08/18/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3592 created brett.cannon
patch, patch

subprocess + stdout redirection + wait + svn= hang 08/18/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3593 created tebeka

PyTokenizer_FindEncoding() never succeeds 08/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3594 created brett.cannon
patch, needs review

Windows base64 Decode 08/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3595 created ahirreddy

Provide a way to disable SSLv2 (or better yet, disable by defaul 08/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3596 created heikki

Allow application developers to select ciphers, and default to s 08/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3597 created heikki

multiprocessing.Pool windows/linux behaviour difference 08/19/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3598 created mark

test_pydoc after test_urllib2 causes exception in Popen.del 08/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3599 created benjamin.peterson

Include Tcl/Tk 8.5.4 in the windows binary for the upcoming beta 08/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3600 created gpolo

test_unicode.test_raiseMemError fails in UCS4 08/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3601 created benjamin.peterson

Move test.test_suport.catch_warning() to the 'warnings' module 08/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3602 created brett.cannon

trivial typo in Include/pymath.h 08/19/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3603 created sgala

broken link in curses module docs 08/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3604 created mattb

Py_FatalError causes infinite loop 08/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3605 created rupole

2to3: commands varible replaced by subprocess 08/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3606 created haypo

test_multiprocessing failure (Unserializable message) 08/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3607 created pitrou

memoryview constructor has no deallocator 08/19/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3608 created rupole

does parse_header really belong in CGI module? 08/20/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3609 created janssen

Fix gdbinit for Python 3.0 08/20/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3610 created haypo
patch

invalid exception context 08/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3611 reopened benjamin.peterson
patch, needs review

Add some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes 08/20/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3612 created ocean-city
patch

base64.encodestring does not actually accept strings 08/20/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3613 created ddvoinikov

typo in xmlrpc.client 08/20/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3614 created ddvoinikov

Expect methods for testing. 08/20/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3615 created pupeno
patch

shutil.rmtree() fails on invalid filename 08/20/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3616 created haypo

Add MS EULA to the list of third-party licenses in the Windows i 08/20/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3617 created lemburg
easy

possible deadlock in IO library (Lib/io.py) 08/20/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3618 created haypo
patch

A more informative message for ImportError 08/20/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3619 created ktenney
patch

test_smtplib is flaky 08/20/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3620 created benjamin.peterson

it would be nice if installers made by bdist_wininst stored an E 08/20/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3621 created jasonspiro

Slight documentation quirk for random.random 08/20/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3622 created amc1

_json: fix raise_errmsg(), py_encode_basestring_ascii() and line 08/20/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3623 created haypo
patch

Null byte \0 not listed as a possible escape sequence 08/20/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3624 created voket

test issues on 64bit windows 08/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3625 created mhammond
patch, patch, 64bit

python3.0 interpreter on Cygwin ignores all arguments 08/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3626 created yselkowitz
patch

apple security patches need to be forward ported to py3k 08/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3627 created nnorwitz

IDLE does not run with Py30b3 08/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3628 created mark

Py30b3 won't compile a regex that compiles with 2.5.2 and 30b2 08/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3629 created mark

Unable to inherit bytes: bytes.init() doesn't accept argumen 08/21/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3630 created haypo

Improve gdbinit of Python 2.6 08/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3631 created haypo
patch

use string_print() in gdb 08/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3632 created haypo
patch

float.fromhex discrepancy under Solaris 08/21/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3633 created pitrou
patch, needs review

invalid result value of _weakref.init() 08/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3634 created haypo
patch

pickle.dumps cannot save instance of dict-derived class that ove 08/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3635 created msyang

Managing dual 2.x and 3.0 installations on Windows 08/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3636 created richard_b_martin

2to3 refactoring 08/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3637 created benjamin.peterson
patch

tkinter.mainloop() is meanling less and crash: remove it 08/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3638 created haypo
patch

segfaults calling warnings.warn() with non-string message 08/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3639 created dalcinl
patch

test_cpickle crash on AMD64 Windows build 08/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3640 created mhammond
64bit

Builtin ascii() function from future_builtins includes leading " 08/22/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3641 created tav

Objects/obmalloc.c:529: warning: comparison is always false due 08/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3642 created christian.heimes
64bit, needs review

Add more checks to testcapi 08/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3643 created haypo
patch

make htmlview for docs fails on OS X 08/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3644 created brett.cannon

readline module Crashs on OpenBSD/amd64 08/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3645 created henry.precheur
patch, needs review

MacOS X framework install to non-standard directory fails 08/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3646 created khinsen

urlparse - relative url parsing and joins to be RFC3986 complian 08/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3647 created orsenthil
patch

'ascii' shoud be range(256) or just set another default encoding 08/22/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3648 created electronixtar

threading module can deadlock after fork 08/17/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue874900 reopened benjamin.peterson
patch

Tkinter.Menu.delete doesn't delete command of entry 08/16/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue1342811 reopened gpolo
needs review

Issues Now Closed (67)

[CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module 336 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1179 gvanrossum
patch

New SSL module doesn't seem to verify hostname against commonNam 254 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1589 janssen

class attribute cache failure (regression) 212 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1878 gvanrossum

Add migration step for DictMixin -> collections.MutableMapping 199 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2012 benjamin.peterson

Long object free list optimization 195 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2013 gregory.p.smith
patch

Memory leak in os.rename? 167 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2222 ocean-city
patch

cygwinccompiler.py fails for latest MinGW releases. 167 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2234 jlt63
patch, easy

eq / hash check doesn't take inheritance into account 167 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2235 ncoghlan
patch

Reorganize the 3.0 Misc/NEWS file 153 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2310 gvanrossum

sys.exc_{type,values,traceback} needs a 2to3 fixer 157 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2357 benjamin.peterson
patch, 26backport, needs review

get rid of warnings in regrtest with -3 156 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2402 benjamin.peterson

Backport ctypes support for buffer protocol to Python 2.6 (ref i 156 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2404 theller

2to3 is rather slow 155 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2431 benjamin.peterson
patch

urllib2 can't handle http://www.wikispaces.com 147 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2464 gregory.p.smith
patch

_Py_ForgetReference crash when called from _PyUnicode_New on Mem 128 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2629 gregory.p.smith

email/message.py [Message.get_content_type]: Trivial regex hangs 115 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2676 pitrou
patch

c_char doesn't implement py3k buffer interface 109 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2764 theller

urllib2.urlopen() gets confused with path with // in it 102 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2776 facundobatista
patch

re.IGNORECASE not Unicode-ready 100 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2834 pitrou
patch

Test_imports takes a long time to run 89 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2968 benjamin.peterson

test_list uses unreasonable amounts of memory on 64-bit Linux 69 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3107 pitrou

test_multiprocessing seems fragile 66 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3109 jnoller

2to3 can't find fixes_dir 63 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3131 benjamin.peterson
patch

bytearrays are not thread safe 62 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3139 cartman
patch

2to3 Slight Patch 59 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3182 benjamin.peterson

urllib.quote and unquote - Unicode issues 45 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3300 mgiuca
patch

missing lock release in BZ2File_iternext() 42 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3309 gregory.p.smith
patch, easy

Documentation: timeit: "lower bound" should read "upper bound" 43 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3318 unutbu

sys recursion limit a lot shorter on trunk? 37 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3373 gvanrossum

imghdr test order makes it slow 25 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3424 benjamin.peterson

In function call, keyword arguments could follow *args 20 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3473 benjamin.peterson
patch

Using functools.reduce() does not stop DeprecationWarning when u 18 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3474 benjamin.peterson
patch

distutils fails with mingw binutils 2.18.50.20080109 15 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3496 amaury.forgeotdarc
patch

Python 2.6 requires pre-installed Python to build 11 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3499 benjamin.peterson

ast.NodeTransformer bug 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3530 benjamin.peterson

Building an MSI installer crashes 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3542 loewis
patch

ctypes.wstring_at and string_at call Python API without the GIL 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3554 theller

test_raiseMemError consumes an insane amount of memory 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3556 pitrou
patch

redundant "base" field in memoryview objects 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3560 pitrou
patch

Windows installer should add Python and Scripts directories to t 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3561 loewis

test_ossaudiodev fails when run with -bb 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3567 pitrou

list enumeration corrupt when remove() 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3568 tjreedy

str.find docstring typo 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3570 benjamin.peterson

test_closerange in test_os can crash the test suite 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3571 pitrou
patch

with closed file descriptor #2 (stderr), py3k hangs when trying 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3572 pitrou

[py3k] tell() fails in some situation 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3575 ocean-city
patch

Demo/embed builds against old version 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3576 benjamin.peterson
patch

Faites Attention en Utilisant Cette Merveille! 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3579 benjamin.peterson

Bad parsing of compiling regex with re.MULTILINE 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3587 pitrou

multiprocessing.Pool windows/linux behaviour difference 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3598 mark

trivial typo in Include/pymath.h 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3603 benjamin.peterson

memoryview constructor has no deallocator 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3608 georg.brandl

typo in xmlrpc.client 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3614 amaury.forgeotdarc

shutil.rmtree() fails on invalid filename 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3616 pitrou

Slight documentation quirk for random.random 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3622 amaury.forgeotdarc

Null byte \0 not listed as a possible escape sequence 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3624 georg.brandl

Unable to inherit bytes: bytes.init() doesn't accept argumen 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3630 pitrou

float.fromhex discrepancy under Solaris 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3633 benjamin.peterson
patch, needs review

Builtin ascii() function from future_builtins includes leading " 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3641 benjamin.peterson

'ascii' shoud be range(256) or just set another default encoding 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3648 pitrou

thread unsafe file objects cause crash 1785 days http://bugs.python.org/issue815646 gregory.p.smith
patch

help(obj) should use doc when available 1738 days http://bugs.python.org/issue843385 benjamin.peterson

symtable module not documented 1647 days http://bugs.python.org/issue896052 benjamin.peterson

symtable.Symbol.is_global() is strange 1650 days http://bugs.python.org/issue896061 benjamin.peterson

symtable module crashes w/ coding declaration 1646 days http://bugs.python.org/issue898271 benjamin.peterson

glob doesn't return unicode with no dir in unicode filename 1481 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1001604 lcantey
patch

Tkinter.Menu.delete doesn't delete command of entry 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1342811 schuppenies
needs review

Top Issues Most Discussed (10)

35 invalid exception context 1 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue3611

21 Deficiencies in multiprocessing/threading API 39 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue3352

16 os.listdir can return byte strings 59 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue3187

12 float.fromhex discrepancy under Solaris 1 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3633

11 redundant "base" field in memoryview objects 4 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3560

10 sax.parser considers XML as text rather than bytes 4 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue3590

10 [Py3k] Finish the memoryview object implementation 157 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue2394

10 Tkinter.Menu.delete doesn't delete command of entry 5 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1342811

9 test_raiseMemError consumes an insane amount of memory 3 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3556

8 Move test.test_suport.catch_warning() to the 'warnings' module 3 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue3602

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