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

Kurt B. Kaiser kbk at shore.net
Fri Sep 17 05:34:23 CEST 2004

Patch / Bug Summary

Patches : 241 open ( -6) / 2622 closed (+26) / 2863 total (+20) Bugs : 764 open ( +6) / 4453 closed (+38) / 5217 total (+44) RFE : 150 open ( +2) / 131 closed ( +0) / 281 total ( +2)

New / Reopened Patches

Use Py_CLEAR where necessary to avoid crashes (2004-09-01) http://python.org/sf/1020188 reopened by mwh

Decimal performance enhancements (2004-09-02) http://python.org/sf/1020845 opened by Nick Coghlan

topdir calculated incorrectly in bdist_rpm (2004-09-03) http://python.org/sf/1022003 opened by Anthony Tuininga

add support for the AutoReq flag in bdist_rpm (2004-09-03) http://python.org/sf/1022011 opened by Anthony Tuininga

Improve Template error detection and reporting (2004-09-03) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1022173 opened by Raymond Hettinger

test_random depends on os.urandom (2004-09-03) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1022176 opened by Raymond Hettinger

Conserve memory with list.pop() (2004-09-06) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1022910 opened by Raymond Hettinger

CodeContext - an extension to show you where you are (2004-04-16) http://python.org/sf/936169 reopened by noamr

Add arguments to RE functions (2004-09-08) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1024041 opened by Noam Raphael

Fix for 1022152 (2004-09-08) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1024238 opened by Andrew Durdin

Error when int sent to PyLong_AsUnsignedLong (2004-09-08) http://python.org/sf/1024670 opened by Clinton R. Nixon

Check for NULL returns in compile.c:com_import_stmt (2004-09-10) http://python.org/sf/1025636 opened by Dima Dorfman

Add status code constants to httplib (2004-09-10) http://python.org/sf/1025790 opened by Andrew Eland

Clarify language in Data Structures chapter of tutorial (2004-09-10) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1025795 opened by Dima Dorfman

Fix TeX pasto in liboptparse.tex (2004-09-10) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1025800 opened by Dima Dorfman

typo repair (2004-09-12) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1026384 opened by George Yoshida

Add keyword arguments to Template substitutions (2004-09-12) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1026859 opened by Raymond Hettinger

building on OpenBSD 3.5 (2004-09-12) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1026986 opened by Trevor Perrin

Specify a source baseurl for bdist_rpm. (2004-09-15) http://python.org/sf/1028432 opened by Chris Ottrey

Adding IPv6 host handling to httplib (2004-09-15) http://python.org/sf/1028502 opened by David Mills

Changes to cookielib.py & friends for 2.4b1 (2004-09-16) http://python.org/sf/1028908 opened by John J Lee

tarfile.py longnames are truncated in getnames() (2004-09-16) http://python.org/sf/1029061 opened by Lars Gustäbel

Patches Closed

Use Py_CLEAR where necessary to avoid crashes (2004-09-01) http://python.org/sf/1020188 closed by rhettinger

Py_CLEAR to implicitly cast its argument to PyObject * (2004-09-01) http://python.org/sf/1020185 closed by rhettinger

Implementation for PEP 318 using syntax J2 (2004-08-22) http://python.org/sf/1013835 closed by ms_

fix for several sre escaping bugs (fixes #776311) (2004-08-29) http://python.org/sf/1018386 closed by niemeyer

Improve Template error detection and reporting (2004-09-03) http://python.org/sf/1022173 closed by rhettinger

test_random depends on os.urandom (2004-09-03) http://python.org/sf/1022176 closed by rhettinger

bsddb's DB.keys() method ignores transaction argument (2004-08-26) http://python.org/sf/1017405 closed by greg

Conserve memory with list.pop() (2004-09-06) http://python.org/sf/1022910 closed by rhettinger

PEP 292 reference implementation (2004-03-23) http://python.org/sf/922115 closed by bcannon

Multi-line strings and unittest (2004-08-30) http://python.org/sf/1019220 closed by purcell

Decoding incomplete unicode (2004-07-27) http://python.org/sf/998993 closed by doerwalter

Add arguments to RE functions (2004-09-07) http://python.org/sf/1024041 closed by rhettinger

Fix for 1022152 (2004-09-08) http://python.org/sf/1024238 closed by jlgijsbers

Fix for duplicate attributes in generated HTML (2004-08-20) http://python.org/sf/1013055 closed by fdrake

Address bug 980938, add set_debug_output() function (2004-07-03) http://python.org/sf/984492 closed by jlgijsbers

make test_fcntl 64bit clean (2003-09-13) http://python.org/sf/805626 closed by loewis

NetBSD py_curses.h fix (2003-09-15) http://python.org/sf/806800 closed by loewis

Add script support to bdist_rpm.py (2003-09-17) http://python.org/sf/808115 closed by loewis

Add --force-arch=ARCH to bdist_rpm.py (2003-09-17) http://python.org/sf/808120 closed by loewis

Clarify language in Data Structures chapter of tutorial (2004-09-10) http://python.org/sf/1025795 closed by jlgijsbers

Fix TeX pasto in liboptparse.tex (2004-09-10) http://python.org/sf/1025800 closed by jlgijsbers

typo repair (2004-09-11) http://python.org/sf/1026384 closed by jlgijsbers

make Demo/scripts/primes.py usable as a module (2004-01-04) http://python.org/sf/870286 closed by jlgijsbers

reflect the removal of mpz (2003-11-15) http://python.org/sf/842567 closed by jlgijsbers

Add keyword arguments to Template substitutions (2004-09-12) http://python.org/sf/1026859 closed by bwarsaw

building on OpenBSD 3.5 (2004-09-13) http://python.org/sf/1026986 closed by loewis

fix for glob with directories which contain brackets (2003-05-15) http://python.org/sf/738389 closed by progoth

New / Reopened Bugs

a wrong link from "frame object" in lib index (2004-09-01) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1020540 opened by Ilya Sandler

senddigest error (2004-09-01) http://python.org/sf/1020605 opened by James O'Kane

PyThreadState_Next not thread safe? (2004-09-02) http://python.org/sf/1021318 opened by John Ehresman

Trivial fix for obscure bug in os.urandom() (2004-09-03) http://python.org/sf/1021596 opened by Nick Mathewson

use first_name, not first, in code samples (2004-09-02) http://python.org/sf/1021621 opened by Steve R. Hastings

2.4a3: unhelpful error message from distutils (2004-09-03) http://python.org/sf/1021756 opened by Fredrik Lundh

Import random fails (2004-09-03) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1021890 opened by Paul D. Lusk

wrong options are set to python.exe (2004-09-03) http://python.org/sf/1022010 reopened by loewis

wrong options are set to python.exe (2004-09-04) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1022010 opened by George Yoshida

re.match(), re.MULTILINE and "^" broken (2004-09-03) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1022030 opened by Pat Notz

Bad examples of gettext.translation (2004-09-03) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1022152 opened by Facundo Batista

x, y in curses window object documentation (2004-09-04) http://python.org/sf/1022311 opened by Felix Wiemann

Solaris: reentrancy issues (2004-08-29) http://python.org/sf/1018492 reopened by loewis

test_xrange fails on osf1 v5.1b (2004-09-06) http://python.org/sf/1022813 opened by roadkill

random.shuffle should restrict the type of its argument (2004-09-06) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1022880 opened by Faheem Mitha

Generator exps fail with large value of range (2004-09-06) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1022912 opened by Andy Elvey

make test fails on HP-UX11i (2004-09-06) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1022951 opened by Richard Townsend

binascii.a2b_hqx("") raises SystemError (2004-09-06) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1022953 opened by Florian Bauer

Example does not match diagram. (2004-09-06) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1023359 opened by Nefarious CodeMonkey, Jr.

script which sets random.seed still returns random value (2004-09-07) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1023453 opened by Faheem Mitha

test__locale fails (2004-09-07) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1023798 opened by Michael Hudson

Include/pyport.h: Bad LONG_BIT assumption on non-glibc sys (2004-09-07) http://python.org/sf/1023838 opened by Gregor Richards

WinCVS doesn't recognize 2.4a3 (2004-09-08) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1024427 opened by David W. Thomas

struct.calcsize() behaves strangely with short type (2004-09-09) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1024669 opened by Serafeim Zanikolas

shutils.rmtree() uses excessive amounts of memory (2004-09-09) http://python.org/sf/1025127 opened by James Henstridge

HTML Documentation for 2.4a3 not found (2004-09-09) http://python.org/sf/1025392 opened by Colin J. Williams

email.Utils.parseaddr fails to parse valid addresses (2004-09-09) http://python.org/sf/1025395 opened by Charles

asyncore.file_dispatcher should not take fd as argument (2004-09-10) http://python.org/sf/1025525 opened by david houlder

tkinter.py invalid number of parameter for _tkinet.create (2004-09-10) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1025599 opened by bertrandbfr

X to the power of 0 may give wrong answer (2004-09-10) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1025872 opened by Nick Coghlan

"ASCII" in doc section "String literals" (2004-09-10) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1026038 opened by Felix Wiemann

Confusing error message when subclassing from invalid base (2004-09-11) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1026269 opened by Gerrit Holl

iso-latin-1 strings and functions lower & upper (2004-09-11) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1026480 opened by Tomasz Kowaltowski

HardwareRandom should be renamed OSRandom (2004-09-13) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1027105 opened by Trevor Perrin

unicode DNS names in socket, urllib, urlopen (2004-09-13) http://python.org/sf/1027206 opened by Damjan Georgievski

socket.ssl should explain that it is a 2/3 connection (2004-09-13) http://python.org/sf/1027394 opened by adam goucher

Argument missing from calltip for new-style class init (2004-09-13) http://python.org/sf/1027566 opened by Loren Guthrie

os.stat errors when using shared drive on XP or NT (2004-09-13) http://python.org/sf/1027570 opened by zeke

In DOM Node Objects, add more explanations for insertBefore (2004-09-14) http://python.org/sf/1027771 opened by M.-A. DARCHE

Cookies without values are silently ignored (by design?) (2004-09-14) http://python.org/sf/1028088 opened by Doug Sheppard

date-datetime comparison (2004-09-14) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1028306 opened by Donnal Walter

get_installer_filename (2004-09-15) http://python.org/sf/1028334 opened by bingo

Python 2.3.4 broken? (2004-09-15) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1028447 opened by Stan

Problem linking on windows using mingw32 and C++ (2004-09-15) http://python.org/sf/1028697 opened by Steve Menard

No command line args when script run without python.exe (2004-09-16) http://python.org/sf/1029047 opened by Kerim Borchaev

PEP 302 loader not carried through by reload function (2004-09-16) http://python.org/sf/1029475 opened by Stephen Haberman

test_pep277 fails (2004-09-17) http://python.org/sf/1029561 opened by Marel Baczynski

Bugs Closed

Crash from Rapid Clicks (2004-07-14) http://python.org/sf/990911 closed by kbk

a wrong link from "frame object" in lib index (2004-09-01) http://python.org/sf/1020540 closed by rhettinger

httplib.HTTPConnection sends extra blank line (2004-08-31) http://python.org/sf/1019956 closed by jhylton

re.sub: two-digit group-reference hangs (2004-08-30) http://python.org/sf/1018815 closed by niemeyer

re.finditer hangs on final empty match (2003-10-03) http://python.org/sf/817234 closed by niemeyer

Make Problem on HPUX (2004-07-14) http://python.org/sf/991125 closed by plusk

Import random fails (2004-09-03) http://python.org/sf/1021890 closed by rhettinger

Regular expression failure of the sre engine (2003-07-23) http://python.org/sf/776311 closed by niemeyer

wrong options are set to python.exe (2004-09-03) http://python.org/sf/1022010 closed by loewis

wrong options are set to python.exe (2004-09-03) http://python.org/sf/1022010 closed by loewis

re.match(), re.MULTILINE and "^" broken (2004-09-03) http://python.org/sf/1022030 closed by effbot

Bad examples of gettext.translation (2004-09-04) http://python.org/sf/1022152 closed by jlgijsbers

Solaris: reentrancy issues (2004-08-29) http://python.org/sf/1018492 closed by loewis

including Python.h redefines _POSIX_C_SOURCE (2004-08-27) http://python.org/sf/1017450 closed by loewis

inspect.getmodule symlink-related failur (2002-06-18) http://python.org/sf/570300 closed by jlgijsbers

metaclass in locals is ignored (2004-08-30) http://python.org/sf/1019048 closed by bcannon

split method documentation can be improved (2004-02-21) http://python.org/sf/901654 closed by rhettinger

random.shuffle should restrict the type of its argument (2004-09-05) http://python.org/sf/1022880 closed by rhettinger

Generator exps fail with large value of range (2004-09-06) http://python.org/sf/1022912 closed by rhettinger

make test fails on HP-UX11i (2004-09-06) http://python.org/sf/1022951 closed by rhettinger

binascii.a2b_hqx("") raises SystemError (2004-09-06) http://python.org/sf/1022953 closed by rhettinger

mimetypes add_type has bogus self parameter (2004-08-23) http://python.org/sf/1014022 closed by doerwalter

Example does not match diagram. (2004-09-06) http://python.org/sf/1023359 closed by akuchling

"rich comparison'' methods hide stack overflow (2004-08-30) http://python.org/sf/1019129 closed by rhettinger

script which sets random.seed still returns random value (2004-09-07) http://python.org/sf/1023453 closed by rhettinger

test__locale fails (2004-09-07) http://python.org/sf/1023798 closed by bcannon

WinCVS doesn't recognize 2.4a3 (2004-09-08) http://python.org/sf/1024427 closed by loewis

os.system segmentation fault (2004-08-25) http://python.org/sf/1015937 closed by nnorwitz

struct.calcsize() behaves strangely with short type (2004-09-08) http://python.org/sf/1024669 closed by mwh

RE engine internal error with LARGE RE: scalability bug (2003-12-10) http://python.org/sf/857676 closed by effbot

"build" target doesn't check umask (2004-06-22) http://python.org/sf/977937 closed by melicertes

tkinter.py invalid number of parameter for _tkinet.create (2004-09-10) http://python.org/sf/1025599 closed by loewis

X to the power of 0 may give wrong answer (2004-09-10) http://python.org/sf/1025872 closed by tim_one

Unspecific errors with metaclass (2004-08-23) http://python.org/sf/1014215 closed by rhettinger

"ASCII" in doc section "String literals" (2004-09-10) http://python.org/sf/1026038 closed by loewis

Confusing error message when subclassing from invalid base (2004-09-11) http://python.org/sf/1026269 closed by mwh

iso-latin-1 strings and functions lower & upper (2004-09-11) http://python.org/sf/1026480 closed by kowaltowski

crash error in glob.glob; directories with brackets (2003-05-15) http://python.org/sf/738361 closed by progoth

HardwareRandom should be renamed OSRandom (2004-09-13) http://python.org/sf/1027105 closed by rhettinger

date-datetime comparison (2004-09-14) http://python.org/sf/1028306 closed by tim_one

Python 2.3.4 broken? (2004-09-15) http://python.org/sf/1028447 closed by mwh

New / Reopened RFE

proposed struct module format code addition (2004-09-06) http://python.org/sf/1023290 opened by Josiah Carlson

urllib2 http auth (2004-09-10) http://python.org/sf/1025540 opened by Tim Nelson

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