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

Kurt B. Kaiser kbk at shore.net
Thu Sep 1 19:12:33 CEST 2005

Patch / Bug Summary

Patches : 903 open (+551) / 5222 closed (+2324) / 6125 total (+2875) Bugs : 903 open (-23) / 5222 closed (+45) / 6125 total (+22) RFE : 187 open ( -3) / 184 closed ( +5) / 371 total ( +2)

New / Reopened Patches

PEP 349: allow str() to return unicode (2005-08-22) http://python.org/sf/1266570 opened by Neil Schemenauer

pdb: implement "until",fix for 1248119 (2005-08-23) http://python.org/sf/1267629 opened by Ilya Sandler

tarfile: fix for bug #1257255 (2005-08-17) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1262036 reopened by loewis

Cache lines in StreamReader.readlines (2005-08-24) http://python.org/sf/1268314 opened by Martin v. Löwis

extending os.walk to support following symlinks (2005-08-26) http://python.org/sf/1273829 opened by Erick Tryzelaar

libtarfile.tex: external URL changed (2005-08-27) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1274550 opened by Lars Gustäbel

documentation fixes (2005-08-28) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1274630 opened by George Yoshida

Compile socket module under cygwin (2005-08-28) http://python.org/sf/1275079 opened by Miki Tebeka

fix distutils typo "sortcut" -> "shortcut" (2005-08-29) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1275796 opened by Wummel

Adding new regrtest resource 'urlfetch' (2005-08-30) http://python.org/sf/1276356 opened by Hye-Shik Chang

tarfile: adding filed that use direct device addressing (2005-08-30) http://python.org/sf/1276378 opened by Urban Purkat

tkinter hello world example bug (2005-08-31) http://python.org/sf/1277677 opened by Yusuke Shinyama

Patches Closed

Improve %s support for unicode (2005-03-09) http://python.org/sf/1159501 closed by nascheme

markupbase misses comments (bug 736659) (2004-02-20) http://python.org/sf/901369 closed by fdrake

chr, ord, unichr documentation updates (2004-10-31) http://python.org/sf/1057588 closed by fdrake

tarfile: fix for bug #1257255 (2005-08-17) http://python.org/sf/1262036 closed by loewis

tarfile.py: set sizes of non-regular files to zero. (2005-03-22) http://python.org/sf/1168594 closed by loewis

Fix pydoc crashing on unicode strings (2004-11-13) http://python.org/sf/1065986 closed by rhettinger

fix for 1016880 urllib.urlretrieve silently truncates dwnld (2004-11-07) http://python.org/sf/1062060 closed by birkenfeld

New tutorial tests in test_generators.py (2005-01-31) http://python.org/sf/1113421 closed by birkenfeld

more contains tests (2005-02-18) http://python.org/sf/1141428 closed by birkenfeld

A program to scan python files and list those require coding (2003-08-06) http://python.org/sf/784089 closed by birkenfeld

distutils.dir_utils.mkpath to support unicode (2005-03-21) http://python.org/sf/1167716 closed by loewis

use ReleaseItanium configuration for zlib IA64 build (2005-03-09) http://python.org/sf/1160164 closed by loewis

Solaris 2.5.1 _SC_PAGESIZE vs. _SC_PAGE_SIZE (2003-08-11) http://python.org/sf/786743 closed by loewis

Flakey urllib2.parse_http_list (2003-11-25) http://python.org/sf/848870 closed by birkenfeld

urllib2.parse_http_list bugfix 735248 (2004-02-21) http://python.org/sf/901480 closed by birkenfeld

Cookie.py: One step closer to RFC 2109 (2003-11-24) http://python.org/sf/848017 closed by birkenfeld

Fix for off-by-one bug in urllib.URLopener.retrieve (2003-09-21) http://python.org/sf/810023 closed by birkenfeld

Allow socket.inet_aton("255.255.255.255") on Windo (2003-06-17) http://python.org/sf/756021 closed by birkenfeld

libtarfile.tex: external URL changed (2005-08-27) http://python.org/sf/1274550 closed by birkenfeld

documentation fixes (2005-08-27) http://python.org/sf/1274630 closed by birkenfeld

fix distutils typo "sortcut" -> "shortcut" (2005-08-29) http://python.org/sf/1275796 closed by nnorwitz

Patch for (Doc) bug #1212195 (2005-06-26) http://python.org/sf/1227545 closed by lemburg

bltinmodule.c whitespace normalization (2005-07-21) http://python.org/sf/1242579 closed by birkenfeld

fileinput openfile patch, bz2fileinput (2005-06-22) http://python.org/sf/1225466 closed by birkenfeld

shutil.copytree() quits too soon after an error. (2005-07-21) http://python.org/sf/1242454 closed by birkenfeld

New / Reopened Bugs

_register is not safe (2005-08-23) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1267540 opened by Russell Owen

bdist_rpm hardcodes setup.py as the script name (2005-08-23) http://python.org/sf/1267547 opened by Fernando Pérez

tarfile local name is local, should be abspath (2005-08-12) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1257255 reopened by birkenfeld

crash recursive getattr (2005-08-24) http://python.org/sf/1267884 opened by pinzo

email.MIMEText & email.MIMEMultipart "From" in message body (2005-08-24) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1268519 opened by Jim Kutter

atexit not called for pythonservice (win32) (2005-08-24) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1269051 opened by Hari Krishna Dara

new is class method (2005-08-16) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1261229 reopened by mwh

Cycle containing a Set is not GC'd [leak] (2005-08-25) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1273504 opened by Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud

Encoding memory problem. (2005-08-26) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1273892 opened by Darek Ostolski

bz2module.c compiler warning (2005-08-26) http://python.org/sf/1274069 opened by Tim Peters

'setup.py install' fail on linux from read-only storage (2005-08-27) http://python.org/sf/1274324 opened by Alexander Belchenko

splitunc not documented (2005-08-27) http://python.org/sf/1274828 opened by Poor Yorick

dict key comparison swallows exceptions (2005-08-29) http://python.org/sf/1275608 opened by Armin Rigo

add a get() method to sets (2005-08-29) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1275677 opened by Antoine Pitrou

discrepancy between str.cmp and unicode.cmp (2005-08-29) http://python.org/sf/1275719 opened by Antoine Pitrou

error converting locale number to decimal (2005-08-30) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1276437 opened by oswaldo

2.4.1 make fails on Solaris 10 (2005-08-30) http://python.org/sf/1276509 opened by csmuc

dict('') doesn't raise a value error (2005-08-30) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1276587 opened by Mike Foord

dirutils.mkpath (verbose option does not work) (2005-08-30) http://python.org/sf/1276768 opened by gorilla_killa

Sentence fragment in urlparse documentation (2005-08-30) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1277016 opened by Chad Whitacre

imaplib Imap.select() uses comparison to 'None' for boolean (2005-08-31) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1277098 opened by Stephen Thorne

Lambda and deepcopy (2005-08-31) http://python.org/sf/1277718 opened by Joshua Ginsberg

logging module broken for multiple threads? (2005-08-31) http://python.org/sf/1277903 opened by Lenny G. Arbage

help() broken, especially on Windows (2005-08-31) http://python.org/sf/1278102 opened by Bryan G. Olson

invalid syntax in os.walk() first example (2005-09-01) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1278906 opened by YoHell

Bugs Closed

Mistakes in decimal.Context.subtract documentation (2005-08-22) http://python.org/sf/1266296 closed by birkenfeld

IDLE on Mac (2005-08-18) http://python.org/sf/1263656 closed by kbk

markupbase parse_declaration cannot recognize comments (2003-05-12) http://python.org/sf/736659 closed by fdrake

IDLE Freezes on Ubuntu Warty (2005-01-25) http://python.org/sf/1108992 closed by kbk

Python 2.5a0 Tutorial errors and observations (2005-03-22) http://python.org/sf/1168135 closed by rhettinger

_register is not safe (2005-08-24) http://python.org/sf/1267540 closed by loewis

ftplib.py string index out of range (2005-03-23) http://python.org/sf/1168983 closed by vmlinuxz

'clear -1' in pdb (2005-04-29) http://python.org/sf/1192315 closed by birkenfeld

3.29 site is confusing re site-packages on Windows (2005-04-26) http://python.org/sf/1190204 closed by birkenfeld

font lock keyword regular expressions (2004-12-09) http://python.org/sf/1082487 closed by rhettinger

os.path.expanduser documentation wrt. empty $HOME (2005-05-02) http://python.org/sf/1193849 closed by birkenfeld

mmap's resize method resizes the file in win32 but not unix (2003-04-27) http://python.org/sf/728515 closed by birkenfeld

tarfile local name is local, should be abspath (2005-08-12) http://python.org/sf/1257255 closed by loewis

Wrong "type()" syntax in docs (2005-01-11) http://python.org/sf/1100368 closed by rhettinger

Erroneous line number error in Py2.4.1 (2005-04-07) http://python.org/sf/1178484 closed by loewis

Python 2.4.1 crashes when importing the attached script (2005-08-04) http://python.org/sf/1251631 closed by loewis

distutils.dir_utils not unicode compatible (2005-02-12) http://python.org/sf/1121494 closed by loewis

email.MIMEText & email.MIMEMultipart "From" in message body (2005-08-24) http://python.org/sf/1268519 closed by jkutter

urllib.urlretrieve silently truncates downloads (2004-08-26) http://python.org/sf/1016880 closed by birkenfeld

atexit not called for pythonservice (win32) (2005-08-24) http://python.org/sf/1269051 closed by loewis

urllib2 bug in proxy auth (2004-08-26) http://python.org/sf/1016563 closed by birkenfeld

urllib2 parse_http_list wrong return (2003-05-09) http://python.org/sf/735248 closed by birkenfeld

8-bit string literal with iso8859 coding => crash (2004-01-01) http://python.org/sf/868864 closed by loewis

add SHA256/384/512 to lib (2005-02-16) http://python.org/sf/1123660 closed by birkenfeld

IDNA StreamReader broken (2005-03-14) http://python.org/sf/1163178 closed by loewis

Large tarfiles cause overflow (2005-06-06) http://python.org/sf/1215928 closed by birkenfeld

Crash when importing encoded file (2004-07-14) http://python.org/sf/990743 closed by loewis

xrange() builtin accepts keyword arg silently (2005-02-09) http://python.org/sf/1119418 closed by birkenfeld

pydoc on cgi.escape lacks info that are in www docs (2005-07-23) http://python.org/sf/1243553 closed by birkenfeld

"new" not marked as deprecated in the docs (2005-07-30) http://python.org/sf/1247765 closed by birkenfeld

new is class method (2005-08-16) http://python.org/sf/1261229 closed by birkenfeld

new is class method (2005-08-16) http://python.org/sf/1261229 closed by birkenfeld

minidom.py alternate newl support is broken (2005-08-17) http://python.org/sf/1262320 closed by birkenfeld

Cycle containing a Set is not GC'd [leak] (2005-08-25) http://python.org/sf/1273504 closed by rhettinger

shelve .sync operation not documented (2005-07-31) http://python.org/sf/1248199 closed by birkenfeld

Install Error: "cannot compute sizeof (int), 77" (2005-07-16) http://python.org/sf/1239186 closed by birkenfeld

Encoding memory problem. (2005-08-26) http://python.org/sf/1273892 closed by doerwalter

Makefile ignores $CPPFLAGS (2005-08-14) http://python.org/sf/1258986 closed by perky

error converting locale number to decimal (2005-08-30) http://python.org/sf/1276437 closed by birkenfeld

Decoding with unicode_internal segfaults on UCS-4 builds (2005-08-03) http://python.org/sf/1251300 closed by doerwalter

dict('') doesn't raise a value error (2005-08-30) http://python.org/sf/1276587 closed by birkenfeld

Sentence fragment in urlparse documentation (2005-08-31) http://python.org/sf/1277016 closed by doerwalter

imaplib Imap.select() uses comparison to 'None' for boolean (2005-08-31) http://python.org/sf/1277098 closed by pierslauder

str.lower() to have an IMPORTANT NOTE or it's for magicians (2005-05-31) http://python.org/sf/1212195 closed by lemburg

Seg Fault when compiling small program (2005-04-25) http://python.org/sf/1189248 closed by doerwalter

dl module not installed with 2.2.3 (2003-06-30) http://python.org/sf/763007 closed by birkenfeld

HTMLParser chokes on my.yahoo.com output (2003-06-26) http://python.org/sf/761452 closed by birkenfeld

invalid syntax in os.walk() first example (2005-09-01) http://python.org/sf/1278906 closed by rhettinger

RFE Closed

"with self:" statement (2004-04-01) http://python.org/sf/927543 closed by birkenfeld

Keyword similar to "global" for nested scopes want (2003-11-23) http://python.org/sf/847778 closed by birkenfeld

add a get() method to sets (2005-08-29) http://python.org/sf/1275677 closed by rhettinger

pythonw.exe should not flash DOS windows (2003-12-04) http://python.org/sf/853698 closed by birkenfeld

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list