Mailman 3 September 2008 - Python-Dev

Do we still support MacOS < X?
by Georg Brandl Sept. 14, 2008

Sept. 14, 2008

If not, I'll remove the traces from the docs, where they only serve to confuse where MacOS X actually belongs under "Unix", not "Mac". Georg -- Thus spake the Lord: Thou shalt indent with four spaces. No more, no less. Four shall be the number of spaces thou shalt indent, and the number of thy indenting shall be four. Eight shalt thou not indent, nor either indent thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to four. Tabs are right out.

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Possible bug in array?
by Reed O'Brien Sept. 14, 2008

Sept. 14, 2008

or in FreeBSD? 2.6rc1 and 3.0b3 both fail test_array on FreeBSD7 amd64 test_array passes in 2.5.2 on the same machine but fails test_list the same as test_array... *** Signal 9 Not sure if I should file this as a bug or not. I didn't see anything on bugs.pyhton.org... ~ro

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2.6 rc1 performance results
by A.M. Kuchling Sept. 14, 2008

Sept. 14, 2008

Three weeks ago, Antoine Pitrou posted the pybench results for 2.6 trunk: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-August/081951.html The big discovery in those results were TryExcept being 48% slower, but there was a patch in the bug tracker to improve things. I've re-run the tests to check the results. Disclaimer: these results are probably not directly comparable. Antoine was using a "32-bit Linux installation on an Athlon 3600+ X2"; I'm on a Macbook. Good news: TryExcept is now only 10% slower than 2.5, not 48%. Bad news: the big slowdowns are: CompareFloats: 117ms 98ms +19.2% 118ms 99ms +19.0% CompareIntegers: 110ms 104ms +5.6% 110ms 105ms +4.9% DictWithStringKeys: 118ms 105ms +12.8% 133ms 108ms +22.7% NestedForLoops: 125ms 116ms +7.7% 127ms 118ms +8.0% Recursion: 193ms 159ms +21.5% 197ms 163ms +20.8% SecondImport: 139ms 129ms +8.4% 143ms 130ms +9.9% SecondPackageImport: 150ms 139ms +8.6% 152ms 140ms +8.1% SecondSubmoduleImport: 211ms 191ms +10.5% 214ms 195ms +9.4% SimpleComplexArithmetic: 130ms 119ms +9.4% 131ms 120ms +9.2% Antoine, your Recursion results were actually about the same (+2.2%) from 2.5 to 2.6, so this big slowdown is novel. I wonder if these tests are simply slower on MacOS for some reason (compiler, CPU cache size, etc.). Does anyone see similar results? Any idea what might have made DictForStringKeys and Recursion slow down? Complete results: Test minimum run-time average run-time this other diff this other diff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BuiltinFunctionCalls: 140ms 148ms -5.4% 142ms 153ms -7.5% BuiltinMethodLookup: 120ms 135ms -11.2% 122ms 137ms -11.0% CompareFloats: 117ms 98ms +19.2% 118ms 99ms +19.0% CompareFloatsIntegers: 109ms 119ms -8.9% 109ms 121ms -9.3% CompareIntegers: 110ms 104ms +5.6% 110ms 105ms +4.9% CompareInternedStrings: 128ms 153ms -16.3% 131ms 158ms -16.8% CompareLongs: 102ms 99ms +3.5% 105ms 101ms +3.9% CompareStrings: 164ms 161ms +2.0% 166ms 165ms +0.7% CompareUnicode: 141ms 158ms -10.5% 143ms 164ms -12.6% ComplexPythonFunctionCalls: 159ms 272ms -41.3% 164ms 277ms -40.6% ConcatStrings: 173ms 168ms +3.2% 177ms 172ms +3.1% ConcatUnicode: 108ms 121ms -10.8% 111ms 124ms -10.4% CreateInstances: 168ms 180ms -6.4% 176ms 182ms -3.7% CreateNewInstances: 129ms 153ms -15.6% 132ms 158ms -16.0% CreateStringsWithConcat: 156ms 157ms -0.7% 158ms 161ms -1.9% CreateUnicodeWithConcat: 112ms 114ms -1.8% 114ms 117ms -2.2% DictCreation: 104ms 112ms -7.1% 106ms 114ms -7.2% DictWithFloatKeys: 149ms 162ms -7.7% 153ms 168ms -8.7% DictWithIntegerKeys: 123ms 148ms -16.8% 127ms 151ms -15.9% DictWithStringKeys: 118ms 105ms +12.8% 133ms 108ms +22.7% ForLoops: 91ms 88ms +3.6% 91ms 88ms +3.0% IfThenElse: 108ms 102ms +5.2% 109ms 103ms +5.5% ListSlicing: 155ms 239ms -35.0% 157ms 241ms -34.6% NestedForLoops: 125ms 116ms +7.7% 127ms 118ms +8.0% NormalClassAttribute: 135ms 140ms -3.8% 139ms 146ms -4.7% NormalInstanceAttribute: 123ms 126ms -2.4% 125ms 130ms -4.4% PythonFunctionCalls: 126ms 126ms +0.0% 129ms 128ms +0.9% PythonMethodCalls: 165ms 165ms -0.1% 168ms 170ms -1.1% Recursion: 193ms 159ms +21.5% 197ms 163ms +20.8% SecondImport: 139ms 129ms +8.4% 143ms 130ms +9.9% SecondPackageImport: 150ms 139ms +8.6% 152ms 140ms +8.1% SecondSubmoduleImport: 211ms 191ms +10.5% 214ms 195ms +9.4% SimpleComplexArithmetic: 130ms 119ms +9.4% 131ms 120ms +9.2% SimpleDictManipulation: 124ms 146ms -14.6% 128ms 150ms -14.8% SimpleFloatArithmetic: 127ms 132ms -3.6% 131ms 144ms -9.3% SimpleIntFloatArithmetic: 93ms 100ms -6.5% 94ms 100ms -5.6% SimpleIntegerArithmetic: 94ms 91ms +2.8% 95ms 92ms +3.1% SimpleListManipulation: 108ms 110ms -1.1% 110ms 111ms -1.2% SimpleLongArithmetic: 141ms 136ms +3.8% 143ms 139ms +2.8% SmallLists: 157ms 151ms +4.3% 160ms 156ms +2.6% SmallTuples: 123ms 123ms -0.3% 125ms 127ms -1.5% SpecialClassAttribute: 136ms 152ms -10.5% 140ms 155ms -10.2% SpecialInstanceAttribute: 225ms 256ms -11.9% 227ms 258ms -11.8% StringMappings: 197ms 206ms -4.4% 201ms 209ms -3.8% StringPredicates: 154ms 194ms -20.5% 157ms 196ms -20.2% StringSlicing: 144ms 146ms -1.1% 152ms 155ms -1.9% TryExcept: 111ms 101ms +9.5% 114ms 102ms +11.2% TryFinally: 120ms 129ms -6.9% 122ms 131ms -6.8% TryRaiseExcept: 145ms 150ms -4.0% 148ms 153ms -3.2% TupleSlicing: 141ms 140ms +1.3% 152ms 159ms -4.5% UnicodeMappings: 140ms 133ms +5.9% 143ms 136ms +5.5% UnicodePredicates: 123ms 137ms -9.9% 125ms 138ms -9.9% UnicodeProperties: 136ms 146ms -6.7% 142ms 151ms -6.3% UnicodeSlicing: 132ms 129ms +2.0% 134ms 131ms +2.2% WithFinally: 167ms 168ms -1.0% 172ms 173ms -0.3% WithRaiseExcept: 134ms 150ms -11.1% 140ms 156ms -9.8% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Totals: 7659ms 8031ms -4.6% 7834ms 8229ms -4.8% (this=p26.pybench, other=p25.pybench) --amk

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Re: [Python-Dev] Add python.exe to PATH environment variable
by Henning von Bargen Sept. 13, 2008

Sept. 13, 2008

One of the things I like about Python is that * it doesn't actually need an installation. * It is sufficient to set up PATH (and, if you like, PYTHONPATH) accordingly to start python. However, you need the DLLs somewhere in the Python directory, too. That way it is possible to install Python applications in a minimal-invasive fashion: Just copy one directory to the hard-disk (or a network drive) and create a shortcut to some start-app.cmd script For example, this is a great advantage if you need to install a Python application on a client's application server, since the client's IT departments in reponsibility for the server absolutely don't like it when programs modify PATH or install DLLs in the %WINDIR%\System32 directory - and they are right here!!! Think of what happens if a program modifies PATH: The modification does not affect running services, of course. But *after a reboot* (possibly a few months later), the old services will find another version of some program than before, and then someting is going to crash! I have seen too much trouble of this kind after the installation of a different Perl version or a another Oracle product. The reason is then quite hard to find: if the installation of another software was 3 months ago, will anyone remember? And will anyone even consider it could be the reason for the fault after the reboot? Well - I will, but most others probably won't. I don't want this kind of trouble too happen with Python! So, please try keeping the Python installation as minimal invasive as possible. Note: This could also be an option for the installation. Henning

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Summary of Python tracker Issues
by Python tracker Sept. 12, 2008

Sept. 12, 2008

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (09/05/08 - 09/12/08) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue number. Do NOT respond to this message. 2019 open (+32) / 13652 closed (+30) / 15671 total (+62) Open issues with patches: 637 Average duration of open issues: 716 days. Median duration of open issues: 1772 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2005 (+31) pending 14 ( +1) Issues Created Or Reopened (67) _______________________________ readline configuration for shared libs w/o curses dependencies 09/07/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue1204 reopened gregory.p.smith patch, 64bit py3k fails under Windows if "-c" or "-m" is given a non-ascii va 09/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3705 reopened amaury.forgeotdarc patch asyncore differences between 2.x and 3.x 09/07/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3764 reopened gregory.p.smith easy tkinter Menu.delete bug 09/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3774 reopened gpolo patch, easy, needs review warnings.catch_warnings fails gracelessly when recording warning 09/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3781 reopened ncoghlan patch Make PyInstanceMethod_Type available or remove it 09/05/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3787 created christian.heimes patch, patch, needs review test_cookie isn't comprehensive 09/05/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3788 created benjamin.peterson easy multiprocessing deadlocks when sending large data through Queue 09/05/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3789 created DavidDecotigny in zlib decompressor objects, unused_data and unconsumed_tail mu 09/06/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3790 created pitrou patch, patch, needs review bsddb not completely removed 09/06/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3791 created amaury.forgeotdarc patch, patch Module variable overridden in child processes with multiprocessi 09/06/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3792 created TarkaSteve Small RST fix in datamodel.rst 09/06/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3793 created mgiuca __div__ still documented in Python 3 09/06/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3794 created mgiuca patch wsgiref.simple_server fails to run demo_app 09/06/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3795 created Walling some tests are not run in test_float 09/06/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3796 created amaury.forgeotdarc patch, patch, needs review mmap, dbm, ossaudiodev, marshal & winreg return bytearray instea 09/06/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3797 created gregory.p.smith patch, patch, easy, needs review SystemExit incorrectly displays unicode message 09/06/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3798 created amaury.forgeotdarc Byte/string inconsistencies between different dbm modules 09/06/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3799 created skip.montanaro patch Fix for formatter.py 09/07/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3800 created skomoroh patch cgi.parse_qsl does not return list 09/07/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3801 created acapnotic patch smtpd.py __getaddr insufficient handling 09/08/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3802 created marcus(a)internetnowasp.net Comparison operators - New rules undocumented in Python 3.0 09/08/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3803 created mgiuca patch Test for issue2222 (r65745) 09/08/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3804 created ocean-city patch sslobj.read py3k takes odd arguments 09/08/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3805 created gregory.p.smith LockTests in test_imp should be skipped when thread is not avail 09/08/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3806 created ocean-city patch _multiprocessing build fails when configure --without-threads 09/08/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3807 created ocean-city patch, needs review test_cgi is giving deprecation warnings 09/09/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3808 created benjamin.peterson test_logging leaving a 'test.blah' file behind 09/09/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3809 created brett.cannon os.chdir() et al: is the path str or bytes? 09/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3810 created ceder Update Unicode database to 5.1.0 09/09/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3811 created loewis patch, needs review py3k build fails if configure --without-threads 09/09/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3812 created ocean-city patch cannot lanch python.exe via symbolic link if HAVE_BROKEN_MBSTOWC 09/09/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3813 created ocean-city patch Add VCS support 09/09/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3814 created sdouche patch Python 3.0b3 - Idle doesn't start on win XPh 09/09/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3815 created vbr __newobj__ pickle feature is not documented 09/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3816 created christian.heimes easy ftplib: ABOR does not consider 225 response code 09/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3817 created giampaolo.rodola patch ftplib.FTP.abort() should consider "225" a positive response cod 09/09/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3818 created giampaolo.rodola patch urllib2 sends Basic auth across redirects 09/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3819 created TFKyle Python 3.0b3 doesn't start on German Win XP SP3/SP2 09/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3820 created pietzcker trace module bug when using --missing 09/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3821 created jjdominguezm patch, needs review zfill doc string uses inconsistent variable names 09/09/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3822 created tjd ssl.wrap_socket() is incompatible with servers that drop privile 09/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3823 created forest test_tarfile fails on cygwin (unicode decode error) 09/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3824 created ocean-city patch Major reworking of Python 2.5.2 re module 09/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3825 created mrabarnett patch Self-reference in BaseHTTPRequestHandler descendants causes stuc 09/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3826 created romkyns memoryview.size is redundant 09/09/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3827 created benjamin.peterson patch, needs review Bound methods compare 'successfully' with ints 09/10/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3828 created inducer Tuple comparison masking exception 09/10/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3829 created fdrake Tarfile has incorrect USTAR "VERSION" field (should be 00; is 0 09/10/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3830 created SunriseProgrammer Multiprocessing: Expose underlying pipe in queues 09/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3831 created TarkaSteve add force_shared Library option to create shared lib even with u 09/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3832 created vajda python-2.6b3.msi and python-2.6b3.amd64.msi can't both be instal 09/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3833 created jretz wsgiref.validator.InputWrapper readline method has wrong signatu 09/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3834 created strogon14 tkinter goes into an infinite loop (pydoc.gui) 09/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3835 created HWJ 2to3 broken due to mixed 2.5 and 3.0 syntax 09/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3836 created bhy patch Comment for html_logo setting is out of date 09/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3837 created jmswisher test_tarfile error on cygwin (Directory not empty) 09/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3838 created ocean-city patch, easy wsgi.simple_server resets 'Content-Length' header on empty conte 09/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3839 created nosklo patch if TESTFN == "/tmp/@test", some tests fail 09/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3840 created ocean-city patch IDLE: quirky behavior when displaying strings longer than 4093 c 09/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3841 created spmcinerney can't run close through itertools.chain on inner generator 09/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3842 created dangyogi hexadecimal, not decimal 09/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3843 created maix Script: find untested C functions 09/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3844 created ajaksu2 memory access before short string when checking suffix 09/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3845 created doko sqlite3 module: Improved concurrency 09/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3846 created ghaering needs review Begging for review 09/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3847 created ghaering select.epoll calling register with the same fd fails 09/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue3848 created ionel.mc Issues Now Closed (73) ______________________ readline configuration for shared libs w/o curses dependencies 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1204 gregory.p.smith patch, 64bit smtplib.SMTP docs 319 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1317 akuchling New SSL module doesn't seem to verify hostname against commonNam 275 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1589 janssen Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py fixes for Python 3.0 237 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1840 loewis patch ctypes.util.find_library(): posix .so without SONAME 202 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2145 theller Faq 4.28 -- Trailing comas 172 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2420 akuchling Cannot use non-ascii letters in disutils if setuptools is used. 156 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2562 lemburg patch Documentation of new gobject types fails 132 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2747 georg.brandl sphinx and virtualenv 118 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2859 georg.brandl optparse documentation: variable arguments example doesn't work 93 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3040 akuchling ssl.SSLSocket implements methods that are overriden by socket.so 79 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3162 hodgestar patch import of site.py fails on startup 64 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3279 benjamin.peterson patch, needs review Documentation: timeit: "lower bound" should read "upper bound" 64 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3318 georg.brandl Use Python 3 lexer for 3.0 docs 55 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3376 georg.brandl patch Updates to "Macintosh Library Modules" Section 1.1 41 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3472 georg.brandl Zlib compress/decompress functions returning bytearray 37 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3492 pythonhacker patch, easy, needs review zipfile has problem reading zip files over 2GB 27 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3535 pitrou patch, needs review test_unicode.test_raiseMemError fails in UCS4 17 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3601 pitrou patch, needs review broken link in curses module docs 18 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3604 akuchling 2to3: commands varible replaced by subprocess 20 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3606 benjamin.peterson Python won't compile a regex that compiles with 2.5.2 and 30b2 20 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3629 gvanrossum patch, needs review invalid result value of _weakref.__init__() 19 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3634 benjamin.peterson patch test_cpickle crash on AMD64 Windows build 21 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3640 amaury.forgeotdarc patch, 64bit Objects/obmalloc.c:529: warning: comparison is always false due 17 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3642 loewis patch, 64bit readline module Crashs on OpenBSD/amd64 16 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3645 gregory.p.smith patch, 64bit, easy fix for pychecker property complaints 17 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3658 benjamin.peterson patch, easy, needs review sqlite3.Connection.iterdump docs pythonicity 13 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3669 akuchling patch os.urandom(1.1): infinite loop 12 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3708 benjamin.peterson patch, easy PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is not for PyString_FromFormat 10 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3743 benjamin.peterson patch Sphinx producing duplicate id attributes, HTML fails validation. 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3746 georg.brandl re.escape() does not work with bytes() 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3756 andrewmcnamara "make check" suggest a testing target under GNU coding standards 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3758 brett.cannon patch asyncore differences between 2.x and 3.x 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3764 giampaolo.rodola easy Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3769 brett.cannon patch, patch, needs review deprecate bsddb/dbhash in 2.6 for removal in 3.0 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3776 brett.cannon patch, patch, needs review long(4.2) now returns an int 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3777 skip.montanaro patch Incorrect compiler options used for cc of Sun Studio 12 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3784 loewis Can't build ctypes of Python 2.5.2 with Sun Studio 12 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3785 theller multiprocessing deadlocks when sending large data through Queue 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3789 jnoller in zlib decompressor objects, unused_data and unconsumed_tail mu 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3790 gregory.p.smith patch, patch, needs review Module variable overridden in child processes with multiprocessi 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3792 TarkaSteve Small RST fix in datamodel.rst 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3793 georg.brandl __div__ still documented in Python 3 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3794 georg.brandl patch wsgiref.simple_server fails to run demo_app 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3795 pitrou some tests are not run in test_float 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3796 amaury.forgeotdarc patch, patch, needs review mmap, dbm, ossaudiodev, marshal & winreg return bytearray instea 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3797 gregory.p.smith patch, patch, easy, needs review Fix for formatter.py 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3800 georg.brandl patch cgi.parse_qsl does not return list 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3801 facundobatista patch Comparison operators - New rules undocumented in Python 3.0 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3803 georg.brandl patch Test for issue2222 (r65745) 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3804 ocean-city patch LockTests in test_imp should be skipped when thread is not avail 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3806 ocean-city patch test_cgi is giving deprecation warnings 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3808 facundobatista test_logging leaving a 'test.blah' file behind 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3809 brett.cannon Update Unicode database to 5.1.0 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3811 loewis patch, needs review py3k build fails if configure --without-threads 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3812 ocean-city patch cannot lanch python.exe via symbolic link if HAVE_BROKEN_MBSTOWC 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3813 ocean-city patch Add VCS support 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3814 pitrou patch Python 3.0b3 - Idle doesn't start on win XPh 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3815 vbr ftplib.FTP.abort() should consider "225" a positive response cod 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3818 georg.brandl patch zfill doc string uses inconsistent variable names 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3822 georg.brandl memoryview.size is redundant 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3827 amaury.forgeotdarc patch, needs review Bound methods compare 'successfully' with ints 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3828 amaury.forgeotdarc Tarfile has incorrect USTAR "VERSION" field (should be 00; is 0 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3830 lars.gustaebel add force_shared Library option to create shared lib even with u 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3832 loewis wsgiref.validator.InputWrapper readline method has wrong signatu 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3834 pje 2to3 broken due to mixed 2.5 and 3.0 syntax 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3836 benjamin.peterson patch Comment for html_logo setting is out of date 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3837 georg.brandl hexadecimal, not decimal 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3843 benjamin.peterson -S hides standard dynamic modules 2240 days http://bugs.python.org/issue586680 benjamin.peterson threading module can deadlock after fork 20 days http://bugs.python.org/issue874900 gregory.p.smith patch, needs review SSLObject breaks read semantics 1087 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1291446 ellisj Search is to long with regex like ^(.+|dontmatch)*$ 1084 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1297193 pitrou Add httponly to Cookie module 598 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1638033 benjamin.peterson patch Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 31 warnings.catch_warnings fails gracelessly when recording warnin 3 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue3781 25 dbm.sqlite proof of concept 8 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue3783 11 long(4.2) now returns an int 5 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3777 10 Update Unicode database to 5.1.0 2 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3811 10 ssl.SSLSocket implements methods that are overriden by socket.s 79 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3162 9 tkinter Menu.delete bug 0 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue3774 9 socket.socket.recv broken (unbearably slow) 9 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue3766 9 py3k fails under Windows if "-c" or "-m" is given a non-ascii v 3 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue3705 9 readline configuration for shared libs w/o curses dependencies 0 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1204 8 ssl.wrap_socket() is incompatible with servers that drop privil 3 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue3823

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Updated release schedule for 2.6 and 3.0
by Barry Warsaw Sept. 12, 2008

Sept. 12, 2008

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We had a lot of discussion recently about changing the release schedule and splitting Python 2.6 and 3.0. There was general consensus that this was a good idea, in order to hit our October 1 deadline for Python 2.6 final at least. There is only one open blocker for 2.6, issue 3657. Andrew, Fred, Tim and I (via IRC) will be getting together tonight to do some Python hacking, so we should resolve this issue and release 2.6rc1 tonight. We'll have an abbreviated 2.6rc1, and I will release 2.6rc2 next Wednesday the 17th as planned. The final planned release of 2.6 will be Wednesday October 1st. If 3.0 is looking better, I will release 3.0rc1 on Wednesday, otherwise we'll re-evaluate the release schedule for 3.0 as necessary. This means currently the schedule looks like this: Fri 12-Sep 2.6rc1 Wed 17-Sep 2.6rc2, 3.0rc1 Wed 01-Oct 2.6 final, 3.0rc2 Wed 15-Oct 3.0 final I've updated the Python Release Schedule gcal and will update the PEP momentarily. We'll close the tree later tonight (UTC-4). - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBSMpmfHEjvBPtnXfVAQJUiQP/eTXStyp9M0+Ja7iAFfYcpzfM19j9ddBr ocMC+KTDSgci5/rmFw4KdMhqO9TBk2sXIdCd9GInnuMOKtndCKZ/PXaexnVvSVGb P3CpkkMs/vG1itQIc/EXq6CUhzwuxEv9h8Wo8+zcmL05Cc1IrE5d2OYiO0+KQ8ei lW+j/aNKMWY= =w2oI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Python 3.0: can we make dbm's .keys() return an iterator?
by Gerhard Häring Sept. 12, 2008

Sept. 12, 2008

As far as I can see, the specification of the dbm interface is the module docstring in dbm/__init__.py, which reads: """ [...] It has the following interface (key and data are strings): d[key] = data # store data at key (may override data at # existing key) data = d[key] # retrieve data at key (raise KeyError if no # such key) del d[key] # delete data stored at key (raises KeyError # if no such key) flag = key in d # true if the key exists list = d.keys() # return a list of all existing keys (slow!) """ Now I thought that in Python 3.0, keys(), values() and friends should return iterators. Can we change at least the specification of the dbm module? We could then later in 3.1 change the implementations to return iterators instead of lists, too. I stumbled upon it cos I'm trying to help Skip with the SQLite-based implementation. -- Gerhard

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HTTPS read-only SVN access is denied?
by techtonik Sept. 11, 2008

Sept. 11, 2008

SVN checkout over HTTPS protocol requires password. Is it intentional or just temporary server issue? I am behind a proxy that doesn't support PROPFIND requests and I can't test SVN+SSH, because 22 port is closed. Site docs keep silence about that HTTPS is used at all. Shouldn't authentication be asked only on write access in normal SVN setup? BTW, link to "current svn tree" is broken here - http://www.python.org/dev/patches/ -- --anatoly t.

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?spurious? Timeout in BSDDB under MS Windows
by Jesus Cea Sept. 10, 2008

Sept. 10, 2008

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Trent, are you available to look at the ?spurious? timeout failures in bsddb replication code in the Windows buildbot?. Ten seconds timeout should be plenty enough. I can't debug any MS Windows issue myself; this is a Microsoft-free environment. - -- Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ jcea(a)jcea.es - http://www.jcea.es/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ jabber / xmpp:jcea@jabber.org _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ . _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBSMFWXJlgi5GaxT1NAQK3BwQAlG532RIfCKRLRwQWYqUnL87F4ITxgu7W 6QgzIHoCvl/oA5G0MsaSJ6Qh3XdutH4RjovxH7Ky3rQ08lFa7iyg6mHuzkBTDbri Pb7jgWHxQ/FImSD1rxqJHrLpKvRNoR0zjyDUVlEsgLElJ6wKGz4/eclJh0/0Wylv QdTISCI4rR4= =HBAA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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new ssl module is incompatible with servers that drop privileges
by Forest Sept. 9, 2008

Sept. 9, 2008

I've been trying out the new ssl module, and I love it so far, except for the way it accepts private keys and certificates. It accept them only as paths to their location on the file system, which I believe means that a server can only support SSL if it has read permission to its private key file when client connections arrive. This is a problem for servers that bind to their socket and drop privileges as soon as they start up, a practice that is both common and recommended in the unix world. IMHO, this severely limits the new ssl module's utility, and discourages good security practices. Wouldn't it be better if we could specify keys and certificates as bytes or file-like objects? This would solve the security issue, give applications more flexibility in key management, and might also improve performance slightly (by avoiding file system operations at accept() time). Perhaps there's a workaround that I haven't noticed yet? A quick look at the source code didn't reveal any obvious way to specify keys other than as paths in the file system. http://bugs.python.org/issue3823

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