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ACTIVITY SUMMARY (08/23/07 - 09/10/07)

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1274 open (+64) / 11347 closed (+76) / 12621 total (+140)

Average duration of open issues: 673 days.

Median duration of open issues: 623 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
STATUS NumberChange
open 1271 +64
pending 3 +0


Issues Created Or Reopened (140)
Title Status Date Action By
Patch to rename *Server modules to lower-case   08/23/07 created jasonpjason
2to3 crashes on input files with no trailing newlines CLOSED 08/23/07 created adrianholovaty
Patch to rename HTMLParser module to lower_case   08/23/07 created paulsmith
zipfile password fails validation   08/23/07 created djw
MultiMethods with type annotations in 3000   08/23/07 created jasonpjason
Patches to rename Queue module to queue   08/23/07 created paulsmith
Refactor test_winreg.py to use unittest. CLOSED 08/24/07 created varmaa
[py3k] Fix dumbdbm, which fixes test_shelve (for me); instrument other t CLOSED 08/24/07 created larryhastings
Refactor test_signal.py to use unittest. CLOSED 08/24/07 created varmaa
Implementation of PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting CLOSED 08/24/07 created eric.smith
Broken bug tracker url CLOSED 08/24/07 created nirs
Wrong documentation for rfc822.Message.getheader CLOSED 08/24/07 created nirs
Broken URL at Doc/install/index.rst CLOSED 08/24/07 created orsenthil
eval error CLOSED 08/24/07 created Rayfward
cgi: parse_qs and parse_qsl misbehave on empty strings   08/24/07 created dljessup
[PATCH] Updated patch for rich dict view (dict().keys()) comparisons CLOSED 08/24/07 created keir
[PATCH] Updated fix for string to unicode fixes in time and datetime CLOSED 08/24/07 created ero.carrera
[PATCH] Add set operations (and, or, xor, subtract) to dict views CLOSED 08/24/07 created keir
server-side ssl support CLOSED 08/25/07 created gvanrossum
Cleanup pass on _curses and _curses_panel   08/25/07 created larryhastings
pydoc doesn't work on pyexpat   08/25/07 created nnorwitz
logging.basicConfig does not allow to set NOTSET level   08/25/07 created viper
use bytes for code objects   08/25/07 created nnorwitz
[PATCH] Unicode fixes in floatobject and moduleobject CLOSED 08/25/07 created ero.carrera
documentation for new SSL module CLOSED 08/26/07 created janssen
tracebacks from list comps (probably other comps) don't show full stack   08/26/07 created nnorwitz
Backport ABC to 2.6   08/26/07 created baranguren
uudecoding (uu.py) does not supprt base64, patch attached   08/26/07 created dudek
Tkinter binding involving Control-spacebar raises unicode error CLOSED 08/26/07 created kbk
py3k: io.StringIO.getvalue() returns \r\n CLOSED 08/26/07 created amaury.forgeotdarc
py3k: Adapt _winreg.c to the new buffer API CLOSED 08/26/07 created amaury.forgeotdarc
py3k: compilation with VC2005 CLOSED 08/26/07 created amaury.forgeotdarc
Improve the hackish runtime_library_dirs support for gcc   08/26/07 created alexandre.vassalotti
Support for newline and encoding in tempfile module CLOSED 08/27/07 created hupp
[patch] Add 2to3 support for displaying warnings as Python comments   08/27/07 created adrianholovaty
bytes buffer API needs to support PyBUF_LOCKDATA   08/27/07 created gregory.p.smith
py3k _bsddb.c patch to use the new buffer API CLOSED 08/27/07 created gregory.p.smith
Ill-coded identifier crashes python when coding spec is utf-8 CLOSED 08/27/07 created hyeshik.chang
[py3k] pdb does not work in python 3000   08/27/07 created gregory.p.smith
Asssertion in Windows debug build CLOSED 08/28/07 created theller
Unicode problem with TZ CLOSED 08/28/07 created theller
io.py problems on Windows CLOSED 08/28/07 created theller
test_glob fails with UnicodeDecodeError   08/28/07 created theller
test_builtin failure on Windows CLOSED 08/28/07 created theller
tarfile insecure pathname extraction CLOSED 08/28/07 created lars.gustaebel
Performance regression in 2.5   08/28/07 created inducer
HTMLCalendar.formatyearpage not behaving as documented CLOSED 08/28/07 created inefab
py3k: corrections for test_subprocess on windows   08/28/07 created amaury.forgeotdarc
py3k: correction for test_float on Windows CLOSED 08/28/07 created amaury.forgeotdarc
socket.socket.getsockname() has inconsistent UNIX/Windows behavior CLOSED 08/28/07 created janssen
py3k: correction for test_marshal on Windows CLOSED 08/29/07 created amaury.forgeotdarc
certificate in Lib/test/test_ssl.py expires in February 2013   08/29/07 created janssen
SSL patch for Windows buildbots problem CLOSED 08/29/07 created janssen
bogus attributes reported in asyncore doc   08/29/07 created billiejoex
scriptsinstall target fails in alternate build dir   08/29/07 created skip.montanaro
argument parsing in datetime_strptime CLOSED 08/29/07 created loewis
test_cmd_line starts python without -E   08/29/07 created twouters
Incorrect URL with webbrowser and firefox under Gnome CLOSED 08/29/07 created bingham
Code Example for 'property' bug CLOSED 08/29/07 created KennethLove
*args and **kwargs in function definitions CLOSED 08/29/07 created lars.gustaebel
zipfile cannot handle files larger than 2GB (inside archive)   08/29/07 created Kevin Ar18
ABC caches should use weak refs   08/30/07 created gvanrossum
nice to have a way to tell if a socket is bound   08/30/07 created janssen
Small typo in properties example CLOSED 08/30/07 created cgrohmann
Test issue CLOSED 08/30/07 created loewis
ssl.py shouldn't change class names from 2.6 to 3.x   08/30/07 created janssen
Implement PEPs 3109, 3134 CLOSED 08/30/07 created collinwinter
test_smtplib failures (caused by asyncore)   09/01/07 reopened gvanrossum
Documentation Updates for PEP 3101 string formatting CLOSED 08/31/07 created talin
invalid file encoding results in "SyntaxError: None" CLOSED 08/31/07 created georg.brandl
unicode identifiers in error messages CLOSED 08/31/07 created georg.brandl
unicode.translate() doesn't error out on invalid translation table   08/31/07 created georg.brandl
Documentaion font size too small CLOSED 08/31/07 created nirs
Mysterious failure under Windows CLOSED 08/31/07 created akineko
python3.0-config script does not run on py3k CLOSED 08/31/07 created koen
py3k: Unicode error in os.stat on Windows CLOSED 08/31/07 created amaury.forgeotdarc
py3 patch: full Unicode version for winreg module CLOSED 08/31/07 created amaury.forgeotdarc
itertools missing, causes interactive help to break   09/01/07 created mattrussell
cachersrc.py using tuple unpacking args CLOSED 09/01/07 created jinok
decode_header does not follow RFC 2047   09/01/07 created kael
Search broken CLOSED 09/01/07 created nirs
file.seek allows float arguments   09/01/07 created georg.brandl
platform system may be Windows or Microsoft since Vista   09/01/07 created p.lavarre@ieee.org
Confusing error message when dividing timedelta using /   09/01/07 created skip.montanaro
''.find() gives wrong result in Python built with ICC CLOSED 09/01/07 created sanders_muc
OS X 10.5.x Build Problems CLOSED 09/02/07 created noahgift
test_email failed   09/02/07 created xyb
py3k os.popen result is not iterable, patch attached   09/02/07 created carsten.haese
News page broken link to 3.0a1 CLOSED 09/02/07 created grahamh
ever considered adding static typing to python? CLOSED 09/02/07 created adamjw
doctools/sphinx/web/application.py does not start on windows CLOSED 09/03/07 created osuchw
py3k Mac installation errors CLOSED 09/03/07 created hdiogenes
Unexpected results in Tutorial about Unicode CLOSED 09/03/07 created Viscaynot
product function patch CLOSED 09/03/07 created ryan.freckleton
TypeError in poplib.py CLOSED 09/03/07 created serge.julien
make install failed CLOSED 09/03/07 created akineko
Deeply recursive repr segfault   09/04/07 created rhamphoryncus
input() should respect sys.stdin.encoding when in interactive mode CLOSED 09/04/07 created philyoon
decode_unicode doesn't nul-terminate   09/04/07 created rhamphoryncus
Mac compile fails with pydebug and framework enabled   09/04/07 created hdiogenes
Can't input non-ascii characters in interactive mode CLOSED 09/04/07 created philyoon
Is there just no PRINT statement any more? Or it just doesn't work. CLOSED 09/06/07 reopened loewis
Add support for _msi.Record.GetString() and _msi.Record.GetInteger()   09/04/07 created atuining
Typo in dummy_threading documentation CLOSED 09/04/07 created dthomasset
msilib.SummaryInfo.GetProperty() truncates the string by one character   09/04/07 created atuining
patch for readme.txt in PCbuild8 CLOSED 09/05/07 created chipped
Error in random.shuffle CLOSED 09/05/07 created Viscaynot
2to3, lambda with non-tuple argument inside parenthesis CLOSED 09/05/07 created falsetru
Problem with doctest and decorated functions   09/05/07 created danilo
Warning required when calling register() on an ABCMeta subclass   09/05/07 created mark
Problems with the msi installer - python-3.0a1.msi   09/05/07 created vbr
Users' directories information CLOSED 09/05/07 created uzytkownik
Test debug assertion in bsddb test_1413192.py CLOSED 09/05/07 created db3l
interrupt_main() fails to interrupt raw_input() CLOSED 09/05/07 created anand
_curses issues on 64-bit big-endian (e.g, AIX)   09/06/07 created lukemewburn
Minor Change For Better cross compile   09/06/07 created zengbo
reference in extending doc to non-existing file CLOSED 09/06/07 created anthon
Spurious warning about missing _sha256 and _sha512 when not needed CLOSED 09/06/07 created dripton
hashlib module fails with TypeError CLOSED 09/06/07 created dripton
Search index is messed up after partial rebuilding CLOSED 09/06/07 created lars.gustaebel
"make altinstall" installs pydoc, idle, smtpd.py with broken shebang lin   09/06/07 created dripton
Document inspect.getfullargspec()   09/06/07 created brett.cannon
PyTuple_Size and PyTuple_GET_SIZE return type documentation incorrect   09/07/07 created gaul
split(None, maxsplit) does not strip whitespace correctly   09/07/07 created nirs
Webchecker not parsing css "@import url"   09/07/07 created ready.eddy
bytes.split shold have same interface as str.split, or different name   09/07/07 created nirs
file.fileno and file.isatty() should be implementable by any file like o   09/07/07 created nirs
No tests for inspect.getfullargspec()   09/07/07 created brett.cannon
msilib.Directory.make_short only handles file names with a single dot in   09/07/07 created atuining
OpenSSL detection broken for Python 3.0a1 CLOSED 09/07/07 created pythonmeister
Idle - Save (buffer) - closes IDLE and does not save file (Windows XP)   09/08/07 created infixum
Reference Manual: "for statement" links to "break statement"   09/08/07 created Martoon
compile error in poplib.py CLOSED 09/08/07 created andre
python3.0-config raises SyntaxError CLOSED 09/09/07 created complex
Parsing a simple script eats all of your memory   09/09/07 created complex
xview/yview of Tix.Grid is broken   09/09/07 created ocean-city
Bdb documentation   09/09/07 created arklad
pyexpat patch for changing buffer_size   09/09/07 created AchimGaedke
Fixer needed for __future__ imports   09/09/07 created collinwinter
Make python build with gcc-4.2 on OS X 10.4.9   08/23/07 created jyasskin

Issues Now Closed (188)
Title By Duration
2to3 crashes on input files with no trailing newlines collinwinter 14 days
Refactor test_winreg.py to use unittest. loewis 10 days
[py3k] Fix dumbdbm, which fixes test_shelve (for me); instrument other t loewis 10 days
Refactor test_signal.py to use unittest. georg.brandl 1 days
Implementation of PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting gvanrossum 6 days
Broken bug tracker url georg.brandl 0 days
Wrong documentation for rfc822.Message.getheader georg.brandl 0 days
Broken URL at Doc/install/index.rst loewis 9 days
eval error georg.brandl 0 days
[PATCH] Updated patch for rich dict view (dict().keys()) comparisons loewis 9 days
[PATCH] Updated fix for string to unicode fixes in time and datetime loewis 9 days
[PATCH] Add set operations (and, or, xor, subtract) to dict views loewis 9 days
server-side ssl support janssen 1 days
[PATCH] Unicode fixes in floatobject and moduleobject loewis 8 days
documentation for new SSL module gvanrossum 2 days
Tkinter binding involving Control-spacebar raises unicode error kbk 0 days
py3k: io.StringIO.getvalue() returns \r\n loewis 7 days
py3k: Adapt _winreg.c to the new buffer API loewis 7 days
py3k: compilation with VC2005 nnorwitz 0 days
Support for newline and encoding in tempfile module gvanrossum 1 days
py3k _bsddb.c patch to use the new buffer API gregory.p.smith 1 days
Ill-coded identifier crashes python when coding spec is utf-8 gvanrossum 2 days
Asssertion in Windows debug build theller 2 days
Unicode problem with TZ loewis 2 days
io.py problems on Windows gvanrossum 2 days
test_builtin failure on Windows georg.brandl 6 days
tarfile insecure pathname extraction lars.gustaebel 2 days
HTMLCalendar.formatyearpage not behaving as documented doerwalter 0 days
py3k: correction for test_float on Windows gvanrossum 1 days
socket.socket.getsockname() has inconsistent UNIX/Windows behavior loewis 1 days
py3k: correction for test_marshal on Windows gvanrossum 1 days
SSL patch for Windows buildbots problem janssen 1 days
argument parsing in datetime_strptime gvanrossum 1 days
Incorrect URL with webbrowser and firefox under Gnome orsenthil 1 days
Code Example for 'property' bug georg.brandl 0 days
*args and **kwargs in function definitions georg.brandl 1 days
Small typo in properties example georg.brandl 0 days
Test issue georg.brandl 0 days
Implement PEPs 3109, 3134 collinwinter 0 days
Documentation Updates for PEP 3101 string formatting georg.brandl 0 days
invalid file encoding results in "SyntaxError: None" loewis 0 days
unicode identifiers in error messages loewis 0 days
Documentaion font size too small georg.brandl 1 days
Mysterious failure under Windows loewis 0 days
python3.0-config script does not run on py3k georg.brandl 0 days
py3k: Unicode error in os.stat on Windows loewis 2 days
py3 patch: full Unicode version for winreg module loewis 2 days
cachersrc.py using tuple unpacking args georg.brandl 2 days
Search broken georg.brandl 0 days
''.find() gives wrong result in Python built with ICC sanders_muc 0 days
OS X 10.5.x Build Problems loewis 0 days
News page broken link to 3.0a1 loewis 0 days
ever considered adding static typing to python? loewis 0 days
doctools/sphinx/web/application.py does not start on windows georg.brandl 0 days
py3k Mac installation errors hdiogenes 0 days
Unexpected results in Tutorial about Unicode georg.brandl 2 days
product function patch gvanrossum 0 days
TypeError in poplib.py gvanrossum 7 days
make install failed georg.brandl 4 days
input() should respect sys.stdin.encoding when in interactive mode loewis 0 days
Can't input non-ascii characters in interactive mode philyoon 0 days
Is there just no PRINT statement any more? Or it just doesn't work. gvanrossum 0 days
Typo in dummy_threading documentation dthomasset 0 days
patch for readme.txt in PCbuild8 loewis 0 days
Error in random.shuffle georg.brandl 0 days
2to3, lambda with non-tuple argument inside parenthesis collinwinter 4 days
Users' directories information uzytkownik 1 days
Test debug assertion in bsddb test_1413192.py gregory.p.smith 1 days
interrupt_main() fails to interrupt raw_input() anand 2 days
reference in extending doc to non-existing file georg.brandl 0 days
Spurious warning about missing _sha256 and _sha512 when not needed skip.montanaro 0 days
hashlib module fails with TypeError georg.brandl 0 days
Search index is messed up after partial rebuilding georg.brandl 0 days
OpenSSL detection broken for Python 3.0a1 georg.brandl 0 days
compile error in poplib.py georg.brandl 1 days
python3.0-config raises SyntaxError loewis 0 days
Need user-centered info for Windows users. georg.brandl 2460 days
Codec naming scheme and aliasing support lemburg 2445 days
exception item from mapped function georg.brandl 2212 days
include SQL interface module georg.brandl 2183 days
Add "eu#" parser marker georg.brandl 2023 days
Missing docs for module imputil jafo 2024 days
pydoc should respect __all__ skip.montanaro 1999 days
bsddb185 module needs iterators gregory.p.smith 1981 days
cStringIO should provide a binary option georg.brandl 1948 days
Docs in DocBook format georg.brandl 1884 days
pygettext should be installed skip.montanaro 1740 days
email: minimal header encoding skip.montanaro 1708 days
raw_input defers alarm signal georg.brandl 1666 days
Provide "plucker" format docs. georg.brandl 1631 days
Port tests to unittest (Part 2) georg.brandl 1564 days
Compile error messages and PEP-263 georg.brandl 1485 days
patch for build with read-only $srcdir loewis 1486 days
robotparser interactively prompts for username and password skip.montanaro 1430 days
Modules/Setup needs a suppress flag? skip.montanaro 1358 days
configure links unnecessary library libdl loewis 1322 days
"ez" format code for ParseTuple() lemburg 1311 days
configure warning / sys/un.h: present but cannot be compiled georg.brandl 1310 days
quopri encoding & Unicode georg.brandl 1318 days
2.3.3 str & list still use __getslice__ / __setslice__ georg.brandl 1302 days
making the version of SSL configurable when creating sockets janssen 1303 days
work around to compile \r\n file georg.brandl 1244 days
SSL-ed sockets don't close correct? loewis 1168 days
Adding missing ISO 8859 codecs, especially Thai lemburg 1116 days
socket.ssl should explain that it is a 2/3 connection janssen 1080 days
Use correct encoding for printing SyntaxErrors gvanrossum 1079 days
Irregular behavior of datetime.__str__() skip.montanaro 1008 days
Add 'update FAQ' to release checklist georg.brandl 962 days
Add SSL certificate validation janssen 944 days
enable time + timedelta skip.montanaro 935 days
Python Programming FAQ should be updated for Python 2.4 georg.brandl 925 days
zipfile UnicodeDecodeError georg.brandl 888 days
Python and Turkish Locale georg.brandl 852 days
a bunch of infinite C recursions brett.cannon 844 days
add single html files georg.brandl 833 days
crash recursive __getattr__ brett.cannon 744 days
tarfile: adding filed that use direct device addressing lars.gustaebel 724 days
python.sty correction - verbatim environment georg.brandl 705 days
python.sty: \py@sigline correction georg.brandl 705 days
Use 'seealso' to add examples to LibRef loewis 635 days
add more readline support loewis 621 days
2.3.5 source RPM install fails w/o tk-devel jafo 594 days
Inconsistency in Programming FAQ georg.brandl 568 days
Add .format() method to str and unicode loewis 514 days
datetime.time and datetime.timedelta skip.montanaro 478 days
winerror module loewis 450 days
Turkish Character georg.brandl 400 days
sqlite3 documentation on rowcount is contradictory georg.brandl 318 days
doctest simple usage recipe is misleading georg.brandl 285 days
specialcase simple sliceobj in tuple/str/unicode twouters 254 days
specialcase simple sliceobj in list (and bugfixes) twouters 254 days
Extended slicing for UserString twouters 253 days
Extended slicing for array objects twouters 253 days
slice-object support for ctypes Pointer/Array twouters 256 days
slice-object support for mmap twouters 253 days
extended slicing for structseq twouters 253 days
extended slicing for buffer objects twouters 253 days
sys.intern() 2to3 fixer collinwinter 261 days
webbrowser.open_new() suggestion georg.brandl 237 days
re module documentation on search/match is unclear georg.brandl 235 days
posixmodule.c leaks crypto context on Windows loewis 244 days
doc misleading in re.compile georg.brandl 227 days
Refactor test_class to use unittest lib georg.brandl 177 days
Add tests for pipes module (test_pipes) georg.brandl 169 days
xreload.py won't update class docstrings gvanrossum 164 days
Explain __method__ lookup semantics for new-style classes georg.brandl 168 days
descrintro: error describing __new__ behavior georg.brandl 154 days
os.path.join.__doc__ should mention absolute paths georg.brandl 150 days
Python 2.5 installer ended prematurely loewis 151 days
Bad documentation for existing imp methods georg.brandl 141 days
__getslice__ still used in built-in types georg.brandl 135 days
pickle example contains errors georg.brandl 133 days
Refactor test_frozen.py to use unittest. georg.brandl 128 days
socket.error exceptions not subclass of StandardError gregory.p.smith 138 days
generation errors in PDF-A4 tags for lib.pdf georg.brandl 120 days
imp.find_module doc ambiguity georg.brandl 134 days
run test_1565150(test_os.py) only on NTFS loewis 123 days
IDLE hangs in popup method completion kbk 96 days
bsddb.btopen . del of record doesn't update index gregory.p.smith 90 days
-q (quiet) option for python interpreter georg.brandl 86 days
_lsprof.c:ptrace_enter_call assumes PyErr_* is clean arigo 89 days
struct.Struct.size is not documented georg.brandl 75 days
Add/Remove programs shows Martin v Löwis loewis 79 days
Add reduce to functools in 2.6 gvanrossum 69 days
Incorrect docs for optparse OptionParser add_help_option georg.brandl 61 days
Pickling of exceptions broken georg.brandl 59 days
Examples dropped from PDF version of SQLite docs georg.brandl 58 days
Improve exception pickling support georg.brandl 57 days
AMD64 installer does not place python25.dll in system dir loewis 62 days
expanduser("~") on Windows looks for HOME first georg.brandl 62 days
fixing 2.5.1 build with unicode and dynamic loading disabled georg.brandl 43 days
getaddrinfo no longer used in httplib georg.brandl 43 days
chown() does not handle UID > INT_MAX georg.brandl 42 days
struni: assertion in Windows debug build georg.brandl 48 days
reference count discrepancy, PyErr_Print vs. PyErr_Clear georg.brandl 36 days
utilize 2.5 try/except/finally in contextlib georg.brandl 35 days
Documentation of descriptors needs more detail georg.brandl 32 days
The -m switch does not use the builtin __main__ module ncoghlan 25 days
setup.py trashes LDFLAGS georg.brandl 23 days
poll() returns "status code", not "return code" georg.brandl 21 days
os.chmod failure georg.brandl 35 days
Byte code WITH_CLEANUP missing, MAKE_CLOSURE wrong georg.brandl 18 days
Misc improvements for the io module gvanrossum 18 days
bsddb can't use unicode keys gregory.p.smith 14 days
Unify __builtins__ -> __builtin__ gvanrossum 15 days
tempfile.TemporaryFile differs between platforms georg.brandl 6 days
Segfault closing a file from concurrent threads georg.brandl 7 days
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