ACTIVITY SUMMARY (03/21/08 - 03/28/08) 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. 1794 open (+40) / 12535 closed (+18) / 14329 total (+58) Open issues with patches: 528 Average duration of open issues: 715 days. Median duration of open issues: 1243 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 1770 (+40) pending 24 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (58) _______________________________ 2to3 translates "import foobar" to "import .foobar" rather than 03/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2446 created dangyogi Python 2.6 refleak test issues 03/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2447 created tiran namedtuple breaks refleak tests 03/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2448 created tiran Improved serialization error logging in xmlrpclib 03/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2449 created blunck2 urllib2.Request constructor has no timeout parameter 03/21/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2450 created jjlee No way to disable socket timeouts in httplib, etc. 03/27/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2451 reopened facundobatista inaccuracy in httplib timeout documentation 03/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2452 created jjlee fix_except needs to allow for empty excepts 03/22/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2453 created loewis sha and md5 fixer 03/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2454 created loewis stat.ST_CTIME and stat.ST_ATIME problem 03/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2455 created sassas Make sysmodule.c compatible with Bazaar 03/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2456 created barry add --help and -h options to pdb 03/22/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2457 created benjamin.peterson patch Allow Python code to change Py3k warning flag 03/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2458 created benjamin.peterson patch speedup loops with better bytecode 03/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2459 created pitrou patch Ellipsis not copyable 03/22/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2460 created aronacher patch test_util.py for distutils 03/23/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2461 created tarek patch python.exe slowing my system 03/23/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2462 created FireSnake python.exe slowing my system 03/23/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2463 created FireSnake urllib2 can't handle http://www.wikispaces.com 03/23/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2464 created weijie90 sphinx-quickstart.py still creates makefile even if user tells i 03/23/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2465 created varmaa patch os.path.ismount doesn't work for NTFS mounts 03/23/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2466 created rossburton gc.DEBUG_STATS reports invalid "elapsed" times 03/23/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2467 created exarkun patch izip fixer generates incorrect import statement 03/23/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2468 created loewis Fix build error in unicodeobject.c UCS4 03/23/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2469 created benjamin.peterson patch Need fixer for dl (removed) -> ctypes module 03/24/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2470 created nnorwitz imp.get_magic() should return bytes, not bytearray 03/24/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2471 created brett.cannon patch Fixed block ordering code in compiler.pyassem 03/24/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2472 created pitrou patch logging.LogRecord should know how to handle dict-like args 03/24/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2473 created wcmaier fset not working 03/24/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2474 created ryansturmer Popen.poll always returns None 03/24/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2475 created jjcogliati optparse docs should mention %default being new in 2.4 03/24/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2476 created brodierao parser support for future import of unicode_strings 03/25/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2477 created nnorwitz patch decimal.Decimal( 0 ).sqrt() fails 03/25/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2478 created glathoud Bytearray and io backport 03/25/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2479 created tiran 26backport pickling of large recursive structures fails 03/25/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2480 created cyhawk locale.strxfrm does not work with Unicode strings 03/25/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2481 created cito Decimal(unicode) 03/25/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2482 created phd int and float accept bytes, complex does not 03/25/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2483 created marketdickinson Cosmetic patch for warning "unused variable" 03/25/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2484 created ocean-city patch, patch Traceback changed in 2.6 for unhashable objects 03/25/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2485 created mg Consider using bytes type instead of str to store Decimal coeffi 03/25/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2486 created marketdickinson patch ldexp(x,n) misbehaves when abs(n) is large 03/25/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2487 created fredrikj Backport sys.maxsize to Python 2.6 03/25/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2488 created tiran patch, easy, 26backport Patch for bugs in pty.py 03/26/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2489 created fergushenderson patch Assertion failure in datetime.strftime() 03/26/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2490 created genepi io.open() handles errors differently on different platforms 03/26/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2491 created nnorwitz Check implementation of new buffer interface for PyString in 2.6 03/26/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2492 created tiran 26backport Remove unused constants from optimized code objects 03/26/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2493 created belopolsky patch Can't round-trip datetimes<->timestamps prior to 1970 on Windows 03/27/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2494 created mark tokenize doesn't handle __future__.unicode_literals correctly 03/27/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2495 created tiran test_no_refcycle_through_target sometimes fails in test_threadin 03/27/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2496 created pitrou patch stdbool support 03/27/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2497 created rolland patch bdb modernized 03/27/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2498 created benjamin.peterson patch Fold unary + and not on constants 03/28/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2499 created belopolsky patch Sync _sqlite module code 03/28/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2500 created tiran xml.sax.parser() doesn't terminate when given a filename 03/28/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2501 created mark Add enum() example for named tuples 03/28/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2502 created calvin patch Replace "== None/True/False" with "is" 03/28/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2503 created calvin patch Issues Now Closed (63) ______________________ zlib.crc32() and adler32() return value 181 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1202 gregory.p.smith 64bit, easy Force BOM option in UTF output. 149 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1328 doerwalter UnicodeDecodeError that cannot be caught in narrow unicode build 125 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1477 amaury.forgeotdarc patch shutil.move() does not use os.rename() if dst is a directory 103 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1577 draghuram patch filehandle.write() does not return None (Python 3.0a2) 72 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1775 georg.brandl AST compile() patch 77 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1810 georg.brandl patch Add key argument to heapq functions 62 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1904 rhettinger patch weak references are removed before __del__ is called. 59 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1918 georg.brandl test_largefile.py converted to unittest 48 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2026 benjamin.peterson patch urllib2 basic auth handler doesn't handle realm names in single- 33 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2136 georg.brandl patch Document PyImport_GetImporter 29 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2160 georg.brandl patch unittest.findTestCases undocumented 28 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2162 georg.brandl Add doc-string to UserDict and DictMixin 30 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2172 belopolsky patch setitimer, getitimer wrapper 19 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2240 loewis patch quit() method of SMTP instance (of smtplib) doesn't return it's 20 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2248 georg.brandl patch test_decimal: possible thread lockup in test case 10 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2273 facundobatista patch Patch for "string without null bytes" check in getargs.c 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2298 georg.brandl patch make html fails 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2300 georg.brandl patch Py3K warn against using __members__ 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2346 georg.brandl patch, 26backport Py3K warn for using __methods__ 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2347 georg.brandl 26backport Py3K warn using file.softspace 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2348 georg.brandl patch, 26backport cmp argument to list.sort()/sorted() should raise a Py3K warning 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2354 rhettinger patch, 26backport Using buffer() should raise a Py3K warning 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2355 georg.brandl patch, 26backport Using sys.exc_clear should raise a Py3K warning 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2358 georg.brandl patch, 26backport A Py3K warning for array.array.{read,write} is needed 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2359 georg.brandl patch, 26backport Merge 2.6 ACKS with 3.0 ACKS 7 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2390 benjamin.peterson easy Improvement suggestions for the gzip module documentation 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2406 georg.brandl patch pysqlite provides no interface for database SQL dump 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2426 gregory.p.smith patch DictReader does not suport line_num 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2432 georg.brandl Undocumented features added to 2.6 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2442 georg.brandl easy urllib2.Request constructor has no timeout parameter 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2450 jjlee fix_except needs to allow for empty excepts 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2453 collinwinter add --help and -h options to pdb 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2457 benjamin.peterson patch Ellipsis not copyable 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2460 rhettinger patch python.exe slowing my system 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2462 FireSnake python.exe slowing my system 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2463 tiran sphinx-quickstart.py still creates makefile even if user tells i 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2465 georg.brandl patch izip fixer generates incorrect import statement 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2468 David Wolever Fix build error in unicodeobject.c UCS4 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2469 amaury.forgeotdarc patch fset not working 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2474 georg.brandl optparse docs should mention %default being new in 2.4 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2476 georg.brandl decimal.Decimal( 0 ).sqrt() fails 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2478 facundobatista Decimal(unicode) 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2482 marketdickinson Cosmetic patch for warning "unused variable" 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2484 georg.brandl patch, patch Assertion failure in datetime.strftime() 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2490 georg.brandl tokenize doesn't handle __future__.unicode_literals correctly 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2495 amaury.forgeotdarc test_no_refcycle_through_target sometimes fails in test_threadin 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2496 jyasskin patch Add enum() example for named tuples 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2502 amaury.forgeotdarc patch provide a documented serialization func 2362 days http://bugs.python.org/issue467384 gvanrossum default index for __getslice__ is not sys.maxint 1481 days http://bugs.python.org/issue908441 georg.brandl Heap class for heapq module 1107 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1162363 rhettinger patch compiler package: "global a; a=5" 964 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1251748 pitrou patch import dynamic library bug? 954 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1261390 georg.brandl bsddb: segfault on db.associate call with Txn and large data 793 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1413192 jcea bisect should support a custom comparison function 739 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1451588 rhettinger custom comparison function for bisect module 724 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1462228 rhettinger bisect on presorted list 460 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1619060 rhettinger Add triangular distribution to random 374 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1681432 rhettinger patch Duplicate "preferences" menu item/Tk Aqua 8.4.14 359 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1691411 georg.brandl patch audioop module - request to add a note 344 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1700821 georg.brandl slice type is unhashable 291 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1733184 belopolsky re.findall hangs python completely 281 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1737127 georg.brandl struni: test_urllib2, test_cookielib 238 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1762940 loewis patch Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 15 speedup loops with better bytecode 6 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue2459 10 Merge 2.6 ACKS with 3.0 ACKS 7 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue2390 8 compiler package: "global a; a=5" 964 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1251748 7 test_no_refcycle_through_target sometimes fails in test_threadi 1 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue2496 7 parser support for future import of unicode_strings 3 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue2477 7 Adding __iter__ to class Values of module optparse 7 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue2444 7 Semi autogenerated _types module 107 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue1605 7 test_xmlrpc is still flakey 123 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue1503 6 No way to disable socket timeouts in httplib, etc. 1 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue2451 6 uninitialized access to va_list 7 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue2443