ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2010-06-25 - 2010-07-02) 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. 2796 open (+44) / 18167 closed (+20) / 20963 total (+64) Open issues with patches: 1126 Average duration of open issues: 709 days. Median duration of open issues: 504 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2763 (+44) languishing 14 ( +0) pending 18 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (70) _______________________________ assumption about unsigned long byte size in struct module usag 2010-06-25 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue1789 reopened mark.dickinson patch, easy optparse doesn’t disallow adding one-dash long options (“- 2010-06-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue4640 reopened haypo mimetypes.guess_extension result changes after mimetypes.init( 2010-06-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue4963 reopened r.david.murray patch, easy PyDateTime_IMPORT macro incorrectly marked up 2010-06-26 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9024 reopened belopolsky patch test_sysconfig failure 2010-06-25 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9081 created michael.foord warnings.filterwarnings doesn't work with -O 2010-06-25 http://bugs.python.org/issue9082 created michael.foord At least some Tools utilities are still Python 2 2010-06-25 http://bugs.python.org/issue9083 created holdenweb vimrc: use matchall() instead of ":match" to allow multiple ma 2010-06-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue9084 created blueyed patch, needs review Version number inconsistency in email package 2010-06-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9085 reopened r.david.murray Wrong linking terminology in windows FAQ 2010-06-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue9086 created john.miller json docstrings on 3.x still use 'unicode' and 'str' 2010-06-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue9087 created ezio.melotti revert distutils to its 3.1 state 2010-06-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue9088 created tarek PyNumber_Int is still mentioned in number protocol docs 2010-06-27 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9089 created belopolsky Error code 10035 calling socket.recv() on a socket with a time 2010-06-27 http://bugs.python.org/issue9090 created ehohenstein patch str.capitalize() should not lower the rest of the string 2010-06-27 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9091 created eka static behavior of local variables 2010-06-27 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9092 created Aslanidi Tools/README is out of date 2010-06-27 http://bugs.python.org/issue9093 created belopolsky Make python-m pickletools do something useful 2010-06-27 http://bugs.python.org/issue9094 created belopolsky patch, easy patchcheck should handle extraneous whitespace in .rst files 2010-06-27 http://bugs.python.org/issue9095 created brett.cannon easy importlib doesn't handle valid marshalled data with invalid se 2010-06-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9096 created benjamin.peterson os.chdir(path) to return current dir 2010-06-28 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9097 created techtonik MSYS build fails with `S_IXGRP' undeclared 2010-06-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9098 created Martin.Ellison multiprocessing/win32: WindowsError: [Error 0] Success on Pipe 2010-06-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9099 created honeyman test_sysconfig fails (test_user_similar) 2010-06-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9100 created csernazs reference json format in file formats chapter 2010-06-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9101 created techtonik pybench: Cannot compare 2.x and 3.x benchmarks 2010-06-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9102 created belopolsky API keyword 2010-06-28 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9103 created techtonik test_exceptions does not test pickling with pickle.py 2010-06-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9104 created belopolsky patch pickle security note should be more prominent 2010-06-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9105 created techtonik easy remove numbers from 3-.. level entries in docs toc 2010-06-28 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9106 created techtonik PyModule_Create not working properly 2010-06-28 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9107 created Krauzi list object variable assign with multiplication sign 2010-06-28 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9108 created muzuiget absolute import cleanups for Python 3 2010-06-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9109 created nas contextlib.ContextDecorator 2010-06-28 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9110 created michael.foord patch cmd.do_help documentation should mention docstrings 2010-06-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9111 created tebeka argparse missing documentation for error() method 2010-06-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9112 created mark Tools/msi still uses string exceptions 2010-06-29 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9113 created doko br"" string literals don't appear to be documented 2010-06-29 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9114 created mark test_site: support for systems without unsetenv 2010-06-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9115 created csernazs patch test_capi.test_no_FatalError_infinite_loop crash on Windows 2010-06-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9116 created brian.curtin class syntax not fully documented in reference manual 2010-06-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9117 created mark.dickinson patch help() on a property descriptor launches interactive help 2010-06-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9118 created jackdied patch Python download page needs to mention crypto code in Windows i 2010-06-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9119 created lemburg Reduce pickle size for an empty set 2010-06-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9120 created belopolsky patch Glossary entry for nested scope incorrect 2010-06-29 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9121 created stoneleaf Problems with multiprocessing, Python embedding and Windows 2010-06-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9122 created honeyman insecure os.urandom on VMS 2010-06-30 http://bugs.python.org/issue9123 created zooko Mailbox module demonstrates infeasibly slow performance 2010-06-30 http://bugs.python.org/issue9124 created holdenweb parser module doesn't like except-as syntax. 2010-06-30 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9125 created mark.dickinson patch errors='replace' does not work at Windows command line 2010-06-30 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9126 created jvanpraag subprocess.Popen.communicate() and SIGCHLD handlers 2010-06-30 http://bugs.python.org/issue9127 created zarkdav Parser module fails to validate class decorators correctly. 2010-06-30 http://bugs.python.org/issue9128 created mark.dickinson patch DoS smtpd module vulnerability 2010-06-30 http://bugs.python.org/issue9129 created giampaolo.rodola Parser module fails on short relative imports 2010-06-30 http://bugs.python.org/issue9130 created mark.dickinson patch test_set_reprs in test_pprint is fragile 2010-06-30 http://bugs.python.org/issue9131 created stutzbach Documentation for comparing dictionaries is out of date 2010-06-30 http://bugs.python.org/issue9132 created stutzbach easy Invalid UTF8 Byte sequence not raising exception/being substit 2010-06-30 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9133 created Mike.Lewis sre bug: lastmark_save/restore 2010-06-30 http://bugs.python.org/issue9134 created arigo XMLRPC documentation binary file example does not execute. 2010-06-30 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9135 created Delaney.Gillilan RuntimeError when profiling Decimal 2010-06-30 http://bugs.python.org/issue9136 created ubershmekel patch x.update(red=5, blue=6, other=7) doesn't work, where x is a Mu 2010-07-01 http://bugs.python.org/issue9137 created stutzbach patch Tutorial: classes intro paragraph icky 2010-07-01 http://bugs.python.org/issue9138 created aahz Add examples for str.format() 2010-07-02 http://bugs.python.org/issue9139 created ezio.melotti patch SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler not a new-style class? 2010-07-02 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9140 created phf Allow objects to decide if they can be collected by GC 2010-07-02 http://bugs.python.org/issue9141 created krisvale patch, patch, needs review while executing python 2010-07-02 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9142 created rajesh.chandran test_ctypes: fails on sparc64 long double 2010-07-02 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9143 created jengelh Import error for multiprocessing in 2.7rc2 on Windows 2010-07-02 http://bugs.python.org/issue9144 created ot tracebacks eat up memory by holding references to locals and g 2010-06-25 http://bugs.python.org/issue1565525 reopened ghazel recursive urlparse 2010-06-30 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue1643370 reopened techtonik easy Issues Now Closed (74) ______________________ pickle's documentation is severely outdated 940 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1536 alexandre.vassalotti assumption about unsigned long byte size in struct module usag 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1789 mark.dickinson patch, easy Backport: Mixing default keyword arguments with *args 886 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1909 ezio.melotti ctypes.util fails to find libc in some environments 709 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3383 tjreedy patch cPickle to pickle conversion in py3k missing methods 712 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3385 alexandre.vassalotti patch httplib.HTTPMessage undocumented 707 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3428 orsenthil easy ssl.wrap_socket() is incompatible with servers that drop privi 658 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3823 pitrou 3.0rc2.msi Install Fails (Error Code 2755) 592 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4299 mark.dickinson Add a warnings.showwarning replacement for logging 586 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4384 merwok easy SequenceMatcher bug with long sequences 562 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4622 tjreedy 2.6.1 build issues on solaris with SunStudio 12 530 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4919 benjamin.peterson Duplicate UTF-16 BOM if a file is open in append mode 527 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5006 Conrad.Irwin patch [reopening] native build of python win32 using msys under both 520 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5026 tjreedy RFC: improve distutils bdist_rpm so it builds pure python modu 471 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5482 tjreedy patch os.getpwent returns unsigned 32bit value, os.setuid refuses it 297 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5705 ezio.melotti patch [Distutils][PATCH] Add bdist_rpm option to select the name of 339 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6546 tjreedy patch smtpd.SMTPServer can cause asyncore.loop to enter infinite eve 338 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6589 giampaolo.rodola patch deepcopy erroneously doesn't call __setstate__ if __getstate__ 300 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6827 r.david.murray easy Silence DeprecationWarning by default 63 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7319 benjamin.peterson patch setup.py ignores SDK root on OSX 161 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7724 ronaldoussoren patch, needs review Piped parent's multiprocessing.Process children cannot write t 118 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8056 Vojtech.Fried pep-0370 on osx duplicates existing functionality 50 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8084 ronaldoussoren patch, needs review, buildbot buildbot: DeprecationWarning not raised for icglue (test_py3kw 70 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8446 ronaldoussoren patch, buildbot buildbot: test_urllib2_localnet failures (Connection refused) 69 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8455 ronaldoussoren patch, buildbot test_distutils fails if srcdir != builddir 12 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8577 ronaldoussoren patch uuid.uuid4() generates non-unique values on OSX 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8621 ronaldoussoren patch urlparse.urlparse/urlsplit doc missing 52 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8653 orsenthil Link to PEP 3147 from importlib docs 50 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8667 brett.cannon patch, easy, needs review Proxy exception lookup fails on MacOS in urllib. 24 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8883 ronaldoussoren patch email.encoders.encode_base64 sets payload to bytes, should set 22 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8896 merwok patch Provide as_integer_ratio() method to Decimal 21 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8947 mark.dickinson patch PyDateTime_IMPORT macro incorrectly marked up 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9024 belopolsky patch add test_support.run_unittest command line options and argumen 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9027 georg.brandl errors='replace' works in IDLE, fails at Windows command line. 12 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9029 benjamin.peterson using MIMEApplication to attach a PDF raises a TypeError excep 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9040 r.david.murray 2to3 doesn't handle byte comparison well 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9043 tjreedy [optparse] confusion over an option and its value without any 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9044 georg.brandl Python 2.7rc2 doesn't build on Mac OS X 10.4 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9046 ronaldoussoren Backwards compatibility 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9059 georg.brandl pdb enhancement up/down traversals 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9064 georg.brandl patch test_float failure on Solaris 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9069 mark.dickinson TarFile doesn't support member files with a leading "./" 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9071 niemeyer ssl module sets "debug" flag on SSL struct 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9075 srid argparse does not handle arguments correctly after -- 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9077 georg.brandl Fix C API documentation of unicode 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9078 georg.brandl patch test_sysconfig failure 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9081 pitrou PyNumber_Int is still mentioned in number protocol docs 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9089 mark.dickinson str.capitalize() should not lower the rest of the string 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9091 orsenthil static behavior of local variables 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9092 mark.dickinson os.chdir(path) to return current dir 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9097 techtonik API keyword 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9103 merwok remove numbers from 3-.. level entries in docs toc 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9106 techtonik PyModule_Create not working properly 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9107 amaury.forgeotdarc list object variable assign with multiplication sign 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9108 ezio.melotti contextlib.ContextDecorator 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9110 michael.foord patch Tools/msi still uses string exceptions 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9113 loewis br"" string literals don't appear to be documented 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9114 merwok Glossary entry for nested scope incorrect 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9121 benjamin.peterson parser module doesn't like except-as syntax. 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9125 mark.dickinson patch errors='replace' does not work at Windows command line 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9126 r.david.murray Invalid UTF8 Byte sequence not raising exception/being substit 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9133 ezio.melotti XMLRPC documentation binary file example does not execute. 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9135 ezio.melotti SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler not a new-style class? 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9140 phf while executing python 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9142 mark.dickinson test_ctypes: fails on sparc64 long double 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9143 mark.dickinson cPickle not always same as pickle 2749 days http://bugs.python.org/issue655802 alexandre.vassalotti Generate rpm filelist including directories 2567 days http://bugs.python.org/issue755286 tjreedy patch bdist_rpm failure when no setup.py 2439 days http://bugs.python.org/issue828743 tjreedy Specify a source baseurl for bdist_rpm. 2111 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1028432 tjreedy patch Add New RPM-friendly record option to setup.py 2098 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1035576 tjreedy patch difflib.SequenceMatcher.find_longest_match() wrong result 1432 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1528074 tjreedy Py3k: Fix pybench so it runs 1262 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1634499 merwok patch recursive urlparse 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1643370 r.david.murray easy New byte packing format for the struct module 1088 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1749662 mark.dickinson patch Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 25 RuntimeError when profiling Decimal 2 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue9136 22 test_float failure on Solaris 3 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue9069 17 3.1 cannot unpickle 2.7-created pickle 510 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue5180 16 Add pure Python implementation of datetime module to CPython 130 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue7989 12 test_exceptions does not test pickling with pickle.py 4 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue9104 11 Reduce pickle size for an empty set 3 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue9120 11 tracebacks eat up memory by holding references to locals and gl 7 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue1565525 9 remove numbers from 3-.. level entries in docs toc 1 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue9106 9 mimetypes.guess_extension result changes after mimetypes.init() 6 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4963 8 Instance methods are misreporting the number of arguments 824 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue2516