ACTIVITY SUMMARY (02/05/10 - 02/12/10) 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. 2602 open (+33) / 17137 closed (+25) / 19739 total (+58) Open issues with patches: 1069 Average duration of open issues: 712 days. Median duration of open issues: 466 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2567 (+33) pending 34 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (59) _______________________________ support "with self.assertRaises(SomeException) as exc:" syntax 02/07/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7859 reopened flox 32-bit Python on 64-bit Windows reports incorrect architecture 02/05/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7860 created brian.curtin patch, patch, needs review 2to3: "import foo" -> "from . import foo" 02/05/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7861 created tomspur fileio.c: ValueError vs. IOError with impossible operations 02/05/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7862 created skrah platform module doesn't detect Windows 7 02/05/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7863 created adal patch, needs review Deprecation markers in unittest docs are unclear 02/06/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7864 created Justin.Lebar io close() swallowing exceptions 02/06/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7865 created pakal it looks like a typo in unittest 02/06/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7866 created artech Proposed FAQ entry on pass-by-? semantics and the meaning of 'va 02/06/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7867 created r.david.murray add a loggerClass attribute to Manager 02/06/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7868 created georg.brandl patch, patch, easy traceback from logging is unusable. 02/07/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7869 created naoki patch Duplicate test methods in test_memoryio 02/07/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7870 created georg.brandl Duplicate test method in test_heapq 02/07/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7871 created georg.brandl Incorrect error raised on importing invalid module via unittest 02/07/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7872 created Daniel.Waterworth Remove precision restriction for integer formatting. 02/07/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7873 created mark.dickinson easy logging.basicConfig should raise warning/exception on second cal 02/07/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7874 created tocomo test_multiprocessing / importlib failure 02/07/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7875 created pitrou buildbot unittest docs use deprecated method in code example 02/07/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7876 created Bernt.Røskar.Brenna Iterators over _winreg EnumKey and EnumValue results 02/07/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7877 created brian.curtin patch, patch, needs review regrtest should check for changes in import machinery 02/07/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7878 created brett.cannon easy Too narrow platform check in test_datetime 02/07/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7879 created akrpic77 patch sysconfig does not like symlinks 02/07/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7880 created flox patch Hardcoded path, unsafe tempfile in test_logging 02/08/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7881 created nascheme Compiling on MOX 10.6 "Snow Leopard" --#warning Building for Int 02/08/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7882 created global667 CallTips.py _find_constructor does not work 02/08/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7883 created Bernt.Røskar.Brenna IDLE 3.1.1 crashes with UnicodeDecodeError when I press Ctrl-Spa 02/08/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7884 created Bernt.Røskar.Brenna test_distutils fails if Python built in separate directory 02/08/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7885 created nascheme reverse on an empty list returns None 02/08/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7886 created tormen errno 107 socket.recv issure 02/08/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7887 created twistedphrame turtle "settiltangle" should be marked deprecated, not "tiltangl 02/09/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7888 created mnewman random produces different output on different architectures 02/09/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7889 created terrence equal unicode/str objects can have unequal hash 02/09/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7890 created ldeller add links to SVN for documentation developers 02/09/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7891 created techtonik refactor "test_dict.py" using new assertRaises context manager. 02/09/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7892 created flox patch unittest: have to subclass TextTestRunner to use alternative Tes 02/09/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7893 created michael.foord easy too aggressive dependency tracking in distutils 02/09/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7894 created ronaldoussoren Mac 10.6 mac_ver() crashes with USING_FORK_WITHOUT_EXEC_IS _NOT_ 02/09/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7895 created aahz IDLE.app crashes when attempting to open a .py file 02/09/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7896 created phyreman Support parametrized tests in unittest 02/10/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7897 created fperez rlcompleter add "real tab" when text is empty feature 02/10/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7898 created lilaboc patch MemoryError While Executing Python Code 02/10/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7899 created p_noblebose posix.getgroups() failure on Mac OS X 02/10/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7900 created michael.foord Add Vista/7 symlink support 02/10/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7901 created ipatrol relative import broken 02/10/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7902 created gangesmaster Configure script incorrect for reasonably recent OpenBSD 02/10/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7903 created johns urlparse.urlsplit mishandles novel schemes 02/10/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7904 created mbloore Shelf 'keyencoding' keyword argument is undocumented and does no 02/11/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7905 created r.david.murray patch, patch, needs review float("INFI") returns inf on certain platforms 02/11/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7906 created csernazs winreg docs: CreateKeyEx should be CreateKey (minor) 02/11/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7907 created patraulea patch, needs review remove leftover macos9 support code 02/11/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7908 created ronaldoussoren patch, needs review os.path.abspath(os.devnull) returns \\\\nul should be nul? 02/11/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7909 created abakker immutability w/r to tuple.__add__ 02/11/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7910 created mattrussell unittest.TestCase.longMessage should default to True in Python 3 02/11/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7911 created michael.foord easy Error in additon of decimal numbers 02/11/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7912 created James.Sparenberg Enhance Cmd support for docstrings and document it. 02/11/10 http://bugs.python.org/issue7913 created r.david.murray patch IntVar() - AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 't 02/11/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7914 created Plazma A lists which list.sort seems to leave out of order. 02/12/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7915 created throwaway zipfile.ZipExtFile passes long to fileobj.read() 02/12/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7916 created anacrolix list of list created by * 02/12/10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7917 created sledge76 Issues Now Closed (60) ______________________ Intermitent failure in test_multiprocessing.test_number_of_objec 543 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3562 flox allow unicode keyword args 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4978 benjamin.peterson patch, needs review A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5341 merwok patch [PATCH]Add FastDbfilenameShelf: shelf nerver sync cache even whe 335 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5483 r.david.murray patch memory leaks in py3k 317 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5596 flox patch Serious interpreter crash and/or arbitrary memory leak using .re 309 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5677 pitrou patch Shelve module writeback parameter does not act as advertised 302 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5754 r.david.murray patch, easy ZipFile.writestr "compression_type" argument 271 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6003 ronaldoussoren patch ElementTree (py3k) doesn't properly encode characters that can't 247 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6233 pitrou patch rare assertion failure in test_multiprocessing 224 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6366 flox OS X: python3 from python-3.1.dmg crashes at startup 224 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6393 srid patch, needs review multiprocessing logging support test 77 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6615 vinay.sajip patch test test_multiprocessing failed 172 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6747 flox enable compilation of readline module on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 7 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6877 minge patch, 26backport, needs review Update version{added,changed} entries in py3k unittest docs 127 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7030 ezio.melotti Make assertMultilineEqual default for unicode string comparison 130 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7032 michael.foord low performance of zipfile readline() 105 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7216 amaury.forgeotdarc OverflowError: signed integer is greater than maximum on mips64 91 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7296 mark.dickinson OS X 2.6.4 installer fails on 10.3 with two corrupted file names 64 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7437 ronaldoussoren python -m unittest path_to_suite_function errors 59 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7501 michael.foord unittest.TestCase.shortDescription isn't short anymore 44 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7588 michael.foord OS X pythonw.c compile error with 10.4 or earlier deployment tar 30 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7658 ronaldoussoren patch configure GCC version detection fix for Darwin 22 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7714 ronaldoussoren patch, needs review Allow use of GNU arch on Darwin 26 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7715 ronaldoussoren patch, needs review test_timeout should use "find_unused_port" helper 19 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7728 r.david.murray patch, easy, buildbot unittest returning standard_tests from load_tests in module fail 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7799 michael.foord easy test_macostools fails on OS X 10.6: no attribute 'FSSpec' 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7807 ronaldoussoren Call to gestalt('sysu') on OSX can lead to freeze in wxPython ap 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7812 ronaldoussoren Minor bug in 2.6.4 related to cleanup at end of program 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7835 r.david.murray patch, easy python-dev archives are not updated 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7843 isandler Remove 'python -U' or document it 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7847 barry patch, needs review copy.copy corrupts objects that return false value from __getsta 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7848 georg.brandl on __exit__(), exc_value does not contain the exception. 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7853 benjamin.peterson patch test_logging fails 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7857 vinay.sajip buildbot support "with self.assertRaises(SomeException) as exc:" syntax 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7859 flox 2to3: "import foo" -> "from . import foo" 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7861 tomspur Deprecation markers in unittest docs are unclear 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7864 georg.brandl it looks like a typo in unittest 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7866 merwok add a loggerClass attribute to Manager 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7868 georg.brandl patch, patch, easy traceback from logging is unusable. 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7869 vinay.sajip patch Duplicate test methods in test_memoryio 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7870 pitrou Incorrect error raised on importing invalid module via unittest 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7872 michael.foord logging.basicConfig should raise warning/exception on second cal 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7874 vinay.sajip unittest docs use deprecated method in code example 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7876 ezio.melotti Hardcoded path, unsafe tempfile in test_logging 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7881 vinay.sajip Compiling on MOX 10.6 "Snow Leopard" --#warning Building for Int 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7882 ronaldoussoren IDLE 3.1.1 crashes with UnicodeDecodeError when I press Ctrl-Spa 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7884 ezio.melotti reverse on an empty list returns None 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7886 tormen errno 107 socket.recv issure 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7887 twistedphrame equal unicode/str objects can have unequal hash 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7890 lemburg unittest: have to subclass TextTestRunner to use alternative Tes 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7893 michael.foord easy Add Vista/7 symlink support 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7901 tim.golden float("INFI") returns inf on certain platforms 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7906 r.david.murray winreg docs: CreateKeyEx should be CreateKey (minor) 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7907 ezio.melotti patch, needs review immutability w/r to tuple.__add__ 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7910 rhettinger Error in additon of decimal numbers 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7912 r.david.murray IntVar() - AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 't 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7914 brian.curtin A lists which list.sort seems to leave out of order. 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7915 throwaway zipfile.ZipExtFile passes long to fileobj.read() 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7916 amaury.forgeotdarc list of list created by * 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7917 flox Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 17 Add a context manager to change cwd in test.test_support and ru 27 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue7712 17 enable compilation of readline module on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 7 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6877 10 random produces different output on different architectures 4 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue7889 9 Support parametrized tests in unittest 3 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue7897 9 support "with self.assertRaises(SomeException) as exc:" syntax 0 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7859 8 test_multiprocessing / importlib failure 5 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue7875 8 Add os.link() and os.symlink() and os.path.islink() support for 1215 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue1578269 7 float("INFI") returns inf on certain platforms 1 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7906 7 Proposed FAQ entry on pass-by-? semantics and the meaning of 'v 6 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue7867 7 platform module doesn't detect Windows 7 7 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue7863