Bug/Patch Summary ----------------- 659 open / 4522 total bugs (+127) 237 open / 2535 total patches (+44) New Bugs -------- threading module can deadlock after fork (2004-01-11) http://python.org/sf/874900 file.read returns reaches EOF when it shouldn't (2004-01-11) http://python.org/sf/875157 global stmt causes breakpoints to be ignored (2004-01-12) http://python.org/sf/875404 Make popen raise an exception if cmd doesn't exist (2004-01-12) http://python.org/sf/875471 email.Utils.formataddr doesn't handle whitespace too well (2004-01-12) http://python.org/sf/875646 add support for installations compiled for debugging (2004-01-12) http://python.org/sf/875654 Ctrl-C doesn't work with sleepy main thread (2004-01-12) http://python.org/sf/875692 Unbounded recursion in modulefinder (2004-01-13) http://python.org/sf/876278 logging handlers raise exception on level (2004-01-13) http://python.org/sf/876421 potential leak in ensure_fromlist (import.c) (2004-01-13) http://python.org/sf/876533 Random stack corruption from socketmodule.c (2004-01-13) http://python.org/sf/876637 configure detects incorrect compiler optimization (2004-01-14) http://python.org/sf/877121 configure links unnecessary library libdl (2004-01-14) http://python.org/sf/877124 distutils - compiling C++ ext in cyg or mingw w/ std Python (2004-01-14) http://python.org/sf/877165 freeze: problems excluding site (2004-01-15) http://python.org/sf/877904 Zipfile archive name can't be unicode (2004-01-16) http://python.org/sf/878120 optparse indents without respect to $COLUMNS (2004-01-16) http://python.org/sf/878453 optparse help text is not easily extensible (2004-01-16) http://python.org/sf/878458 Would like a console window for applets (2004-01-16) http://python.org/sf/878560 pwd and grp modules error msg improvements (2004-01-16) http://python.org/sf/878572 I would like an easy way to get to file creation date (2004-01-16) http://python.org/sf/878581 suspect documentation of operator.isNumberType (2004-01-17) http://python.org/sf/878908 New Patches ----------- Shadow Password Support Module (2002-07-09) http://python.org/sf/579435

100k alloc wasted on startup (2004-01-12) http://python.org/sf/875689 input() vs __future__ (2004-01-13) http://python.org/sf/876178 reorganize, extend function call optimizations (2004-01-13) http://python.org/sf/876193 easiest 1% improvement in pystone ever (2004-01-13) http://python.org/sf/876198 scary frame speed hacks (2004-01-13) http://python.org/sf/876206

Closed Bugs ----------- inconsistent popen[2-4]() docs (2003-11-16) http://python.org/sf/843293 Multiple problems with GC in 2.3.3 (2004-01-01) http://python.org/sf/868896 Py_SequenceFast can mask errors (2004-01-06) http://python.org/sf/871704 Wrong URL for external documentation link (Lib ref 11.9) (2004-01-08) http://python.org/sf/873205 Closed Patches -------------- add link to DDJ's article (2004-01-05) http://python.org/sf/871402