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2261 open (+32) / 14372 closed (+27) / 16633 total (+59)

Open issues with patches: 771

Average duration of open issues: 708 days. Median duration of open issues: 2759 days.

Open Issues Breakdown open 2237 (+32) pending 24 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (60) _______________________________

[distutils] - error when processing the "--formats=tar" option 12/27/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue1885 reopened tarek patch

Error in SocketServer UDP documentation 12/26/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4752 created shazow

Faster opcode dispatch on gcc 12/26/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4753 created pitrou patch

winsound documentation (about stoping sounds) 12/26/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4754 created ocean-city patch

Common path prefix 12/27/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4755 created skip.montanaro patch, patch, needs review

zipfile.is_zipfile: added support for file-like objects 12/27/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4756 created gagenellina patch

reject unicode in zlib 12/27/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4757 created haypo patch

Python 3.0 internet documentation needs work 12/27/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4758 created beazley

bytearray.translate() should support None first argument 12/27/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4759 created georg.brandl patch

cmp gone---What's new in 3.1 12/28/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4760 created LambertDW

create Python wrappers for openat() and others 12/28/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4761 created pitrou

PyFile_FromFd() doesn't set the file name 12/28/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4762 created haypo

PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches documentation out of date 12/28/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4763 created garcia

open('existing_dir') -> IOError instance's attr filename is None 12/29/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4764 created zuo

IDLE fails to "Delete Custom Key Set" properly 12/29/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4765 created alex_fainshtein

email documentation needs to be precise about strings/bytes 12/29/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4766 created beazley

email.mime incorrectly documented (or implemented) 12/29/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4767 created beazley

email.generator.Generator object bytes/str crash - b64encode() b 12/29/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4768 created beazley patch

b64decode should accept strings or bytes 12/29/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4769 created beazley

binascii module, crazy error messages, unexpected behavior 12/29/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4770 created beazley

Bad examples in hashlib documentation 12/29/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4771 created beazley

undesired switch fall-through in socketmodule.c 12/29/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4772 created dontbugme patch, needs review

HTTPMessage not documented and has inconsistent API across 2.6/3 12/29/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4773 created beazley

threding, bsddb and double free or corruption (fasttop) 12/29/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4774 created aspineux

Incorrect documentation - UTC time 12/30/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4775 created luckmor

distutils documentation 12/30/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4776 created steve21

nntplib - python 2.5 12/30/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4777 created morrowc patch

Small typo in multiprocessing documentation 12/30/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4778 created hdima patch

Can't import Tkinter 12/30/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4779 created pierre.lhoste

Makefile.pre.in patch to run regen on OSX (framework build) 12/30/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4780 created ronaldoussoren patch, patch, needs review

The function, Threading.Timer.run(), may be Inappropriate 12/30/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4781 created gestapo21th

json documentation missing load(), loads() 12/30/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4782 created beazley

json documentation needs a BAWM (Big A** Warning Message) 12/30/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4783 created beazley

Mismatch in documentation for module "webbrowser" 12/30/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4784 created improper_smile

json.JSONDecoder() strict argument undocumented and potentially 12/30/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4785 created beazley

xml.etree.ElementTree module name in Python 3 12/30/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4786 created beazley

Curses Unicode Support 12/30/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4787 created atagar1

two bare "except" clauses are used in the ssl module 12/31/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4788 created giampaolo.rodola patch

Documentation changes break existing URIs 12/31/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4789 created msapiro

Optimization to heapq module 12/31/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4790 created nilton patch

retrlines('LIST') and dir hang at end of listing in ftplib (pyth 12/31/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4791 created chris.mahan

PythonCmd in Modules/_tkinter.c should use the given "interp" pa 12/31/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4792 created gpolo patch

Glossary incorrectly describes a decorator as "merely syntactic 12/31/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4793 created kermode

garbage collector blocks and takes worst-case linear time wrt nu 12/31/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4794 created darrenr

inspect.isgeneratorfunction inconsistent with other inspect func 12/31/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4795 created stevenjd

Decimal to receive from_float method 12/31/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4796 created stevenjd

test_fileio error (windows) 01/01/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4797 created ocean-city patch

Update deprecation of 'new' module in PEP 4. 01/01/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4798 created vshenoy patch

handling inf/nan in '%f' 01/01/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue4799 created cdavid patch

little inaccuracy in Py_ssize_t explanation 01/01/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4800 created exe

_collections module fail to build on cygwin 01/01/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4801 created rpetrov

detect_tkinter for cygwin 01/01/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue4802 created rpetrov patch

Manas Thapliyal sent you a Friend Request on Yaari 01/02/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4803 created gravitywarrior1

Python on Windows disables all C runtime library assertions 01/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue4804 created mhammond

Make python code compilable with a C++ compiler 01/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue4805 created belopolsky patch

Function calls taking a generator as star argument can mask Type 01/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue4806 created hagen

wrong wsprintf usage 01/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue4807 created eckhardt patch

doc issue for threading module (name/daemon properties) 01/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue4808 created cgoldberg

2.5.4 release missing from python.org/downloads 01/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue4809 created rsyring

timeit needs "official" '--' flag 01/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue4810 created skip.montanaro

Issues Now Closed (95) ______________________

MacOS.GetCreatorAndType() and SetCreatorAndType() broken on inte 388 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1594 ronaldoussoren

unittest.py modernization 311 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2153 pitrou patch

IDLE doesn't work with Tk 8.5 under python 2.5 and older 250 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2693 gpolo patch

2to3 converts long(itude) argument to int 244 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2734 benjamin.peterson

test_list on 64-bit platforms 210 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3055 ronaldoussoren

ScrolledText can't be placed in a PanedWindow 182 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3248 gpolo patch

fix_imports does not handle intra-package renames 182 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3260 benjamin.peterson

``make htmlview`` for docs fails on OS X 129 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3644 georg.brandl

What's New in 2.6 - corrections 126 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3671 georg.brandl

Cycles with some iterator are leaking. 129 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3680 pitrou patch

tkColorChooser may fail if no color is selected 117 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3767 loewis patch

python-2.6b3.msi and python-2.6b3.amd64.msi can't both be instal 110 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3833 loewis

IDLE does not open too 85 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4049 loewis patch

PyUnicode_DecodeUTF16(..., byteorder=0) gets it wrong on Mac OS 83 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4060 benjamin.peterson patch

distutils.util.get_platform() is wrong for universal builds on m 82 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4064 ronaldoussoren patch, needs review

Lib/lib2to3/*.pickle are shipped / modified in the build 81 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4096 loewis

xml.etree.ElementTree does not read xml-text over page bonderies 60 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4100 georg.brandl patch

Docs for BaseHandler.protocol_xxx methods are unclear 72 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4156 georg.brandl

re module treats raw strings as normal strings 51 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4185 georg.brandl

dis.findlinestarts is missing from dis.__all__ and from the onli 65 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4222 georg.brandl

struct.pack('L', -1) 64 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4228 georg.brandl patch

zipfile.py -> is_zipfile leaves file open when error 58 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4241 pitrou

struct module: pack/unpack and byte order on x86_64 51 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4270 pitrou

Wrong encoding in files saved from IDLE (3.0rc2 on Windows) 45 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4323 loewis patch

Pickle tests fail w/o _pickle extension 36 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4374 alexandre.vassalotti patch

pypirc default is not at the right format 36 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4400 benjamin.peterson patch

In Lib\tkinter\filedialog.py, class Directory define loss a"_" 37 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4406 benjamin.peterson patch

IDLE string problem in Run/Run Module 35 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4410 loewis

unittest - use contexts to assert exceptions 31 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4444 pitrou patch

Module wsgiref is not python3000 ready (unicode issues) 28 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4522 pitrou patch

askdirectory() in tkinter.filedialog is broken 27 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4539 gpolo

IDLE shutdown if I run an edited file contains chinese 19 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4623 loewis

distutils chokes on empty options arg in the setup function 17 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4646 tarek patch, patch

bytes,join and bytearray.join not in manual; help for bytes.join 12 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4669 georg.brandl

setup.py exception when db_setup_debug = True 16 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4670 amaury.forgeotdarc

pydoc executes the code to be documented 12 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4671 georg.brandl

a list comprehensions tests for pybench 11 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4677 pitrou patch

'b' formatter is actually unsigned char 10 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4682 georg.brandl

Bad AF_PIPE address in multiprocessing documentation 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4695 georg.brandl

Clarification needed for subprocess convenience functions in Pyt 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4697 georg.brandl

range objects becomes hashable after attribute access 11 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4701 ncoghlan patch

[PATCH] msvc9compiler raises IOError when no compiler found inst 11 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4702 tarek patch

Python 3.0 halts on shutdown when settrace is set 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4716 pitrou

Endianness and universal builds problems 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4728 ronaldoussoren

cPickle corrupts high-unicode strings 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4730 alexandre.vassalotti

suggest change to "Failed to find the necessary bits to build th 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4731 georg.brandl

Object allocation stress leads to segfault on RHEL 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4732 pitrou

[patch] Let users do help('@') and so on for confusing syntax co 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4739 georg.brandl patch

pickle test for protocol 3 (HIGHEST_PROTOCOL in py3k) 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4740 ocean-city patch, easy

3.0 distutils byte-compiling -> Syntax error: unknown encoding: 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4742 georg.brandl patch

intra-pkg multiple import (import local1, local2) not fixed 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4743 benjamin.peterson

socket.send obscure error message 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4745 georg.brandl

Misguiding wording 3.0 c-api reference 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4746 georg.brandl

SyntaxError executing a script containing non-ASCII characters i 7 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4747 amaury.forgeotdarc patch

yield expression vs lambda 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4748 benjamin.peterson patch, needs review

Error in SocketServer UDP documentation 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4752 georg.brandl

winsound documentation (about stoping sounds) 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4754 georg.brandl patch

zipfile.is_zipfile: added support for file-like objects 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4756 pitrou patch

bytearray.translate() should support None first argument 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4759 georg.brandl patch

PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches documentation out of date 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4763 benjamin.peterson

open('existing_dir') -> IOError instance's attr filename is None 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4764 benjamin.peterson

email.mime incorrectly documented (or implemented) 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4767 georg.brandl

Bad examples in hashlib documentation 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4771 benjamin.peterson

distutils documentation 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4776 georg.brandl

nntplib - python 2.5 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4777 haypo patch

Small typo in multiprocessing documentation 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4778 georg.brandl patch

Can't import Tkinter 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4779 georg.brandl

Makefile.pre.in patch to run regen on OSX (framework build) 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4780 ronaldoussoren patch, patch, needs review

json documentation missing load(), loads() 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4782 georg.brandl

Mismatch in documentation for module "webbrowser" 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4784 georg.brandl

xml.etree.ElementTree module name in Python 3 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4786 benjamin.peterson

two bare "except" clauses are used in the ssl module 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4788 benjamin.peterson patch

Documentation changes break existing URIs 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4789 georg.brandl

Optimization to heapq module 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4790 nilton patch

Glossary incorrectly describes a decorator as "merely syntactic 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4793 benjamin.peterson

garbage collector blocks and takes worst-case linear time wrt nu 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4794 loewis

inspect.isgeneratorfunction inconsistent with other inspect func 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4795 rhettinger

test_fileio error (windows) 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4797 ocean-city patch

Update deprecation of 'new' module in PEP 4. 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4798 georg.brandl patch

little inaccuracy in Py_ssize_t explanation 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4800 loewis

_collections module fail to build on cygwin 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4801 amaury.forgeotdarc

Manas Thapliyal sent you a Friend Request on Yaari 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4803 benjamin.peterson

zappyfiles.py absent from MacPython binary 1967 days http://bugs.python.org/issue789545 ronaldoussoren

-O breaks bundlebuilder --standalone 1877 days http://bugs.python.org/issue841800 ronaldoussoren

bundlebuilder: an arg to disable zipping the code 1779 days http://bugs.python.org/issue900506 ronaldoussoren

bundlebuilder: easily keep main routine in orig location 1779 days http://bugs.python.org/issue900514 ronaldoussoren

plat-mac/videoreader.py not working on OS X 1778 days http://bugs.python.org/issue900949 ronaldoussoren

BuildApplet needs to get more BuildApplication features 1771 days http://bugs.python.org/issue905737 ronaldoussoren

Implement BundleBuilder GUI as plugin component 1688 days http://bugs.python.org/issue957652 ronaldoussoren

method after() and afer_idle() are not thread save 1623 days http://bugs.python.org/issue995925 gpolo

Problems importing packages in ZIP file 1594 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1011893 loewis

os.times() is bogus 1547 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1040026 loewis patch

macostools.mkdirs: not thread-safe 1409 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1149804 ronaldoussoren

plat-mac videoreader.py auido format info 729 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1627952 ronaldoussoren

EasyDialogs patch to remove aepack dependency 567 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1737832 ronaldoussoren patch

Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________

36 Faster opcode dispatch on gcc 7 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4753

21 Patch for better thread support in hashlib 7 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4751

17 shutil.rmtree is vulnerable to a symlink attack 31 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4489

15 Is shared lib building broken on trunk for Mac OS X? 33 days pending http://bugs.python.org/issue4472

14 retrlines('LIST') and dir hang at end of listing in ftplib (pyt 2 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4791

12 Curses Unicode Support 3 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4787

12 2.6.1 breaks many applications that embed Python on Windows 27 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4566

10 wsgiref package totally broken 11 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4718

10 complex constructor doesn't accept string with nan and inf 322 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue2121

9 Patch to make zlib-objects better support threads 9 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4738