ACTIVITY SUMMARY (11/28/08 - 12/05/08) 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. 2233 open (+55) / 14139 closed (+41) / 16372 total (+96) Open issues with patches: 753 Average duration of open issues: 705 days. Median duration of open issues: 2193 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2214 (+54) pending 19 ( +1) Issues Created Or Reopened (96) _______________________________ Coding cookie crashes IDLE 11/28/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4454 created tjreedy No Windows List in IDLE if several windows have the same title 11/28/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4455 created amaury.forgeotdarc patch xmlrpc is broken 11/28/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4456 created benjamin.peterson __import__ documentation obsolete 11/29/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4457 created stevenjd getopt.gnu_getopt() loses dash argument 11/29/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4458 created muntyan bdist_rpm assumes python 11/29/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4459 created John5342 The parameter of PyInt_AsSsize_t() is not checked to see if it i 11/29/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4460 created CWRU_Researcher1 parameters of PyLong_FromString() are not checked for NULL 11/29/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4461 created CWRU_Researcher1 patch result of PyList_GetItem() not validated 11/29/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4462 created CWRU_Researcher1 Parameters and result of PyList_GetItem() are not validated 11/29/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4463 created CWRU_Researcher1 PyList_GetItem() result and parameters not fully validated 11/29/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4464 created CWRU_Researcher1 The result of set_copy() is not checked for NULL 11/29/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4465 created CWRU_Researcher1 The return value of PyFile_FromFile is not checked for NULL 11/29/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4466 created CWRU_Researcher1 return value of PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() is not checked for N 11/29/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4467 created CWRU_Researcher1 Restore chapter enumeration in Python docs 11/30/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4468 created schluehk CVE-2008-5031 multiple integer overflows 11/30/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4469 created doko smtplib SMTP_SSL not working. 11/30/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4470 created lcatucci patch IMAP4 missing support for starttls 11/30/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4471 created lcatucci patch Is shared lib building broken on trunk? 11/30/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4472 created skip.montanaro POP3 missing support for starttls 11/30/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4473 created lcatucci patch PyUnicode_FromWideChar incorrect for characters outside the BMP 11/30/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4474 created marketdickinson More verbose error message for Py_FindMethod 11/30/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4475 created gpolo patch compileall.py fails if current dir has a "types" subdir with 3. 12/01/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4476 created aivazis Speed up PyEval_EvalFrameEx when tracing is off. 12/01/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4477 created jyasskin patch, needs review shutil.copyfile documentation 12/01/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4478 created steve21 True division is not smart -> proposing smart True division 12/01/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4479 created nassrat bdist_msi and bdist_wininst are missing an uninstaller icon 12/01/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4480 created lemburg Windows installer crash 12/01/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4481 created Konam 10e667.__format__('+') should return 'inf' 12/01/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4482 created DinoV Error to build _dbm module during make 12/01/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4483 created legerf patch, easy struct: per item endianess specification 12/02/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4484 created da4an1qu1 fast swap of "default" Windows python versions 12/02/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4485 created v+python Exception traceback is incorrect for strange exception handling 12/02/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4486 created ncoghlan Add utf8 alias for email charsets 12/02/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4487 created maxua patch Python Documentation not Newb Friendly 12/02/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4488 created mez shutil.rmtree is vulnerable to a symlink attack 12/02/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4489 created mrts xml/sax/expatreader.py raises AttributeError when run 12/02/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4490 created exarkun email.Header.decode_header() doesn't work if encoded-word was se 12/02/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4491 created ishimoto patch httplib code thinks it closes connection, but does not 12/02/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4492 created jjlee urllib2 doesn't always supply / where URI path component is empt 12/02/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4493 created jjlee Python 2.6 fails to build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED 12/02/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4494 created snaury patch Fix signed/unsigned warning 12/02/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4495 created rhettinger misleading comment in urllib2 12/02/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4496 created jjlee Compiler warnings in longobject.c 12/02/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4497 created rhettinger patch Compiler warning "signed/unsigned comparion in mmapmodule" 12/02/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4498 created rhettinger redefinition of TILDE macro on AIX platform 12/02/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4499 created apaprocki Compiler warnings when compiling Python 3.0 with a C89 compiler 12/03/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4500 created christian.heimes asyncore's urgent data management and connection closed events 12/03/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4501 created giampaolo.rodola patch Allowing get_pre_input_hook from Readline 12/03/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4502 created Conrad.Irwin patch exception traceback sometimes slow 12/03/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4503 created ocean-city Doc/includes out of date 12/03/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4504 created exe ob_size not removed from docs 12/03/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4505 created exe 3.0 make test failures on Solaris 10 12/03/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4506 created skip.montanaro 64bit 3.0 test failure on Mac OS X 10.5.5 12/03/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4507 created skip.montanaro distutils compiler not handling spaces in path to output/src fil 12/03/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4508 created Thorney patch possible memoryview bug 12/03/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4509 created gumpy ValueError for list.remove() not very helpful 12/03/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4510 created brett.cannon easy Decorators should have an index entry 12/04/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4511 created dvusboy Add get_filename method to zipimport 12/04/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4512 created belopolsky patch Finish updating zip docstring 12/04/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4513 created tjreedy test_binascii is failing 12/04/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4514 created rhettinger Formatting error in "What's New in Python 3.0" 12/04/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4515 created pwang Another formatting error in "What's New in Python 3.0" 12/04/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4516 created pwang improve __getattribute__ documentation 12/04/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4517 created LambertDW broken link to python 3 doc on main doc page 12/04/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4518 created cleary .pyc files included in 2.6 and 3.0 release tarballs 12/04/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4519 created doko Online 3.0 documentation says it's for 3.1a0 12/04/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4520 created paulmelis "What's New in Python 3.0" mentions "getcwdu" instead of "getcwd 12/04/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4521 created hagen patch Module wsgiref is not python3000 ready (unicode issues) 12/04/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4522 created tordmor patch logging module __init__ uses has_key 12/04/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4523 created bitdancer patch Build fails at running build_scripts 12/04/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4524 created chaz6 patch, needs review metaclass fixer fails with AttributeError, causing 2to3 to exit 12/04/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4525 created exarkun Clarify documentation for binary literals 12/04/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4526 created nneonneo Obsolete 'string or unicode' in fractions doc 12/04/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4527 created tjreedy easy test_httpservers consistently fails on OS X 12/04/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4528 created mwdiers parser module failure on valid try/except/finally blocks 12/04/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4529 created kaiw IDLE crashes with Japanese text on print command 12/04/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4530 created Vultaire Deprecation warnings in lib\compiler\ast.py 12/04/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4531 created edreamleo Fails to build on QNX 6.3.2 12/04/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4532 created kraai 3.0 file.read dreadfully slow 12/04/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4533 created tjreedy patch problem with str.join - should work with list input, error says 12/04/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4534 created lopgok Build / Test Py3K failed on Ubuntu 8.10 12/04/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4535 created lbhudda SystemError if invalid arguments passed to range() and step=-1 12/04/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4536 created laszlo patch, needs review webbrowser.UnixBrowser should use builtins.open 12/05/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4537 reopened amaury.forgeotdarc ctypes could include data type limits 12/04/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4538 created roysmith askdirectory() in tkinter.filedialog is broken 12/04/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4539 created dogtato typo in a module describes utf-8 as uft-8 12/04/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4540 created john.weldon patch, needs review Add str method for removing leading or trailing substrings 12/05/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4541 created zhirsch patch test_binascii fails on windows 12/05/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4542 created amaury.forgeotdarc patch, easy container constructors destroy argument 12/05/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4543 created kjwcode textwrap: __all__ atribute missing 'dedent' function 12/05/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4544 created wolfdown doctest seems to always fail on numpy.array2string 12/05/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4545 created ekorn Small thingy in "What's New in Python 3.0" 12/05/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4546 created paulmelis Long jumps with frame_setlineno 12/05/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4547 created fboule patch, needs review OptionParser : Weird comportement in args processing 12/05/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4548 created ohervieu A defect in <The Python Tutorial>-<Python Scopes and Name Spaces 12/05/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4549 created PyTiger Issues Now Closed (86) ______________________ urllib fail to read URL contents, urllib2 crash Python 433 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1205 jjlee httplib does not handle ssl end of file properly 431 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1223 georg.brandl patch popen spawned process may not write to stdout under windows 401 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1366 georg.brandl urllib2 302 POST 391 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1401 jjlee Victor Stinner's GMP patch for longs 328 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1814 haypo patch Update What's new in 3.0 262 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2306 gvanrossum Update the ACKS file 264 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2311 georg.brandl 'exceptions' import fixer 261 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2350 brett.cannon patch, needs review Backport buffer interface in Python 3.0 to Python 2.6 262 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2393 georg.brandl Python 2.6 refleak test issues 259 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2447 georg.brandl urllib2 can't handle http://www.wikispaces.com 254 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2464 jjlee patch operator.*slice() should be deprecated in 2.6 166 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3171 georg.brandl Multiprocessing docs are not 3.0-ready 156 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3256 georg.brandl patch multiprocessing: BaseManager.from_address documented but doesn't 113 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3518 jnoller listreverseiterator has a decreasing len() 98 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3689 rhettinger os.getenv silently discards env variables with non-UTF-8 values 65 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4006 Rhamphoryncus Minor errors in multiprocessing docs 58 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4012 jnoller distutils build_scripts and install_data commands need 2to3 supp 54 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4073 loewis patch Multiprocessing example 35 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4193 jnoller BSD support for multiprocessing.cpu_count 30 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4238 jnoller cycle created by profile.run 27 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4273 amaury.forgeotdarc Error in docs of urllib.request and urllib.parse 16 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4355 georg.brandl patch Add CRT version info in msvcrt module 11 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4365 loewis patch Add a warnings.showwarning replacement for logging 12 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4384 vsajip easy binascii b2a functions accept strings (unicode) as data 10 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4387 loewis patch, needs review Uninstaller Lacks an Icon 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4389 lemburg os.extsep status? doc or os bug? 11 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4401 georg.brandl Windows Installer Error 1722 when opting for compilation at inst 7 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4407 keldonin patch re.compile(regexp).groups not documented 11 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4408 georg.brandl Dangling asterisks in Python 3.0 subprocess docs 11 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4409 georg.brandl Docs for 'y' Py_BuildValue tag are wrong 10 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4427 georg.brandl patch, patch Improve os open flag options doc 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4441 georg.brandl 2to3 run changed multiprocessing.Queue() to multiprocessing.queu 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4450 benjamin.peterson Coding cookie crashes IDLE 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4454 tjreedy No Windows List in IDLE if several windows have the same title 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4455 amaury.forgeotdarc patch xmlrpc is broken 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4456 benjamin.peterson getopt.gnu_getopt() loses dash argument 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4458 georg.brandl The parameter of PyInt_AsSsize_t() is not checked to see if it i 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4460 marketdickinson result of PyList_GetItem() not validated 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4462 rhettinger Parameters and result of PyList_GetItem() are not validated 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4463 rhettinger PyList_GetItem() result and parameters not fully validated 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4464 rhettinger The result of set_copy() is not checked for NULL 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4465 rhettinger The return value of PyFile_FromFile is not checked for NULL 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4466 marketdickinson return value of PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() is not checked for N 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4467 marketdickinson Restore chapter enumeration in Python docs 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4468 georg.brandl shutil.copyfile documentation 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4478 georg.brandl True division is not smart -> proposing smart True division 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4479 nassrat Fix signed/unsigned warning 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4495 rhettinger Doc/includes out of date 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4504 georg.brandl ob_size not removed from docs 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4505 georg.brandl Decorators should have an index entry 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4511 dvusboy Finish updating zip docstring 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4513 georg.brandl test_binascii is failing 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4514 amaury.forgeotdarc Formatting error in "What's New in Python 3.0" 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4515 georg.brandl Another formatting error in "What's New in Python 3.0" 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4516 georg.brandl improve __getattribute__ documentation 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4517 georg.brandl broken link to python 3 doc on main doc page 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4518 georg.brandl .pyc files included in 2.6 and 3.0 release tarballs 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4519 barry Online 3.0 documentation says it's for 3.1a0 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4520 georg.brandl "What's New in Python 3.0" mentions "getcwdu" instead of "getcwd 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4521 georg.brandl patch metaclass fixer fails with AttributeError, causing 2to3 to exit 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4525 benjamin.peterson Clarify documentation for binary literals 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4526 georg.brandl Obsolete 'string or unicode' in fractions doc 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4527 georg.brandl easy parser module failure on valid try/except/finally blocks 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4529 georg.brandl IDLE crashes with Japanese text on print command 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4530 amaury.forgeotdarc Deprecation warnings in lib\compiler\ast.py 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4531 edreamleo problem with str.join - should work with list input, error says 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4534 amaury.forgeotdarc Add str method for removing leading or trailing substrings 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4541 rhettinger patch test_binascii fails on windows 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4542 amaury.forgeotdarc patch, easy container constructors destroy argument 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4543 rhettinger textwrap: __all__ atribute missing 'dedent' function 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4544 georg.brandl doctest seems to always fail on numpy.array2string 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4545 amaury.forgeotdarc Small thingy in "What's New in Python 3.0" 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4546 georg.brandl OptionParser : Weird comportement in args processing 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4548 georg.brandl registry functions don't handle null characters 2144 days http://bugs.python.org/issue672132 amaury.forgeotdarc SIGSEGV in _sre.c (IRIX 6.5.20) 1948 days http://bugs.python.org/issue783789 amaury.forgeotdarc pickletools support for multiple pickles in a string 1792 days http://bugs.python.org/issue873150 fdrake catch invalid chunk length in httplib read routine 1748 days http://bugs.python.org/issue900744 jjlee patch cgi.py does not correctly handle fields with ';' 1499 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1055234 fdrake patch attempting to use urllib2 on some URLs fails starting on 2.4 1385 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1123695 amaury.forgeotdarc httplib patch to make _read_chunked() more robust 1047 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1411097 jjlee patch pdb find_function does not find Class methods. 681 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1643369 georg.brandl Draft implementation for PEP 364 640 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1675334 barry patch 'exec' does not accept what 'open' returns 495 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1762972 georg.brandl urllib2 hangs with some documents. 479 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1772481 amaury.forgeotdarc glob doesn't return unicode with unicode parameter 473 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1777458 georg.brandl Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 17 Error to build _dbm module during make 4 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4483 15 AssertionError in Doc/includes/mp_benchmarks.py 7 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4449 10 3.0 make test failures on Solaris 10 2 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4506 10 BaseHTTPRequestHandler depends on GC to close connections 87 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue3826 9 Update What's new in 3.0 262 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue2306 8 POP3 missing support for starttls 5 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4473 7 typo in a module describes utf-8 as uft-8 1 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4540 7 3.0 file.read dreadfully slow 1 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4533 7 bdist_msi and bdist_wininst are missing an uninstaller icon 4 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4480 7 Speed up PyEval_EvalFrameEx when tracing is off. 5 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4477