ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2010-07-16 - 2010-07-23) 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. 2826 open (+62) / 18349 closed (+21) / 21175 total (+83) Open issues with patches: 1151 Average duration of open issues: 692 days. Median duration of open issues: 480 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2780 (+60) languishing 16 ( +0) pending 29 ( +2) Issues Created Or Reopened (89) _______________________________ No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat 2010-07-19 http://bugs.python.org/issue2813 reopened mark.dickinson patch os.curdir as the default argument for os.listdir 2010-07-23 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6095 reopened tarek patch weak dict iterators are fragile because of unpredictable GC ru 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue7105 reopened mark.dickinson patch subprocess.Popen documentation should contain a good warning a 2010-07-22 http://bugs.python.org/issue7950 reopened r.david.murray patch code.InteractiveInterpreter fails to change locals when invoke 2010-07-16 http://bugs.python.org/issue9274 created ericp python 2.7 OS X installer no longer installs /usr/local/bin sy 2010-07-16 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9275 created ned.deily pickle should support methods 2010-07-16 http://bugs.python.org/issue9276 created exarkun test_struct failure on ARM 2010-07-16 http://bugs.python.org/issue9277 created mark.dickinson patch, buildbot rename 2to3 & pydoc to 2to3.py & pydoc.py 2010-07-16 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9278 created srid get rid of pdb.doc 2010-07-16 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9279 created georg.brandl easy sharedinstall target doesn't depend on sharedmods target 2010-07-17 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9280 created Arfrever patch Race condition in distutils.dir_util.mkpath() 2010-07-17 http://bugs.python.org/issue9281 created Arfrever patch Bug in --listfuncs option of trace.py 2010-07-17 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9282 created eli.bendersky patch buggy repr for os.environ 2010-07-17 http://bugs.python.org/issue9283 created pitrou inspect.findsource() cannot find source for doctest code 2010-07-17 http://bugs.python.org/issue9284 created djc A decorator for cProfile and profile modules 2010-07-17 http://bugs.python.org/issue9285 created giampaolo.rodola patch, patch, needs review email.utils.parseaddr returns garbage for invalid input 2010-07-17 http://bugs.python.org/issue9286 created merwok Cosmetic fix in OtherFileTests.testOpenDir 2010-07-17 http://bugs.python.org/issue9287 created ocean-city patch, easy Disambiguate :option: and :cmdoption: 2010-07-17 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9288 created merwok patch, needs review Skip test_long_key(test_winreg) on win2k + py2.x 2010-07-18 http://bugs.python.org/issue9289 created ocean-city patch IDLE and Command line present different behavior for sys.stdin 2010-07-18 http://bugs.python.org/issue9290 created Geraldo.Xexeo mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin 2010-07-18 http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 created Dmitry.Jemerov patch, easy Dead code in Modules/pyexpat.c 2010-07-18 http://bugs.python.org/issue9292 created pitrou Unsupported IO operations should raise UnsupportedOperation 2010-07-18 http://bugs.python.org/issue9293 created pitrou easy Dead code in Objects/object.c 2010-07-18 http://bugs.python.org/issue9294 created pitrou easy test_close_open_print_buffered(test_file) sometimes crashes 2010-07-18 http://bugs.python.org/issue9295 created ocean-city patch json module skipkeys handling changed exception types in 2.7 2010-07-18 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9296 created doughellmann patch SMTP with Sqlite3 file attached problem 2010-07-20 http://bugs.python.org/issue9297 reopened murilobr binary email attachment issue with base64 encoding 2010-07-19 http://bugs.python.org/issue9298 created vunruh os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppres 2010-07-19 http://bugs.python.org/issue9299 created ysj.ray patch c/profile Profile class is not documented 2010-07-19 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9300 created giampaolo.rodola urllib.quote(None) returns None in 2.7 (raised TypeError befor 2010-07-19 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9301 created djc Distutils document problem? 2010-07-19 http://bugs.python.org/issue9302 created ysj.ray patch Migrate sqlite3 module to _v2 API to enhance performance 2010-07-19 http://bugs.python.org/issue9303 created feuermurmel unreproducible example in the memoryview documentation 2010-07-19 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9304 created chaica_ Don't use east/west of UTC in date/time documentation 2010-07-19 http://bugs.python.org/issue9305 created belopolsky easy distutils: raise informative error message when cmd_class is N 2010-07-19 http://bugs.python.org/issue9306 created srid Py_TPFLAGS_LONG_SUBCLASS is not documented 2010-07-19 http://bugs.python.org/issue9307 created belopolsky Remove redundant coding cookies from 3.x stdlib 2010-07-19 http://bugs.python.org/issue9308 created belopolsky patch Add environment variable complementing command line option -no 2010-07-19 http://bugs.python.org/issue9309 created AlexanderDreyer patch Intermittent failures in test_logging 2010-07-19 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9310 created skrah patch, buildbot os.access can return bogus values when run as superuser 2010-07-20 http://bugs.python.org/issue9311 created yaneurabeya Fix usage of :option: markup in stdlib ReST docs 2010-07-20 http://bugs.python.org/issue9312 created eli.bendersky patch distutils error on MSVC older than 8 2010-07-20 http://bugs.python.org/issue9313 created ocean-city patch inconsistent result when concatenating list with iterators 2010-07-20 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9314 created djc The trace module lacks unit tests 2010-07-20 http://bugs.python.org/issue9315 created eli.bendersky typos in zipimport docstrings 2010-07-21 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9316 created rfk patch Incorrect coverage file from trace test_pickle.py 2010-07-21 http://bugs.python.org/issue9317 created belopolsky patch Py3k compilation on old MSVC 2010-07-21 http://bugs.python.org/issue9318 created ocean-city patch segfault when searching modules with help() 2010-07-21 http://bugs.python.org/issue9319 created ron_adam os.environ is global for threads 2010-07-22 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9320 reopened techtonik CGIHTTPServer cleanup htbin 2010-07-21 http://bugs.python.org/issue9321 created techtonik bdist_rpm ext_modules absolute source path fail 2010-07-21 http://bugs.python.org/issue9322 created indiedan trace.py bug with the main file being traced 2010-07-21 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9323 created eli.bendersky patch signal.signal(bogus_signal, handler) segfaults on Windows 2010-07-21 http://bugs.python.org/issue9324 created midnightdf patch Add an option to pdb/trace/profile to run library module as a 2010-07-21 http://bugs.python.org/issue9325 created belopolsky Error message for incorrect number of (function) args is incor 2010-07-21 http://bugs.python.org/issue9326 created midnightdf doctest DocFileCase setUp/tearDown asymmetry 2010-07-21 http://bugs.python.org/issue9327 created boogenhagn str.__format__.__doc__ backport glitch 2010-07-21 http://bugs.python.org/issue9328 created tjreedy easy freeze tool cannot handle JSON module properly 2010-07-22 http://bugs.python.org/issue9329 created sam.sp assertIn should check for membership support before testing 2010-07-22 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9330 created brian.curtin patch, patch, needs review sys.setprofile is not described as CPython implementation deta 2010-07-22 http://bugs.python.org/issue9331 created belopolsky Document requirements for os.symlink usage on Windows 2010-07-22 http://bugs.python.org/issue9332 created brian.curtin Expose a way to enable os.symlink on Windows 2010-07-22 http://bugs.python.org/issue9333 created brian.curtin patch argparse does not accept options taking arguments beginning wi 2010-07-22 http://bugs.python.org/issue9334 created andersk LC_CTYPE system setting not respected by setlocale() 2010-07-23 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9335 created antlong string.letters should display locale based equivalent of a-Z 2010-07-23 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9336 created antlong Make float.__str__ behave identically to float.__repr__ 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9337 created mark.dickinson argparse optionals with nargs='+' can't be followed by positio 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9338 reopened bethard threading is_alive documnetation is unclear 2010-07-23 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9339 created bbrazil patch argparse parse_known_args does not work with subparsers 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9340 created bethard allow argparse subcommands to be grouped 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9341 created bethard Tests for monthrange in calendar.py module 2010-07-23 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9342 created John.Chandler patch Document that argparse "parents" must be fully declared before 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9343 created bethard please add posix.getgrouplist() 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9344 created ronaldoussoren easy argparse wrap tests are sensitive to terminal size 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9345 created bethard Improve threading tests 2010-07-23 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9346 created bbrazil patch Calling argparse add_argument with a sequence as 'type' causes 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9347 created bethard Calling argparse's add_argument with the wrong number of metav 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9348 created bethard document argparse's help=SUPPRESS 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9349 created bethard add remove_argument_group to argparse 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9350 created bethard argparse set_defaults on subcommands should override top level 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9351 created bethard argparse eats characters when parsing multiple merged short op 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9352 created bethard patch argparse __all__ is incomplete 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9353 created bethard file_wrapper fails to provide getsockopt() 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9354 created lukasz.langa patch argparse add_mutually_exclusive_group more than once has incor 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9355 created bethard Improved tests and style for fnmatch 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9356 created bbrazil patch hotshot.stats.load fails with AssertionError 2010-07-19 http://bugs.python.org/issue900092 reopened brian.curtin patch urllib.quote throws exception on Unicode URL 2010-07-22 http://bugs.python.org/issue1712522 reopened orsenthil patch, easy Issues Now Closed (74) ______________________ Allow array.array to be parsed by the t# format unit. 1027 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1200 BreamoreBoy IDLE - patch Delegator to support callables 1015 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1252 taleinat patch Race condition in os.makedirs 943 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1675 tjreedy easy Remove cmp parameter to list.sort() and builtin.sorted() 924 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1771 metal Test 908 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1902 loewis optimize out local variables at end of function 876 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2181 BreamoreBoy patch, patch 2to3 converts long(itude) argument to int 813 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2734 maubp Remove mimetools usage from the stdlib 588 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2848 merwok patch Expect methods for testing. 699 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3615 michael.foord patch test_run_abort triggers CrashReporter on MacOS X 656 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4047 ronaldoussoren Faster opcode dispatch on gcc 570 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4753 pitrou patch Python on Windows disables all C runtime library assertions 564 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4804 BreamoreBoy patch, needs review 3.1 cannot unpickle 2.7-created pickle 525 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5180 belopolsky patch array.fromfile not checking I/O errors 508 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5395 pitrou patch, easy _winreg.OpenKey() is documented with keyword arguments, but do 462 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5774 stutzbach patch, needs review Right-click behavior from Windows Explorer 454 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5817 Mkopinsky os.curdir as the default argument for os.listdir 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6095 tarek patch subprocess doesn't pass arguments correctly on Linux when shel 344 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6689 berwyn patch char buffer in function posix_getcwdu should not be fix length 322 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6817 skrah patch getcwd hangs and leaks mem on Solaris <= 9 in very long file n 301 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6976 skrah curses crash on FreeBSD 236 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7384 skrah patch, buildbot dis module documentation gives no indication of the dangers of 16 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7829 brett.cannon Mac 10.6 mac_ver() crashes with USING_FORK_WITHOUT_EXEC_IS _NO 164 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7895 ronaldoussoren easy PYTHON_API_VERSION needs to be bumped? 134 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8118 ronaldoussoren Multiple Python Interpreter Memory Leak 114 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8258 amaury.forgeotdarc test_float fails on ARM Linux EABI with soft floating point 111 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8265 mark.dickinson buildbot unit tests rather light on testing __import__(..., level) 101 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8392 brett.cannon patch, needs review Segmentation error happens in Embedding Python. 43 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8917 tanaga CGIHTTPServer supports only Python CGI scripts 35 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9007 techtonik Simplify Py_CHARMASK 30 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9036 skrah patch, needs review Tkinter module missing from install on OS X 10.6.4 29 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9073 ronaldoussoren contextlib.ContextDecorator 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9110 ncoghlan patch os.getcwd causes infinite loop on solaris 12 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9185 skrah patch, needs review Improve CFLAGS handling 12 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9189 jyasskin document that the 'test' package is for core developers only 10 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9255 merwok easy Incorrect name passed as arg[0] when shell=True and executable 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9265 skrah Add annotation option to pickletools.dis 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9268 belopolsky patch, easy python 2.7 OS X installer no longer installs /usr/local/bin sy 7 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9275 ronaldoussoren rename 2to3 & pydoc to 2to3.py & pydoc.py 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9278 srid get rid of pdb.doc 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9279 georg.brandl easy sharedinstall target doesn't depend on sharedmods target 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9280 benjamin.peterson patch Bug in --listfuncs option of trace.py 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9282 belopolsky patch Disambiguate :option: and :cmdoption: 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9288 georg.brandl patch, needs review json module skipkeys handling changed exception types in 2.7 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9296 doughellmann patch c/profile Profile class is not documented 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9300 giampaolo.rodola urllib.quote(None) returns None in 2.7 (raised TypeError befor 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9301 orsenthil unreproducible example in the memoryview documentation 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9304 pitrou Intermittent failures in test_logging 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9310 vinay.sajip patch, buildbot inconsistent result when concatenating list with iterators 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9314 belopolsky typos in zipimport docstrings 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9316 brian.curtin patch os.environ is global for threads 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9320 georg.brandl trace.py bug with the main file being traced 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9323 belopolsky patch assertIn should check for membership support before testing 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9330 brian.curtin patch, patch, needs review LC_CTYPE system setting not respected by setlocale() 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9335 belopolsky string.letters should display locale based equivalent of a-Z 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9336 r.david.murray threading is_alive documnetation is unclear 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9339 brett.cannon patch Tests for monthrange in calendar.py module 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9342 brett.cannon patch Improve threading tests 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9346 brett.cannon patch test_timeout updates 2637 days http://bugs.python.org/issue728815 belopolsky patch iterators broken for weak dicts 2447 days http://bugs.python.org/issue839159 mark.dickinson patch hotshot.runctx: builtins missing 1972 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1149798 BreamoreBoy patch Support non-file source/dest in marshal 1871 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1214879 BreamoreBoy patch subprocess: wait for a period of time 1660 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1396825 skrah email.Utils.parseaddr() gives arcane result 1641 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1409460 merwok Use PyOS_snprintf for static buffers 1621 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1428655 BreamoreBoy patch Multiple simultaneous sendtos on AF_UNIX socket broken. 1600 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1441984 BreamoreBoy syntax errors on continuation lines 1504 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1501979 BreamoreBoy patch Add "compose" function to the functools 1499 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1506122 amaury.forgeotdarc sgmllib should recover from unmatched quotes 1480 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1515142 BreamoreBoy patch, easy Tweak to make string.Templates more customizable 1456 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1528167 BreamoreBoy patch email parser incorrectly breaks headers with a CRLF at 8192 1406 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1555570 r.david.murray patch Add os.symlink() and os.path.islink() support for Windows 1375 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1578269 brian.curtin patch, needs review Minor AST tweaks 1250 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1659410 benjamin.peterson patch splitext of dotfiles, incl backwards compat and migration 1219 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1681842 michael.foord patch Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 27 Make gettimeofday available in time module 29 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue9079 21 doctest _load_testfile function -- newline handling seems incor 923 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue1812 21 urllib.quote throws exception on Unicode URL 2 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue1712522 20 LC_CTYPE system setting not respected by setlocale() 1 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue9335 18 Incorrect coverage file from trace test_pickle.py 3 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue9317 15 os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress 4 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue9299 14 inconsistent result when concatenating list with iterators 1 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue9314 14 Remove redundant coding cookies from 3.x stdlib 4 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue9308 12 test_close_open_print_buffered(test_file) sometimes crashes 5 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue9295 11 json module skipkeys handling changed exception types in 2.7 3 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue9296