ACTIVITY SUMMARY (09/11/09 - 09/18/09) 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. 2396 open (+27) / 16366 closed (+29) / 18762 total (+56) Open issues with patches: 953 Average duration of open issues: 664 days. Median duration of open issues: 420 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2363 (+27) pending 32 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (56) _______________________________ pdb documentation shows running as script using "python" not "py 09/11/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6885 created MLModel cgi.py runs python, not python3 09/11/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6886 created MLModel executables in lib use /usr/bin/env python, not python3 09/11/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6887 created MLModel pdb alias command with no arguments is broken 09/11/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6888 created MLModel «Python’s default encoding is the ‘ascii’ encoding.» 09/11/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6889 created flox IOError has no __unicode__ method - and loses information 09/11/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6890 created michael.foord 26backport small typo in «unicode.rst»: «the Uniode APIs should be used 09/11/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6891 created flox optparser example in optparse documentation is broken 09/12/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6892 created MLModel defaultdict example in py3 doc should mention the new Counter cl 09/12/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6893 created ezio.melotti urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment (python2.6.2) 09/12/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6894 created xelnor patch locale._parse_localename fails when localename does not contain 09/12/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6895 created santhosh.thottingal patch Intermittent failures in test_mailbox 09/12/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6896 created ezio.melotti imaplib fails during login 09/12/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6897 created debatem1 Unicode Error 09/13/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6898 created vitvn Base.replace breaks tree 09/13/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6899 created loewis patch Sub-optimal "Locate" button behaviour in Windows CHM file 09/13/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6900 created tom_seddon Runaway programs often become unresponsive to CTRL-C 09/13/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6901 created bernie Built-in types format incorrectly with 0 padding. 09/13/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6902 created eric.smith pdb - print in for iteration prints None after printing 09/14/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6903 created MLModel Broken URL for pyqt 09/14/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6904 created thijs inspect.getargspec(print) fails 09/14/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6905 created ubershmekel Tkinter sets an unicode environment variable on win32 09/14/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6906 created dotz xmlrpclib.make_connection() is not thread safe 09/14/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6907 created haypo Minor markup error in hashlib docs 09/14/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6908 created lehmannro patch python 3.1 - filecmp.cmp exception based on file name 09/14/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6909 created jdeifik 1-char typo in language reference doc of import 09/14/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6910 created MLModel Document changes in asynchat 09/14/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6911 created lehmannro patch Add 'with' block support to Tools/Scripts/pindent.py 09/14/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6912 created tjreedy Py_SetPythonHome incorrectly documented py3.x (rev 74792) 09/15/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6913 created ideasman42 patch Py_SetPythonHome, undocumented behavoir 09/15/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6914 created ideasman42 os.listdir inconsistenly releases the GIL on win32 09/15/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6915 created rfk patch Remove deprecated items from asynchat 09/15/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6916 created lehmannro patch ".et_folder" instead of "get_folder" in mailbox documentation 09/15/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6917 created dauerbaustelle ctypes compilation error on SnowLeopard 09/15/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6918 created ronaldoussoren Link CRT Statically 09/16/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6919 created hankdane IDLE 3 crashes on Ctrl+Space with "'utf8' codec can't decode byt 09/16/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6920 created Yinon recursion wierdness ... related to variable scoping? 09/16/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6921 created mrdiskodave Interpreter hangs up while trying to decode invalid utf32 stream 09/16/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6922 created mwizard patch Need pthread_atfork-like functionality in CPython 09/16/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6923 created twouters struct.unpack weird behavior with "bi" (byte then integer) 09/16/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6924 created Manux Doc for locals and vars 09/16/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6925 created tjreedy socket module missing IPPROTO_IPV6, IPPROTO_IPV4 09/16/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6926 created jaraco Metaclass doc (Ref 3.3.3) errors 09/16/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6927 created tjreedy Doc: Class statements and metaclass = xxx 09/16/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6928 created tjreedy Confusion between "write" method of rowiobase and rawfileio 09/17/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6929 created pakal [PATCH] PyUnicode_DecodeUTF16 docs wrong (byteorder param) 09/17/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6930 created JonFoster patch dreadful performance in difflib: ndiff and HtmlDiff 09/17/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6931 created heidar.rafn Open shelves fail when Python exits 09/17/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6932 created lehmannro patch Threading issue with Tkinter Frame.insert 09/17/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6933 created moraygrieve [PATCH] postflight.framework script (from the Mac OS X .dmg inst 09/17/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6934 created slavi patch Version updates needed in tutorial 09/17/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6935 created MLModel Import needed to quit Python? 09/17/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6936 created MLModel multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core 09/18/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6937 created aaditya Incorrect multiprocessing log string in managers.py (python 2.6. 09/18/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6938 created ftofficer patch shadows around the io truncate() semantics 09/18/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6939 created pakal cannot compute sizeof wchar_t on OS X 10.5.7, Python 2.6.2 09/18/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6940 created rajarshi Issues Now Closed (60) ______________________ xmlrpclib closes connection after each call 580 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2076 haypo Error when printing an exception containing a Unicode string 535 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2517 ezio.melotti patch Windows installer should add Python and Scripts directories to t 396 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3561 srid Issue with RotatingFileHandler logging handler on Windows 99 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4749 gagenellina Add description of special case to "Assignment statements" secti 169 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5621 georg.brandl patch test_(zipfile|zipimport|gzip|distutils|sqlite) fail if zlib is n 121 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6026 ezio.melotti Add "intel" universal architecture on OSX 99 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6245 ronaldoussoren Bug in hashlib 93 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6281 Eloff Error in tutorial section 7.2 88 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6301 michael.foord Tkinter cannot find *64 bit* Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X 69 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6441 ronaldoussoren patch Make inf be almost equal to inf 50 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6567 michael.foord unittest test discovery improvements 51 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6568 michael.foord List the __future__ features in a table 50 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6574 lehmannro patch, easy Profiler doesn't print usage (indexError instead) 41 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6635 doko patch sys._getframe is not available on all Python implementations 28 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6712 michael.foord Python as zip package 25 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6767 senthil.kumaran 2to3 assignment division conversion 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6831 benjamin.peterson BaseException DeprecationError raises inappropriately 11 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6844 georg.brandl patch Tutorial changes 7 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6849 michael.foord easy allow setting uid and gid when creating tar files 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6856 lars.gustaebel patch TestLoader.loadTestsFromName does not use suiteClass attribute t 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6866 michael.foord patch sequence method .count() and .index() shoud be in immutable seq 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6874 tjreedy add os.close() suggestion to mkstemp documentation 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6875 georg.brandl patch readline documentation example error 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6876 georg.brandl misstatement in example explanation using raise 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6879 ezio.melotti class needs forward reference 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6880 georg.brandl pdb documentation shows running as script using "python" not "py 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6885 georg.brandl pdb alias command with no arguments is broken 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6888 benjamin.peterson «Python’s default encoding is the ‘ascii’ encoding.» 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6889 benjamin.peterson IOError has no __unicode__ method - and loses information 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6890 georg.brandl 26backport small typo in «unicode.rst»: «the Uniode APIs should be used 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6891 georg.brandl optparser example in optparse documentation is broken 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6892 georg.brandl Unicode Error 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6898 ezio.melotti Runaway programs often become unresponsive to CTRL-C 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6901 bernie pdb - print in for iteration prints None after printing 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6903 georg.brandl Broken URL for pyqt 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6904 ezio.melotti inspect.getargspec(print) fails 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6905 georg.brandl xmlrpclib.make_connection() is not thread safe 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6907 krisvale Minor markup error in hashlib docs 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6908 georg.brandl patch python 3.1 - filecmp.cmp exception based on file name 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6909 r.david.murray 1-char typo in language reference doc of import 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6910 ezio.melotti Add 'with' block support to Tools/Scripts/pindent.py 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6912 georg.brandl Py_SetPythonHome incorrectly documented py3.x (rev 74792) 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6913 benjamin.peterson patch Py_SetPythonHome, undocumented behavoir 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6914 benjamin.peterson ".et_folder" instead of "get_folder" in mailbox documentation 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6917 ezio.melotti Link CRT Statically 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6919 hankdane IDLE 3 crashes on Ctrl+Space with "'utf8' codec can't decode byt 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6920 ezio.melotti recursion wierdness ... related to variable scoping? 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6921 mrdiskodave Interpreter hangs up while trying to decode invalid utf32 stream 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6922 georg.brandl patch struct.unpack weird behavior with "bi" (byte then integer) 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6924 mark.dickinson Confusion between "write" method of rowiobase and rawfileio 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6929 pitrou Open shelves fail when Python exits 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6932 georg.brandl patch Version updates needed in tutorial 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6935 georg.brandl Import needed to quit Python? 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6936 georg.brandl Incorrect multiprocessing log string in managers.py (python 2.6. 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6938 georg.brandl patch distutils ignores configure's --includedir 1840 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1019715 senthil.kumaran os.path.splitext don't handle unix hidden file correctly 1684 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1115886 senthil.kumaran Function-level import in os triggering an threaded import deadlo 104 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1590864 twouters patch xmlrpclib ServerProxy uses old httplib interface 1010 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1613573 techtonik patch Make xmlrpc use HTTP/1.1 and keepalive 772 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1767370 haypo patch Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 14 should we include argparse 8 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6247 10 BaseException DeprecationError raises inappropriately 11 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6844 9 uuid creates zombies 7 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6882 9 xmlrpclib ServerProxy uses old httplib interface 1010 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1613573 7 multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core 0 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6937 7 expose setresuid 63 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6508 7 encode and decode should accept 'errors' as a keyword argument 93 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6300 5 Confusion between "write" method of rowiobase and rawfileio 0 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6929 5 Link CRT Statically 2 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6919 5 IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6 10 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6864