ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2010-07-23 - 2010-07-30) 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. 2804 open (+45) / 18443 closed (+27) / 21247 total (+72) Open issues with patches: 1151 Average duration of open issues: 689 days. Median duration of open issues: 481 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2760 (+45) languishing 16 ( +0) pending 27 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (79) _______________________________ Add named tuple reader to CSV module 2010-07-25 http://bugs.python.org/issue1818 reopened rhettinger patch MatchObject is not a hyperlink in the 're' module documentatio 2010-07-28 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6538 reopened tjreedy patch, easy SysLogHandler can't handle Unicode 2010-07-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue7077 reopened georg.brandl Extraneous newlines with csv.writer on Windows 2010-07-28 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7198 reopened skip.montanaro Create a bytes version of os.environ and getenvb() 2010-07-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue8603 reopened ezio.melotti patch Add annotation option to pickletools.dis 2010-07-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue9268 reopened belopolsky patch, easy urllib.quote(None) returns None in 2.7 (raised TypeError befor 2010-07-27 http://bugs.python.org/issue9301 reopened flox patch Improve queue tests 2010-07-23 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9357 created bbrazil patch Document fnmatch.translate's lack of support for escaping 2010-07-23 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9358 created bbrazil patch Misspelled exception 2010-07-23 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9359 created kwadrat patch nntplib cleanup 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9360 created Dmitry.Jemerov patch Tests for leapdays in calendar.py module 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9361 created John.Chandler patch Make exit/quit hint more novice friendly 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9362 created belopolsky easy data_files are not installed relative to sys.prefix 2010-07-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue9363 created rioch some problems with the documentation of pydoc 2010-07-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue9364 created eli.bendersky Installing a distro without sqlite3 will require a reinstall o 2010-07-24 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9365 created antlong Reference leak for local new style class 2010-07-24 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9366 created kayhayen test_getgroups in test_posix fails 2010-07-24 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9367 created DazWorrall patch Const-Correctness for Method Calls 2010-07-24 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9368 created aronacher patch const char* for PyObject_CallMethod and PyObject_CallFunction 2010-07-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue9369 created neXyon patch Add reader redirect from test package docs to unittest module 2010-07-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue9370 created ncoghlan easy pulldom doesn't provide END_DOCUMENT or COMMENT nodes. 2010-07-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue9371 created mark.smith pulldom.DOMEventStream.__getitem__ is broken 2010-07-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue9372 created mark.smith pulldom has low code coverage 2010-07-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue9373 created mark.smith urlparse should parse query and fragment for arbitrary schemes 2010-07-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue9374 created Nick.Welch ElementPath parser in ElementTree 1.3 does not reject "element 2010-07-25 http://bugs.python.org/issue9375 created scoder Refer to gnuwin32 diff util on development FAQ 2010-07-25 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9376 created BreamoreBoy easy socket, PEP 383: Mishandling of non-ASCII bytes in host/domain 2010-07-25 http://bugs.python.org/issue9377 created baikie patch Make python -m pickle do something useful 2010-07-25 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9378 created belopolsky patch, easy random.randrange behaviour problems 2010-07-25 http://bugs.python.org/issue9379 created lukasz.langa Allow popping of n elements at once from a deque 2010-07-26 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9380 created ipatrol syntax error in Unicode C API docs 2010-07-26 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9381 created cvrebert os.popen referenced but not documented in Python 3.x 2010-07-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue9382 created cvrebert PIL Bug with split 2010-07-26 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9383 created Arrnaud.Fabre Tkinter windows pop under the terminal in OSX 2010-07-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue9384 created belopolsky _ctypes module uses 'rwx' mmap() calls 2010-07-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue9385 created radegand Bad indentation in urllib import fixer with multiple imports 2010-07-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue9386 created dmalcolm patch Make python -m tkinter run tkinter demo 2010-07-26 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9387 created belopolsky patch, easy, needs review locale documentation describes non-existing ERA_YEAR constant 2010-07-27 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9388 created belopolsky easy Traceback: Exception Shows Code that's On-Disk (Not in memory) 2010-07-28 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9389 reopened Guy Error in sys.excepthook on windows when redirecting output of 2010-07-27 http://bugs.python.org/issue9390 created sorin Allow docstrings on dicts and named tuples outside of function 2010-07-27 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9391 created antlong easy 2.7 framework install doesn't create 2to3-2.7 2010-07-27 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9392 created ronaldoussoren shelve.open/bsddb.hashopen exception with unicode paths 2010-07-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9393 created wjm251 patch shelve.open/bsddb.hashopen raise bsddb.db.DBNoSuchFileError: ( 2010-07-28 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9394 created wjm251 clean does not remove all temp files 2010-07-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9395 created merwok Standardise (and publish?) cache handling in standard library 2010-07-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9396 created ncoghlan Remove references to the missing dbm.bsd module 2010-07-28 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9397 created haypo Unify sys.settrace and sys.setprofile tests 2010-07-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9398 created belopolsky Provide a 'print' action for argparse 2010-07-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9399 created travistouchdown patch multiprocessing.pool.AsyncResult.get() messes up exceptions 2010-07-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9400 created Nikratio automatically try forward operations when reverse operations a 2010-07-28 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9401 created Michael.Gilbert pyexpat: replace PyObject_DEL() by Py_DECREF() to fix a crash 2010-07-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9402 created haypo patch cElementTree: replace PyObject_DEL() by Py_DECREF() to fix a c 2010-07-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9403 created haypo patch IDLE won't launch on XP 2010-07-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9404 created Chris.Leaf crash when calling urllib.getproxies() under OSX with subproce 2010-07-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9405 created zzzeek ConfigParser exceptions do not subclass StandardError 2010-07-28 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9406 created jtatum patch ConfigParser documentation does not mention ConfigParser.Error 2010-07-28 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9407 created pekkle patch curses: Link against libncursesw instead of libncurses 2010-07-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue9408 created haypo doctest in python2.7 can't handle non-ascii characters 2010-07-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9409 created hugo Add Unladden Swallow's optimizations to Python 3's pickle. 2010-07-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9410 created alexandre.vassalotti patch configparser doesn't support specifying encoding in read() 2010-07-29 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9411 created lukasz.langa patch test_smtpd leaks references 2010-07-29 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9412 created pitrou asyncore.close_all() should call x.handle_close() instead of x 2010-07-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9413 created me.myself infinite loop with specific regexp 2010-07-29 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9414 created gnuthor SSL issues on "Ubuntu i386" buildbots 2010-07-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9415 created pitrou complex formatting incorrectly omits a negative zero real part 2010-07-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9416 created mark.dickinson patch Declaring a class creates circular references 2010-07-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9417 created candrea Move _formatter_* methods from string type into _string module 2010-07-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9418 created georg.brandl patch RUNSHARED needs LDFLAGS 2010-07-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9419 created phaering patch gdbm with /usr/include/ndbm.h 2010-07-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9420 created phaering patch configparser.ConfigParser's getint, getboolean and getfloat do 2010-07-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9421 created lukasz.langa Memory leak when reinitializing a Struct object 2010-07-29 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9422 created Winston451 patch Error in urllib2.do_open(self, http_class, req) 2010-07-29 http://bugs.python.org/issue9423 created lyle.ross deprecate unittest.TestCase.assertEquals 2010-07-30 http://bugs.python.org/issue9424 created michael.foord Rewrite import machinery to work with unicode paths 2010-07-30 http://bugs.python.org/issue9425 created haypo Explicitly state lack of support for keyword arguments in buil 2010-07-30 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9426 created lukasz.langa logging.error('...', exc_info=True) should display upper frame 2010-07-30 http://bugs.python.org/issue9427 created guettli profile.py bug with the main file being profiled 2010-07-30 http://bugs.python.org/issue9428 created belopolsky patch, easy Issues Now Closed (108) _______________________ Build issues in DragonFly BSD 807 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2796 BreamoreBoy patch Make the left sidebar in the doc collapsible 771 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3143 georg.brandl Direct calls to PyObject_Del/PyObject_DEL are broken for --wit 752 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3299 haypo patch bytes.tohex method 715 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3532 BreamoreBoy patch cookielib doesn't handle URLs with / in parameters 697 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3704 gregory.p.smith patch, needs review documentation bug: HTMLParser needs to document unknown_decl 682 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3874 tjreedy patch Win32ErrorTests from test_os.py 670 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3966 merwok robotparser.py fail when more than one User-Agent: * is presen 655 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4108 georg.brandl pdb: Allow the "list" command to return to the currently debug 645 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4179 georg.brandl patch Remove use of private attributes in smtpd 639 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4184 richard tokenize.detect_encoding() and Mac newline 615 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4377 haypo patch getopt should not accept no_argument that ends with '=' 590 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4629 haypo patch Exceptions in ConfigParser don't set .args 586 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4686 michael.foord patch binascii module, inconsistent behavior: some functions accept 575 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4770 flox patch On OS-X the directories searched by setup.py for Tk are in the 567 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4813 ronaldoussoren Pdb cannot access doctest source in postmortem 562 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4938 georg.brandl Duplicate UTF-16 BOM if a file is open in append mode 554 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5006 flox patch pdb "break" command messes up "continue" 528 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5294 georg.brandl Socket is closed prematurely in httplib, if server sends respo 488 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5542 haypo test_fileio fails on windows MSVC Assertion 491 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5544 BreamoreBoy doctest pdb readline broken 477 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5727 georg.brandl patch zipfile: Extracting a directory that already exists generates 437 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6050 ezio.melotti patch Error compiling valid regex 424 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6156 georg.brandl patch Incremental encoder incompatibility between 2.x and py3k 417 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6213 haypo patch robotparser doesn't handle URL's with query strings 401 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6325 orsenthil patch code.runsource() parsing bug 380 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6480 georg.brandl infinite recursion from calling builtins.open() 377 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6504 georg.brandl docs for unittest.expectedFailure do not syntactically show it 375 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6522 georg.brandl optparse required field for Options 373 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6535 georg.brandl patch, easy MatchObject is not a hyperlink in the 're' module documentatio 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6538 georg.brandl patch, easy string.Template custom pattern not working 360 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6630 georg.brandl pdb messes up when debugging an non-ascii program 347 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6719 georg.brandl Snow Leopard python program fails because _PyType_Modified is 326 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6812 ronaldoussoren test_macostools fails on os x 10.6 295 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7041 ronaldoussoren ConfigParser load speedup 287 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7113 brian.curtin patch ElementTree: Incorrect serialization of end-of-line characters 283 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7139 BreamoreBoy Extraneous newlines with csv.writer on Windows 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7198 skip.montanaro IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL should ignore the module name 228 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7490 r.david.murray patch ConfigParser can't read files with BOM markers 222 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7519 BreamoreBoy unicode exceptions terminate pdb.pm() loop 224 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7539 georg.brandl patch Improve 19.5. xml.dom.minidom doc 202 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7637 akuchling test_threadsignals leaks references 177 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7825 flox patch posix.getgroups() failure on Mac OS X 164 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7900 ronaldoussoren patch "-m pdb" SyntaxError for "\r\n" formatted py files 161 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7964 georg.brandl patch Add pure Python implementation of datetime module to CPython 151 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7989 belopolsky patch pdb "commands" command throws you into postmortem if you enter 156 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8015 georg.brandl patch doctest assumes sys.displayhook hasn't been touched 149 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8048 georg.brandl patch Wrong arguments in sqlite3.connect() documentation 139 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8129 haypo Improve support of PEP 383 (surrogates) in Python3: meta-issue 125 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8242 haypo patch Use locale encoding to encode command line arguments (subproce 65 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8775 loewis patch tkinter build variants on OSX 61 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8798 ronaldoussoren Promote SafeConfigParser and warn about ConfigParser 52 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8888 BreamoreBoy ctypes: remove implicit conversion between unicode and bytes 47 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8966 haypo patch PyArg_Parse*() functions: reject discontinious buffers 44 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8991 haypo patch xmlrpc: Transport.request() should also catch socket.error(EPI 35 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9032 haypo patch zipfile.extractall always raises an OSError after successfully 24 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9172 BreamoreBoy pop multiple elements of a list at once 13 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9218 tjreedy pdb.Pdb.checkline() throws AttributeError if called before sta 18 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9230 georg.brandl patch document that the 'test' package is for core developers only 10 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9255 tjreedy easy Python 2.7 breaks assigned __exit__s 12 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9259 dmalcolm test_struct failure on ARM 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9277 mark.dickinson patch, buildbot buggy repr for os.environ 11 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9283 haypo patch Dead code in Objects/object.c 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9294 pitrou patch, easy LC_CTYPE system setting not respected by setlocale() 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9335 haypo string.letters should display locale based equivalent of a-Z 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9336 r.david.murray file_wrapper fails to provide getsockopt() 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9354 georg.brandl patch Improved tests and style for fnmatch 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9356 brett.cannon patch Improve queue tests 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9357 brett.cannon patch Document fnmatch.translate's lack of support for escaping 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9358 brett.cannon patch Misspelled exception 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9359 ezio.melotti patch Installing a distro without sqlite3 will require a reinstall o 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9365 r.david.murray Reference leak for local new style class 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9366 georg.brandl test_getgroups in test_posix fails 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9367 r.david.murray patch Const-Correctness for Method Calls 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9368 merwok patch Refer to gnuwin32 diff util on development FAQ 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9376 brian.curtin easy Make python -m pickle do something useful 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9378 belopolsky patch, easy Allow popping of n elements at once from a deque 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9380 rhettinger syntax error in Unicode C API docs 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9381 georg.brandl PIL Bug with split 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9383 ezio.melotti Make python -m tkinter run tkinter demo 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9387 belopolsky patch, easy, needs review locale documentation describes non-existing ERA_YEAR constant 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9388 georg.brandl easy Traceback: Exception Shows Code that's On-Disk (Not in memory) 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9389 r.david.murray Allow docstrings on dicts and named tuples outside of function 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9391 rhettinger easy 2.7 framework install doesn't create 2to3-2.7 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9392 ronaldoussoren shelve.open/bsddb.hashopen raise bsddb.db.DBNoSuchFileError: ( 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9394 merwok Remove references to the missing dbm.bsd module 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9397 haypo automatically try forward operations when reverse operations a 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9401 georg.brandl ConfigParser exceptions do not subclass StandardError 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9406 r.david.murray patch ConfigParser documentation does not mention ConfigParser.Error 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9407 georg.brandl patch configparser doesn't support specifying encoding in read() 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9411 georg.brandl patch test_smtpd leaks references 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9412 georg.brandl infinite loop with specific regexp 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9414 georg.brandl Memory leak when reinitializing a Struct object 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9422 Winston451 patch Explicitly state lack of support for keyword arguments in buil 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue9426 merwok <> in attrs in sgmllib not handled 2619 days http://bugs.python.org/issue745002 georg.brandl minidom.py -- TypeError: object doesn't support slice assig 2557 days http://bugs.python.org/issue777884 akuchling Improve pdb breakpoint feedback 2505 days http://bugs.python.org/issue809887 georg.brandl patch, easy document docs.python.org in PEP-101 2248 days http://bugs.python.org/issue965065 georg.brandl Defaults in ConfigParser.get overrides section values 2045 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1090076 georg.brandl "continue" in .pdbrc has no effect 1618 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1437051 georg.brandl easy test_minidom.py fails for Python-2.4.3 on SUSE 9.3 1575 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1463043 akuchling pdb 'run' crashes when the it's first argument is non-string 1564 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1472251 georg.brandl patch W3C <-> Python DOM type mapping docs need updating 1522 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1495229 akuchling easy Pdb doesn't call flush on its stdout file descriptor 1512 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1503502 georg.brandl Add "compose" function to the functools 1500 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1506122 rhettinger ConfigParser: accept leading whitespace on options+comments 1469 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1524825 tjreedy patch, easy ConfigParser support for alt delimiters 1228 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1682942 georg.brandl patch Remove references to _xmlrpclib from xmlrpclib.py 1081 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1773632 georg.brandl patch Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 23 Make exit/quit hint more novice friendly 7 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue9362 17 Sum() doc and behavior mismatch 237 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue7447 16 The trace module lacks unit tests 10 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue9315 14 IDLE won't launch on XP 2 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue9404 14 os.makedirs(): Add a keyword argument to suppress "File exists" 11 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue9299 13 Declaring a class creates circular references 1 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue9417 13 Pydoc interactive browsing enhancement 909 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue2001 13 ConfigParser support for alt delimiters 1228 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1682942 10 shlex have problems with parsing unicode 1047 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue1170 9 extend configparser to support mapping access(__*item__) 514 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue5412