ACTIVITY SUMMARY (08/28/09 - 09/04/09) 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. 2374 open (+24) / 16285 closed (+18) / 18659 total (+42) Open issues with patches: 939 Average duration of open issues: 661 days. Median duration of open issues: 415 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2341 (+23) pending 32 ( +1) Issues Created Or Reopened (45) _______________________________ Multiple buffer overflows in unicode processing 09/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue2620 reopened brett.cannon patch os.getpwent returns unsigned 32bit value, os.setuid refuses it 09/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5705 reopened brett.cannon patch, 64bit math.log, log10 inconsistency 08/28/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6765 reopened tjreedy invalid print in tkinter\test\test_ttk\test_widgets.py 08/28/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6796 created keithc When Beginning Expression with Lookahead Assertion I get no Matc 08/28/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6797 created jwindle Argument for sys.settrace() callbacks documented incorrectly 08/28/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6798 created robert.kern mimetypes does not give cannonical extension for guess_extension 08/29/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6799 created ptarjan os.exec* raises "OSError: [Errno 45] Operation not supported" in 08/29/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6800 created rnk symmetric_difference_update documentation fix 08/30/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6801 reopened r.david.murray build fails on Snow Leopard 08/29/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6802 created jmr patch Context manager docs refer to contextlib.contextmanager as conte 08/29/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6803 created dhaffey patch IDLE: Detect Python files even if name doesn't end in .py 08/29/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6804 created gagenellina patch Should be URL for documentation of current release of Python 3 ( 08/30/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6805 created MLModel test_platform fails under Snow Leopard 08/30/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6806 created brett.cannon easy No such file or directory: 'msisupport.dll' in msi.py 08/30/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6807 created pds python 3.1 documentation tutorial classes 08/30/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6808 created tom_morse Python string.lstrip bug? 08/31/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6809 created mushywushy add link to the documentation of signal.signal 08/31/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6810 created Yinon add a filename argument to marshal.load* 08/31/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6811 created brett.cannon Snow Leopard python program fails because _PyType_Modified is mi 08/31/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6812 created soshea update format() documentation and tutorial 09/01/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6813 created grooverdan patch xrange removal from documentation 09/01/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6814 created grooverdan patch UnicodeDecodeError in os.path.expandvars 09/01/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6815 created shura_zam Provide CPython command line functionality via runpy module 09/01/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6816 created ncoghlan char buffer in function posix_getcwdu should not be fix length 09/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6817 created boya patch remove/delete method for zipfile/tarfile objects 09/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6818 created rossmclendon Typo in datamodel.rst ("Custon" -> "Custom") 09/02/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6819 created jon patch Redefinition of HAVE_STRFTIME can cause compiler errors. 09/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6820 created rgpitts incorrect doc for PyBuffer_Release 09/02/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6821 created egreen Error calling .storlines from ftplib 09/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6822 created rdevaughn time.strftime does unnecessary range check 09/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6823 created rshapiro easy help for a module should list supported platforms 09/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6824 created rickysarraf Minor documentation bug with os.path.split 09/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6825 created evaned Add __contains__ to range type 09/02/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6826 created hpesoj deepcopy erroneously doesn't call __setstate__ if __getstate__ r 09/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6827 created shauncutts wrongly highlighted blocks in the Tutorial 09/03/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6828 created gagenellina patch Frendly error message when inheriting from function 09/04/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6829 reopened techtonik easy Some uniformness in defaultdict 09/03/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6830 created t-kamiya 2to3 assignment division conversion 09/03/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6831 created highfestiva Outputting unicode crushes when printing to file on Linux 09/03/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6832 created Orlowski incorrect: failed local variable referenced before assignment 09/03/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6833 created paultjuhatwork use different mechanism for pythonw on osx 09/03/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6834 created ronaldoussoren easy doctest problem with decorated function when decorator is define 09/03/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6835 created goetzpf Mismatching use of memory APIs 09/04/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6836 created krisvale patch Mark the compiler package as deprecated 09/04/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6837 created exarkun Issues Now Closed (45) ______________________ poss. patch for fnmatch.py to add {.htm,html} style globbing 505 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2649 georg.brandl webbrowser.py doesn't properly handle BROWSER env var 500 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2666 georg.brandl patch os.getcwd fails for long path names on linux 490 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2722 boya patch, easy bytearrays are not thread safe 440 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3139 loewis patch math.log(x, 10) gives different result than math.log10(x) 368 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3724 tjreedy patch library.pdf - Section 12.13.2 Connection Objects - example cut o 316 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4160 ezio.melotti Remove Monterey support from configure.in 222 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5047 georg.brandl patch compiler.parse raises SyntaxErrors without line number informati 221 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5064 georg.brandl test_funcattrs truncated during unittest conversion 218 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5101 georg.brandl help related topic doesn't exist 204 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5221 georg.brandl easy BaseCookie.load doesn't create Morsel objects for mappings 200 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5275 georg.brandl add conversion table to time module docs 13 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5365 georg.brandl tarfile normalizes arcname 102 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6054 lars.gustaebel should we include argparse 81 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6247 r.david.murray Added Misc/python.pc to 'distclean' Rule 75 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6297 marketdickinson patch inserting None into sys.modules does not raise ImportError with 36 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6563 brett.cannon No update about automatic numbering of fields in format strings 38 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6579 eric.smith test_telnetlib doesn't test Telnet.write 39 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6582 rwanderley patch, easy optparse parse_args argument references wrong 28 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6638 georg.brandl PyInit_shoddy() in shoddy.c does not return anything on success 13 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6732 georg.brandl threading issue in __builtins__.print 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6750 amaury.forgeotdarc patch, needs review Non-existent member 'nb_inplace_divide' in PyNumberMethods 11 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6754 georg.brandl ftplib documentation does not document what the acct parameter i 14 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6756 georg.brandl Marshal's documentation incomplete (Bools) 13 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6757 georg.brandl math.log, log10 inconsistency 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6765 georg.brandl Python 2.6 tutorial still recommends using Exception.message att 11 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6777 georg.brandl invalid print in tkinter\test\test_ttk\test_widgets.py 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6796 keithc When Beginning Expression with Lookahead Assertion I get no Matc 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6797 marketdickinson symmetric_difference_update documentation fix 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6801 georg.brandl Context manager docs refer to contextlib.contextmanager as conte 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6803 georg.brandl patch Should be URL for documentation of current release of Python 3 ( 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6805 georg.brandl test_platform fails under Snow Leopard 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6806 brett.cannon easy python 3.1 documentation tutorial classes 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6808 georg.brandl Python string.lstrip bug? 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6809 marketdickinson add link to the documentation of signal.signal 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6810 georg.brandl update format() documentation and tutorial 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6813 eric.smith patch xrange removal from documentation 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6814 georg.brandl patch Typo in datamodel.rst ("Custon" -> "Custom") 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6819 georg.brandl patch incorrect doc for PyBuffer_Release 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6821 georg.brandl Add __contains__ to range type 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6826 marketdickinson wrongly highlighted blocks in the Tutorial 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6828 georg.brandl patch Some uniformness in defaultdict 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6830 georg.brandl Outputting unicode crushes when printing to file on Linux 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6832 Orlowski incorrect: failed local variable referenced before assignment 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6833 marketdickinson Deleted files are reinstalled 1900 days http://bugs.python.org/issue977470 georg.brandl Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 15 build fails on Snow Leopard 6 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6802 8 Outputting unicode crushes when printing to file on Linux 1 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6832 6 remove/delete method for zipfile/tarfile objects 2 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6818 6 Support TLS SNI extension in ssl module 156 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue5639 6 improve xrange.__contains__ 764 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue1766304 5 symmetric_difference_update documentation fix 1 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6801 4 help for a module should list supported platforms 2 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6824 4 bytearrays are not thread safe 440 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3139 4 Add os.link() and os.symlink() and os.path.islink() support for 1054 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue1578269 3 attribute error after non-from import 1876 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue992389