ACTIVITY SUMMARY (04/24/09 - 05/01/09) 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. 2190 open (+34) / 15527 closed (+29) / 17717 total (+63) Open issues with patches: 861 Average duration of open issues: 645 days. Median duration of open issues: 394 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2156 (+33) pending 33 ( +1) Issues Created Or Reopened (63) _______________________________ os.path.walk fails to descend into a directory whose name ends w 04/24/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5832 created linuxelf readline update 04/24/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5833 created jrevans1 patch The word "error" used instead of "failure" 04/25/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5834 created kurtmckee Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd 04/25/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5835 created eric.smith Clean up float parsing code for nans and infs 04/25/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5836 created marketdickinson support.EnvironmentVarGuard broken 04/25/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5837 created doerwalter easy Test issue 04/25/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5838 created ajaksu2 RegOpenKeyEx key failed on Vista 64Bit with return 2 04/25/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5839 created makursi "Thread State and the Global Interpreter Lock" section of the do 04/25/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5840 created exarkun patch add py3k warnings to commands 04/25/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5841 created dsm001 patch Move test outside of urlparse module 04/25/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5842 created Merwok Possible normalization error in urlparse.urlunparse 04/25/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5843 created Merwok internal error on write while reading 04/25/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5844 created dsm001 patch rlcompleter should be enabled automatically 04/25/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5845 created cben Deprecate obsolete functions in unittest 04/25/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5846 created michael.foord IDLE/Win Installer: drop -n switch for 2.7/3.1; install 3.1 as i 04/26/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5847 created kbk Minor unittest doc patch 04/26/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5848 created michael.foord patch, patch, easy, needs review Idle 3.01 - invalid syntec error 04/26/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5849 created r2d2floyd Full example for emulating a container type 04/27/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5850 created yaneurabeya Add a stream parameter to gc.set_debug 04/27/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5851 created nicdumz can't use "glog" to find the path with square bracket 04/27/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5852 created winterTTr mimetypes.guess_type() hits recursion limit 04/27/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5853 created djc logging module's __all__ attribute not in sync with documentatio 04/27/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5854 created flub easy Perhaps exponential performance of sum(listoflists, []) 04/27/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5855 created sjohn Minor typo in traceback example 04/27/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5856 created nielsdevos patch Return namedtuples from tokenize token generator 04/27/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5857 created mallyvai needs review Make complex repr and str more like float repr and str 04/27/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5858 created marketdickinson Remove implicit '%f' -> '%g' switch from float formatting. 04/27/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5859 created marketdickinson patch TextIOWrapper: bad error reporting when write() is forbidden 04/27/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5860 created pitrou test_urllib fails on windows 04/28/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5861 created ocean-city multiprocessing 'using a remote manager' example errors and poss 04/28/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5862 created r.david.murray bz2.BZ2File should accept other file-like objects. 04/28/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5863 created MizardX format(1234.5, '.4') gives misleading result 04/28/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5864 created marketdickinson patch mathmodule.c fails to compile due to missing math_log1p() functi 04/28/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5865 created alanh cPickle defect with tuples and different from pickle output 04/28/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5866 created jelle No way to create an abstract classmethod 04/28/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5867 created della mimetypes.MAGIC_FUNCTION initialization not thread-safe in Pytho 04/28/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5868 created apoirier 100th character truncation in 2.4 tarfile.py 04/28/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5869 created neville.bagnall patch subprocess.DEVNULL 04/28/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5870 created MrJean1 email.header.Header allow to embed raw newlines into a message 04/28/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5871 created jwilk New C API for declaring Python types 04/29/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5872 created larry patch Minidom: parsestring() error 04/29/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5873 created naf305 distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is locale-sensitive 04/29/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5874 created georg.brandl test_distutils failing on OpenSUSE 10.3, Py3k 04/29/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5875 created ShuaibKhan __repr__ returning unicode doesn't work when called implicitly 04/29/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5876 created liori Add a function for updating URL query parameters 04/29/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5877 created mrts Regular Expression instances 04/29/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5878 created ecasbas multiprocessing - example "pool of http servers " fails on windo 04/29/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5879 created ghum Remove unneeded "context" pointer from getters and setters 04/29/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5880 created larry patch Remove extraneous backwards-compatibility attributes from some m 04/29/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5881 created larry patch __repr__ is ignored when formatting exceptions 04/29/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5882 created ellisj detach() implementation 04/29/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5883 created benjamin.peterson patch pydoc to return error status code 04/30/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5884 created mixmastamyk uuid.uuid1() is too slow 04/30/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5885 created wangchun curses/__init__.py: global name '_os' is not defined 04/30/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5886 created andrix patch mmap.write_byte out of bounds - no error, position gets screwed 04/30/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5887 created bmearns mmap ehancement - resize with sequence notation 04/30/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5888 created bmearns Extra comma in enum - fails on AIX 04/30/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5889 created srid Subclassing property doesn't preserve the auto __doc__ behavior 04/30/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5890 created gsakkis strange list.sort() behavior on import, del and inport again 05/01/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5891 created dstemmer strange list.sort() behavior on import, del and inport again 05/01/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5892 created dstemmer Add support to pydoc to output .rst restructured text 05/01/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5893 created gregory.p.smith Lookup of localised language name by ISO 639 language code and r 05/01/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5894 created pander Issues Now Closed (104) _______________________ pyvm module patch 515 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1522 benjamin.peterson patch Bad OOB data management when using asyncore with select.poll() 514 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1541 georg.brandl patch str.format() wrongly formats complex() numbers (Py30a2) 505 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1588 eric.smith patch sqlite3 docs should mention utf8 requirement 434 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2127 georg.brandl patch, easy aifc cannot handle unrecognised chunk type "CHAN" 419 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2245 r.david.murray easy float compared to decimal is silently incorrect. 34 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2531 jdunck patch 3.0 pickle docs -- what about old-style classes? 385 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2572 georg.brandl PyString_FromStringAndSize() to be considered unsafe 384 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2587 iankko Python does not accept unicode keywords 375 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2646 ajaksu2 26backport ctypes defines global symbols 316 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3102 theller patch Wish: disable tests in unittest 304 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3202 benjamin.peterson patch various doc typos 291 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3320 georg.brandl patch file.readline: bad exception recovery 260 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3521 benjamin.peterson patch, easy Tuple comparison masking exception 226 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3829 rhettinger idle should be installed as idle3.0 220 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3896 ajaksu2 smtplib cannot sendmail over TLS 217 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3921 ajaksu2 patch, easy Python 2.6 Doc/tools folder bigger than in 2.6rc2 205 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4013 georg.brandl C/API documentation: request for documentation of change to Py_s 196 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4129 asmodai patch Email example should use SMTP.quit() rather than SMTP.close() 181 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4239 asmodai ctypes could include data type limits 145 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4538 theller Need to rework the dbm lib/include selection process 144 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4587 doko patch, needs review Idle for Python 3.0 is default even without doing make fullinsta 129 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4693 ajaksu2 failure in test_httpservers 101 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4951 tarek patch Incorrect title case 98 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4971 loewis Specifying common controls DLL in manifest 97 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5019 robind ctypes unwilling to allow pickling wide character 90 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5049 theller patch Inadequate documentation of the built-in function open 91 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5061 georg.brandl IDLE improve Subprocess Startup Error message 91 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5065 ajaksu2 Avoid redundant call to FormatError() 88 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5078 theller patch indentation in IDLE 2.6 different from IDLE 2.5, 2.4 or vim 82 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5129 kbk patch, 26backport wrong paths for ctypes cleanup 78 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5161 theller setting __class__ in __del__ is bad. mmkay. negative ref count! 67 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5283 benjamin.peterson patch email/base64mime.py cannot work 67 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5304 ajaksu2 easy ctypes configuration fails on mips-linux (and probably Irix) 41 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5507 theller test_math.testFsum failure on release30-maint 26 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5593 marketdickinson file "<stdin>" on disk creates garbage output in stack trace 26 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5668 ajaksu2 shutils test fails on ZFS (on FUSE, on Linux) 27 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5676 benjamin.peterson patch inspect.findsource() should look only for sources 13 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5742 ajaksu2 patch idle pydoc et al removed from 3.1 without versioned replacements 11 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5756 kbk IDLE cannot find windows chm file 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5783 kbk patch, 26backport Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower / ... uses throughout Py 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5793 eric.smith easy test_distutils fails - sysconfig._config_vars is None 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5810 tarek Fix five small bugs in the bininstall and altbininstall pseudota 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5818 benjamin.peterson patch Documentation: mention 'close' and iteration for tarfile.TarFile 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5821 georg.brandl patch new unittest function listed as assertIsNotNot() instead of asse 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5826 michael.foord Invalid behavior of unicode.lower 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5828 loewis patch heapq item comparison problematic with sched's events 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5830 rhettinger os.path.walk fails to descend into a directory whose name ends w 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5832 potten The word "error" used instead of "failure" 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5834 georg.brandl Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5835 eric.smith Clean up float parsing code for nans and infs 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5836 marketdickinson support.EnvironmentVarGuard broken 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5837 doerwalter easy Test issue 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5838 marketdickinson add py3k warnings to commands 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5841 georg.brandl patch Minor unittest doc patch 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5848 georg.brandl patch, patch, easy, needs review Idle 3.01 - invalid syntec error 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5849 doerwalter Full example for emulating a container type 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5850 rhettinger can't use "glog" to find the path with square bracket 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5852 amaury.forgeotdarc mimetypes.guess_type() hits recursion limit 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5853 pitrou logging module's __all__ attribute not in sync with documentatio 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5854 vsajip easy Perhaps exponential performance of sum(listoflists, []) 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5855 pitrou Minor typo in traceback example 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5856 georg.brandl patch Return namedtuples from tokenize token generator 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5857 rhettinger needs review Remove implicit '%f' -> '%g' switch from float formatting. 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5859 marketdickinson patch TextIOWrapper: bad error reporting when write() is forbidden 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5860 benjamin.peterson mathmodule.c fails to compile due to missing math_log1p() functi 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5865 marketdickinson mimetypes.MAGIC_FUNCTION initialization not thread-safe in Pytho 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5868 pitrou 100th character truncation in 2.4 tarfile.py 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5869 neville.bagnall patch Minidom: parsestring() error 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5873 georg.brandl distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is locale-sensitive 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5874 tarek Regular Expression instances 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5878 georg.brandl __repr__ is ignored when formatting exceptions 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5882 benjamin.peterson curses/__init__.py: global name '_os' is not defined 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5886 amaury.forgeotdarc patch Extra comma in enum - fails on AIX 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5889 srid strange list.sort() behavior on import, del and inport again 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5891 loewis strange list.sort() behavior on import, del and inport again 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5892 loewis Fix for bugs relating to ntpath.expanduser() 210 days http://bugs.python.org/issue957650 gjb1002 patch urllib2 http auth 1689 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1025540 gregory.p.smith endianness detection fails on IRIX 5.3 1617 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1070140 ajaksu2 proposed patch for tls wrapped ssl support added to smtplib 1417 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1217246 ajaksu2 patch MSI installer does not pass values as SecureProperty from UI 1311 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1298962 ajaksu2 Integer bit operations performance improvement. 1073 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1492860 marketdickinson easy test_float segfaults with SIGFPE on FreeBSD 6.0 / Alpha 1066 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1496032 marketdickinson Use dynload_shlib on newer HP-UX versions 1026 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1516897 ajaksu2 Allowing multiple instances of IDLE with sub-processes 1004 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1529142 kbk patch Tracing and profiling functions can cause hangs in threads 999 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1531859 ajaksu2 patch Tru64 make install failure 954 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1558802 ajaksu2 Install on WinXP always goes to C:\ 943 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1565468 ajaksu2 Modules/readline.c fails to compile on AIX 4.2 891 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1597798 ajaksu2 Would you mind renaming object.h to pyobject.h? 844 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1626545 ajaksu2 patch Python 2.5 gets curses.h warning on HPUX 824 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1642054 ajaksu2 proxy_bypass in urllib handling of <local> macro 821 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1648102 orsenthil patch, easy HP-UX: compiler warnings: alignment 815 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1649011 ajaksu2 Python package support not properly documented 715 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1719423 georg.brandl Document effects of PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN on argument parsing 693 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1729742 loewis Solaris 64 bit LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64 needs to be set 687 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1733484 ajaksu2 Modules/ld_so_aix needs to strip path off of whichcc call 687 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1733509 ajaksu2 zlib configure behaves differently than main configure 687 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1733513 ajaksu2 HP shared object option 687 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1733523 ajaksu2 HP automatic build of zlib 687 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1733532 ajaksu2 HP 64 bit does not run 687 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1733544 ajaksu2 AIX shared object build of python 2.5 does not work 687 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1733546 ajaksu2 Fast path for unicodedata.normalize() 688 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1734234 pitrou patch Python - Operation time out problem 628 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1768858 ajaksu2 Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 28 str.format() wrongly formats complex() numbers (Py30a2) 505 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1588 12 support.EnvironmentVarGuard broken 0 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5837 10 mathmodule.c fails to compile due to missing math_log1p() funct 0 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5865 10 format(1234.5, '.4') gives misleading result 3 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue5864 9 Invalid behavior of unicode.lower 1 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5828 9 IDLE cannot find windows chm file 8 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5783 8 failure in test_httpservers 101 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4951 7 mimetypes.guess_type() hits recursion limit 1 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5853 7 C/API documentation: request for documentation of change to Py_ 196 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4129 6 detach() implementation 2 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue5883