ACTIVITY SUMMARY (06/12/09 - 06/19/09) 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. 2239 open (+26) / 15895 closed (+14) / 18134 total (+40) Open issues with patches: 886 Average duration of open issues: 653 days. Median duration of open issues: 404 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2210 (+25) pending 29 ( +1) Issues Created Or Reopened (40) _______________________________ Add client side certificate support to httplib 06/12/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6273 created jnoller patch subprocess.Popen() may leak file descriptors 06/12/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6274 created facundobatista patch let unittest.assertRaises() return the exception object caught 06/14/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6275 reopened krisvale patch, patch, easy, needs review Fix contextlib.nested DeprecationWarning for test_signal. 06/13/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6276 created vshenoy patch Add description of new syntax of with to 2.7 whatsnew document. 06/13/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6277 created vshenoy patch http.server, BaseHTTPRequestHandler write string error 06/13/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6278 created System32 datamodel documentation confuses staticmethod with classmethod 06/13/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6279 created segfaulthunter patch calendar.timegm() belongs in time module, next to time.gmtime() 06/13/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6280 created zooko Bug in hashlib 06/13/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6281 created Eloff In tarfile, compression level cannot be specified 06/14/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6282 created Tzigi Cannot build extension in amd64 using msvc9compiler 06/14/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6283 created alexsh C/API PyErr_AsUnicode() 06/14/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6284 created ideasman42 patch Silent abort on XP help document display 06/14/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6285 created scott_daniels distutils upload command doesn't work with http proxy 06/15/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6286 created tarek distutils.core.setup does not document the 'license' meta-data 06/15/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6287 created mattsmart Update contextlib.nested docs in light of deprecation 06/17/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6288 reopened ncoghlan compile() raises SyntaxError with confusing message for some dec 06/15/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6289 created exarkun cPickle can misread data type 06/15/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6290 created ac.james TypeError: b2a_base64() argument 1 must be bytes or buffer, not 06/16/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6291 created milivojm Fix tests to work with -OO 06/16/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6292 created collinwinter patch, easy Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags 06/16/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6293 created collinwinter patch, easy Improve shutdown exception ignored message 06/17/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6294 created tjreedy easy curses doc : getch is blocking by default 06/17/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6295 created nojhan Native (and default) tarfile support for setup.py sdist in distu 06/17/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6296 created michael.foord Added Misc/python.pc to 'distclean' Rule 06/17/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6297 created jcsalterego patch http://python.org/download says Python 2.4.5, but I think it mea 06/17/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6298 created zooko pyexpat build failure on Solaris 10 for 2.6.1/2.6.2 06/17/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6299 created enchanter encode and decode should accept 'errors' as a keyword argument 06/18/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6300 created r.david.murray easy Error in tutorial section 7.2 06/18/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6301 created melbourne email.header.decode_header data types are inconsistent and incor 06/18/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6302 created r.david.murray print does not appear in the 3.x documentation index 06/18/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6303 created r.david.murray Confusing error message when passing bytes to print with file po 06/18/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6304 created r.david.murray islice doesn't accept large stop values 06/18/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6305 created thomasguest filecmp.cmp can not compare two files from different OS with the 06/18/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6306 created higer AttributeError in traceback.print_last() 06/18/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6307 created complex termios fix for QNX breaks HP-UX 06/18/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6308 created haubi Tix needs TCL package require statement 06/19/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6309 created eantelman Windows "App Paths" key is not checked when installed for curren 06/19/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6310 created techtonik virtual memory error with archivemail 06/19/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6311 created helgekraak httplib fails with HEAD requests to pages with "transfer-encodin 06/19/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6312 created ezio.melotti Issues Now Closed (29) ______________________ linecache .updatecache fails on utf8 encoded files 544 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1685 amaury.forgeotdarc patch, easy test_urllib2_localnet fails on MacOS X 10.4.11 (Intel) 332 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3407 orsenthil Ill-formed surrogates not treated as errors during encoding/deco 295 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3672 hippietrail patch Local variables not freed when Exception raises in function call 76 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5641 georg.brandl Unexpected universal newline behavior (newline duplication) in W 16 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6127 alexandre.vassalotti patch subprocess module not compatible with python 2.5 15 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6189 amaury.forgeotdarc patch sdist doesn't include data_files 10 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6205 purpleidea doctest_aliases doesn't test duplicate removal 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6227 amaury.forgeotdarc patch Python compiles dead code 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6250 loewis patch PyInt_FromSize_t is undocumented. 7 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6255 georg.brandl distributions built with bdist_msi on 64-bit Windows fail to ins 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6258 loewis mmap: don't close file description if fd=-1 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6271 ocean-city patch Add client side certificate support to httplib 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6273 jnoller patch Fix contextlib.nested DeprecationWarning for test_signal. 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6276 georg.brandl patch Add description of new syntax of with to 2.7 whatsnew document. 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6277 rhettinger patch http.server, BaseHTTPRequestHandler write string error 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6278 amaury.forgeotdarc datamodel documentation confuses staticmethod with classmethod 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6279 segfaulthunter patch In tarfile, compression level cannot be specified 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6282 Tzigi distutils.core.setup does not document the 'license' meta-data 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6287 tarek compile() raises SyntaxError with confusing message for some dec 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6289 benjamin.peterson TypeError: b2a_base64() argument 1 must be bytes or buffer, not 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6291 r.david.murray curses doc : getch is blocking by default 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6295 georg.brandl http://python.org/download says Python 2.4.5, but I think it mea 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6298 georg.brandl Error in tutorial section 7.2 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6301 pjenvey print does not appear in the 3.x documentation index 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6303 r.david.murray AttributeError in traceback.print_last() 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6307 r.david.murray current directory in sys.path handles symlinks badly 1665 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1074015 marko enhance unittest to define tests that *should* fail 1253 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1399935 benjamin.peterson patch keyword and topic help broken in Pythonwin IDE 1126 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1489051 georg.brandl Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 18 io.BufferedReader.peek(): Documentation differs from Implementa 58 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue5811 13 Backport the IO lib to trunk 14 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6215 9 Add "daemon" argument to threading.Thread constructor 31 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6064 8 Error in tutorial section 7.2 1 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6301 8 Update contextlib.nested docs in light of deprecation 2 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6288 8 Python compiles dead code 6 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6250 7 Native (and default) tarfile support for setup.py sdist in dist 2 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6296 6 Add description of new syntax of with to 2.7 whatsnew document. 3 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6277 6 let unittest.assertRaises() return the exception object caught 5 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6275 6 path separator output ignores shell's path separator: / instead 14 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6208