ACTIVITY SUMMARY (12/05/08 - 12/12/08) 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. 2261 open (+58) / 14206 closed (+37) / 16467 total (+95) Open issues with patches: 763 Average duration of open issues: 699 days. Median duration of open issues: 2499 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2242 (+57) pending 19 ( +1) Issues Created Or Reopened (97) _______________________________ Remove mimetools usage from the stdlib 12/06/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2848 reopened brett.cannon patch improve linecache: reuse tokenize.detect_encoding() and io.open( 12/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4016 reopened benjamin.peterson patch Deprecated python 2.x syntax in "HOWTO Use Python in the web" 12/05/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4550 created jcsalterego patch The python 2.6.1 source distribution is missing Doc/tools/sphinx 12/05/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4551 created andreask Doc/tools/sphinxext not included in the 2.6.1 tarball 12/05/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4552 created doko Results from os.path.islink and os.stat S_ISLNK do not match 12/05/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4553 created npatters Missing make altframeworkinstall for Mac OS X 12/06/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4554 created christian.heimes Smelly exports 12/06/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4555 created christian.heimes cmp() function erroneously noted as gone in "What's New" 12/06/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4556 created mwatkins array('c') in python 3.0 produces error, doc says it is ok 12/06/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4557 created lopgok with_stdc89 12/06/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4558 created christian.heimes patch, patch Whats new recommendation error 12/06/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4559 created lregebro "Flouted", not "flaunted" 12/06/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4560 created jdf Optimize new io library 12/06/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4561 created christian.heimes patch zip() documentation was not updated 12/06/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4562 created mchouza Wrong formatting of contributor list in About page 12/06/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4563 created salty-horse bytearray.fromhex doesn't respect bytearray subclass 12/06/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4564 created pitrou io write() performance very slow 12/06/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4565 created ialbert 2.6.1 breaks many applications that embed Python on Windows 12/06/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4566 created craigh Registry key not set if unattended installation used 12/06/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4567 created stuaxo Improved optparse "varargs" callback example 12/06/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4568 created gregg.lind patch Segfault when mutating a memoryview to an array.array 12/07/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4569 created pitrou Bad example in set tutorial 12/07/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4570 created jmarter write to stdout in binary mode - is it possible? 12/07/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4571 created lopgok add SEEK_* values to io and/or io.IOBase 12/07/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4572 created gumpy zsh-style subpattern matching for fnmatch/glob 12/07/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4573 created erickt patch reading UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char boundar 12/07/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4574 created sjmachin patch Py_IS_INFINITY defect causes test_cmath failure on x86 12/07/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4575 created marketdickinson patch "Defining new types" little outdated 12/07/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4576 created exe distutils: -3 warnings (apply) 12/07/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4577 created srittau patch compiler: -3 warnings 12/07/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4578 created srittau patch .read() and .readline() differ in failing 12/07/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4579 created eggy patch, needs review slicing of memoryviews when itemsize != 1 is wrong 12/07/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4580 created pitrou patch, needs review failed to import module from lib-dynload 12/07/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4581 created legerf type of __builtins__ changes if in main module or not 12/07/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4582 created nnorwitz segfault when mutating memoryview to array.array when array is r 12/07/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4583 created gumpy doctest fails to display bytes type 12/07/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4584 created msyang Build failure on OS X 10.5.5: make: *** [sharedmods] Error 1 12/07/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4585 created marketdickinson "Extending Embedded Python" documention uses removed Py_InitModu 12/07/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4586 created blakemadden Need to rework the dbm lib/include selection process 12/08/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4587 created skip.montanaro patch, needs review Need a way to make my own bytes 12/08/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4588 created lopgok 'with' loses ->bool exceptions 12/08/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4589 created jyasskin patch 2to3 strips trailing L for long iterals in two fixers 12/08/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4590 created aronacher patch, needs review 32-bits unsigned user/group identifier 12/08/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4591 created sjoerd patch, needs review Embedding example does not add created module 12/08/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4592 created blakemadden patch, needs review Documentation for multiprocessing - Pool.apply() 12/08/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4593 created beazley easy Can't compile with -O3, on ARM, with gcc 3.4.4 12/08/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4594 created metageek new types example is out of date 12/08/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4595 created blakemadden 2to3 does not fail as early as possible. 12/08/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4596 created LambertDW EvalFrameEx fails to set 'why' for some exceptions 12/10/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4597 reopened amaury.forgeotdarc patch IDLE not opening 12/08/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4598 created ec2929 Strings undisplayable with repr 12/08/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4599 created mfoord __class__ assignment: new-style? heap? == confusing 12/08/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4600 created tjreedy directory permission error with make install in 3.0 12/08/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4601 created legerf patch 2to3 drops executable bit with --write 12/08/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4602 created dato patch 3.0 document tab interpretation change 12/08/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4603 created tjreedy close() seems to have limited effect 12/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4604 created skip.montanaro patch 3.0 documentation mentions using maketrans from within the strin 12/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4605 created suicideducky Passing 'None' if argtype is set to POINTER(...) doesn't always 12/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4606 created robertluce patch uuid behavior with multiple threads 12/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4607 created mortenab urllib.request.urlopen does not return an iterable object 12/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4608 created jwilk Allow use of > 256 FD's on solaris in 32 bit mode 12/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4609 created pajs@fodder.org.uk Unicode case mappings are incorrect 12/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4610 created alexs Small error in "Extending Python with C or C++" 12/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4611 created jakamkon PyModule_Create() doesn't add/import module 12/09/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4612 created blakemadden Can't figure out where SyntaxError: can not delete variable 'x' 12/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4613 created marduk patch Document PyModule_Create() 12/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4614 created brett.cannon needs review de-duping function in itertools 12/10/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4615 created thomaspinckney3 tarfile does not set the creation date and time of the extracted 12/10/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4616 created throbi SyntaxError when free variable name is also an exception target 12/10/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4617 created amaury.forgeotdarc patch, needs review print_function and unicode_literals don't work together 12/10/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4618 created exarkun Invalid Behaviour When a Default Argument is a Mutable Object 12/10/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4619 created rhr Memory leak with datetime used with time.strptime 12/10/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4620 created sebegue zipfile returns string but expects binary 12/10/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4621 created francescor SequenceMatcher bug with long sequences 12/10/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4622 created eliben IDLE shutdown if I run an edited file contains chinese 12/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4623 created bianpeng Can not import readline on python3.0 (ubuntu 8.04) 12/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4624 created xxiao IDLE won't open anymore, .idlerc unaccessible 12/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4625 created skcheng compile() doesn't ignore the source encoding when a string is pa 12/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4626 created brett.cannon Add Mac OS X Disk Images to Python.org homepage 12/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4627 created carlj No universal newline support for compile() when using bytes 12/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4628 created brett.cannon getopt should not accept no_argument that ends with '=' 12/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4629 created wangchun patch IDLE no longer respects .Xdefaults insertOffTime 12/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4630 created mark urlopen returns extra, spurious bytes 12/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4631 created dato Wrong fix for range(42)[::-1] 12/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4632 created theller file.tell() gives wrong result 12/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4633 created yavuz164 2to3 should fix "import HTMLParser" 12/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4634 created mastrodomenico no reference for optparse methods 12/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4635 created techtonik bdist_wininst installer with install script raises exception 12/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4636 created theller Binary floating point and decimal floating point arithmetic 12/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4637 created Retro 1 is 1 is allways true while 1.0 is 1.0 may sometimes be true 12/12/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4638 created nassrat Build failure on OpenBSD 4.4-current regarding lstat() 12/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4639 created vext01 optparse - dosn't distinguish between '--option' and '-option' 12/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4640 created kszawala optparse - dosn't distinguish between '--option' and '-option' 12/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4641 created kszawala optparse - dosn't distinguish between '--option' and '-option' 12/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4642 created kszawala cgitb.html fails if getattr call raises exception 12/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4643 created amc1 Minor documentation fault in 2to3 script 12/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue4644 created amc1 Issues Now Closed (74) ______________________ gdbm/ndbm 1.8.1+ needs libgdbm_compat.so 449 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1167 ocean-city patch Victor Stinner's GMP patch for longs 328 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1814 marketdickinson patch Python fails silently on bad locale 291 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2173 marketdickinson patch Full precision summation 214 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2819 marketdickinson patch Incorrect rounding in floating-point operations with gcc/x87 198 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2937 marketdickinson math test fails on Solaris 10 173 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3167 marketdickinson patch Multiprocessing Array and sharedctypes.Array error in docs/imple 165 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3206 amaury.forgeotdarc patch BufferedWriter not thread-safe 129 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3476 wplappert patch expm1 missing 123 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3501 marketdickinson test_math: math.log(-ninf) fails to raise exception on OpenBSD 108 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3682 marketdickinson math.log(x, 10) gives different result than math.log10(x) 98 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3724 marketdickinson patch _lsprof: clear() should call flush_unmatched() 79 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3952 haypo patch tokenize.detect_encoding(): raise SyntaxError on codecs.lookup() 70 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4021 benjamin.peterson patch, patch, needs review Decimal.max(NaN, x) gives incorrect results when x is finite and 63 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4084 marketdickinson patch ihooks incompatible with absolute_import feature 35 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4244 georg.brandl Update pydoc URLs 36 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4259 loewis smtplib.py initialisation defect 28 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4302 ocean-city patch state_reset not called on 'state' before sre_search invoked 16 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4416 amaury.forgeotdarc String allocations waste 3 bytes of memory on average. 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4445 marketdickinson patch __import__ documentation obsolete 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4457 georg.brandl patch parameters of PyLong_FromString() are not checked for NULL 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4461 marketdickinson patch Windows installer crash 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4481 tjreedy Error to build _dbm module during make 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4483 skip.montanaro patch, easy Python Documentation not Newb Friendly 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4488 georg.brandl Compiler warnings in longobject.c 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4497 marketdickinson patch 3.0 test failure on Mac OS X 10.5.5 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4507 marketdickinson Decorators should have an index entry 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4511 georg.brandl problem with str.join - should work with list input, error says 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4534 lopgok webbrowser.UnixBrowser should use builtins.open 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4537 amaury.forgeotdarc A defect in <The Python Tutorial>-<Python Scopes and Name Spaces 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4549 georg.brandl Deprecated python 2.x syntax in "HOWTO Use Python in the web" 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4550 georg.brandl patch The python 2.6.1 source distribution is missing Doc/tools/sphinx 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4551 georg.brandl Doc/tools/sphinxext not included in the 2.6.1 tarball 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4552 georg.brandl Results from os.path.islink and os.stat S_ISLNK do not match 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4553 christian.heimes cmp() function erroneously noted as gone in "What's New" 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4556 georg.brandl array('c') in python 3.0 produces error, doc says it is ok 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4557 georg.brandl Whats new recommendation error 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4559 lregebro "Flouted", not "flaunted" 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4560 georg.brandl zip() documentation was not updated 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4562 georg.brandl bytearray.fromhex doesn't respect bytearray subclass 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4564 amaury.forgeotdarc Segfault when mutating a memoryview to an array.array 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4569 pitrou Bad example in set tutorial 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4570 rhettinger write to stdout in binary mode - is it possible? 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4571 christian.heimes "Defining new types" little outdated 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4576 georg.brandl failed to import module from lib-dynload 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4581 loewis type of __builtins__ changes if in main module or not 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4582 loewis doctest fails to display bytes type 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4584 georg.brandl Build failure on OS X 10.5.5: make: *** [sharedmods] Error 1 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4585 marketdickinson "Extending Embedded Python" documention uses removed Py_InitModu 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4586 georg.brandl Need a way to make my own bytes 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4588 loewis 'with' loses ->bool exceptions 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4589 amaury.forgeotdarc patch 2to3 strips trailing L for long iterals in two fixers 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4590 aronacher patch, needs review Embedding example does not add created module 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4592 georg.brandl patch, needs review EvalFrameEx fails to set 'why' for some exceptions 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4597 jyasskin patch IDLE not opening 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4598 loewis Strings undisplayable with repr 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4599 loewis 2to3 drops executable bit with --write 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4602 benjamin.peterson patch PyModule_Create() doesn't add/import module 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4612 amaury.forgeotdarc tarfile does not set the creation date and time of the extracted 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4616 lars.gustaebel Invalid Behaviour When a Default Argument is a Mutable Object 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4619 loewis Memory leak with datetime used with time.strptime 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4620 skip.montanaro Can not import readline on python3.0 (ubuntu 8.04) 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4624 benjamin.peterson Wrong fix for range(42)[::-1] 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4632 benjamin.peterson file.tell() gives wrong result 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4633 QuantumTim 2to3 should fix "import HTMLParser" 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4634 benjamin.peterson Binary floating point and decimal floating point arithmetic 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4637 gvanrossum 1 is 1 is allways true while 1.0 is 1.0 may sometimes be true 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4638 tim_one Proto 2 pickle vs dict subclass 1873 days http://bugs.python.org/issue826897 benjamin.peterson Python interpreter stalled on _PyPclose.WaitForSingleObject 1708 days http://bugs.python.org/issue928332 amaury.forgeotdarc Fix for #777597 - socketmodule.c connection handling incorec 1647 days http://bugs.python.org/issue965036 amaury.forgeotdarc patch distutils' dry-run wants to create some real build dirs 1545 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1030250 amaury.forgeotdarc patch correct/clarify documentation for super 1363 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1163367 rhettinger sys.settrace cause curried parms to show up as attributes 796 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1569356 loewis thread + import => crashes? 292 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1720705 forest Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 42 Get rid of more refercenes to __cmp__ 57 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue1717 23 slicing of memoryviews when itemsize != 1 is wrong 5 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4580 17 Make conversions from long to float correctly rounded. 174 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue3166 13 Optimize new io library 6 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4561 12 bugs in array.array with exports (buffer protocol) 9 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4509 11 Whats new recommendation error 1 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4559 11 Error to build _dbm module during make 6 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4483 10 with_stdc89 7 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4558 9 tarfile does not set the creation date and time of the extracte 2 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4616 9 'with' loses ->bool exceptions 3 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4589