ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2010-04-30 - 2010-05-07) 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. 2658 open (+44) / 17807 closed (+24) / 20465 total (+68) Open issues with patches: 1081 Average duration of open issues: 724 days. Median duration of open issues: 494 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2639 (+44) languishing 12 ( +0) pending 6 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (71) _______________________________ Bug in range() function for large values 2010-05-01 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue1533 reopened mark.dickinson patch, 26backport configure: allow user-provided CFLAGS to override AC_PROG_CC d 2010-05-05 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8211 reopened mark.dickinson patch regrtest: use backslashreplace error handler for stdout 2010-05-05 http://bugs.python.org/issue8533 reopened haypo patch Add missing tests for FlushKey, LoadKey, and SaveKey in winreg 2010-04-30 http://bugs.python.org/issue8579 created brian.curtin Problem urllib2.URLError 2010-04-30 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8580 created m_enanos Logging handlers do not handle double-closing very well 2010-04-30 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8581 created Jason.Baker patch urllib.urlretrieve fails with ValueError: Invalid format strin 2010-04-30 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8582 created Jason.Gross patch Hardcoded namespace_separator in the cElementTree.XMLParser 2010-04-30 http://bugs.python.org/issue8583 created dmtr patch test_multiprocessing skips some tests 2010-04-30 http://bugs.python.org/issue8584 created pitrou zipimporter.find_module is untested 2010-05-01 http://bugs.python.org/issue8585 created alex test_imp.py test failures on Py3K Mac OS X 2010-05-01 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8586 created michael.foord test_import.py test failures on Py3K Mac OS X 2010-05-01 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8587 created michael.foord test_urllib2.py test failures on Py3K Mac OS X 2010-05-01 http://bugs.python.org/issue8588 created michael.foord test_warnings.CEnvironmentVariableTests.test_nonascii fails un 2010-05-01 http://bugs.python.org/issue8589 created michael.foord test_httpservers.CGIHTTPServerTestCase failure on 3.1-maint Ma 2010-05-01 http://bugs.python.org/issue8590 created michael.foord update mkpkg to latest coding standards 2010-05-01 http://bugs.python.org/issue8591 created meatballhat 'y' does not check for embedded NUL bytes 2010-05-01 http://bugs.python.org/issue8592 created pitrou Improve c-api/arg.rst 2010-05-01 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8593 created pitrou patch Add a "source_address" option to ftplib 2010-05-01 http://bugs.python.org/issue8594 created giampaolo.rodola patch, needs review Explain the default timeout in http-client-related libraries 2010-05-02 http://bugs.python.org/issue8595 created oddthinking crypt blowfish 'ignores' salt 2010-05-02 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8596 created pvo build out-of-line asm on Windows 2010-05-02 http://bugs.python.org/issue8597 created zooko patch test/support: don't use localhost as IPv6 host name 2010-05-02 http://bugs.python.org/issue8598 created haypo patch _execvpe behaves inconsistently when PATH includes a filename 2010-05-02 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8599 created Oren_Held test_gdb failures 2010-05-03 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8600 created pitrou bz2.BZ2File should support "with" protocol per PEP 343 2010-05-03 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8601 created Matt.Wartell documentation of bz2 module mildly erroneous 2010-05-03 http://bugs.python.org/issue8602 created Matt.Wartell Create a bytes version of os.environ and getenvb() 2010-05-03 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8603 created haypo patch Adding an atomic FS write API 2010-05-03 http://bugs.python.org/issue8604 created olemis test_gdb can fail with compiler opts 2010-05-03 http://bugs.python.org/issue8605 created pitrou patch OSF is not supported anymore 2010-05-03 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8606 created jcea OSX: duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS breaks sysconfig 2010-05-04 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8607 created robind fix_import prefixes "." to already relative imports 2010-05-04 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8608 created shlomme patch itertools: problem with nested groupby, list() 2010-05-04 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8609 created nicki Python3/POSIX: errors if file system encoding is None 2010-05-04 http://bugs.python.org/issue8610 created haypo patch Python3 doesn't support locale different than utf8 and an non- 2010-05-04 http://bugs.python.org/issue8611 created haypo multiprocessing Queue module failes to send INIConfig objects 2010-05-04 http://bugs.python.org/issue8612 created Zaar.Hai Decimal module flags undetermined when a signal is trapped. 2010-05-04 http://bugs.python.org/issue8613 created mark.dickinson test_gzip fails on OS X 2010-05-04 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8614 created mark.dickinson turtle.py - backport of 3.1 features 2010-05-04 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8615 created gregorlingl patch Changes to content of Demo/turtle 2010-05-04 http://bugs.python.org/issue8616 created gregorlingl patch Non-existent variables documented 2010-05-04 http://bugs.python.org/issue8617 created dabrahams test_winsound failing on Windows Server 2008 2010-05-05 http://bugs.python.org/issue8618 created brian.curtin Doc bug for urllib.request._urlopener in Python 3.1+ 2010-05-05 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8619 created sri wrong truncation of line in Cmd.cmd 2010-05-05 http://bugs.python.org/issue8620 created omatt uuid.uuid4() generates non-unique values on OSX 2010-05-05 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8621 created yig patch Add PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable 2010-05-05 http://bugs.python.org/issue8622 created lemburg Aliasing warnings in socketmodule.c 2010-05-05 http://bugs.python.org/issue8623 created pitrou Aliasing warnings in multiprocessing.c 2010-05-05 http://bugs.python.org/issue8624 created pitrou --with-pydebug builds now include -O2 by default 2010-05-05 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8625 created mark.dickinson patch TypeError: rsplit() takes no keyword arguments 2010-05-05 http://bugs.python.org/issue8626 created dabrahams easy Unchecked PyErr_WarnPy3k return value in Objects/typeobject.c 2010-05-05 http://bugs.python.org/issue8627 created mark.dickinson Incorrect numbers.Complex.imag documentation 2010-05-05 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8628 created durban Fix test_ssl failures under 2.6/3.1 with OpenSSL 1.0.0 2010-05-05 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8629 created pitrou patch Keepends param in codec readline(s) 2010-05-05 http://bugs.python.org/issue8630 created amccampos subprocess.Popen.communicate(...) hangs on Windows 2010-05-05 http://bugs.python.org/issue8631 created Alex Quinn subprocess doesn't handle Windows built-in commands as os.syst 2010-05-05 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8632 created Alex Quinn tarfile doesn't support undecodable filename in PAX format 2010-05-05 http://bugs.python.org/issue8633 created haypo get method for dbm interface 2010-05-06 http://bugs.python.org/issue8634 created Kain94 enumerate() docstring doesn't cover optional start argument 2010-05-06 http://bugs.python.org/issue8635 created ncoghlan easy enumerate() test cases do not cover optional start argument 2010-05-06 http://bugs.python.org/issue8636 created scott.dial patch pydoc should respect MANPAGER over PAGER. 2010-05-06 http://bugs.python.org/issue8637 created jsbronder patch Remove suggestion for name mangling from the tutorial 2010-05-06 http://bugs.python.org/issue8638 created LucianU Allow callable objects in inspect.getargspec 2010-05-06 http://bugs.python.org/issue8639 created gsakkis subprocess: add envb argument to Popen constructor (Python3, P 2010-05-06 http://bugs.python.org/issue8640 created haypo IDLE 3 doesn't highlights b"", but u"" 2010-05-07 http://bugs.python.org/issue8641 created puzzlet json.loads description 2010-05-07 http://bugs.python.org/issue8642 created mft incorrect timedelta yielded by two on-the-fly nows subtraction 2010-05-07 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8643 created mykhal timedelta.total_seconds needlessly inaccurate, especially for 2010-05-07 http://bugs.python.org/issue8644 created mark.dickinson PyUnicode_AsEncodedObject is undocumented 2010-05-07 http://bugs.python.org/issue8645 created stutzbach PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal is undocumented 2010-05-07 http://bugs.python.org/issue8646 created stutzbach Issues Now Closed (55) ______________________ Bug in range() function for large values 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1533 mark.dickinson patch, 26backport Adding start to enumerate() 724 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2831 scott.dial patch MacOS X framework install to non-standard directory fails 622 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3646 ronaldoussoren patch shutil.copyfile() leaks file descriptors when disk fills 546 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4265 haypo patch GC stats not accurate because of debug overhead 501 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4687 pitrou patch Strange behavior when I logout() with IMAP4_SSL 403 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5565 r.david.murray email.encoders.encode_7or8bit(): typo "iso-2202". "iso-2022" 146 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7472 r.david.murray patch, easy random.choice should accept a set as input 141 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7522 Thomas.Dybdahl.Ahle copyright clarification for audiotest.au 103 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7755 barry needs review Minor bug in 2.6.4 related to cleanup at end of program 92 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7835 cburroughs patch, easy platform module doesn't detect Windows 7 89 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7863 lemburg patch, needs review io close() swallowing exceptions 89 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7865 pakal patch urlparse.urlsplit mishandles novel schemes 84 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7904 merwok remove leftover macos9 support code 83 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7908 ronaldoussoren patch, needs review Allow Arbitrary OpenID providers in this bug tracker 70 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8008 jcea configure: allow user-provided CFLAGS to override AC_PROG_CC d 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8211 lemburg patch <unprintable AssertionError object> message in unittest traceb 30 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8313 haypo patch None shouldn't be passed to traceback.format_exception 24 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8388 michael.foord tarfile: use surrogates for undecode fields 23 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8390 haypo patch Set operations don't work for dictionary views 22 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8404 rhettinger patch unittest Module Problem with different Kinds of Invocation 18 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8454 michael.foord raise test_support.TestSkipped() is used outside main() / test 17 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8462 haypo asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produces confusing ef 15 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8483 giampaolo.rodola patch regrtest: add a minimal "progress bar" 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8560 haypo patch Always run regrtest.py with -bb 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8565 haypo patch 2to3 should run under python 2.5 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8566 jyasskin patch, patch decimal module doesn't respect precedence rules for exceptiona 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8567 mark.dickinson patch Buggy _strerror in asyncore 7 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8573 giampaolo.rodola easy Problem urllib2.URLError 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8580 r.david.murray Logging handlers do not handle double-closing very well 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8581 vinay.sajip patch urllib.urlretrieve fails with ValueError: Invalid format strin 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8582 orsenthil patch test_imp.py test failures on Py3K Mac OS X 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8586 michael.foord test_import.py test failures on Py3K Mac OS X 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8587 michael.foord Improve c-api/arg.rst 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8593 pitrou patch crypt blowfish 'ignores' salt 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8596 mark.dickinson _execvpe behaves inconsistently when PATH includes a filename 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8599 r.david.murray test_gdb failures 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8600 pitrou bz2.BZ2File should support "with" protocol per PEP 343 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8601 Matt.Wartell Create a bytes version of os.environ and getenvb() 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8603 haypo patch OSF is not supported anymore 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8606 jcea OSX: duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS breaks sysconfig 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8607 r.david.murray fix_import prefixes "." to already relative imports 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8608 r.david.murray patch itertools: problem with nested groupby, list() 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8609 nicki test_gzip fails on OS X 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8614 mark.dickinson turtle.py - backport of 3.1 features 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8615 benjamin.peterson patch Doc bug for urllib.request._urlopener in Python 3.1+ 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8619 r.david.murray uuid.uuid4() generates non-unique values on OSX 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8621 ronaldoussoren patch --with-pydebug builds now include -O2 by default 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8625 haypo patch Incorrect numbers.Complex.imag documentation 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8628 mark.dickinson Fix test_ssl failures under 2.6/3.1 with OpenSSL 1.0.0 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8629 pitrou patch subprocess doesn't handle Windows built-in commands as os.syst 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8632 Alex Quinn incorrect timedelta yielded by two on-the-fly nows subtraction 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8643 mark.dickinson bdist_deb - Debian packager 440 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1054967 astraw patch URI parsing library 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1462525 orsenthil patch Use Py_ssize_t for rangeobject members 1354 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1540617 mark.dickinson patch Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 42 Bug in range() function for large values 6 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1533 31 Create a bytes version of os.environ and getenvb() 4 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue8603 21 test_support.find_unused_port can cause socket conflicts on Win 7 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue8576 16 test_imp.py test failures on Py3K Mac OS X 3 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue8586 15 Create fsencode() and fsdecode() functions in os.path 14 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue8514 13 Python3/POSIX: errors if file system encoding is None 3 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue8610 12 Adding an atomic FS write API 4 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue8604 12 Add exception logging function to syslog module 45 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue8214 11 <unprintable AssertionError object> message in unittest traceba 30 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue8313 9 httplib getheader() throws error instead of default 8 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue8572