ACTIVITY SUMMARY (05/01/09 - 05/08/09) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/

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2188 open (+45) / 15604 closed (+30) / 17792 total (+75)

Open issues with patches: 848

Average duration of open issues: 646 days. Median duration of open issues: 396 days.

Open Issues Breakdown open 2153 (+45) pending 34 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (75) _______________________________

socketmodule.c on HPUX ia64 without _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED comp 05/01/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5895 created ntai

timeit documentation 05/01/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5896 created hrfeels

No library reference tree in chm help file 05/01/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5897 created suraj

Hang in Popen.wait() when another process has been created 05/01/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5898 created farialima

test_capi crashes when called more than once 05/01/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5899 created pitrou

Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU l 05/01/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5900 created flub patch

missing meta-info in documentation pdf 05/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5901 created ZeD

Stricter codec names 05/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5902 created ezio.melotti

strftime fails in non UTF-8 locale 05/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5903 created barry-scott

strftime docs do not explain locale affect on result string 05/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5904 created barry-scott

strptime fails in non-UTF locale 05/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5905 created pitrou

Risk of confusion in multiprocessing module - daemonic processes 05/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5906 created pakal

repr of time.struct_time type does not eval 05/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5907 created jwm

I need to import the module in the same thread 05/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5908 created tyoc

Segfault in typeobject.c 05/02/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5909 created gbritton

kqueue for more than one event is broken. 05/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5910 created Erik Gorset patch

built-in compile() should take encoding option. 05/03/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5911 created naoki

import deadlocks when using fork 05/03/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5912 created abaron

On Windows os.listdir('') -> cwd and os.listdir(u'') -> C:\ 05/03/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5913 created ezio.melotti patch

Add PyOS_string_to_double function to C API 05/03/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5914 created marketdickinson patch

PEP 383 implementation 05/03/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5915 created loewis patch

Wrong function referenced in documentation of socket.inet_aton 05/03/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5916 created phihag patch

Reference platform-independent alternative in socket.inet_ntop d 05/03/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5917 created phihag patch

test_parser crashes when run after some other tests 05/04/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5918 created pitrou patch

pygettext documentation 05/04/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5919 created efrerich

Confusing float formatting for empty presentation type. 05/04/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5920 created marketdickinson patch

PEP 362 can be marked as finished? 05/04/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5921 created stutzbach

Multi-with patch 05/04/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5922 created georg.brandl patch

turtle.py update: 1.0 --> 1.1 05/04/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5923 created gregorlingl patch

When setting complete PYTHONPATH on Python 3.x, paths in the PYT 05/04/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5924 created fabioz

Odd formatting differences of keywords in reference 05/04/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5925 created MLModel

bdist_msi - add support for minimum Python version for pure Pyth 05/04/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5926 created atuining

Typo in library on xmlrpc 05/04/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5927 created JonathansCorner.com

Missing space after period in xmlrpc library documentation 05/04/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5928 created JonathansCorner.com

warnings in unicodeobject.c 05/04/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5929 created pitrou patch

Transient error in multiprocessing 05/04/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5930 created pitrou

Python runtime name hardcoded in wsgiref.simple_server 05/04/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5931 created thijs

_json: _convertPyInt_AsSsize_t() never raise any error 05/05/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5932 created haypo patch

fix gcc -Wextra warnings (compare signed/unsigned) 05/05/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5933 created haypo patch

fix gcc warnings: explicit type conversion for uid/gid in posix 05/05/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5934 created haypo patch

Better documentation of use of BROWSER environment variable 05/05/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5935 created Eddie E

Add MSI suport for uninstalling individual versions 05/05/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5936 created bethard

Problems with dbm documentation 05/05/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5937 created MLModel

Noddy examples haven't been updated to match PEP 3123 05/05/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5938 created larry

Ensure that PyCapsule_GetPointer calls in ctypes handle errors a 05/05/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5939 created larry

Wrong type check in check_library_list 05/05/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5940 created cdavid

customize_compiler broken 05/05/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5941 created cdavid patch

Ambiguity in dbm.open flag documentation 05/05/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5942 created MLModel

Bus error in test_posix on Mac OS 05/05/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5943 created eric.smith patch

test_os failure on OS X, probably related to PEP 383 05/05/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5944 created marketdickinson patch

PyMapping_Check returns 1 for lists 05/05/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5945 created jmillikin

Fix spelling error in Capsule docs 05/05/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5946 created larry patch

Deprecate CObject 05/05/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5947 created larry patch

setlocale regression 05/06/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5948 created Kerfred

IMAP4_SSL spin because of SSLSocket.suppress_ragged_eofs 05/06/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5949 created kevinwatters

zimport doesn't work with zipfile containing comments 05/06/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5950 created dsamersoff

email.message : get_payload args's documentation is confusing 05/06/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5951 created trolldbois

AttributeError exception in urllib.urlopen 05/07/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5952 created sprigogin

Add to "whats new": range(n) != range(n) 05/07/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5953 created MLModel

PyFrame_GetLineNumber 05/07/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5954 created jyasskin patch, needs review

aifc: close() does not close the underlying file 05/07/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5955 reopened amaury.forgeotdarc

test_distutils fails for Python 3.1b1 on MacOS X 05/07/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5956 created MrJean1

Possible mistake regarding writeback in documentation of shelve. 05/07/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5957 created MLModel

Typo in documentation of shelve.sync 05/07/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5958 created MLModel

PyCode_NewEmpty 05/07/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5959 created jyasskin patch, needs review

Windows Installer Error 1722 when opting for compilation at inst 05/07/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5960 created keldonin

Missing labelside option for Tix option menu (fix included) 05/07/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5961 created caryr

Ambiguity about the semantics of sys.exit() and os._exit() in mu 05/07/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5962 created pakal

Doc error: integer precision in formats 05/07/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5963 created tjreedy

WeakSet cmp methods 05/08/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5964 created schuppenies

Format Specs: doc 's' and implicit conversions 05/08/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5965 created tjreedy

unnecessary hardlink 05/08/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5966 created exe

PyList_GetSlice does not indicate negative ranges dont work as i 05/08/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5967 created ideasman42 patch

Generator expression bug? 05/08/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5968 created svenrahmann

setup build with Platform SDK, finding vcvarsall.bat 05/08/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5969 created MarcMarc

Issues Now Closed (80) ______________________

str.format() wrongly formats complex() numbers (Py30a2) 510 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1588 marketdickinson patch

shutil.copyfile blocks indefinitely on named pipes 337 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3002 pitrou patch

FD leak in urllib2 328 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3066 gregory.p.smith

IDLE opens window too low on Windows 303 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3286 gpolo

Option to not-exit on test 290 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3379 michael.foord patch

Ill-formed surrogates not treated as errors during encoding/deco 251 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3672 benjamin.peterson patch

unicode-internal encoder reports wrong length 249 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3739 haypo patch

Add Google's ipaddr.py to the stdlib 220 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3959 gregory.p.smith

merge json library with latest simplejson 2.0.x 46 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4136 benjamin.peterson patch

ctypes fails to build on mipsel-linux-gnu (detects mips instead 172 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4305 theller patch

[PATCH] Better stacklevel for GzipFile.filename DeprecationWarni 170 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4351 pjenvey patch

UTF7 encoding of slash (character 47) is incorrect 160 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4425 haypo

UTF7 decoding is far too strict 160 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4426 pitrou patch, needs review

Patch for better thread support in hashlib 128 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4751 gregory.p.smith patch

Curses Unicode Support 129 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4787 asmodai

find_library can return directories instead of files 118 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4875 theller

unpickling does not intern attribute names 95 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5084 pitrou patch

Invalid UTF-8 ("%s") length in PyUnicode_FromFormatV() 94 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5108 haypo patch

pdb feature request: Ability to skip standard lib modules and ot 91 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5142 georg.brandl patch

bdist_msi generates version number for pure Python packages 75 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5311 bethard patch

Multicast example mcast.py is outdated and ugly 66 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5379 gregory.p.smith patch

msvcrt bytes cleanup 59 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5410 benjamin.peterson patch

Create alternative CObject API that is safe and clean 35 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5630 benjamin.peterson patch

test__locale fails with RADIXCHAR on Windows 34 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5643 benjamin.peterson patch

cleanUp stack for unittest 29 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5679 yaneurabeya patch

test_zipfile fails under Windows 30 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5692 pitrou patch

os.getpwent returns unsigned 32bit value, os.setuid refuses it 28 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5705 gregory.p.smith 64bit

msi.py still tries to copy non-existent test/README 28 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5721 loewis patch

2.6.2c1 fails to pass test_cmath on Solaris10 26 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5724 marketdickinson patch

ld_so_aix does exit successfully even in case of failure 22 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5726 pitrou patch

Support telling TestResult objects a test run has finished 23 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5728 michael.foord patch

Change ntpath functions to implicitly support UNC paths 16 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5799 eric.smith patch, needs review

IDLE/Win Installer: drop -n switch for 2.7/3.1; install 3.1 as i 11 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5847 benjamin.peterson

Full example for emulating a container type 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5850 yaneurabeya

Make complex repr and str more like float repr and str 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5858 marketdickinson

test_urllib fails on windows 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5861 orsenthil

Remove extraneous backwards-compatibility attributes from some m 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5881 benjamin.peterson patch

detach() implementation 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5883 benjamin.peterson patch

mmap.write_byte out of bounds - no error, position gets screwed 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5887 bmearns

Extra comma in enum - fails on AIX 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5889 georg.brandl

Subclassing property doesn't preserve the auto __doc__ behavior 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5890 r.david.murray patch, needs review

Add support to pydoc to output .rst restructured text 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5893 georg.brandl

No library reference tree in chm help file 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5897 georg.brandl

test_capi crashes when called more than once 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5899 benjamin.peterson

Segfault in typeobject.c 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5909 amaury.forgeotdarc

On Windows os.listdir('') -> cwd and os.listdir(u'') -> C:\ 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5913 ezio.melotti patch

Add PyOS_string_to_double function to C API 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5914 marketdickinson patch

PEP 383 implementation 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5915 loewis patch

Wrong function referenced in documentation of socket.inet_aton 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5916 georg.brandl patch

Reference platform-independent alternative in socket.inet_ntop d 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5917 georg.brandl patch

pygettext documentation 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5919 georg.brandl

Confusing float formatting for empty presentation type. 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5920 eric.smith patch

PEP 362 can be marked as finished? 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5921 georg.brandl

turtle.py update: 1.0 --> 1.1 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5923 georg.brandl patch

Odd formatting differences of keywords in reference 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5925 georg.brandl

Typo in library on xmlrpc 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5927 georg.brandl

Missing space after period in xmlrpc library documentation 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5928 georg.brandl

warnings in unicodeobject.c 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5929 georg.brandl patch

_json: _convertPyInt_AsSsize_t() never raise any error 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5932 georg.brandl patch

Noddy examples haven't been updated to match PEP 3123 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5938 larry

Wrong type check in check_library_list 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5940 tarek

customize_compiler broken 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5941 tarek patch

Bus error in test_posix on Mac OS 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5943 loewis patch

test_os failure on OS X, probably related to PEP 383 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5944 marketdickinson patch

Fix spelling error in Capsule docs 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5946 georg.brandl patch

Deprecate CObject 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5947 georg.brandl patch

setlocale regression 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5948 georg.brandl

AttributeError exception in urllib.urlopen 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5952 amaury.forgeotdarc

aifc: close() does not close the underlying file 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5955 georg.brandl

Typo in documentation of shelve.sync 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5958 MLModel

Doc error: integer precision in formats 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5963 eric.smith

Generator expression bug? 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5968 r.david.murray

urllib doesn't correct server returned urls 1875 days http://bugs.python.org/issue918368 orsenthil patch

linecache.py::updatecache strips directory info from files 1629 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1068477 georg.brandl

http_error_302() crashes with 'HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request 1528 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1153027 orsenthil easy

PEP 349: allow str() to return unicode 1350 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1266570 haypo patch

linecache module returns wrong results 1313 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1309567 georg.brandl patch

locale.getpreferredencoding() dies when setlocale fails 1158 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1443504 asmodai patch

mailbox.Maildir re-reads directory too often 881 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1607951 akuchling patch

linecache package handling 659 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1754483 georg.brandl patch

Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________

20 CVE-2008-5983 python: untrusted python modules search path 24 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue5753

19 test_asynchat fails on Mac OSX 18 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue5798

18 locale.getpreferredencoding() dies when setlocale fails 1158 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1443504

17 Change ntpath functions to implicitly support UNC paths 16 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5799

13 bdist_msi generates version number for pure Python packages 75 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5311

10 turtle.py update: 1.0 --> 1.1 1 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5923

9 test_os failure on OS X, probably related to PEP 383 0 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5944

9 customize_compiler broken 3 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5941

9 Add Google's ipaddr.py to the stdlib 220 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3959

9 Ill-formed surrogates not treated as errors during encoding/dec 251 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3672