ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2010-05-21 - 2010-05-28) 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. 2705 open (+40) / 17957 closed (+21) / 20662 total (+61) Open issues with patches: 1095 Average duration of open issues: 720 days. Median duration of open issues: 500 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2683 (+40) languishing 12 ( +0) pending 9 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (62) _______________________________ httplib fails with HEAD requests to pages with "transfer-encod 2010-05-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue6312 reopened orsenthil patch The external link to a "Hash Collision FAQ" points to some com 2010-05-21 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8783 created stutzbach tarfile/Windows: Don't use mbcs as the default encoding 2010-05-22 http://bugs.python.org/issue8784 created haypo patch findall() and finditer() docs misleading 2010-05-22 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8785 created hagen Add support for IEEE 754 contexts to decimal module. 2010-05-22 http://bugs.python.org/issue8786 created mark.dickinson warnings inside PyRun_SimpleString() display argv[1] 2010-05-22 http://bugs.python.org/issue8787 created Sebastian patch urllib.urlencode documentation unclear on doseq 2010-05-22 http://bugs.python.org/issue8788 created VeXocide spam 2010-05-22 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8789 created renben spam 2010-05-22 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8790 created renben spam 2010-05-22 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8791 created renben xmlrpclib compatibility issues with Apache XML-RPC library 2010-05-22 http://bugs.python.org/issue8792 created bra IDLE crashes on opening invalid file 2010-05-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue8793 created royf spam 2010-05-23 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8794 created renben Error sending utf8 strings over syslog udp protocol 2010-05-23 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8795 created skliarie Deprecate codecs.open() 2010-05-23 http://bugs.python.org/issue8796 created haypo urllib2 basicauth broken in 2.6.5: RuntimeError: maximum recur 2010-05-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue8797 created jonozzz tkinter build variants on OSX 2010-05-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue8798 created ronaldoussoren Hang in lib/test/test_threading.py 2010-05-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue8799 created krisvale patch, patch, easy add threading.RWLock 2010-05-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue8800 created krisvale patch, patch, needs review Inconsistency in behaviour of urllib and urllib2 with file:// 2010-05-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue8801 created vinay.sajip about oa module 2010-05-24 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8802 created sudanti about oa module 2010-05-24 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8803 created sudanti http.client should support SSL contexts 2010-05-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue8804 created pitrou urllib should support SSL contexts 2010-05-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue8805 created pitrou ftplib should support SSL contexts 2010-05-24 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8806 created pitrou patch poplib should support SSL contexts 2010-05-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue8807 created pitrou patch imaplib should support SSL contexts 2010-05-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue8808 created pitrou smptlib should support SSL contexts 2010-05-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue8809 created pitrou TZ offset description is unclear in docs 2010-05-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue8810 created belopolsky easy fixing sqlite3 docs for py3k 2010-05-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue8811 created l0nwlf patch Show package path in repr string for packages installed to use 2010-05-24 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8812 created srid SSLContext doesn't support loading a CRL 2010-05-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue8813 created haypo functools.WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS should include __annotations__ 2010-05-24 http://bugs.python.org/issue8814 created terrence patch 65001 2010-05-24 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8815 created haypo Add test cases for builtins 2010-05-25 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8816 created gnofi patch Expose round-to-nearest division algorithm in Objects/longobje 2010-05-25 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8817 created mark.dickinson patch urlsplit and urlparse add extra slash when using scheme 2010-05-25 http://bugs.python.org/issue8818 reopened adamnelson variable resolution within exec() incorrect 2010-05-25 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8819 created hawkett IDLE not launching correctly 2010-05-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue8820 created NightFalcon Range check on unicode repr 2010-05-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue8821 created mgiuca patch datetime naive and aware types should have a well-defined defi 2010-05-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue8822 created techtonik urllib2 does not catch httplib.BadStatusLine 2010-05-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue8823 created adamnelson Improve documentation of exec 2010-05-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue8824 created tjreedy int("0",0) throws exception 2010-05-26 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8825 created cmoss60 Invalid expires date in cookiejar 2010-05-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue8826 created tzulberti poplib.POP3_SSL doesn't have an actual test suite 2010-05-26 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8827 created giampaolo.rodola Atomic function to rename a file 2010-05-26 http://bugs.python.org/issue8828 created haypo IDLE editior not opening 2010-05-27 http://bugs.python.org/issue8829 created Spatch Add nondestructive selection to sets 2010-05-27 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8830 created ipatrol recv and recvfrom on UDP socket do not return/throw exception 2010-05-27 http://bugs.python.org/issue8831 created Alessandro.Roat automate minidom.unlink() with a context manager 2010-05-27 http://bugs.python.org/issue8832 created krisvale patch, patch, easy, needs review tarfile: broken hardlink handling and testcase. 2010-05-27 http://bugs.python.org/issue8833 created jsbronder patch Define order of Misc/ACKS entries 2010-05-27 http://bugs.python.org/issue8834 created belopolsky patch buildbot: support.transient_internet() doesn't catch DNS socke 2010-05-27 http://bugs.python.org/issue8835 created haypo patch Conflicting default values of parameter to __import__ 2010-05-27 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8836 created afoglia PyArg_ParseTuple(): remove old and unused "O?" format 2010-05-27 http://bugs.python.org/issue8837 created haypo patch Remove codecs.readbuffer_encode() and codecs.charbuffer_encode 2010-05-27 http://bugs.python.org/issue8838 created haypo PyArg_ParseTuple(): remove "t# format 2010-05-27 http://bugs.python.org/issue8839 created haypo patch io.StringIO: truncate+print disabled in 3.1.2 2010-05-28 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8840 created tjreedy GetoptError strings should be localized 2010-05-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue8841 created richlowe sqlite3 library outdated in Windows builds 2010-05-28 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8842 created Marko.Kohtala urllib2 Digest Authorization uri must match request URI 2010-05-28 http://bugs.python.org/issue8843 created anelis patch Issues Now Closed (57) ______________________ _winreg.EnumValue sometimes raises WindowsError ("More data is 746 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2810 brian.curtin patch, needs review int() lies about base parameter 744 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2844 mark.dickinson patch SystemExit incorrectly displays unicode message 626 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3798 haypo patch cookielib chokes on non-integer cookie version, should ignore 608 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3924 georg.brandl patch Implement PEP 376 501 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4908 alexis patch Wrong print() result when unicode error handler is not 'strict 416 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5640 haypo patch CVE-2008-5983 python: untrusted python modules search path 402 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5753 pitrou patch Seeking to the beginning of a text file a second time will ret 345 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6268 haypo 2to3 fails to fix test.test_support 305 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6583 benjamin.peterson HTMLParser.HTMLParser doesn't handle malformed charrefs 291 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6662 haypo patch Sub-optimal "Locate" button behaviour in Windows CHM file 252 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6900 georg.brandl datetime operations spanning MINYEAR give bad results 224 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7150 belopolsky patch Struct incorrectly compiles format strings 184 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7355 mark.dickinson patch, easy A number tests "crash" if python is compiled --without-threads 13 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7449 haypo patch, easy, needs review Support for cp858 89 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8016 georg.brandl patch libffi update to 3.0.9 68 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8142 flox patch, buildbot urlparse has a duplicate of urllib.unquote 72 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8143 r.david.murray patch Unified hash for numeric types. 64 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8188 mark.dickinson patch siginterrupt with flag=False is reset when signal received 44 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8354 vila patch, needs review Make Context._clamp public in decimal module 26 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8540 mark.dickinson patch test/support: don't use localhost as IPv6 host name 25 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8598 haypo patch enumerate() docstring doesn't cover optional start argument 16 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8635 georg.brandl patch, easy enumerate() test cases do not cover optional start argument 19 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8636 mark.dickinson patch python3 FAQ mentions unicode() 10 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8694 georg.brandl Duplicated document in telnetlib. 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8707 georg.brandl patch, easy mention explicitly Windows support for os.devnull 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8709 georg.brandl patch bind_and_activate parameter is missed from directive 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8724 georg.brandl The Mapping ABC's __eq__ method should return NotImplemented i 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8729 benjamin.peterson patch Cruft in object.c: PyObject_GenericGetAttr 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8749 mark.dickinson Make 'python -m sysconfig' print something useful 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8770 tarek py3k: child process don't inherit stdout / stderr on Windows 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8780 haypo patch inspect.getsource returns invalid source for non-newline-endin 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8782 benjamin.peterson patch The external link to a "Hash Collision FAQ" points to some com 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8783 georg.brandl findall() and finditer() docs misleading 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8785 georg.brandl spam 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8789 mark.dickinson spam 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8790 mark.dickinson spam 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8791 mark.dickinson spam 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8794 mark.dickinson Error sending utf8 strings over syslog udp protocol 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8795 vinay.sajip about oa module 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8802 mark.dickinson about oa module 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8803 mark.dickinson ftplib should support SSL contexts 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8806 giampaolo.rodola patch Show package path in repr string for packages installed to use 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8812 srid 65001 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8815 haypo Add test cases for builtins 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8816 mark.dickinson patch Expose round-to-nearest division algorithm in Objects/longobje 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8817 mark.dickinson patch variable resolution within exec() incorrect 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8819 mark.dickinson int("0",0) throws exception 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8825 mark.dickinson poplib.POP3_SSL doesn't have an actual test suite 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8827 giampaolo.rodola Add nondestructive selection to sets 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8830 eric.smith Conflicting default values of parameter to __import__ 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8836 benjamin.peterson io.StringIO: truncate+print disabled in 3.1.2 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8840 pitrou sqlite3 library outdated in Windows builds 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8842 brian.curtin An inconsistency with nested scopes 2142 days http://bugs.python.org/issue991196 mark.dickinson Possible windows+python bug 1889 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1168427 tjreedy yday in datetime module 1552 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1436346 georg.brandl patch, needs review clean up Solaris port and allow C99 extension modules 1040 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1759169 loewis patch Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 21 datetime lacks concrete tzinfo impl. for UTC 485 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue5094 18 Remove codecs.readbuffer_encode() and codecs.charbuffer_encode( 1 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue8838 11 urlsplit and urlparse add extra slash when using scheme 3 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue8818 11 timedelta multiply and divide by floating point 1719 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue1289118 10 int("0",0) throws exception 2 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue8825 9 Atomic function to rename a file 2 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue8828 9 xz compressor support 284 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6715 9 please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarf 419 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue5689 8 Too narrow platform check in test_datetime 110 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue7879 7 ftplib should support SSL contexts 2 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue8806