ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2010-05-07 - 2010-05-14) 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. 2678 open (+43) / 17853 closed (+23) / 20531 total (+66) Open issues with patches: 1090 Average duration of open issues: 722 days. Median duration of open issues: 495 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2658 (+43) languishing 12 ( +0) pending 7 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (72) _______________________________ __import__ with fromlist= 2010-05-08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2090 reopened brett.cannon patch SSL handshake fails after TCP connection in getpeername() 2010-05-07 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4171 reopened ddvoinikov A number tests "crash" if python is compiled --without-threads 2010-05-13 http://bugs.python.org/issue7449 reopened skrah patch, easy, needs review pep-0370 on osx duplicates existing functionality 2010-05-08 http://bugs.python.org/issue8084 reopened mark.dickinson patch, needs review, buildbot tiger buildbot: test_abspath_issue3426 failure (test_genericpa 2010-05-13 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8422 reopened flox buildbot PyUnicode_GetMax is undocumented 2010-05-07 http://bugs.python.org/issue8647 created stutzbach The UTF-7 codec functions are undocumented 2010-05-07 http://bugs.python.org/issue8648 created stutzbach Py_UNICODE_* functions are undocumented 2010-05-07 http://bugs.python.org/issue8649 created stutzbach zlibmodule.c isn't 64-bit clean 2010-05-07 http://bugs.python.org/issue8650 created pitrou "s#" and friends can silently truncate buffer length 2010-05-07 http://bugs.python.org/issue8651 created pitrou Minor improvements to the "Handling Exceptions" part of the tu 2010-05-07 http://bugs.python.org/issue8652 created marienz urlparse.urlparse/urlsplit doc missing 2010-05-07 http://bugs.python.org/issue8653 created dabrahams Improve ABI compatibility between UCS2 and UCS4 builds 2010-05-07 http://bugs.python.org/issue8654 created stutzbach patch Problem with getpeercert in the ssl module when retrieving cli 2010-05-07 http://bugs.python.org/issue8655 created Westly.Ward urllib2 mangles file://-scheme URLs 2010-05-08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8656 created dabrahams urlparse.urlunsplit should be smarter about + 2010-05-08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8657 created dabrahams patch urlparse.urlunsplit should be smarter about + and file urls 2010-05-08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8658 created orsenthil patch ABS(x) == 0 can be simplified to x == 0 2010-05-08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8659 created stutzbach patch, needs review py3k weakref documentation mentions the long built-in type 2010-05-08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8660 created durban FAQ item 2.25 is unclear 2010-05-08 http://bugs.python.org/issue8661 created exarkun bytes join cannot join bytes 2010-05-08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8662 created perey Failed compile in a non-ASCII path 2010-05-08 http://bugs.python.org/issue8663 created pitrou patch py_compile.compile() should consistently create parent directo 2010-05-08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8664 created Arfrever patch "make pycremoval" fails 2010-05-08 http://bugs.python.org/issue8665 created pitrou Allow ConfigParser.get*() to take a default value 2010-05-08 http://bugs.python.org/issue8666 created Gumnos patch Link to PEP 3147 from importlib docs 2010-05-08 http://bugs.python.org/issue8667 created brett.cannon easy add a 'develop' command 2010-05-09 http://bugs.python.org/issue8668 created meatballhat lack of bdist_rpm module raises error on 'setup.py --help-comm 2010-05-09 http://bugs.python.org/issue8669 created meatballhat c_types.c_wchar should not assume that sizeof(wchar_t) == size 2010-05-09 http://bugs.python.org/issue8670 created stutzbach patch A small erorr on http://docs.python.org/library/re.html 2010-05-09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8671 created bones7456 Error decompressing valid zlib data 2010-05-09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8672 created matthew.brett patch configure script doesn't recognize 10.5 SDK correctly 2010-05-10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8673 created ronaldoussoren audioop: incorrect integer overflow checks 2010-05-10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8674 created thoger patch audioop module needs an int -> Py_ssize_t upgrade 2010-05-10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8675 created mark.dickinson patch, easy Py3k Built-in Exceptions documentation mentions the raise stat 2010-05-10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8676 created durban Modules needing PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN 2010-05-10 http://bugs.python.org/issue8677 created pitrou crashers in rgbimg 2010-05-10 http://bugs.python.org/issue8678 created brett.cannon write a distutils to distutils2 converter 2010-05-10 http://bugs.python.org/issue8679 created tarek Add a sandbox in Distutils2 2010-05-10 http://bugs.python.org/issue8680 created tarek Make the zlib module emit more detailed error messages 2010-05-10 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8681 created pitrou patch _ssl.c uses PyWeakref_GetObject but doesn't incref result 2010-05-10 http://bugs.python.org/issue8682 created pitrou HPUX Segmentation fault in Modules/gcmodule.c -- if (!gc_list_ 2010-05-11 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8683 created srid improvements to sched.py 2010-05-11 http://bugs.python.org/issue8684 created josiahcarlson patch, patch, needs review set(range(100000)).difference(set()) is slow 2010-05-11 http://bugs.python.org/issue8685 created spiv patch "This isn't defined beyond that" phrase is not friendly to non 2010-05-11 http://bugs.python.org/issue8686 created naoki sched.py module doesn't have a test suite 2010-05-11 http://bugs.python.org/issue8687 created giampaolo.rodola patch distutils sdist is too laze w.r.t. recalculating MANIFEST 2010-05-11 http://bugs.python.org/issue8688 created ronaldoussoren sqlite3 parameter substitution breaks with multiple parameters 2010-05-11 http://bugs.python.org/issue8689 created azriphale multiprocessing.dummy.Queue does not expose same interface as 2010-05-11 http://bugs.python.org/issue8690 created Jason.Baker Doc: left alignment is not the default for numbers 2010-05-11 http://bugs.python.org/issue8691 created tjreedy Use divide-and-conquer for faster factorials 2010-05-11 http://bugs.python.org/issue8692 created stutzbach patch, patch, needs review Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams 2010-05-12 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8693 reopened mbnoimi python3 FAQ mentions unicode() 2010-05-12 http://bugs.python.org/issue8694 created ohnobinki Issue while installing Python 2.6.5 in IBM AIX 6.1 2010-05-12 http://bugs.python.org/issue8695 created senthil_l PEP 391: Adding documentation of logging.config.dictConfig 2010-05-12 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8696 created akuchling patch PEP 391: Adding documentation of logging.config.dictConfig 2010-05-12 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8697 created akuchling patch, needs review PEP 391: Adding documentation of logging.config.dictConfig 2010-05-12 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8698 created akuchling patch, needs review Equality and hashing for functools.partial 2010-05-12 http://bugs.python.org/issue8699 created durban patch strip() is removing an extra character if the strip pattern co 2010-05-12 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8700 created Balachander.Ganesan tarfile: first character of member names doubled 2010-05-12 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8701 created pooryorick difflib: unified_diff produces wrong patches (again) 2010-05-13 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8702 created techtonik easy Py3k PyList_Type documentation mentions types.ListType 2010-05-13 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8703 created durban cgitb sends a bogus HTTP header if the app crashes before fini 2010-05-13 http://bugs.python.org/issue8704 created stutzbach easy shutil.rmtree with empty filepath 2010-05-13 http://bugs.python.org/issue8705 created dbkoch accept keyword arguments on all base type methods and builtins 2010-05-13 http://bugs.python.org/issue8706 created gregory.p.smith Duplicated document in telnetlib. 2010-05-13 http://bugs.python.org/issue8707 created naoki OpenID blunder 2010-05-14 http://bugs.python.org/issue8708 created Jack.Diederich mention explicitly Windows support for os.devnull 2010-05-14 http://bugs.python.org/issue8709 created akira patch test_xpickle: compat tests: workaround for missing test_suppor 2010-05-14 http://bugs.python.org/issue8710 created skrah Document PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() and PyUnicode_DecodeFSDef 2010-05-14 http://bugs.python.org/issue8711 created haypo patch Skip libpthread related test failures on OpenBSD 2010-05-14 http://bugs.python.org/issue8712 created skrah patch, needs review bdist_deb - Debian packager 2010-05-07 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue1054967 reopened merwok patch Issues Now Closed (54) ______________________ cmath is numerically unsound 920 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1381 bins patch test_uuid is warning about unreliable functions 904 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1481 skrah patch Add a factorial function 786 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2138 mark.dickinson Py_FatalError causes infinite loop 632 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3605 jyasskin needs review SSL handshake fails after TCP connection in getpeername() 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4171 pitrou {context,unified}_diff add spurious trailing whitespace if fro 490 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4898 r.david.murray patch Implement PEP 376 484 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4908 tarek patch subprocess.Popen.__del__ causes AttributeError (os module == N 469 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5099 brett.cannon patch, needs review test_smtplib fails on os x 10.6 220 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7040 giampaolo.rodola difflib should separate filename from timestamp with tab 137 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7585 techtonik patch unittest: allow an 'import_path' as an alternative to 'top_lev 103 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7780 michael.foord Provide unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches 67 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8038 michael.foord patch Python 3.1.2rc1 doesn't compile using the 10.4 sdk on a 10.6 M 62 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8126 ronaldoussoren Putting a function in a unittest.TestSuite doesn't work 35 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8301 michael.foord python -m unittest -h and python -m unittest discover -h messa 37 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8303 michael.foord siginterrupt with flag=False is reset when signal received 30 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8354 exarkun patch, needs review tiger buildbot: test_abspath_issue3426 failure (test_genericpa 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8422 haypo buildbot openssl version detection doesn't work properly when using OSX 20 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8444 ronaldoussoren asyncore test suite 19 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8490 giampaolo.rodola patch, patch update to autoconf2.65 18 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8510 mark.dickinson patch, needs review Add fsencode() functions to os module 15 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8514 haypo patch unittest test discovery can fail when package under test is al 11 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8547 michael.foord zlib causes a SystemError when decompressing a chunk >1GB 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8571 pitrou patch Update/reorganize _winreg documentation 12 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8575 brian.curtin patch, patch, needs review test_urllib2.py test failures on Py3K Mac OS X 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8588 mark.dickinson enumerate() test cases do not cover optional start argument 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8636 benjamin.peterson patch json.loads description 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8642 georg.brandl patch timedelta.total_seconds needlessly inaccurate, especially for 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8644 mark.dickinson patch urllib2 mangles file://-scheme URLs 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8656 orsenthil urlparse.urlunsplit should be smarter about + 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8657 orsenthil patch urlparse.urlunsplit should be smarter about + and file urls 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8658 orsenthil patch ABS(x) == 0 can be simplified to x == 0 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8659 mark.dickinson patch, needs review py3k weakref documentation mentions the long built-in type 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8660 benjamin.peterson bytes join cannot join bytes 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8662 perey py_compile.compile() should consistently create parent directo 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8664 benjamin.peterson patch A small erorr on http://docs.python.org/library/re.html 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8671 eric.smith Error decompressing valid zlib data 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8672 pitrou patch configure script doesn't recognize 10.5 SDK correctly 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8673 ronaldoussoren audioop: incorrect integer overflow checks 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8674 mark.dickinson patch audioop module needs an int -> Py_ssize_t upgrade 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8675 mark.dickinson patch, easy Py3k Built-in Exceptions documentation mentions the raise stat 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8676 benjamin.peterson Make the zlib module emit more detailed error messages 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8681 pitrou patch HPUX Segmentation fault in Modules/gcmodule.c -- if (!gc_list_ 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8683 pitrou Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8693 mbnoimi PEP 391: Adding documentation of logging.config.dictConfig 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8696 akuchling patch PEP 391: Adding documentation of logging.config.dictConfig 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8697 akuchling patch, needs review PEP 391: Adding documentation of logging.config.dictConfig 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8698 meatballhat patch, needs review strip() is removing an extra character if the strip pattern co 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8700 r.david.murray tarfile: first character of member names doubled 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8701 pooryorick difflib: unified_diff produces wrong patches (again) 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8702 mark.dickinson easy Py3k PyList_Type documentation mentions types.ListType 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue8703 benjamin.peterson Carbon Event ReceiveNextEvent 2479 days http://bugs.python.org/issue779285 tjreedy bdist_deb - Debian packager 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1054967 tarek patch update urlparse to RFC 3986 1280 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1591035 orsenthil easy Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 45 Use divide-and-conquer for faster factorials 3 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue8692 25 Improve ABI compatibility between UCS2 and UCS4 builds 7 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue8654 14 Failed compile in a non-ASCII path 6 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue8663 11 let's equip ftplib.FTP with __enter__ and __exit__ 482 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4972 10 add a distutils test command 39 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue8324 10 cookielib doesn't handle URLs with / in parameters 625 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue3704 9 Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams 0 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue8693 9 timedelta.total_seconds needlessly inaccurate, especially for n 2 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue8644 9 update to autoconf2.65 18 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue8510 9 input() doesn't catch _PyUnicode_AsString() exception; io.Strin 47 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue8256