[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

[Skip Montanaro]

Bug/Patch Summary
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326 open / 3145 total bugs (+4)
104 open / 1855 total patches (+11)

New Bugs
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email: huge address lines blow stack (2002-12-15)
	http://python.org/sf/654362
make errors better like cgi (2002-12-16)
	http://python.org/sf/654558
asyncore.py and "handle_expt" (2002-12-16)
	http://python.org/sf/654766
doctest and exception messages (2002-12-16)
	http://python.org/sf/654783
datetime docs need review, LaTeX (2002-12-16)
	http://python.org/sf/654846
Slightly modify locals() doc? (2002-12-17)
	http://python.org/sf/655271
cPickle not always same as pickle (2002-12-18)
	http://python.org/sf/655802
binascii.a2b_base64 with non base64 data (2002-12-19)
	http://python.org/sf/656392
gettext.py crash on bogus preamble (2002-12-24)
	http://python.org/sf/658233
Accept None for time.ctime() and friends (2002-12-24)
	http://python.org/sf/658254
cPickle does relative import (2002-12-26)
	http://python.org/sf/658693
asyncore connect() and winsock errors (2002-12-26)
	http://python.org/sf/658749
no docs for HTMLParser.handle_pi (2002-12-27)
	http://python.org/sf/659188
'realpath' function missing from os.path (2002-12-27)
	http://python.org/sf/659228
optparse store_true uses 1 and 0 (2002-12-28)
	http://python.org/sf/659604

New Patches
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gzip shouldn't ValueError on corruptfile (2002-12-15)
	http://python.org/sf/654421
Fix bug in IE/CGI [bug 427345] (2002-12-16)
	http://python.org/sf/654910
commands.py for Windows (2002-12-17)
	http://python.org/sf/655421
Add warnings to unsafe Cookie classes (2002-12-18)
	http://python.org/sf/655760
/dev/ptmx support for ptys (cygwin) (2002-12-19)
	http://python.org/sf/656590
Documentation support for PEP 301 (2002-12-23)
	http://python.org/sf/658093
PEP 301 implementation (2002-12-23)
	http://python.org/sf/658094
Mersenne Twister (2002-12-24)
	http://python.org/sf/658251
skips.txt for regrtest.py (2002-12-24)
	http://python.org/sf/658316
Add inet_pton and inet_ntop to socket (2002-12-24)
	http://python.org/sf/658327
email: minimal header encoding (2002-12-24)
	http://python.org/sf/658407
Fix for bug 494589 (2002-12-25)
	http://python.org/sf/658599
regex fixes for _strptime (2002-12-26)
	http://python.org/sf/658820
posixpath missing getctime (2002-12-27)
	http://python.org/sf/658927
Use PyArg_UnpackTuple where possible (2002-12-28)
	http://python.org/sf/659536

Closed Bugs
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Python 2.1 installs shared libs with mode 0700 (2001-05-17)
	http://python.org/sf/425007
Left to right (2001-08-06)
	http://python.org/sf/448679
unreliable file.read() error handling (2002-02-23)
	http://python.org/sf/521782
lib-dynload/*.so wrong permissions (2002-07-17)
	http://python.org/sf/583206
property missing doc'd __name__ attr (2002-09-22)
	http://python.org/sf/612969
missing DECREF's in embedding example (2002-10-21)
	http://python.org/sf/626275
ftplib bails out on empty responses (2002-11-11)
	http://python.org/sf/636685
Undocumented side effect of eval (2002-11-20)
	http://python.org/sf/641111
property() builtin not documented (2002-11-23)
	http://python.org/sf/642742
.extend() doc, .__doc__ too restrictive (2002-11-29)
	http://python.org/sf/645777

Closed Patches
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install lib-dynload .so files mode 555 (2002-10-26)
	http://python.org/sf/629278
Fix for major rexec bugs (2002-11-11)
	http://python.org/sf/636769
Allow keyword args in dict.update() (2002-11-25)
	http://python.org/sf/643565
Set Next Statement for Python debuggers (2002-11-25)
	http://python.org/sf/643835