[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

Skip Montanaro skip@mojam.com
Sun, 2 Jun 2002 07:00:18 -0500


Bug/Patch Summary
-----------------

263 open / 2539 total bugs (+8)
136 open / 1532 total patches (+8)

New Bugs
--------

crash in shelve module (2001-03-13)
	http://python.org/sf/408271
UTF-16 BOM handling counterintuitive (2002-05-13)
	http://python.org/sf/555360
import user doesn't work with CGIs (2002-05-14)
	http://python.org/sf/555779
removing extensions without admin rights (2002-05-14)
	http://python.org/sf/555810
installing extension w/o admin rights (2002-05-14)
	http://python.org/sf/555812
Flawed fcntl.ioctl implementation. (2002-05-14)
	http://python.org/sf/555817
Expat improperly described in setup.py (2002-05-15)
	http://python.org/sf/556370
illegal use of malloc/free (2002-05-16)
	http://python.org/sf/557028
TclError is a str should be an Exception (2002-05-17)
	http://python.org/sf/557436
netrc module can't handle all passwords (2002-05-18)
	http://python.org/sf/557704
faqwiz.py could do email obfuscation (2002-05-19)
	http://python.org/sf/558072
Compile error _sre.c on Cray T3E (2002-05-19)
	http://python.org/sf/558153
Shutdown of IDLE blows up (2002-05-19)
	http://python.org/sf/558166
rfc822.Message.get() incompatibility (2002-05-20)
	http://python.org/sf/558179
unittest.TestResult documentation (2002-05-20)
	http://python.org/sf/558278
\verbatiminput and name duplication (2002-05-20)
	http://python.org/sf/558279
DL_EXPORT on VC7 broken (2002-05-20)
	http://python.org/sf/558488
HTTPSConnection memory leakage (2002-05-22)
	http://python.org/sf/559117
imaplib.IMAP4.open() typo (2002-05-23)
	http://python.org/sf/559884
inconsistent behavior of __getslice__ (2002-05-24)
	http://python.org/sf/560064
PyType_IsSubtype can segfault (2002-05-24)
	http://python.org/sf/560215
Add docs for 'string' (2002-05-24)
	http://python.org/sf/560286
foo() doesn't use __getattribute__ (2002-05-25)
	http://python.org/sf/560438
deepcopy can't handle custom metaclasses (2002-05-26)
	http://python.org/sf/560794
Maximum recursion limit exceeded (2002-05-27)
	http://python.org/sf/561047
ConfigParser has_option case sensitive (2002-05-29)
	http://python.org/sf/561822
Assertion with very long lists (2002-05-29)
	http://python.org/sf/561858
test_signal.py fails on FreeBSD-4-stable (2002-05-29)
	http://python.org/sf/562188
build problems on DEC Unix 4.0f (2002-05-30)
	http://python.org/sf/562585
xmlrpclib.Binary.data undocumented (2002-05-31)
	http://python.org/sf/562878
Module can be used as a base class (2002-05-31)
	http://python.org/sf/563060
Clarify documentation for inspect (2002-06-01)
	http://python.org/sf/563273
Fuzziness in inspect module documentatio (2002-06-01)
	http://python.org/sf/563298
Heap corruption in debug (2002-06-01)
	http://python.org/sf/563303
Getting traceback in embedded python. (2002-06-01)
	http://python.org/sf/563338
Add separator argument to readline() (2002-06-02)
	http://python.org/sf/563491

New Patches
-----------

timeout socket implementation (2002-05-12)
	http://python.org/sf/555085
Mutable object change flag (2002-05-12)
	http://python.org/sf/555251
Cygwin AH_BOTTOM cleanup patch (2002-05-14)
	http://python.org/sf/555929
OSX build -- make python.app (2002-05-18)
	http://python.org/sf/557719
Ebcdic compliancy in stringobject source (2002-05-19)
	http://python.org/sf/557946
cmd.py: add instance-specific stdin/out (2002-05-20)
	http://python.org/sf/558544
SocketServer: don't flush closed wfile (2002-05-20)
	http://python.org/sf/558547
GC: untrack simple objects (2002-05-21)
	http://python.org/sf/558745
Use builtin boolean if present (2002-05-22)
	http://python.org/sf/559288
Expose xrange type in builtins (2002-05-23)
	http://python.org/sf/559833
isinstance error message (2002-05-24)
	http://python.org/sf/560250
os.uname() on Darwin space in machine (2002-05-24)
	http://python.org/sf/560311
Karatsuba multiplication (2002-05-24)
	http://python.org/sf/560379
Micro optimizations (2002-05-27)
	http://python.org/sf/561244
webchecker chokes at charsets. (2002-05-28)
	http://python.org/sf/561478
README additions for Cray T3E (2002-05-28)
	http://python.org/sf/561724
Installation database patch (2002-05-29)
	http://python.org/sf/562100
Getting rid of string, types and stat (2002-05-30)
	http://python.org/sf/562373
Prevent duplicates in readline history (2002-05-30)
	http://python.org/sf/562492
Add isxxx() methods to string objects (2002-05-30)
	http://python.org/sf/562501
First patch: start describing types... (2002-05-30)
	http://python.org/sf/562529
Remove UserDict from cookie.py (2002-05-31)
	http://python.org/sf/562987

Closed Bugs
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pdb can only step when at botframe (PR#4) (2000-07-31)
	http://python.org/sf/210682
Copy from stdout after crash (2001-11-29)
	http://python.org/sf/487297
detail: tp_basicsize and tp_itemsize (2001-12-12)
	http://python.org/sf/492349
Finder Tool Move not working on MOSX (2001-12-15)
	http://python.org/sf/493826
plugin project generation has problems (2001-12-18)
	http://python.org/sf/494572
Inaccuracy(?) in tutorial section 9.2 (2002-01-07)
	http://python.org/sf/500539
random.cunifvariate() incorrect? (2002-01-21)
	http://python.org/sf/506647
random.gammavariate hosed (2002-03-07)
	http://python.org/sf/527139
__reduce__ does not work as documented (2002-03-21)
	http://python.org/sf/533291
rexec: potential security hole (2002-03-22)
	http://python.org/sf/533625
Running MacPython as non-priv user may fail (2002-03-23)
	http://python.org/sf/534158
Compile fails on posixmodule.c (2002-04-10)
	http://python.org/sf/542003
Distutils readme outdated (2002-04-12)
	http://python.org/sf/542912
bug? floor divison on complex (2002-04-13)
	http://python.org/sf/543387
base64 newlines - documentation (again) (2002-04-22)
	http://python.org/sf/547037
cStringIO mangles Unicode (2002-04-23)
	http://python.org/sf/547537
Missing or wrong index entries (2002-04-25)
	http://python.org/sf/548693
Poor error message for float() (2002-05-02)
	http://python.org/sf/551673
PDF won't print (2002-05-03)
	http://python.org/sf/551828
"./configure" crashes (2002-05-06)
	http://python.org/sf/553000
cPickle dies on short reads (2002-05-07)
	http://python.org/sf/553512
bug in telnetlib- 'opt' instead of 'c' (2002-05-09)
	http://python.org/sf/554073
test_fcntl fails on OpenBSD 3.0 (2002-05-10)
	http://python.org/sf/554663
--disable-unicode builds horked (2002-05-11)
	http://python.org/sf/554912
rfc822.Message.getaddrlist broken (2002-05-11)
	http://python.org/sf/555035

Closed Patches
--------------

Reminder: 2.3 should check tp_compare (2001-10-18)
	http://python.org/sf/472523
foreign-platform newline support (2001-10-31)
	http://python.org/sf/476814
Cygwin setup.py import workaround patch (2001-12-10)
	http://python.org/sf/491107
Fix webbrowser running on MachoPython (2002-01-10)
	http://python.org/sf/502205
fix random.gammavariate bug #527139 (2002-03-13)
	http://python.org/sf/529408
force gzip to open files with 'b' (2002-03-28)
	http://python.org/sf/536278
context sensitive help/keyword search (2002-04-08)
	http://python.org/sf/541031
error about string formatting rewording? (2002-04-26)
	http://python.org/sf/549187
Unittest for base64 (2002-04-28)
	http://python.org/sf/550002
__doc__ strings of builtin types (2002-04-29)
	http://python.org/sf/550290
GC collection frequency bug (2002-05-03)
	http://python.org/sf/551915
Add degrees() & radians() to math module (2002-05-05)
	http://python.org/sf/552452
Cygwin Makefile.pre.in vestige patch (2002-05-08)
	http://python.org/sf/553678
OpenBSD fixes for Python 2.2 (2002-05-10)
	http://python.org/sf/554719