[Python-Dev] Low hanging fruit

[Guido van Rossum]

> Here's the lowest hanging fruit I could find.  Maybe some of these
> can be fixed/closed:
> 
> These bugs/patches seem quite easy to close/fix based on last comment:
>     http://python.org/sf/464405 - freeze doesn't like DOS files on Linux
>     http://python.org/sf/534669 - remember to sync trees
>     http://python.org/sf/599836 - Bugfix for urllib2.py
>                 this is closed, but should urllib also be fixed?
>     http://python.org/sf/626570 - strptime() always returns 0 in dst field
>     http://python.org/sf/627900 - Bytecode copy bug in freeze
>     http://python.org/sf/618146 - overflow error in calendar module
>     http://python.org/sf/569668 - LINKCC incorrectly set
> 
> These bugs/patches may be relatively easy fix:
>     http://python.org/sf/527521 - httplib strict mode fails in 2.2.2
>     http://python.org/sf/570655 - bdist_rpm and the changelog option
>     http://python.org/sf/622537 - dummy_thread.py implementation
>     http://python.org/sf/623464 - tempfile crashes
>     http://python.org/sf/622831 - textwrap fails on unicode using defaults
>                 (didn't Greg have the fix on python-dev?)
>     http://python.org/sf/622849 - inconsistent results 
>                                   of leading whitespace in textwrap input
>     http://python.org/sf/630195 - bdist_rpm target breaks with rpm 4.1
>     http://python.org/sf/594893 - printing email object deletes whitespace

Are you asking for permission to fix them?  I haven't looked at these
specifically, but I can't imagine what would stop you.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)