[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

[Skip Montanaro]

Bug/Patch Summary
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308 open / 3075 total bugs (+3)
94 open / 1795 total patches (-7)

New Bugs
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Optional argument for dict.pop() method (2002-11-17)
	http://python.org/sf/639806
64-bit bug on AIX (2002-11-18)
	http://python.org/sf/639945
email.Header misparses mixed headers (2002-11-18)
	http://python.org/sf/640110
Discovered typo in zlib test. (2002-11-18)
	http://python.org/sf/640230
zlib.decompressobj under-described. (2002-11-18)
	http://python.org/sf/640236
Misuse of /usr/local/in setup.py (2002-11-19)
	http://python.org/sf/640553
Undocumented side effect of eval (2002-11-20)
	http://python.org/sf/641111
help() fails for some builtin topics (2002-11-21)
	http://python.org/sf/642168
pygettext should be installed (2002-11-22)
	http://python.org/sf/642309
metaclass causes __dict__ to be dict (2002-11-22)
	http://python.org/sf/642358
tempfile.mktemp() for directories (2002-11-22)
	http://python.org/sf/642391
better error reporting for MRO conflict (2002-11-22)
	http://python.org/sf/642489
Webbrowser (and ic) on MacOSX failure (2002-11-23)
	http://python.org/sf/642720
property() builtin not documented (2002-11-23)
	http://python.org/sf/642742
socket.inet_aton("255.255.255.255") (2002-11-24)
	http://python.org/sf/643005

New Patches
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Fix breakage caused when user sets OPT (2002-11-19)
	http://python.org/sf/640843
reST version of Lib/test/README (2002-11-20)
	http://python.org/sf/641170
Use .dylib for shared objects on MacOS X (2002-11-20)
	http://python.org/sf/641685
time and timetz for the datetime module (2002-11-21)
	http://python.org/sf/641958
optparse LaTeX docs (bug #638703) (2002-11-22)
	http://python.org/sf/642236
Expose PyImport_FrozenModules in imp (2002-11-22)
	http://python.org/sf/642578
logging SysLogHandler proto type wrong  (2002-11-23)
	http://python.org/sf/642974

Closed Bugs
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Circular reference makes Py_Init crash (2002-03-13)
	http://python.org/sf/529750
odd index entries (2002-06-17)
	http://python.org/sf/570003
smtplib.SMTP.ehlo method esmtp_features (2002-07-13)
	http://python.org/sf/581165
CRAM-MD5 module (2002-08-24)
	http://python.org/sf/599679
No __mod__ on str subclass (2002-09-27)
	http://python.org/sf/615506
plat-linux2/IN.py FutureWarning's (2002-10-03)
	http://python.org/sf/618012
imaplib fails with literals in LIST resp (2002-10-07)
	http://python.org/sf/619732
int(1e200) should return long (2002-11-07)
	http://python.org/sf/635115
re.sub() coerces u'' to '' (2002-11-08)
	http://python.org/sf/635398
Install script goes into infinite loop (2002-11-15)
	http://python.org/sf/639022
archiver should use zipfile before zip (2002-11-15)
	http://python.org/sf/639118

Closed Patches
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makes doctest.testmod() to work (2001-11-28)
	http://python.org/sf/486438
bugfix and extension to Lib/asyncore.py (2001-11-30)
	http://python.org/sf/487458
Improvements for pygettext (2001-12-18)
	http://python.org/sf/494845
native win32 threading primitives (2002-01-07)
	http://python.org/sf/500447
2.2 patches for BSD/OS 5.0 (2002-03-26)
	http://python.org/sf/535335
SocketServer behavior (2002-04-30)
	http://python.org/sf/550765
Support Unicode normalization (2002-10-21)
	http://python.org/sf/626485
Support Hangul Syllable names (2002-10-21)
	http://python.org/sf/626548
Plural forms support for gettext (2002-11-04)
	http://python.org/sf/633547
Allow any file-like object on dis module (2002-11-13)
	http://python.org/sf/637906
Logging 0.4.7 & patches thereto (2002-11-15)
	http://python.org/sf/638825
new string method -- format (2002-11-16)
	http://python.org/sf/639307
Removal of FreeBSD 5.0 specific test (2002-11-16)
	http://python.org/sf/639371
New icon for .py files (2002-11-17)
	http://python.org/sf/639635