[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

[Skip Montanaro]

Bug/Patch Summary
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318 open / 2981 total bugs (no change)
96 open / 1743 total patches (+4)

New Bugs
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email incompatibility upgrading to 2.2.2 (2002-10-20)
	http://python.org/sf/626119
missing DECREF's in embedding example (2002-10-21)
	http://python.org/sf/626275
Support RFC 2111 in email package (2002-10-21)
	http://python.org/sf/626452
urllib2 doesn't do HTTP-EQUIV & Refresh (2002-10-21)
	http://python.org/sf/626543
strptime() always returns 0 in dst field (2002-10-21)
	http://python.org/sf/626570
Build error using make VPATH feature (2002-10-22)
	http://python.org/sf/626926
canvas.create_box() crashes Tk thread (2002-10-22)
	http://python.org/sf/626936
KeyPress bindings don't work (2002-10-23)
	http://python.org/sf/627798
curses library not found during make (2002-10-23)
	http://python.org/sf/627864
Set constructor fails with NameError (2002-10-24)
	http://python.org/sf/628246
pydoc.Helper.topics not based on docs (2002-10-24)
	http://python.org/sf/628258
Deprecate PyNumber_Check (2002-10-25)
	http://python.org/sf/628842
pickle won't dump instances after reload (2002-10-25)
	http://python.org/sf/628925
Race condition in asyncore poll (2002-10-26)
	http://python.org/sf/629097
build does not respect --prefix (2002-10-27)
	http://python.org/sf/629345

New Patches
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db4 include not found (2002-08-02)
	http://python.org/sf/590377
Support Unicode normalization (2002-10-21)
	http://python.org/sf/626485
Support Hangul Syllable names (2002-10-21)
	http://python.org/sf/626548
Bytecode copy bug in freeze (2002-10-24)
	http://python.org/sf/627900
xmlrpclib: Optional 'nil' support  (2002-10-24)
	http://python.org/sf/628208
Experimental Inno Setup Win32 installer (2002-10-24)
	http://python.org/sf/628301
Detect BLT on more systems (2002-10-26)
	http://python.org/sf/629126
install lib-dynload .so files mode 555 (2002-10-26)
	http://python.org/sf/629278

Closed Bugs
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mac module documentation inaccuracy. (2002-01-17)
	http://python.org/sf/505150
ConfigParser bug/limitation (2002-02-01)
	http://python.org/sf/511737
ConfigParser cleanup, items() [needs tests] (2002-04-17)
	http://python.org/sf/545096
Nested anchors in Ref Man index.html (2002-04-20)
	http://python.org/sf/546579
Wrong description for PyErr_Restore (2002-07-03)
	http://python.org/sf/577000
PyString_AsString underdocumented (2002-09-08)
	http://python.org/sf/606463
packages doc in the tutorial (2002-09-29)
	http://python.org/sf/616211
PythonLauncher Dialogs do not work (2002-10-06)
	http://python.org/sf/619245
test_builtin hangs on MacOSX 10.2.1 (2002-10-06)
	http://python.org/sf/619400
sizeof(struct stat) changes (2002-10-10)
	http://python.org/sf/621523
urllib.pathname2url(), .url2pathname() (2002-10-14)
	http://python.org/sf/623196
Typo at line 351 of email/Charset.py (2002-10-18)
	http://python.org/sf/625509
IDE starts in / on OSX (2002-10-19)
	http://python.org/sf/625734

Closed Patches
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readline /dev/tty problem (2002-02-04)
	http://python.org/sf/512981
Installation database patch (2002-05-29)
	http://python.org/sf/562100
add unescape method to xml.sax.saxutils (2002-09-23)
	http://python.org/sf/613256
autoconf-2.5X tweaks for configure.in (2002-10-15)
	http://python.org/sf/623771