[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

Skip Montanaro skip@manatee.mojam.com
Sun, 8 Sep 2002 07:00:23 -0500


Bug/Patch Summary
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278 open / 2830 total bugs (-6)
115 open / 1686 total patches (-4)

New Bugs
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setting file buffer size is unreliable (2002-09-02)
	http://python.org/sf/603724
spurious SyntaxWarning (2002-09-03)
	http://python.org/sf/604036
time.struct_time undocumented (2002-09-03)
	http://python.org/sf/604128
long list in Pythonwin -> weird text (2002-09-03)
	http://python.org/sf/604387
faster [None]*n or []*n (2002-09-04)
	http://python.org/sf/604716
pre bug (2002-09-04)
	http://python.org/sf/604803
python-mode.el replaces function on f1 (2002-09-06)
	http://python.org/sf/605818
python-mode kills arrow in gdb (gud.el) (2002-09-08)
	http://python.org/sf/606250
elisp: doesn't recognize comment-syntax (2002-09-08)
	http://python.org/sf/606251
py-electric-colon & delete-selection-mod (2002-09-08)
	http://python.org/sf/606254

New Patches
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ccompiler argument checking too strict (2002-09-02)
	http://python.org/sf/603831
release GIL around getaddrinfo() (2002-09-03)
	http://python.org/sf/604210
For Bug [ 490168 ] shutil.copy(path, pat (2002-09-04)
	http://python.org/sf/604600
nntplib: group descriptions and RFC2980 (2002-09-05)
	http://python.org/sf/605370
Tweaks to calls to AH/Help (2002-09-07)
	http://python.org/sf/606067
fast dictionary lookup by name (2002-09-07)
	http://python.org/sf/606098
Mac OS X keydefs (2002-09-07)
	http://python.org/sf/606132
install_IDLE target in Mac/OSX/Makefile (2002-09-07)
	http://python.org/sf/606134

Closed Bugs
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Unicode in sys.path not supported (2001-10-30)
	http://python.org/sf/476326
PDB single steps list comprehensions (2002-02-28)
	http://python.org/sf/523995
surprise overriding __radd__ in subclass of complex (2002-03-18)
	http://python.org/sf/531355
import user doesn't work with CGIs (2002-05-14)
	http://python.org/sf/555779
whatsnew explains noargs incorrectly (2002-06-11)
	http://python.org/sf/567607
Invalid mmap crashes Python interpreter (2002-07-24)
	http://python.org/sf/585792
spawn*() doesn't handle errors well (2002-08-20)
	http://python.org/sf/597795
The KeyError message doesn't use repr on the key value reported (2002-08-21)
	http://python.org/sf/598451
Method resolution order in Py 2.2 - 2.3 (2002-08-23)
	http://python.org/sf/599452
bug in new execvpe (2002-08-27)
	http://python.org/sf/601077
xmlrpclib ignores CDATA (2002-08-28)
	http://python.org/sf/601534
some int results that should be bool (2002-08-29)
	http://python.org/sf/601775
smtplib mishandles empty sender (2002-08-29)
	http://python.org/sf/602029
configure finds c++ w/o --with-cxx (2002-08-29)
	http://python.org/sf/602102

Closed Patches
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unicode encoding error callbacks (2001-06-12)
	http://python.org/sf/432401
Pure Python strptime() (PEP 42) (2001-10-23)
	http://python.org/sf/474274
mimetypes: all extensions for a type (2002-05-09)
	http://python.org/sf/554192
socketmodule.[ch] downgrade (2002-08-09)
	http://python.org/sf/593069
email: RFC 2231 parameters encoding (2002-08-26)
	http://python.org/sf/600096
IDLE [Open module]: import submodules (2002-08-26)
	http://python.org/sf/600152
Robustness tweak to httplib.py (2002-08-26)
	http://python.org/sf/600488
obmalloc,structmodule: 64bit, big endian (2002-08-28)
	http://python.org/sf/601369
expose PYTHON_API_VERSION via sys (2002-08-28)
	http://python.org/sf/601456
replace_header method for Message class (2002-08-29)
	http://python.org/sf/601959
sys.path in user.py (2002-08-29)
	http://python.org/sf/602005
single shared ticker (2002-08-29)
	http://python.org/sf/602191