[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

[Skip Montanaro]

Bug/Patch Summary
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451 open / 4024 total bugs (+22)
173 open / 2319 total patches (+5)

New Bugs
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patch for build with read-only $srcdir (2003-08-11)
	http://python.org/sf/786737
Solaris 2.5.1 _SC_PAGESIZE vs. _SC_PAGE_SIZE (2003-08-11)
	http://python.org/sf/786743
IDLE starts with no menus (Cygwin build of python2.3) (2003-08-11)
	http://python.org/sf/786827
re doesn't like (^$)* (2003-08-11)
	http://python.org/sf/786970
copy_reg globals in cPickle (2003-08-11)
	http://python.org/sf/787077
zipimport on meta_path fails with mutual importers (2003-08-11)
	http://python.org/sf/787113
compiler.compileFile fails on csv.py (2003-08-13)
	http://python.org/sf/788011
missing universal newline support in os.popen & friends (2003-08-13)
	http://python.org/sf/788035
build fails on Tru64 Unix (osf1V5) (2003-08-13)
	http://python.org/sf/788183
Unsupported 'locale' setting causes Idle to crash on startup (2003-08-13)
	http://python.org/sf/788378
bsddb btree set_location() semantics changed (2003-08-13)
	http://python.org/sf/788421
Cannot decode/encode anything! (2003-08-13)
	http://python.org/sf/788457
Queue class has logic error when non-blocking (2003-08-13)
	http://python.org/sf/788520
Closing dbenv first bsddb doesn't release locks & segfaults (2003-08-13)
	http://python.org/sf/788526
resolving relative paths for external entities with xml.sax (2003-08-14)
	http://python.org/sf/788931
Minor floatobject.c bug (2003-08-15)
	http://python.org/sf/789159
__getattr__ and metaclasses (2003-08-15)
	http://python.org/sf/789262
Minor FP bug in object.c (2003-08-15)
	http://python.org/sf/789290
Solaris Forte 7 &8 bug in test_long (2003-08-15)
	http://python.org/sf/789294
Memory leak on open() only in 2.3? (2003-08-15)
	http://python.org/sf/789402
CSV reader does not parse Mac line endings (2003-08-15)
	http://python.org/sf/789519
zappyfiles.py absent from MacPython binary (2003-08-15)
	http://python.org/sf/789545
"SetFrontProcess failed,-606" error for Tkinter under OS X (2003-08-16)
	http://python.org/sf/789926
access fails on Windows with Unicode file name (2003-08-17)
	http://python.org/sf/789995

New Patches
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os.path.exists should use os.access when possible (2003-08-10)
	http://python.org/sf/786237
test_largefile cleanup patch (2003-08-11)
	http://python.org/sf/786591
termios module on IRIX (2003-08-11)
	http://python.org/sf/787189
unittest.py: Custom TestRunners and --verbose (2003-08-12)
	http://python.org/sf/787789
explicitly provide a buffer in PyFile_SetBufSize() (2003-08-13)
	http://python.org/sf/788249
ignore "b" and "t" mode modifiers in posix_popen (2003-08-13)
	http://python.org/sf/788404
Glossary (2003-08-13)
	http://python.org/sf/788509
Allow os.access to handle Unicode file name (2003-08-17)
	http://python.org/sf/790000

Closed Bugs
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IDLE fails to launch if 2.3 is installed to "Program Files" (2003-07-30)
	http://python.org/sf/780451
2.3 web page link to 'New style classes' changes to 2.2.2 (2003-07-31)
	http://python.org/sf/781285
test_strptime fails with duplicate DST timezone name (2003-08-05)
	http://python.org/sf/783952
IDLE does not start for 2.3 on windows. (2003-08-06)
	http://python.org/sf/784183

Closed Patches
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Add use_default_colors support to curses module. (2003-05-17)
	http://python.org/sf/739124
Cygwin test_netrc open mode patch (2003-07-22)
	http://python.org/sf/775777
fix obscure crash in descriptor handling (2003-08-07)
	http://python.org/sf/784825