[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

[Skip Montanaro]

Bug/Patch Summary
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612 open / 4430 total bugs (+66)
219 open / 2498 total patches (+16)

New Bugs
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Over restricted type checking on eval() function (2000-09-22)
	http://python.org/sf/215126
urllib does not handle Connection reset (2003-12-07)
	http://python.org/sf/855819
urllib.py does not use "no_proxy" (2003-12-07)
	http://python.org/sf/856047
UserDict.DictMixin's comments should be a docstring (2003-12-07)
	http://python.org/sf/856072
reload() fails with modules from zips (2003-12-08)
	http://python.org/sf/856103
Definitive way to link to the correct Python.framework (2003-12-08)
	http://python.org/sf/856401
Framework Info.plist is out of date (2003-12-08)
	http://python.org/sf/856407
HTMLParser parsers AT&T to AT  (2003-12-08)
	http://python.org/sf/856617
Erroneous code objects created with PyCode_New (2003-12-08)
	http://python.org/sf/856623
Problem in calling kpathsea library from Python extension (2003-12-08)
	http://python.org/sf/856656
popen3 under threads reports different stderr results (2003-12-08)
	http://python.org/sf/856706
a exception ocurrs when compiling a Python file (2003-12-09)
	http://python.org/sf/856841
Tarfile and hard-links (2003-12-09)
	http://python.org/sf/857297
tempfile.mktemp() omits pid from name (2003-12-10)
	http://python.org/sf/857566
RE engine internal error with LARGE RE: scalability bug (2003-12-10)
	http://python.org/sf/857676
Remove notion of deprecated string.{atol,atof} functions (2003-12-10)
	http://python.org/sf/857821
ConfigParser bug (2003-12-10)
	http://python.org/sf/857881
bsddb craps out sporadically (2003-12-10)
	http://python.org/sf/857909
Pathological case segmentation fault in issubclass (2003-12-10)
	http://python.org/sf/858016
EAGAIN when sys.stdin.readline() (2003-12-11)
	http://python.org/sf/858253
typo in doc (2003-12-14)
	http://python.org/sf/859810
typo in docs (2003-12-14)
	http://python.org/sf/859811

New Patches
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Updates to the .spec file. (2003-12-07)
	http://python.org/sf/855999
zipimport.c is broken on 64-bit SusE AMD, here's a fix (2003-12-11)
	http://python.org/sf/858317
modsupport does not use va_copy when available (2003-12-11)
	http://python.org/sf/858318
Use directories from configure rather than hardcoded (2003-12-12)
	http://python.org/sf/858809
documentation bool change fix (2003-12-12)
	http://python.org/sf/859286
Get rid of compiler warnings on unicodeobject.c (2003-12-13)
	http://python.org/sf/859573

Closed Bugs
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infrequent memory leak in pyexpat (2001-04-15)
	http://python.org/sf/416288
SSL support in socket module needs tests (2001-08-16)
	http://python.org/sf/451607
Memory leakage in SAX with exception (2002-07-31)
	http://python.org/sf/589149
tokenize module w/ coding cookie (2003-04-11)
	http://python.org/sf/719888
Infinite Loop in RE (2003-06-12)
	http://python.org/sf/753711
test_sax fails on python 2.2.3 & patch for regrtest.py (2003-06-21)
	http://python.org/sf/758504
Old bsddb version picked by setup.py (2003-07-02)
	http://python.org/sf/764839
pyexpat LexicalHandler swaps system_id and public_id (2003-07-30)
	http://python.org/sf/780300
turtle.py deferres exec of stmnts with tracer(0) (2003-09-26)
	http://python.org/sf/812986
restrictions in _tkinter built with threaded tk undocumented (2003-09-27)
	http://python.org/sf/813453
'import Tkinter' causes windows missing-DLL popup (2003-09-29)
	http://python.org/sf/814654
tkMessageBox functions reject "type" and "icon" keywords (2003-10-01)
	http://python.org/sf/815924
cmath.log doesn't have the same interface as math.log. (2003-10-13)
	http://python.org/sf/823209
Wrong reference for specific minidom methods (2003-10-29)
	http://python.org/sf/832251
Please link modules with shared lib (2003-10-29)
	http://python.org/sf/832799
Mouse wheel crashes program (2003-11-01)
	http://python.org/sf/834351
Tk.quit and sys.exit cause Fatal Error (2003-11-06)
	http://python.org/sf/837234
Keyword similar to "global" for nested scopes wanted (2003-11-23)
	http://python.org/sf/847778
^$ won't split on empty line (2003-12-02)
	http://python.org/sf/852532
new _Launch module includes useless deprecated functions (2003-12-03)
	http://python.org/sf/853558

Closed Patches
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Fixes for 'commands' module on win32 (2003-04-01)
	http://python.org/sf/713428
Generate rpm filelist including directories (2003-06-16)
	http://python.org/sf/755286
timemodule.c: Python loses current timezone (2003-06-29)
	http://python.org/sf/762963
Fix for tkFont.Font(name=...) (2003-07-01)
	http://python.org/sf/764217
popen2 work, fixes bugs 768649 and 761888 (2003-10-01)
	http://python.org/sf/816059
ref. manual talks of 'sequence' instead of 'iterable' (2003-10-23)
	http://python.org/sf/829073
Avoid "apply" warnings in "logging", still works in 1.52 (2003-11-05)
	http://python.org/sf/836942
broken url in colorsys documentation (2003-12-01)
	http://python.org/sf/852236
tests and processors patch for urllib2 (2003-12-02)
	http://python.org/sf/852995
Tix hlist missing entry_configure and entry_cget methods (2003-12-03)
	http://python.org/sf/853488
fix typos (2003-12-05)
	http://python.org/sf/855195