[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

Sun, 9 Feb 2003 07:00:20 -0600

Bug/Patch Summary
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336 open / 3310 total bugs (-15)
123 open / 1962 total patches (+2)

New Bugs
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Security review of pickle/marshal docs (2001-10-16)
	http://python.org/sf/471893
long(3.1415) gives zero on Solaris 8 (2003-02-03)
	http://python.org/sf/679520
Header loses lines, formats strangely (2003-02-03)
	http://python.org/sf/679827
'compile' refuses BOM. (2003-02-03)
	http://python.org/sf/679880
zipfile.py - pack filesize as unsigned allows files > 2 gig (2003-02-03)
	http://python.org/sf/679953
Incorrect permissions set in lib-dynload. (2003-02-04)
	http://python.org/sf/680379
__module__ broken for extension classes (2003-02-04)
	http://python.org/sf/680429
urllib2 authentication problem (2003-02-04)
	http://python.org/sf/680577
repr() of large array objects takes quadratic time (2003-02-05)
	http://python.org/sf/680789
C subtypes do not inherit tp_as_buffer (2003-02-05)
	http://python.org/sf/681367
Source encoding rules are extreme. (2003-02-06)
	http://python.org/sf/681960
Carbon.CF.CFString should require ASCII (2003-02-07)
	http://python.org/sf/682215
plistlib.py selftest fails (2003-02-07)
	http://python.org/sf/682317
email: preamble must be \n terminated (2003-02-07)
	http://python.org/sf/682504
urllib2 HTTPDigestAuthHandler misnamed class attr (2003-02-07)
	http://python.org/sf/682648
dircache.listdir doesn't signal error (2003-02-08)
	http://python.org/sf/682813
gzip module cannot write large files (2003-02-08)
	http://python.org/sf/683061

New Patches
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xmlrpclib: better string encoding in responce package (2003-02-03)
	http://python.org/sf/679383
SimpleXMLRPCServer: optional 'encoding' argument (2003-02-03)
	http://python.org/sf/679392
Deprecate rotor module (2003-02-03)
	http://python.org/sf/679505
Fix for the bug #679880: 'compile' refuses BOM. (2003-02-04)
	http://python.org/sf/680474
replace() method in unicode objects (2003-02-05)
	http://python.org/sf/680863
Tiny patch for bug 612074: sre unicode escapes (2003-02-05)
	http://python.org/sf/681152
using gcc on cygwin for config (2003-02-05)
	http://python.org/sf/681504
smtpd.py move setuid, allow dashes (2003-02-05)
	http://python.org/sf/681515
Faster commonprefix (OS independent) (2003-02-06)
	http://python.org/sf/681780
bundlebuilder: Add dylibs, frameworks to the bundle (2003-02-06)
	http://python.org/sf/681927
lookbehind tests (2003-02-07)
	http://python.org/sf/682432
Optional output streams for dis (2003-02-08)
	http://python.org/sf/683074
Patch for bug 580952: import lock should be exposed (2003-02-08)
	http://python.org/sf/683257

Closed Bugs
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pydoc should be integrated with HTML doc (2001-03-02)
	http://python.org/sf/405554
sdist can't create empty directories (2001-04-02)
	http://python.org/sf/413144
urllib and socket fail with MS proxy (2001-05-23)
	http://python.org/sf/426866
distutils does not deduce dependencies (2001-10-19)
	http://python.org/sf/472881
popen3 file objects hanging (2001-11-14)
	http://python.org/sf/481896
python 2.2 shelve (2002-01-16)
	http://python.org/sf/504282
pydoc fails to generate html doc (2002-02-07)
	http://python.org/sf/514627
Interpreter crashes when recoding (2002-04-13)
	http://python.org/sf/543344
Inconsistent behaviour in re grouping (2002-07-01)
	http://python.org/sf/576079
Subclassing WeakValueDictionary impossib (2002-07-11)
	http://python.org/sf/580107
add way to detect bsddb version (2002-07-21)
	http://python.org/sf/584409
SMTP.login() uses invalid base64 enc. (2002-09-18)
	http://python.org/sf/611052
help(UNICODE) -- reference page missing (2002-10-17)
	http://python.org/sf/624860
Move bdist_wininst source code into PC (2002-11-14)
	http://python.org/sf/638595
Discovered typo in zlib test. (2002-11-18)
	http://python.org/sf/640230
help() fails for some builtin topics (2002-11-21)
	http://python.org/sf/642168
typeobject provides incorrect __mul__ (2002-12-30)
	http://python.org/sf/660144
urllib2 exceptions need improvement (2003-01-04)
	http://python.org/sf/662099
Crash in binascii_a2b_uu (2003-01-09)
	http://python.org/sf/665460
'help' makes linefeed only under Win32 (2003-01-11)
	http://python.org/sf/666444
Abort with "negative ref count" (2003-01-15)
	http://python.org/sf/668433
time module: time tuple not returned by certain functions (2003-01-21)
	http://python.org/sf/671731
setting socket timeout crashes SSL? (2003-01-23)
	http://python.org/sf/673797
re.compile fails for verbose re with more than one group (2003-01-24)
	http://python.org/sf/674264
os.environ leaks under FreeBSD and Mac OS X (2003-01-26)
	http://python.org/sf/675259
BaseHTTPServer; HTTP/1.1 spec not "vague" (2003-01-28)
	http://python.org/sf/676273
BaseHTTPServer incorrectly parses protocol (2003-01-28)
	http://python.org/sf/676292
after using pdb readline does not work correctly (2003-01-28)
	http://python.org/sf/676342
add warning to os.getlogin (2003-01-31)
	http://python.org/sf/678077
list.append memory leak ? (2003-01-31)
	http://python.org/sf/678352
test_long fails (2003-01-31)
	http://python.org/sf/678375

Closed Patches
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start docs for PyEval_* functions (2002-04-12)
	http://python.org/sf/543098
cmd.py: add instance-specific stdin/out (2002-05-20)
	http://python.org/sf/558544
PEP 269 Implementation (2002-08-23)
	http://python.org/sf/599331
build_ext forgets libraries par w MSVC (2002-08-28)
	http://python.org/sf/601314
Modulefinder doesn't handle PyXML (2002-11-13)
	http://python.org/sf/637835
PEP 298 implementation (2002-12-12)
	http://python.org/sf/652857
gzip shouldn't ValueError on corruptfile (2002-12-15)
	http://python.org/sf/654421
apply() should get PendingDeprecation (2003-01-02)
	http://python.org/sf/661437
distutils config exe_extension on Mac OS X, Linux (2003-01-07)
	http://python.org/sf/664131
Expand dbshelve to have full shelve/dict interface (2003-01-24)
	http://python.org/sf/674396
Cygwin _tkinter Tcl/Tk 8.4 patch (2003-01-29)
	http://python.org/sf/676835
zlib module needs decompress flush. (2003-01-31)
	http://python.org/sf/678531
Use ifilter in sets module (2003-02-01)
	http://python.org/sf/678899