[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

[Skip Montanaro]

Bug/Patch Summary
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336 open / 3246 total bugs (-1)
109 open / 1923 total patches (+2)

New Bugs
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StringIO doc doesn't say it's sometimes read-only (2003-01-20)
	http://python.org/sf/671447
time module: time tuple not returned by certain functions (2003-01-21)
	http://python.org/sf/671731
Py_Main() does not perform to spec (2003-01-21)
	http://python.org/sf/672035
Three __contains__ implementations (2003-01-21)
	http://python.org/sf/672098
Assignment to __bases__ of direct object subclasses (2003-01-21)
	http://python.org/sf/672115
registry functions don't handle null characters (2003-01-21)
	http://python.org/sf/672132
2.3a1 computes lastindex incorrectly (2003-01-22)
	http://python.org/sf/672491
python -S still displays 'Type "help", "cop...' (2003-01-22)
	http://python.org/sf/672614
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
Access to serial devices through Carbon.CF (2003-01-25)
	http://python.org/sf/674574

New Patches
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Compile _randommodule.c and datetimemodule.c under cygwin (2003-01-20)
	http://python.org/sf/671176
test_pty hanging on hpux11 (2003-01-20)
	http://python.org/sf/671384
Optimize dictionary resizing (2003-01-20)
	http://python.org/sf/671454
Py_Main() removal of exit() calls. Return value instead (2003-01-21)
	http://python.org/sf/672053
securing pydoc server (2003-01-22)
	http://python.org/sf/672656
improve pydoc handling of extension types (2003-01-22)
	http://python.org/sf/672855
Expand dbshelve to have full shelve/dict interface (2003-01-24)
	http://python.org/sf/674396
test_htmlparser.py -- "," in attributes (2003-01-24)
	http://python.org/sf/674448

Closed Bugs
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test_unicode fails in wide unicode build (2002-05-11)
	http://python.org/sf/554916
inspect.getsource shows incorrect output (2002-08-14)
	http://python.org/sf/595018
logging package undocumented (2002-11-13)
	http://python.org/sf/637847
py_compile does not return error code (2002-12-13)
	http://python.org/sf/653301
typeobject provides incorrect __mul__ (2002-12-30)
	http://python.org/sf/660144
datetimetz constructors behave counterintuitively (2.3a1) (2003-01-01)
	http://python.org/sf/660872
test_httplib fails on the mac (2003-01-02)
	http://python.org/sf/661340
test_signal hang on some Solaris boxes (2003-01-05)
	http://python.org/sf/662787
test_bsddb3 fails when run directly (2003-01-08)
	http://python.org/sf/664581
test_ossaudiodev fails to run (2003-01-08)
	http://python.org/sf/664584
Py_NewInterpreter() doesn't work (2003-01-15)
	http://python.org/sf/668708
socket.inet_aton() succeeds on invalid input (2003-01-17)
	http://python.org/sf/669859

Closed Patches
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Use builtin boolean if present (2002-05-22)
	http://python.org/sf/559288
Better inspect.BlockFinder fixes bug (2002-11-06)
	http://python.org/sf/634557
general corrections to 2.2.2 refman, p.1 (2002-11-07)
	http://python.org/sf/634866
Filter unicode into unicode (2002-11-09)
	http://python.org/sf/636005
LaTeX documentation for logging package (2002-11-14)
	http://python.org/sf/638299
logging SysLogHandler proto type wrong (2002-11-23)
	http://python.org/sf/642974
fix memory (ref) leaks (2003-01-16)
	http://python.org/sf/669553
Patched test harness for logging (2003-01-18)
	http://python.org/sf/670390