[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

[Skip Montanaro]

Bug/Patch Summary
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377 open / 3868 total bugs (+4)
165 open / 2283 total patches (+2)

New Bugs
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incorrect os.path.supports_unicode_filenames (2003-07-08)
	http://python.org/sf/767645
memory leak in pickle/cPickle [2.2.3] (2003-07-14)
	http://python.org/sf/770997
pydoc.TextDoc raises for some kinds of objects (2003-07-14)
	http://python.org/sf/771334
Signals discard one level of exception handling (2003-07-14)
	http://python.org/sf/771429
pyconfig.h duplicates common defines (2003-07-15)
	http://python.org/sf/771479
doctest.DocTestSuite does not support __test__ (2003-07-15)
	http://python.org/sf/772091
digraphs on komment lines / xlib (2003-07-16)
	http://python.org/sf/772176
right button context 'edit with idle' (2003-07-16)
	http://python.org/sf/772787
unknown encoding -> MemoryError (2003-07-17)
	http://python.org/sf/772896
nconsistant results for os.listdir,os.path.isdir on W2k  (2003-07-17)
	http://python.org/sf/773286
Dubious use of Unicode literals in tutorial (2003-07-17)
	http://python.org/sf/773351
posix needs to generate unicode filenames where necessary (2003-07-17)
	http://python.org/sf/773356
2.3b2 pimp.py calls non-existent routine (2003-07-17)
	http://python.org/sf/773450
XP manifest files should be installed (2003-07-19)
	http://python.org/sf/774188
2.3c1 readme unparseable sentence (2003-07-20)
	http://python.org/sf/774480
UnicodeError (2003-07-20)
	http://python.org/sf/774536

New Patches
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HTMLParser.py - more robust SCRIPT tag parsing (2003-01-19)
	http://python.org/sf/670664
test_htmlparser -- more robust SCRIPT tag handling (2003-01-24)
	http://python.org/sf/674449
Fix for LD_LIBRARY_PATH inheritance on SunOS when -shared (2003-07-15)
	http://python.org/sf/771998
Make commands.getstatusoutput work on Windows (2003-07-15)
	http://python.org/sf/772029
small fix for setup.py (2003-07-15)
	http://python.org/sf/772077
Updated 2.2.3 .spec file. (2003-07-16)
	http://python.org/sf/772696
update old urls (2003-07-17)
	http://python.org/sf/773007
pimp.py incorrect dict test (2003-07-17)
	http://python.org/sf/773448
2.3c1: zipfile.py confused by garbage at the very end of zip (2003-07-19)
	http://python.org/sf/774221
Add a stream type and a merge type to itertoolsmodule.c (2003-07-19)
	http://python.org/sf/774414

Closed Bugs
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In 2.2, types are callable (2001-08-21)
	http://python.org/sf/453683
Import statement Index ref. broken (2002-02-17)
	http://python.org/sf/518989
linuxaudiodev not documented (2002-09-17)
	http://python.org/sf/610401
expat causes a core dump (2002-10-29)
	http://python.org/sf/630494
dumbdbm __del__ bug (2003-03-12)
	http://python.org/sf/702775
weakref: proxy_print and proxy_repr incons. (2003-04-16)
	http://python.org/sf/722763
Section 13.3: htmllib.HTMLParser constructor definition amen (2003-05-15)
	http://python.org/sf/738090
Failures in test_macostools (2003-06-30)
	http://python.org/sf/763708
test_bsddb3 crashes if run after test_locale (2003-07-01)
	http://python.org/sf/763928
Odd behavior in the file object (2003-07-09)
	http://python.org/sf/768698
Droplets aren't always recognized as apps in MacPython 2.3b2 (2003-07-10)
	http://python.org/sf/769406
"make info" croaks (2003-07-11)
	http://python.org/sf/769861
classmethod(classmethod(foo)) -> SystemError (2003-07-13)
	http://python.org/sf/770465

Closed Patches
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patch for new func. string.findall (2003-01-27)
	http://python.org/sf/675864
SimpleXMLRPCServer: optional 'encoding' argument (2003-02-03)
	http://python.org/sf/679392
Describe formation of method objects more accurately (2003-06-04)
	http://python.org/sf/749012
Using __slots__ with str derived classes can cause segfault (2003-06-20)
	http://python.org/sf/757997
3 bugs fixed: handling of SyntaxErrors in symbol table build (2003-06-30)
	http://python.org/sf/763201
Unicode strings in sys.path (2003-07-02)
	http://python.org/sf/764594
fix fnmatch.__all__ (2003-07-03)
	http://python.org/sf/765238
Warning 'assignment shadows builtin' __builtins__ fix (2003-07-09)
	http://python.org/sf/768442