[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

Skip Montanaro skip@mojam.com
Sun, 29 Jun 2003 07:00:19 -0500


Bug/Patch Summary
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359 open / 3765 total bugs (no change)
162 open / 2241 total patches (no change)

New Bugs
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inspect.getmembers broken (?) (2003-06-23)
	http://python.org/sf/759525
asyncore.py and "handle_error" (2003-06-25)
	http://python.org/sf/760475
Tutorial: executable scripts on Windows (2003-06-25)
	http://python.org/sf/760657
tkMessageBox.askyesnocancel missing (2003-06-26)
	http://python.org/sf/761144
Failure in comparing unicode string (2003-06-26)
	http://python.org/sf/761267
HTMLParser chokes on my.yahoo.com output (2003-06-26)
	http://python.org/sf/761452
readline()/readlines() (2003-06-27)
	http://python.org/sf/761787
popen2.Popen3 and popen2.Popen4 leaks filedescriptors (2003-06-27)
	http://python.org/sf/761888
PackMan needs to be able to install outside site-packages (2003-06-27)
	http://python.org/sf/762147
bug in signal.signal -- raises SystemError (2003-06-27)
	http://python.org/sf/762198
Python segfaults when sys.stdout is changed in getattr (2003-06-28)
	http://python.org/sf/762455
problem building c extension with minGW on Windows (2003-06-29)
	http://python.org/sf/762614

New Patches
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extending readline functionality (2003-01-27)
	http://python.org/sf/675551
curses has_key emulation fix (2003-06-23)
	http://python.org/sf/759208
add time elapsed to gc debug output (2003-06-25)
	http://python.org/sf/760990
adding BaseSet.filter and Set.filter_update (2003-06-26)
	http://python.org/sf/761104
DISTUTILS_DEBUG undocumented (2003-06-26)
	http://python.org/sf/761401
readline module that checks signals (2003-06-27)
	http://python.org/sf/761863
patch against readline module to handle signals (2003-06-27)
	http://python.org/sf/761865
-DPIC should be added for the -fPIC case (2003-06-27)
	http://python.org/sf/761969
pep-283 outdated (2003-06-28)
	http://python.org/sf/762502

Closed Bugs
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'testlist" undefined in grammar (2002-05-04)
	http://python.org/sf/552262
inspect and object instances (2002-10-08)
	http://python.org/sf/620190
Tutorial: info on Source Code Encoding is missing (2003-02-09)
	http://python.org/sf/683486
How to make a class iterable using a member generator. (2003-03-03)
	http://python.org/sf/696777
os.utime can fail with TypeError (2003-03-13)
	http://python.org/sf/703066
Broken links for grammar in docs (2003-04-23)
	http://python.org/sf/726150
What's new in Python2.3b1 HTML generation. (2003-04-28)
	http://python.org/sf/729297
Python-Profiler bug: Bad call (2003-05-28)
	http://python.org/sf/744841
threads broke on FreeBSD current (2003-05-28)
	http://python.org/sf/745320
make test errors Tru64 UNIX V5.1A (2003-06-02)
	http://python.org/sf/747460
Need to register PythonLauncher as handler for .py (2003-06-19)
	http://python.org/sf/757542
logging module docs (2003-06-20)
	http://python.org/sf/757821
Additional index items, other minor details (2003-06-20)
	http://python.org/sf/757822
socket timeout exception unhelpful (2003-06-20)
	http://python.org/sf/758239

Closed Patches
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improve pydoc handling of extension types (2003-01-22)
	http://python.org/sf/672855
Several objects don't decref tmp on failure in subtype_new (2003-03-14)
	http://python.org/sf/703666
Patch to make shlex accept escaped quotes in strings. (2003-04-12)
	http://python.org/sf/720329
Trivial improvement to NameError message (2003-05-12)
	http://python.org/sf/736730
Port tests to unittest (Part 2) (2003-05-13)
	http://python.org/sf/736962
'compiler' module bug with 'import foo.bar as baz' (2003-06-06)
	http://python.org/sf/750008
Handle keyboard interrupts in SSL module (2003-06-10)
	http://python.org/sf/751916
Enhance xrange description by mentioning itertools.repeat (2003-06-14)
	http://python.org/sf/754632
re reads an uninitialized memory (2003-06-17)
	http://python.org/sf/756032
test_itertools for roundrobin() and window() (2003-06-17)
	http://python.org/sf/756255
Bare except in ZipFile.testzip() (2003-06-18)
	http://python.org/sf/756996