[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

[Skip Montanaro]

Bug/Patch Summary
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590 open / 4387 total bugs (+63)
207 open / 2476 total patches (+28)

New Bugs
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XMLGenerator.startElementNS dies on EMPTY_NAMESPACE attribut (2003-11-23)
	http://python.org/sf/847665
Keyword similar to "global" for nested scopes wanted (2003-11-23)
	http://python.org/sf/847778
64 bit solaris versus /usr/local/lib (2003-11-23)
	http://python.org/sf/847812
4.2.6 (re) Examples: float regexp exponential on failure (2003-11-24)
	http://python.org/sf/848556
couple of new list.sort bugs (2003-11-25)
	http://python.org/sf/848856
Windows installer halts (2003-11-25)
	http://python.org/sf/848871
pydoc crash on MacOS X (2003-11-25)
	http://python.org/sf/848907
gzip.GzipFile is slow (2003-11-25)
	http://python.org/sf/849046
Request: getpos() for sgmllib (2003-11-25)
	http://python.org/sf/849097
ZipInfo shows incorrect file size for large files (2003-11-25)
	http://python.org/sf/849218
reading shelves is really slow (2003-11-26)
	http://python.org/sf/849662
unclear documentation/missing command? (2003-11-27)
	http://python.org/sf/850238
Typo in Popen3 description (2003-11-28)
	http://python.org/sf/850818
Doc/README has broken link (2003-11-28)
	http://python.org/sf/850823
optparse: OptionParser.__init__'s "prog" argument ignored (2003-11-28)
	http://python.org/sf/850964
test_poll fails in 2.3.2 on MacOSX(Panther) (2003-11-28)
	http://python.org/sf/850981
mbcs encoding ignores errors (2003-11-28)
	http://python.org/sf/850997
building on Fedora Core 1 (2003-11-28)
	http://python.org/sf/851020
winreg can segfault (2003-11-28)
	http://python.org/sf/851056
shutil.copy destroys hard links (2003-11-29)
	http://python.org/sf/851123
Item out of order on builtin function page (2003-11-29)
	http://python.org/sf/851152
Bug tracker page asks for login even when logged in (2003-11-29)
	http://python.org/sf/851156
New-style classes with __eq__ but not __hash__ are hashable (2003-11-29)
	http://python.org/sf/851449

New Patches
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Port tests to unittest (Part 2) (2003-05-13)
	http://python.org/sf/736962
SimpleHTTPServer reports wrong content-length for text files (2003-11-10)
	http://python.org/sf/839496
Extend struct.unpack to produce nested tuples (2003-11-23)
	http://python.org/sf/847857
Cookie.py: One step closer to RFC 2109 (2003-11-23)
	http://python.org/sf/848017
Flakey urllib2.parse_http_list (2003-11-25)
	http://python.org/sf/848870
Small error in test_format (2003-11-25)
	http://python.org/sf/849252
832799 proposed changes (2003-11-25)
	http://python.org/sf/849262
improve embeddability of python (2003-11-25)
	http://python.org/sf/849278
urllib reporthook could be more informative (2003-11-25)
	http://python.org/sf/849407
Enhance frame handing in warnings.warn() (2003-11-27)
	http://python.org/sf/850482
Semaphore.acquire() timeout parameter (2003-11-28)
	http://python.org/sf/850728
call com_set_lineno more often (2003-11-28)
	http://python.org/sf/850789
Modify Setup.py to Detect Tcl/Tk on BSD (2003-11-28)
	http://python.org/sf/850977
Argument passing from /usr/bin/idle2.3 to idle.py (2003-11-29)
	http://python.org/sf/851459

Closed Bugs
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Dialogs too tight on OSX (2002-10-29)
	http://python.org/sf/630818
MacPython for Panther additions includes IDLE (2003-11-08)
	http://python.org/sf/838616
SimpleHTTPServer reports wrong content-length for text files (2003-11-10)
	http://python.org/sf/839496
PackMan database for panther misses devtools dep (2003-11-14)
	http://python.org/sf/842116
PackageManager: deselect show hidden: indexerror (2003-11-18)
	http://python.org/sf/844676
error in python's grammar (2003-11-21)
	http://python.org/sf/846521
"and" operator tests the first argument twice (2003-11-21)
	http://python.org/sf/846564

Closed Patches
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