[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

[Skip Montanaro]

Bug/Patch Summary
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547 open / 4276 total bugs (+42)
205 open / 2432 total patches (+7)

New Bugs
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email/Generator.py: Incorrect header output (2003-10-20)
	http://python.org/sf/826756
Proto 2 pickle vs dict subclass (2003-10-20)
	http://python.org/sf/826897
wrong error message of islice indexing (2003-10-20)
	http://python.org/sf/827190
List comprehensions leaking control variable name deprecated (2003-10-20)
	http://python.org/sf/827209
Bug in dbm - long strings in keys and values (2003-10-21)
	http://python.org/sf/827760
object.h misdocuments PyDict_SetItemString (2003-10-21)
	http://python.org/sf/827856
ctime is not creation time (2003-10-21)
	http://python.org/sf/827902
Registry key CurrentVersion not set (2003-10-21)
	http://python.org/sf/827963
Idle fails on loading .idlerc if Home path changes. (2003-10-22)
	http://python.org/sf/828049
sdist generates bad MANIFEST on Windows (2003-10-22)
	http://python.org/sf/828450
bdist_rpm failure when no setup.py (2003-10-23)
	http://python.org/sf/828743
setattr(obj, BADNAME, value) does not raises exception (2003-10-24)
	http://python.org/sf/829458
os.makedirs() cannot handle "." (2003-10-24)
	http://python.org/sf/829532
__mul__ taken as __rmul__ for mul-by-int only (2003-10-25)
	http://python.org/sf/830261
python-mode.el: py-b-of-def-or-class looks inside strings (2003-10-25)
	http://python.org/sf/830347
Config parser don't raise DuplicateSectionError when reading (2003-10-26)
	http://python.org/sf/830449

New Patches
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absolute paths cause problems for MSVC (2003-10-21)
	http://python.org/sf/827386
SimpleHTTPServer directory-indexing "bug" fix (2003-10-21)
	http://python.org/sf/827559
Allow set swig include dirs in setup.py (2003-10-22)
	http://python.org/sf/828336
ref. manual talks of 'sequence' instead of 'iterable' (2003-10-23)
	http://python.org/sf/829073
Fixes smtplib starttls HELO errors (2003-10-24)
	http://python.org/sf/829951
itertoolsmodule.c: islice error messages (827190) (2003-10-25)
	http://python.org/sf/830070
python-mode.el: (py-point 'bod) doesn't quite work (2003-10-25)
	http://python.org/sf/830341

Closed Bugs
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asyncore unhandled write event (2002-03-10)
	http://python.org/sf/528295
missing important curses calls (2003-01-10)
	http://python.org/sf/665572
Problems with non-greedy match groups (2003-03-01)
	http://python.org/sf/695688
ncurses/curses on solaris (2003-03-10)
	http://python.org/sf/700780
sigwinch crashes python with curses (2003-06-14)
	http://python.org/sf/754455
asyncore with non-default map problems (2003-06-20)
	http://python.org/sf/758241
HTMLParser chokes on my.yahoo.com output (2003-06-26)
	http://python.org/sf/761452
minidom.py -- TypeError: object doesn't support slice assig (2003-07-25)
	http://python.org/sf/777884
xmlrpclib's functions dumps() and loads() not documented. (2003-09-19)
	http://python.org/sf/809174
Support for non-string data in ConfigParser unclear/buggy (2003-09-22)
	http://python.org/sf/810843
test_tempfile fails on windows if space in install path (2003-09-23)
	http://python.org/sf/811082
a Py_DECREF() too much (2003-09-25)
	http://python.org/sf/812353
new.function raises TypeError for some strange reason... (2003-09-28)
	http://python.org/sf/814266
webbrowser.open hangs under certain conditions (2003-10-02)
	http://python.org/sf/816810
Need "new style note" (2003-10-04)
	http://python.org/sf/817742
Ref Man Index: Symbols -- Latex leak (2003-10-08)
	http://python.org/sf/820344
tarfile exception on large .tar files (2003-10-13)
	http://python.org/sf/822668
urllib2 digest auth is broken (2003-10-14)
	http://python.org/sf/823328
code.InteractiveConsole interprets escape chars incorrectly (2003-10-17)
	http://python.org/sf/825676
reference to Built-In Types section in file() documentation (2003-10-17)
	http://python.org/sf/825810
Class Problem with repr and getattr on PY2.3.2 (2003-10-18)
	http://python.org/sf/826013

Closed Patches
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Mutable PyCObject (2001-11-02)
	http://python.org/sf/477441
(?(id/name)yes|no) re implementation (2002-06-23)
	http://python.org/sf/572936
Fixing recursive problem in SRE (2003-06-19)
	http://python.org/sf/757624
small fix for setup.py (2003-07-15)
	http://python.org/sf/772077
make test_fcntl 64bit clean (2003-09-13)
	http://python.org/sf/805626
NetBSD py_curses.h fix (2003-09-15)
	http://python.org/sf/806800
Fix many doc typos (2003-09-22)
	http://python.org/sf/810751
normalize whitespace (2003-09-25)
	http://python.org/sf/812378
Fix test_tempfile: space in Win32 install path bug #811082 (2003-09-26)
	http://python.org/sf/813200
_sre stack overflow on FreeBSD/amd64 and /sparc64 (2003-09-26)
	http://python.org/sf/813391
deprecated modules (2003-09-29)
	http://python.org/sf/814560
fix import problem(unittest.py) (2003-10-07)
	http://python.org/sf/819077
Updated .spec file. (2003-10-14)
	http://python.org/sf/823259
Add additional isxxx functions to string object. (2003-10-16)
	http://python.org/sf/825313