[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

Kurt B. Kaiser kbk at shore.net
Mon May 17 23:03:39 EDT 2004


Patch / Bug Summary
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Patches :  275 open ( +5) /  2380 closed (+14) /  2655 total (+19)
Bugs    :  753 open ( -1) /  4047 closed (+54) /  4800 total (+53)
RFE     :  133 open ( +0) /   126 closed ( +2) /   259 total ( +2)

New / Reopened Patches
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CodeContext - an extension to show you where you are  (2004-04-16)
       http://python.org/sf/936169  reopened by  noamr

Explain 'in' keyword as it is first used  (2004-04-22)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/940026  opened by  Gerrit Holl 

Replace if/elif chain with dispatch pattern in sre_compile  (2004-04-23)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/941071  opened by  Raymond Hettinger 

Allow any encodings other than latin-1 in interactive interp  (2004-04-24)
       http://python.org/sf/941229  opened by  Hye-Shik Chang 

Minimal fix for bug 940578 (glob.glob on broken symlinks)  (2004-04-24)
       http://python.org/sf/941486  opened by  Cherniavsky Beni 

PEP309 Partial implementation  (2004-04-26)
       http://python.org/sf/941881  opened by  Hye-Shik Chang 

CodeContext - an extension to show you where you are  (2004-04-16)
       http://python.org/sf/936169  reopened by  noamr

Convert glob.glob to generator-based DFS  (2004-04-27)
       http://python.org/sf/943206  opened by  Cherniavsky Beni 

A simple 3-4% speed-up for PCs  (2004-04-28)
       http://python.org/sf/943898  opened by  Armin Rigo 

Add maketrans to string object  (2004-04-28)
       http://python.org/sf/943953  opened by  Gyro Funch 

urllib2 authentication mishandles empty pass bugfix 944082  (2004-04-29)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/944110  opened by  sc0rp 

Bugfix for dircheck() in Objects/fileobject.c  (2004-04-30)
       http://python.org/sf/944928  opened by  Ulrich Berning 

nonblocking i/o with ssl socket not working at all  (2004-05-01)
       http://python.org/sf/945642  opened by  Tino Lange 

askstring => grab fail  (2004-05-01)
       http://python.org/sf/946153  opened by  wes 

Non-blocking Socket Server  (2004-05-01)
       http://python.org/sf/946207  opened by  Jesper ´JJ´ Jurcenoks 

do not add directory of sys.argv[0] into sys.path  (2004-05-02)
       http://python.org/sf/946373  opened by  wrobell 

AF_PACKET Hardware address support in socket module  (2004-05-03)
       http://python.org/sf/947352  opened by  Jason Andryuk 

Fix for #947380 - sys.path is wrong on windows sometimes  (2004-05-04)
       http://python.org/sf/947386  opened by  Ori Berger 

Apply freelist technique to empty lists  (2004-05-04)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/947476  opened by  Raymond Hettinger 

Linux signals during threads  (2004-05-05)
       http://python.org/sf/948614  opened by  Andrew Langmead 

synchronous signals blocked in pthreads  (2004-05-06)
       http://python.org/sf/949332  opened by  Andrew Langmead 

fix bug in StringIO.truncate - length not changed  (2004-05-11)
       http://python.org/sf/951915  opened by  David Fraser 

fix typos  (2004-05-12)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/952047  opened by  George Yoshida 

Fix os.stat handling of UNC roots  (2004-05-14)
       http://python.org/sf/954115  opened by  Greg Chapman 

Replacement for webbrowser.py which has problems.  (2004-05-15)
       http://python.org/sf/954628  opened by  Michel Van den Bergh 

Patches Closed
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CodeContext - an extension to show you where you are  (2004-04-16)
       http://python.org/sf/936169  closed by  kbk

Py_INCREF/DECREF available as macros only  (2004-04-20)
       http://python.org/sf/938302  closed by  theller

CodeContext - an extension to show you where you are  (2004-04-16)
       http://python.org/sf/936169  closed by  kbk

itertools roundrobin()  (2003-06-17)
       http://python.org/sf/756253  closed by  rhettinger

ConfigParser: fixes mixed-case interpolations (bug 857881)  (2003-12-24)
       http://python.org/sf/865455  closed by  fdrake

Replace if/elif chain with dispatch pattern in sre_compile  (2004-04-23)
       http://python.org/sf/941071  closed by  rhettinger

Explain 'in' keyword as it is first used  (2004-04-22)
       http://python.org/sf/940026  closed by  loewis

Apply freelist technique to empty lists  (2004-05-04)
       http://python.org/sf/947476  closed by  rhettinger

urllib2 CacheFTPHandler doesn't work on multiple dirs  (2003-12-01)
       http://python.org/sf/851736  closed by  mhammond

urllib2 authentication mishandles empty pass bugfix 944082  (2004-04-29)
       http://python.org/sf/944110  closed by  loewis

fix typos  (2004-05-11)
       http://python.org/sf/952047  closed by  fdrake

Error caused by patch #852334  (2004-04-10)
       http://python.org/sf/932796  closed by  fdrake

API Ref: PyErr_SetInterrupt not Obsolete  (2004-03-19)
       http://python.org/sf/919299  closed by  fdrake

ConfigParser should raise an error for duplicate options  (2003-12-04)
       http://python.org/sf/854484  closed by  fdrake

Fix docstring for posixpath.getctime  (2004-01-04)
       http://python.org/sf/870287  closed by  fdrake

Footnote on bug in Mailbox with Windows text-mode files  (2003-11-09)
       http://python.org/sf/838910  closed by  bwarsaw

New / Reopened Bugs
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message.as_string hoses headers  (2004-04-20)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/938890  opened by  Carl Karsten 

cPickle.Pickler: in "list" mode, no way to set protocol  (2004-04-22)
       http://python.org/sf/939395  opened by  John Belmonte 

Building python 2.3.3 RPM on Mandrake 9.2. fails  (2004-04-22)
       http://python.org/sf/939699  opened by  fabien wahl 

Logging failes for rotating file log (during rollOver)  (2004-04-22)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/939836  opened by  smeyers2002 

xml parser bug  (2004-04-22)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/940263  opened by  David Tefft 

pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters  (2004-04-22)
       http://python.org/sf/940286  opened by  Maxim Krikun 

string.lstrip problem with '_' string  (2004-04-22)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/940316  opened by  Arnold 

Python crashes with bus error on sparc64.  (2004-04-22)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/940354  opened by  Generic Player 

misbehaviour with map / lambda / isdigit()  (2004-04-23)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/940522  opened by  dreary 

glob.glob inconsistent about broken symlinks  (2004-04-23)
       http://python.org/sf/940578  opened by  Cherniavsky Beni 

section 5.10: 'not' returns boolean, not int  (2004-04-23)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/940579  opened by  Jon Ashley 

List with Canvas.create_line Option arrow=LAST Broke  (2004-04-24)
       http://python.org/sf/941262  opened by  Brian Brooks 

AIX shared library fix  (2004-04-24)
       http://python.org/sf/941346  opened by  Dick Dunbar 

Python crash on __init__/__getattr__/__setattr__ interaction  (2004-04-26)
       http://python.org/sf/942706  opened by  has 

Weakness in tuple hash  (2004-04-27)
       http://python.org/sf/942952  opened by  Steve Tregidgo 

urllib2 authentication mishandles empty password  (2004-04-29)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/944082  opened by  sc0rp 

Signal reception problem. FreeBSD 4.8 and 4.9 after forkpty  (2004-04-28)
       http://python.org/sf/944119  opened by  Steve Levis 

Signal reception problem. FreeBSD 4.8 and 4.9 after forkpty  (2004-04-28)
       http://python.org/sf/944119  reopened by  levis501

No examples or usage docs for urllib2  (2004-04-29)
       http://python.org/sf/944394  opened by  Chris Withers 

urllib2 doesn't handle username/password in url  (2004-04-29)
       http://python.org/sf/944396  opened by  Chris Withers 

No documentation for urllib2 exception classes  (2004-04-29)
       http://python.org/sf/944407  opened by  Chris Withers 

csv writer bug on windows  (2004-04-29)
       http://python.org/sf/944890  opened by  Brian Kelley 

cgitb has backwards logic on log file creation  (2004-04-30)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/945063  opened by  Danny Yoo 

platform.system() Windows inconsistency  (2004-04-30)
       http://python.org/sf/945665  opened by  Guido van Rossum 

dir(object) does not list __name__  (2004-05-01)
       http://python.org/sf/945861  opened by  Thomas Philips 

xmlrpclib omits charset in Content-Type HTTP header  (2004-05-01)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/946130  opened by  Christian Schmidt 

CGI QUERY_STRING  (2004-05-01)
       http://python.org/sf/946247  opened by  Larry 

sys.path is wrong in some cases  (2004-05-04)
       http://python.org/sf/947380  opened by  Ori Berger 

os.utime() raises bad exception for unicode filenames  (2004-05-04)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/947405  opened by  Mark Hammond 

urlib.urlopen() fails to raise exception  (2004-05-04)
       http://python.org/sf/947571  opened by  M.-A. Lemburg 

calendar.weekheader() undocumented  (2004-05-04)
       http://python.org/sf/947894  opened by  Leonardo Rochael Almeida 

calendar.weekheader(n): n should mean chars not bytes  (2004-05-04)
       http://python.org/sf/947906  opened by  Leonardo Rochael Almeida 

LaTeX not required  (2004-05-05)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/948517  opened by  Aahz 

texi2html.py not working  (2004-05-06)
       http://python.org/sf/948881  opened by  George Yoshida 

PyExc_* not in index  (2004-05-06)
       http://python.org/sf/948970  opened by  Thomas Heller 

winzip cannot extrat tarfile created tars  (2004-05-06)
       http://python.org/sf/949052  opened by  Simon Eisenmann 

refresh() missing curses reference  (2004-05-06)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/949100  opened by  Alexander Neumann 

Memory "read" instruction failed  (2004-05-06)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/949301  opened by  AnToine 

Memory "read" instruction failed  (2004-05-06)
       http://python.org/sf/949301  reopened by  alexion

stringprep.py:  sets.Set() --> set()   (2004-05-06)
       http://python.org/sf/949329  opened by  Raymond Hettinger 

UnicodeEncodeError message has syntax error  (2004-05-07)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/949605  opened by  Tom Lynn 

file write() method and non-blocking mode.  (2004-05-07)
       http://python.org/sf/949667  opened by  Donovan Baarda 

Invalid page in module PYTHON23.DLL  (2004-05-07)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/949706  opened by  AnToine 

Problem w/6.27.2.2 GNUTranslations ungettext() example code  (2004-05-07)
       http://python.org/sf/949832  opened by  Martin Miller 

Is cmdqueue attribute used?  (2004-05-07)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/950055  opened by  Raymond Hettinger 

itertools.chain doesn't "process" exceptions as they occur  (2004-05-07)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/950057  opened by  Tristan Seligmann 

buffer() can point to freed memory  (2004-05-07)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/950274  opened by  L. Peter Deutsch 

-fconstant-cfstrings required for Xcode 1.2  (2004-05-08)
       http://python.org/sf/950482  opened by  Bob Ippolito 

email: mishandles Content-Transfer-Enc. for text/* messages  (2004-05-09)
       http://python.org/sf/950747  opened by  Matthias Klose 

str(email) breaks message by adding newline  (2004-05-10)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/951088  opened by  Gerrit Holl 

strptime doesn't account for %p in output  (2004-05-10)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/951235  opened by  Skip Montanaro 

Generator expression used in doc example  (2004-05-11)
       http://python.org/sf/951270  opened by  Nick Coghlan 

ihooks chokes on BioPython package  (2004-05-10)
       http://python.org/sf/951275  opened by  mpalmer 

New module: doc versus action  (2004-05-10)
       http://python.org/sf/951482  opened by  Terry J. Reedy 

Crash when reading "import table" of certain windows DLLs  (2004-05-11)
       http://python.org/sf/951851  opened by  Mark Hammond 

__name__ should be in 2.3.10 Special Attributes  (2004-05-11)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/952212  opened by  Robert Brewer 

Funny keywords in library index  (2004-05-12)
       http://python.org/sf/952737  opened by  Thomas Heller 

segfault in subclassing datetime.date & pickling  (2004-05-12)
       http://python.org/sf/952807  opened by  Thomas Wouters 

readline broke between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3  (2004-05-12)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/952852  opened by  Jon Nelson 

"can't multiply sequence *by* non-int"  (2004-05-12)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/952866  opened by  Tom Lynn 

execve rejects empty argument list  (2004-05-13)
       http://python.org/sf/952953  opened by  newsham 

cgi module documentation could mention getlist  (2004-05-13)
       http://python.org/sf/953177  opened by  Richard Jones 

asyncore misses socket closes when poll is used  (2004-05-13)
       http://python.org/sf/953599  opened by  Shane Kerr 

simple typo in pprint module  (2004-05-14)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/954030  opened by  Michal Pasternak 

New email pkg FeedParser croaks on some spam  (2004-05-14)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/954320  opened by  Skip Montanaro 

2.3 inspect.getframeinfo wrong tb line numbers  (2004-05-15)
       http://python.org/sf/954364  opened by  Robin Becker 

bsddb3 test errors  (2004-05-15)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/954530  opened by  Tim Peters 

Error in urllib2 Examples  (2004-05-16)
       http://python.org/sf/954981  opened by  Phillip 

CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS are NOT used when building modules  (2004-05-17)
       http://python.org/sf/955197  opened by  Niki W. Waibel 

Bugs Closed
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Random.choice doesn't work with sets.  (2004-04-17)
       http://python.org/sf/936988  closed by  rhettinger

minidom.py writes TEXT_NODE wrong  (2004-04-18)
       http://python.org/sf/937282  closed by  loewis

re.sub on u'' gives NON-unicode ''  (2004-03-31)
       http://python.org/sf/926075  closed by  perky

message.as_string hoses headers  (2004-04-20)
       http://python.org/sf/938890  closed by  carlk

message.as_string hoses headers  (2004-04-20)
       http://python.org/sf/938890  closed by  tim_one

Shelve slow after 7/8000 key  (2004-01-21)
       http://python.org/sf/881522  closed by  tim_one

Slicing changes item-attributes of an instance of a UserList  (2004-04-19)
       http://python.org/sf/937700  closed by  hflori

xml parser bug  (2004-04-22)
       http://python.org/sf/940263  closed by  loewis

string.lstrip problem with '_' string  (2004-04-22)
       http://python.org/sf/940316  closed by  rhettinger

misbehaviour with map / lambda / isdigit()  (2004-04-23)
       http://python.org/sf/940522  closed by  tim_one

section 5.10: 'not' returns boolean, not int  (2004-04-23)
       http://python.org/sf/940579  closed by  rhettinger

Python crashes with bus error on sparc64.  (2004-04-22)
       http://python.org/sf/940354  closed by  genericplayer

Unbounded recursion in modulefinder  (2004-01-13)
       http://python.org/sf/876278  closed by  theller

Signal reception problem. FreeBSD 4.8 and 4.9 after forkpty  (2004-04-28)
       http://python.org/sf/944119  closed by  levis501

Logging failes for rotating file log (during rollOver)  (2004-04-22)
       http://python.org/sf/939836  closed by  smeyers2002

cgitb has backwards logic on log file creation  (2004-04-30)
       http://python.org/sf/945063  closed by  akuchling

os.tmpfile seek(0) fails on cygwin  (2004-01-01)
       http://python.org/sf/868743  closed by  jlt63

xmlrpclib omits charset in Content-Type HTTP header  (2004-05-02)
       http://python.org/sf/946130  closed by  loewis

os.utime() raises bad exception for unicode filenames  (2004-05-04)
       http://python.org/sf/947405  closed by  mhammond

5454 - documentation wrong for ossaudiodev mixer device  (2003-09-29)
       http://python.org/sf/814606  closed by  gward

Build fails in ossaudiodev.c with missing macros  (2003-10-29)
       http://python.org/sf/832236  closed by  gward

PyBool_* not documented in C API  (2004-02-02)
       http://python.org/sf/889154  closed by  fdrake

socket.gethostbyname raises gaierror, not herror  (2003-11-07)
       http://python.org/sf/837929  closed by  fdrake

pickle: __getinitargs__ not used for new-style objects  (2004-01-08)
       http://python.org/sf/873246  closed by  fdrake

urllib2 CacheFTPHandler doesn't work on multiple dirs  (2003-05-17)
       http://python.org/sf/738973  closed by  mhammond

os.chmod/os.utime/shutil do not work with unicode filenames  (2003-11-21)
       http://python.org/sf/846133  closed by  mhammond

long list in Pythonwin -> weird text  (2002-09-04)
       http://python.org/sf/604387  closed by  mhammond

LaTeX not required  (2004-05-05)
       http://python.org/sf/948517  closed by  fdrake

shutil.copyfile fails when dst exists read-only  (2003-09-22)
       http://python.org/sf/810879  closed by  akuchling

unable to specify another compiler  (2003-07-04)
       http://python.org/sf/765819  closed by  akuchling

urllib2 authentication mishandles empty password  (2004-04-29)
       http://python.org/sf/944082  closed by  loewis

pyexpat LexicalHandler swaps system_id and public_id  (2003-07-30)
       http://python.org/sf/780300  closed by  loewis

XMLFilterBase has bogus startElementNS  (2004-04-17)
       http://python.org/sf/936637  closed by  loewis

XMLGenerator ignores encoding in output  (2004-04-19)
       http://python.org/sf/938076  closed by  loewis

xml.sax.handler.ContentHandler missing argument  (2004-01-21)
       http://python.org/sf/881707  closed by  fdrake

file built-in object is after file() function  (2004-03-25)
       http://python.org/sf/922964  closed by  fdrake

refresh() missing curses reference  (2004-05-06)
       http://python.org/sf/949100  closed by  akuchling

Doc bug in PEP-0278  (2003-09-04)
       http://python.org/sf/800828  closed by  fdrake

Need "new style" note regarding descriptors  (2003-10-04)
       http://python.org/sf/817742  closed by  fdrake

need doc for new trace module  (2003-05-14)
       http://python.org/sf/737734  closed by  fdrake

Memory "read" instruction failed  (2004-05-06)
       http://python.org/sf/949301  closed by  theller

Memory "read" instruction failed  (2004-05-06)
       http://python.org/sf/949301  closed by  theller

UnicodeEncodeError message has syntax error  (2004-05-07)
       http://python.org/sf/949605  closed by  doerwalter

re seems broken on 64-bit machines/linux  (2004-04-08)
       http://python.org/sf/931848  closed by  loewis

Invalid page in module PYTHON23.DLL  (2004-05-07)
       http://python.org/sf/949706  closed by  theller

Is cmdqueue attribute used?  (2004-05-07)
       http://python.org/sf/950055  closed by  gvanrossum

itertools.chain doesn't "process" exceptions as they occur  (2004-05-07)
       http://python.org/sf/950057  closed by  rhettinger

Python 2.3.3: socketmodule doesn't build on UnixWare 7.1.3  (2004-04-05)
       http://python.org/sf/929689  closed by  loewis

buffer() can point to freed memory  (2004-05-08)
       http://python.org/sf/950274  closed by  nascheme

email library Parser can't parse some messages  (2004-02-12)
       http://python.org/sf/895510  closed by  bwarsaw

MIMEMultipart _subparts constructor unusable  (2004-01-25)
       http://python.org/sf/884030  closed by  bwarsaw

str(email) breaks message by adding newline  (2004-05-10)
       http://python.org/sf/951088  closed by  bwarsaw

strptime doesn't account for %p in output  (2004-05-10)
       http://python.org/sf/951235  closed by  bcannon

add support for cjkcodecs to Python email  (2003-12-01)
       http://python.org/sf/852347  closed by  bwarsaw

email.Utils.formataddr doesn't handle whitespace too well  (2004-01-12)
       http://python.org/sf/875646  closed by  bwarsaw

email package does not work with mailbox  (2002-07-26)
       http://python.org/sf/586899  closed by  bwarsaw

Memory error on AIX in email.Utils._qdecode  (2003-10-16)
       http://python.org/sf/824977  closed by  bwarsaw

__name__ should be in 2.3.10 Special Attributes  (2004-05-11)
       http://python.org/sf/952212  closed by  fdrake

readline broke between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3  (2004-05-12)
       http://python.org/sf/952852  closed by  jnelson

"can't multiply sequence *by* non-int"  (2004-05-12)
       http://python.org/sf/952866  closed by  rhettinger

email.Parser.Parser doesn't check for valid Content-Type  (2003-11-21)
       http://python.org/sf/846938  closed by  bwarsaw

simple typo in pprint module  (2004-05-14)
       http://python.org/sf/954030  closed by  montanaro

New email pkg FeedParser croaks on some spam  (2004-05-15)
       http://python.org/sf/954320  closed by  bwarsaw

bsddb3 test errors  (2004-05-15)
       http://python.org/sf/954530  closed by  greg

segmentation fault in test_re  (2004-01-03)
       http://python.org/sf/870120  closed by  hoel

ConfigParser bug  (2003-12-10)
       http://python.org/sf/857881  closed by  fdrake

New / Reopened RFE
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Allow any lvalue for function definitions  (2004-05-09)
       http://python.org/sf/950644  opened by  David Albert Torpey 

RFE Closed
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optparse "append" action should always make the em  (2003-10-07)
       http://python.org/sf/819178  closed by  gward

http://doc.python.org  (2004-02-25)
       http://python.org/sf/904770  closed by  etrepum




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