[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

Kurt B. Kaiser kbk at shore.net
Fri Nov 17 05:38:56 CET 2006 

Patch / Bug Summary
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Patches :  416 open (-14) /  3463 closed (+16) /  3879 total ( +2)
Bugs    :  930 open ( +8) /  6333 closed (+17) /  7263 total (+25)
RFE     :  244 open ( -1) /   244 closed ( +3) /   488 total ( +2)

New / Reopened Patches
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tkSimpleDialog freezes when apply raises exception  (2006-11-11)
       http://python.org/sf/1594554  opened by  Hirokazu Yamamoto

Iterating closed StringIO.StringIO  (2005-11-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1359365  reopened by  doerwalter

Cross compiling patches for MINGW  (2006-11-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1597850  opened by  Han-Wen Nienhuys

Patches Closed
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`in` for classic object causes segfault  (2006-11-07)
       http://python.org/sf/1591996  closed by  loewis

askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox  (2005-11-08)
       http://python.org/sf/1351744  closed by  loewis

PyErr_CheckSignals returns -1 on error, not 1  (2006-11-07)
       http://python.org/sf/1592072  closed by  gbrandl

make pty.fork() allocate a controlling tty  (2003-11-08)
       http://python.org/sf/838546  closed by  loewis

Add missing elide argument to Text.search  (2006-11-07)
       http://python.org/sf/1592250  closed by  loewis

mailbox: use fsync() to ensure data is really on disk  (2006-06-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1514544  closed by  akuchling

mailbox (Maildir): avoid losing messages on name clash  (2006-06-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1514543  closed by  akuchling

Fix struct.pack on 64-bit archs (broken on 2.*)  (2004-10-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1038854  closed by  loewis

Cross building python for mingw32  (2003-11-13)
       http://python.org/sf/841454  closed by  loewis

httplib: allowing stream-type body part in requests  (2004-11-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1065257  closed by  loewis

support whence argument for GzipFile.seek (bug #1316069)  (2005-11-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1355023  closed by  loewis

fix for 1067728: Better handling of float arguments to seek  (2004-11-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1067760  closed by  loewis

ftplib transfer problem with certain servers  (2005-11-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1359217  closed by  loewis

bdist_rpm still can't handle dashes in versions  (2005-11-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1360200  closed by  loewis

Fix the vc8 solution files  (2006-08-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1542946  closed by  krisvale

Practical ctypes example  (2006-09-15)
       http://python.org/sf/1559219  closed by  theller

New / Reopened Bugs
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Unfortunate naming of variable in heapq example  (2006-11-08)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1592533  opened by  Martin Thorsen Ranang

gettext has problems with .mo files that use non-ASCII chars  (2006-11-08)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1592627  opened by  Russell Phillips

replace groups doesn't work in this special case  (2006-11-06)
       http://python.org/sf/1591319  reopened by  tomek74

readline problem on ia64-unknown-linux-gnu  (2006-11-08)
       http://python.org/sf/1593035  opened by  Kate Minola

No IDLE in Windows  (2006-11-09)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1593384  opened by  A_V_I

No IDLE in Windows  (2006-11-09)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1593407  opened by  A_V_I

No IDLE in Windows  (2006-11-09)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1593442  opened by  A_V_I

site-packages isn't created before install_egg_info  (2006-09-28)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1566719  reopened by  loewis

Modules/unicodedata.c contains C++-style comment  (2006-11-09)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1593525  opened by  Mike Kent

No IDLE in Windows  (2006-11-09)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1593634  opened by  A_V_I

poor urllib error handling  (2006-11-09)
       http://python.org/sf/1593751  opened by  Guido van Rossum

small problem with description  (2006-11-09)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1593829  opened by  Atlas

Word should be changed on page 3.6.1  (2006-11-11)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1594742  opened by  jikanter

Make docu for dict.update more clear  (2006-11-11)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1594758  opened by  Christoph Zwerschke

make install fails, various modules do not work  (2006-11-11)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1594809  opened by  Evan

doctest simple usage recipe is misleading  (2006-11-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1594966  opened by  Ken Rimey

smtplib.SMTP.sendmail() does not provide transparency  (2006-11-12)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1595045  opened by  Avi Kivity

texinfo library documentation fails to build  (2006-11-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1595164  opened by  Mark Diekhans

User-agent header added by an opener is "frozen"  (2006-11-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1595365  opened by  Björn Steinbrink

parser module bug for nested try...except statements  (2006-11-13)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1595594  opened by  Kay Schluehr

SocketServer allow_reuse_address checked in constructor  (2006-11-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1595742  opened by  Peter Parente

read() in windows stops on chr(26)  (2006-11-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1595822  opened by  reson5

KeyError at exit after 'import threading' in other thread  (2006-11-14)
       http://python.org/sf/1596321  opened by  Christian Walther

HTTP headers  (2006-11-15)
       http://python.org/sf/1597000  opened by  Hugo Leisink

Reading with bz2.BZ2File() returns one garbage character  (2006-11-15)
       http://python.org/sf/1597011  opened by  Clodoaldo Pinto Neto

Can't exclude words before capture group  (2006-11-15)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1597014  opened by  Cees Timmerman

sqlite timestamp converter bug (floating point)  (2006-11-15)
       http://python.org/sf/1597404  opened by  Michael Salib

"Report website bug" -> Forbidden :(  (2006-11-16)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1597570  opened by  Jens Diemer

Modules/readline.c fails to compile on AIX 4.2  (2006-11-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1597798  opened by  Mike Kent

atexit.register does not return the registered function.   (2006-11-16)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1597824  opened by  Pierre Rouleau

Python/ast.c:541: seq_for_testlist: Assertion fails  (2006-11-16)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1597930  opened by  Darrell Schiebel

Top-level exception handler writes to stdout unsafely  (2006-11-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1598083  opened by  Jp Calderone

Bugs Closed
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Unfortunate naming of variable in heapq example  (2006-11-08)
       http://python.org/sf/1592533  closed by  gbrandl

gettext has problems with .mo files that use non-ASCII chars  (2006-11-08)
       http://python.org/sf/1592627  closed by  avantman42

problem building python in vs8express  (2006-11-06)
       http://python.org/sf/1591122  closed by  loewis

No IDLE in Windows  (2006-11-09)
       http://python.org/sf/1593384  closed by  loewis

No IDLE in Windows  (2006-11-09)
       http://python.org/sf/1593407  deleted by  akuchling

mailbox.Maildir.get_folder() loses factory information  (2006-10-03)
       http://python.org/sf/1569790  closed by  akuchling

No IDLE in Windows  (2006-11-09)
       http://python.org/sf/1593442  deleted by  gbrandl

site-packages isn't created before install_egg_info  (2006-09-28)
       http://python.org/sf/1566719  closed by  pje

Modules/unicodedata.c contains C++-style comment  (2006-11-09)
       http://python.org/sf/1593525  closed by  doerwalter

No IDLE in Windows  (2006-11-09)
       http://python.org/sf/1593634  deleted by  gbrandl

small problem with description  (2006-11-09)
       http://python.org/sf/1593829  deleted by  bauersj

Word should be changed on page 3.6.1  (2006-11-11)
       http://python.org/sf/1594742  closed by  gbrandl

Make docu for dict.update more clear  (2006-11-11)
       http://python.org/sf/1594758  closed by  gbrandl

make install fails, various modules do not work  (2006-11-11)
       http://python.org/sf/1594809  closed by  loewis

gzip.GzipFile.seek missing second argument  (2005-10-07)
       http://python.org/sf/1316069  closed by  loewis

smtplib.SMTP.sendmail() does not provide transparency  (2006-11-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1595045  deleted by  avik

parser module bug for nested try...except statements  (2006-11-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1595594  closed by  gbrandl

Can't exclude words before capture group  (2006-11-15)
       http://python.org/sf/1597014  closed by  gbrandl

"Report website bug" -> Forbidden :(  (2006-11-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1597570  closed by  gbrandl

atexit.register does not return the registered function.   (2006-11-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1597824  closed by  gbrandl

quoted printable parse the sequence '= ' incorrectly  (2006-10-31)
       http://python.org/sf/1588217  closed by  gbrandl

Python/ast.c:541: seq_for_testlist: Assertion fails  (2006-11-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1597930  closed by  gbrandl

New / Reopened RFE
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"".translate() docs should mention string.maketrans()  (2006-11-08)
       http://python.org/sf/1592899  opened by  Ori Avtalion

base64 doc Python 2.3 <-> 2.4  (2006-11-16)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1597576  opened by  Jens Diemer

RFE Closed
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wsgi.org link in wsgiref  (2006-08-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1542920  closed by  akuchling

Move gmtime function from calendar to time module  (2003-03-05)
       http://python.org/sf/697985  closed by  akuchling

base64 doc Python 2.3 <-> 2.4  (2006-11-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1597576  closed by  gbrandl

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