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2233 open (+55) / 14139 closed (+41) / 16372 total (+96)
Open issues with patches: 753
Average duration of open issues: 705 days.
Median duration of open issues: 2193 days.
Open Issues Breakdown
open 2214 (+54)
pending 19 ( +1)
Issues Created Or Reopened (96)
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Coding cookie crashes IDLE 11/28/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4454 created tjreedy
No Windows List in IDLE if several windows have the same title 11/28/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4455 created amaury.forgeotdarc
patch
xmlrpc is broken 11/28/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4456 created benjamin.peterson
__import__ documentation obsolete 11/29/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4457 created stevenjd
getopt.gnu_getopt() loses dash argument 11/29/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4458 created muntyan
bdist_rpm assumes python 11/29/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4459 created John5342
The parameter of PyInt_AsSsize_t() is not checked to see if it i 11/29/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4460 created CWRU_Researcher1
parameters of PyLong_FromString() are not checked for NULL 11/29/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4461 created CWRU_Researcher1
patch
result of PyList_GetItem() not validated 11/29/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4462 created CWRU_Researcher1
Parameters and result of PyList_GetItem() are not validated 11/29/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4463 created CWRU_Researcher1
PyList_GetItem() result and parameters not fully validated 11/29/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4464 created CWRU_Researcher1
The result of set_copy() is not checked for NULL 11/29/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4465 created CWRU_Researcher1
The return value of PyFile_FromFile is not checked for NULL 11/29/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4466 created CWRU_Researcher1
return value of PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() is not checked for N 11/29/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4467 created CWRU_Researcher1
Restore chapter enumeration in Python docs 11/30/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4468 created schluehk
CVE-2008-5031 multiple integer overflows 11/30/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4469 created doko
smtplib SMTP_SSL not working. 11/30/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4470 created lcatucci
patch
IMAP4 missing support for starttls 11/30/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4471 created lcatucci
patch
Is shared lib building broken on trunk? 11/30/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4472 created skip.montanaro
POP3 missing support for starttls 11/30/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4473 created lcatucci
patch
PyUnicode_FromWideChar incorrect for characters outside the BMP 11/30/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4474 created marketdickinson
More verbose error message for Py_FindMethod 11/30/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4475 created gpolo
patch
compileall.py fails if current dir has a "types" subdir with 3. 12/01/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4476 created aivazis
Speed up PyEval_EvalFrameEx when tracing is off. 12/01/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4477 created jyasskin
patch, needs review
shutil.copyfile documentation 12/01/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4478 created steve21
True division is not smart -> proposing smart True division 12/01/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4479 created nassrat
bdist_msi and bdist_wininst are missing an uninstaller icon 12/01/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4480 created lemburg
Windows installer crash 12/01/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4481 created Konam
10e667.__format__('+') should return 'inf' 12/01/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4482 created DinoV
Error to build _dbm module during make 12/01/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4483 created legerf
patch, easy
struct: per item endianess specification 12/02/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4484 created da4an1qu1
fast swap of "default" Windows python versions 12/02/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4485 created v+python
Exception traceback is incorrect for strange exception handling 12/02/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4486 created ncoghlan
Add utf8 alias for email charsets 12/02/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4487 created maxua
patch
Python Documentation not Newb Friendly 12/02/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4488 created mez
shutil.rmtree is vulnerable to a symlink attack 12/02/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4489 created mrts
xml/sax/expatreader.py raises AttributeError when run 12/02/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4490 created exarkun
email.Header.decode_header() doesn't work if encoded-word was se 12/02/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4491 created ishimoto
patch
httplib code thinks it closes connection, but does not 12/02/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4492 created jjlee
urllib2 doesn't always supply / where URI path component is empt 12/02/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4493 created jjlee
Python 2.6 fails to build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED 12/02/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4494 created snaury
patch
Fix signed/unsigned warning 12/02/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4495 created rhettinger
misleading comment in urllib2 12/02/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4496 created jjlee
Compiler warnings in longobject.c 12/02/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4497 created rhettinger
patch
Compiler warning "signed/unsigned comparion in mmapmodule" 12/02/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4498 created rhettinger
redefinition of TILDE macro on AIX platform 12/02/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4499 created apaprocki
Compiler warnings when compiling Python 3.0 with a C89 compiler 12/03/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4500 created christian.heimes
asyncore's urgent data management and connection closed events 12/03/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4501 created giampaolo.rodola
patch
Allowing get_pre_input_hook from Readline 12/03/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4502 created Conrad.Irwin
patch
exception traceback sometimes slow 12/03/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4503 created ocean-city
Doc/includes out of date 12/03/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4504 created exe
ob_size not removed from docs 12/03/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4505 created exe
3.0 make test failures on Solaris 10 12/03/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4506 created skip.montanaro
64bit
3.0 test failure on Mac OS X 10.5.5 12/03/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4507 created skip.montanaro
distutils compiler not handling spaces in path to output/src fil 12/03/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4508 created Thorney
patch
possible memoryview bug 12/03/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4509 created gumpy
ValueError for list.remove() not very helpful 12/03/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4510 created brett.cannon
easy
Decorators should have an index entry 12/04/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4511 created dvusboy
Add get_filename method to zipimport 12/04/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4512 created belopolsky
patch
Finish updating zip docstring 12/04/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4513 created tjreedy
test_binascii is failing 12/04/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4514 created rhettinger
Formatting error in "What's New in Python 3.0" 12/04/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4515 created pwang
Another formatting error in "What's New in Python 3.0" 12/04/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4516 created pwang
improve __getattribute__ documentation 12/04/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4517 created LambertDW
broken link to python 3 doc on main doc page 12/04/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4518 created cleary
.pyc files included in 2.6 and 3.0 release tarballs 12/04/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4519 created doko
Online 3.0 documentation says it's for 3.1a0 12/04/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4520 created paulmelis
"What's New in Python 3.0" mentions "getcwdu" instead of "getcwd 12/04/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4521 created hagen
patch
Module wsgiref is not python3000 ready (unicode issues) 12/04/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4522 created tordmor
patch
logging module __init__ uses has_key 12/04/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4523 created bitdancer
patch
Build fails at running build_scripts 12/04/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4524 created chaz6
patch, needs review
metaclass fixer fails with AttributeError, causing 2to3 to exit 12/04/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4525 created exarkun
Clarify documentation for binary literals 12/04/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4526 created nneonneo
Obsolete 'string or unicode' in fractions doc 12/04/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4527 created tjreedy
easy
test_httpservers consistently fails on OS X 12/04/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4528 created mwdiers
parser module failure on valid try/except/finally blocks 12/04/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4529 created kaiw
IDLE crashes with Japanese text on print command 12/04/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4530 created Vultaire
Deprecation warnings in lib\compiler\ast.py 12/04/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4531 created edreamleo
Fails to build on QNX 6.3.2 12/04/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4532 created kraai
3.0 file.read dreadfully slow 12/04/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4533 created tjreedy
patch
problem with str.join - should work with list input, error says 12/04/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4534 created lopgok
Build / Test Py3K failed on Ubuntu 8.10 12/04/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4535 created lbhudda
SystemError if invalid arguments passed to range() and step=-1 12/04/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4536 created laszlo
patch, needs review
webbrowser.UnixBrowser should use builtins.open 12/05/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4537 reopened amaury.forgeotdarc
ctypes could include data type limits 12/04/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4538 created roysmith
askdirectory() in tkinter.filedialog is broken 12/04/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4539 created dogtato
typo in a module describes utf-8 as uft-8 12/04/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4540 created john.weldon
patch, needs review
Add str method for removing leading or trailing substrings 12/05/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4541 created zhirsch
patch
test_binascii fails on windows 12/05/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4542 created amaury.forgeotdarc
patch, easy
container constructors destroy argument 12/05/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4543 created kjwcode
textwrap: __all__ atribute missing 'dedent' function 12/05/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4544 created wolfdown
doctest seems to always fail on numpy.array2string 12/05/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4545 created ekorn
Small thingy in "What's New in Python 3.0" 12/05/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4546 created paulmelis
Long jumps with frame_setlineno 12/05/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4547 created fboule
patch, needs review
OptionParser : Weird comportement in args processing 12/05/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4548 created ohervieu
A defect in <The Python Tutorial>-<Python Scopes and Name Spaces 12/05/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4549 created PyTiger
Issues Now Closed (86)
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urllib fail to read URL contents, urllib2 crash Python 433 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1205 jjlee
httplib does not handle ssl end of file properly 431 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1223 georg.brandl
patch
popen spawned process may not write to stdout under windows 401 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1366 georg.brandl
urllib2 302 POST 391 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1401 jjlee
Victor Stinner's GMP patch for longs 328 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1814 haypo
patch
Update What's new in 3.0 262 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2306 gvanrossum
Update the ACKS file 264 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2311 georg.brandl
'exceptions' import fixer 261 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2350 brett.cannon
patch, needs review
Backport buffer interface in Python 3.0 to Python 2.6 262 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2393 georg.brandl
Python 2.6 refleak test issues 259 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2447 georg.brandl
urllib2 can't handle http://www.wikispaces.com 254 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2464 jjlee
patch
operator.*slice() should be deprecated in 2.6 166 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3171 georg.brandl
Multiprocessing docs are not 3.0-ready 156 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3256 georg.brandl
patch
multiprocessing: BaseManager.from_address documented but doesn't 113 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3518 jnoller
listreverseiterator has a decreasing len() 98 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3689 rhettinger
os.getenv silently discards env variables with non-UTF-8 values 65 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4006 Rhamphoryncus
Minor errors in multiprocessing docs 58 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4012 jnoller
distutils build_scripts and install_data commands need 2to3 supp 54 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4073 loewis
patch
Multiprocessing example 35 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4193 jnoller
BSD support for multiprocessing.cpu_count 30 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4238 jnoller
cycle created by profile.run 27 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4273 amaury.forgeotdarc
Error in docs of urllib.request and urllib.parse 16 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4355 georg.brandl
patch
Add CRT version info in msvcrt module 11 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4365 loewis
patch
Add a warnings.showwarning replacement for logging 12 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4384 vsajip
easy
binascii b2a functions accept strings (unicode) as data 10 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4387 loewis
patch, needs review
Uninstaller Lacks an Icon 9 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4389 lemburg
os.extsep status? doc or os bug? 11 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4401 georg.brandl
Windows Installer Error 1722 when opting for compilation at inst 7 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4407 keldonin
patch
re.compile(regexp).groups not documented 11 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4408 georg.brandl
Dangling asterisks in Python 3.0 subprocess docs 11 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4409 georg.brandl
Docs for 'y' Py_BuildValue tag are wrong 10 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4427 georg.brandl
patch, patch
Improve os open flag options doc 9 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4441 georg.brandl
2to3 run changed multiprocessing.Queue() to multiprocessing.queu 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4450 benjamin.peterson
Coding cookie crashes IDLE 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4454 tjreedy
No Windows List in IDLE if several windows have the same title 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4455 amaury.forgeotdarc
patch
xmlrpc is broken 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4456 benjamin.peterson
getopt.gnu_getopt() loses dash argument 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4458 georg.brandl
The parameter of PyInt_AsSsize_t() is not checked to see if it i 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4460 marketdickinson
result of PyList_GetItem() not validated 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4462 rhettinger
Parameters and result of PyList_GetItem() are not validated 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4463 rhettinger
PyList_GetItem() result and parameters not fully validated 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4464 rhettinger
The result of set_copy() is not checked for NULL 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4465 rhettinger
The return value of PyFile_FromFile is not checked for NULL 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4466 marketdickinson
return value of PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() is not checked for N 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4467 marketdickinson
Restore chapter enumeration in Python docs 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4468 georg.brandl
shutil.copyfile documentation 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4478 georg.brandl
True division is not smart -> proposing smart True division 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4479 nassrat
Fix signed/unsigned warning 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4495 rhettinger
Doc/includes out of date 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4504 georg.brandl
ob_size not removed from docs 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4505 georg.brandl
Decorators should have an index entry 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4511 dvusboy
Finish updating zip docstring 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4513 georg.brandl
test_binascii is failing 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4514 amaury.forgeotdarc
Formatting error in "What's New in Python 3.0" 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4515 georg.brandl
Another formatting error in "What's New in Python 3.0" 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4516 georg.brandl
improve __getattribute__ documentation 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4517 georg.brandl
broken link to python 3 doc on main doc page 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4518 georg.brandl
.pyc files included in 2.6 and 3.0 release tarballs 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4519 barry
Online 3.0 documentation says it's for 3.1a0 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4520 georg.brandl
"What's New in Python 3.0" mentions "getcwdu" instead of "getcwd 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4521 georg.brandl
patch
metaclass fixer fails with AttributeError, causing 2to3 to exit 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4525 benjamin.peterson
Clarify documentation for binary literals 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4526 georg.brandl
Obsolete 'string or unicode' in fractions doc 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4527 georg.brandl
easy
parser module failure on valid try/except/finally blocks 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4529 georg.brandl
IDLE crashes with Japanese text on print command 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4530 amaury.forgeotdarc
Deprecation warnings in lib\compiler\ast.py 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4531 edreamleo
problem with str.join - should work with list input, error says 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4534 amaury.forgeotdarc
Add str method for removing leading or trailing substrings 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4541 rhettinger
patch
test_binascii fails on windows 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4542 amaury.forgeotdarc
patch, easy
container constructors destroy argument 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4543 rhettinger
textwrap: __all__ atribute missing 'dedent' function 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4544 georg.brandl
doctest seems to always fail on numpy.array2string 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4545 amaury.forgeotdarc
Small thingy in "What's New in Python 3.0" 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4546 georg.brandl
OptionParser : Weird comportement in args processing 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4548 georg.brandl
registry functions don't handle null characters 2144 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue672132 amaury.forgeotdarc
SIGSEGV in _sre.c (IRIX 6.5.20) 1948 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue783789 amaury.forgeotdarc
pickletools support for multiple pickles in a string 1792 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue873150 fdrake
catch invalid chunk length in httplib read routine 1748 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue900744 jjlee
patch
cgi.py does not correctly handle fields with ';' 1499 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1055234 fdrake
patch
attempting to use urllib2 on some URLs fails starting on 2.4 1385 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1123695 amaury.forgeotdarc
httplib patch to make _read_chunked() more robust 1047 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1411097 jjlee
patch
pdb find_function does not find Class methods. 681 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1643369 georg.brandl
Draft implementation for PEP 364 640 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1675334 barry
patch
'exec' does not accept what 'open' returns 495 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1762972 georg.brandl
urllib2 hangs with some documents. 479 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1772481 amaury.forgeotdarc
glob doesn't return unicode with unicode parameter 473 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1777458 georg.brandl
Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
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17 Error to build _dbm module during make 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4483
15 AssertionError in Doc/includes/mp_benchmarks.py 7 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4449
10 3.0 make test failures on Solaris 10 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4506
10 BaseHTTPRequestHandler depends on GC to close connections 87 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3826
9 Update What's new in 3.0 262 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue2306
8 POP3 missing support for starttls 5 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4473
7 typo in a module describes utf-8 as uft-8 1 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4540
7 3.0 file.read dreadfully slow 1 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4533
7 bdist_msi and bdist_wininst are missing an uninstaller icon 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4480
7 Speed up PyEval_EvalFrameEx when tracing is off. 5 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4477