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2322 open (+42) / 14538 closed (+32) / 16860 total (+74)
Open issues with patches: 790
Average duration of open issues: 701 days.
Median duration of open issues: 6 days.
Open Issues Breakdown
open 2299 (+42)
pending 23 ( +0)
Issues Created Or Reopened (79)
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Unpickling is really slow 01/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue3873 reopened pitrou
zipfile and winzip 01/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue3997 reopened pitrou
patch, needs review
Thread Safe Py_AddPendingCall 01/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4293 reopened marketdickinson
patch, patch
python3.0 -u: unbuffered stdout 01/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4705 reopened pitrou
patch
decoding functions in _codecs module accept str arguments 01/22/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4874 reopened pitrou
patch
UTF-16 stream codec barfs on valid input 01/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4964 created gvanrossum
Can doc index of html version be separately scrollable? 01/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4965 created tjreedy
Improving Lib Doc Sequence Types Section 01/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4966 created tjreedy
Bugs in _ssl object read() when a buffer is specified 01/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4967 created pitrou
patch
Clarify inspect.is<callable> method docs 01/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4968 created tjreedy
mimetypes on Windows should read MIME database from registry (w/ 01/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4969 created gagenellina
patch
test_os causes delayed failure on x86 gentoo buildbot: Unknown s 01/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4970 created marketdickinson
Incorrect title case 01/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4971 created mrabarnett
let's equip ftplib.FTP with __enter__ and __exit__ 01/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4972 created tarek
patch
calendar formatyearpage returns bytes, not str 01/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4973 created mnewman
Redundant mention of lists and tuples at start of Sequence Types 01/17/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4974 created MLModel
3.0 base64 doc examples lack bytes 'b' indicator 01/17/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4975 created tjreedy
Documentation of the set intersection and difference operators i 01/17/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4976 created MLModel
test_maxint64 fails on 32-bit systems due to assumption that 64- 01/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4977 reopened pitrou
allow unicode keyword args 01/17/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4978 created benjamin.peterson
patch
random.uniform can return its upper limit 01/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4979 created hailperin
patch
Documentation for "y#" does not mention PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN 01/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4980 created pitrou
Incorrect statement regarding mutable sequences in datamodel Ref 01/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4981 created MLModel
Running python 3 as Non-admin User requests the Runtime to termi 01/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4982 created yhvh
Spurious reference to "byte sequences" in Library stdtypes seque 01/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4983 created MLModel
Inconsistent count of sequence types in Library stdtypes documen 01/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4984 created MLModel
Idle hangs when given a nonexistent filename. 01/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4985 created della1rv
patch
Augmented Assignment / Operations Confusion in Documentation 01/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4986 created acooke
update distutils.README 01/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4987 created tarek
A link to "What’s New in Python 2.0" on "The Python Tutorial" 01/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4988 created akitada
'calendar' module is crummy and should be removed 01/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4989 created dotz
test_codeccallbacks.CodecCallbackTest.test_badhandlerresult is n 01/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4990 created fijal
patch
os.fdopen doesn't raise on invalid file descriptors 01/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4991 created benjamin.peterson
patch
yield's documentation not updated 01/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4992 created En-Cu-Kou
Typo in importlib 01/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4993 created pitrou
subprocess (Popen) doesn't works properly 01/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4994 created simonbcn
sqlite3 module gives SQL logic error only in transactions 01/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4995 created alsadi
io.TextIOWrapper calls buffer.read1() 01/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4996 created kawai
xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator should write to io.RawIOBase. 01/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4997 created kawai
__slots__ on Fraction is useless 01/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4998 created Somelauw
patch
multiprocessing.Queue does not order objects 01/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue4999 created ndfred
multiprocessing - Pool.map() slower about 5 times than map() on 01/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5000 created 0x666
Remove assertion-based checking in multiprocessing 01/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5001 created jnoller
multiprocessing/pipe_connection.c compiler warning (conn_poll) 01/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5002 created ocean-city
patch
Error while installing Python-3 01/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5003 created vani
socket.getfqdn() doesn't cope properly with purely DNS-based set 01/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5004 created dfranke
3.0 sqlite doc: most examples refer to pysqlite2, use 2.x syntax 01/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5005 created tjreedy
Duplicate UTF-16 BOM if a file is open in append mode 01/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5006 created haypo
urllib2 HTTPS connection failure (BadStatusLine Exception) 01/19/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5007 created ak
Wrong tell() result for a file opened in append mode 01/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5008 created haypo
patch
multiprocessing: failure in manager._debug_info() 01/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5009 created amaury.forgeotdarc
patch, needs review
repoened "test_maxint64 fails on 32-bit systems due to assumptio 01/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5010 created lkcl
issue4428 - make io.BufferedWriter observe max_buffer_size limit 01/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5011 created pitrou
How to test python 3 was installed properly in my directory? 01/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5012 created vani
Problems with delay parm of logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler 01/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5013 created pycurry
Kernel Protection Failure 01/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5014 reopened pitrou
The Py_SetPythonHome C API function is undocumented 01/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5015 created Kylotan
FileIO.seekable() can return False 01/20/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5016 created pitrou
patch
import suds help( suds ) fails 01/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5017 created pjb
Overly general claim about sequence unpacking in tutorial 01/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5018 created MLModel
Specifying common controls DLL in manifest 01/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5019 created robind
Regex Expression Error 01/21/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5020 created sleepyfish
doctest.testfile should set __name__, can't use namedtuple 01/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5021 created tlynn
doctest should allow running tests with "python -m doctest" 01/21/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5022 created tlynn
Segfault in datetime.time.strftime("%z") 01/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5023 created eswald
sndhdr.whathdr returns -1 for WAV file frame count 01/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5024 created rpyle
test_kqueue failure on OS X 01/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5025 created marketdickinson
patch
[reopening] native build of python win32 using msys under both w 01/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5026 created lkcl
xml namespace not understood by xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator 01/21/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5027 created roug
tokenize.generate_tokens doesn't always return logical line 01/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5028 created duncf
Odd slicing behaviour 01/22/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5029 created dgaletic
Typo in class tkinter.filedialog.Directory prevents compilation 01/22/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5030 created ringhome
Thread.daemon docs 01/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5031 created steve21
patch, needs review
itertools.count step 01/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5032 created steve21
setup.py crashes if sqlite version contains 'beta' 01/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5033 created blahblahwhat
itertools.fixlen 01/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5034 created lehmannro
patch
Compilation --without-threads fails 01/22/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5035 created pitrou
patch
xml.parsers.expat make a dictionary which keys are broken if buf 01/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5036 created tksmashiw
unexpected unicode behavior for proxy objects 01/23/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5037 created Taldor
Issues Now Closed (74)
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Adds the .compact() method to bsddb db.DB objects 444 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1391 jcea
patch
complex constructor doesn't accept string with nan and inf 341 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2121 marketdickinson
patch
embed manifest in windows extensions 288 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2563 mhammond
patch, patch
Console UnicodeDecodeError s once more 282 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2614 benjamin.peterson
Multiprocessing hangs when multiprocessing.Pool methods are call 203 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3272 jnoller
multiprocessing and meaningful errors 203 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3273 jnoller
multiprocessing.connection doesn't import AuthenticationError, w 202 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3283 jnoller
patch
_multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle 195 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3321 jnoller
patch, needs review
use of cPickle in multiprocessing 193 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3325 jnoller
patch
thread_nt.c update 7 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3582 krisvale
patch, patch
importing from UNC roots doesn't work 151 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3677 ocean-city
patch
_multiprocessing build fails when configure --without-threads 137 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3807 haypo
patch
Problem with SocketIO for closing the socket 132 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3826 gregory.p.smith
patch
IDLE: checksyntax() doesn't support Unicode? 109 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4008 loewis
patch, needs review
_multiprocessing doesn't build on macosx 10.3 104 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4065 jnoller
Py_FatalError cleanup patch 101 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4077 amaury.forgeotdarc
patch, easy
Thread Safe Py_AddPendingCall 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4293 marketdickinson
patch, patch
incorrect and inconsistent logging in multiprocessing 68 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4301 jnoller
patch, needs review
Fix performance issues in xmlrpclib 63 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4336 krisvale
patch, patch, easy
AssertionError in Doc/includes/mp_benchmarks.py 51 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4449 jnoller
patch, needs review
Optimize new io library 43 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4561 pitrou
patch
Documentation for multiprocessing - Pool.apply() 45 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4593 jnoller
easy
Issue with RotatingFileHandler logging handler on Windows 25 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4749 vsajip
threding, bsddb and double free or corruption (fasttop) 23 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4774 jcea
idle 3.1a1 utf8 16 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4815 loewis
patch, needs review
md_state is not released 13 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4838 pitrou
patch
int('3L') still valid in Python 3.0 15 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4842 marketdickinson
patch
syntax: no unpacking in augassign 12 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4857 georg.brandl
decoding functions in _codecs module accept str arguments 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4874 pitrou
patch
Allow buffering for HTTPResponse 12 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4879 krisvale
patch, patch
ast.literal_eval does not properly handled complex numbers 7 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4907 tjreedy
patch, patch
trunc(x) erroneously documented as built-in 7 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4914 georg.brandl
set.add and set.discard are not conformant to collections.Mutabl 7 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4922 georg.brandl
26backport
time.strftime documentation needs update 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4923 georg.brandl
Inconsistent unicode repr for fileobject 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4927 loewis
patch, patch, needs review
smptlib.py can raise socket.error 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4929 krisvale
patch, patch, needs review
Small optimization in type construction 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4930 amaury.forgeotdarc
patch
native build of python win32 using msys under wine. 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4954 lkcl
os.ftruncate raises IOError instead of OSError 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4957 krisvale
patch, patch
inspect.formatargspec fails for keyword args without defaults, a 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4959 benjamin.peterson
patch
UTF-16 stream codec barfs on valid input 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4964 gvanrossum
Redundant mention of lists and tuples at start of Sequence Types 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4974 georg.brandl
3.0 base64 doc examples lack bytes 'b' indicator 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4975 georg.brandl
Documentation of the set intersection and difference operators i 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4976 georg.brandl
allow unicode keyword args 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4978 benjamin.peterson
patch
random.uniform can return its upper limit 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4979 georg.brandl
patch
Documentation for "y#" does not mention PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4980 georg.brandl
Incorrect statement regarding mutable sequences in datamodel Ref 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4981 benjamin.peterson
Spurious reference to "byte sequences" in Library stdtypes seque 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4983 georg.brandl
Inconsistent count of sequence types in Library stdtypes documen 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4984 georg.brandl
Augmented Assignment / Operations Confusion in Documentation 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4986 acooke
A link to "What’s New in Python 2.0" on "The Python Tutorial" 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4988 georg.brandl
'calendar' module is crummy and should be removed 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4989 skip.montanaro
test_codeccallbacks.CodecCallbackTest.test_badhandlerresult is n 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4990 benjamin.peterson
patch
os.fdopen doesn't raise on invalid file descriptors 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4991 benjamin.peterson
patch
Typo in importlib 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4993 brett.cannon
subprocess (Popen) doesn't works properly 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4994 LambertDW
sqlite3 module gives SQL logic error only in transactions 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4995 alsadi
multiprocessing - Pool.map() slower about 5 times than map() on 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5000 0x666
multiprocessing/pipe_connection.c compiler warning (conn_poll) 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5002 jnoller
patch
Error while installing Python-3 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5003 pitrou
Wrong tell() result for a file opened in append mode 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5008 pitrou
patch
multiprocessing: failure in manager._debug_info() 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5009 jnoller
patch, needs review
repoened "test_maxint64 fails on 32-bit systems due to assumptio 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5010 pitrou
issue4428 - make io.BufferedWriter observe max_buffer_size limit 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5011 gregory.p.smith
How to test python 3 was installed properly in my directory? 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5012 benjamin.peterson
Problems with delay parm of logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5013 vsajip
Kernel Protection Failure 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5014 loewis
Regex Expression Error 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5020 amaury.forgeotdarc
doctest should allow running tests with "python -m doctest" 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5022 benjamin.peterson
Odd slicing behaviour 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5029 georg.brandl
Typo in class tkinter.filedialog.Directory prevents compilation 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5030 benjamin.peterson
Only "Overwrite" mode possible with curses.textpad.Textbox 1557 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1048820 dashing
patch
inspect.isclass() fails with custom __getattr__ 1306 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1225107 benjamin.peterson
Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
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22 IDLE won't start in custom directory. 129 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3881
15 __slots__ on Fraction is useless 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4998
14 native build of python win32 using msys under wine. 6 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4954
13 PyUnicode_FromWideChar incorrect for characters outside the BMP 54 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4474
11 let's equip ftplib.FTP with __enter__ and __exit__ 6 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4972
11 _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle 195 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3321
10 Compilation --without-threads fails 1 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue5035
9 test_maxint64 fails on 32-bit systems due to assumption that 64 3 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4977
8 Wrong tell() result for a file opened in append mode 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5008
8 multiprocessing.Queue does not order objects 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4999