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2396 open (+27) / 16366 closed (+29) / 18762 total (+56)
Open issues with patches: 953
Average duration of open issues: 664 days.
Median duration of open issues: 420 days.
Open Issues Breakdown
open 2363 (+27)
pending 32 ( +0)
Issues Created Or Reopened (56)
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pdb documentation shows running as script using "python" not "py 09/11/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6885 created MLModel
cgi.py runs python, not python3 09/11/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6886 created MLModel
executables in lib use /usr/bin/env python, not python3 09/11/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6887 created MLModel
pdb alias command with no arguments is broken 09/11/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6888 created MLModel
«Python’s default encoding is the ‘ascii’ encoding.» 09/11/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6889 created flox
IOError has no __unicode__ method - and loses information 09/11/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6890 created michael.foord
26backport
small typo in «unicode.rst»: «the Uniode APIs should be used 09/11/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6891 created flox
optparser example in optparse documentation is broken 09/12/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6892 created MLModel
defaultdict example in py3 doc should mention the new Counter cl 09/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6893 created ezio.melotti
urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment (python2.6.2) 09/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6894 created xelnor
patch
locale._parse_localename fails when localename does not contain 09/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6895 created santhosh.thottingal
patch
Intermittent failures in test_mailbox 09/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6896 created ezio.melotti
imaplib fails during login 09/12/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6897 created debatem1
Unicode Error 09/13/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6898 created vitvn
Base.replace breaks tree 09/13/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6899 created loewis
patch
Sub-optimal "Locate" button behaviour in Windows CHM file 09/13/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6900 created tom_seddon
Runaway programs often become unresponsive to CTRL-C 09/13/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6901 created bernie
Built-in types format incorrectly with 0 padding. 09/13/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6902 created eric.smith
pdb - print in for iteration prints None after printing 09/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6903 created MLModel
Broken URL for pyqt 09/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6904 created thijs
inspect.getargspec(print) fails 09/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6905 created ubershmekel
Tkinter sets an unicode environment variable on win32 09/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6906 created dotz
xmlrpclib.make_connection() is not thread safe 09/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6907 created haypo
Minor markup error in hashlib docs 09/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6908 created lehmannro
patch
python 3.1 - filecmp.cmp exception based on file name 09/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6909 created jdeifik
1-char typo in language reference doc of import 09/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6910 created MLModel
Document changes in asynchat 09/14/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6911 created lehmannro
patch
Add 'with' block support to Tools/Scripts/pindent.py 09/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6912 created tjreedy
Py_SetPythonHome incorrectly documented py3.x (rev 74792) 09/15/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6913 created ideasman42
patch
Py_SetPythonHome, undocumented behavoir 09/15/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6914 created ideasman42
os.listdir inconsistenly releases the GIL on win32 09/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6915 created rfk
patch
Remove deprecated items from asynchat 09/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6916 created lehmannro
patch
".et_folder" instead of "get_folder" in mailbox documentation 09/15/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6917 created dauerbaustelle
ctypes compilation error on SnowLeopard 09/15/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6918 created ronaldoussoren
Link CRT Statically 09/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6919 created hankdane
IDLE 3 crashes on Ctrl+Space with "'utf8' codec can't decode byt 09/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6920 created Yinon
recursion wierdness ... related to variable scoping? 09/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6921 created mrdiskodave
Interpreter hangs up while trying to decode invalid utf32 stream 09/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6922 created mwizard
patch
Need pthread_atfork-like functionality in CPython 09/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6923 created twouters
struct.unpack weird behavior with "bi" (byte then integer) 09/16/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6924 created Manux
Doc for locals and vars 09/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6925 created tjreedy
socket module missing IPPROTO_IPV6, IPPROTO_IPV4 09/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6926 created jaraco
Metaclass doc (Ref 3.3.3) errors 09/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6927 created tjreedy
Doc: Class statements and metaclass = xxx 09/16/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6928 created tjreedy
Confusion between "write" method of rowiobase and rawfileio 09/17/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6929 created pakal
[PATCH] PyUnicode_DecodeUTF16 docs wrong (byteorder param) 09/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6930 created JonFoster
patch
dreadful performance in difflib: ndiff and HtmlDiff 09/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6931 created heidar.rafn
Open shelves fail when Python exits 09/17/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6932 created lehmannro
patch
Threading issue with Tkinter Frame.insert 09/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6933 created moraygrieve
[PATCH] postflight.framework script (from the Mac OS X .dmg inst 09/17/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6934 created slavi
patch
Version updates needed in tutorial 09/17/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6935 created MLModel
Import needed to quit Python? 09/17/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6936 created MLModel
multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core 09/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6937 created aaditya
Incorrect multiprocessing log string in managers.py (python 2.6. 09/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6938 created ftofficer
patch
shadows around the io truncate() semantics 09/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6939 created pakal
cannot compute sizeof wchar_t on OS X 10.5.7, Python 2.6.2 09/18/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue6940 created rajarshi
Issues Now Closed (60)
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xmlrpclib closes connection after each call 580 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2076 haypo
Error when printing an exception containing a Unicode string 535 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2517 ezio.melotti
patch
Windows installer should add Python and Scripts directories to t 396 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3561 srid
Issue with RotatingFileHandler logging handler on Windows 99 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4749 gagenellina
Add description of special case to "Assignment statements" secti 169 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5621 georg.brandl
patch
test_(zipfile|zipimport|gzip|distutils|sqlite) fail if zlib is n 121 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6026 ezio.melotti
Add "intel" universal architecture on OSX 99 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6245 ronaldoussoren
Bug in hashlib 93 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6281 Eloff
Error in tutorial section 7.2 88 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6301 michael.foord
Tkinter cannot find *64 bit* Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X 69 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6441 ronaldoussoren
patch
Make inf be almost equal to inf 50 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6567 michael.foord
unittest test discovery improvements 51 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6568 michael.foord
List the __future__ features in a table 50 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6574 lehmannro
patch, easy
Profiler doesn't print usage (indexError instead) 41 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6635 doko
patch
sys._getframe is not available on all Python implementations 28 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6712 michael.foord
Python as zip package 25 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6767 senthil.kumaran
2to3 assignment division conversion 9 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6831 benjamin.peterson
BaseException DeprecationError raises inappropriately 11 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6844 georg.brandl
patch
Tutorial changes 7 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6849 michael.foord
easy
allow setting uid and gid when creating tar files 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6856 lars.gustaebel
patch
TestLoader.loadTestsFromName does not use suiteClass attribute t 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6866 michael.foord
patch
sequence method .count() and .index() shoud be in immutable seq 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6874 tjreedy
add os.close() suggestion to mkstemp documentation 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6875 georg.brandl
patch
readline documentation example error 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6876 georg.brandl
misstatement in example explanation using raise 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6879 ezio.melotti
class needs forward reference 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6880 georg.brandl
pdb documentation shows running as script using "python" not "py 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6885 georg.brandl
pdb alias command with no arguments is broken 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6888 benjamin.peterson
«Python’s default encoding is the ‘ascii’ encoding.» 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6889 benjamin.peterson
IOError has no __unicode__ method - and loses information 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6890 georg.brandl
26backport
small typo in «unicode.rst»: «the Uniode APIs should be used 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6891 georg.brandl
optparser example in optparse documentation is broken 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6892 georg.brandl
Unicode Error 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6898 ezio.melotti
Runaway programs often become unresponsive to CTRL-C 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6901 bernie
pdb - print in for iteration prints None after printing 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6903 georg.brandl
Broken URL for pyqt 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6904 ezio.melotti
inspect.getargspec(print) fails 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6905 georg.brandl
xmlrpclib.make_connection() is not thread safe 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6907 krisvale
Minor markup error in hashlib docs 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6908 georg.brandl
patch
python 3.1 - filecmp.cmp exception based on file name 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6909 r.david.murray
1-char typo in language reference doc of import 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6910 ezio.melotti
Add 'with' block support to Tools/Scripts/pindent.py 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6912 georg.brandl
Py_SetPythonHome incorrectly documented py3.x (rev 74792) 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6913 benjamin.peterson
patch
Py_SetPythonHome, undocumented behavoir 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6914 benjamin.peterson
".et_folder" instead of "get_folder" in mailbox documentation 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6917 ezio.melotti
Link CRT Statically 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6919 hankdane
IDLE 3 crashes on Ctrl+Space with "'utf8' codec can't decode byt 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6920 ezio.melotti
recursion wierdness ... related to variable scoping? 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6921 mrdiskodave
Interpreter hangs up while trying to decode invalid utf32 stream 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6922 georg.brandl
patch
struct.unpack weird behavior with "bi" (byte then integer) 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6924 mark.dickinson
Confusion between "write" method of rowiobase and rawfileio 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6929 pitrou
Open shelves fail when Python exits 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6932 georg.brandl
patch
Version updates needed in tutorial 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6935 georg.brandl
Import needed to quit Python? 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6936 georg.brandl
Incorrect multiprocessing log string in managers.py (python 2.6. 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6938 georg.brandl
patch
distutils ignores configure's --includedir 1840 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1019715 senthil.kumaran
os.path.splitext don't handle unix hidden file correctly 1684 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1115886 senthil.kumaran
Function-level import in os triggering an threaded import deadlo 104 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1590864 twouters
patch
xmlrpclib ServerProxy uses old httplib interface 1010 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1613573 techtonik
patch
Make xmlrpc use HTTP/1.1 and keepalive 772 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1767370 haypo
patch
Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
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14 should we include argparse 8 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6247
10 BaseException DeprecationError raises inappropriately 11 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6844
9 uuid creates zombies 7 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6882
9 xmlrpclib ServerProxy uses old httplib interface 1010 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1613573
7 multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core 0 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6937
7 expose setresuid 63 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6508
7 encode and decode should accept 'errors' as a keyword argument 93 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6300
5 Confusion between "write" method of rowiobase and rawfileio 0 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6929
5 Link CRT Statically 2 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6919
5 IDLE 2.6.1 locks up on Mac OS 10.6 10 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue6864