ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2010-04-23 - 2010-04-30)
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2638 open (+41) / 17759 closed (+27) / 20397 total (+68)
Open issues with patches: 1081
Average duration of open issues: 724 days.
Median duration of open issues: 494 days.
Open Issues Breakdown
open 2620 (+41)
languishing 10 ( +0)
pending 7 ( +0)
Issues Created Or Reopened (71)
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"Report bug" links 2010-04-24
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2823 reopened techtonik
Silence DeprecationWarning by default 2010-04-25
http://bugs.python.org/issue7319 reopened benjamin.peterson
patch
Small mistake in tutorial web page 2010-04-23
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8511 created mdcowles
os.execv*e(): fix formatting of the environment variables (Pyt 2010-04-23
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8512 created haypo
patch
subprocess: support bytes program name 2010-04-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue8513 created haypo
patch
Create fsencode() and fsdecode() functions in os.path 2010-04-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue8514 created haypo
patch
idle "Run Module" (F5) does not set __file__ variable 2010-04-24
http://bugs.python.org/issue8515 created dangyogi
patch
Speed difference between Python 2.5 and 2.6 during filling bsd 2010-04-24
http://bugs.python.org/issue8516 created PeterL
Apple Style Guide link is broken in the "Documenting Python" c 2010-04-24
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8517 created brandon-rhodes
small typo in http://docs.python.org/howto/doanddont.html 2010-04-24
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8518 created Adrián.Deccico
[patch] doc: termios and ioctl reference links 2010-04-24
http://bugs.python.org/issue8519 created techtonik
patch
test doc issue 2010-04-24
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8520 created georg.brandl
Allow some winreg functions to accept keyword arguments 2010-04-24
http://bugs.python.org/issue8521 created brian.curtin
patch
enhacement proposal in howto/doanddont 2010-04-24
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8522 created Adrián.Deccico
patch
shutil.rmtree and os.listdir cannot recover on error condition 2010-04-24
http://bugs.python.org/issue8523 created rubenlm
easy
SSL sockets do not retain the parent socket's attributes 2010-04-24
http://bugs.python.org/issue8524 created pitrou
Small enhancement to help() 2010-04-24
http://bugs.python.org/issue8525 created robcliffe
msilib doesn't support multiple CAB instances in same installe 2010-04-25
http://bugs.python.org/issue8526 created janssen
easy
[PEP 3147] compileall.compile_dir() called multiple times crea 2010-04-25
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8527 created Arfrever
patch
typo in argparse documentation 2010-04-25
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8528 created akira
subclassing builtin class (str, unicode, list...) needs to ove 2010-04-25
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8529 created flox
Stringlib fastsearch can read beyond the front of an array 2010-04-25
http://bugs.python.org/issue8530 created alex
patch
test_ascii_formatd fails if ctypes module is missing 2010-04-25
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8531 created haypo
Refinements to Python 3 New GIL 2010-04-26
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8532 created dabeaz
patch
regrtest: use backslashreplace error handler for stdout 2010-04-26
http://bugs.python.org/issue8533 created haypo
patch
multiprocessing not working from egg 2010-04-26
http://bugs.python.org/issue8534 created simonsteiner
patch
passing optimization flags to the linker required for builds w 2010-04-26
http://bugs.python.org/issue8535 created doko
patch, needs review
Support new features of ZLIB 1.2.4 2010-04-26
http://bugs.python.org/issue8536 created jcea
easy
Add ConfigureAction to argparse 2010-04-26
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8537 created eric.smith
Add ConfigureAction to argparse 2010-04-26
http://bugs.python.org/issue8538 created eric.smith
Add ConfigureAction to argparse 2010-04-26
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8539 created eric.smith
Make Context._clamp public in decimal module 2010-04-26
http://bugs.python.org/issue8540 created mark.dickinson
Test issue 2010-04-26
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8541 created loewis
Another test issue 2010-04-26
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8542 created loewis
asynchat documentation issues 2010-04-27
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8543 created giampaolo.rodola
i didn't get rqrd output for programme in python?(plz... help) 2010-04-27
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8544 created krishnalolla
i didn't get rqrd output for programme in python?(plz... help) 2010-04-27
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8545 created krishnalolla
The parameter buffering in _pyio.open doesn't work the same as 2010-04-27
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8546 created pyfex
patch
unittest test discovery can fail when package under test is al 2010-04-27
http://bugs.python.org/issue8547 created michael.foord
Building on CygWin 1.7: PATH_MAX redefined 2010-04-27
http://bugs.python.org/issue8548 created jbinder
Modules/_ssl.c: extra comma breaks build on AIX 2010-04-27
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8549 created srid
patch
Expose SSL contexts 2010-04-27
http://bugs.python.org/issue8550 created pitrou
Start argument for str.rfind used incorrectly 2010-04-27
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8551 created dtorp
msilib can't create large CAB files 2010-04-27
http://bugs.python.org/issue8552 created janssen
2to3 breaks relative imports 2010-04-28
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8553 created jyasskin
patch, patch
suspicious comment in msilib.py/__init__.py 2010-04-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue8554 created janssen
tkinter doesn't see _tkinter 2010-04-28
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8555 created py.user
Confusing string formatting examples 2010-04-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue8556 created mcjeff
patch
subprocess PATH semantics and portability 2010-04-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue8557 created dabrahams
StringIO().truncate causes zero-bytes in getvalue() 2010-04-28
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8558 created hpk
test_gdb: test_strings() fails with ASCII locale 2010-04-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue8559 created haypo
patch
regrtest: add a minimal "progress bar" 2010-04-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue8560 created haypo
patch
Install .exes generated with distutils to not do a CRC check 2010-04-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue8561 created nateman1352
hasattr(open,'newlines') example gives incorrect results from 2010-04-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue8562 created adamnelson
[PEP 3147] compileall.compile_file() creates empty __pycache__ 2010-04-28
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8563 created Arfrever
patch
Update documentation on doctest/unittest2 integration 2010-04-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue8564 created pfein
patch
Always run regrtest.py with -bb 2010-04-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue8565 created haypo
patch
2to3 should run under python 2.5 2010-04-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue8566 created jyasskin
patch, patch, needs review
decimal module doesn't respect precedence rules for exceptiona 2010-04-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue8567 created mark.dickinson
Test issue 2010-04-29
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8568 created mark.dickinson
Upgrade OpenSSL in Windows builds 2010-04-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue8569 created pitrou
2to3 crashes with "AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribu 2010-04-29
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue8570 created rom16384
zlib causes a SystemError when decompressing a chunk >1GB 2010-04-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue8571 created ddmitriev
httplib getheader() throws error instead of default 2010-04-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue8572 created Walter.Woods
easy
Buggy _strerror in asyncore 2010-04-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue8573 created q94IjzUfnNoyv4c75mMw
easy
transient_internet() (test_support): use socket.setdefaulttime 2010-04-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue8574 created haypo
patch
Update/reorganize _winreg documentation 2010-04-30
http://bugs.python.org/issue8575 created brian.curtin
patch, patch, needs review
test_support.find_unused_port can cause socket conflicts on Wi 2010-04-30
http://bugs.python.org/issue8576 created pmoore
buildbot
test_distutils fails if srcdir != builddir 2010-04-30
http://bugs.python.org/issue8577 created ronaldoussoren
patch
PyWeakref_GetObject 2010-04-30
http://bugs.python.org/issue8578 created arigo
URI parsing library 2010-04-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue1462525 reopened orsenthil
patch
Issues Now Closed (112)
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uudecoding (uu.py) does not supprt base64, patch attached 977 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1027 tjreedy
patch
Carbon.CF memory management problem 960 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1155 tjreedy
ssl module doesn't support non-blocking handshakes 931 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1251 pitrou
patch
warnings module bug: BytesWarning: str() on a bytes instance 901 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1404 loewis
patch
IDLE not working correctly on Windows (Py30a2/IDLE30a1) 867 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1601 loewis
Execfile unable to take arguments beyond 255! 864 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1636 loewis
Uses of SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown have a race 770 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2302 pitrou
patch, patch
Backport parameter annotations 771 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2331 benjamin.peterson
26backport
Backport PEP 3132 (extended iterable unpacking) 771 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2340 benjamin.peterson
26backport
SO_REUSEADDR doesn't have the same semantics on Windows as on 753 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2550 pitrou
patch, 26backport
cmd.py always uses raw_input, even when another stdin is speci 752 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2571 tjreedy
easy
Remove carbon-specific code from binhex 731 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2715 mark.dickinson
"Report bug" links 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2823 georg.brandl
ssl module - should test for a wrong cert 670 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3212 pitrou
patch
When PyObject_CallMethod fails, refcount is incorrect 659 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3328 tjreedy
"Suggest a change" link 96 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3341 georg.brandl
Mac, 3.0 framework install error with fink cp 645 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3433 tjreedy
case conversion problems in Turkish 627 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3536 tjreedy
Provide a way to disable SSLv2 (or better yet, disable by defa 617 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3596 pitrou
MacOS X framework install to non-standard directory fails 616 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3646 ronaldoussoren
patch
os.mknod missing on Solaris 583 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3928 jcea
patch, needs review
configure --with-threads on cygwin => crash on thread related 581 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3947 loewis
patch
[contextlib] Reverse order of locking 582 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3957 tjreedy
C99 comments in Python 2.6 break build on AIX 6.1 573 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4025 r.david.murray
Do not embed manifest files in *.pyd when compiling with MSVC 559 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4120 loewis
patch
SSL handshake fails after TCP connection in getpeername() 551 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4171 pitrou
type() doesn't accept bases and dict keyword arguments 553 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4186 r.david.murray
import and compile() do not treat trailing whitespace the same 540 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4262 tjreedy
closing stdout in a child process on cygwin means that process 533 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4295 stutzbach
ssl.SSLSocket timeout not working correctly when remote end is 450 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5103 pitrou
patch
ssl makefile never closes socket 435 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5238 pitrou
patch
Fix strftime on windows. 438 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5249 loewis
patch
3.0.1 crashes in unicode path 436 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5273 loewis
patch
array.fromfile() fails to insert values when EOFError is raise 431 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5334 loewis
patch
Broken Py3.1 release build in Visual Studio 2005 423 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5407 tjreedy
Failure in test_httpservers on Linux 410 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5494 tjreedy
Optional extensions in setup.py 393 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5583 tarek
patch
Create alternative CObject API that is safe and clean 389 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5630 jcea
patch
_winreg.OpenKey() is documented with keyword arguments, but do 375 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5774 merwok
patch, needs review
test_unicode fails in wide unicode build 332 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6150 loewis
filecmp.cmp can not compare two files from different OS with t 315 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6306 tjreedy
httplib fails with HEAD requests to pages with "transfer-encod 313 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6312 orsenthil
patch
Improve bool TypeError message 292 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6453 loewis
easy
codecs.open on Win32 does not force binary mode 246 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6788 tjreedy
OptionParser.allow_interspersed_args is undocumented 230 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6883 r.david.murray
Socket error when launching IDLE 223 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6941 tjreedy
test_io.py: codecs.IncrementalDecoder is sometimes None 209 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7027 haypo
patch
Missing uninstallation instructions for mac 201 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7107 ronaldoussoren
Detect improper leading whitespace in C files for Vim 168 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7288 brett.cannon
easy
A number tests "crash" if python is compiled --without-threads 143 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7449 haypo
patch, easy, needs review
pipes.quote does not correctly escape ! 130 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7507 georg.brandl
patch
urllib2 request does not update content length after new add_d 54 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7540 loewis
patch
socket.connect() no longer works with AF_BLUETOOTH L2CAP socke 86 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7834 pitrou
patch, easy
Undocumented subprocess functions on Windows 81 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7838 brian.curtin
patch, easy, needs review
[PATCH] Drop "Computer" from "Apple Computer" in plistlib 9 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7852 ronaldoussoren
patch
urlparse.urlsplit mishandles novel schemes 75 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7904 tseaver
Memory leak due to circular references in ssl.SSLSocket 66 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7943 pitrou
patch
Backport capsule object 61 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7992 jcea
patch, buildbot
ssl.get_server_certificate new line missing 51 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8086 pitrou
patch, easy
test_ftplib fails with OpenSSL 0.9.8m 44 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8108 pitrou
patch, buildbot
String interpolation with unicode subclass fails to call __str 45 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8128 eric.smith
Incoherent error with keyword argument follow by unpacking ar 36 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8177 benjamin.peterson
add unpack_archive to shutil 26 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8295 tarek
HTMLparser does not handle call to handle_data when a tag cont 19 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8319 orsenthil
easy
improve regrtest command line help 20 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8325 r.david.murray
patch, easy, needs review
os.execvpe() doesn't support surrogates in env 12 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8391 haypo
patch
dict constructor allows invalid identifiers in **kwargs 8 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8419 benjamin.peterson
patch
syslog.syslog('msg') logs message with ident "python". 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8451 r.david.murray
patch, easy, needs review
tarfile creates tarballs with execute permissions set 10 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8464 lars.gustaebel
patch
subprocess: surrogates of the error message (Python implementa 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8467 haypo
patch
build-installer fix for setIcon when no script path specified 10 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8476 ronaldoussoren
patch
socket's send can raise errno 35 under OS X, which causes prob 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8493 mdcowles
test_gdb: use utf8+surrogateescape charset? 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8495 haypo
patch
bsddb databases in python 2.6 are not compatible with python 2 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8504 loewis
2to3 fix_future.py removes __future__ imports, but should it? 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8505 barry
Small mistake in tutorial web page 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8511 ezio.melotti
os.execv*e(): fix formatting of the environment variables (Pyt 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8512 haypo
patch
Apple Style Guide link is broken in the "Documenting Python" c 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8517 georg.brandl
small typo in http://docs.python.org/howto/doanddont.html 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8518 georg.brandl
test doc issue 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8520 georg.brandl
enhacement proposal in howto/doanddont 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8522 georg.brandl
patch
[PEP 3147] compileall.compile_dir() called multiple times crea 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8527 barry
patch
typo in argparse documentation 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8528 georg.brandl
subclassing builtin class (str, unicode, list...) needs to ove 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8529 flox
test_ascii_formatd fails if ctypes module is missing 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8531 haypo
Refinements to Python 3 New GIL 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8532 pitrou
patch
Add ConfigureAction to argparse 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8537 eric.smith
Add ConfigureAction to argparse 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8539 eric.smith
Test issue 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8541 loewis
Another test issue 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8542 loewis
asynchat documentation issues 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8543 giampaolo.rodola
i didn't get rqrd output for programme in python?(plz... help) 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8544 orsenthil
i didn't get rqrd output for programme in python?(plz... help) 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8545 georg.brandl
The parameter buffering in _pyio.open doesn't work the same as 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8546 benjamin.peterson
patch
Modules/_ssl.c: extra comma breaks build on AIX 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8549 pitrou
patch
Start argument for str.rfind used incorrectly 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8551 r.david.murray
2to3 breaks relative imports 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8553 jyasskin
patch, patch
tkinter doesn't see _tkinter 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8555 py.user
StringIO().truncate causes zero-bytes in getvalue() 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8558 pitrou
[PEP 3147] compileall.compile_file() creates empty __pycache__ 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8563 Arfrever
patch
Test issue 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8568 mark.dickinson
2to3 crashes with "AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribu 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8570 benjamin.peterson
cPickle does relative import 2681 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue658693 tjreedy
ftplib.retrbinary fails when called from retrlines callback 2510 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue751758 giampaolo.rodola
PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile 2483 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue770280 mark.dickinson
patch
MacPython installer fails on UFS filesystem 2457 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue785031 tjreedy
Carbon.File fails if server vol is mounted after launch 2092 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1004810 tjreedy
bdist_deb - Debian packager 436 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1054967 barry
patch
configure: refuses setgroups 1848 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1178510 tjreedy
use PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer in non-interractive input 1614 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1367628 tjreedy
patch
test test_capi crashed -- thread.error: can't allocate lock 1470 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1473979 tjreedy
Python 2.5.1 fails to build on AIX 1016 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1756343 tjreedy
Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
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28 Convoy effect with I/O bound threads and New GIL 73 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7946
17 bdist_deb - Debian packager 436 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1054967
15 socket's send can raise errno 35 under OS X, which causes probl 6 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue8493
14 Create fsencode() and fsdecode() functions in os.path 7 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue8514
11 test_distutils fails if srcdir != builddir 0 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue8577
11 httplib getheader() throws error instead of default 1 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue8572
9 [PEP 3147] compileall.compile_file() creates empty __pycache__ 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue8563
9 shutil.rmtree and os.listdir cannot recover on error conditions 6 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue8523
9 update to autoconf2.65 7 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue8510
9 datetime's comparison methods do not return NotImplemented when 66 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue8005