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 2602 open (+33) / 17137 closed (+25) / 19739 total (+58)

Open issues with patches:  1069

Average duration of open issues: 712 days.
Median duration of open issues: 466 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
   open  2567 (+33)
pending    34 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (59)
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support "with self.assertRaises(SomeException) as exc:" syntax   02/07/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7859    reopened flox                          
                                                                               

32-bit Python on 64-bit Windows reports incorrect architecture   02/05/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7860    created  brian.curtin                  
       patch, patch, needs review                                              

2to3: "import foo" ->  "from . import foo"                       02/05/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7861    created  tomspur                       
                                                                               

fileio.c: ValueError vs. IOError with impossible operations      02/05/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7862    created  skrah                         
                                                                               

platform module doesn't detect Windows 7                         02/05/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7863    created  adal                          
       patch, needs review                                                     

Deprecation markers in unittest docs are unclear                 02/06/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7864    created  Justin.Lebar                  
                                                                               

io close() swallowing exceptions                                 02/06/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7865    created  pakal                         
                                                                               

it looks like a typo in unittest                                 02/06/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7866    created  artech                        
                                                                               

Proposed FAQ entry on pass-by-? semantics and the meaning of 'va 02/06/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7867    created  r.david.murray                
                                                                               

add a loggerClass attribute to Manager                           02/06/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7868    created  georg.brandl                  
       patch, patch, easy                                                      

traceback from logging is unusable.                              02/07/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7869    created  naoki                         
       patch                                                                   

Duplicate test methods in test_memoryio                          02/07/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7870    created  georg.brandl                  
                                                                               

Duplicate test method in test_heapq                              02/07/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7871    created  georg.brandl                  
                                                                               

Incorrect error raised on importing invalid module via unittest  02/07/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7872    created  Daniel.Waterworth             
                                                                               

Remove precision restriction for integer formatting.             02/07/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7873    created  mark.dickinson                
       easy                                                                    

logging.basicConfig should raise warning/exception on second cal 02/07/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7874    created  tocomo                        
                                                                               

test_multiprocessing / importlib failure                         02/07/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7875    created  pitrou                        
       buildbot                                                                

unittest docs use deprecated method in code example              02/07/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7876    created  Bernt.Røskar.Brenna          
                                                                               

Iterators over _winreg EnumKey and EnumValue results             02/07/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7877    created  brian.curtin                  
       patch, patch, needs review                                              

regrtest should check for changes in import machinery            02/07/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7878    created  brett.cannon                  
       easy                                                                    

Too narrow platform check in test_datetime                       02/07/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7879    created  akrpic77                      
       patch                                                                   

sysconfig does not like symlinks                                 02/07/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7880    created  flox                          
       patch                                                                   

Hardcoded path, unsafe tempfile in test_logging                  02/08/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7881    created  nascheme                      
                                                                               

Compiling on MOX 10.6 "Snow Leopard" --#warning Building for Int 02/08/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7882    created  global667                     
                                                                               

CallTips.py _find_constructor does not work                      02/08/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7883    created  Bernt.Røskar.Brenna          
                                                                               

IDLE 3.1.1 crashes with UnicodeDecodeError when I press Ctrl-Spa 02/08/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7884    created  Bernt.Røskar.Brenna          
                                                                               

test_distutils fails if Python built in separate directory       02/08/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7885    created  nascheme                      
                                                                               

reverse on an empty list returns None                            02/08/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7886    created  tormen                        
                                                                               

errno 107 socket.recv issure                                     02/08/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7887    created  twistedphrame                 
                                                                               

turtle "settiltangle" should be marked deprecated, not "tiltangl 02/09/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7888    created  mnewman                       
                                                                               

random produces different output on different architectures      02/09/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7889    created  terrence                      
                                                                               

equal unicode/str objects can have unequal hash                  02/09/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7890    created  ldeller                       
                                                                               

add links to SVN for documentation developers                    02/09/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7891    created  techtonik                     
                                                                               

refactor "test_dict.py" using new assertRaises context manager.  02/09/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7892    created  flox                          
       patch                                                                   

unittest: have to subclass TextTestRunner to use alternative Tes 02/09/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7893    created  michael.foord                 
       easy                                                                    

too aggressive dependency tracking in distutils                  02/09/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7894    created  ronaldoussoren                
                                                                               

Mac 10.6 mac_ver() crashes with USING_FORK_WITHOUT_EXEC_IS _NOT_ 02/09/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7895    created  aahz                          
                                                                               

IDLE.app crashes when attempting to open a .py file              02/09/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7896    created  phyreman                      
                                                                               

Support parametrized tests in unittest                           02/10/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7897    created  fperez                        
                                                                               

rlcompleter add "real tab" when text is empty feature            02/10/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7898    created  lilaboc                       
       patch                                                                   

MemoryError While Executing Python Code                          02/10/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7899    created  p_noblebose                   
                                                                               

posix.getgroups() failure on Mac OS X                            02/10/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7900    created  michael.foord                 
                                                                               

Add Vista/7  symlink support                                     02/10/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7901    created  ipatrol                       
                                                                               

relative import broken                                           02/10/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7902    created  gangesmaster                  
                                                                               

Configure script incorrect for reasonably recent OpenBSD         02/10/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7903    created  johns                         
                                                                               

urlparse.urlsplit mishandles novel schemes                       02/10/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7904    created  mbloore                       
                                                                               

Shelf 'keyencoding' keyword argument is undocumented and does no 02/11/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7905    created  r.david.murray                
       patch, patch, needs review                                              

float("INFI") returns inf on certain platforms                   02/11/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7906    created  csernazs                      
                                                                               

winreg docs: CreateKeyEx should be CreateKey (minor)             02/11/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7907    created  patraulea                     
       patch, needs review                                                     

remove leftover macos9 support code                              02/11/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7908    created  ronaldoussoren                
       patch, needs review                                                     

os.path.abspath(os.devnull) returns \\\\nul should be nul?       02/11/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7909    created  abakker                       
                                                                               

immutability w/r to tuple.__add__                                02/11/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7910    created  mattrussell                   
                                                                               

unittest.TestCase.longMessage should default to True in Python 3 02/11/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7911    created  michael.foord                 
       easy                                                                    

Error in additon of decimal numbers                              02/11/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7912    created  James.Sparenberg              
                                                                               

Enhance Cmd support for docstrings and document it.              02/11/10
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7913    created  r.david.murray                
       patch                                                                   

IntVar() - AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 't 02/11/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7914    created  Plazma                        
                                                                               

A lists which list.sort seems to leave out of order.             02/12/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7915    created  throwaway                     
                                                                               

zipfile.ZipExtFile passes long to fileobj.read()                 02/12/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7916    created  anacrolix                     
                                                                               

list of list created by *                                        02/12/10
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7917    created  sledge76                      
                                                                               



Issues Now Closed (60)
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Intermitent failure in test_multiprocessing.test_number_of_objec  543 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3562    flox                          
                                                                               

allow unicode keyword args                                          2 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue4978    benjamin.peterson             
       patch, needs review                                                     

A selection of spelling errors and typos throughout source          3 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue5341    merwok                        
       patch                                                                   

[PATCH]Add FastDbfilenameShelf: shelf nerver sync cache even whe  335 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue5483    r.david.murray                
       patch                                                                   

memory leaks in py3k                                              317 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue5596    flox                          
       patch                                                                   

Serious interpreter crash and/or arbitrary memory leak using .re  309 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue5677    pitrou                        
       patch                                                                   

Shelve module writeback parameter does not act as advertised      302 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue5754    r.david.murray                
       patch, easy                                                             

ZipFile.writestr "compression_type" argument                      271 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue6003    ronaldoussoren                
       patch                                                                   

ElementTree (py3k) doesn't properly encode characters that can't  247 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue6233    pitrou                        
       patch                                                                   

rare assertion failure in test_multiprocessing                    224 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue6366    flox                          
                                                                               

OS X: python3 from python-3.1.dmg crashes at startup              224 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue6393    srid                          
       patch, needs review                                                     

multiprocessing logging support test                               77 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue6615    vinay.sajip                   
       patch                                                                   

test test_multiprocessing failed                                  172 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue6747    flox                          
                                                                               

enable compilation of readline module on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6     7 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue6877    minge                         
       patch, 26backport, needs review                                         

Update version{added,changed} entries in py3k unittest docs       127 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7030    ezio.melotti                  
                                                                               

Make assertMultilineEqual default for unicode string comparison   130 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7032    michael.foord                 
                                                                               

low performance of zipfile readline()                             105 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7216    amaury.forgeotdarc            
                                                                               

OverflowError: signed integer is greater than maximum on mips64    91 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7296    mark.dickinson                
                                                                               

OS X 2.6.4 installer fails on 10.3 with two corrupted	file names   64 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7437    ronaldoussoren                
                                                                               

python -m unittest path_to_suite_function errors                   59 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7501    michael.foord                 
                                                                               

unittest.TestCase.shortDescription isn't short anymore             44 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7588    michael.foord                 
                                                                               

OS X pythonw.c compile error with 10.4 or earlier deployment tar   30 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7658    ronaldoussoren                
       patch                                                                   

configure GCC version detection fix for Darwin                     22 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7714    ronaldoussoren                
       patch, needs review                                                     

Allow use of GNU arch on Darwin                                    26 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7715    ronaldoussoren                
       patch, needs review                                                     

test_timeout should use "find_unused_port" helper                  19 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7728    r.david.murray                
       patch, easy, buildbot                                                   

unittest returning standard_tests from load_tests in module fail    8 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7799    michael.foord                 
       easy                                                                    

test_macostools fails on OS X 10.6: no attribute 'FSSpec'           9 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7807    ronaldoussoren                
                                                                               

Call to gestalt('sysu') on OSX can lead to freeze in wxPython ap    8 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7812    ronaldoussoren                
                                                                               

Minor bug in 2.6.4 related to cleanup at end of program             9 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7835    r.david.murray                
       patch, easy                                                             

python-dev archives are not updated                                 5 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7843    isandler                      
                                                                               

Remove 'python -U' or document it                                   2 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7847    barry                         
       patch, needs review                                                     

copy.copy corrupts objects that return false value from __getsta    4 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7848    georg.brandl                  
                                                                               

on __exit__(), exc_value does not contain the exception.            2 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7853    benjamin.peterson             
       patch                                                                   

test_logging fails                                                  3 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7857    vinay.sajip                   
       buildbot                                                                

support "with self.assertRaises(SomeException) as exc:" syntax      0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7859    flox                          
                                                                               

2to3: "import foo" ->  "from . import foo"                          3 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7861    tomspur                       
                                                                               

Deprecation markers in unittest docs are unclear                    0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7864    georg.brandl                  
                                                                               

it looks like a typo in unittest                                    0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7866    merwok                        
                                                                               

add a loggerClass attribute to Manager                              0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7868    georg.brandl                  
       patch, patch, easy                                                      

traceback from logging is unusable.                                 0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7869    vinay.sajip                   
       patch                                                                   

Duplicate test methods in test_memoryio                             0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7870    pitrou                        
                                                                               

Incorrect error raised on importing invalid module via unittest     0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7872    michael.foord                 
                                                                               

logging.basicConfig should raise warning/exception on second cal    0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7874    vinay.sajip                   
                                                                               

unittest docs use deprecated method in code example                 1 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7876    ezio.melotti                  
                                                                               

Hardcoded path, unsafe tempfile in test_logging                     0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7881    vinay.sajip                   
                                                                               

Compiling on MOX 10.6 "Snow Leopard" --#warning Building for Int    1 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7882    ronaldoussoren                
                                                                               

IDLE 3.1.1 crashes with UnicodeDecodeError when I press Ctrl-Spa    0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7884    ezio.melotti                  
                                                                               

reverse on an empty list returns None                               0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7886    tormen                        
                                                                               

errno 107 socket.recv issure                                        1 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7887    twistedphrame                 
                                                                               

equal unicode/str objects can have unequal hash                     0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7890    lemburg                       
                                                                               

unittest: have to subclass TextTestRunner to use alternative Tes    1 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7893    michael.foord                 
       easy                                                                    

Add Vista/7  symlink support                                        0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7901    tim.golden                    
                                                                               

float("INFI") returns inf on certain platforms                      1 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7906    r.david.murray                
                                                                               

winreg docs: CreateKeyEx should be CreateKey (minor)                0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7907    ezio.melotti                  
       patch, needs review                                                     

immutability w/r to tuple.__add__                                   0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7910    rhettinger                    
                                                                               

Error in additon of decimal numbers                                 0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7912    r.david.murray                
                                                                               

IntVar() - AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 't    0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7914    brian.curtin                  
                                                                               

A lists which list.sort seems to leave out of order.                0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7915    throwaway                     
                                                                               

zipfile.ZipExtFile passes long to fileobj.read()                    0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7916    amaury.forgeotdarc            
                                                                               

list of list created by *                                           0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue7917    flox                          
                                                                               



Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
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 17 Add a context manager to change cwd in test.test_support and ru   27 days
open    http://bugs.python.org/issue7712   

 17 enable compilation of readline module on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6    7 days
closed  http://bugs.python.org/issue6877   

 10 random produces different output on different architectures        4 days
open    http://bugs.python.org/issue7889   

  9 Support parametrized tests in unittest                             3 days
open    http://bugs.python.org/issue7897   

  9 support "with self.assertRaises(SomeException) as exc:" syntax     0 days
closed  http://bugs.python.org/issue7859   

  8 test_multiprocessing / importlib failure                           5 days
open    http://bugs.python.org/issue7875   

  8 Add os.link() and os.symlink() and os.path.islink() support for 1215 days
open    http://bugs.python.org/issue1578269

  7 float("INFI") returns inf on certain platforms                     1 days
closed  http://bugs.python.org/issue7906   

  7 Proposed FAQ entry on pass-by-? semantics and the meaning of 'v    6 days
open    http://bugs.python.org/issue7867   

  7 platform module doesn't detect Windows 7                           7 days
open    http://bugs.python.org/issue7863   





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