ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2010-07-16 - 2010-07-23)
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2826 open (+62) / 18349 closed (+21) / 21175 total (+83)
Open issues with patches: 1151
Average duration of open issues: 692 days.
Median duration of open issues: 480 days.
Open Issues Breakdown
open 2780 (+60)
languishing 16 ( +0)
pending 29 ( +2)
Issues Created Or Reopened (89)
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No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat 2010-07-19
http://bugs.python.org/issue2813 reopened mark.dickinson
patch
os.curdir as the default argument for os.listdir 2010-07-23
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6095 reopened tarek
patch
weak dict iterators are fragile because of unpredictable GC ru 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue7105 reopened mark.dickinson
patch
subprocess.Popen documentation should contain a good warning a 2010-07-22
http://bugs.python.org/issue7950 reopened r.david.murray
patch
code.InteractiveInterpreter fails to change locals when invoke 2010-07-16
http://bugs.python.org/issue9274 created ericp
python 2.7 OS X installer no longer installs /usr/local/bin sy 2010-07-16
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9275 created ned.deily
pickle should support methods 2010-07-16
http://bugs.python.org/issue9276 created exarkun
test_struct failure on ARM 2010-07-16
http://bugs.python.org/issue9277 created mark.dickinson
patch, buildbot
rename 2to3 & pydoc to 2to3.py & pydoc.py 2010-07-16
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9278 created srid
get rid of pdb.doc 2010-07-16
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9279 created georg.brandl
easy
sharedinstall target doesn't depend on sharedmods target 2010-07-17
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9280 created Arfrever
patch
Race condition in distutils.dir_util.mkpath() 2010-07-17
http://bugs.python.org/issue9281 created Arfrever
patch
Bug in --listfuncs option of trace.py 2010-07-17
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9282 created eli.bendersky
patch
buggy repr for os.environ 2010-07-17
http://bugs.python.org/issue9283 created pitrou
inspect.findsource() cannot find source for doctest code 2010-07-17
http://bugs.python.org/issue9284 created djc
A decorator for cProfile and profile modules 2010-07-17
http://bugs.python.org/issue9285 created giampaolo.rodola
patch, patch, needs review
email.utils.parseaddr returns garbage for invalid input 2010-07-17
http://bugs.python.org/issue9286 created merwok
Cosmetic fix in OtherFileTests.testOpenDir 2010-07-17
http://bugs.python.org/issue9287 created ocean-city
patch, easy
Disambiguate :option: and :cmdoption: 2010-07-17
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9288 created merwok
patch, needs review
Skip test_long_key(test_winreg) on win2k + py2.x 2010-07-18
http://bugs.python.org/issue9289 created ocean-city
patch
IDLE and Command line present different behavior for sys.stdin 2010-07-18
http://bugs.python.org/issue9290 created Geraldo.Xexeo
mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin 2010-07-18
http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 created Dmitry.Jemerov
patch, easy
Dead code in Modules/pyexpat.c 2010-07-18
http://bugs.python.org/issue9292 created pitrou
Unsupported IO operations should raise UnsupportedOperation 2010-07-18
http://bugs.python.org/issue9293 created pitrou
easy
Dead code in Objects/object.c 2010-07-18
http://bugs.python.org/issue9294 created pitrou
easy
test_close_open_print_buffered(test_file) sometimes crashes 2010-07-18
http://bugs.python.org/issue9295 created ocean-city
patch
json module skipkeys handling changed exception types in 2.7 2010-07-18
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9296 created doughellmann
patch
SMTP with Sqlite3 file attached problem 2010-07-20
http://bugs.python.org/issue9297 reopened murilobr
binary email attachment issue with base64 encoding 2010-07-19
http://bugs.python.org/issue9298 created vunruh
os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppres 2010-07-19
http://bugs.python.org/issue9299 created ysj.ray
patch
c/profile Profile class is not documented 2010-07-19
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9300 created giampaolo.rodola
urllib.quote(None) returns None in 2.7 (raised TypeError befor 2010-07-19
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9301 created djc
Distutils document problem? 2010-07-19
http://bugs.python.org/issue9302 created ysj.ray
patch
Migrate sqlite3 module to _v2 API to enhance performance 2010-07-19
http://bugs.python.org/issue9303 created feuermurmel
unreproducible example in the memoryview documentation 2010-07-19
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9304 created chaica_
Don't use east/west of UTC in date/time documentation 2010-07-19
http://bugs.python.org/issue9305 created belopolsky
easy
distutils: raise informative error message when cmd_class is N 2010-07-19
http://bugs.python.org/issue9306 created srid
Py_TPFLAGS_LONG_SUBCLASS is not documented 2010-07-19
http://bugs.python.org/issue9307 created belopolsky
Remove redundant coding cookies from 3.x stdlib 2010-07-19
http://bugs.python.org/issue9308 created belopolsky
patch
Add environment variable complementing command line option -no 2010-07-19
http://bugs.python.org/issue9309 created AlexanderDreyer
patch
Intermittent failures in test_logging 2010-07-19
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9310 created skrah
patch, buildbot
os.access can return bogus values when run as superuser 2010-07-20
http://bugs.python.org/issue9311 created yaneurabeya
Fix usage of :option: markup in stdlib ReST docs 2010-07-20
http://bugs.python.org/issue9312 created eli.bendersky
patch
distutils error on MSVC older than 8 2010-07-20
http://bugs.python.org/issue9313 created ocean-city
patch
inconsistent result when concatenating list with iterators 2010-07-20
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9314 created djc
The trace module lacks unit tests 2010-07-20
http://bugs.python.org/issue9315 created eli.bendersky
typos in zipimport docstrings 2010-07-21
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9316 created rfk
patch
Incorrect coverage file from trace test_pickle.py 2010-07-21
http://bugs.python.org/issue9317 created belopolsky
patch
Py3k compilation on old MSVC 2010-07-21
http://bugs.python.org/issue9318 created ocean-city
patch
segfault when searching modules with help() 2010-07-21
http://bugs.python.org/issue9319 created ron_adam
os.environ is global for threads 2010-07-22
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9320 reopened techtonik
CGIHTTPServer cleanup htbin 2010-07-21
http://bugs.python.org/issue9321 created techtonik
bdist_rpm ext_modules absolute source path fail 2010-07-21
http://bugs.python.org/issue9322 created indiedan
trace.py bug with the main file being traced 2010-07-21
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9323 created eli.bendersky
patch
signal.signal(bogus_signal, handler) segfaults on Windows 2010-07-21
http://bugs.python.org/issue9324 created midnightdf
patch
Add an option to pdb/trace/profile to run library module as a 2010-07-21
http://bugs.python.org/issue9325 created belopolsky
Error message for incorrect number of (function) args is incor 2010-07-21
http://bugs.python.org/issue9326 created midnightdf
doctest DocFileCase setUp/tearDown asymmetry 2010-07-21
http://bugs.python.org/issue9327 created boogenhagn
str.__format__.__doc__ backport glitch 2010-07-21
http://bugs.python.org/issue9328 created tjreedy
easy
freeze tool cannot handle JSON module properly 2010-07-22
http://bugs.python.org/issue9329 created sam.sp
assertIn should check for membership support before testing 2010-07-22
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9330 created brian.curtin
patch, patch, needs review
sys.setprofile is not described as CPython implementation deta 2010-07-22
http://bugs.python.org/issue9331 created belopolsky
Document requirements for os.symlink usage on Windows 2010-07-22
http://bugs.python.org/issue9332 created brian.curtin
Expose a way to enable os.symlink on Windows 2010-07-22
http://bugs.python.org/issue9333 created brian.curtin
patch
argparse does not accept options taking arguments beginning wi 2010-07-22
http://bugs.python.org/issue9334 created andersk
LC_CTYPE system setting not respected by setlocale() 2010-07-23
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9335 created antlong
string.letters should display locale based equivalent of a-Z 2010-07-23
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9336 created antlong
Make float.__str__ behave identically to float.__repr__ 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9337 created mark.dickinson
argparse optionals with nargs='+' can't be followed by positio 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9338 reopened bethard
threading is_alive documnetation is unclear 2010-07-23
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9339 created bbrazil
patch
argparse parse_known_args does not work with subparsers 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9340 created bethard
allow argparse subcommands to be grouped 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9341 created bethard
Tests for monthrange in calendar.py module 2010-07-23
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9342 created John.Chandler
patch
Document that argparse "parents" must be fully declared before 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9343 created bethard
please add posix.getgrouplist() 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9344 created ronaldoussoren
easy
argparse wrap tests are sensitive to terminal size 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9345 created bethard
Improve threading tests 2010-07-23
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9346 created bbrazil
patch
Calling argparse add_argument with a sequence as 'type' causes 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9347 created bethard
Calling argparse's add_argument with the wrong number of metav 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9348 created bethard
document argparse's help=SUPPRESS 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9349 created bethard
add remove_argument_group to argparse 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9350 created bethard
argparse set_defaults on subcommands should override top level 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9351 created bethard
argparse eats characters when parsing multiple merged short op 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9352 created bethard
patch
argparse __all__ is incomplete 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9353 created bethard
file_wrapper fails to provide getsockopt() 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9354 created lukasz.langa
patch
argparse add_mutually_exclusive_group more than once has incor 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9355 created bethard
Improved tests and style for fnmatch 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9356 created bbrazil
patch
hotshot.stats.load fails with AssertionError 2010-07-19
http://bugs.python.org/issue900092 reopened brian.curtin
patch
urllib.quote throws exception on Unicode URL 2010-07-22
http://bugs.python.org/issue1712522 reopened orsenthil
patch, easy
Issues Now Closed (74)
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Allow array.array to be parsed by the t# format unit. 1027 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1200 BreamoreBoy
IDLE - patch Delegator to support callables 1015 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1252 taleinat
patch
Race condition in os.makedirs 943 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1675 tjreedy
easy
Remove cmp parameter to list.sort() and builtin.sorted() 924 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1771 metal
Test 908 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1902 loewis
optimize out local variables at end of function 876 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2181 BreamoreBoy
patch, patch
2to3 converts long(itude) argument to int 813 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2734 maubp
Remove mimetools usage from the stdlib 588 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2848 merwok
patch
Expect methods for testing. 699 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3615 michael.foord
patch
test_run_abort triggers CrashReporter on MacOS X 656 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4047 ronaldoussoren
Faster opcode dispatch on gcc 570 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4753 pitrou
patch
Python on Windows disables all C runtime library assertions 564 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4804 BreamoreBoy
patch, needs review
3.1 cannot unpickle 2.7-created pickle 525 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5180 belopolsky
patch
array.fromfile not checking I/O errors 508 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5395 pitrou
patch, easy
_winreg.OpenKey() is documented with keyword arguments, but do 462 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5774 stutzbach
patch, needs review
Right-click behavior from Windows Explorer 454 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5817 Mkopinsky
os.curdir as the default argument for os.listdir 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6095 tarek
patch
subprocess doesn't pass arguments correctly on Linux when shel 344 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6689 berwyn
patch
char buffer in function posix_getcwdu should not be fix length 322 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6817 skrah
patch
getcwd hangs and leaks mem on Solaris <= 9 in very long file n 301 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6976 skrah
curses crash on FreeBSD 236 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7384 skrah
patch, buildbot
dis module documentation gives no indication of the dangers of 16 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7829 brett.cannon
Mac 10.6 mac_ver() crashes with USING_FORK_WITHOUT_EXEC_IS _NO 164 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7895 ronaldoussoren
easy
PYTHON_API_VERSION needs to be bumped? 134 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8118 ronaldoussoren
Multiple Python Interpreter Memory Leak 114 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8258 amaury.forgeotdarc
test_float fails on ARM Linux EABI with soft floating point 111 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8265 mark.dickinson
buildbot
unit tests rather light on testing __import__(..., level) 101 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8392 brett.cannon
patch, needs review
Segmentation error happens in Embedding Python. 43 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8917 tanaga
CGIHTTPServer supports only Python CGI scripts 35 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9007 techtonik
Simplify Py_CHARMASK 30 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9036 skrah
patch, needs review
Tkinter module missing from install on OS X 10.6.4 29 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9073 ronaldoussoren
contextlib.ContextDecorator 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9110 ncoghlan
patch
os.getcwd causes infinite loop on solaris 12 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9185 skrah
patch, needs review
Improve CFLAGS handling 12 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9189 jyasskin
document that the 'test' package is for core developers only 10 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9255 merwok
easy
Incorrect name passed as arg[0] when shell=True and executable 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9265 skrah
Add annotation option to pickletools.dis 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9268 belopolsky
patch, easy
python 2.7 OS X installer no longer installs /usr/local/bin sy 7 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9275 ronaldoussoren
rename 2to3 & pydoc to 2to3.py & pydoc.py 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9278 srid
get rid of pdb.doc 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9279 georg.brandl
easy
sharedinstall target doesn't depend on sharedmods target 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9280 benjamin.peterson
patch
Bug in --listfuncs option of trace.py 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9282 belopolsky
patch
Disambiguate :option: and :cmdoption: 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9288 georg.brandl
patch, needs review
json module skipkeys handling changed exception types in 2.7 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9296 doughellmann
patch
c/profile Profile class is not documented 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9300 giampaolo.rodola
urllib.quote(None) returns None in 2.7 (raised TypeError befor 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9301 orsenthil
unreproducible example in the memoryview documentation 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9304 pitrou
Intermittent failures in test_logging 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9310 vinay.sajip
patch, buildbot
inconsistent result when concatenating list with iterators 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9314 belopolsky
typos in zipimport docstrings 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9316 brian.curtin
patch
os.environ is global for threads 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9320 georg.brandl
trace.py bug with the main file being traced 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9323 belopolsky
patch
assertIn should check for membership support before testing 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9330 brian.curtin
patch, patch, needs review
LC_CTYPE system setting not respected by setlocale() 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9335 belopolsky
string.letters should display locale based equivalent of a-Z 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9336 r.david.murray
threading is_alive documnetation is unclear 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9339 brett.cannon
patch
Tests for monthrange in calendar.py module 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9342 brett.cannon
patch
Improve threading tests 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9346 brett.cannon
patch
test_timeout updates 2637 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue728815 belopolsky
patch
iterators broken for weak dicts 2447 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue839159 mark.dickinson
patch
hotshot.runctx: builtins missing 1972 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1149798 BreamoreBoy
patch
Support non-file source/dest in marshal 1871 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1214879 BreamoreBoy
patch
subprocess: wait for a period of time 1660 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1396825 skrah
email.Utils.parseaddr() gives arcane result 1641 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1409460 merwok
Use PyOS_snprintf for static buffers 1621 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1428655 BreamoreBoy
patch
Multiple simultaneous sendtos on AF_UNIX socket broken. 1600 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1441984 BreamoreBoy
syntax errors on continuation lines 1504 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1501979 BreamoreBoy
patch
Add "compose" function to the functools 1499 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1506122 amaury.forgeotdarc
sgmllib should recover from unmatched quotes 1480 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1515142 BreamoreBoy
patch, easy
Tweak to make string.Templates more customizable 1456 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1528167 BreamoreBoy
patch
email parser incorrectly breaks headers with a CRLF at 8192 1406 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1555570 r.david.murray
patch
Add os.symlink() and os.path.islink() support for Windows 1375 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1578269 brian.curtin
patch, needs review
Minor AST tweaks 1250 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1659410 benjamin.peterson
patch
splitext of dotfiles, incl backwards compat and migration 1219 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1681842 michael.foord
patch
Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________
27 Make gettimeofday available in time module 29 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue9079
21 doctest _load_testfile function -- newline handling seems incor 923 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue1812
21 urllib.quote throws exception on Unicode URL 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue1712522
20 LC_CTYPE system setting not respected by setlocale() 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue9335
18 Incorrect coverage file from trace test_pickle.py 3 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue9317
15 os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue9299
14 inconsistent result when concatenating list with iterators 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue9314
14 Remove redundant coding cookies from 3.x stdlib 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue9308
12 test_close_open_print_buffered(test_file) sometimes crashes 5 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue9295
11 json module skipkeys handling changed exception types in 2.7 3 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue9296