ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2010-07-23 - 2010-07-30)
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2804 open (+45) / 18443 closed (+27) / 21247 total (+72)
Open issues with patches: 1151
Average duration of open issues: 689 days.
Median duration of open issues: 481 days.
Open Issues Breakdown
open 2760 (+45)
languishing 16 ( +0)
pending 27 ( +0)
Issues Created Or Reopened (79)
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Add named tuple reader to CSV module 2010-07-25
http://bugs.python.org/issue1818 reopened rhettinger
patch
MatchObject is not a hyperlink in the 're' module documentatio 2010-07-28
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6538 reopened tjreedy
patch, easy
SysLogHandler can't handle Unicode 2010-07-26
http://bugs.python.org/issue7077 reopened georg.brandl
Extraneous newlines with csv.writer on Windows 2010-07-28
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7198 reopened skip.montanaro
Create a bytes version of os.environ and getenvb() 2010-07-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue8603 reopened ezio.melotti
patch
Add annotation option to pickletools.dis 2010-07-26
http://bugs.python.org/issue9268 reopened belopolsky
patch, easy
urllib.quote(None) returns None in 2.7 (raised TypeError befor 2010-07-27
http://bugs.python.org/issue9301 reopened flox
patch
Improve queue tests 2010-07-23
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9357 created bbrazil
patch
Document fnmatch.translate's lack of support for escaping 2010-07-23
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9358 created bbrazil
patch
Misspelled exception 2010-07-23
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9359 created kwadrat
patch
nntplib cleanup 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9360 created Dmitry.Jemerov
patch
Tests for leapdays in calendar.py module 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9361 created John.Chandler
patch
Make exit/quit hint more novice friendly 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9362 created belopolsky
easy
data_files are not installed relative to sys.prefix 2010-07-23
http://bugs.python.org/issue9363 created rioch
some problems with the documentation of pydoc 2010-07-24
http://bugs.python.org/issue9364 created eli.bendersky
Installing a distro without sqlite3 will require a reinstall o 2010-07-24
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9365 created antlong
Reference leak for local new style class 2010-07-24
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9366 created kayhayen
test_getgroups in test_posix fails 2010-07-24
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9367 created DazWorrall
patch
Const-Correctness for Method Calls 2010-07-24
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9368 created aronacher
patch
const char* for PyObject_CallMethod and PyObject_CallFunction 2010-07-24
http://bugs.python.org/issue9369 created neXyon
patch
Add reader redirect from test package docs to unittest module 2010-07-24
http://bugs.python.org/issue9370 created ncoghlan
easy
pulldom doesn't provide END_DOCUMENT or COMMENT nodes. 2010-07-24
http://bugs.python.org/issue9371 created mark.smith
pulldom.DOMEventStream.__getitem__ is broken 2010-07-24
http://bugs.python.org/issue9372 created mark.smith
pulldom has low code coverage 2010-07-24
http://bugs.python.org/issue9373 created mark.smith
urlparse should parse query and fragment for arbitrary schemes 2010-07-24
http://bugs.python.org/issue9374 created Nick.Welch
ElementPath parser in ElementTree 1.3 does not reject "element 2010-07-25
http://bugs.python.org/issue9375 created scoder
Refer to gnuwin32 diff util on development FAQ 2010-07-25
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9376 created BreamoreBoy
easy
socket, PEP 383: Mishandling of non-ASCII bytes in host/domain 2010-07-25
http://bugs.python.org/issue9377 created baikie
patch
Make python -m pickle do something useful 2010-07-25
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9378 created belopolsky
patch, easy
random.randrange behaviour problems 2010-07-25
http://bugs.python.org/issue9379 created lukasz.langa
Allow popping of n elements at once from a deque 2010-07-26
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9380 created ipatrol
syntax error in Unicode C API docs 2010-07-26
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9381 created cvrebert
os.popen referenced but not documented in Python 3.x 2010-07-26
http://bugs.python.org/issue9382 created cvrebert
PIL Bug with split 2010-07-26
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9383 created Arrnaud.Fabre
Tkinter windows pop under the terminal in OSX 2010-07-26
http://bugs.python.org/issue9384 created belopolsky
_ctypes module uses 'rwx' mmap() calls 2010-07-26
http://bugs.python.org/issue9385 created radegand
Bad indentation in urllib import fixer with multiple imports 2010-07-26
http://bugs.python.org/issue9386 created dmalcolm
patch
Make python -m tkinter run tkinter demo 2010-07-26
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9387 created belopolsky
patch, easy, needs review
locale documentation describes non-existing ERA_YEAR constant 2010-07-27
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9388 created belopolsky
easy
Traceback: Exception Shows Code that's On-Disk (Not in memory) 2010-07-28
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9389 reopened Guy
Error in sys.excepthook on windows when redirecting output of 2010-07-27
http://bugs.python.org/issue9390 created sorin
Allow docstrings on dicts and named tuples outside of function 2010-07-27
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9391 created antlong
easy
2.7 framework install doesn't create 2to3-2.7 2010-07-27
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9392 created ronaldoussoren
shelve.open/bsddb.hashopen exception with unicode paths 2010-07-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue9393 created wjm251
patch
shelve.open/bsddb.hashopen raise bsddb.db.DBNoSuchFileError: ( 2010-07-28
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9394 created wjm251
clean does not remove all temp files 2010-07-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue9395 created merwok
Standardise (and publish?) cache handling in standard library 2010-07-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue9396 created ncoghlan
Remove references to the missing dbm.bsd module 2010-07-28
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9397 created haypo
Unify sys.settrace and sys.setprofile tests 2010-07-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue9398 created belopolsky
Provide a 'print' action for argparse 2010-07-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue9399 created travistouchdown
patch
multiprocessing.pool.AsyncResult.get() messes up exceptions 2010-07-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue9400 created Nikratio
automatically try forward operations when reverse operations a 2010-07-28
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9401 created Michael.Gilbert
pyexpat: replace PyObject_DEL() by Py_DECREF() to fix a crash 2010-07-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue9402 created haypo
patch
cElementTree: replace PyObject_DEL() by Py_DECREF() to fix a c 2010-07-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue9403 created haypo
patch
IDLE won't launch on XP 2010-07-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue9404 created Chris.Leaf
crash when calling urllib.getproxies() under OSX with subproce 2010-07-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue9405 created zzzeek
ConfigParser exceptions do not subclass StandardError 2010-07-28
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9406 created jtatum
patch
ConfigParser documentation does not mention ConfigParser.Error 2010-07-28
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9407 created pekkle
patch
curses: Link against libncursesw instead of libncurses 2010-07-28
http://bugs.python.org/issue9408 created haypo
doctest in python2.7 can't handle non-ascii characters 2010-07-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue9409 created hugo
Add Unladden Swallow's optimizations to Python 3's pickle. 2010-07-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue9410 created alexandre.vassalotti
patch
configparser doesn't support specifying encoding in read() 2010-07-29
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9411 created lukasz.langa
patch
test_smtpd leaks references 2010-07-29
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9412 created pitrou
asyncore.close_all() should call x.handle_close() instead of x 2010-07-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue9413 created me.myself
infinite loop with specific regexp 2010-07-29
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9414 created gnuthor
SSL issues on "Ubuntu i386" buildbots 2010-07-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue9415 created pitrou
complex formatting incorrectly omits a negative zero real part 2010-07-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue9416 created mark.dickinson
patch
Declaring a class creates circular references 2010-07-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue9417 created candrea
Move _formatter_* methods from string type into _string module 2010-07-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue9418 created georg.brandl
patch
RUNSHARED needs LDFLAGS 2010-07-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue9419 created phaering
patch
gdbm with /usr/include/ndbm.h 2010-07-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue9420 created phaering
patch
configparser.ConfigParser's getint, getboolean and getfloat do 2010-07-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue9421 created lukasz.langa
Memory leak when reinitializing a Struct object 2010-07-29
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9422 created Winston451
patch
Error in urllib2.do_open(self, http_class, req) 2010-07-29
http://bugs.python.org/issue9423 created lyle.ross
deprecate unittest.TestCase.assertEquals 2010-07-30
http://bugs.python.org/issue9424 created michael.foord
Rewrite import machinery to work with unicode paths 2010-07-30
http://bugs.python.org/issue9425 created haypo
Explicitly state lack of support for keyword arguments in buil 2010-07-30
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue9426 created lukasz.langa
logging.error('...', exc_info=True) should display upper frame 2010-07-30
http://bugs.python.org/issue9427 created guettli
profile.py bug with the main file being profiled 2010-07-30
http://bugs.python.org/issue9428 created belopolsky
patch, easy
Issues Now Closed (108)
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Build issues in DragonFly BSD 807 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2796 BreamoreBoy
patch
Make the left sidebar in the doc collapsible 771 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3143 georg.brandl
Direct calls to PyObject_Del/PyObject_DEL are broken for --wit 752 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3299 haypo
patch
bytes.tohex method 715 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3532 BreamoreBoy
patch
cookielib doesn't handle URLs with / in parameters 697 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3704 gregory.p.smith
patch, needs review
documentation bug: HTMLParser needs to document unknown_decl 682 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3874 tjreedy
patch
Win32ErrorTests from test_os.py 670 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3966 merwok
robotparser.py fail when more than one User-Agent: * is presen 655 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4108 georg.brandl
pdb: Allow the "list" command to return to the currently debug 645 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4179 georg.brandl
patch
Remove use of private attributes in smtpd 639 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4184 richard
tokenize.detect_encoding() and Mac newline 615 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4377 haypo
patch
getopt should not accept no_argument that ends with '=' 590 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4629 haypo
patch
Exceptions in ConfigParser don't set .args 586 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4686 michael.foord
patch
binascii module, inconsistent behavior: some functions accept 575 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4770 flox
patch
On OS-X the directories searched by setup.py for Tk are in the 567 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4813 ronaldoussoren
Pdb cannot access doctest source in postmortem 562 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4938 georg.brandl
Duplicate UTF-16 BOM if a file is open in append mode 554 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5006 flox
patch
pdb "break" command messes up "continue" 528 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5294 georg.brandl
Socket is closed prematurely in httplib, if server sends respo 488 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5542 haypo
test_fileio fails on windows MSVC Assertion 491 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5544 BreamoreBoy
doctest pdb readline broken 477 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5727 georg.brandl
patch
zipfile: Extracting a directory that already exists generates 437 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6050 ezio.melotti
patch
Error compiling valid regex 424 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6156 georg.brandl
patch
Incremental encoder incompatibility between 2.x and py3k 417 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6213 haypo
patch
robotparser doesn't handle URL's with query strings 401 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6325 orsenthil
patch
code.runsource() parsing bug 380 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6480 georg.brandl
infinite recursion from calling builtins.open() 377 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6504 georg.brandl
docs for unittest.expectedFailure do not syntactically show it 375 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6522 georg.brandl
optparse required field for Options 373 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6535 georg.brandl
patch, easy
MatchObject is not a hyperlink in the 're' module documentatio 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6538 georg.brandl
patch, easy
string.Template custom pattern not working 360 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6630 georg.brandl
pdb messes up when debugging an non-ascii program 347 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6719 georg.brandl
Snow Leopard python program fails because _PyType_Modified is 326 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue6812 ronaldoussoren
test_macostools fails on os x 10.6 295 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7041 ronaldoussoren
ConfigParser load speedup 287 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7113 brian.curtin
patch
ElementTree: Incorrect serialization of end-of-line characters 283 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7139 BreamoreBoy
Extraneous newlines with csv.writer on Windows 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7198 skip.montanaro
IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL should ignore the module name 228 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7490 r.david.murray
patch
ConfigParser can't read files with BOM markers 222 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7519 BreamoreBoy
unicode exceptions terminate pdb.pm() loop 224 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7539 georg.brandl
patch
Improve 19.5. xml.dom.minidom doc 202 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7637 akuchling
test_threadsignals leaks references 177 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7825 flox
patch
posix.getgroups() failure on Mac OS X 164 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7900 ronaldoussoren
patch
"-m pdb" SyntaxError for "\r\n" formatted py files 161 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7964 georg.brandl
patch
Add pure Python implementation of datetime module to CPython 151 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue7989 belopolsky
patch
pdb "commands" command throws you into postmortem if you enter 156 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8015 georg.brandl
patch
doctest assumes sys.displayhook hasn't been touched 149 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8048 georg.brandl
patch
Wrong arguments in sqlite3.connect() documentation 139 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8129 haypo
Improve support of PEP 383 (surrogates) in Python3: meta-issue 125 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8242 haypo
patch
Use locale encoding to encode command line arguments (subproce 65 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8775 loewis
patch
tkinter build variants on OSX 61 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8798 ronaldoussoren
Promote SafeConfigParser and warn about ConfigParser 52 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8888 BreamoreBoy
ctypes: remove implicit conversion between unicode and bytes 47 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8966 haypo
patch
PyArg_Parse*() functions: reject discontinious buffers 44 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue8991 haypo
patch
xmlrpc: Transport.request() should also catch socket.error(EPI 35 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9032 haypo
patch
zipfile.extractall always raises an OSError after successfully 24 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9172 BreamoreBoy
pop multiple elements of a list at once 13 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9218 tjreedy
pdb.Pdb.checkline() throws AttributeError if called before sta 18 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9230 georg.brandl
patch
document that the 'test' package is for core developers only 10 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9255 tjreedy
easy
Python 2.7 breaks assigned __exit__s 12 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9259 dmalcolm
test_struct failure on ARM 8 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9277 mark.dickinson
patch, buildbot
buggy repr for os.environ 11 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9283 haypo
patch
Dead code in Objects/object.c 9 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9294 pitrou
patch, easy
LC_CTYPE system setting not respected by setlocale() 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9335 haypo
string.letters should display locale based equivalent of a-Z 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9336 r.david.murray
file_wrapper fails to provide getsockopt() 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9354 georg.brandl
patch
Improved tests and style for fnmatch 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9356 brett.cannon
patch
Improve queue tests 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9357 brett.cannon
patch
Document fnmatch.translate's lack of support for escaping 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9358 brett.cannon
patch
Misspelled exception 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9359 ezio.melotti
patch
Installing a distro without sqlite3 will require a reinstall o 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9365 r.david.murray
Reference leak for local new style class 5 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9366 georg.brandl
test_getgroups in test_posix fails 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9367 r.david.murray
patch
Const-Correctness for Method Calls 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9368 merwok
patch
Refer to gnuwin32 diff util on development FAQ 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9376 brian.curtin
easy
Make python -m pickle do something useful 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9378 belopolsky
patch, easy
Allow popping of n elements at once from a deque 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9380 rhettinger
syntax error in Unicode C API docs 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9381 georg.brandl
PIL Bug with split 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9383 ezio.melotti
Make python -m tkinter run tkinter demo 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9387 belopolsky
patch, easy, needs review
locale documentation describes non-existing ERA_YEAR constant 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9388 georg.brandl
easy
Traceback: Exception Shows Code that's On-Disk (Not in memory) 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9389 r.david.murray
Allow docstrings on dicts and named tuples outside of function 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9391 rhettinger
easy
2.7 framework install doesn't create 2to3-2.7 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9392 ronaldoussoren
shelve.open/bsddb.hashopen raise bsddb.db.DBNoSuchFileError: ( 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9394 merwok
Remove references to the missing dbm.bsd module 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9397 haypo
automatically try forward operations when reverse operations a 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9401 georg.brandl
ConfigParser exceptions do not subclass StandardError 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9406 r.david.murray
patch
ConfigParser documentation does not mention ConfigParser.Error 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9407 georg.brandl
patch
configparser doesn't support specifying encoding in read() 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9411 georg.brandl
patch
test_smtpd leaks references 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9412 georg.brandl
infinite loop with specific regexp 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9414 georg.brandl
Memory leak when reinitializing a Struct object 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9422 Winston451
patch
Explicitly state lack of support for keyword arguments in buil 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue9426 merwok
<> in attrs in sgmllib not handled 2619 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue745002 georg.brandl
minidom.py -- TypeError: object doesn't support slice assig 2557 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue777884 akuchling
Improve pdb breakpoint feedback 2505 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue809887 georg.brandl
patch, easy
document docs.python.org in PEP-101 2248 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue965065 georg.brandl
Defaults in ConfigParser.get overrides section values 2045 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1090076 georg.brandl
"continue" in .pdbrc has no effect 1618 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1437051 georg.brandl
easy
test_minidom.py fails for Python-2.4.3 on SUSE 9.3 1575 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1463043 akuchling
pdb 'run' crashes when the it's first argument is non-string 1564 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1472251 georg.brandl
patch
W3C <-> Python DOM type mapping docs need updating 1522 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1495229 akuchling
easy
Pdb doesn't call flush on its stdout file descriptor 1512 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1503502 georg.brandl
Add "compose" function to the functools 1500 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1506122 rhettinger
ConfigParser: accept leading whitespace on options+comments 1469 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1524825 tjreedy
patch, easy
ConfigParser support for alt delimiters 1228 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1682942 georg.brandl
patch
Remove references to _xmlrpclib from xmlrpclib.py 1081 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1773632 georg.brandl
patch
Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________
23 Make exit/quit hint more novice friendly 7 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue9362
17 Sum() doc and behavior mismatch 237 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue7447
16 The trace module lacks unit tests 10 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue9315
14 IDLE won't launch on XP 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue9404
14 os.makedirs(): Add a keyword argument to suppress "File exists" 11 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue9299
13 Declaring a class creates circular references 1 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue9417
13 Pydoc interactive browsing enhancement 909 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue2001
13 ConfigParser support for alt delimiters 1228 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1682942
10 shlex have problems with parsing unicode 1047 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue1170
9 extend configparser to support mapping access(__*item__) 514 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue5412