[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

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ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2011-02-25 - 2011-03-04)
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Issues counts and deltas:
  open    2691 ( +9)
  closed 20487 (+65)
  total  23178 (+74)

Open issues with patches: 1143 


Issues opened (50)
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#11258: ctypes: Speed up find_library() on Linux by 500%
http://bugs.python.org/issue11258  reopened by pitrou

#11324: ConfigParser(interpolation=None) doesn't work
http://bugs.python.org/issue11324  opened by tbrink

#11329: PyEval_InitThreads() not safe before Py_Initialize()
http://bugs.python.org/issue11329  opened by Juraj.Ivancic

#11332: Increase logging/__init__.py coverage to 97%
http://bugs.python.org/issue11332  opened by drakeol

#11333: Add empty __slots__ to collections.abc abstract base classes
http://bugs.python.org/issue11333  opened by durban

#11335: Memory leak after key function failure in sort
http://bugs.python.org/issue11335  opened by stutzbach

#11337: Nothing refers to footnote [1] on page "6. Simple Statements" 
http://bugs.python.org/issue11337  opened by MLModel

#11338: No list of Python hg repositories
http://bugs.python.org/issue11338  opened by blokeley

#11339: annotation for class being defined
http://bugs.python.org/issue11339  opened by andyharrington

#11342: ResourceWarning: unclosed file <_io.TextIOWrapper
http://bugs.python.org/issue11342  opened by cjejuni2000

#11343: Make errors due to full parser stack identifiable
http://bugs.python.org/issue11343  opened by Trundle

#11344: Add height argument to os.path.dirname()
http://bugs.python.org/issue11344  opened by blokeley

#11346: Generator object should be mentioned in gc module document
http://bugs.python.org/issue11346  opened by ishimoto

#11347: libpython3.so: Broken soname and linking
http://bugs.python.org/issue11347  opened by Arfrever

#11349: _pickle should implement the module finalisation protocol
http://bugs.python.org/issue11349  opened by ncoghlan

#11350: __setitem__()'s problem of dbm.dumb object pointed out by comm
http://bugs.python.org/issue11350  opened by ysj.ray

#11352: Bug in cgi module doc
http://bugs.python.org/issue11352  opened by quentel

#11354: argparse: nargs could accept range of options count
http://bugs.python.org/issue11354  opened by wm

#11355: os.mkdir() and os.mkdirat() don't apply SUID/SGID permissions
http://bugs.python.org/issue11355  opened by Arfrever

#11357: Add support for PEP 381 -- Mirror Authenticity
http://bugs.python.org/issue11357  opened by kelseyhightower

#11361: suggestion for os.kill(pid,CTRL_C_EVENT)
http://bugs.python.org/issue11361  opened by iigor

#11362: image/webp missing from mimetypes.py
http://bugs.python.org/issue11362  opened by Richard.Rabbat

#11363: Curses - add missing functions to doc
http://bugs.python.org/issue11363  opened by sandro.tosi

#11364: Move from distutils.sysconfig to sysconfig in test_osx_env
http://bugs.python.org/issue11364  opened by eric.araujo

#11365: Integrate Buildroot patches (cross-compilation)
http://bugs.python.org/issue11365  opened by haypo

#11366: xml.etree.ElementTree.Element: docs should mention immediate s
http://bugs.python.org/issue11366  opened by techtonik

#11367: xml.etree.ElementTree.find(all): docs are wrong
http://bugs.python.org/issue11367  opened by techtonik

#11368: Document why xml.etree.ElementTree.Element has no reference to
http://bugs.python.org/issue11368  opened by techtonik

#11369: Add caching for the isEnabledFor() computation
http://bugs.python.org/issue11369  opened by William.Hart

#11370: Fix distutils to carry configure's LIBS through to extension m
http://bugs.python.org/issue11370  opened by jszakmeister

#11371: Localization of error messages in getopt
http://bugs.python.org/issue11371  opened by gruszczy

#11373: Fix 2 new typos in the docs
http://bugs.python.org/issue11373  opened by Retro

#11374: pkgutil.extend_path do not recognize py{c,o} file
http://bugs.python.org/issue11374  opened by Alexandre.Badez

#11375: urllib2 over SOCKS doesn't use proxy for DNS
http://bugs.python.org/issue11375  opened by OJW

#11376: Solaris/GCC/shared lib problem
http://bugs.python.org/issue11376  opened by dabrahams

#11379: Remove "lightweight" from minidom description
http://bugs.python.org/issue11379  opened by scoder

#11380: "close failed in file object destructor" when "Broken pipe" ha
http://bugs.python.org/issue11380  opened by ulidtko

#11382: some posix module functions unnecessarily release the GIL
http://bugs.python.org/issue11382  opened by neologix

#11383: compilation seg faults on insanely large expressions
http://bugs.python.org/issue11383  opened by ncoghlan

#11385: TextTestRunner methods are not documented
http://bugs.python.org/issue11385  opened by techtonik

#11387: Tkinter, callback functions
http://bugs.python.org/issue11387  opened by Nikolay.Fomichev

#11388: Implement MutableSequence.clear()
http://bugs.python.org/issue11388  opened by eli.bendersky

#11389: unittest: no way to control verbosity of doctests from cmd
http://bugs.python.org/issue11389  opened by techtonik

#11390: doctest: add cmdline parameters
http://bugs.python.org/issue11390  opened by techtonik

#11391: mmap write segfaults if PROT_WRITE bit is not set in prot
http://bugs.python.org/issue11391  opened by neologix

#11392: Turtle - better explain 'chaos' demo
http://bugs.python.org/issue11392  opened by sandro.tosi

#11393: Integrate faulthandler module into Python 3.3
http://bugs.python.org/issue11393  opened by haypo

#11394: No Tools/demo on Windows
http://bugs.python.org/issue11394  opened by techtonik

#11395: print(s) fails on Windows with long strings
http://bugs.python.org/issue11395  opened by casevh

#11340: test_distutils fails
http://bugs.python.org/issue11340  opened by anikom15



Most recent 15 issues with no replies (15)
==========================================

#11392: Turtle - better explain 'chaos' demo
http://bugs.python.org/issue11392

#11390: doctest: add cmdline parameters
http://bugs.python.org/issue11390

#11389: unittest: no way to control verbosity of doctests from cmd
http://bugs.python.org/issue11389

#11387: Tkinter, callback functions
http://bugs.python.org/issue11387

#11385: TextTestRunner methods are not documented
http://bugs.python.org/issue11385

#11380: "close failed in file object destructor" when "Broken pipe" ha
http://bugs.python.org/issue11380

#11376: Solaris/GCC/shared lib problem
http://bugs.python.org/issue11376

#11375: urllib2 over SOCKS doesn't use proxy for DNS
http://bugs.python.org/issue11375

#11367: xml.etree.ElementTree.find(all): docs are wrong
http://bugs.python.org/issue11367

#11361: suggestion for os.kill(pid,CTRL_C_EVENT)
http://bugs.python.org/issue11361

#11343: Make errors due to full parser stack identifiable
http://bugs.python.org/issue11343

#11337: Nothing refers to footnote [1] on page "6. Simple Statements" 
http://bugs.python.org/issue11337

#11319: Command line option -t (and -tt) does not work for a particula
http://bugs.python.org/issue11319

#11312: Confusing sentence in file.readline() doc
http://bugs.python.org/issue11312

#11310: Document byte[s|array]() and byte[s|array](count) in docstring
http://bugs.python.org/issue11310



Most recent 15 issues waiting for review (15)
=============================================

#11392: Turtle - better explain 'chaos' demo
http://bugs.python.org/issue11392

#11391: mmap write segfaults if PROT_WRITE bit is not set in prot
http://bugs.python.org/issue11391

#11382: some posix module functions unnecessarily release the GIL
http://bugs.python.org/issue11382

#11374: pkgutil.extend_path do not recognize py{c,o} file
http://bugs.python.org/issue11374

#11373: Fix 2 new typos in the docs
http://bugs.python.org/issue11373

#11371: Localization of error messages in getopt
http://bugs.python.org/issue11371

#11370: Fix distutils to carry configure's LIBS through to extension m
http://bugs.python.org/issue11370

#11365: Integrate Buildroot patches (cross-compilation)
http://bugs.python.org/issue11365

#11364: Move from distutils.sysconfig to sysconfig in test_osx_env
http://bugs.python.org/issue11364

#11363: Curses - add missing functions to doc
http://bugs.python.org/issue11363

#11361: suggestion for os.kill(pid,CTRL_C_EVENT)
http://bugs.python.org/issue11361

#11357: Add support for PEP 381 -- Mirror Authenticity
http://bugs.python.org/issue11357

#11355: os.mkdir() and os.mkdirat() don't apply SUID/SGID permissions
http://bugs.python.org/issue11355

#11354: argparse: nargs could accept range of options count
http://bugs.python.org/issue11354

#11350: __setitem__()'s problem of dbm.dumb object pointed out by comm
http://bugs.python.org/issue11350



Top 10 most discussed issues (10)
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#9276: pickle should support methods
http://bugs.python.org/issue9276  15 msgs

#11342: ResourceWarning: unclosed file <_io.TextIOWrapper
http://bugs.python.org/issue11342  15 msgs

#11395: print(s) fails on Windows with long strings
http://bugs.python.org/issue11395  13 msgs

#8841: getopt errors should be specialized
http://bugs.python.org/issue8841  10 msgs

#11382: some posix module functions unnecessarily release the GIL
http://bugs.python.org/issue11382  10 msgs

#11284: slow close file descriptors in subprocess, popen2, os.popen*
http://bugs.python.org/issue11284   8 msgs

#11321: 9th import of module _pickle always crashes
http://bugs.python.org/issue11321   8 msgs

#11299: Allow deepcopying and pickling paused generators
http://bugs.python.org/issue11299   7 msgs

#11332: Increase logging/__init__.py coverage to 97%
http://bugs.python.org/issue11332   7 msgs

#11335: Memory leak after key function failure in sort
http://bugs.python.org/issue11335   7 msgs



Issues closed (62)
==================

#4761: create Python wrappers for openat() and others
http://bugs.python.org/issue4761  closed by pitrou

#6064: Add "daemon" argument to threading.Thread constructor
http://bugs.python.org/issue6064  closed by pitrou

#7322: Socket timeout can cause file-like readline() method to lose d
http://bugs.python.org/issue7322  closed by pitrou

#8594: Add a "source_address" option to ftplib
http://bugs.python.org/issue8594  closed by giampaolo.rodola

#8923: Remove unused "errors" argument	from	_PyUnicode_AsDefaultEncod
http://bugs.python.org/issue8923  closed by haypo

#8967: Create PyErr_GetWindowsMessage() function
http://bugs.python.org/issue8967  closed by haypo

#9197: Crash when importing an extension after Py_Initialize, Py_Fina
http://bugs.python.org/issue9197  closed by ncoghlan

#9373: pulldom has low code coverage
http://bugs.python.org/issue9373  closed by benjamin.peterson

#9795: nntplib.NNTP should support the context protocol
http://bugs.python.org/issue9795  closed by giampaolo.rodola

#9931: test_ttk_guionly hangs on XP5
http://bugs.python.org/issue9931  closed by pitrou

#10228: Refleak run of test_dbm fails when several dbm modules are ava
http://bugs.python.org/issue10228  closed by orsenthil

#10338: test_lib2to3 failure on buildbot x86 debian parallel 3.x: node
http://bugs.python.org/issue10338  closed by haypo

#10755: Add posix.fdlistdir
http://bugs.python.org/issue10755  closed by pitrou

#10784: os.getpriority() and os.setpriority()
http://bugs.python.org/issue10784  closed by giampaolo.rodola

#10829: PyUnicode_FromFormatV() bugs with "%" and "%%" format strings
http://bugs.python.org/issue10829  closed by haypo

#10831: PyUnicode_FromFormatV() doesn't support %li, %lli, %zi
http://bugs.python.org/issue10831  closed by haypo

#10866: Add sethostname()
http://bugs.python.org/issue10866  closed by pitrou

#10900: bz2 module fails to uncompress large files
http://bugs.python.org/issue10900  closed by pitrou

#10911: cgi: add more tests
http://bugs.python.org/issue10911  closed by haypo

#10956: file.write and file.read don't handle EINTR
http://bugs.python.org/issue10956  closed by pitrou

#11114: TextIOWrapper.tell extremely slow
http://bugs.python.org/issue11114  closed by pitrou

#11140: threading.Lock().release() raises _thread.error, not RuntimeEr
http://bugs.python.org/issue11140  closed by pitrou

#11172: Avoid '.' as runpath on AIX
http://bugs.python.org/issue11172  closed by pitrou

#11177: Set asyncore create_socket default argument
http://bugs.python.org/issue11177  closed by giampaolo.rodola

#11214: test_asyncore fails on AIX
http://bugs.python.org/issue11214  closed by giampaolo.rodola

#11246: PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") decodes the byte string from ISO-88
http://bugs.python.org/issue11246  closed by haypo

#11250: 2to3 truncates files at formfeed character
http://bugs.python.org/issue11250  closed by benjamin.peterson

#11265: asyncore does not check for EAGAIN and EPIPE errno
http://bugs.python.org/issue11265  closed by giampaolo.rodola

#11291: poplib suppresses exception on QUIT
http://bugs.python.org/issue11291  closed by giampaolo.rodola

#11293: Distutils - read the file when using it in long_description
http://bugs.python.org/issue11293  closed by eric.araujo

#11297: Make ChainMap() public in the collections module.
http://bugs.python.org/issue11297  closed by rhettinger

#11303: b'x'.decode('latin1')	is	much	slower	than	b'x'.decode('latin-1
http://bugs.python.org/issue11303  closed by belopolsky

#11306: mailbox should test for errno.EROFS
http://bugs.python.org/issue11306  closed by r.david.murray

#11307: re engine exhaustively explores more than necessary
http://bugs.python.org/issue11307  closed by terry.reedy

#11314: Subprocess suffers 40% process creation overhead penalty
http://bugs.python.org/issue11314  closed by haypo

#11318: Python 3.2 FAQ example code typo?
http://bugs.python.org/issue11318  closed by georg.brandl

#11323: os.sendfile() bo failure on solaris
http://bugs.python.org/issue11323  closed by pitrou

#11325: compilation warning with sendfile
http://bugs.python.org/issue11325  closed by pitrou

#11326: connect_ex() implementation missing for SSL sockets
http://bugs.python.org/issue11326  closed by pitrou

#11327: Running test_time.py in python27 caused python to unexpectedly
http://bugs.python.org/issue11327  closed by brett.cannon

#11328: NESTED WHILE CYCLES ERROR
http://bugs.python.org/issue11328  closed by pitrou

#11330: logging doesn't support format flags for asctime keyword, but 
http://bugs.python.org/issue11330  closed by vinay.sajip

#11331: unused line in the logging-cookbook example
http://bugs.python.org/issue11331  closed by vinay.sajip

#11334: Failed to build _multiprocessing on Mac OS X
http://bugs.python.org/issue11334  closed by dev66

#11336: Typo in patch.rst
http://bugs.python.org/issue11336  closed by brett.cannon

#11341: test_os fails
http://bugs.python.org/issue11341  closed by pitrou

#11345: Fix a link in library/json docs
http://bugs.python.org/issue11345  closed by benjamin.peterson

#11348: test_os: test_set_get_priority() fails when high niceness is s
http://bugs.python.org/issue11348  closed by giampaolo.rodola

#11351: Mac OS X os.sendfile()
http://bugs.python.org/issue11351  closed by sdaoden

#11353: Python 2.7.1 cannot be built by 2.x baselines of Python
http://bugs.python.org/issue11353  closed by pitrou

#11356: Include module name on ImportError
http://bugs.python.org/issue11356  closed by georg.brandl

#11358: Please replace the use of pickle in multiprocessing with json.
http://bugs.python.org/issue11358  closed by r.david.murray

#11359: Please replace the use of pickle in subprocess with json.
http://bugs.python.org/issue11359  closed by ezio.melotti

#11360: In documentation of getopt, advertise argparse instead of optp
http://bugs.python.org/issue11360  closed by eric.araujo

#11372: Remove xrange from argparse docs
http://bugs.python.org/issue11372  closed by fdrake

#11377: Deprecate (remove?) platform.popen()
http://bugs.python.org/issue11377  closed by haypo

#11378: os.path.join when second  argument starts with '/' (linux/unix
http://bugs.python.org/issue11378  closed by amaury.forgeotdarc

#11381: pretending the "not" operator is a function behaves surprising
http://bugs.python.org/issue11381  closed by georg.brandl

#11384: Deprecate, remove or document (correctly) os.popen
http://bugs.python.org/issue11384  closed by haypo

#11386: Fix exception thrown by bytearray.pop() for empty bytearrays
http://bugs.python.org/issue11386  closed by eli.bendersky

#11396: add format handler to bytes object
http://bugs.python.org/issue11396  closed by eric.smith

#1720250: PyGILState_Ensure does not acquires GIL
http://bugs.python.org/issue1720250  closed by pitrou