[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

Fri Dec 28 18:07:21 CET 2012

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2012-12-21 - 2012-12-28)
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Issues counts and deltas:
  open    3834 (-10)
  closed 24745 (+68)
  total  28579 (+58)

Open issues with patches: 1678 

Issues opened (32)
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#9856: Change object.__format__(s) where s is non-empty to a TypeErro
http://bugs.python.org/issue9856  reopened by eric.smith

#16747: Remove 'file' type reference from 'iterable' glossary entry
http://bugs.python.org/issue16747  opened by zach.ware

#16748: Ensure test discovery doesn't break for modules testing C and 
http://bugs.python.org/issue16748  opened by zach.ware

#16749: Fatal Python Error
http://bugs.python.org/issue16749  opened by DaVinci

#16754: Incorrect shared library extension on linux
http://bugs.python.org/issue16754  opened by smani

#16755: Distutils2 incorrectly works with unicode package names
http://bugs.python.org/issue16755  opened by hotsyk

#16757: Faster _PyUnicode_FindMaxChar()
http://bugs.python.org/issue16757  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#16758: SubprocessStartupError
http://bugs.python.org/issue16758  opened by LtCdr(ret)nazrinasir

#16761: Fix int(base=X)
http://bugs.python.org/issue16761  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#16762: test_subprocess failure on OpenBSD/NetBSD buildbots
http://bugs.python.org/issue16762  opened by neologix

#16763: test_ssl with connect_ex don't handle unreachable server corre
http://bugs.python.org/issue16763  opened by neologix

#16764: Make zlib accept keyword-arguments
http://bugs.python.org/issue16764  opened by ebfe

#16767: Cannot install Python 2.7 in Wine 1.4.1
http://bugs.python.org/issue16767  opened by Joe.Borg

#16769: Remove some old Visual Studio versions from PC/ directory
http://bugs.python.org/issue16769  opened by brian.curtin

#16772: int() accepts float number base
http://bugs.python.org/issue16772  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#16773: int() half-accepts UserString
http://bugs.python.org/issue16773  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#16774: Additional recipes for itertools docs
http://bugs.python.org/issue16774  opened by kachayev

#16776: Document PyCFunction_New and PyCFunction_NewEx functions
http://bugs.python.org/issue16776  opened by asvetlov

#16778: Logger.findCaller needs to be smarter
http://bugs.python.org/issue16778  opened by glynnc

#16781: execfile/exec execution in other than global scope uses locals
http://bugs.python.org/issue16781  opened by techtonik

#16782: No curses.initwin: Incorrect package docstring for curses
http://bugs.python.org/issue16782  opened by ballingt

#16783: sqlite3 accepts strings it cannot return
http://bugs.python.org/issue16783  opened by William.D..Colburn

#16784: Int tests enhancement and refactoring
http://bugs.python.org/issue16784  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#16785: Document the fact that constructing OSError with erron returns
http://bugs.python.org/issue16785  opened by asvetlov

#16786: argparse doesn't offer localization interface for "version" ac
http://bugs.python.org/issue16786  opened by thorsten

#16787: asyncore.dispatcher_with_send - increase the send buffer size
http://bugs.python.org/issue16787  opened by neologix

#16795: Patch: some changes to AST to make it more useful for static l
http://bugs.python.org/issue16795  opened by scummos

#16798: DTD not checked
http://bugs.python.org/issue16798  opened by txomon

#16799: switch regrtest from getopt options to argparse Namespace
http://bugs.python.org/issue16799  opened by chris.jerdonek

#16800: tempfile._get_default_tempdir() leaves files behind when HD is
http://bugs.python.org/issue16800  opened by kichik

#16801: Preserve original representation for integers / floats in docs
http://bugs.python.org/issue16801  opened by larry

#16802: fileno argument to socket.socket() undocumented
http://bugs.python.org/issue16802  opened by sbt

Most recent 15 issues with no replies (15)
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#16802: fileno argument to socket.socket() undocumented
http://bugs.python.org/issue16802

#16799: switch regrtest from getopt options to argparse Namespace
http://bugs.python.org/issue16799

#16798: DTD not checked
http://bugs.python.org/issue16798

#16795: Patch: some changes to AST to make it more useful for static l
http://bugs.python.org/issue16795

#16786: argparse doesn't offer localization interface for "version" ac
http://bugs.python.org/issue16786

#16783: sqlite3 accepts strings it cannot return
http://bugs.python.org/issue16783

#16782: No curses.initwin: Incorrect package docstring for curses
http://bugs.python.org/issue16782

#16776: Document PyCFunction_New and PyCFunction_NewEx functions
http://bugs.python.org/issue16776

#16773: int() half-accepts UserString
http://bugs.python.org/issue16773

#16763: test_ssl with connect_ex don't handle unreachable server corre
http://bugs.python.org/issue16763

#16762: test_subprocess failure on OpenBSD/NetBSD buildbots
http://bugs.python.org/issue16762

#16754: Incorrect shared library extension on linux
http://bugs.python.org/issue16754

#16742: PyOS_Readline drops GIL and calls PyOS_StdioReadline, which is
http://bugs.python.org/issue16742

#16733: Solaris ctypes_test failures
http://bugs.python.org/issue16733

#16732: setup.py support for xxmodule without tkinker
http://bugs.python.org/issue16732

Most recent 15 issues waiting for review (15)
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#16800: tempfile._get_default_tempdir() leaves files behind when HD is
http://bugs.python.org/issue16800

#16795: Patch: some changes to AST to make it more useful for static l
http://bugs.python.org/issue16795

#16787: asyncore.dispatcher_with_send - increase the send buffer size
http://bugs.python.org/issue16787

#16782: No curses.initwin: Incorrect package docstring for curses
http://bugs.python.org/issue16782

#16774: Additional recipes for itertools docs
http://bugs.python.org/issue16774

#16772: int() accepts float number base
http://bugs.python.org/issue16772

#16764: Make zlib accept keyword-arguments
http://bugs.python.org/issue16764

#16762: test_subprocess failure on OpenBSD/NetBSD buildbots
http://bugs.python.org/issue16762

#16761: Fix int(base=X)
http://bugs.python.org/issue16761

#16757: Faster _PyUnicode_FindMaxChar()
http://bugs.python.org/issue16757

#16755: Distutils2 incorrectly works with unicode package names
http://bugs.python.org/issue16755

#16747: Remove 'file' type reference from 'iterable' glossary entry
http://bugs.python.org/issue16747

#16743: mmap on Windows can mishandle files larger than sys.maxsize
http://bugs.python.org/issue16743

#16739: texttestresult should decorate the stream with _WritelnDecorat
http://bugs.python.org/issue16739

#16732: setup.py support for xxmodule without tkinker
http://bugs.python.org/issue16732

Top 10 most discussed issues (10)
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#16772: int() accepts float number base
http://bugs.python.org/issue16772  20 msgs

#16743: mmap on Windows can mishandle files larger than sys.maxsize
http://bugs.python.org/issue16743  19 msgs

#16761: Fix int(base=X)
http://bugs.python.org/issue16761  15 msgs

#14373: C implementation of functools.lru_cache
http://bugs.python.org/issue14373   8 msgs

#16694: Add pure Python operator module
http://bugs.python.org/issue16694   8 msgs

#9856: Change object.__format__(s) where s is non-empty to a TypeErro
http://bugs.python.org/issue9856   7 msgs

#8713: multiprocessing needs option to eschew fork() under Linux
http://bugs.python.org/issue8713   6 msgs

#16712: collections.abc.Sequence should not provide __reversed__
http://bugs.python.org/issue16712   6 msgs

#16781: execfile/exec execution in other than global scope uses locals
http://bugs.python.org/issue16781   6 msgs

#16737: Different behaviours in script run directly and via runpy.run_
http://bugs.python.org/issue16737   5 msgs

Issues closed (63)
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#9022: TypeError in wsgiref.handlers when using CGIHandler
http://bugs.python.org/issue9022  closed by orsenthil

#10646: ntpath.samefile doesn't work for hard links
http://bugs.python.org/issue10646  closed by brian.curtin

#10919: Environment variables are not expanded in _winreg when using R
http://bugs.python.org/issue10919  closed by brian.curtin

#11939: Implement stat.st_dev and os.path.samefile on windows
http://bugs.python.org/issue11939  closed by brian.curtin

#12944: Accept arbitrary files for packaging's upload command
http://bugs.python.org/issue12944  closed by asvetlov

#13198: Remove duplicate definition of write_record_file
http://bugs.python.org/issue13198  closed by asvetlov

#14420: winreg SetValueEx DWord type incompatible with value argument
http://bugs.python.org/issue14420  closed by brian.curtin

#14470: Remove using of w9xopen in subprocess module
http://bugs.python.org/issue14470  closed by brian.curtin

#14574: SocketServer doesn't handle client disconnects properly
http://bugs.python.org/issue14574  closed by asvetlov

#14834: A list of broken links on the python.org website
http://bugs.python.org/issue14834  closed by benjamin.peterson

#14870: Descriptions of os.utime() and os.utimensat() use wrong notati
http://bugs.python.org/issue14870  closed by hynek

#15302: Use argparse instead of getopt in test.regrtest
http://bugs.python.org/issue15302  closed by chris.jerdonek

#15324: --fromfile, --match, and --randomize don't work in regrtest
http://bugs.python.org/issue15324  closed by chris.jerdonek

#15325: --fromfile does not work for regrtest
http://bugs.python.org/issue15325  closed by chris.jerdonek

#15326: --random does not work for regrtest
http://bugs.python.org/issue15326  closed by chris.jerdonek

#15422: Get rid of PyCFunction_New macro
http://bugs.python.org/issue15422  closed by asvetlov

#15701: AttributeError from HTTPError when using digest auth
http://bugs.python.org/issue15701  closed by orsenthil

#16443: Add docstrings to regular expression match objects
http://bugs.python.org/issue16443  closed by asvetlov

#16496: Simplify and optimize random_seed()
http://bugs.python.org/issue16496  closed by mark.dickinson

#16504: IDLE - fatal error when opening a file with certain tokenizing
http://bugs.python.org/issue16504  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#16511: IDLE configuration file: blank height and width fields trip up
http://bugs.python.org/issue16511  closed by asvetlov

#16581: define "PEP editor" in PEP 1
http://bugs.python.org/issue16581  closed by ncoghlan

#16618: Different glob() results for strings and bytes
http://bugs.python.org/issue16618  closed by hynek

#16644: Wrong code in ContextManagerTests.test_invalid_args() in test_
http://bugs.python.org/issue16644  closed by asvetlov

#16650: Popen._internal_poll() references errno.ECHILD outside of the 
http://bugs.python.org/issue16650  closed by asvetlov

#16666: docs wrongly imply socket.getaddrinfo takes keyword arguments 
http://bugs.python.org/issue16666  closed by ezio.melotti

#16672: improve tracing performances when f_trace is NULL
http://bugs.python.org/issue16672  closed by python-dev

#16677: Hard to find operator precedence in Lang Ref.
http://bugs.python.org/issue16677  closed by ezio.melotti

#16682: Document that audioop works with bytes, not strings
http://bugs.python.org/issue16682  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#16689: stdout stderr redirection mess
http://bugs.python.org/issue16689  closed by neologix

#16702: Force urllib2_localnet test not to use http proxies
http://bugs.python.org/issue16702  closed by orsenthil

#16713: "tel" URIs should support params
http://bugs.python.org/issue16713  closed by orsenthil

#16715: Get rid of IOError. Use OSError instead
http://bugs.python.org/issue16715  closed by asvetlov

#16720: Get rid of os.error. Use OSError instead
http://bugs.python.org/issue16720  closed by asvetlov

#16744: sys.path.append causes wrong behaviour
http://bugs.python.org/issue16744  closed by christian.heimes

#16745: Hide symbols in _decimal.so
http://bugs.python.org/issue16745  closed by skrah

#16746: clarify what should be sent to peps@
http://bugs.python.org/issue16746  closed by chris.jerdonek

#16750: Python Code module implements uncomputable function
http://bugs.python.org/issue16750  closed by mark.dickinson

#16751: Using modern unittest asserts in the documentation
http://bugs.python.org/issue16751  closed by rhettinger

#16752: Missing import in modulefinder.py
http://bugs.python.org/issue16752  closed by brett.cannon

#16753: #include <ctype.h> broken on FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE
http://bugs.python.org/issue16753  closed by skrah

#16756: buggy assignment to items of a list created by a * operator
http://bugs.python.org/issue16756  closed by christian.heimes

#16759: winreg.QueryValueEx returns signed 32bit value instead of unsi
http://bugs.python.org/issue16759  closed by brian.curtin

#16760: Get rid of MatchObject in regex HOWTO
http://bugs.python.org/issue16760  closed by ezio.melotti

#16765: Superfluous import in cgi module
http://bugs.python.org/issue16765  closed by ezio.melotti

#16766: small disadvantage of htmlentitydefs
http://bugs.python.org/issue16766  closed by ezio.melotti

#16768: CTRL-Y, yank, behaves as CTRL-Z with curses on OS X
http://bugs.python.org/issue16768  closed by ned.deily

#16770: Selection in IDLE often skips first character
http://bugs.python.org/issue16770  closed by ned.deily

#16771: issuse
http://bugs.python.org/issue16771  closed by benjamin.peterson

#16775: Add test coverage for os.removedirs()
http://bugs.python.org/issue16775  closed by asvetlov

#16777: "Evaluation order" doc section is wrong about dicts
http://bugs.python.org/issue16777  closed by ezio.melotti

#16779: Fix compiler warning when building extension modules on 64-bit
http://bugs.python.org/issue16779  closed by skrah

#16780: fail to compile python in msys with mingw
http://bugs.python.org/issue16780  closed by r.david.murray

#16788: Add samestat to Lib/ntpath.py __all__
http://bugs.python.org/issue16788  closed by brian.curtin

#16789: :meth:`quit` links to constants instead of own module
http://bugs.python.org/issue16789  closed by python-dev

#16790: provide ability to share tests between int and long tests
http://bugs.python.org/issue16790  closed by chris.jerdonek

#16791: itertools.chain.from_iterable doesn't stop
http://bugs.python.org/issue16791  closed by rhettinger

#16792: Mark small ints test as CPython-only
http://bugs.python.org/issue16792  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#16793: Get rid of deprecated assertEquals etc in tests
http://bugs.python.org/issue16793  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#16794: Can't get a list of modules in Python's help system
http://bugs.python.org/issue16794  closed by r.david.murray

#16796: Fix argparse docs typo: "an special action" to "a special acti
http://bugs.python.org/issue16796  closed by ezio.melotti

#16797: sporadic test_faulthandler failure
http://bugs.python.org/issue16797  closed by ezio.melotti

#879399: socket line buffering
http://bugs.python.org/issue879399  closed by asvetlov