[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

Fri Mar 23 18:07:38 CET 2012

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2012-03-16 - 2012-03-23)
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Issues counts and deltas:
  open    3346 ( +9)
  closed 22829 (+50)
  total  26175 (+59)

Open issues with patches: 1434 

Issues opened (42)
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#5301: add mimetype for image/vnd.microsoft.icon (patch)
http://bugs.python.org/issue5301  reopened by eric.araujo

#10340: asyncore doesn't properly handle EINVAL on OSX
http://bugs.python.org/issue10340  reopened by r.david.murray

#14336: Difference between pickle implementations for function objects
http://bugs.python.org/issue14336  opened by sbt

#14338: Document how to forward POST data on redirects
http://bugs.python.org/issue14338  opened by beerNuts

#14339: Optimizing bin, oct and hex
http://bugs.python.org/issue14339  opened by storchaka

#14340: Update embedded copy of expat - fix security & crash issues
http://bugs.python.org/issue14340  opened by gregory.p.smith

#14341: sporadic (?) test_urllib2 failures
http://bugs.python.org/issue14341  opened by pitrou

#14345: Document socket.SOL_SOCKET
http://bugs.python.org/issue14345  opened by techtonik

#14349: The documentation of 'dis' doesn't describe MAKE_FUNCTION corr
http://bugs.python.org/issue14349  opened by eli.bendersky

#14350: Strange Exception from copying an iterable
http://bugs.python.org/issue14350  opened by Jakob.Bowyer

#14352: Distutils2: add logging message to report successful installat
http://bugs.python.org/issue14352  opened by agronholm

#14353: Proper gettext support in locale module
http://bugs.python.org/issue14353  opened by melflynn

#14354: Crash in _ctypes_alloc_callback
http://bugs.python.org/issue14354  opened by ogre

#14356: Distutils2 ignores site-local configuration
http://bugs.python.org/issue14356  opened by agronholm

#14357: Distutils2 does not work with virtualenv
http://bugs.python.org/issue14357  opened by agronholm

#14360: email.encoders.encode_quopri doesn't work with python 3.2
http://bugs.python.org/issue14360  opened by mitya57

#14361: No link to issue tracker on Python home page
http://bugs.python.org/issue14361  opened by stevenjd

#14362: No mention of collections.ChainMap in What's New for 3.3
http://bugs.python.org/issue14362  opened by stevenjd

#14364: Argparse incorrectly handles '--'
http://bugs.python.org/issue14364  opened by maker

#14365: argparse: subparsers, argument abbreviations and ambiguous opt
http://bugs.python.org/issue14365  opened by jakub

#14366: Supporting bzip2 and lzma compression in zip files
http://bugs.python.org/issue14366  opened by storchaka

#14367: try/except block in ismethoddescriptor() in inspect.py, so tha
http://bugs.python.org/issue14367  opened by ncdave4life

#14368: floattime() should not raise an exception
http://bugs.python.org/issue14368  opened by haypo

#14369: make __closure__ writable
http://bugs.python.org/issue14369  opened by Yury.Selivanov

#14371: Add support for bzip2 compression to the zipfile module
http://bugs.python.org/issue14371  opened by storchaka

#14372: Fix all invalid usage of borrowed references
http://bugs.python.org/issue14372  opened by haypo

#14373: C implementation of functools.lru_cache
http://bugs.python.org/issue14373  opened by anacrolix

#14374: Compiling Python 2.7.2 on HP11i PA-RISC ends with segmentation
http://bugs.python.org/issue14374  opened by donchen

#14375: Add socketserver running property
http://bugs.python.org/issue14375  opened by giampaolo.rodola

#14376: sys.exit documents argument as "integer" but actually requires
http://bugs.python.org/issue14376  opened by Gareth.Rees

#14377: Modify serializer for xml.etree.ElementTree to allow forcing t
http://bugs.python.org/issue14377  opened by adpoliak

#14379: Several traceback docs improvements
http://bugs.python.org/issue14379  opened by techtonik

#14381: Intern certain integral floats for memory savings and performa
http://bugs.python.org/issue14381  opened by krisvale

#14383: Generalize the use of _Py_IDENTIFIER in ceval.c and typeobject
http://bugs.python.org/issue14383  opened by haypo

#14385: Support other types than dict for __builtins__
http://bugs.python.org/issue14385  opened by haypo

#14386: Expose dictproxy as a public type
http://bugs.python.org/issue14386  opened by haypo

#14387: Include\accu.h incompatible with Windows.h
http://bugs.python.org/issue14387  opened by jeffr at livedata.com

#14390: Tkinter single-threaded deadlock
http://bugs.python.org/issue14390  opened by jcbollinger

#14391: misc TYPO in argparse.Action docstring
http://bugs.python.org/issue14391  opened by shima__shima

#14392: type=bool doesn't raise error in argparse.Action
http://bugs.python.org/issue14392  opened by shima__shima

#14393: Incorporate Guide to Magic Methods?
http://bugs.python.org/issue14393  opened by djc

#14394: missing links on performance claims of cdecimal
http://bugs.python.org/issue14394  opened by tshepang

Most recent 15 issues with no replies (15)
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#14392: type=bool doesn't raise error in argparse.Action
http://bugs.python.org/issue14392

#14391: misc TYPO in argparse.Action docstring
http://bugs.python.org/issue14391

#14390: Tkinter single-threaded deadlock
http://bugs.python.org/issue14390

#14379: Several traceback docs improvements
http://bugs.python.org/issue14379

#14375: Add socketserver running property
http://bugs.python.org/issue14375

#14368: floattime() should not raise an exception
http://bugs.python.org/issue14368

#14345: Document socket.SOL_SOCKET
http://bugs.python.org/issue14345

#14341: sporadic (?) test_urllib2 failures
http://bugs.python.org/issue14341

#14339: Optimizing bin, oct and hex
http://bugs.python.org/issue14339

#14336: Difference between pickle implementations for function objects
http://bugs.python.org/issue14336

#14329: proxy_bypass_macosx_sysconf does not handle singel ip addresse
http://bugs.python.org/issue14329

#14326: IDLE - allow shell to support different locales
http://bugs.python.org/issue14326

#14319: cleanup index switching mechanism on packaging.pypi
http://bugs.python.org/issue14319

#14304: Implement utf-8-bmp codec
http://bugs.python.org/issue14304

#14303: Incorrect documentation for socket.py on linux
http://bugs.python.org/issue14303

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

#14392: type=bool doesn't raise error in argparse.Action
http://bugs.python.org/issue14392

#14391: misc TYPO in argparse.Action docstring
http://bugs.python.org/issue14391

#14387: Include\accu.h incompatible with Windows.h
http://bugs.python.org/issue14387

#14386: Expose dictproxy as a public type
http://bugs.python.org/issue14386

#14385: Support other types than dict for __builtins__
http://bugs.python.org/issue14385

#14383: Generalize the use of _Py_IDENTIFIER in ceval.c and typeobject
http://bugs.python.org/issue14383

#14381: Intern certain integral floats for memory savings and performa
http://bugs.python.org/issue14381

#14377: Modify serializer for xml.etree.ElementTree to allow forcing t
http://bugs.python.org/issue14377

#14375: Add socketserver running property
http://bugs.python.org/issue14375

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

#14371: Add support for bzip2 compression to the zipfile module
http://bugs.python.org/issue14371

#14369: make __closure__ writable
http://bugs.python.org/issue14369

#14368: floattime() should not raise an exception
http://bugs.python.org/issue14368

#14367: try/except block in ismethoddescriptor() in inspect.py, so tha
http://bugs.python.org/issue14367

#14366: Supporting bzip2 and lzma compression in zip files
http://bugs.python.org/issue14366

Top 10 most discussed issues (10)
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#14387: Include\accu.h incompatible with Windows.h
http://bugs.python.org/issue14387  17 msgs

#14228: It is impossible to catch sigint on startup in python code
http://bugs.python.org/issue14228  15 msgs

#14302: Move python.exe to bin/
http://bugs.python.org/issue14302  15 msgs

#14034: Add argparse howto
http://bugs.python.org/issue14034  13 msgs

#14361: No link to issue tracker on Python home page
http://bugs.python.org/issue14361  13 msgs

#14331: Python/import.c uses a lot of stack space due to MAXPATHLEN
http://bugs.python.org/issue14331  10 msgs

#14371: Add support for bzip2 compression to the zipfile module
http://bugs.python.org/issue14371  10 msgs

#14381: Intern certain integral floats for memory savings and performa
http://bugs.python.org/issue14381  10 msgs

#10340: asyncore doesn't properly handle EINVAL on OSX
http://bugs.python.org/issue10340   9 msgs

#13922: argparse handling multiple "--" in args improperly
http://bugs.python.org/issue13922   9 msgs

Issues closed (46)
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#1676: Fork/exec issues with Tk 8.5/Python 2.5.1 on OS X
http://bugs.python.org/issue1676  closed by ned.deily

#3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(i
http://bugs.python.org/issue3573  closed by asvetlov

#4652: IDLE does not work with Unicode
http://bugs.python.org/issue4652  closed by asvetlov

#7738: IDLE hang when tooltip comes up in Linux
http://bugs.python.org/issue7738  closed by ned.deily

#7997: http://www.python.org/dev/faq/ doesn't seem to explain how to 
http://bugs.python.org/issue7997  closed by rosslagerwall

#9408: curses: Link against libncursesw instead of libncurses
http://bugs.python.org/issue9408  closed by haypo

#10538: PyArg_ParseTuple("s*") does not always incref object
http://bugs.python.org/issue10538  closed by krisvale

#12757: undefined name in doctest.py
http://bugs.python.org/issue12757  closed by r.david.murray

#12788: test_email fails with -R
http://bugs.python.org/issue12788  closed by r.david.murray

#13009: Remove documentation in distutils2 repo
http://bugs.python.org/issue13009  closed by eric.araujo

#13325: no address in the representation of asyncore dispatcher after 
http://bugs.python.org/issue13325  closed by giampaolo.rodola

#13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
http://bugs.python.org/issue13694  closed by giampaolo.rodola

#13782: xml.etree.ElementTree: Element.append doesn't type-check its a
http://bugs.python.org/issue13782  closed by eli.bendersky

#14115: 2.7.3rc and 3.2.3rc hang on test_asynchat and test_asyncore on
http://bugs.python.org/issue14115  closed by r.david.murray

#14204: Support for the NPN extension to TLS/SSL
http://bugs.python.org/issue14204  closed by pitrou

#14250: for string patterns regex.flags is never equal to 0
http://bugs.python.org/issue14250  closed by python-dev

#14269: SMTPD server does not enforce client starting mail transaction
http://bugs.python.org/issue14269  closed by r.david.murray

#14277: time.monotonic docstring does not mention the time unit return
http://bugs.python.org/issue14277  closed by haypo

#14296: Compilation error on CentOS 5.8
http://bugs.python.org/issue14296  closed by neologix

#14297: Custom string formatter doesn't work like builtin str.format
http://bugs.python.org/issue14297  closed by terry.reedy

#14306: try/except block is both efficient and expensive?
http://bugs.python.org/issue14306  closed by python-dev

#14311: ConfigParser does not parse utf-8 files with BOM bytes
http://bugs.python.org/issue14311  closed by lukasz.langa

#14328: Add keyword-only parameter support to PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywo
http://bugs.python.org/issue14328  closed by larry

#14333: queue unittest errors
http://bugs.python.org/issue14333  closed by r.david.murray

#14335: Reimplement multiprocessing's ForkingPickler using dispatch_ta
http://bugs.python.org/issue14335  closed by pitrou

#14337: Recent refleaks
http://bugs.python.org/issue14337  closed by benjamin.peterson

#14342: In re's examples the example with recursion doesn't work
http://bugs.python.org/issue14342  closed by python-dev

#14343: In re's examples the example with re.split() shadows builtin i
http://bugs.python.org/issue14343  closed by python-dev

#14346: Typos in Mac/README
http://bugs.python.org/issue14346  closed by ned.deily

#14347: Update Misc/README
http://bugs.python.org/issue14347  closed by ned.deily

#14348: Minor whitespace changes in base64 module
http://bugs.python.org/issue14348  closed by eric.araujo

#14351: Script error in 3.2.3rc1 Windows doc
http://bugs.python.org/issue14351  closed by georg.brandl

#14355: imp module docs should omit references to init_frozen
http://bugs.python.org/issue14355  closed by r.david.murray

#14358: test_os failing with errno 61: No Data Available
http://bugs.python.org/issue14358  closed by python-dev

#14359: _posixsubprocess.o compilation error on CentOS 5.8
http://bugs.python.org/issue14359  closed by rosslagerwall

#14363: Can't build Python 3.3a1 on Centos 5
http://bugs.python.org/issue14363  closed by skrah

#14370: list.extend() called on an iterator of the list itself leads t
http://bugs.python.org/issue14370  closed by rhettinger

#14378: __future__ imports fail when compiling from python ast
http://bugs.python.org/issue14378  closed by python-dev

#14380: MIMEText should default to utf8 charset if input text contains
http://bugs.python.org/issue14380  closed by r.david.murray

#14382: test_unittest crashes loading 'unittest.test.testmock' when ru
http://bugs.python.org/issue14382  closed by ned.deily

#14384: Add "default" kw argument to operator.itemgetter and operator.
http://bugs.python.org/issue14384  closed by r.david.murray

#14388: configparser.py traceback
http://bugs.python.org/issue14388  closed by r.david.murray

#14389: Mishandling of large numbers
http://bugs.python.org/issue14389  closed by r.david.murray

#1222721: tk + setlocale problems...
http://bugs.python.org/issue1222721  closed by terry.reedy

#1752252: tkFileDialog closes Python when used
http://bugs.python.org/issue1752252  closed by terry.reedy

#14344: repr of email policies is wrong
http://bugs.python.org/issue14344  closed by r.david.murray