[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

Fri Nov 16 18:07:26 CET 2012

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2012-11-09 - 2012-11-16)
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Issues counts and deltas:
  open    3801 ( -5)
  closed 24464 (+46)
  total  28265 (+41)

Open issues with patches: 1660 

Issues opened (27)
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#13863: import.c sometimes generates incorrect timestamps on Windows +
http://bugs.python.org/issue13863  reopened by eric.snow

#16450: test_missing_localfile masks problems in urlopen
http://bugs.python.org/issue16450  opened by HansM

#16451: Remove duplication between slice_indices and compute_slice_ind
http://bugs.python.org/issue16451  opened by mark.dickinson

#16455: sys.getfilesystemencoding() is not the locale encoding on Free
http://bugs.python.org/issue16455  opened by haypo

#16458: subprocess.py throw "The handle is invalid" error on duplicati
http://bugs.python.org/issue16458  opened by kartlee05

#16461: wave module: wrong integer format
http://bugs.python.org/issue16461  opened by ckern

#16462: smtpd should return greeting
http://bugs.python.org/issue16462  opened by mike.a

#16463: test_timeout failure on the RHEL buildbot
http://bugs.python.org/issue16463  opened by pitrou

#16464: urllib.request: opener not resetting content-length
http://bugs.python.org/issue16464  opened by terry.reedy

#16465: dict creation performance regression
http://bugs.python.org/issue16465  opened by phihag

#16466: register command forgets password if no config file is created
http://bugs.python.org/issue16466  opened by techtonik

#16470: Backport set and dictionary comprehensions in tutorial to 2.7
http://bugs.python.org/issue16470  opened by fossilet

#16471: upgrade to sphinx 1.1
http://bugs.python.org/issue16471  opened by chris.jerdonek

#16472: Distutils+mingw links agains msvcr90, while python27.dll is li
http://bugs.python.org/issue16472  opened by eudoxos

#16473: Minor difference in decoding quoted-printable text
http://bugs.python.org/issue16473  opened by aleperalta

#16474: More code coverage for imp module
http://bugs.python.org/issue16474  opened by tenuki

#16475: Support object instancing and recursion in marshal
http://bugs.python.org/issue16475  opened by kristjan.jonsson

#16477: tarfile fails to close file handles in case of exception
http://bugs.python.org/issue16477  opened by ssam

#16480: pyvenv 3.3 fails to create symlinks for <virtualenv>/local/{bi
http://bugs.python.org/issue16480  opened by Marco.Amadori

#16482: pdb.set_trace() clobbering traceback on error
http://bugs.python.org/issue16482  opened by akaptur

#16483: Make int(float('inf')) raise ValueError rather than OverflowEr
http://bugs.python.org/issue16483  opened by mark.dickinson

#16484: Missing/broken documentation redirect for http://docs.python.o
http://bugs.python.org/issue16484  opened by mgedmin

#16485: FD leaks in aifc module
http://bugs.python.org/issue16485  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#16486: Add context manager support to aifc module
http://bugs.python.org/issue16486  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#16487: Allow ssl certificates to be speficfied from memory rather tha
http://bugs.python.org/issue16487  opened by kristjan.jonsson

#16488: Add context manager support to epoll object
http://bugs.python.org/issue16488  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#16468: argparse only supports iterable choices
http://bugs.python.org/issue16468  opened by chris.jerdonek

Most recent 15 issues with no replies (15)
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#16488: Add context manager support to epoll object
http://bugs.python.org/issue16488

#16486: Add context manager support to aifc module
http://bugs.python.org/issue16486

#16484: Missing/broken documentation redirect for http://docs.python.o
http://bugs.python.org/issue16484

#16482: pdb.set_trace() clobbering traceback on error
http://bugs.python.org/issue16482

#16480: pyvenv 3.3 fails to create symlinks for <virtualenv>/local/{bi
http://bugs.python.org/issue16480

#16472: Distutils+mingw links agains msvcr90, while python27.dll is li
http://bugs.python.org/issue16472

#16471: upgrade to sphinx 1.1
http://bugs.python.org/issue16471

#16464: urllib.request: opener not resetting content-length
http://bugs.python.org/issue16464

#16463: test_timeout failure on the RHEL buildbot
http://bugs.python.org/issue16463

#16450: test_missing_localfile masks problems in urlopen
http://bugs.python.org/issue16450

#16446: pdb raises BdbQuit on 'quit' when started with set_trace
http://bugs.python.org/issue16446

#16429: Emit SyntaxWarning for code that risks UnboundLocalError
http://bugs.python.org/issue16429

#16428: turtle with compound shape doesn't get clicks
http://bugs.python.org/issue16428

#16425: minidom replaceChild(new_child, old_child) removes new_child e
http://bugs.python.org/issue16425

#16406: move the "Uploading Packages" section to distutils/packageinde
http://bugs.python.org/issue16406

Most recent 15 issues waiting for review (15)
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#16488: Add context manager support to epoll object
http://bugs.python.org/issue16488

#16487: Allow ssl certificates to be speficfied from memory rather tha
http://bugs.python.org/issue16487

#16486: Add context manager support to aifc module
http://bugs.python.org/issue16486

#16485: FD leaks in aifc module
http://bugs.python.org/issue16485

#16483: Make int(float('inf')) raise ValueError rather than OverflowEr
http://bugs.python.org/issue16483

#16475: Support object instancing and recursion in marshal
http://bugs.python.org/issue16475

#16474: More code coverage for imp module
http://bugs.python.org/issue16474

#16473: Minor difference in decoding quoted-printable text
http://bugs.python.org/issue16473

#16470: Backport set and dictionary comprehensions in tutorial to 2.7
http://bugs.python.org/issue16470

#16466: register command forgets password if no config file is created
http://bugs.python.org/issue16466

#16465: dict creation performance regression
http://bugs.python.org/issue16465

#16455: sys.getfilesystemencoding() is not the locale encoding on Free
http://bugs.python.org/issue16455

#16451: Remove duplication between slice_indices and compute_slice_ind
http://bugs.python.org/issue16451

#16447: SEGFAULT when setting type.__name__
http://bugs.python.org/issue16447

#16445: SEGFAULT when deleting Exception.message
http://bugs.python.org/issue16445

Top 10 most discussed issues (10)
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#16465: dict creation performance regression
http://bugs.python.org/issue16465  14 msgs

#8865: select.poll is not thread safe
http://bugs.python.org/issue8865  13 msgs

#16418: argparse with many choices can generate absurdly long usage me
http://bugs.python.org/issue16418  13 msgs

#16427: Faster hash implementation
http://bugs.python.org/issue16427  13 msgs

#16444: Use support.TESTFN_UNDECODABLE on UNIX
http://bugs.python.org/issue16444  11 msgs

#16218: Python launcher does not support unicode characters
http://bugs.python.org/issue16218  10 msgs

#14631: Instance methods and WeakRefs don't mix.
http://bugs.python.org/issue14631   8 msgs

#13349: Non-informative error message in index() and remove() function
http://bugs.python.org/issue13349   7 msgs

#16416: Mac OS X: don't use the locale encoding but UTF-8 to encode an
http://bugs.python.org/issue16416   7 msgs

#16458: subprocess.py throw "The handle is invalid" error on duplicati
http://bugs.python.org/issue16458   7 msgs

Issues closed (41)
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#7620: Vim syntax highlight
http://bugs.python.org/issue7620  closed by brett.cannon

#9084: vimrc: use matchall() instead of ":match" to allow multiple ma
http://bugs.python.org/issue9084  closed by brett.cannon

#9535: Pending signals are inherited by child processes
http://bugs.python.org/issue9535  closed by gregory.p.smith

#9893: Removing the Misc/Vim/ files
http://bugs.python.org/issue9893  closed by brett.cannon

#12428: functools test coverage
http://bugs.python.org/issue12428  closed by pitrou

#12907: Update test coverage devguide page
http://bugs.python.org/issue12907  closed by brett.cannon

#12908: Update dev-in-a-box for new coverage steps
http://bugs.python.org/issue12908  closed by brett.cannon

#14215: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/ title is python.org
http://bugs.python.org/issue14215  closed by georg.brandl

#14396: Popen wait() doesn't handle spurious wakeups
http://bugs.python.org/issue14396  closed by gregory.p.smith

#15677: Gzip/zlib allows for compression level=0
http://bugs.python.org/issue15677  closed by nadeem.vawda

#15835: HP-UX build needs to be tweaked to pick up PATH_MAX
http://bugs.python.org/issue15835  closed by skrah

#15880: os.path.split() and long UNC names
http://bugs.python.org/issue15880  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#15894: _PyImport_ReInitLock() doesn't check return value of PyThread_
http://bugs.python.org/issue15894  closed by brett.cannon

#16140: subprocess.Popen the os.close calls in _execute_child can rais
http://bugs.python.org/issue16140  closed by gregory.p.smith

#16144: misleading sentence in reference/import
http://bugs.python.org/issue16144  closed by asvetlov

#16290: PyComplex_AsCComplex should allow __complex__ to return float.
http://bugs.python.org/issue16290  closed by mark.dickinson

#16327: subprocess.Popen leaks file descriptors on os.fork() failure
http://bugs.python.org/issue16327  closed by gregory.p.smith

#16357: SSLSocket created from SSLContext.wrap_socket doesn't include 
http://bugs.python.org/issue16357  closed by pitrou

#16378: venv.EnvBuilder docstring inconsistencies
http://bugs.python.org/issue16378  closed by python-dev

#16391: add "terminator" ctor argument to logging.StreamHandlers deriv
http://bugs.python.org/issue16391  closed by vinay.sajip

#16397: UserString doesn't combine nicely with strings
http://bugs.python.org/issue16397  closed by Jorge.Cardona

#16400: update default PyPI behavior in docs re: listing versions
http://bugs.python.org/issue16400  closed by chris.jerdonek

#16409: urlretrieve regression: first call returns block size as 0
http://bugs.python.org/issue16409  closed by gregory.p.smith

#16411: zlib.Decompress.decompress() retains pointer to input buffer w
http://bugs.python.org/issue16411  closed by nadeem.vawda

#16424: regression: os.path.split('//hostname/foo/bar.txt')
http://bugs.python.org/issue16424  closed by jcea

#16436: Link directly to set and frozenset in built-in function docs
http://bugs.python.org/issue16436  closed by chris.jerdonek

#16448: 'module' object has no attribute 'font' when "import tkinter" 
http://bugs.python.org/issue16448  closed by r.david.murray

#16449: RotatingFileHandler rollover doesn't work on QNX shmem filesys
http://bugs.python.org/issue16449  closed by vinay.sajip

#16452: Add support for weak reference to bound methods
http://bugs.python.org/issue16452  closed by sfeltman

#16453: Inconsistent dead weakref equality
http://bugs.python.org/issue16453  closed by pitrou

#16454: Mostly for discussion: _winapi as builtin for bootstrapping di
http://bugs.python.org/issue16454  closed by sbt

#16456: UnicodeDecodeError thrown for 'encode' operation on string
http://bugs.python.org/issue16456  closed by haypo

#16457: Allow operator 'getter' methods to take a list and return a tu
http://bugs.python.org/issue16457  closed by r.david.murray

#16459: sys.stdout.write printing length of string
http://bugs.python.org/issue16459  closed by firatozgul

#16460: Strange results for floor division ("//") with non-integer div
http://bugs.python.org/issue16460  closed by mark.dickinson

#16469: Exceptions raised by Fraction() different from those raised by
http://bugs.python.org/issue16469  closed by mark.dickinson

#16476: Trailing spaces in pretty-printed JSON
http://bugs.python.org/issue16476  closed by ezio.melotti

#16478: Fix division in tabnanny
http://bugs.python.org/issue16478  closed by ezio.melotti

#16479: Can't install Python 3 on Redhat Linux, make failed
http://bugs.python.org/issue16479  closed by pitrou

#16481: process handle leak on windows in multiprocessing
http://bugs.python.org/issue16481  closed by sbt

#16467: frozen importlib required for extending Python interpreter not
http://bugs.python.org/issue16467  closed by atuining