[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

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ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2012-10-12 - 2012-10-19)
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Issues counts and deltas:
  open    3815 (+26)
  closed 24249 (+48)
  total  28064 (+74)

Open issues with patches: 1701 


Issues opened (58)
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#2350: 'exceptions' import fixer
http://bugs.python.org/issue2350  reopened by brett.cannon

#11009: urllib.splituser is not documented
http://bugs.python.org/issue11009  reopened by techtonik

#16215: Possible double memory free in str.replace
http://bugs.python.org/issue16215  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#16216: Arithmetic operations with NULL
http://bugs.python.org/issue16216  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#16217: Tracebacks are unnecessarily verbose when using 'python -m'
http://bugs.python.org/issue16217  opened by mattheww

#16218: Python launcher does not support non ascii characters
http://bugs.python.org/issue16218  opened by turncc

#16219: segfault when using xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLTreeBuilder
http://bugs.python.org/issue16219  opened by scottmax

#16220: wsgiref does not call close() on iterable response
http://bugs.python.org/issue16220  opened by btubbs

#16221: tokenize.untokenize() "compat" mode misses the encoding when u
http://bugs.python.org/issue16221  opened by eric.snow

#16222: some terms not found by devguide's search box
http://bugs.python.org/issue16222  opened by chris.jerdonek

#16223: untokenize returns a string if no encoding token is recognized
http://bugs.python.org/issue16223  opened by eric.snow

#16224: tokenize.untokenize() misbehaves when moved to "compatiblity m
http://bugs.python.org/issue16224  opened by eric.snow

#16228: JSON crashes during encoding resized lists
http://bugs.python.org/issue16228  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#16229: Demo *redemo.py* lacking in Windows installation
http://bugs.python.org/issue16229  opened by fgracia

#16230: select.select crashes on resized lists
http://bugs.python.org/issue16230  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#16231: pickle persistent_id return value
http://bugs.python.org/issue16231  opened by pschaafsma

#16232: curses.textpad.Textbox backtrace support
http://bugs.python.org/issue16232  opened by emeaudroid.emeaudroid

#16233: IDLE: conceptual problems with *Class browser*
http://bugs.python.org/issue16233  opened by fgracia

#16234: Implement correct block_size and tests for HMAC-SHA3
http://bugs.python.org/issue16234  opened by christian.heimes

#16235: Add python-config.sh for use during cross compilation.
http://bugs.python.org/issue16235  opened by Ray.Donnelly

#16236: Doc/Makefile should have $PYTHON=python2
http://bugs.python.org/issue16236  opened by maker

#16237: bdist_rpm SPEC files created with distutils may be distro spec
http://bugs.python.org/issue16237  opened by ncoghlan

#16238: Automatically remove build directory when build options change
http://bugs.python.org/issue16238  opened by techtonik

#16239: PEP8 arithmetic operator examples
http://bugs.python.org/issue16239  opened by pwuertz

#16240: Document a way to escape metacharacters in glob/fnmatch
http://bugs.python.org/issue16240  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#16241: "-X faulthandler" is not documented in -X option docs
http://bugs.python.org/issue16241  opened by ramchandra.apte

#16242: Pickle and __getattr__
http://bugs.python.org/issue16242  opened by powderflask

#16243: Regression in inspect module
http://bugs.python.org/issue16243  opened by belopolsky

#16245: Update html.entities.html5 dictionary and parseentities.py
http://bugs.python.org/issue16245  opened by ezio.melotti

#16246: Multiprocessing infinite loop on Windows
http://bugs.python.org/issue16246  opened by stoneleaf

#16247: Report failing url in URLError?
http://bugs.python.org/issue16247  opened by ncoghlan

#16248: Security bug in tkinter allows for untrusted, arbitrary code e
http://bugs.python.org/issue16248  opened by ramchandra.apte

#16250: URLError invoked with reason as filename
http://bugs.python.org/issue16250  opened by chris.jerdonek

#16251: pickle special methods are looked up on the instance rather th
http://bugs.python.org/issue16251  opened by eric.snow

#16252: bytes and bytearray methods are undocumented
http://bugs.python.org/issue16252  opened by pitrou

#16253: Docs for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords say it doesn't accept nes
http://bugs.python.org/issue16253  opened by rupole

#16254: PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() increases string size
http://bugs.python.org/issue16254  opened by dabeaz

#16255: subrocess.Popen needs /bin/sh but Android only has /system/bin
http://bugs.python.org/issue16255  opened by brousch

#16256: permissions wrong on Mac doc dir
http://bugs.python.org/issue16256  opened by Chris.Barker

#16258: test_local.TestEnUSCollection failures on Solaris 10
http://bugs.python.org/issue16258  opened by trent

#16259: Replace exec() in test.regrtest with __import__
http://bugs.python.org/issue16259  opened by ramchandra.apte

#16261: Fix bare excepts in various places in std lib
http://bugs.python.org/issue16261  opened by ramchandra.apte

#16262: srcdir != builddir builds fail, if hg is not installed
http://bugs.python.org/issue16262  opened by doko

#16263: sendmsg, recvmsg, recvmsg_into et al not being detected on Sol
http://bugs.python.org/issue16263  opened by trent

#16264: test_logging failure on Windows 7 buildbot
http://bugs.python.org/issue16264  opened by pitrou

#16267: order of decorators @abstractmethod and @classmethod is signif
http://bugs.python.org/issue16267  opened by christopherthemagnificent

#16268: dir(closure) does not find __dir__
http://bugs.python.org/issue16268  opened by christopherthemagnificent

#16271: weird dual behavior with changing __qualname__; different valu
http://bugs.python.org/issue16271  opened by christopherthemagnificent

#16272: C-API documentation clarification for tp_dictoffset
http://bugs.python.org/issue16272  opened by Chris.Colbert

#16273: f.tell() returning negative number on Windows build
http://bugs.python.org/issue16273  opened by rhettinger

#16275: test_ctypes fails on Solaris 10 SPARC 2.7 (nitrogen/s10)	(Sun 
http://bugs.python.org/issue16275  opened by trent

#16278: os.rename documentation slightly inaccurate
http://bugs.python.org/issue16278  opened by David.Benjamin

#16281: TODO in tailmatch(): it does not support backward in all cases
http://bugs.python.org/issue16281  opened by haypo

#16283: ctypes.util.find_library does not find all DLLs anymore
http://bugs.python.org/issue16283  opened by marcusva

#16284: concurrent.futures ThreadPoolExecutor keeps unnecessary refere
http://bugs.python.org/issue16284  opened by mark.dickinson

#16285: Update urllib to RFC 3986
http://bugs.python.org/issue16285  opened by Matteo.Parrucci

#16286: Optimize a==b and a!=b for bytes and str
http://bugs.python.org/issue16286  opened by haypo

#16287: Sporadic test_utime() failures on Solaris
http://bugs.python.org/issue16287  opened by trent



Most recent 15 issues with no replies (15)
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#16287: Sporadic test_utime() failures on Solaris
http://bugs.python.org/issue16287

#16284: concurrent.futures ThreadPoolExecutor keeps unnecessary refere
http://bugs.python.org/issue16284

#16283: ctypes.util.find_library does not find all DLLs anymore
http://bugs.python.org/issue16283

#16281: TODO in tailmatch(): it does not support backward in all cases
http://bugs.python.org/issue16281

#16278: os.rename documentation slightly inaccurate
http://bugs.python.org/issue16278

#16272: C-API documentation clarification for tp_dictoffset
http://bugs.python.org/issue16272

#16271: weird dual behavior with changing __qualname__; different valu
http://bugs.python.org/issue16271

#16253: Docs for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords say it doesn't accept nes
http://bugs.python.org/issue16253

#16245: Update html.entities.html5 dictionary and parseentities.py
http://bugs.python.org/issue16245

#16242: Pickle and __getattr__
http://bugs.python.org/issue16242

#16241: "-X faulthandler" is not documented in -X option docs
http://bugs.python.org/issue16241

#16240: Document a way to escape metacharacters in glob/fnmatch
http://bugs.python.org/issue16240

#16238: Automatically remove build directory when build options change
http://bugs.python.org/issue16238

#16237: bdist_rpm SPEC files created with distutils may be distro spec
http://bugs.python.org/issue16237

#16235: Add python-config.sh for use during cross compilation.
http://bugs.python.org/issue16235



Most recent 15 issues waiting for review (15)
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#16286: Optimize a==b and a!=b for bytes and str
http://bugs.python.org/issue16286

#16284: concurrent.futures ThreadPoolExecutor keeps unnecessary refere
http://bugs.python.org/issue16284

#16262: srcdir != builddir builds fail, if hg is not installed
http://bugs.python.org/issue16262

#16245: Update html.entities.html5 dictionary and parseentities.py
http://bugs.python.org/issue16245

#16240: Document a way to escape metacharacters in glob/fnmatch
http://bugs.python.org/issue16240

#16236: Doc/Makefile should have $PYTHON=python2
http://bugs.python.org/issue16236

#16235: Add python-config.sh for use during cross compilation.
http://bugs.python.org/issue16235

#16230: select.select crashes on resized lists
http://bugs.python.org/issue16230

#16228: JSON crashes during encoding resized lists
http://bugs.python.org/issue16228

#16224: tokenize.untokenize() misbehaves when moved to "compatiblity m
http://bugs.python.org/issue16224

#16221: tokenize.untokenize() "compat" mode misses the encoding when u
http://bugs.python.org/issue16221

#16220: wsgiref does not call close() on iterable response
http://bugs.python.org/issue16220

#16216: Arithmetic operations with NULL
http://bugs.python.org/issue16216

#16215: Possible double memory free in str.replace
http://bugs.python.org/issue16215

#16202: sys.path[0] security issues
http://bugs.python.org/issue16202



Top 10 most discussed issues (10)
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#16212: mmap() dumps core upon resizing the underlying file
http://bugs.python.org/issue16212  19 msgs

#16203: Proposal: add re.fullmatch() method
http://bugs.python.org/issue16203  14 msgs

#15745: Numerous utime ns tests fail on FreeBSD w/ ZFS (update:	and Ne
http://bugs.python.org/issue15745  13 msgs

#16202: sys.path[0] security issues
http://bugs.python.org/issue16202  13 msgs

#8402: Add a function to escape metacharacters in glob/fnmatch
http://bugs.python.org/issue8402   9 msgs

#10836: urllib.request.urlretrieve calls URLError with 3 args
http://bugs.python.org/issue10836   9 msgs

#16220: wsgiref does not call close() on iterable response
http://bugs.python.org/issue16220   9 msgs

#13538: Improve doc for str(bytesobject)
http://bugs.python.org/issue13538   8 msgs

#16213: Expose private functions in marshal used by importlib
http://bugs.python.org/issue16213   8 msgs

#16248: Security bug in tkinter allows for untrusted, arbitrary code e
http://bugs.python.org/issue16248   8 msgs



Issues closed (45)
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#6074: .pyc files created readonly if .py file is readonly, python wo
http://bugs.python.org/issue6074  closed by ncoghlan

#9583: Document startup option/environment interaction
http://bugs.python.org/issue9583  closed by asvetlov

#10834: Python 2.7 x86 IDLE fails to run in Windows 7
http://bugs.python.org/issue10834  closed by serwy

#12321: documentation of ElementTree.find
http://bugs.python.org/issue12321  closed by eli.bendersky

#12686: argparse - document (and improve?) use of SUPPRESS with help=
http://bugs.python.org/issue12686  closed by bethard

#13440: Explain the "status quo wins a stalemate" principle in the dev
http://bugs.python.org/issue13440  closed by python-dev

#13843: Python doesn't compile anymore on our Solaris buildbot: undefi
http://bugs.python.org/issue13843  closed by trent

#14120: ARM Ubuntu 3.x buildbot failing test_dbm
http://bugs.python.org/issue14120  closed by nadeem.vawda

#14214: test_concurrent_futures hangs
http://bugs.python.org/issue14214  closed by nadeem.vawda

#14229: On KeyboardInterrupt, the exit code should mirror the signal n
http://bugs.python.org/issue14229  closed by nadeem.vawda

#14774: _sysconfigdata.py doesn't support multiple build configuration
http://bugs.python.org/issue14774  closed by trent

#15145: Faster *_find_max_char
http://bugs.python.org/issue15145  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#15200: Faster os.walk
http://bugs.python.org/issue15200  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#15378: Underported Tools/unicode/comparecodecs.py
http://bugs.python.org/issue15378  closed by pitrou

#15586: Provide some examples for usage of ElementTree methods/attribu
http://bugs.python.org/issue15586  closed by eli.bendersky

#15744: missing tests for {RawIO,BufferedIO,TextIO}.writelines
http://bugs.python.org/issue15744  closed by pitrou

#15811: ElementTree.write() raises TypeError when xml_declaration = Tr
http://bugs.python.org/issue15811  closed by eli.bendersky

#15833: most failures to write byte-compiled file no longer suppressed
http://bugs.python.org/issue15833  closed by trent

#15936: Add link from os.urandom to random.SystemRandom
http://bugs.python.org/issue15936  closed by asvetlov

#15958: bytes.join() should allow arbitrary buffer objects
http://bugs.python.org/issue15958  closed by pitrou

#16044: xml.etree.ElementTree.Element: append method iterator param is
http://bugs.python.org/issue16044  closed by eli.bendersky

#16103: sys.stdin.readline 'unsupported' (IDLE 2.7.3, Win7, pythonw)
http://bugs.python.org/issue16103  closed by terry.reedy

#16106: antigravity tests
http://bugs.python.org/issue16106  closed by ezio.melotti

#16160: subclassing types.SimpleNamespace does not work
http://bugs.python.org/issue16160  closed by python-dev

#16166: Add PY_BYTE_ORDER macro to get endianess of platform
http://bugs.python.org/issue16166  closed by christian.heimes

#16186: shlex bug?
http://bugs.python.org/issue16186  closed by serwy

#16206: dict() docs should display multiple signatures
http://bugs.python.org/issue16206  closed by chris.jerdonek

#16214: 2to3 does not remove exceptions import
http://bugs.python.org/issue16214  closed by brett.cannon

#16225: add to "looping techniques" tutorial a note about modifying se
http://bugs.python.org/issue16225  closed by chris.jerdonek

#16226: IDLE crashes on *File / Path browser*
http://bugs.python.org/issue16226  closed by ned.deily

#16227: Add link to 3.3 version in unicode howto
http://bugs.python.org/issue16227  closed by chris.jerdonek

#16244: TimedRotatingFileHandler forces "write" mode, should use "appe
http://bugs.python.org/issue16244  closed by python-dev

#16249: unicode name accepts a punctuation glyph
http://bugs.python.org/issue16249  closed by ezio.melotti

#16257: test_socket.test_create_connection tests for wrong errno on So
http://bugs.python.org/issue16257  closed by trent

#16260: change bare except in locale.py
http://bugs.python.org/issue16260  closed by ramchandra.apte

#16265: Code sample does not collapse correctly
http://bugs.python.org/issue16265  closed by asvetlov

#16266: Rephrase sentence in tutorial about universal newlines
http://bugs.python.org/issue16266  closed by chris.jerdonek

#16269: multiprocessing.Queue uses select()
http://bugs.python.org/issue16269  closed by giampaolo.rodola

#16270: urllib hangs when closing connection
http://bugs.python.org/issue16270  closed by giampaolo.rodola

#16274: test_asyncore failing on Solaris 10 2.7 (nitrogen/s10)
http://bugs.python.org/issue16274  closed by trent

#16276: OrderedDict constructor do not keep items order
http://bugs.python.org/issue16276  closed by ezio.melotti

#16277: Objects/longobject.c not compiled without long long
http://bugs.python.org/issue16277  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#16279: namedtuple should compare equality with field names taken into
http://bugs.python.org/issue16279  closed by ncoghlan

#16280: Inconsistency with PyLong_FromVoidPtr() and PyLong_AsVoidPtr()
http://bugs.python.org/issue16280  closed by mark.dickinson

#16282: The Python Tutorial the previous link needs updating
http://bugs.python.org/issue16282  closed by chris.jerdonek