[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

Fri Aug 23 18:07:31 CEST 2013

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2013-08-16 - 2013-08-23)
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Issues counts and deltas:
  open    4168 (+16)
  closed 26426 (+49)
  total  30594 (+65)

Open issues with patches: 1914 

Issues opened (47)
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#17702: os.environ converts key type from string to bytes in KeyError 
http://bugs.python.org/issue17702  reopened by haypo

#18757: Fix internal references for concurrent modules
http://bugs.python.org/issue18757  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#18758: Fix internal references in the documentation
http://bugs.python.org/issue18758  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#18760: Fix internal doc references for the xml package
http://bugs.python.org/issue18760  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#18763: subprocess: file descriptors should be closed after preexec_fn
http://bugs.python.org/issue18763  opened by neologix

#18764: The pdb print command prints repr instead of str in python3
http://bugs.python.org/issue18764  opened by r.david.murray

#18765: unittest needs a way to launch pdb.post_mortem or other debug 
http://bugs.python.org/issue18765  opened by gregory.p.smith

#18766: IDLE: Autocomplete in editor doesn't work for un-imported modu
http://bugs.python.org/issue18766  opened by philwebster

#18767: csv documentation does not note default quote constant
http://bugs.python.org/issue18767  opened by bemclaugh

#18769: argparse remove subparser
http://bugs.python.org/issue18769  opened by Michael.Bikovitsky

#18772: Fix gdb plugin for new sets dummy object
http://bugs.python.org/issue18772  opened by pitrou

#18774: There is still last bit of GNU Pth code in signalmodule.c
http://bugs.python.org/issue18774  opened by vajrasky

#18775: name attribute for HMAC
http://bugs.python.org/issue18775  opened by christian.heimes

#18776: atexit error display behavior changed in python 3
http://bugs.python.org/issue18776  opened by doughellmann

#18778: email docstrings and comments say about Unicode strings
http://bugs.python.org/issue18778  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#18779: Misleading documentations and comments in regular expression H
http://bugs.python.org/issue18779  opened by vajrasky

#18780: SystemError when formatting int subclass
http://bugs.python.org/issue18780  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#18783: No more refer to Python "long"
http://bugs.python.org/issue18783  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#18784: minor uuid.py loading optimization
http://bugs.python.org/issue18784  opened by eugals

#18785: Add get_body and iter_attachments to provisional email API
http://bugs.python.org/issue18785  opened by r.david.murray

#18787: Misleading error from getspnam function of spwd module
http://bugs.python.org/issue18787  opened by vajrasky

#18789: XML Vunerability Table Unclear
http://bugs.python.org/issue18789  opened by joe-tennies

#18790: incorrect text in argparse add_help example
http://bugs.python.org/issue18790  opened by purplezephyr

#18795: pstats - allow stats sorting by cumulative time per call and t
http://bugs.python.org/issue18795  opened by alexnvdias

#18796: Wrong documentation of show_code function from dis module
http://bugs.python.org/issue18796  opened by vajrasky

#18798: Typo and unused variables in test fcntl
http://bugs.python.org/issue18798  opened by vajrasky

#18799: Resurrect and fix test_404 in Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
http://bugs.python.org/issue18799  opened by vajrasky

#18800: Document Fraction's numerator and denominator properties
http://bugs.python.org/issue18800  opened by icedream91

#18801: inspect.classify_class_attrs() misclassifies object.__new__()
http://bugs.python.org/issue18801  opened by eric.snow

#18802: ipaddress documentation errors
http://bugs.python.org/issue18802  opened by jongfoster

#18803: Fix more typos in .py files
http://bugs.python.org/issue18803  opened by iwontbecreative

#18804: pythorun.c: is_valid_fd() should not duplicate the file descri
http://bugs.python.org/issue18804  opened by haypo

#18805: ipaddress netmask/hostmask parsing bugs
http://bugs.python.org/issue18805  opened by jongfoster

#18806: socketmodule: fix/improve setipaddr() numeric addresses handli
http://bugs.python.org/issue18806  opened by neologix

#18807: Allow venv to create copies, even when symlinks are supported
http://bugs.python.org/issue18807  opened by andrea.corbellini

#18808: Thread.join returns before PyThreadState is destroyed
http://bugs.python.org/issue18808  opened by Tamas.K

#18809: Expose mtime check in importlib.machinery.FileFinder
http://bugs.python.org/issue18809  opened by brett.cannon

#18810: Stop doing stat calls in importlib.machinery.FileFinder to see
http://bugs.python.org/issue18810  opened by brett.cannon

#18813: Speed up slice object processing
http://bugs.python.org/issue18813  opened by scoder

#18814: Add tools for "cleaning" surrogate escaped strings
http://bugs.python.org/issue18814  opened by ncoghlan

#18815: DOCUMENTATION: "mmap .close()" doesn't close the underlying fi
http://bugs.python.org/issue18815  opened by jcea

#18816: "mmap.flush()" is always synchronous, hurting performance
http://bugs.python.org/issue18816  opened by jcea

#18817: Got resource warning when running Lib/aifc.py
http://bugs.python.org/issue18817  opened by vajrasky

#18818: Empty PYTHONIOENCODING is not the same as nonexistent
http://bugs.python.org/issue18818  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#18819: tarfile fills devmajor and devminor fields even for non-device
http://bugs.python.org/issue18819  opened by Nuutti.Kotivuori

#18820: json.dump() ignores its 'default' option when serializing dict
http://bugs.python.org/issue18820  opened by july

#18821: Add .lastitem attribute to takewhile instances
http://bugs.python.org/issue18821  opened by oscarbenjamin

Most recent 15 issues with no replies (15)
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#18821: Add .lastitem attribute to takewhile instances
http://bugs.python.org/issue18821

#18819: tarfile fills devmajor and devminor fields even for non-device
http://bugs.python.org/issue18819

#18817: Got resource warning when running Lib/aifc.py
http://bugs.python.org/issue18817

#18815: DOCUMENTATION: "mmap .close()" doesn't close the underlying fi
http://bugs.python.org/issue18815

#18810: Stop doing stat calls in importlib.machinery.FileFinder to see
http://bugs.python.org/issue18810

#18809: Expose mtime check in importlib.machinery.FileFinder
http://bugs.python.org/issue18809

#18807: Allow venv to create copies, even when symlinks are supported
http://bugs.python.org/issue18807

#18803: Fix more typos in .py files
http://bugs.python.org/issue18803

#18801: inspect.classify_class_attrs() misclassifies object.__new__()
http://bugs.python.org/issue18801

#18800: Document Fraction's numerator and denominator properties
http://bugs.python.org/issue18800

#18798: Typo and unused variables in test fcntl
http://bugs.python.org/issue18798

#18796: Wrong documentation of show_code function from dis module
http://bugs.python.org/issue18796

#18790: incorrect text in argparse add_help example
http://bugs.python.org/issue18790

#18789: XML Vunerability Table Unclear
http://bugs.python.org/issue18789

#18785: Add get_body and iter_attachments to provisional email API
http://bugs.python.org/issue18785

Most recent 15 issues waiting for review (15)
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#18820: json.dump() ignores its 'default' option when serializing dict
http://bugs.python.org/issue18820

#18819: tarfile fills devmajor and devminor fields even for non-device
http://bugs.python.org/issue18819

#18818: Empty PYTHONIOENCODING is not the same as nonexistent
http://bugs.python.org/issue18818

#18817: Got resource warning when running Lib/aifc.py
http://bugs.python.org/issue18817

#18813: Speed up slice object processing
http://bugs.python.org/issue18813

#18805: ipaddress netmask/hostmask parsing bugs
http://bugs.python.org/issue18805

#18803: Fix more typos in .py files
http://bugs.python.org/issue18803

#18802: ipaddress documentation errors
http://bugs.python.org/issue18802

#18799: Resurrect and fix test_404 in Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
http://bugs.python.org/issue18799

#18798: Typo and unused variables in test fcntl
http://bugs.python.org/issue18798

#18796: Wrong documentation of show_code function from dis module
http://bugs.python.org/issue18796

#18790: incorrect text in argparse add_help example
http://bugs.python.org/issue18790

#18787: Misleading error from getspnam function of spwd module
http://bugs.python.org/issue18787

#18785: Add get_body and iter_attachments to provisional email API
http://bugs.python.org/issue18785

#18784: minor uuid.py loading optimization
http://bugs.python.org/issue18784

Top 10 most discussed issues (10)
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#18756: os.urandom() fails under high load
http://bugs.python.org/issue18756  34 msgs

#18747: Re-seed OpenSSL's PRNG after fork
http://bugs.python.org/issue18747  32 msgs

#18713: Clearly document the use of PYTHONIOENCODING to set surrogatee
http://bugs.python.org/issue18713  30 msgs

#18712: Pure Python operator.index doesn't match the C version.
http://bugs.python.org/issue18712  16 msgs

#18738: String formatting (% and str.format) issues with Enum
http://bugs.python.org/issue18738  13 msgs

#18772: Fix gdb plugin for new sets dummy object
http://bugs.python.org/issue18772  13 msgs

#18606: Add statistics module to standard library
http://bugs.python.org/issue18606  12 msgs

#18748: libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work
http://bugs.python.org/issue18748   7 msgs

#15809: IDLE console uses incorrect encoding.
http://bugs.python.org/issue15809   6 msgs

#16396: Importing ctypes.wintypes on Linux gives a traceback
http://bugs.python.org/issue16396   6 msgs

Issues closed (50)
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#2537: re.compile(r'((x|y+)*)*') should not fail
http://bugs.python.org/issue2537  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#6923: Need pthread_atfork-like functionality in CPython
http://bugs.python.org/issue6923  closed by neologix

#8865: select.poll is not thread safe
http://bugs.python.org/issue8865  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#10654: test_datetime sometimes fails on Python3.x windows binary
http://bugs.python.org/issue10654  closed by terry.reedy

#13461: Error on test_issue_1395_5 with Python 2.7 and VS2010
http://bugs.python.org/issue13461  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#15175: pydoc -k zip throws segmentation fault
http://bugs.python.org/issue15175  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#15233: atexit: guarantee order of execution of registered functions?
http://bugs.python.org/issue15233  closed by neologix

#16105: Pass read only FD to signal.set_wakeup_fd
http://bugs.python.org/issue16105  closed by pitrou

#16190: Misleading warning in random module docs
http://bugs.python.org/issue16190  closed by pitrou

#16463: testConnectTimeout of test_timeout TCPTimeoutTestCasefailures 
http://bugs.python.org/issue16463  closed by neologix

#16699: Mountain Lion buildbot lacks disk space
http://bugs.python.org/issue16699  closed by ezio.melotti

#17119: Integer overflow when passing large string or tuple to Tkinter
http://bugs.python.org/issue17119  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#17400: ipaddress.is_private needs to take into account of rfc6598
http://bugs.python.org/issue17400  closed by pmoody

#17803: Calling Tkinter.Tk() with a baseName keyword argument throws U
http://bugs.python.org/issue17803  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#17998: internal error in regular expression engine
http://bugs.python.org/issue17998  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#18178: Redefinition of malloc(3) family of functions at build time
http://bugs.python.org/issue18178  closed by christian.heimes

#18324: set_payload does not handle binary payloads correctly
http://bugs.python.org/issue18324  closed by r.david.murray

#18445: Tools/Script/Readme is outdated
http://bugs.python.org/issue18445  closed by akuchling

#18466: Spelling mistakes in various code comments.
http://bugs.python.org/issue18466  closed by ezio.melotti

#18562: Regex howto: revision pass
http://bugs.python.org/issue18562  closed by akuchling

#18686: Tkinter focus_get on menu results in KeyError
http://bugs.python.org/issue18686  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#18701: Remove outdated PY_VERSION_HEX checks
http://bugs.python.org/issue18701  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#18705: Fix typos/spelling mistakes in Lib/*.py files
http://bugs.python.org/issue18705  closed by ezio.melotti

#18706: test failure in test_codeccallbacks
http://bugs.python.org/issue18706  closed by ezio.melotti

#18707: the readme should also talk about how to build doc.
http://bugs.python.org/issue18707  closed by ezio.melotti

#18718: datetime documentation contradictory on leap second support
http://bugs.python.org/issue18718  closed by ezio.melotti

#18741: Fix typos/spelling mistakes in Lib/*/*/.py files
http://bugs.python.org/issue18741  closed by ezio.melotti

#18753: [c]ElementTree.fromstring fails to parse <value>]]></value>
http://bugs.python.org/issue18753  closed by kees

#18755: imp read functions do not try to re-open files that have been 
http://bugs.python.org/issue18755  closed by brett.cannon

#18759: Fix internal doc references for logging package
http://bugs.python.org/issue18759  closed by ezio.melotti

#18761: Fix internal doc references for the email package
http://bugs.python.org/issue18761  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#18762: error in test_multiprocessing_forkserver
http://bugs.python.org/issue18762  closed by sbt

#18768: Wrong documentation of RAND_egd function in ssl module
http://bugs.python.org/issue18768  closed by christian.heimes

#18770: Python insert operation on list
http://bugs.python.org/issue18770  closed by brett.cannon

#18771: Reduce the cost of hash collisions for set objects
http://bugs.python.org/issue18771  closed by rhettinger

#18773: When a signal handler fails to write to the file descriptor re
http://bugs.python.org/issue18773  closed by vajrasky

#18777: Cannot compile _ssl.c using openssl > 1.0
http://bugs.python.org/issue18777  closed by christian.heimes

#18781: re.escape escapes underscore (Python 2.7)
http://bugs.python.org/issue18781  closed by ezio.melotti

#18782: sqlite3 row factory and multiprocessing map
http://bugs.python.org/issue18782  closed by ned.deily

#18786: test_multiprocessing_spawn crashes under PowerLinux
http://bugs.python.org/issue18786  closed by pitrou

#18788: Proof of concept: implicit call syntax
http://bugs.python.org/issue18788  closed by ncoghlan

#18791: PIL freeze reading Jpeg file
http://bugs.python.org/issue18791  closed by ezio.melotti

#18792: test_ftplib timeouts
http://bugs.python.org/issue18792  closed by pitrou

#18793: occasional test_multiprocessing_forkserver failure on FreeBSD 
http://bugs.python.org/issue18793  closed by sbt

#18794: select.devpoll objects have no close() method
http://bugs.python.org/issue18794  closed by python-dev

#18797: Don't needlessly change refcounts of dummy objects for sets
http://bugs.python.org/issue18797  closed by rhettinger

#18811: add ssl-based generator to random module
http://bugs.python.org/issue18811  closed by neologix

#18812: PyImport_Import redundant calls to find module
http://bugs.python.org/issue18812  closed by brett.cannon

#1633953: re.compile("(.*$){1,4}", re.MULTILINE) fails
http://bugs.python.org/issue1633953  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#1666318: shutil.copytree doesn't give control over directory permission
http://bugs.python.org/issue1666318  closed by pitrou