[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

Fri May 17 18:07:32 CEST 2013

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2013-05-10 - 2013-05-17)
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Issues counts and deltas:
  open    3966 ( +3)
  closed 25805 (+47)
  total  29771 (+50)

Open issues with patches: 1776 

Issues opened (32)
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#17487: wave.Wave_read.getparams should be more user friendly
http://bugs.python.org/issue17487  reopened by Claudiu.Popa

#17807: Generator cleanup without tp_del
http://bugs.python.org/issue17807  reopened by pitrou

#17905: Add check for locale.h
http://bugs.python.org/issue17905  reopened by pitrou

#17951: TypeError during gdb backtracing
http://bugs.python.org/issue17951  opened by Catalin.Patulea

#17953: sys.modules cannot be reassigned
http://bugs.python.org/issue17953  opened by Valentin.Lorentz

#17955: Minor updates to Functional HOWTO
http://bugs.python.org/issue17955  opened by akuchling

#17956: add ScheduledExecutor
http://bugs.python.org/issue17956  opened by neologix

#17957: remove outdated (and unexcellent) paragraph in whatsnew
http://bugs.python.org/issue17957  opened by tshepang

#17960: Clarify the required behaviour of locals()
http://bugs.python.org/issue17960  opened by ncoghlan

#17961: Use enum names as values in enum.Enum convenience API
http://bugs.python.org/issue17961  opened by ncoghlan

#17963: Deprecate the frame hack for implicitly getting module details
http://bugs.python.org/issue17963  opened by ncoghlan

#17967: urllib2.open failed to access a url when a perent directory of
http://bugs.python.org/issue17967  opened by foxkiller

#17969: multiprocessing crash on exit
http://bugs.python.org/issue17969  opened by kristjan.jonsson

#17970: Mutlithread XML parsing cause segfault
http://bugs.python.org/issue17970  opened by mrDoctorWho0..

#17972: inspect module docs omits many functions
http://bugs.python.org/issue17972  opened by s7v7nislands at gmail.com

#17974: Migrate unittest to argparse
http://bugs.python.org/issue17974  opened by pitrou

#17975: libpython3.so conflicts between $VERSIONs
http://bugs.python.org/issue17975  opened by prlw1

#17976: file.write doesn't raise IOError when it should
http://bugs.python.org/issue17976  opened by jasujm

#17978: Python crashes if Py_Initialize/Py_Finalize are called multipl
http://bugs.python.org/issue17978  opened by romuloceccon

#17979: Cannot build 2.7 with --enable-unicode=no
http://bugs.python.org/issue17979  opened by amaury.forgeotdarc

#17980: CVE-2013-2099 ssl.match_hostname() trips over crafted	wildcard
http://bugs.python.org/issue17980  opened by fweimer

#17984: io and _pyio modules require the _io module
http://bugs.python.org/issue17984  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#17985: multiprocessing Queue.qsize() and Queue.empty() with different
http://bugs.python.org/issue17985  opened by aod

#17986: Alternative async subprocesses (pep 3145)
http://bugs.python.org/issue17986  opened by sbt

#17987: test.support.captured_stderr, captured_stdin not documented
http://bugs.python.org/issue17987  opened by fdrake

#17988: ElementTree.Element != ElementTree._ElementInterface
http://bugs.python.org/issue17988  opened by jwilk

#17989: ElementTree.Element broken attribute setting
http://bugs.python.org/issue17989  opened by jwilk

#17991: ctypes.c_char gives a misleading error when passed a one-chara
http://bugs.python.org/issue17991  opened by Steven.Barker

#17994: Change necessary in platform.py to support IronPython
http://bugs.python.org/issue17994  opened by icordasc

#17996: socket module should expose AF_LINK
http://bugs.python.org/issue17996  opened by giampaolo.rodola

#17997: ssl.match_hostname(): sub string wildcard should not match IDN
http://bugs.python.org/issue17997  opened by christian.heimes

#17998: internal error in regular expression engine
http://bugs.python.org/issue17998  opened by jdemeyer

Most recent 15 issues with no replies (15)
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#17998: internal error in regular expression engine
http://bugs.python.org/issue17998

#17997: ssl.match_hostname(): sub string wildcard should not match IDN
http://bugs.python.org/issue17997

#17996: socket module should expose AF_LINK
http://bugs.python.org/issue17996

#17994: Change necessary in platform.py to support IronPython
http://bugs.python.org/issue17994

#17991: ctypes.c_char gives a misleading error when passed a one-chara
http://bugs.python.org/issue17991

#17987: test.support.captured_stderr, captured_stdin not documented
http://bugs.python.org/issue17987

#17986: Alternative async subprocesses (pep 3145)
http://bugs.python.org/issue17986

#17975: libpython3.so conflicts between $VERSIONs
http://bugs.python.org/issue17975

#17942: IDLE Debugger: names, values misaligned
http://bugs.python.org/issue17942

#17933: test_ftp failure / ftplib error formatting issue
http://bugs.python.org/issue17933

#17924: Deprecate stat.S_IF* integer constants
http://bugs.python.org/issue17924

#17923: test glob with trailing slash fail
http://bugs.python.org/issue17923

#17916: Provide dis.Bytecode based equivalent of dis.distb
http://bugs.python.org/issue17916

#17909: Autodetecting JSON encoding
http://bugs.python.org/issue17909

#17902: Document that _elementtree C API cannot use custom TreeBuilder
http://bugs.python.org/issue17902

Most recent 15 issues waiting for review (15)
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#17988: ElementTree.Element != ElementTree._ElementInterface
http://bugs.python.org/issue17988

#17980: CVE-2013-2099 ssl.match_hostname() trips over crafted	wildcard
http://bugs.python.org/issue17980

#17979: Cannot build 2.7 with --enable-unicode=no
http://bugs.python.org/issue17979

#17978: Python crashes if Py_Initialize/Py_Finalize are called multipl
http://bugs.python.org/issue17978

#17976: file.write doesn't raise IOError when it should
http://bugs.python.org/issue17976

#17974: Migrate unittest to argparse
http://bugs.python.org/issue17974

#17956: add ScheduledExecutor
http://bugs.python.org/issue17956

#17951: TypeError during gdb backtracing
http://bugs.python.org/issue17951

#17947: Code, test, and doc review for PEP-0435 Enum
http://bugs.python.org/issue17947

#17945: tkinter/Python 3.3.0: peer_create doesn't instantiate Text
http://bugs.python.org/issue17945

#17944: Refactor test_zipfile
http://bugs.python.org/issue17944

#17941: namedtuple should support fully qualified name for more portab
http://bugs.python.org/issue17941

#17940: extra code in argparse.py
http://bugs.python.org/issue17940

#17937: Collect garbage harder at shutdown
http://bugs.python.org/issue17937

#17936: O(n**2) behaviour when adding/removing classes
http://bugs.python.org/issue17936

Top 10 most discussed issues (10)
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#17914: add os.cpu_count()
http://bugs.python.org/issue17914  36 msgs

#17980: CVE-2013-2099 ssl.match_hostname() trips over crafted	wildcard
http://bugs.python.org/issue17980  31 msgs

#17947: Code, test, and doc review for PEP-0435 Enum
http://bugs.python.org/issue17947  27 msgs

#15392: Create a unittest framework for IDLE
http://bugs.python.org/issue15392  16 msgs

#17961: Use enum names as values in enum.Enum convenience API
http://bugs.python.org/issue17961  15 msgs

#17936: O(n**2) behaviour when adding/removing classes
http://bugs.python.org/issue17936  14 msgs

#17969: multiprocessing crash on exit
http://bugs.python.org/issue17969  13 msgs

#17976: file.write doesn't raise IOError when it should
http://bugs.python.org/issue17976  10 msgs

#8604: Adding an atomic FS write API
http://bugs.python.org/issue8604   9 msgs

#17974: Migrate unittest to argparse
http://bugs.python.org/issue17974   9 msgs

Issues closed (41)
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#6208: path separator output ignores shell's path separator: /	instea
http://bugs.python.org/issue6208  closed by terry.reedy

#14596: struct.unpack memory leak
http://bugs.python.org/issue14596  closed by pitrou

#17237: m68k aligns on 16bit boundaries.
http://bugs.python.org/issue17237  closed by pitrou

#17468: Generator memory leak
http://bugs.python.org/issue17468  closed by pitrou

#17547: "checking whether gcc supports ParseTuple __format__... " erro
http://bugs.python.org/issue17547  closed by python-dev

#17563: Excessive resizing of dicts when used as a cache
http://bugs.python.org/issue17563  closed by rhettinger

#17606: xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator doesn't support byte strings
http://bugs.python.org/issue17606  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#17732: distutils.cfg Can Break venv
http://bugs.python.org/issue17732  closed by georg.brandl

#17742: Add _PyBytesWriter API
http://bugs.python.org/issue17742  closed by haypo

#17754: test_ctypes assumes LANG=C LC_ALL=C
http://bugs.python.org/issue17754  closed by doko

#17843: Lib/test/testbz2_bigmem.bz2 trigger virus warnings
http://bugs.python.org/issue17843  closed by georg.brandl

#17895: TemporaryFile name returns an integer in python3
http://bugs.python.org/issue17895  closed by terry.reedy

#17906: JSON should accept lone surrogates
http://bugs.python.org/issue17906  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#17915: Encoding error with sax and codecs
http://bugs.python.org/issue17915  closed by georg.brandl

#17920: Documentation: "complete ordering" should be "total ordering"
http://bugs.python.org/issue17920  closed by rhettinger

#17927: Argument copied into cell still referenced by frame
http://bugs.python.org/issue17927  closed by benjamin.peterson

#17943: AttributeError: 'long' object has no attribute 'release' in Qu
http://bugs.python.org/issue17943  closed by georg.brandl

#17948: HTTPS and sending a big file size hangs.
http://bugs.python.org/issue17948  closed by pitrou

#17949: operator documentation mixup
http://bugs.python.org/issue17949  closed by ezio.melotti

#17950: Dynamic classes contain non-breakable reference cycles
http://bugs.python.org/issue17950  closed by gvanrossum

#17952: editors-and-tools section of devguide does not appear to be ac
http://bugs.python.org/issue17952  closed by ned.deily

#17954: Support creation of extensible enums through metaclass subclas
http://bugs.python.org/issue17954  closed by ncoghlan

#17958: int(math.log(2**i, 2))
http://bugs.python.org/issue17958  closed by mark.dickinson

#17959: Alternate approach to aliasing for PEP 435
http://bugs.python.org/issue17959  closed by ncoghlan

#17962: Broken OpenSSL version in Windows builds
http://bugs.python.org/issue17962  closed by python-dev

#17964: os.sysconf(): return type of the C function sysconf() is long,
http://bugs.python.org/issue17964  closed by haypo

#17965: argparse does not dest.replace('-', '_')  for positionals
http://bugs.python.org/issue17965  closed by r.david.murray

#17966: Lack of consistency in PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code
http://bugs.python.org/issue17966  closed by gvanrossum

#17968: memory leak in listxattr()
http://bugs.python.org/issue17968  closed by pitrou

#17971: Weird interaction between Komodo Python debugger C module & Py
http://bugs.python.org/issue17971  closed by benjamin.peterson

#17973: '+=' on a list inside tuple both succeeds and raises an except
http://bugs.python.org/issue17973  closed by ronaldoussoren

#17977: urllib.request.urlopen() cadefault argument is documented with
http://bugs.python.org/issue17977  closed by barry

#17981: SysLogHandler closes connection before using it
http://bugs.python.org/issue17981  closed by vinay.sajip

#17982: Syntax Error in IDLE3 not in IDLE
http://bugs.python.org/issue17982  closed by terry.reedy

#17983: global __class__ statement in class declaration
http://bugs.python.org/issue17983  closed by python-dev

#17990: 2.7 builds can fail due to unconditional inclusion of include 
http://bugs.python.org/issue17990  closed by benjamin.peterson

#17992: test_asynchat hangs
http://bugs.python.org/issue17992  closed by neologix

#17993: Missed comma causes unintentional implicit string literal conc
http://bugs.python.org/issue17993  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#17995: reportï¼Œä¸ã€€é«˜ã€€å±‚ã€€ç®¡ã€€ç†ã€€æŠ€ã€€èƒ½158766
http://bugs.python.org/issue17995  closed by fdrake

#995907: memory leak with threads and enhancement of the timer class
http://bugs.python.org/issue995907  closed by neologix

#1662581: the re module can perform poorly: O(2**n) versus O(n**2)
http://bugs.python.org/issue1662581  closed by gregory.p.smith