[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

Fri May 2 18:07:53 CEST 2014

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2014-04-25 - 2014-05-02)
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Issues counts and deltas:
  open    4605 ( +5)
  closed 28582 (+61)
  total  33187 (+66)

Open issues with patches: 2109 

Issues opened (49)
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#21350: bug in file.writelines accepting buffers
http://bugs.python.org/issue21350  opened by bdkearns

#21352: improve documentation indexing
http://bugs.python.org/issue21352  opened by bgailer

#21354: PyCFunction_New no longer exposed by python DLL breaking bdist
http://bugs.python.org/issue21354  opened by mhammond

#21356: Support LibreSSL (instead of OpenSSL): make RAND_egd optional
http://bugs.python.org/issue21356  opened by Edd.Barrett

#21357: Increase filecmp test coverage from 63% to 76%
http://bugs.python.org/issue21357  opened by diana

#21358: Augmented assignment doc: clarify 'only evaluated once'
http://bugs.python.org/issue21358  opened by terry.reedy

#21359: IDLE Redo command accelerator acts as Undo with current OS X C
http://bugs.python.org/issue21359  opened by ned.deily

#21360: mailbox.Maildir should ignore files named with a leading dot
http://bugs.python.org/issue21360  opened by liw

#21362: concurrent.futures does not validate that max_workers is prope
http://bugs.python.org/issue21362  opened by Claudiu.Popa

#21363: io.TextIOWrapper always closes wrapped files
http://bugs.python.org/issue21363  opened by aronacher

#21364: Documentation Recommends Broken Pattern
http://bugs.python.org/issue21364  opened by aronacher

#21365: asyncio.Task reference misses the most important fact about it
http://bugs.python.org/issue21365  opened by pfalcon

#21366: Document that return in finally overwrites prev value
http://bugs.python.org/issue21366  opened by brandjon

#21367: multiprocessing.JoinableQueue requires new kwarg
http://bugs.python.org/issue21367  opened by lee.clemens

#21368: Check for systemd locale on startup if current locale is set t
http://bugs.python.org/issue21368  opened by ncoghlan

#21370: segfault from simple traceback.format_exc call
http://bugs.python.org/issue21370  opened by John.Rusnak

#21372: multiprocessing.util.register_after_fork inconsistency
http://bugs.python.org/issue21372  opened by schlamar

#21373: robotparser: Automatically call modified function in read()
http://bugs.python.org/issue21373  opened by mlorant

#21375: Fix and test overflow behavior in the C version of heapq
http://bugs.python.org/issue21375  opened by rhettinger

#21376: asyncio docs refer to wrong TimeoutError
http://bugs.python.org/issue21376  opened by qmega

#21381: Python 3.4+ interpreter built on/with OS X 10.7 deployment tar
http://bugs.python.org/issue21381  opened by Christian.Tismer

#21382: Signal module doesnt raises ValueError Exception
http://bugs.python.org/issue21382  opened by rsevcan

#21383: "make touch" fails when the build directory is not the source 
http://bugs.python.org/issue21383  opened by ned.deily

#21384: Windows: Make handle non inheritable by default
http://bugs.python.org/issue21384  opened by haypo

#21385: Compiling modified AST crashes on debug build unless linenumbe
http://bugs.python.org/issue21385  opened by Ztane

#21386: ipaddress.IPv4Address.is_global not implemented
http://bugs.python.org/issue21386  opened by rluethi

#21387: Memory leaks when embedded interpreter is reinitialized
http://bugs.python.org/issue21387  opened by Evgeniy.Stepanov

#21389: The repr of BoundMethod objects sometimes incorrectly identifi
http://bugs.python.org/issue21389  opened by Steven.Barker

#21390: readline: setlocale() returns NULL on Android
http://bugs.python.org/issue21390  opened by lizhenhua.dev

#21391: PATCH: using the abspath shortcut in Lib/shutil
http://bugs.python.org/issue21391  opened by Yinon

#21392: Python on Cygwin: subprocess.call BlockingIOError: [Errno 11] 
http://bugs.python.org/issue21392  opened by dellair.jie

#21393: Python/random.c: close hCryptProv at exit
http://bugs.python.org/issue21393  opened by haypo

#21396: Python io implementation doesn't flush with write_through=True
http://bugs.python.org/issue21396  opened by akira

#21397: tempfile.py: Fix grammar in docstring, comment typos
http://bugs.python.org/issue21397  opened by modocache

#21398: LC_CTYPE=C:  pydoc leaves terminal in an unusable state
http://bugs.python.org/issue21398  opened by skrah

#21400: Code coverage documentation is out-of-date.
http://bugs.python.org/issue21400  opened by matrixise

#21401: python2 -3 does not warn about str/unicode to bytes conversion
http://bugs.python.org/issue21401  opened by Joshua.J.Cogliati

#21402: tkinter.ttk._val_or_dict assumes tkinter._default_root exists
http://bugs.python.org/issue21402  opened by Zero

#21403: cElementTree's Element creation handles attrib argument differ
http://bugs.python.org/issue21403  opened by santa4nt

#21404: Compression level for tarfile/zipfile
http://bugs.python.org/issue21404  opened by Sworddragon

#21405: Allow using symbols from Unicode block "Superscripts and Subsc
http://bugs.python.org/issue21405  opened by rominf

#21406: Some socket constants are not enums
http://bugs.python.org/issue21406  opened by pitrou

#21408: delegation of `!=` to the right-hand side argument is not alwa
http://bugs.python.org/issue21408  opened by exarkun

#21409: setup.py check - should fail and retrun a non 0 exit code
http://bugs.python.org/issue21409  opened by dundeemt

#21410: setup.py check --restructuredtext  -- appears to pass if docut
http://bugs.python.org/issue21410  opened by dundeemt

#21411: Enable Treat Warning as Error on 32-bit Windows
http://bugs.python.org/issue21411  opened by zach.ware

#21412: core dump in PyThreadState_Get when built --with-pymalloc
http://bugs.python.org/issue21412  opened by jbeck

#21413: urllib.request.urlopen dies on non-basic/digest auth schemes
http://bugs.python.org/issue21413  opened by samwyse

#21414: Add an intersperse function to itertools
http://bugs.python.org/issue21414  opened by javawizard

Most recent 15 issues with no replies (15)
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#21414: Add an intersperse function to itertools
http://bugs.python.org/issue21414

#21413: urllib.request.urlopen dies on non-basic/digest auth schemes
http://bugs.python.org/issue21413

#21411: Enable Treat Warning as Error on 32-bit Windows
http://bugs.python.org/issue21411

#21410: setup.py check --restructuredtext  -- appears to pass if docut
http://bugs.python.org/issue21410

#21397: tempfile.py: Fix grammar in docstring, comment typos
http://bugs.python.org/issue21397

#21389: The repr of BoundMethod objects sometimes incorrectly identifi
http://bugs.python.org/issue21389

#21386: ipaddress.IPv4Address.is_global not implemented
http://bugs.python.org/issue21386

#21385: Compiling modified AST crashes on debug build unless linenumbe
http://bugs.python.org/issue21385

#21383: "make touch" fails when the build directory is not the source 
http://bugs.python.org/issue21383

#21373: robotparser: Automatically call modified function in read()
http://bugs.python.org/issue21373

#21372: multiprocessing.util.register_after_fork inconsistency
http://bugs.python.org/issue21372

#21366: Document that return in finally overwrites prev value
http://bugs.python.org/issue21366

#21360: mailbox.Maildir should ignore files named with a leading dot
http://bugs.python.org/issue21360

#21352: improve documentation indexing
http://bugs.python.org/issue21352

#21350: bug in file.writelines accepting buffers
http://bugs.python.org/issue21350

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

#21397: tempfile.py: Fix grammar in docstring, comment typos
http://bugs.python.org/issue21397

#21396: Python io implementation doesn't flush with write_through=True
http://bugs.python.org/issue21396

#21393: Python/random.c: close hCryptProv at exit
http://bugs.python.org/issue21393

#21391: PATCH: using the abspath shortcut in Lib/shutil
http://bugs.python.org/issue21391

#21390: readline: setlocale() returns NULL on Android
http://bugs.python.org/issue21390

#21386: ipaddress.IPv4Address.is_global not implemented
http://bugs.python.org/issue21386

#21383: "make touch" fails when the build directory is not the source 
http://bugs.python.org/issue21383

#21375: Fix and test overflow behavior in the C version of heapq
http://bugs.python.org/issue21375

#21373: robotparser: Automatically call modified function in read()
http://bugs.python.org/issue21373

#21362: concurrent.futures does not validate that max_workers is prope
http://bugs.python.org/issue21362

#21357: Increase filecmp test coverage from 63% to 76%
http://bugs.python.org/issue21357

#21354: PyCFunction_New no longer exposed by python DLL breaking bdist
http://bugs.python.org/issue21354

#21350: bug in file.writelines accepting buffers
http://bugs.python.org/issue21350

#21347: Don't use a list argument together with shell=True in subproce
http://bugs.python.org/issue21347

#21344: save scores or ratios in difflib get_close_matches
http://bugs.python.org/issue21344

Top 10 most discussed issues (10)
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#21233: Add *Calloc functions to CPython memory allocation API
http://bugs.python.org/issue21233  53 msgs

#6839: zipfile can't extract file
http://bugs.python.org/issue6839  36 msgs

#21305: PEP 466: update os.urandom
http://bugs.python.org/issue21305  16 msgs

#18314: Have os.unlink remove junction points
http://bugs.python.org/issue18314  13 msgs

#2159: dbmmodule inquiry function is performance prohibitive
http://bugs.python.org/issue2159   9 msgs

#20962: Rather modest chunk size in gzip.GzipFile
http://bugs.python.org/issue20962   9 msgs

#21332: subprocess bufsize=1 docs are misleading
http://bugs.python.org/issue21332   9 msgs

#21398: LC_CTYPE=C:  pydoc leaves terminal in an unusable state
http://bugs.python.org/issue21398   9 msgs

#21037: add an AddressSanitizer build option
http://bugs.python.org/issue21037   8 msgs

#21403: cElementTree's Element creation handles attrib argument differ
http://bugs.python.org/issue21403   8 msgs

Issues closed (58)
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#9291: mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin
http://bugs.python.org/issue9291  closed by tim.golden

#9307: Py_TPFLAGS_LONG_SUBCLASS is not documented
http://bugs.python.org/issue9307  closed by pitrou

#9815: assertRaises as a context manager keeps tracebacks and frames 
http://bugs.python.org/issue9815  closed by pitrou

#10872: Add mode to TextIOWrapper repr
http://bugs.python.org/issue10872  closed by pitrou

#13204: sys.flags.__new__ crashes
http://bugs.python.org/issue13204  closed by pitrou

#17145: memoryview(array.array)
http://bugs.python.org/issue17145  closed by skrah

#17386: Bring Doc/make.bat as close to Doc/Makefile as possible
http://bugs.python.org/issue17386  closed by python-dev

#18185: Error in test_set.TestVariousIteratorArgs.test_inline_methods
http://bugs.python.org/issue18185  closed by berker.peksag

#18243: mktime_tz documentation out-of-date
http://bugs.python.org/issue18243  closed by r.david.murray

#18604: Consolidate gui available checks in test.support
http://bugs.python.org/issue18604  closed by python-dev

#18727: test for writing dictionary rows to CSV
http://bugs.python.org/issue18727  closed by pitrou

#19001: test_gdb fails on Fedora buildbot
http://bugs.python.org/issue19001  closed by skrah

#19385: dbm.dumb should be consistent when the database is closed
http://bugs.python.org/issue19385  closed by python-dev

#19420: Leak in _hashopenssl.c
http://bugs.python.org/issue19420  closed by pitrou

#19630: marshal.dump cannot write to temporary file
http://bugs.python.org/issue19630  closed by tim.golden

#19940: ssl.cert_time_to_seconds() returns wrong results if local time
http://bugs.python.org/issue19940  closed by pitrou

#19962: Create a 'python.bat' script to invoke interpreter from source
http://bugs.python.org/issue19962  closed by zach.ware

#19977: Use "surrogateescape" error handler for sys.stdin and sys.stdo
http://bugs.python.org/issue19977  closed by haypo

#20094: intermitent failures with test_dbm
http://bugs.python.org/issue20094  closed by ethan.furman

#20230: structseq types should expose _fields
http://bugs.python.org/issue20230  closed by skrah

#20355: -W command line options should have higher priority than PYTHO
http://bugs.python.org/issue20355  closed by pitrou

#20951: SSLSocket.send() returns 0 for non-blocking socket
http://bugs.python.org/issue20951  closed by pitrou

#21026: Document sitecustomize.py problems with pythonw
http://bugs.python.org/issue21026  closed by python-dev

#21040: socketserver: use selectors module
http://bugs.python.org/issue21040  closed by neologix

#21048: Index 'as' in import and with statements
http://bugs.python.org/issue21048  closed by terry.reedy

#21055: Index (augmented) assignment symbols
http://bugs.python.org/issue21055  closed by python-dev

#21057: TextIOWrapper does not support reading bytearrays or memoryvie
http://bugs.python.org/issue21057  closed by pitrou

#21138: mimetypes.MimeType UnicodeDecodeError
http://bugs.python.org/issue21138  closed by tim.golden

#21207: urandom persistent fd - not re-openned after fd close
http://bugs.python.org/issue21207  closed by pitrou

#21225: io.py: Improve docstrings for classes
http://bugs.python.org/issue21225  closed by pitrou

#21273: don't defined socket constants which are not implemented for G
http://bugs.python.org/issue21273  closed by pitrou

#21282: setup.py: More informative error msg for modules which built b
http://bugs.python.org/issue21282  closed by python-dev

#21312: Update thread_foobar.h to include timed locking and TLS suppor
http://bugs.python.org/issue21312  closed by pitrou

#21316: mark test_devpoll to be meaningful only for Solaris
http://bugs.python.org/issue21316  closed by jcea

#21320: dict() allows keyword expansion with integer keys, e.g. dict(*
http://bugs.python.org/issue21320  closed by eric.smith

#21321: itertools.islice() doesn't release reference to the source ite
http://bugs.python.org/issue21321  closed by pitrou

#21325: Missing Generic EXIF library for images in the standard librar
http://bugs.python.org/issue21325  closed by terry.reedy

#21340: Possible concurrency bug in asyncio, AttributeError in tasks.p
http://bugs.python.org/issue21340  closed by python-dev

#21341: Configuring 'font' with ttk.Style for 'TEntry' does not change
http://bugs.python.org/issue21341  closed by terry.reedy

#21349: crash in winreg SetValueEx with memoryview
http://bugs.python.org/issue21349  closed by tim.golden

#21351: refcounts not respected at process exit
http://bugs.python.org/issue21351  closed by minrk

#21353: document Popen.args attribute
http://bugs.python.org/issue21353  closed by gregory.p.smith

#21355: Shallow defaults to True, not 1 [filecmp.cmp]
http://bugs.python.org/issue21355  closed by python-dev

#21361: Add how to run a single test case to the devguide
http://bugs.python.org/issue21361  closed by python-dev

#21369: Extended modes for tarfile.TarFile()
http://bugs.python.org/issue21369  closed by lars.gustaebel

#21371: struct lconv does not have decimal_point on android platform
http://bugs.python.org/issue21371  closed by skrah

#21374: DecimalTuple.__module__ is set to _frozen_importlib
http://bugs.python.org/issue21374  closed by skrah

#21377: PyBytes_Concat could try to concat in-place
http://bugs.python.org/issue21377  closed by pitrou

#21378: ImportError: No module named 'concurrent.futures'
http://bugs.python.org/issue21378  closed by Bill.Bergmann

#21379: StopIteration is silenced when raised by generator within cont
http://bugs.python.org/issue21379  closed by ncoghlan

#21380: timezone support in strftime methods broken
http://bugs.python.org/issue21380  closed by ned.deily

#21388: decimal.InvalidContext is unused
http://bugs.python.org/issue21388  closed by skrah

#21394: Lib/random.py: use more efficient code to convert bytes to int
http://bugs.python.org/issue21394  closed by haypo

#21395: runtests.rst: link "build Python" to setup.rst#compiling
http://bugs.python.org/issue21395  closed by python-dev

#21399: inspect and class methods
http://bugs.python.org/issue21399  closed by yselivanov

#21407: Add function signatures to _decimal
http://bugs.python.org/issue21407  closed by skrah

#21415: Python __new__ method doc typo (it's a class and not a static 
http://bugs.python.org/issue21415  closed by steven.daprano

#1533105: NetBSD build with --with-pydebug causes SIGSEGV
http://bugs.python.org/issue1533105  closed by skrah