[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

Fri Nov 28 18:08:16 CET 2014

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2014-11-21 - 2014-11-28)
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Issues counts and deltas:
  open    4668 (+10)
  closed 30056 (+42)
  total  34724 (+52)

Open issues with patches: 2176 

Issues opened (35)
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#22676: _pickle's whichmodule() is slow
http://bugs.python.org/issue22676  reopened by zach.ware

#22685: memory leak: no transport for pipes by create_subprocess_exec/
http://bugs.python.org/issue22685  reopened by koobs

#22912: urlretreive locks up in 2.7.8
http://bugs.python.org/issue22912  opened by TaylorSMarks

#22914: Rewrite of Python 2/3 porting HOWTO
http://bugs.python.org/issue22914  opened by brett.cannon

#22918: Doc for __iter__ makes inexact comment about dict.__iter__
http://bugs.python.org/issue22918  opened by eric.araujo

#22919: Update PCBuild for VS 2015
http://bugs.python.org/issue22919  opened by steve.dower

#22922: asyncio: call_soon() should raise an exception if the event lo
http://bugs.python.org/issue22922  opened by haypo

#22923: No prompt for "display all X possibilities" on completion-enab
http://bugs.python.org/issue22923  opened by yoha

#22924: Use of deprecated cgi.escape
http://bugs.python.org/issue22924  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#22926: asyncio: raise an exception when called from the wrong thread
http://bugs.python.org/issue22926  opened by haypo

#22928: HTTP header injection in urrlib2/urllib/httplib/http.client
http://bugs.python.org/issue22928  opened by Guido

#22931: cookies with square brackets in value
http://bugs.python.org/issue22931  opened by Waldemar.Parzonka

#22932: email.utils.formatdate uses unreliable time.timezone constant
http://bugs.python.org/issue22932  opened by mitya57

#22933: Misleading sentence in doc for shutil.move
http://bugs.python.org/issue22933  opened by newbie

#22935: Disabling SSLv3 support
http://bugs.python.org/issue22935  opened by kroeckx

#22936: traceback module has no way to show locals
http://bugs.python.org/issue22936  opened by rbcollins

#22937: unittest errors can't show locals
http://bugs.python.org/issue22937  opened by rbcollins

#22939: integer overflow in iterator object
http://bugs.python.org/issue22939  opened by hakril

#22941: IPv4Interface arithmetic changes subnet mask
http://bugs.python.org/issue22941  opened by kwi.dk

#22942: Language Reference - optional comma
http://bugs.python.org/issue22942  opened by jordan

#22943: bsddb: test_queue fails on Windows
http://bugs.python.org/issue22943  opened by benjamin.peterson

#22945: Ctypes inconsistent between Linux and OS X
http://bugs.python.org/issue22945  opened by Daniel.Standage

#22946: urllib gives incorrect url after open when using HTTPS
http://bugs.python.org/issue22946  opened by John.McKay

#22947: Enable 'imageop' - "Multimedia Srvices Feature module" for 64-
http://bugs.python.org/issue22947  opened by pankaj.s01

#22949: fnmatch.translate doesn't add ^ at the beginning
http://bugs.python.org/issue22949  opened by mstol

#22951: unexpected return from float.__repr__() for inf, -inf, nan
http://bugs.python.org/issue22951  opened by jaebae17

#22952: multiprocessing doc introduction not in affirmative tone
http://bugs.python.org/issue22952  opened by davin

#22953: Windows installer configures system PATH also when installing 
http://bugs.python.org/issue22953  opened by pekka.klarck

#22955: Pickling of methodcaller and attrgetter
http://bugs.python.org/issue22955  opened by Antony.Lee

#22956: Improved support for prepared SQL statements
http://bugs.python.org/issue22956  opened by elfring

#22958: Constructors of weakref mapping classes don't accept "self" an
http://bugs.python.org/issue22958  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#22959: http.client.HTTPSConnection checks hostname when SSL context h
http://bugs.python.org/issue22959  opened by zodalahtathi

#22960: xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy() should accept a custom SSL context
http://bugs.python.org/issue22960  opened by zodalahtathi

#22961: ctypes.WinError & OSError
http://bugs.python.org/issue22961  opened by simonzack

#22962: ipaddress: Add optional prefixlen argument to ip_interface and
http://bugs.python.org/issue22962  opened by Gary.van.der.Merwe

Most recent 15 issues with no replies (15)
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#22962: ipaddress: Add optional prefixlen argument to ip_interface and
http://bugs.python.org/issue22962

#22960: xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy() should accept a custom SSL context
http://bugs.python.org/issue22960

#22959: http.client.HTTPSConnection checks hostname when SSL context h
http://bugs.python.org/issue22959

#22958: Constructors of weakref mapping classes don't accept "self" an
http://bugs.python.org/issue22958

#22956: Improved support for prepared SQL statements
http://bugs.python.org/issue22956

#22947: Enable 'imageop' - "Multimedia Srvices Feature module" for 64-
http://bugs.python.org/issue22947

#22942: Language Reference - optional comma
http://bugs.python.org/issue22942

#22931: cookies with square brackets in value
http://bugs.python.org/issue22931

#22928: HTTP header injection in urrlib2/urllib/httplib/http.client
http://bugs.python.org/issue22928

#22909: [argparse] Using parse_known_args, unknown arg with space in v
http://bugs.python.org/issue22909

#22907: Misc/python-config.sh.in: ensure sed invocations only match be
http://bugs.python.org/issue22907

#22893: Idle: __future__ does not work in startup code.
http://bugs.python.org/issue22893

#22890: StringIO.StringIO pickled in 2.7 is not unpickleable on 3.x
http://bugs.python.org/issue22890

#22886: TestProgram leaves defaultTestLoader.errors dirty
http://bugs.python.org/issue22886

#22885: Arbitrary code execution vulnerability due to unchecked eval()
http://bugs.python.org/issue22885

Most recent 15 issues waiting for review (15)
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#22952: multiprocessing doc introduction not in affirmative tone
http://bugs.python.org/issue22952

#22947: Enable 'imageop' - "Multimedia Srvices Feature module" for 64-
http://bugs.python.org/issue22947

#22946: urllib gives incorrect url after open when using HTTPS
http://bugs.python.org/issue22946

#22943: bsddb: test_queue fails on Windows
http://bugs.python.org/issue22943

#22941: IPv4Interface arithmetic changes subnet mask
http://bugs.python.org/issue22941

#22935: Disabling SSLv3 support
http://bugs.python.org/issue22935

#22932: email.utils.formatdate uses unreliable time.timezone constant
http://bugs.python.org/issue22932

#22928: HTTP header injection in urrlib2/urllib/httplib/http.client
http://bugs.python.org/issue22928

#22926: asyncio: raise an exception when called from the wrong thread
http://bugs.python.org/issue22926

#22924: Use of deprecated cgi.escape
http://bugs.python.org/issue22924

#22922: asyncio: call_soon() should raise an exception if the event lo
http://bugs.python.org/issue22922

#22919: Update PCBuild for VS 2015
http://bugs.python.org/issue22919

#22914: Rewrite of Python 2/3 porting HOWTO
http://bugs.python.org/issue22914

#22908: ZipExtFile in zipfile can be seekable
http://bugs.python.org/issue22908

#22907: Misc/python-config.sh.in: ensure sed invocations only match be
http://bugs.python.org/issue22907

Top 10 most discussed issues (10)
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#21356: Support LibreSSL (instead of OpenSSL): make RAND_egd optional
http://bugs.python.org/issue21356  12 msgs

#22638: ssl module: the SSLv3 protocol is vulnerable ("POODLE" attack)
http://bugs.python.org/issue22638  11 msgs

#22685: memory leak: no transport for pipes by create_subprocess_exec/
http://bugs.python.org/issue22685   9 msgs

#22906: PEP 479: Change StopIteration handling inside generators
http://bugs.python.org/issue22906   9 msgs

#22898: segfault during shutdown attempting to log ResourceWarning
http://bugs.python.org/issue22898   8 msgs

#22919: Update PCBuild for VS 2015
http://bugs.python.org/issue22919   8 msgs

#22524: PEP 471 implementation: os.scandir() directory scanning functi
http://bugs.python.org/issue22524   6 msgs

#22932: email.utils.formatdate uses unreliable time.timezone constant
http://bugs.python.org/issue22932   6 msgs

#22609: Constructors of some mapping classes don't accept `self` keywo
http://bugs.python.org/issue22609   5 msgs

#22922: asyncio: call_soon() should raise an exception if the event lo
http://bugs.python.org/issue22922   5 msgs

Issues closed (39)
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#1962: ctypes feature request: Automatic type conversion of input arg
http://bugs.python.org/issue1962  closed by amaury.forgeotdarc

#4887: environment inspection and manipulation API is buggy, inconsis
http://bugs.python.org/issue4887  closed by amaury.forgeotdarc

#7255: "Default" word boundaries for Unicode data?
http://bugs.python.org/issue7255  closed by amaury.forgeotdarc

#13212: json library is decoding/encoding when it should not
http://bugs.python.org/issue13212  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#16056: shadowed test names in std lib regression tests
http://bugs.python.org/issue16056  closed by berker.peksag

#16561: bdist_wininst installers don't use UAC, then crash
http://bugs.python.org/issue16561  closed by python-dev

#18905: pydoc -p 0 says the server is available at localhost:0
http://bugs.python.org/issue18905  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#19676: Add the "namereplace" error handler
http://bugs.python.org/issue19676  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#19720: suppress context for some exceptions in importlib?
http://bugs.python.org/issue19720  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#20002: Cleanup and microoptimize pathlib
http://bugs.python.org/issue20002  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#20351: Add doc examples for DictReader and DictWriter
http://bugs.python.org/issue20351  closed by berker.peksag

#21280: shutil.make_archive() with default "root_dir" parameter raises
http://bugs.python.org/issue21280  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#21514: update json module docs in light of RFC 7159 & ECMA-404
http://bugs.python.org/issue21514  closed by berker.peksag

#22314: pydoc.py: TypeError with a $LINES defined to anything
http://bugs.python.org/issue22314  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#22348: Documentation of asyncio.StreamWriter.drain()
http://bugs.python.org/issue22348  closed by python-dev

#22417: PEP 476: verify HTTPS certificates by default
http://bugs.python.org/issue22417  closed by benjamin.peterson

#22788: allow logging.handlers.HTTPHandler to take an SSLContext
http://bugs.python.org/issue22788  closed by python-dev

#22841: Avoid to use coroutine with add_signal_handler()
http://bugs.python.org/issue22841  closed by haypo

#22894: unittest.TestCase.subTest causes all subsequent tests to be sk
http://bugs.python.org/issue22894  closed by pitrou

#22901: test.test_uuid.test_find_mac fails because of `ifconfig` depre
http://bugs.python.org/issue22901  closed by bru

#22911: Segfault on recursive itertools.chain.from_iterable
http://bugs.python.org/issue22911  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#22913: Rewrite of Python 2/3 porting HOWTO
http://bugs.python.org/issue22913  closed by brett.cannon

#22915: sax.parser cannot get xml data from a subprocess pipe
http://bugs.python.org/issue22915  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#22916: Interpreter segfault on attempted tab complete
http://bugs.python.org/issue22916  closed by r.david.murray

#22917: Calculating problem
http://bugs.python.org/issue22917  closed by SilentGhost

#22920: Crash with itertools.chain.from_iterable
http://bugs.python.org/issue22920  closed by ethan.furman

#22921: SSLContext's check_hostname needlessly intertwined with SNI
http://bugs.python.org/issue22921  closed by python-dev

#22925: Backporting suppress context manager to 2.7
http://bugs.python.org/issue22925  closed by berker.peksag

#22927: Expose an SSLContext parameter on urllib APIs
http://bugs.python.org/issue22927  closed by python-dev

#22929: cp874 encoding almost empty
http://bugs.python.org/issue22929  closed by era

#22930: Value of time.timezone is sometimes wrong
http://bugs.python.org/issue22930  closed by r.david.murray

#22934: Python/importlib.h is now generated by Programs/_freeze_import
http://bugs.python.org/issue22934  closed by berker.peksag

#22938: assignment operator += does not behave same as a = a + b for L
http://bugs.python.org/issue22938  closed by steve.dower

#22940: readline does not offer partial saves
http://bugs.python.org/issue22940  closed by python-dev

#22944: Python argument tuple unpacking
http://bugs.python.org/issue22944  closed by benjamin.peterson

#22948: Integer type and __add__
http://bugs.python.org/issue22948  closed by berker.peksag

#22950: ASLR and DEP protection
http://bugs.python.org/issue22950  closed by ned.deily

#22954: Logically Dead Code
http://bugs.python.org/issue22954  closed by python-dev

#22957: Multi-index Containers Library
http://bugs.python.org/issue22957  closed by eric.smith