[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

Fri Mar 27 18:08:22 CET 2015

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2015-03-20 - 2015-03-27)
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Issues counts and deltas:
  open    4820 (+22)
  closed 30732 (+47)
  total  35552 (+69)

Open issues with patches: 2248 

Issues opened (55)
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#23571: Raise SystemError if a function returns a result with an excep
http://bugs.python.org/issue23571  reopened by berker.peksag

#23573: Avoid redundant allocations in str.find and like
http://bugs.python.org/issue23573  reopened by serhiy.storchaka

#23720: __del__() order is broken since 3.4.0
http://bugs.python.org/issue23720  reopened by Alexey Kazantsev

#23723: Provide a way to disable bytecode staleness checks
http://bugs.python.org/issue23723  opened by brett.cannon

#23725: update tempfile docs to say that TemporaryFile is secure
http://bugs.python.org/issue23725  opened by zbysz

#23726: Don't enable GC for classes that don't add new fields
http://bugs.python.org/issue23726  opened by eltoder

#23727: rfc2231 line continuations result in an additional newline
http://bugs.python.org/issue23727  opened by Brian Peterson

#23728: binascii.crc_hqx() can return negative integer
http://bugs.python.org/issue23728  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#23730: Document return value for ZipFile.extract()
http://bugs.python.org/issue23730  opened by mjpieters

#23731: Implement PEP 488
http://bugs.python.org/issue23731  opened by brett.cannon

#23732: Update porting HOWTO about new -b semantics
http://bugs.python.org/issue23732  opened by brett.cannon

#23733: Update porting HOWTO for bytes interpolation
http://bugs.python.org/issue23733  opened by brett.cannon

#23734: zipimport should not check pyc timestamps against zipped py fi
http://bugs.python.org/issue23734  opened by gregory.p.smith

#23735: Readline not adjusting width after resize with 6.3
http://bugs.python.org/issue23735  opened by Carlos Pita

#23738: Clarify documentation of positional-only default values
http://bugs.python.org/issue23738  opened by vadmium

#23739: locale.setlocale checks locale name for string incorrectly
http://bugs.python.org/issue23739  opened by Saulius Å½emaitaitis

#23740: http.client request and send method have some datatype issues
http://bugs.python.org/issue23740  opened by r.david.murray

#23743: Python crashes upon exit if importing g++ compiled mod after i
http://bugs.python.org/issue23743  opened by matham

#23745: Exception when parsing an email using email.parser.BytesParser
http://bugs.python.org/issue23745  opened by Elmer

#23746: sysconfg.is_python_build() is buggy
http://bugs.python.org/issue23746  opened by pythonhacker

#23747: platform module exposes win32_ver function on posix systems
http://bugs.python.org/issue23747  opened by pythonhacker

#23749: asyncio missing wrap_socket
http://bugs.python.org/issue23749  opened by gc

#23750: Clarify difference between os.system/subprocess.call in sectio
http://bugs.python.org/issue23750  opened by Andreas Sommer

#23752: Cleanup io.FileIO
http://bugs.python.org/issue23752  opened by haypo

#23754: Add a new os.read_into() function to avoid memory copies
http://bugs.python.org/issue23754  opened by haypo

#23755: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile should be able to toggle "delete"
http://bugs.python.org/issue23755  opened by Stephen Gallagher

#23756: Tighten definition of bytes-like objects
http://bugs.python.org/issue23756  opened by vadmium

#23758: Improve documenation about num_params in sqlite3 create_functi
http://bugs.python.org/issue23758  opened by ced

#23759: urllib.parse: make coap:// known
http://bugs.python.org/issue23759  opened by chrysn

#23760: Tkinter in Python 3.4 on Windows don't post internal clipboard
http://bugs.python.org/issue23760  opened by Victor Korolkevich

#23761: test_socket fails on Mac OSX 10.9.5
http://bugs.python.org/issue23761  opened by willingc

#23762: python.org page on new-style classes should be updated
http://bugs.python.org/issue23762  opened by joelthelion

#23763: Chain exceptions in C
http://bugs.python.org/issue23763  opened by haypo

#23764: Reference inspect.Signature.bind from functools.wraps document
http://bugs.python.org/issue23764  opened by productivememberofsociety666

#23765: Remove IsBadStringPtr calls in ctypes
http://bugs.python.org/issue23765  opened by steve.dower

#23767: Library and include paths not added when cross compiling on lo
http://bugs.python.org/issue23767  opened by kernevil

#23768: assert on getting the representation of a thread in atexit fun
http://bugs.python.org/issue23768  opened by xdegaye

#23769: valgrind reports leaks for test_zipimport
http://bugs.python.org/issue23769  opened by rkuska

#23770: Rework of exceptions are handled in the parser module (in vali
http://bugs.python.org/issue23770  opened by haypo

#23771: Timeouts on "x86 Ubuntu Shared 3.x" buildbot
http://bugs.python.org/issue23771  opened by haypo

#23772: pymonotonic() gone backward on "AMD64 Debian root 3.x" buildbo
http://bugs.python.org/issue23772  opened by haypo

#23773: importlib does not properly remove frames when invoking extern
http://bugs.python.org/issue23773  opened by shiz

#23774: Test failures when unable to write to install location
http://bugs.python.org/issue23774  opened by steve.dower

#23779: imaplib authenticate raises TypeError if authenticator tries t
http://bugs.python.org/issue23779  opened by craigh

#23780: Surprising behaviour when passing list to os.path.join.
http://bugs.python.org/issue23780  opened by The Compiler

#23781: Add private _PyErr_ReplaceException() in 2.7
http://bugs.python.org/issue23781  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#23782: Leak in _PyTraceback_Add
http://bugs.python.org/issue23782  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#23783: Leak in PyObject_ClearWeakRefs
http://bugs.python.org/issue23783  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#23785: Leak in TextIOWrapper.tell()
http://bugs.python.org/issue23785  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#23786: test_unaligned_buffers (test.test_hash.HashEqualityTestCase) .
http://bugs.python.org/issue23786  opened by petriborg

#23787: sum() function docstring lists arguments incorrectly
http://bugs.python.org/issue23787  opened by vsinitsyn

#23788: test_urllib2_localnet.test_bad_address fails: OSError not rais
http://bugs.python.org/issue23788  opened by raniere

#23789: decimal.Decimal: __format__ behaviour
http://bugs.python.org/issue23789  opened by MonsieurPaul

#23790: When xdrlib.Packer().pack_string() fails, the Packer is corrup
http://bugs.python.org/issue23790  opened by ostcar

#23791: Identify Moved Lines with difflib
http://bugs.python.org/issue23791  opened by bkiefer

Most recent 15 issues with no replies (15)
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#23791: Identify Moved Lines with difflib
http://bugs.python.org/issue23791

#23779: imaplib authenticate raises TypeError if authenticator tries t
http://bugs.python.org/issue23779

#23773: importlib does not properly remove frames when invoking extern
http://bugs.python.org/issue23773

#23770: Rework of exceptions are handled in the parser module (in vali
http://bugs.python.org/issue23770

#23768: assert on getting the representation of a thread in atexit fun
http://bugs.python.org/issue23768

#23767: Library and include paths not added when cross compiling on lo
http://bugs.python.org/issue23767

#23762: python.org page on new-style classes should be updated
http://bugs.python.org/issue23762

#23760: Tkinter in Python 3.4 on Windows don't post internal clipboard
http://bugs.python.org/issue23760

#23758: Improve documenation about num_params in sqlite3 create_functi
http://bugs.python.org/issue23758

#23745: Exception when parsing an email using email.parser.BytesParser
http://bugs.python.org/issue23745

#23734: zipimport should not check pyc timestamps against zipped py fi
http://bugs.python.org/issue23734

#23733: Update porting HOWTO for bytes interpolation
http://bugs.python.org/issue23733

#23732: Update porting HOWTO about new -b semantics
http://bugs.python.org/issue23732

#23730: Document return value for ZipFile.extract()
http://bugs.python.org/issue23730

#23728: binascii.crc_hqx() can return negative integer
http://bugs.python.org/issue23728

Most recent 15 issues waiting for review (15)
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#23790: When xdrlib.Packer().pack_string() fails, the Packer is corrup
http://bugs.python.org/issue23790

#23786: test_unaligned_buffers (test.test_hash.HashEqualityTestCase) .
http://bugs.python.org/issue23786

#23785: Leak in TextIOWrapper.tell()
http://bugs.python.org/issue23785

#23783: Leak in PyObject_ClearWeakRefs
http://bugs.python.org/issue23783

#23781: Add private _PyErr_ReplaceException() in 2.7
http://bugs.python.org/issue23781

#23780: Surprising behaviour when passing list to os.path.join.
http://bugs.python.org/issue23780

#23779: imaplib authenticate raises TypeError if authenticator tries t
http://bugs.python.org/issue23779

#23773: importlib does not properly remove frames when invoking extern
http://bugs.python.org/issue23773

#23770: Rework of exceptions are handled in the parser module (in vali
http://bugs.python.org/issue23770

#23767: Library and include paths not added when cross compiling on lo
http://bugs.python.org/issue23767

#23763: Chain exceptions in C
http://bugs.python.org/issue23763

#23758: Improve documenation about num_params in sqlite3 create_functi
http://bugs.python.org/issue23758

#23752: Cleanup io.FileIO
http://bugs.python.org/issue23752

#23738: Clarify documentation of positional-only default values
http://bugs.python.org/issue23738

#23726: Don't enable GC for classes that don't add new fields
http://bugs.python.org/issue23726

Top 10 most discussed issues (10)
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#22516: Windows Installer won't - even when using "just for me"option
http://bugs.python.org/issue22516  32 msgs

#23571: Raise SystemError if a function returns a result with an excep
http://bugs.python.org/issue23571  19 msgs

#23764: Reference inspect.Signature.bind from functools.wraps document
http://bugs.python.org/issue23764  15 msgs

#16328: win_add2path.py sets wrong user path
http://bugs.python.org/issue16328  13 msgs

#23786: test_unaligned_buffers (test.test_hash.HashEqualityTestCase) .
http://bugs.python.org/issue23786  13 msgs

#23763: Chain exceptions in C
http://bugs.python.org/issue23763  12 msgs

#23546: Windows, 'Edit withIDLE', and multiple installed versions
http://bugs.python.org/issue23546  10 msgs

#2211: Cookie.Morsel interface needs update
http://bugs.python.org/issue2211   9 msgs

#23529: Limit decompressed data when reading from LZMAFile and BZ2File
http://bugs.python.org/issue23529   8 msgs

#23720: __del__() order is broken since 3.4.0
http://bugs.python.org/issue23720   8 msgs

Issues closed (48)
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#4727: copyreg doesn't support keyword only arguments in __new__
http://bugs.python.org/issue4727  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#11468: Improve unittest basic example in the doc
http://bugs.python.org/issue11468  closed by ezio.melotti

#17530: pprint could use line continuation for long bytes literals
http://bugs.python.org/issue17530  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#21526: Support new booleans in Tkinter
http://bugs.python.org/issue21526  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#21560: gzip.write changes trailer ISIZE field before type checking - 
http://bugs.python.org/issue21560  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#21717: Exclusive mode for ZipFile and TarFile
http://bugs.python.org/issue21717  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#21802: Reader of BufferedRWPair is not closed if writer's close() fai
http://bugs.python.org/issue21802  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#22163: max_wbits set incorrectly to -zlib.MAX_WBITS in tarfile, shoul
http://bugs.python.org/issue22163  closed by vadmium

#22289: support.transient_internet() doesn't catch timeout on FTP test
http://bugs.python.org/issue22289  closed by ned.deily

#22351: NNTP constructor exception leaves socket for garbage collector
http://bugs.python.org/issue22351  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#22364: Improve some re error messages using regex for hints
http://bugs.python.org/issue22364  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#22687: horrible performance of textwrap.wrap() with a long word
http://bugs.python.org/issue22687  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#22832: Tweak parameter names for fcntl module
http://bugs.python.org/issue22832  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#22933: Misleading sentence in doc for shutil.move
http://bugs.python.org/issue22933  closed by python-dev

#23075: Mock backport in 2.7 relies on implementation defined behavior
http://bugs.python.org/issue23075  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#23252: Add support of writing to unseekable file in zipfile
http://bugs.python.org/issue23252  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#23314: Disabling CRT asserts in debug build
http://bugs.python.org/issue23314  closed by steve.dower

#23465: Implement PEP 486 - Make the Python Launcher aware of virtual 
http://bugs.python.org/issue23465  closed by steve.dower

#23502: pprint: added support for mapping proxy
http://bugs.python.org/issue23502  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#23512: The list of built-in functions is not alphabetical on https://
http://bugs.python.org/issue23512  closed by ezio.melotti

#23539: Content-length not set for HTTP methods expecting body when bo
http://bugs.python.org/issue23539  closed by r.david.murray

#23583: IDLE: printing unicode subclasses broken (again)
http://bugs.python.org/issue23583  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#23619: Python 3.5.0a2 installer fails on Windows
http://bugs.python.org/issue23619  closed by steve.dower

#23622: Deprecate unrecognized backslash+letter escapes in re
http://bugs.python.org/issue23622  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#23654: infinite loop in faulthandler._stack_overflow
http://bugs.python.org/issue23654  closed by haypo

#23657: Don't do isinstance checks in zipapp
http://bugs.python.org/issue23657  closed by paul.moore

#23665: Provide IDLE menu option to set command-line arguments
http://bugs.python.org/issue23665  closed by terry.reedy

#23671: string.Template doesn't work with the self keyword argument
http://bugs.python.org/issue23671  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#23688: unnecessary copying of memoryview in gzip.GzipFile.write?
http://bugs.python.org/issue23688  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#23704: Make deques a full MutableSequence by adding index(), insert()
http://bugs.python.org/issue23704  closed by rhettinger

#23705: Speed-up deque.__contains__
http://bugs.python.org/issue23705  closed by rhettinger

#23724: Stack Trace should show argument value passed into a function,
http://bugs.python.org/issue23724  closed by r.david.murray

#23729: Import ElementTree documentation for namespaces and XPath
http://bugs.python.org/issue23729  closed by rhettinger

#23736: "make test" on clean py3 install on CentOS 6.2 - 2 tests fail
http://bugs.python.org/issue23736  closed by r.david.murray

#23737: spam
http://bugs.python.org/issue23737  closed by ezio.melotti

#23741: Small pprint refactoring
http://bugs.python.org/issue23741  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#23742: expandvars removes single quotes ( ' )
http://bugs.python.org/issue23742  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#23744: Speed-up deque.__bool__
http://bugs.python.org/issue23744  closed by rhettinger

#23748: platform._uname_cache is writeable
http://bugs.python.org/issue23748  closed by haypo

#23751: Allow reverse lookup (value-to-member) for Enum sublcasses dec
http://bugs.python.org/issue23751  closed by mmuddasani

#23753: Drop HAVE_FSTAT: require fstat() to compile/use Python
http://bugs.python.org/issue23753  closed by haypo

#23757: tuple function gives wrong answer when called on list subclass
http://bugs.python.org/issue23757  closed by r.david.murray

#23766: json.dumps: solidus ("/") should be escaped
http://bugs.python.org/issue23766  closed by r.david.murray

#23775: Fix pprint of OrderedDict
http://bugs.python.org/issue23775  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#23776: Don't use assert for checking arguments in pprint
http://bugs.python.org/issue23776  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#23777: argparse subcommand action can't be specified
http://bugs.python.org/issue23777  closed by berker.peksag

#23778: Add a visual distinction to multiline versionchanged blocks
http://bugs.python.org/issue23778  closed by r.david.murray

#23784: Reloading tokenize module leads to error
http://bugs.python.org/issue23784  closed by serhiy.storchaka