[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

Tue Mar 5 11:30:58 EST 2019

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2019-02-15 - 2019-02-22)
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Issues counts and deltas:
  open    6999 (-10)
  closed 40834 (+87)
  total  47833 (+77)

Open issues with patches: 2795 

Issues opened (45)
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#36008: [good first issue] Update documentation for 3.8
https://bugs.python.org/issue36008  opened by cheryl.sabella

#36010: Please provide a .zip Windows release of Python that is not cr
https://bugs.python.org/issue36010  opened by jt

#36011: ssl - tls verify on Windows fails
https://bugs.python.org/issue36011  opened by chris-k

#36015: streamhandler cannot represent streams with an integer as name
https://bugs.python.org/issue36015  opened by Riccardo Magliocchetti

#36016: Allow gc.getobjects to return the objects tracked by a specifi
https://bugs.python.org/issue36016  opened by pablogsal

#36017: test_grp
https://bugs.python.org/issue36017  opened by mjbrands

#36018: Add a Normal Distribution class to the statistics module
https://bugs.python.org/issue36018  opened by rhettinger

#36019: test_urllib fail in s390x buildbots: http://www.example.com/
https://bugs.python.org/issue36019  opened by pablogsal

#36020: HAVE_SNPRINTF and MSVC std::snprintf support
https://bugs.python.org/issue36020  opened by palotasb-conti

#36021: [Security][Windows] webbrowser: WindowsDefault uses os.startfi
https://bugs.python.org/issue36021  opened by vstinner

#36022: [Security] logging.config should not use eval()
https://bugs.python.org/issue36022  opened by vstinner

#36023: Improve configparser.ConfigParser repr
https://bugs.python.org/issue36023  opened by remi.lapeyre

#36025: Breaking change in PyDate_FromTimeStamp API
https://bugs.python.org/issue36025  opened by p-ganssle

#36026: Different error message when sys.settrace is used
https://bugs.python.org/issue36026  opened by SylvainDe

#36027: Support negative exponents in pow() where a modulus is specifi
https://bugs.python.org/issue36027  opened by rhettinger

#36029: Use title-case HTTP header fields
https://bugs.python.org/issue36029  opened by maggyero

#36030: add internal API function to create tuple without items array 
https://bugs.python.org/issue36030  opened by sir-sigurd

#36033: logging.makeLogRecord should update "rv" using a dict defined 
https://bugs.python.org/issue36033  opened by ralonsoh

#36034: Suprise halt caused by -Werror=implicit-function-declaration i
https://bugs.python.org/issue36034  opened by Michael.Felt

#36035: pathlib.Path().rglob() breaks with broken symlinks
https://bugs.python.org/issue36035  opened by JÃ¶rg Stucke

#36036: Add method to get user defined command line arguments in unitt
https://bugs.python.org/issue36036  opened by remi.lapeyre

#36041: email: folding of quoted string in display_name violates RFC
https://bugs.python.org/issue36041  opened by aaryn.startmail

#36042: Setting __init_subclass__ and __class_getitem__ methods are in
https://bugs.python.org/issue36042  opened by BTaskaya

#36043: FileCookieJar constructor don't accept PathLike
https://bugs.python.org/issue36043  opened by kapsh

#36044: PROFILE_TASK for PGO build is not a good workload
https://bugs.python.org/issue36044  opened by nascheme

#36045: builtins.help function is not much help with async functions
https://bugs.python.org/issue36045  opened by Dan Rose

#36046: support dropping privileges when running subprocesses
https://bugs.python.org/issue36046  opened by patrick.mclean

#36048: Deprecate implicit truncating when convert Python numbers to C
https://bugs.python.org/issue36048  opened by serhiy.storchaka

#36050: Why does http.client.HTTPResponse._safe_read use MAXAMOUNT
https://bugs.python.org/issue36050  opened by bmerry

#36051: Drop the GIL during large bytes.join operations?
https://bugs.python.org/issue36051  opened by bmerry

#36053: pkgutil.walk_packages jumps out from given path if there is pa
https://bugs.python.org/issue36053  opened by karkucik

#36054: Way to detect CPU count inside docker container
https://bugs.python.org/issue36054  opened by keirlawson

#36058: Improve file decoding before re.search
https://bugs.python.org/issue36058  opened by terry.reedy

#36064: docs: urllib.request.Request not accepting iterables data type
https://bugs.python.org/issue36064  opened by sylye

#36066: Add `empty` block to `for` and `while` loops.
https://bugs.python.org/issue36066  opened by wlohu

#36067: subprocess terminate() "invalid handle" error when process is 
https://bugs.python.org/issue36067  opened by giampaolo.rodola

#36071: Add support for Windows ARM32 in ctypes/libffi
https://bugs.python.org/issue36071  opened by Paul Monson

#36072: str.translate() behaves differently for ASCII-only and other s
https://bugs.python.org/issue36072  opened by sir-sigurd

#36073: sqlite crashes with converters mutating cursor
https://bugs.python.org/issue36073  opened by sir-sigurd

#36075: python 2to3 conversion tool is generating file with extra line
https://bugs.python.org/issue36075  opened by sabakauser

#36076: ssl.get_server_certificate should use SNI
https://bugs.python.org/issue36076  opened by enki

#36077: Inheritance dataclasses fields and default init statement
https://bugs.python.org/issue36077  opened by ÐšÐ¸Ñ€Ð¸Ð»Ð» Ð§ÑƒÑ€ÐºÐ¸Ð½

#36078: argparse: positional with type=int, default=SUPPRESS raise Val
https://bugs.python.org/issue36078  opened by n8falke

#36079: pdb on setuptools "ValueError: underlying buffer has been deta
https://bugs.python.org/issue36079  opened by Gerrit.Holl

#36081: Cannot set LDFLAGS containing $
https://bugs.python.org/issue36081  opened by Dakon

Most recent 15 issues with no replies (15)
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#36079: pdb on setuptools "ValueError: underlying buffer has been deta
https://bugs.python.org/issue36079

#36076: ssl.get_server_certificate should use SNI
https://bugs.python.org/issue36076

#36073: sqlite crashes with converters mutating cursor
https://bugs.python.org/issue36073

#36071: Add support for Windows ARM32 in ctypes/libffi
https://bugs.python.org/issue36071

#36058: Improve file decoding before re.search
https://bugs.python.org/issue36058

#36053: pkgutil.walk_packages jumps out from given path if there is pa
https://bugs.python.org/issue36053

#36051: Drop the GIL during large bytes.join operations?
https://bugs.python.org/issue36051

#36036: Add method to get user defined command line arguments in unitt
https://bugs.python.org/issue36036

#36017: test_grp
https://bugs.python.org/issue36017

#36002: configure --enable-optimizations with clang fails to detect ll
https://bugs.python.org/issue36002

#36001: LIBFFI_INCLUDEDIR is not detected when set into a profile nor 
https://bugs.python.org/issue36001

#35999: multpirocessing.Process alive after SIGTERM on parent
https://bugs.python.org/issue35999

#35990: ipaddress.IPv4Interface won't accept 2-tuple (address, mask)
https://bugs.python.org/issue35990

#35974: os.DirEntry.inode() returns invalid value within Docker contai
https://bugs.python.org/issue35974

#35970: no help flag in base64 util
https://bugs.python.org/issue35970

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

#36073: sqlite crashes with converters mutating cursor
https://bugs.python.org/issue36073

#36071: Add support for Windows ARM32 in ctypes/libffi
https://bugs.python.org/issue36071

#36064: docs: urllib.request.Request not accepting iterables data type
https://bugs.python.org/issue36064

#36053: pkgutil.walk_packages jumps out from given path if there is pa
https://bugs.python.org/issue36053

#36046: support dropping privileges when running subprocesses
https://bugs.python.org/issue36046

#36045: builtins.help function is not much help with async functions
https://bugs.python.org/issue36045

#36042: Setting __init_subclass__ and __class_getitem__ methods are in
https://bugs.python.org/issue36042

#36041: email: folding of quoted string in display_name violates RFC
https://bugs.python.org/issue36041

#36036: Add method to get user defined command line arguments in unitt
https://bugs.python.org/issue36036

#36035: pathlib.Path().rglob() breaks with broken symlinks
https://bugs.python.org/issue36035

#36030: add internal API function to create tuple without items array 
https://bugs.python.org/issue36030

#36029: Use title-case HTTP header fields
https://bugs.python.org/issue36029

#36026: Different error message when sys.settrace is used
https://bugs.python.org/issue36026

#36025: Breaking change in PyDate_FromTimeStamp API
https://bugs.python.org/issue36025

#36021: [Security][Windows] webbrowser: WindowsDefault uses os.startfi
https://bugs.python.org/issue36021

Top 10 most discussed issues (10)
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#36021: [Security][Windows] webbrowser: WindowsDefault uses os.startfi
https://bugs.python.org/issue36021  23 msgs

#36010: Please provide a .zip Windows release of Python that is not cr
https://bugs.python.org/issue36010  22 msgs

#35813: shared memory construct to avoid need for serialization betwee
https://bugs.python.org/issue35813  17 msgs

#36027: Support negative exponents in pow() where a modulus is specifi
https://bugs.python.org/issue36027  13 msgs

#36064: docs: urllib.request.Request not accepting iterables data type
https://bugs.python.org/issue36064  13 msgs

#35892: Fix awkwardness of statistics.mode() for multimodal datasets
https://bugs.python.org/issue35892  12 msgs

#36019: test_urllib fail in s390x buildbots: http://www.example.com/
https://bugs.python.org/issue36019  12 msgs

#35925: test_httplib test_nntplib test_ssl fail on ARMv7 Debian buster
https://bugs.python.org/issue35925  10 msgs

#36020: HAVE_SNPRINTF and MSVC std::snprintf support
https://bugs.python.org/issue36020  10 msgs

#36026: Different error message when sys.settrace is used
https://bugs.python.org/issue36026  10 msgs

Issues closed (84)
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#1104: msilib.SummaryInfo.GetProperty() truncates the string by one c
https://bugs.python.org/issue1104  closed by steve.dower

#12822: NewGIL should use CLOCK_MONOTONIC if possible.
https://bugs.python.org/issue12822  closed by inada.naoki

#13659: Add a help() viewer for IDLE's Shell.
https://bugs.python.org/issue13659  closed by terry.reedy

#14929: IDLE crashes on *Edit / Find in files ...* command
https://bugs.python.org/issue14929  closed by terry.reedy

#15248: Better explain "TypeError: 'tuple' object is not callable"
https://bugs.python.org/issue15248  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#20687: Change in expectedFailure breaks testtools
https://bugs.python.org/issue20687  closed by cheryl.sabella

#22704: Review extension enable options
https://bugs.python.org/issue22704  closed by terry.reedy

#23077: PEP 1: Allow Provisional status for PEPs
https://bugs.python.org/issue23077  closed by cheryl.sabella

#23428: Use the monotonic clock for thread conditions on POSIX platfor
https://bugs.python.org/issue23428  closed by inada.naoki

#26787: test_distutils fails when configured --with-lto
https://bugs.python.org/issue26787  closed by inada.naoki

#27632: build on AIX fails when builddir != srcdir, more than bad path
https://bugs.python.org/issue27632  closed by Michael.Felt

#28235: In xml.etree.ElementTree docs there is no parser argument in f
https://bugs.python.org/issue28235  closed by cheryl.sabella

#28328: statistics.geometric_mean has no tests. Defer to 3.7?
https://bugs.python.org/issue28328  closed by inada.naoki

#29278: Python 3.6 build fails with parallel make
https://bugs.python.org/issue29278  closed by inada.naoki

#30449: Improve __slots__ datamodel documentation
https://bugs.python.org/issue30449  closed by cheryl.sabella

#31982: 8.3. collections â€” Container datatypes
https://bugs.python.org/issue31982  closed by rhettinger

#32108: configparser bug: section is emptied if you assign a section t
https://bugs.python.org/issue32108  closed by cheryl.sabella

#32657: Mutable Objects in SMTP send_message Signature
https://bugs.python.org/issue32657  closed by inada.naoki

#32808: subprocess.check_output opens an unwanted command line window 
https://bugs.python.org/issue32808  closed by cheryl.sabella

#33961: Inconsistency in exceptions for dataclasses.dataclass document
https://bugs.python.org/issue33961  closed by inada.naoki

#33989: ms.key_compare is not initialized in all paths of list_sort_im
https://bugs.python.org/issue33989  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#34203: documentation: recommend Python 3 over 2 in faq
https://bugs.python.org/issue34203  closed by abcdef

#34294: re module: wrong capturing groups
https://bugs.python.org/issue34294  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#34315: Regex not evalauated correctly
https://bugs.python.org/issue34315  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#34572: C unpickling bypasses import thread safety
https://bugs.python.org/issue34572  closed by pitrou

#34720: Fix test_importlib.test_bad_traverse for AIX
https://bugs.python.org/issue34720  closed by ncoghlan

#34757: Placeholder for discussion on Combined patches for AIX - to re
https://bugs.python.org/issue34757  closed by Michael.Felt

#34785: pty.spawn -- auto-termination after child process is dead (a z
https://bugs.python.org/issue34785  closed by martin.panter

#34817: Ellipsis docs has extra dot in the markdown that makes it look
https://bugs.python.org/issue34817  closed by xtreak

#34981: Unable to install Python from web-based installer and executab
https://bugs.python.org/issue34981  closed by inada.naoki

#35126: Mistake in FAQ about converting number to string.
https://bugs.python.org/issue35126  closed by cheryl.sabella

#35153: Allow to set headers in xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy
https://bugs.python.org/issue35153  closed by vstinner

#35186: distutils.command.upload uses deprecated platform.dist with bd
https://bugs.python.org/issue35186  closed by p-ganssle

#35307: Command line help example  is missing "--prompt" option
https://bugs.python.org/issue35307  closed by cheryl.sabella

#35500: Align expected and actual calls on mock.assert_called_with err
https://bugs.python.org/issue35500  closed by taleinat

#35584: Wrong statement about ^ in howto/regex.rst
https://bugs.python.org/issue35584  closed by rhettinger

#35689: IDLE: Docstrings and test for colorizer
https://bugs.python.org/issue35689  closed by terry.reedy

#35704: On AIX, test_unpack_archive_xztar fails with default MAXDATA s
https://bugs.python.org/issue35704  closed by ncoghlan

#35798: duplicate SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal
https://bugs.python.org/issue35798  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#35812: Don't log an exception from the main coroutine in asyncio.run(
https://bugs.python.org/issue35812  closed by asvetlov

#35822: _queue _queuemodule.c is missing inside the Setup file
https://bugs.python.org/issue35822  closed by inada.naoki

#35826: Typo in example for async with statement with condition
https://bugs.python.org/issue35826  closed by mhchia

#35852: Fixed tests regenerating using CRLF when running it on Windows
https://bugs.python.org/issue35852  closed by addons_zz

#35867: NameError is not caught at Task execution
https://bugs.python.org/issue35867  closed by pablogsal

#35904: Add statistics.fmean(seq)
https://bugs.python.org/issue35904  closed by rhettinger

#35915: re.search extreme slowness (looks like hang/livelock), searchi
https://bugs.python.org/issue35915  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#35942: posixmodule.c:path_converter() returns an invalid exception me
https://bugs.python.org/issue35942  closed by pablogsal

#35945: Cannot distinguish between subtask cancellation and running ta
https://bugs.python.org/issue35945  closed by jnwatson

#35956: Sort documentation could be improved for complex sorting
https://bugs.python.org/issue35956  closed by rhettinger

#35984: test__xxsubinterpreters leaked [3, 4, 3] memory blocks, sum=1
https://bugs.python.org/issue35984  closed by eric.snow

#35992: Metaclasses interfere with __class_getitem__
https://bugs.python.org/issue35992  closed by levkivskyi

#35993: incorrect use of released memory in Python/pystate.c line 284
https://bugs.python.org/issue35993  closed by vstinner

#36006: [good first issue] Align version changed for truncate in io mo
https://bugs.python.org/issue36006  closed by Mariatta

#36007: python3.8 a1 - docs build requires sphinx 1.7 but uses a 1.8 f
https://bugs.python.org/issue36007  closed by Mariatta

#36009: weakref.ReferenceType is not a valid typing type
https://bugs.python.org/issue36009  closed by levkivskyi

#36012: Investigate slow writes to class variables
https://bugs.python.org/issue36012  closed by rhettinger

#36013: test_signal fails in AMD64 Debian PGO 3.x
https://bugs.python.org/issue36013  closed by gregory.p.smith

#36014: test_help_with_metavar broken
https://bugs.python.org/issue36014  closed by wabba

#36024: ctypes: test_ctypes test_callbacks() crash on AArch64 with SEL
https://bugs.python.org/issue36024  closed by vstinner

#36028: Integer Division discrepancy with float
https://bugs.python.org/issue36028  closed by mark.dickinson

#36031: add internal API function to effectively convert just created 
https://bugs.python.org/issue36031  closed by vstinner

#36032: Wrong output in tutorial (3.1.2. Strings)
https://bugs.python.org/issue36032  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#36037: test_ssl fails on RHEL8 strict OpenSSL configuration
https://bugs.python.org/issue36037  closed by vstinner

#36038: ^ used in inaccurate example in regex-howto
https://bugs.python.org/issue36038  closed by mdk

#36039: Replace append loops with list comprehensions
https://bugs.python.org/issue36039  closed by rhettinger

#36040: Python\ast.c(3875): warning C4244: 'initializing': conversion 
https://bugs.python.org/issue36040  closed by pablogsal

#36047: socket file handle does not support stream write
https://bugs.python.org/issue36047  closed by matrixise

#36049: No __repr__() for queue.PriorityQueue and queue.LifoQueue
https://bugs.python.org/issue36049  closed by rhettinger

#36052: Assignment operator allows to assign to __debug__
https://bugs.python.org/issue36052  closed by pablogsal

#36055: Division using math.pow and math.log approximation fails
https://bugs.python.org/issue36055  closed by mark.dickinson

#36056: importlib does not support pathlib
https://bugs.python.org/issue36056  closed by berker.peksag

#36057: Add docs and tests for ordering in Counter.  [no behavior chan
https://bugs.python.org/issue36057  closed by rhettinger

#36059: Update docs for OrderedDict to reflect that regular dicts are 
https://bugs.python.org/issue36059  closed by rhettinger

#36060: Document how collections.ChainMap() determines iteration order
https://bugs.python.org/issue36060  closed by rhettinger

#36061: zipfile does not handle arcnames with non-ascii characters on 
https://bugs.python.org/issue36061  closed by inada.naoki

#36062: move index normalization from list_slice() to PyList_GetSlice(
https://bugs.python.org/issue36062  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#36063: replace PyTuple_SetItem() with PyTuple_SET_ITEM() in long_divm
https://bugs.python.org/issue36063  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#36065: Add unified C API for accessing bytes and bytearray
https://bugs.python.org/issue36065  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#36068: Make _tuplegetter objects serializable
https://bugs.python.org/issue36068  closed by rhettinger

#36069: asyncio: create_connection cannot handle IPv6 link-local addre
https://bugs.python.org/issue36069  closed by Leonardo MÃ¶rlein

#36070: Enclosing scope not visible from within list comprehension
https://bugs.python.org/issue36070  closed by serhiy.storchaka

#36074: Result of `asyncio.Server.sockets` after `Server.close()` is n
https://bugs.python.org/issue36074  closed by mdk

#36080: Ensurepip fails to install pip into a nested virtual environme
https://bugs.python.org/issue36080  closed by Sammy Gillespie

#36082: The built-in round() function giving a wrong output
https://bugs.python.org/issue36082  closed by SilentGhost