Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

[Kurt B. Kaiser]

Patch / Bug Summary
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Patches :  399 open ( +5) /  3836 closed ( +9) /  4235 total (+14)
Bugs    : 1056 open (+10) /  6776 closed ( +3) /  7832 total (+13)
RFE     :  263 open ( +1) /   294 closed ( +1) /   557 total ( +2)

New / Reopened Patches
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utilize 2.5 try/except/finally in contextlib  (2007-07-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1757118  opened by  Philip Jenvey

Fix ptcp154 encoding cyrillic_asian alias  (2007-07-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1757126  opened by  Philip Jenvey

Add support for seeking/writing beyond EOF to io.BytesIO  (2007-07-20)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1757683  opened by  Alexandre Vassalotti

struni: make test_ucn pass  (2007-07-20)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1757758  opened by  Alexandre Vassalotti

struni: fix str/bytes errors for test_oldmailbox  (2007-07-20)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1757774  opened by  Alexandre Vassalotti

setuptools support for bazaar vcs  (2007-07-20)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1757782  opened by  Barry A. Warsaw

struni: make test_mailbox and test_old_mailbox pass  (2007-07-20)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1757839  opened by  Alexandre Vassalotti

struni: Fix test_macostools  (2007-07-22)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1758570  opened by  Jeffrey Yasskin

pyexpat unit tests - str/uni branch  (2007-07-23)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1759016  opened by  Joe Gregorio

clean up Solaris port and allow C99 extension modules  (2007-07-23)
       http://python.org/sf/1759169  opened by  Zooko O'Whielacronx

struni pulldom: Don't use 'types' to check strings  (2007-07-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1759922  opened by  Alexandre Vassalotti

Cross Compiling Python  (2007-07-25)
       http://python.org/sf/1760089  opened by  Yegnesh

ZipFile.write fails with bad modification time  (2007-07-25)
       http://python.org/sf/1760357  opened by  Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz

struni: Fix test_aepack by converting 4cc's to bytes  (2007-07-26)
       http://python.org/sf/1761465  opened by  Jeffrey Yasskin

Patches Closed
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Show Location of Unicode Escape Errors  (2007-07-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1755885  closed by  gvanrossum

Add support for seeking/writing beyond EOF to io.BytesIO  (2007-07-20)
       http://python.org/sf/1757683  closed by  gvanrossum

struni: make test_ucn pass  (2007-07-20)
       http://python.org/sf/1757758  closed by  gvanrossum

struni: fix str/bytes errors for test_oldmailbox  (2007-07-20)
       http://python.org/sf/1757774  closed by  avassalotti

setuptools support for bazaar vcs  (2007-07-20)
       http://python.org/sf/1757782  closed by  pje

struni: make test_mailbox and test_old_mailbox pass  (2007-07-20)
       http://python.org/sf/1757839  closed by  gvanrossum

PEP 3123 implementation  (2007-05-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1718153  closed by  loewis

struni: Fix test_macostools  (2007-07-22)
       http://python.org/sf/1758570  closed by  gvanrossum

pyexpat unit tests - str/uni branch  (2007-07-23)
       http://python.org/sf/1759016  closed by  gvanrossum

New / Reopened Bugs
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Python 2.5.1 fails to build on AIX  (2007-07-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1756343  opened by  Tom Epperly

reference count discrepancy, PyErr_Print vs. PyErr_Clear  (2007-07-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1756389  opened by  Jon Klein

IDLE + BeautifulSoup = Error  (2007-07-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1757057  opened by  Tal Einat

Pickle fails on BeautifulSoup's navigableString instances  (2007-07-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1757062  opened by  Tal Einat

Zipfile robustness  (2007-07-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1757072  opened by  Chris Mellon

Crash in PyObject_Malloc  (2007-07-21)
       http://python.org/sf/1758146  opened by  Tim Bishop

Documentation of descriptors needs more detail  (2007-07-22)
       http://python.org/sf/1758696  opened by  L. Peter Deutsch

unicode(None,charset) raise TypeError  (2007-07-23)
       http://python.org/sf/1758804  opened by  Guillaume

subprocess.call fails with unicode strings in command line  (2007-07-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1759845  opened by  Matt

poll() on cygwin sometimes fails [PATCH]  (2007-07-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1759997  opened by  Brian Warner

No docs for list comparison  (2007-07-25)
       http://python.org/sf/1760423  opened by  Kent Johnson

logging.FileHandler may throw exception in flush()  (2007-07-25)
       http://python.org/sf/1760556  opened by  J Livingston

pickle - cannot unpickle circular deps with custom __hash__  (2007-07-26)
       http://python.org/sf/1761028  opened by  Martin Süßkraut

Bugs Closed
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struni: help() is broken  (2007-07-11)
       http://python.org/sf/1751932  closed by  kbk

Docstring for codecs.lookup is incorrect  (2007-07-15)
       http://python.org/sf/1754453  closed by  doerwalter

New / Reopened RFE
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splice() function for itertools  (2007-07-20)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1757395  opened by  Alexander Dutton

Allow opening just an editor window  (2007-07-21)
       http://python.org/sf/1757831  opened by  Tal Einat

RFE Closed
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splice() function for itertools  (2007-07-20)
       http://python.org/sf/1757395  closed by  rhettinger