Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

[Kurt B. Kaiser]

Patch / Bug Summary
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Patches : 240 open ( -1) / 2655 closed (+15) / 2895 total (+14)
Bugs : 766 open ( +0) / 4514 closed (+22) / 5280 total (+22)
RFE : 155 open ( +1) / 131 closed ( +0) / 286 total ( +1)

New / Reopened Patches
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True/False instead of 1/0 in libstdtypes.tex (2004-10-06)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1041364 opened by Gerrit Holl

bbetter document popenX 'cmd' argument (2004-10-07)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1042705 opened by Jeff Epler

broken TeX markup (2004-10-08)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1042969 opened by George Yoshida

Decimal.py enhancements (2004-10-08)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1043218 opened by Facundo Batista

Enhancing '-m' to support packages (2004-10-09)
http://python.org/sf/1043356 opened by Nick Coghlan

External storage protocol for large email messages (2004-10-09)
http://python.org/sf/1043706 opened by Barry A. Warsaw

tarfile: add extractall() method (2004-10-10)
http://python.org/sf/1043890 opened by Lars Gustäbel

tarfile.py: patch for bug #1017553 (2004-10-10)
http://python.org/sf/1043972 opened by Lars Gustäbel

Bug #1011380 alternate fix - locking is noop without threads (2004-10-11)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1044089 opened by Nick Coghlan

Add FreeBSD* to configure.in for --enable-shared (2004-10-11)
http://python.org/sf/1044395 opened by James William Pye

improved configure.in output (2004-10-12)
http://python.org/sf/1045620 opened by Wummel

Remove unncessary NLST from ftp transfers (2004-10-12)
http://python.org/sf/1045783 opened by Chris Cogdon

Consistent retrieval of Python version. (2004-10-14)
http://python.org/sf/1046831 opened by uiltje

Buffer overwrite in PyUnicode_AsWideChar (2004-10-14)
http://python.org/sf/1047269 opened by Thomas Heller

Patches Closed
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-m option to run a module as a script (2004-09-27)
http://python.org/sf/1035498 closed by rhettinger

True/False instead of 1/0 in libstdtypes.tex (2004-10-06)
http://python.org/sf/1041364 closed by rhettinger

pdb enhancements and bug fixes (2004-02-12)
http://python.org/sf/896011 closed by jlgijsbers

bbetter document popenX 'cmd' argument (2004-10-08)
http://python.org/sf/1042705 closed by jlgijsbers

popen2.popen2() 'cmd' list syntax docstring (2004-02-01)
http://python.org/sf/888380 closed by jlgijsbers

broken TeX markup (2004-10-08)
http://python.org/sf/1042969 closed by jlgijsbers

Decimal.py enhancements (2004-10-08)
http://python.org/sf/1043218 closed by rhettinger

replacing rfc822.formatdate (2004-08-09)
http://python.org/sf/1005857 closed by anthonybaxter

email/__init__.py: Parse headersonly (2004-03-20)
http://python.org/sf/920037 closed by bwarsaw

Bad behavior of email.Charset.Charset when locale is tr_TR (2003-12-29)
http://python.org/sf/866982 closed by bwarsaw

mailbox / fromline matching (2002-02-22)
http://python.org/sf/521478 closed by bwarsaw

Bug #1011380 alternate fix - locking is noop without threads (2004-10-10)
http://python.org/sf/1044089 closed by tim_one

Logger file objects (2004-08-02)
http://python.org/sf/1001864 closed by vsajip

Signal fixes for BSD systems (2004-06-18)
http://python.org/sf/975056 closed by anthonybaxter

Allow ldshared to be overridden by environment var (2004-07-01)
http://python.org/sf/983206 closed by anthonybaxter

New / Reopened Bugs
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copy.deepcopy exceptions.TypeError: 'NoneType' object ... (2004-10-06)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1041325 opened by Arthur Lutz

SimpleXMLRPCServer example is broken (2004-10-06)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1041501 opened by Kent Johnson

Thread management corrupts heap (2004-10-06)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1041645 opened by benson margulies

Patch (2004-10-07)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1042179 opened by Michiel de Hoon

Lib/compiler chokes on certain genexps (2004-10-07)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1042238 opened by Michael Hudson

mimetypes.guess_extension('text/plain') = '.ksh' ??? (2004-10-08)
http://python.org/sf/1043134 opened by Robert Kiendl

Uninterruptable loop (2004-10-09)
http://python.org/sf/1043446 opened by Jp Calderone

compile error with stlport (2004-10-10)
http://python.org/sf/1044299 opened by Debug

Can't raise "C API version mismatch" warning (2004-10-11)
http://python.org/sf/1044382 opened by Frank Sonnenburg

docs for Py_UNICODE are wrong (2004-10-11)
http://python.org/sf/1044479 opened by Thomas Heller

Unable to install Docs - Linux (2004-10-11)
http://python.org/sf/1044872 opened by Colin J. Williams

strptime doesn't work with %U (2004-10-12)
http://python.org/sf/1045381 opened by Sebastien JUST

Problems with os.system and ulimit -f (2004-10-12)
http://python.org/sf/1045509 opened by Tomasz Kowaltowski

test_subprocess vs Windows (2004-10-12)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1045748 opened by Tim Peters

warning '"_POSIX_C_SOURCE" redefined' when include Python.h (2004-10-13)
http://python.org/sf/1045893 opened by Eugene Sizikov

urllib2: better import ftplib and gopherlib etc late (2004-10-13)
http://python.org/sf/1046077 opened by Robert Kiendl

HTMLParser fix to accept mailformed tag attributes (2004-10-13)
http://python.org/sf/1046092 opened by Vsevolod Novikov

improving distutils swig support (2004-10-14)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1046404 opened by Anthony Baxter

improving distutils swig support (2) (2004-10-14)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1046644 opened by Lars Immisch

difflib.HtmlDiff doc errors (EASY) (2004-10-13)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1046690 opened by Dan Gass

Error in the given example (2004-10-14)
http://python.org/sf/1046800 opened by Vishnu

httplib index out of range (2004-10-14)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1046855 opened by Grzegorz Makarewicz

improving distutils swig support - documentation (2004-10-14)
http://python.org/sf/1046945 opened by Lars Immisch

cgitb failures (2004-10-14)
http://python.org/sf/1047397 opened by Robin Becker

Bugs Closed
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copy.deepcopy exceptions.TypeError: 'NoneType' object ... (2004-10-06)
http://python.org/sf/1041325 closed by arthur_lutz

SimpleXMLRPCServer example is broken (2004-10-06)
http://python.org/sf/1041501 closed by akuchling

Thread management corrupts heap (2004-10-06)
http://python.org/sf/1041645 closed by tim_one

PyOS_InputHook broken (2004-09-19)
http://python.org/sf/1030629 closed by mwh

Patch (2004-10-07)
http://python.org/sf/1042179 closed by mwh

Lib/compiler chokes on certain genexps (2004-10-07)
http://python.org/sf/1042238 closed by mwh

Enhancements to pdb.py when invoked as script (2003-06-09)
http://python.org/sf/751124 closed by jlgijsbers

shutils.rmtree() uses excessive amounts of memory (2004-09-09)
http://python.org/sf/1025127 closed by jlgijsbers

Conflicting descriptions of application order of decorators (2004-09-21)
http://python.org/sf/1031897 closed by akuchling

x, y in curses window object documentation (2004-09-04)
http://python.org/sf/1022311 closed by akuchling

Confusing description of strict option for email.Parser (2004-09-22)
http://python.org/sf/1032960 closed by bwarsaw

email package uses \n to rebuild content of a message (2004-06-01)
http://python.org/sf/964433 closed by bwarsaw

smtpd.py docstring says wrong default class (2004-08-16)
http://python.org/sf/1010102 closed by bwarsaw

email: mishandles Content-Transfer-Enc. for text/* messages (2004-05-09)
http://python.org/sf/950747 closed by bwarsaw

Email message croaks the new email pkg parser (2004-09-19)
http://python.org/sf/1030941 closed by bwarsaw

Make GIL acquire/release functions noops if PyEval_Init (2004-08-18)
http://python.org/sf/1011380 closed by tim_one

test_subprocess vs Windows (2004-10-12)
http://python.org/sf/1045748 closed by tim_one

BSD restartable signals not correctly disabled (2004-06-09)
http://python.org/sf/969574 closed by anthonybaxter

Solaris likes sys/loadavg.h (2004-06-22)
http://python.org/sf/977343 closed by anthonybaxter

improving distutils swig support (2004-10-14)
http://python.org/sf/1046404 closed by anthonybaxter

improving distutils swig support (2) (2004-10-14)
http://python.org/sf/1046644 closed by anthonybaxter

difflib.HtmlDiff doc errors (EASY) (2004-10-13)
http://python.org/sf/1046690 closed by tim_one

httplib index out of range (2004-10-14)
http://python.org/sf/1046855 closed by rhettinger

 

[Robin Becker]

.....On a related issue are the bugathons still going on. I don't seem strong
enough to read through python-dev right now.

 

[Josiah Carlson]

....On a related issue are the bugathons still going on. I don't seem strong
enough to read through python-dev right now.

Yes, they still do "bug days", though one has not been scheduled due to
organizers being busy.

If you want to check on it in the future, head to the most recent
month's subject archives in python-dev:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/
and search for "bug day"


- Josiah