[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

[Skip Montanaro]

Bug/Patch Summary
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254 open / 2582 total bugs (-12)
128 open / 1554 total patches (-3)

New Bugs
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tarball to untar into a single dir (2002-06-11)
	http://python.org/sf/567576
whatsnew explains noargs incorrectly (2002-06-11)
	http://python.org/sf/567607
Various Playstation 2 Linux Test Errors (2002-06-12)
	http://python.org/sf/567892
urllib needs 303/307 handlers (2002-06-12)
	http://python.org/sf/568068
asynchat module undocumented (2002-06-12)
	http://python.org/sf/568134
Misleading string constant. (2002-06-12)
	http://python.org/sf/568269
socket module htonl/ntohl bug (2002-06-12)
	http://python.org/sf/568322
minor improvement to Grammar file (2002-06-13)
	http://python.org/sf/568412
__slots__ attribute and private variable (2002-06-14)
	http://python.org/sf/569257
cgi.py broken with xmlrpclib on Python 2 (2002-06-15)
	http://python.org/sf/569316
LINKCC incorrectly set (2002-06-16)
	http://python.org/sf/569668

New Patches
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unicode in sys.path (2002-06-10)
	http://python.org/sf/566999
GetFInfo update (2002-06-11)
	http://python.org/sf/567296
A different patch for python-mode vs gdb (2002-06-11)
	http://python.org/sf/567468
Add param to email.Utils.decode()  (2002-06-12)
	http://python.org/sf/568348
Convert slice and buffer to types (2002-06-13)
	http://python.org/sf/568544
gettext module charset changes (2002-06-13)
	http://python.org/sf/568669
Implementation of major, minor and makedev (2002-06-14)
	http://python.org/sf/569139
names in types module (2002-06-15)
	http://python.org/sf/569328
plain text enhancement for cgitb (2002-06-15)
	http://python.org/sf/569574

Closed Bugs
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tuple __getitem__ limited (2001-09-06)
	http://python.org/sf/459235
str, __getitem__ and slices (2001-10-23)
	http://python.org/sf/473985
string.{starts,ends}with vs slices (2001-12-16)
	http://python.org/sf/493951
HTMLParser fail to handle '&foobar' (2002-01-06)
	http://python.org/sf/500073
markupbase handling of HTML declarations (2002-01-19)
	http://python.org/sf/505747
Recursive class instance "error" (2002-03-20)
	http://python.org/sf/532646
fcntl module with wrong module for ioctl (2002-04-30)
	http://python.org/sf/550777
deepcopy can't handle custom metaclasses (2002-05-26)
	http://python.org/sf/560794
Assertion with very long lists (2002-05-29)
	http://python.org/sf/561858
test_signal.py fails on FreeBSD-4-stable (2002-05-29)
	http://python.org/sf/562188
xmlrpclib.Binary.data undocumented (2002-05-31)
	http://python.org/sf/562878
Clarify documentation for inspect (2002-06-01)
	http://python.org/sf/563273
os.tmpfile should use w+b, not w+ (2002-06-02)
	http://python.org/sf/563750
getttext defaults with unicode (2002-06-03)
	http://python.org/sf/563915
IDLE needs printing (2002-06-06)
	http://python.org/sf/565373
urllib FancyURLopener.__init__ / urlopen (2002-06-06)
	http://python.org/sf/565414
string.replace() can corrupt heap (2002-06-07)
	http://python.org/sf/565993
telnetlib makes Python dump core (2002-06-07)
	http://python.org/sf/566006
rotormodule's set_key calls strlen (2002-06-10)
	http://python.org/sf/566859
Typo in "What's new in Python 2.3" (2002-06-10)
	http://python.org/sf/566869

Closed Patches
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experimental support for extended slicing on lists (2000-07-27)
	http://python.org/sf/400998
getopt with GNU style scanning (2001-10-21)
	http://python.org/sf/473512
AtheOS port of Python 2.2b2 (2001-12-02)
	http://python.org/sf/488073
Silence AIX C Compiler Warnings. (2002-03-21)
	http://python.org/sf/533070
Floating point issues in body of text (2002-04-26)
	http://python.org/sf/548943
Deprecate bsddb (2002-05-06)
	http://python.org/sf/553108
Prevent duplicates in readline history (2002-05-30)
	http://python.org/sf/562492
First patch: start describing types... (2002-05-30)
	http://python.org/sf/562529
posixmodule.c RedHat 6.1 (bug #535545) (2002-06-03)
	http://python.org/sf/563954
error in weakref.WeakKeyDictionary (2002-06-04)
	http://python.org/sf/564549
modulefinder and string methods (2002-06-05)
	http://python.org/sf/564840
fix bug in shutil.rmtree exception case (2002-06-09)
	http://python.org/sf/566517