[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

Skip Montanaro skip@mojam.com
Sun, 24 Mar 2002 07:00:19 -0600


Bug/Patch Summary
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254 open / 2338 total bugs
95 open / 1386 total patches

Closed Bugs
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Distutils should have a Setup parser (2001-03-23)
	http://python.org/sf/410878
linuxaudiodev fails during "make test". (2001-03-24)
	http://python.org/sf/410993
xmlrpclib won't marshal new types (2001-10-10)
	http://python.org/sf/469972
Deprecate modules (2001-10-24)
	http://python.org/sf/474585
python version benchmark (2001-10-25)
	http://python.org/sf/474992
Uncaught MI order conflict (2001-11-14)
	http://python.org/sf/481985
dumbdbm fails to overwrite existing key (2001-11-16)
	http://python.org/sf/482460
Different behavior of readline() (2001-11-29)
	http://python.org/sf/487277
Int(long) causes Integer Overflow (2002-01-04)
	http://python.org/sf/499708
os.listdir("") bug on Windows (2002-01-07)
	http://python.org/sf/500705
type.__module__ problems (again?) (2002-01-15)
	http://python.org/sf/503837
Bad exceptions from pickle (2002-01-16)
	http://python.org/sf/504723
Super method search quirk (2002-01-17)
	http://python.org/sf/505028
python-mode.el sets TMPDIR to /usr/tmp (2002-01-18)
	http://python.org/sf/505488
Fix hardlink against NavServices (2002-01-18)
	http://python.org/sf/505587
urllib.urlopen results.readline is slow (2002-01-24)
	http://python.org/sf/508157
make test failure on sunos5 (2002-02-01)
	http://python.org/sf/512007
Very slow performance (2002-02-09)
	http://python.org/sf/515434
urlparse can get fragments wrong (2002-02-11)
	http://python.org/sf/516299
Error in tutorial chapter 4 (2002-02-15)
	http://python.org/sf/518076
undocumented argument in filecmp.cmpfile (2002-02-25)
	http://python.org/sf/522426
Segfault evaluating '%.100f' % 2.0**100 (2002-02-25)
	http://python.org/sf/522699
pickle/cPickle Inconsistent EOF handling (2002-02-26)
	http://python.org/sf/523020
Inaccuracy in PyErr_SetFromErrno()'s doc (2002-02-28)
	http://python.org/sf/523833
breaking file iter loop leaves file in stale state (2002-03-02)
	http://python.org/sf/524804
cmd.py does not flush stdout (2002-03-06)
	http://python.org/sf/526357
raw_input does not flush stdout (2002-03-06)
	http://python.org/sf/526382
tixwidgets.py improperly indented (2002-03-06)
	http://python.org/sf/526548
popen3 hangs on windows (2002-03-09)
	http://python.org/sf/527783
classmethod().__get__() segfault (2002-03-10)
	http://python.org/sf/528132
PyTraceBack_Store/Fetch are absent (2002-03-12)
	http://python.org/sf/528914
broken error handling in unicode-escape (2002-03-12)
	http://python.org/sf/529104
ICGlue byte alignment issue (2002-03-12)
	http://python.org/sf/529146
Linking under AIX failing (2002-03-13)
	http://python.org/sf/529713
pydoc regression (2002-03-14)
	http://python.org/sf/530070
Typo in 3.16 copy_reg doc (2002-03-14)
	http://python.org/sf/530143
redefining SRE_CODE in Modules/sre.h (2002-03-15)
	http://python.org/sf/530285
import and execfile don't handle utf-16 (2002-03-16)
	http://python.org/sf/530882

New Bugs
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socket.sslerror is not a socket.error (2002-03-17)
	http://python.org/sf/531145
Bugs in rfc822.parseaddr() (2002-03-17)
	http://python.org/sf/531205
surprise overriding __radd__ in subclass of complex (2002-03-18)
	http://python.org/sf/531355
221 still doesn't work on OS 8.1 (2002-03-18)
	http://python.org/sf/531398
urllib ftp broken if Win32 proxy (2002-03-19)
	http://python.org/sf/532007
6.9 The raise statement is confusing (2002-03-20)
	http://python.org/sf/532467
Build python fails after fpectl (2002-03-20)
	http://python.org/sf/532618
Confusions in formatfloat (2002-03-20)
	http://python.org/sf/532631
Recursive class instance "error" (2002-03-20)
	http://python.org/sf/532646
isinstance() should respect __class__ (2002-03-20)
	http://python.org/sf/532767
NameError assigning to class in a func (2002-03-20)
	http://python.org/sf/532860
configure.in Assumes cc_r Exists on AIX. (2002-03-21)
	http://python.org/sf/533188
Complex power underflow raises exception (2002-03-21)
	http://python.org/sf/533198
__reduce__ does not work as documented (2002-03-21)
	http://python.org/sf/533291
not building on AIX (2002-03-21)
	http://python.org/sf/533306
rexec: potential security hole (2002-03-22)
	http://python.org/sf/533625
2.2 on HP-UX 11 64-bit - longs crash (2002-03-22)
	http://python.org/sf/533632
cut-o/paste-o in Marshalling doc: 2.2.1 (2002-03-22)
	http://python.org/sf/533735
AIX 3.2.5 Has No chroot/fsync Prototypes (2002-03-23)
	http://python.org/sf/534108
CODESET Doesn't Infer ERA et al. (2002-03-23)
	http://python.org/sf/534153
Running MacPython as non-priv user may fail (2002-03-23)
	http://python.org/sf/534158

Closed Patches
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Persistent connections in BaseHTTPServer (2001-06-06)
	http://python.org/sf/430706
ncurses form module (2001-09-04)
	http://python.org/sf/458534
allow dumbdbm to reuse space (2001-11-12)
	http://python.org/sf/480902
Final set of patches to Demo/tix (2001-11-27)
	http://python.org/sf/485959
Namespace selection for rlcompleter (2001-12-06)
	http://python.org/sf/490026
Lets Tkinter work with MacOSX native Tk (2001-12-06)
	http://python.org/sf/490100
make inspect.stack() work with PyShell (2001-12-07)
	http://python.org/sf/490374
Opt for tok_nextc (2001-12-12)
	http://python.org/sf/491936
Access to readline history elements (2001-12-16)
	http://python.org/sf/494066
test exceptions in various types/methods (2001-12-18)
	http://python.org/sf/494871
add an -q (quiet) option to pycompile (2001-12-20)
	http://python.org/sf/495598
Mach-O MacPython IDE! (2001-12-22)
	http://python.org/sf/496096
location of mbox (2001-12-27)
	http://python.org/sf/497097
robotparser.py fails on some URLs (2002-01-04)
	http://python.org/sf/499513
compileall.py -d errors (2002-01-10)
	http://python.org/sf/501713
call warnings.warn with Warning instance (2002-01-17)
	http://python.org/sf/504943
Script to move faqwiz entries. (2002-02-03)
	http://python.org/sf/512466
build, install in HP-UX10.20 (2002-02-05)
	http://python.org/sf/513329
Adding galeon support (2002-02-16)
	http://python.org/sf/518675
minor fix for regen on IRIX (2002-03-04)
	http://python.org/sf/525763
urllib2: duplicate call, stat attrs (2002-03-05)
	http://python.org/sf/525870
Enable pymalloc (2002-03-15)
	http://python.org/sf/530556

New Patches
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PEP 4 update: deprecations (2002-03-18)
	http://python.org/sf/531491
Add multicall support to xmlrpclib (2002-03-18)
	http://python.org/sf/531629
binary packagers (2002-03-19)
	http://python.org/sf/531901
fix xmlrpclib float marshalling bug (2002-03-19)
	http://python.org/sf/532180
Better AttributeError formatting (2002-03-20)
	http://python.org/sf/532638
specifying headers for extensions (2002-03-21)
	http://python.org/sf/533008
Silence AIX C Compiler Warnings. (2002-03-21)
	http://python.org/sf/533070
small seek tweak upon reads (gzip) (2002-03-22)
	http://python.org/sf/533482
Apply semaphore code to Cygwin (2002-03-22)
	http://python.org/sf/533681