[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

[Skip Montanaro]

Bug/Patch Summary
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384 open / 3510 total bugs (+7)
136 open / 2062 total patches (no change)

New Bugs
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test_zipimport failing on ia64 (at least) (2003-03-30)
	http://python.org/sf/712322
Cannot change the class of a list (2003-03-31)
	http://python.org/sf/712975
test_pty fails on HP-UX and AIX when run after test_openpty (2003-03-31)
	http://python.org/sf/713169
site.py breaks if prefix is empty (2003-04-01)
	http://python.org/sf/713601
Distutils documentation amputated (2003-04-01)
	http://python.org/sf/713722
cPickle fails to pickle inf (2003-04-03)
	http://python.org/sf/714733
bsddb.first()/next() raise undocumented exception (2003-04-03)
	http://python.org/sf/715063
pydoc support for keywords (2003-04-05)
	http://python.org/sf/715782
Minor nested scopes doc issues (2003-04-06)
	http://python.org/sf/716168

New Patches
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Bug fix 548176: urlparse('http://foo?blah') errs (2003-03-30)
	http://python.org/sf/712317
sre fixes for lastindex and minimizing repeats+assertions (2003-03-31)
	http://python.org/sf/712900
Fixes for 'commands' module on win32 (2003-04-01)
	http://python.org/sf/713428
rfc822.parsedate returns a tuple (2003-04-01)
	http://python.org/sf/713599
freeze fails when extensions_win32.ini is missing (2003-04-01)
	http://python.org/sf/713645
iconv_codec NG (2003-04-02)
	http://python.org/sf/713820
Unicode Codecs for CJK Encodings (2003-04-02)
	http://python.org/sf/713824
Guard against segfaults in debug code (2003-04-02)
	http://python.org/sf/714348
timeouts for FTP connect (and other supported ops) (2003-04-03)
	http://python.org/sf/714592
Document freeze process in PC/config.c (2003-04-03)
	http://python.org/sf/714957

Closed Bugs
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locale.getpreferredencoding fails on AIX (2003-01-31)
	http://python.org/sf/678259
configure option --enable-shared make problems (2003-03-11)
	http://python.org/sf/701823
-i -u options give SyntaxError on Windows (2003-03-21)
	http://python.org/sf/707576

Closed Patches
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sgmllib support for additional tag forms (2002-04-17)
	http://python.org/sf/545300
posixfy some things (2002-12-08)
	http://python.org/sf/650412
Add missing constants for IRIX al module (2003-01-13)
	http://python.org/sf/667548
Py_Main() removal of exit() calls. Return value instead (2003-01-21)
	http://python.org/sf/672053
fix for bug 672614 :) (2003-02-28)
	http://python.org/sf/695250
Wrong prototype for PyUnicode_Splitlines on documentation (2003-03-11)
	http://python.org/sf/701395
more apply removals (2003-03-11)
	http://python.org/sf/701494
Fix a few broken links in pydoc (2003-03-19)
	http://python.org/sf/706338
Adds Mock Object support to unittest.TestCase (2003-03-19)
	http://python.org/sf/706590
Make "%c" % u"a" work (2003-03-26)
	http://python.org/sf/710127
Backport to 2.2.2 of codec registry fix (2003-03-27)
	http://python.org/sf/710576
Obsolete comment in urlparse.py (2003-03-30)
	http://python.org/sf/712124