[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

[Skip Montanaro]

Bug/Patch Summary
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574 open / 4359 total bugs (+43)
193 open / 2459 total patches (+11)

New Bugs
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inconsistent popen[2-4]() docs (2003-11-16)
	http://python.org/sf/843293
help(obj) should use __doc__ when available (2003-11-16)
	http://python.org/sf/843385
tkFileDialog.Open is broken (2003-11-17)
	http://python.org/sf/843999
"up" instead of "down" in turtle module documentation (2003-11-17)
	http://python.org/sf/844123
urllib2 fails its builtin test (2003-11-18)
	http://python.org/sf/844336
codecs.open().readlines(sizehint) bug (2003-11-18)
	http://python.org/sf/844561
PackageManager: deselect show hidden: indexerror (2003-11-18)
	http://python.org/sf/844676
os.exec* and first 'arg' (2003-11-19)
	http://python.org/sf/845342
imaplib: traceback from _checkquote with empty string (2003-11-19)
	http://python.org/sf/845560
Python crashes when __init__.py is a directory. (2003-11-20)
	http://python.org/sf/845802
os.chmod does not work with a unicode filename (2003-11-20)
	http://python.org/sf/846133
error in python's grammar (2003-11-21)
	http://python.org/sf/846521
"and" operator tests the first argument twice (2003-11-21)
	http://python.org/sf/846564
control-c is being sent to child thread rather than main (2003-11-21)
	http://python.org/sf/846817
email.Parser.Parser doesn't check for valid Content-Type (2003-11-21)
	http://python.org/sf/846938
datetime.datetime initialization needs more strict checking (2003-11-21)
	http://python.org/sf/847019
NotImplemented return value misinterpreted in new classes (2003-11-21)
	http://python.org/sf/847024
textwrap ignoring fix_sentence_endings for single lines (2003-11-22)
	http://python.org/sf/847346

New Patches
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socketmodule.c: fix for platforms w/o IPV6 (i.e.Solaris 5.7) (2003-11-19)
	http://python.org/sf/845306
Check for signals during regular expression matches (2003-11-20)
	http://python.org/sf/846388
fix for bug #812325 (tarfile violates bufsize) (2003-11-21)
	http://python.org/sf/846659

Closed Bugs
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IDE Preferences (2002-09-11)
	http://python.org/sf/607816
Support RFC 2111 in email package (2002-10-21)
	http://python.org/sf/626452
RFC 2112 in email package (2002-11-06)
	http://python.org/sf/634412
elisp: IM-python menu and newline in function defs (2003-03-21)
	http://python.org/sf/707707
Problem With email.MIMEText Package (2003-05-12)
	http://python.org/sf/736407
test zipimport fails (2003-07-03)
	http://python.org/sf/765456
IDE defaults to Mac linefeeds (2003-08-04)
	http://python.org/sf/782686
email bug with message/rfc822 (2003-08-24)
	http://python.org/sf/794458
email.Message param parsing problem II (2003-08-25)
	http://python.org/sf/795081
plat-mac/applesingle.py needs cosmetic changes (2003-09-09)
	http://python.org/sf/803498
_tkinter compilation fails (2003-09-12)
	http://python.org/sf/805200
RedHat 9 blows up at dlclose of pyexpat.so (2003-09-29)
	http://python.org/sf/814726
bug with ill-formed rfc822 attachments (2003-09-30)
	http://python.org/sf/815563
Missing import in email example (2003-10-01)
	http://python.org/sf/816344
exception with Message.get_filename() (2003-10-15)
	http://python.org/sf/824417
bad value of INSTSONAME in Makefile (2003-10-15)
	http://python.org/sf/824565
email/Generator.py: Incorrect header output (2003-10-20)
	http://python.org/sf/826756
httplib hardcodes Accept-Encoding (2003-10-28)
	http://python.org/sf/831747
email generator can give bad output (2003-11-04)
	http://python.org/sf/836293
Bug in type's GC handling causes segfaults (2003-11-10)
	http://python.org/sf/839548
weakref callbacks and gc corrupt memory (2003-11-12)
	http://python.org/sf/840829
Windows mis-installs to network drive (2003-11-14)
	http://python.org/sf/842629

Closed Patches
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755617: better docs for os.chmod (2003-06-16)
	http://python.org/sf/755677
startup file compiler flags (2003-08-24)
	http://python.org/sf/794400
Build changes for AIX (2003-11-05)
	http://python.org/sf/836434
One more patch for --enable-shared (2003-11-13)
	http://python.org/sf/841807
NameError in the example of sets module (2003-11-15)
	http://python.org/sf/842994
doc fixes builtin super and string.replace (2003-11-16)
	http://python.org/sf/843088