[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

Fri Dec 31 18:07:06 CET 2010

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2010-12-24 - 2010-12-31)
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Issues counts and deltas:
  open    2525 (-17)
  closed 20058 (+49)
  total  22583 (+32)

Open issues with patches: 1063 

Issues opened (19)
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#10764: sysconfig and alternative implementations
http://bugs.python.org/issue10764  reopened by michael.foord

#10771: descriptor protocol documentation has two different definition
http://bugs.python.org/issue10771  opened by Devin Jeanpierre

#10772: Several actions for argparse arguments missing from docs
http://bugs.python.org/issue10772  opened by ipatrol

#10775: assertRaises as a context manager should accept a 'msg' keywor
http://bugs.python.org/issue10775  opened by r.david.murray

#10782: Not possible to cross-compile due to poor detection of %lld su
http://bugs.python.org/issue10782  opened by bgamari

#10784: os.getpriority() and os.setpriority()
http://bugs.python.org/issue10784  opened by giampaolo.rodola

#10785: parser: store the filename as an unicode object
http://bugs.python.org/issue10785  opened by haypo

#10786: unittest.TextTextRunner does not respect redirected stderr
http://bugs.python.org/issue10786  opened by cooyeah

#10787: [random.gammavariate] Add the expression of the distribution i
http://bugs.python.org/issue10787  opened by David.Kremer

#10788: test_logging failure
http://bugs.python.org/issue10788  opened by pitrou

#10789: Lock.acquire documentation is misleading
http://bugs.python.org/issue10789  opened by Jyrki.Pulliainen

#10790: Header.append's charset logic is bogus, 'shift_jis' and "euc_j
http://bugs.python.org/issue10790  opened by r.david.murray

#10791: Wrapping TextIOWrapper around gzip files
http://bugs.python.org/issue10791  opened by dabeaz

#10794: Infinite recursion while garbage collecting loops indefinitely
http://bugs.python.org/issue10794  opened by Mihai.Rusu

#10796: readline completion flaw
http://bugs.python.org/issue10796  opened by rheise

#10798: test_concurrent_futures fails on FreeBSD
http://bugs.python.org/issue10798  opened by loewis

#10799: Improve webbrowser.open doc (and, someday, behavior?)
http://bugs.python.org/issue10799  opened by terry.reedy

#10800: libffi build failure on HP-UX 11/PA
http://bugs.python.org/issue10800  opened by bugs-python at vendor.thewrittenword.com

#10801: zipfile.ZipFile().extractall() header mismatch for non-ASCII c
http://bugs.python.org/issue10801  opened by M..Z.

Most recent 15 issues with no replies (15)
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#10800: libffi build failure on HP-UX 11/PA
http://bugs.python.org/issue10800

#10799: Improve webbrowser.open doc (and, someday, behavior?)
http://bugs.python.org/issue10799

#10798: test_concurrent_futures fails on FreeBSD
http://bugs.python.org/issue10798

#10796: readline completion flaw
http://bugs.python.org/issue10796

#10789: Lock.acquire documentation is misleading
http://bugs.python.org/issue10789

#10787: [random.gammavariate] Add the expression of the distribution i
http://bugs.python.org/issue10787

#10775: assertRaises as a context manager should accept a 'msg' keywor
http://bugs.python.org/issue10775

#10772: Several actions for argparse arguments missing from docs
http://bugs.python.org/issue10772

#10761: tarfile.extractall fails to overwrite symlinks
http://bugs.python.org/issue10761

#10760: tarfile doesn't handle sysfs well
http://bugs.python.org/issue10760

#10752: build_ssl.py is relying on unreliable behaviour of os.popen
http://bugs.python.org/issue10752

#10751: WSGIREF - REMOTE_USER and REMOTE-USER collision
http://bugs.python.org/issue10751

#10747: Include version info in Windows shortcuts
http://bugs.python.org/issue10747

#10746: ctypes c_long & c_bool have incorrect PEP-3118 type codes
http://bugs.python.org/issue10746

#10745: setup.py install --user option undocumented
http://bugs.python.org/issue10745

Most recent 15 issues waiting for review (15)
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#10801: zipfile.ZipFile().extractall() header mismatch for non-ASCII c
http://bugs.python.org/issue10801

#10798: test_concurrent_futures fails on FreeBSD
http://bugs.python.org/issue10798

#10790: Header.append's charset logic is bogus, 'shift_jis' and "euc_j
http://bugs.python.org/issue10790

#10787: [random.gammavariate] Add the expression of the distribution i
http://bugs.python.org/issue10787

#10786: unittest.TextTextRunner does not respect redirected stderr
http://bugs.python.org/issue10786

#10785: parser: store the filename as an unicode object
http://bugs.python.org/issue10785

#10784: os.getpriority() and os.setpriority()
http://bugs.python.org/issue10784

#10766: optparse uses %s in gettext calls
http://bugs.python.org/issue10766

#10765: Build regression from automation changes on windows
http://bugs.python.org/issue10765

#10756: Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs [...]  Exception expected for v
http://bugs.python.org/issue10756

#10755: Add posix.fdlistdir
http://bugs.python.org/issue10755

#10746: ctypes c_long & c_bool have incorrect PEP-3118 type codes
http://bugs.python.org/issue10746

#10744: ctypes arrays have incorrect buffer information (PEP-3118)
http://bugs.python.org/issue10744

#10740: sqlite3 module should allow DDL statements in transactions
http://bugs.python.org/issue10740

#10735: platform.architecture() gives misleading results for OS X mult
http://bugs.python.org/issue10735

Top 10 most discussed issues (10)
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#6210: Exception Chaining missing method for suppressing context
http://bugs.python.org/issue6210  23 msgs

#2636: Regexp 2.7 (modifications to current re 2.2.2)
http://bugs.python.org/issue2636  22 msgs

#10542: Py_UNICODE_NEXT and other macros for surrogates
http://bugs.python.org/issue10542  19 msgs

#10769: ast: provide more useful range information
http://bugs.python.org/issue10769  17 msgs

#10791: Wrapping TextIOWrapper around gzip files
http://bugs.python.org/issue10791  13 msgs

#6011: python doesn't build if prefix contains non-ascii characters
http://bugs.python.org/issue6011   5 msgs

#10348: multiprocessing: use SysV semaphores on FreeBSD
http://bugs.python.org/issue10348   5 msgs

#10764: sysconfig and alternative implementations
http://bugs.python.org/issue10764   5 msgs

#7995: On Mac / BSD sockets returned by accept inherit the parent's F
http://bugs.python.org/issue7995   4 msgs

#9893: Usefulness of the Misc/Vim/ files?
http://bugs.python.org/issue9893   4 msgs

Issues closed (45)
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#2708: IDLE subprocess error
http://bugs.python.org/issue2708  closed by terry.reedy

#3194: Demo/loop.c passing "char *" instead of "wchar_t *"
http://bugs.python.org/issue3194  closed by georg.brandl

#4212: email.LazyImporter does not use absolute imports
http://bugs.python.org/issue4212  closed by r.david.murray

#4685: IDLE will not open (2.6.1 on WinXP pro)
http://bugs.python.org/issue4685  closed by terry.reedy

#5258: addpackage in site.py fails hard on badly formed .pth files
http://bugs.python.org/issue5258  closed by r.david.murray

#5423: Exception raised when attempting to call set_charset on an ema
http://bugs.python.org/issue5423  closed by r.david.murray

#6533: Make test_xmlrpc_net functional in the absence of time.xmlrpc.
http://bugs.python.org/issue6533  closed by r.david.murray

#7056: regrtest runtest_inner calls findtestdir unnecessarily
http://bugs.python.org/issue7056  closed by r.david.murray

#7962: Demo and Tools need to be tested and pruned
http://bugs.python.org/issue7962  closed by georg.brandl

#8009: email.parser.Parser is inefficient with large strings
http://bugs.python.org/issue8009  closed by r.david.murray

#8889: test_support.transient_internet fails on Freebsd because socke
http://bugs.python.org/issue8889  closed by r.david.murray

#9153: Run tools and demos as part of the test suite
http://bugs.python.org/issue9153  closed by georg.brandl

#9824: SimpleCookie should escape commas and semi-colons
http://bugs.python.org/issue9824  closed by r.david.murray

#9891: Minor doc typo at datamodel.rst: "list" -> "alist"
http://bugs.python.org/issue9891  closed by eric.araujo

#10254: unicodedata.normalize('NFC', s) regression
http://bugs.python.org/issue10254  closed by belopolsky

#10494: Demo/comparisons/regextest.py needs some usage information.
http://bugs.python.org/issue10494  closed by georg.brandl

#10495: Demo/comparisons/sortingtest.py needs some usage information.
http://bugs.python.org/issue10495  closed by georg.brandl

#10609: dbm documentation example doesn't work (iteritems())
http://bugs.python.org/issue10609  closed by georg.brandl

#10626: Bad interaction between test_logging and test_concurrent_futur
http://bugs.python.org/issue10626  closed by bquinlan

#10679: "make altinstall" may clobber OS provided scripts
http://bugs.python.org/issue10679  closed by georg.brandl

#10738: webbrowser.py bug with Opera on Linux
http://bugs.python.org/issue10738  closed by terry.reedy

#10739: Subprocess behavior on Windows
http://bugs.python.org/issue10739  closed by georg.brandl

#10742: memoryview.readonly attribute is not documented
http://bugs.python.org/issue10742  closed by georg.brandl

#10753: request_uri method of wsgiref module does not support RFC1808 
http://bugs.python.org/issue10753  closed by orsenthil

#10759: HTMLParser.unescape() fails on HTML entities with incorrect sy
http://bugs.python.org/issue10759  closed by orsenthil

#10763: subprocess.communicate() doesn't close pipes on Windows
http://bugs.python.org/issue10763  closed by haypo

#10767: Lib/test/crashers/README is out of date
http://bugs.python.org/issue10767  closed by georg.brandl

#10768: Bug in scrolledtext
http://bugs.python.org/issue10768  closed by georg.brandl

#10770: zipinfo - fix of a typo in the doc
http://bugs.python.org/issue10770  closed by eric.araujo

#10773: "Building C and C++ Extensions on Windows" documentation shows
http://bugs.python.org/issue10773  closed by georg.brandl

#10774: test_logging leaves temp files
http://bugs.python.org/issue10774  closed by vinay.sajip

#10776: os.utime returns an error on NTFS-3G partition
http://bugs.python.org/issue10776  closed by Aaron.Masover

#10777: xml.etree.register_namespace dictionary changed size during it
http://bugs.python.org/issue10777  closed by georg.brandl

#10778: decoding_fgets() (tokenizer.c) decodes the filename from the w
http://bugs.python.org/issue10778  closed by haypo

#10779: Change filename encoding to FS encoding in PyErr_WarnExplicit(
http://bugs.python.org/issue10779  closed by haypo

#10780: Fix filename encoding in PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename()
http://bugs.python.org/issue10780  closed by haypo

#10781: minidom Node.writexml method doesn't manage encoding parameter
http://bugs.python.org/issue10781  closed by georg.brandl

#10783: struct.pack() and Unicode strings
http://bugs.python.org/issue10783  closed by r.david.murray

#10792: Compile() and 'Windows/Mac newlines'
http://bugs.python.org/issue10792  closed by terry.reedy

#10793: hashlib.hash.digest() documentation incorrect re return type
http://bugs.python.org/issue10793  closed by orsenthil

#10795: standard library do not use ssl as recommended
http://bugs.python.org/issue10795  closed by pitrou

#10797: Wrong detection of lines in readlines() function
http://bugs.python.org/issue10797  closed by eric.smith

#1379416: email.Header encode() unicode P2.6
http://bugs.python.org/issue1379416  closed by r.david.murray

#1515839: socket timeout inheritance on accept
http://bugs.python.org/issue1515839  closed by ned.deily

#1685453: email package should work better with unicode
http://bugs.python.org/issue1685453  closed by r.david.murray