[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

Fri Jan 6 18:07:32 CET 2012

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2011-12-30 - 2012-01-06)
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Issues counts and deltas:
  open    3180 ( +2)
  closed 22322 (+34)
  total  25502 (+36)

Open issues with patches: 1366 

Issues opened (24)
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#13685: argparse does not sanitize help strings for % signs
http://bugs.python.org/issue13685  opened by Jeff.Yurkiw

#13686: Some notes on the docs of multiprocessing
http://bugs.python.org/issue13686  opened by eli.bendersky

#13689: fix CGI Web Applications with Python link in howto/urllib2
http://bugs.python.org/issue13689  opened by sandro.tosi

#13691: pydoc help (or help('help')) claims to run a help utility; doe
http://bugs.python.org/issue13691  opened by Devin Jeanpierre

#13692: 2to3 mangles from . import frobnitz
http://bugs.python.org/issue13692  opened by holmbie

#13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
http://bugs.python.org/issue13694  opened by anacrolix

#13695: "type specific" to "type-specific"
http://bugs.python.org/issue13695  opened by Retro

#13697: python RLock implementation unsafe with signals
http://bugs.python.org/issue13697  opened by rbcollins

#13698: Mailbox module should support other mbox formats in addition t
http://bugs.python.org/issue13698  opened by endolith

#13700: imaplib.IMAP4.authenticate authobject fails with PLAIN mechani
http://bugs.python.org/issue13700  opened by etukia

#13701: Remove Decimal Python 2.3 Compatibility
http://bugs.python.org/issue13701  opened by ramchandra.apte

#13702: relative symlinks in tarfile.extract broken (windows)
http://bugs.python.org/issue13702  opened by Patrick.von.Reth

#13703: Hash collision security issue
http://bugs.python.org/issue13703  opened by barry

#13704: Random number generator in Python core
http://bugs.python.org/issue13704  opened by christian.heimes

#13706: non-ascii fill characters no longer work in formatting
http://bugs.python.org/issue13706  opened by skrah

#13708: Document ctypes.wintypes
http://bugs.python.org/issue13708  opened by ramchandra.apte

#13709: Capitalization mistakes in the documentation for ctypes
http://bugs.python.org/issue13709  opened by ramchandra.apte

#13712: pysetup create should not convert package_data to extra_files
http://bugs.python.org/issue13712  opened by christian.heimes

#13715: typo in unicodedata documentation
http://bugs.python.org/issue13715  opened by eli.collins

#13716: distutils doc contains lots of XXX
http://bugs.python.org/issue13716  opened by flox

#13718: Format Specification Mini-Language does not accept comma for p
http://bugs.python.org/issue13718  opened by mkesper

#13719: bdist_msi upload fails
http://bugs.python.org/issue13719  opened by schmir

#13720: argparse print_help() fails if COLUMNS is set to a low value
http://bugs.python.org/issue13720  opened by zbysz

#818201: distutils: clean does not use build_base option from build
http://bugs.python.org/issue818201  reopened by eric.araujo

Most recent 15 issues with no replies (15)
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#13720: argparse print_help() fails if COLUMNS is set to a low value
http://bugs.python.org/issue13720

#13718: Format Specification Mini-Language does not accept comma for p
http://bugs.python.org/issue13718

#13715: typo in unicodedata documentation
http://bugs.python.org/issue13715

#13708: Document ctypes.wintypes
http://bugs.python.org/issue13708

#13691: pydoc help (or help('help')) claims to run a help utility; doe
http://bugs.python.org/issue13691

#13689: fix CGI Web Applications with Python link in howto/urllib2
http://bugs.python.org/issue13689

#13682: Documentation of os.fdopen() refers to non-existing bufsize ar
http://bugs.python.org/issue13682

#13668: mute ImportError in __del__ of _threading_local module
http://bugs.python.org/issue13668

#13665: TypeError: string or integer address expected instead of str i
http://bugs.python.org/issue13665

#13649: termios.ICANON is not documented
http://bugs.python.org/issue13649

#13638: PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilenameObject is undocumented
http://bugs.python.org/issue13638

#13633: Handling of hex character references in HTMLParser.handle_char
http://bugs.python.org/issue13633

#13631: readline fails to parse some forms of .editrc under editline (
http://bugs.python.org/issue13631

#13608: remove born-deprecated PyUnicode_AsUnicodeAndSize
http://bugs.python.org/issue13608

#13605: document argparse's nargs=REMAINDER
http://bugs.python.org/issue13605

Most recent 15 issues waiting for review (15)
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#13719: bdist_msi upload fails
http://bugs.python.org/issue13719

#13715: typo in unicodedata documentation
http://bugs.python.org/issue13715

#13712: pysetup create should not convert package_data to extra_files
http://bugs.python.org/issue13712

#13704: Random number generator in Python core
http://bugs.python.org/issue13704

#13703: Hash collision security issue
http://bugs.python.org/issue13703

#13700: imaplib.IMAP4.authenticate authobject fails with PLAIN mechani
http://bugs.python.org/issue13700

#13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
http://bugs.python.org/issue13694

#13691: pydoc help (or help('help')) claims to run a help utility; doe
http://bugs.python.org/issue13691

#13684: httplib tunnel infinite loop
http://bugs.python.org/issue13684

#13681: Aifc read compressed frames fix
http://bugs.python.org/issue13681

#13677: correct docstring for builtin compile
http://bugs.python.org/issue13677

#13676: sqlite3: Zero byte truncates string contents
http://bugs.python.org/issue13676

#13673: PyTraceBack_Print() fails if signal received but PyErr_CheckSi
http://bugs.python.org/issue13673

#13670: Increase test coverage for pstats.py
http://bugs.python.org/issue13670

#13668: mute ImportError in __del__ of _threading_local module
http://bugs.python.org/issue13668

Top 10 most discussed issues (10)
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#13703: Hash collision security issue
http://bugs.python.org/issue13703  70 msgs

#13609: Add "os.get_terminal_size()" function
http://bugs.python.org/issue13609  17 msgs

#8184: multiprocessing.managers will not fail if listening ocket alre
http://bugs.python.org/issue8184  14 msgs

#13697: python RLock implementation unsafe with signals
http://bugs.python.org/issue13697  11 msgs

#13700: imaplib.IMAP4.authenticate authobject fails with PLAIN mechani
http://bugs.python.org/issue13700  10 msgs

#1079: decode_header does not follow RFC 2047
http://bugs.python.org/issue1079   7 msgs

#13704: Random number generator in Python core
http://bugs.python.org/issue13704   6 msgs

#13706: non-ascii fill characters no longer work in formatting
http://bugs.python.org/issue13706   6 msgs

#8416: python 2.6.5 documentation can't search
http://bugs.python.org/issue8416   5 msgs

#9993: shutil.move fails on symlink source
http://bugs.python.org/issue9993   5 msgs

Issues closed (34)
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#6031: BaseServer.shutdown documentation is incomplete
http://bugs.python.org/issue6031  closed by sandro.tosi

#8245: email examples don't actually work (SMTP.connect is not called
http://bugs.python.org/issue8245  closed by sandro.tosi

#9201: IDLE: raises Exception TclError in a special case
http://bugs.python.org/issue9201  closed by ned.deily

#9349: document argparse's help=SUPPRESS
http://bugs.python.org/issue9349  closed by sandro.tosi

#9975: Incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id in IPv6 sockaddr tuple
http://bugs.python.org/issue9975  closed by neologix

#10521: str methods don't accept non-BMP fillchar on a narrow Unicode 
http://bugs.python.org/issue10521  closed by benjamin.peterson

#10542: Py_UNICODE_NEXT and other macros for surrogates
http://bugs.python.org/issue10542  closed by benjamin.peterson

#11648: openlog()s 'logopt' keyword broken in syslog module
http://bugs.python.org/issue11648  closed by sandro.tosi

#11984: Wrong "See also" in symbol and token module docs
http://bugs.python.org/issue11984  closed by sandro.tosi

#12042: What's New multiprocessing example error
http://bugs.python.org/issue12042  closed by sandro.tosi

#12926: tarfile tarinfo.extract*() broken with symlinks
http://bugs.python.org/issue12926  closed by lars.gustaebel

#13302: Clarification needed in C API arg parsing
http://bugs.python.org/issue13302  closed by sandro.tosi

#13511: Specifying multiple lib and include directories on linux
http://bugs.python.org/issue13511  closed by loewis

#13558: multiprocessing package incompatible with PyObjC
http://bugs.python.org/issue13558  closed by ned.deily

#13565: test_multiprocessing.test_notify_all() hangs on "AMD64 Snow Le
http://bugs.python.org/issue13565  closed by neologix

#13594: Aifc markers write fix
http://bugs.python.org/issue13594  closed by sandro.tosi

#13636: Python SSL Stack doesn't have a Secure Default set of ciphers
http://bugs.python.org/issue13636  closed by pitrou

#13640: add mimetype for application/vnd.apple.mpegurl
http://bugs.python.org/issue13640  closed by sandro.tosi

#13679: Multiprocessing system crash
http://bugs.python.org/issue13679  closed by pitrou

#13680: Aifc comptype write fix
http://bugs.python.org/issue13680  closed by sandro.tosi

#13683: Docs in Python 3:raise statement mistake
http://bugs.python.org/issue13683  closed by sandro.tosi

#13687: parse incorrect command line on windows 7
http://bugs.python.org/issue13687  closed by balenocui

#13688: ast.literal_eval fails on octal numbers
http://bugs.python.org/issue13688  closed by fidoman

#13690: Add DEBUG flag to documentation of re.compile
http://bugs.python.org/issue13690  closed by sandro.tosi

#13693: email.Header.Header incorrect/non-smart on international chars
http://bugs.python.org/issue13693  closed by r.david.murray

#13696: [urllib.request.HTTPRedirectHandler.http_error_302] Relative R
http://bugs.python.org/issue13696  closed by orsenthil

#13699: test_gdb has recently started failing
http://bugs.python.org/issue13699  closed by python-dev

#13705: Raising exceptions from finally works better than advertised i
http://bugs.python.org/issue13705  closed by python-dev

#13707: Clarify hash() constancy period
http://bugs.python.org/issue13707  closed by rhettinger

#13710: hash() on strings containing only null characters returns the 
http://bugs.python.org/issue13710  closed by benjamin.peterson

#13711: html.parser.HTMLParser doesn't parse tags in comments in scrip
http://bugs.python.org/issue13711  closed by ezio.melotti

#13713: Regression for http.client read()
http://bugs.python.org/issue13713  closed by pitrou

#13714: Methods of ftplib never ends if the ip address changes
http://bugs.python.org/issue13714  closed by giampaolo.rodola

#13717: print fails on unicode '\udce5' surrogates not allowed
http://bugs.python.org/issue13717  closed by ezio.melotti