Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

[Kurt B. Kaiser]

Patch / Bug Summary
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Patches :  241 open ( -2) /  2683 closed ( +5) /  2924 total ( +3)
Bugs    :  784 open ( -5) /  4567 closed (+22) /  5351 total (+17)
RFE     :  158 open ( +2) /   131 closed ( +0) /   289 total ( +2)

New / Reopened Patches
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New BaseSMTPServer module  (2004-10-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1057417  opened by  Mark D. Roth

chr, ord, unichr documentation updates  (2004-10-31)
       http://python.org/sf/1057588  opened by  Mike Brown

bdist_rpm not able to compile multiple rpm packages  (2004-11-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1060577  opened by  Mihai Ibanescu

Patches Closed
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No ValueError for safe_substitute()  (2004-10-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1056967  closed by  bwarsaw

typo in comment (unicodeobject.h)  (2004-10-28)
       http://python.org/sf/1056231  closed by  rhettinger

ref. manual talks of 'sequence' instead of 'iterable'  (2003-10-23)
       http://python.org/sf/829073  closed by  fdrake

Fix for Unix macro expansion in citetitle  (2004-10-26)
       http://python.org/sf/1054715  closed by  fdrake

Remove CoreServices / CoreFoundation dependencies in core  (2004-09-26)
       http://python.org/sf/1035255  closed by  rhettinger

New / Reopened Bugs
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add link in time module to calendar.timegm()  (2004-10-30)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1057535  opened by  Jeff Shute

compiler.transformer, "from module import *"  (2004-10-31)
       http://python.org/sf/1057835  opened by  Felix Wiemann

os.utime() doesn't work on WinME  (2004-11-01)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1057992  opened by  Raymond Hettinger

test_traceback.py fails on WinME  (2004-11-01)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1057993  opened by  Raymond Hettinger

Can't read some http URLs using neither urllib, nor urllib2  (2004-11-01)
       http://python.org/sf/1058059  opened by  Vsevolod Novikov

Blatantly false statement in the Unicode section  (2004-11-01)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1058351  opened by  Olivier Verdier

r'\10' as replacement pattern loops in compilation  (2004-11-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1058786  opened by  Nick Maclaren

Legacy requirements: Incorrect comments?  (2004-11-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1058937  opened by  Geoffrey T. Dairiki

install_lib fails under Python 2.1  (2004-11-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1058960  opened by  Geoffrey T. Dairiki

distutil bdist hardcodes the python location  (2004-11-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1059244  opened by  Steve Menard

errors=ignore broken on StreamWriter?  (2004-11-03)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1059748  opened by  Wummel

incorrect "'yield' outside function" error  (2004-11-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1060135  opened by  Willem Broekema

os.utime does not work on directories under Windows  (2004-11-04)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1060212  opened by  Boyle

Buffer overflow in socketmodule.c  (2004-11-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1060396  opened by  Mihai Ibanescu

Remove .min() and .max() from Decimal  (2004-11-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1060644  reopened by  facundobatista

Remove .min() and .max() from Decimal  (2004-11-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1060644  opened by  Facundo Batista

Error in difflib docs  (2004-11-05)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1060825  opened by  Kent Johnson

email.Parser does not recognize attachment  (2004-11-05)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1060941  opened by  Martin Muenstermann

Bugs Closed
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weakref callback vs gc vs threads  (2004-10-27)
       http://python.org/sf/1055820  closed by  tim_one

add link in time module to calendar.timegm()  (2004-10-31)
       http://python.org/sf/1057535  closed by  jlgijsbers

os.rmtree error handling was always broken  (2004-10-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1048941  closed by  jlgijsbers

minor error in os.access  (2004-10-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1056498  closed by  jlgijsbers

Attempt to run all atexit handlers  (2004-10-22)
       http://python.org/sf/1052242  closed by  montanaro

email.Utils not mentioned  (2004-09-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1030118  closed by  bwarsaw

os.utime() doesn't work on WinME  (2004-11-01)
       http://python.org/sf/1057992  closed by  rhettinger

test_traceback.py fails on WinME  (2004-11-01)
       http://python.org/sf/1057993  closed by  perky

email.Message does not allow iteration  (2004-08-26)
       http://python.org/sf/1017329  closed by  bwarsaw

Blatantly false statement in the Unicode section  (2004-11-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1058351  closed by  perky

File write examples are inadequate  (2002-10-09)
       http://python.org/sf/621057  closed by  fdrake

Clarify trailing comma in func arg list  (2003-09-01)
       http://python.org/sf/798652  closed by  fdrake

Install-time module compilation fails with 2.4b1  (2004-10-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1049003  closed by  loewis

errors=ignore broken on StreamWriter?  (2004-11-03)
       http://python.org/sf/1059748  closed by  lemburg

latex2html convert bug  (2003-12-30)
       http://python.org/sf/867556  closed by  quiver

os.utime does not work on directories under Windows  (2004-11-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1060212  closed by  tim_one

Remove .min() and .max() from Decimal  (2004-11-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1060644  closed by  rhettinger

LaTeX not required  (2004-05-05)
       http://python.org/sf/948517  closed by  fdrake

ambiguity in os.tmpfile  (2004-10-28)
       http://python.org/sf/1056515  closed by  fdrake

Duplicated <link rel  (2004-02-18)
       http://python.org/sf/899423  closed by  fdrake

Error in difflib docs  (2004-11-05)
       http://python.org/sf/1060825  closed by  rhettinger

email.Parser does not recognize attachment  (2004-11-05)
       http://python.org/sf/1060941  closed by  bwarsaw

New / Reopened RFE
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lock-free data structures?  (2004-11-03)
       http://python.org/sf/1059545  opened by  Markus Elfring