Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

[Kurt B. Kaiser]

Patch / Bug Summary
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Patches :  241 open ( +6) /  2640 closed ( +3) /  2881 total ( +9)
Bugs    :  766 open ( -2) /  4492 closed (+12) /  5258 total (+10)
RFE     :  154 open ( +2) /   131 closed ( +0) /   285 total ( +2)

New / Reopened Patches
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ftplib PASV error bug  (2004-09-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1037516  opened by  Tim Nelson

urllib2 HTTP digest authentication fix  (2004-09-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1037974  opened by  Mathieu Fenniak

Provide tuple of "special" exceptions  (2004-10-01)
       http://python.org/sf/1038256  opened by  Nick Coghlan

__main__ for whichdb.py  (2004-10-01)
       http://python.org/sf/1038388  opened by  Oleg Broytmann

Fix struct.pack on 64-bit archs (broken on 2.*)  (2004-10-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1038854  opened by  Stefan Grundmann

pydoc method documentation lookup enhancement  (2004-10-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1038909  opened by  Alexander Schmolck

OS X: Can't use #!/usr/bin/pythonw  (2004-10-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1038911  opened by  Nathan Gray

repair typos  (2004-10-02)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1038917  opened by  George Yoshida

SimpleXMLRPCServer optional allow_none / encoding arguments  (2004-10-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1039083  opened by  Guillermo M. Narvaja

Patches Closed
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repair typos  (2004-10-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1038917  closed by  rhettinger

doctest: allow custom matchers for testing if got=want  (2004-04-10)
       http://python.org/sf/932935  closed by  edloper

doctest: Add Tester params to DocTestSuite  (2004-04-10)
       http://python.org/sf/932932  closed by  edloper

New / Reopened Bugs
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len(str(x)) in decimal.py is not Python 2.3 compatible  (2004-09-30)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1037373  opened by  Nick Coghlan

textReader: reading after close is a seg fault  (2004-09-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1038013  opened by  Jyrki Alakuijala

silent installation on windows: no drive in registry values  (2004-10-01)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1038410  opened by  Matteo Gallivanoni

Python 2.3+ socket._fileobject handles EAGAIN with data loss  (2004-10-01)
       http://python.org/sf/1038591  opened by  Jon Nelson

bad link in Tkinter docs  (2004-10-01)
       http://python.org/sf/1038693  opened by  Brett Cannon

Typo "signiture" in HTML generated by DocXMLRPCServer  (2004-10-02)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1038935  opened by  Malte Helmert

apply.__doc__ says "Deprecated since release 2.3"  (2004-10-02)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1039092  opened by  Jp Calderone

time zone tests fail on Windows  (2004-10-03)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1039270  opened by  George Yoshida

os.times() is bogus  (2004-10-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1040026  opened by  Guido van Rossum

Missing documentation on How To Link With libpython  (2004-10-05)
       http://python.org/sf/1040439  opened by  Sir Raorn

Bugs Closed
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Odd behavior with unicode.translate on OSX.  (2004-09-22)
       http://python.org/sf/1032615  closed by  doerwalter

Can't inherit slots from new-style classes implemented in C  (2004-09-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1034178  closed by  philthompson10

len(str(x)) in decimal.py is not Python 2.3 compatible  (2004-09-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1037373  closed by  ncoghlan

printf() in dynload_shlib.c should be PySys_WriteStderr  (2004-09-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1036752  closed by  loewis

hex() and oct() documentation is incorrect  (2004-09-27)
       http://python.org/sf/1035279  closed by  rhettinger

silent installation on windows: no drive in registry values  (2004-10-01)
       http://python.org/sf/1038410  closed by  theller

Typo "signiture" in HTML generated by DocXMLRPCServer  (2004-10-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1038935  closed by  bcannon

apply.__doc__ says "Deprecated since release 2.3"  (2004-10-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1039092  closed by  rhettinger

Message.get_filename() problem  (2003-12-04)
       http://python.org/sf/854102  closed by  bwarsaw

time zone tests fail on Windows  (2004-10-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1039270  closed by  bcannon

Case sensitivity bug in ConfigParser  (2004-08-27)
       http://python.org/sf/1017864  closed by  goodger

ConfigParser behavior change  (2004-07-24)
       http://python.org/sf/997050  closed by  goodger

New / Reopened RFE
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win32 silent installation: allow MAINDIR on command line  (2004-10-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1039857  opened by  Matteo Gallivanoni

os.run function for convinience and robustness  (2004-10-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1040267  opened by  Alexander Schmolck