Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

Kurt B. Kaiser kbk at shore.net
Sat Aug 26 23:27:23 EDT 2006


Patch / Bug Summary
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Patches :  407 open ( +3) /  3393 closed (+17) /  3800 total (+20)
Bugs    :  888 open (+28) /  6145 closed (+14) /  7033 total (+42)
RFE     :  232 open ( +3) /   236 closed ( +1) /   468 total ( +4)

New / Reopened Patches
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most missing from Windows distribution  (2006-08-16)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1541412  opened by  Jim Jewett

buffer overrun in repr() for unicode strings  (2006-08-16)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1541585  opened by  Simon Law

work around clocks with low resolution (uuid.py)  (2006-08-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1541863  opened by  Hirokazu Yamamoto

patch in bug 1542016  (2006-08-17)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1542019  opened by  Santiago Gala

fix crash with continue in nested try/finally  (2006-08-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1542451  opened by  Neal Norwitz

Improve dynamic linking support on AIX  (2006-08-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1542544  opened by  Göran Uddeborg

Tweak pydoc to speak about with and CONTEXTMANAGERS  (2006-08-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1542681  opened by  Santiago Gala

Fix the vc8 solution files  (2006-08-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1542946  opened by  baus

urllib2 regression  (2006-08-19)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1542948  opened by  John J Lee

tarfile.py: fix for bug 1543303  (2006-08-21)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1543897  opened by  Lars Gustäbel

Socket module is not thread-safe  (2006-08-21)
       http://python.org/sf/1544279  opened by  Maxim Sobolev

Implementation of PEP 362  (2006-08-22)
       http://python.org/sf/1544909  opened by  Brett Cannon

Fixes SocketServer Bug 1531963  (2006-08-23)
       http://python.org/sf/1545011  opened by  Damon Kohler

new splicetee module  (2006-08-23)
       http://python.org/sf/1545262  opened by  Omar AitMous

new directio module  (2006-08-23)
       http://python.org/sf/1545275  opened by  Omar AitMous

xrange that supports longs, etc  (2006-08-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1546078  opened by  Neal Norwitz

crash in dict_equal  (2006-08-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1546288  opened by  Guido van Rossum

Create a real zip iterator object; not using itertools.izip  (2006-08-24)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1546297  opened by  Brian Holmes

broken error reporting when filename specified by -s missing  (2006-08-25)
       http://python.org/sf/1546372  opened by  lplatypus

Patches Closed
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most missing from Windows distribution  (2006-08-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1541412  closed by  jimjjewett

buffer overrun in repr() for unicode strings  (2006-08-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1541585  closed by  gbrandl

broken shortcut keys  (2006-08-15)
       http://python.org/sf/1540874  closed by  kbk

patch in bug 1542016  (2006-08-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1542019  closed by  gbrandl

urllib2 regression  (2006-08-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1542948  closed by  gbrandl

Backports from trunk to release24-maint  (2006-08-15)
       http://python.org/sf/1540329  closed by  gbrandl

tarfile.py: fix for bug 1543303  (2006-08-21)
       http://python.org/sf/1543897  closed by  nnorwitz

Add some explication to PEP 3100  (2006-07-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1522038  closed by  bcannon

Create a real zip iterator object; not using itertools.izip  (2006-08-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1546297  closed by  gvanrossum

Add readinto method to StringIO and cStringIO  (2006-08-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1539381  closed by  bcannon

Remove the repr()-backticks  (2006-06-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1500623  closed by  bcannon

Move reduce() to functools  (2006-06-28)
       http://python.org/sf/1513870  closed by  gvanrossum

New / Reopened Bugs
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infinite __str__ recursion in thread causes seg fault  (2003-07-31)
       http://python.org/sf/780714  reopened by  gbrandl

tools and demo missing from windows  (2006-08-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1541420  opened by  Jim Jewett

bug in python 2.4.3 for windows?  (2006-08-16)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1541566  opened by  tinkiwinky

Compiler command percent-sign causes format string error  (2006-08-16)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1541642  opened by  Matthew Cowles

bsddb can't use unicode filenames  (2006-08-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1541671  opened by  Zooko O'Whielacronx

Incorrect example calls to PyObject_SetItem  (2006-08-17)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1541682  opened by  John Machin

Recently introduced sgmllib regexp bug hangs Python  (2006-08-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1541697  opened by  John J Lee

Exceptions don't call _PyObject_GC_UNTRACK(self)  (2006-08-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1542051  opened by  Žiga Seilnacht

global variable: multiple id()-addresses   (2006-08-17)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1542166  opened by  Frank R. Schaefer

Nested finally in generators don't follow PEP 342  (2006-08-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1542308  opened by  Bob Ippolito

httplib reads one byte per system call  (2006-08-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1542407  opened by  Zoyd Wheeler

python-2.5c1.msi contains ICE validation errors and warnings  (2006-08-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1542432  opened by  Bob Arnson

Bug in definition of PyImport_ImportModuleEx macro  (2006-08-18)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1542693  opened by  Chris Stawarz

idle in python 2.5c1 freezes on macos 10.3.9  (2006-08-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1542949  opened by  David Strozzi

tarfile in mode w|gz adds padding that annoys gunzip  (2006-08-19)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1543303  opened by  alexis

"from __future__ import foobar;" causes wrong SyntaxError  (2006-08-20)
       http://python.org/sf/1543306  opened by  daniel hahler

Operator precedence inconsistent for complex literal  (2006-08-20)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1543347  opened by  [N/A]

test_tempfile fails on cygwin  (2006-08-20)
       http://python.org/sf/1543467  opened by  Miki Tebeka

test_subprocess fails on cygwin  (2006-08-20)
       http://python.org/sf/1543469  opened by  Miki Tebeka

md5 sums are different between Solaris and Windows XP SP1  (2006-08-21)
       http://python.org/sf/1543801  reopened by  sunmountain

md5 sums are different between Solaris and Windows XP SP1  (2006-08-21)
       http://python.org/sf/1543801  opened by  Stefan Sonnenberg

ctypes unit test fails (test_macholib.py) under MacOS 10.4.7  (2006-08-21)
       http://python.org/sf/1544102  opened by  M. J. Fromberger

test_anydbm segmentation fault  (2006-08-21)
       http://python.org/sf/1544106  opened by  Clay Spence

python compiler support for with stmt  (2006-08-21)
       http://python.org/sf/1544277  opened by  Neal Norwitz

Fix Lib/test/test___all__.py  (2006-08-21)
       http://python.org/sf/1544295  opened by  Hasan Diwan

checking size of int... configure: error: cannot compute siz  (2006-08-21)
       http://python.org/sf/1544306  opened by  arrecostao

_ctypes fails to build on Solaris x86 32-bit (Sun compiler)  (2006-08-21)
       http://python.org/sf/1544339  opened by  Case Van Horsen

Bad result of calculation  (2006-08-22)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1544381  opened by  Jean-Christophe BERTOLINI

x!=y and [x]=[y] (!)  (2006-08-22)
       http://python.org/sf/1544762  opened by  Alex Martelli

setup() keyword have to be list (doesn't work with tuple)  (2006-08-23)
       http://python.org/sf/1545341  opened by  STINNER Victor

New-style classes fail to cleanup attributes  (2006-08-23)
       http://python.org/sf/1545463  opened by  Alexander Belopolsky

inconsistent treatment of NULs in int()  (2006-08-23)
       http://python.org/sf/1545497  opened by  Neal Norwitz

distutils home scheme lacks python versioning  (2006-08-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1545658  opened by  John Levon

distutils needs vendor-packages support  (2006-08-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1545659  opened by  John Levon

gcc trunk (4.2) exposes a signed integer overflows  (2006-08-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1545668  opened by  Jack Howarth

structmember T_LONG won't accept a python long  (2006-08-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1545696  opened by  Roger Upole

Incomplete info in 7.18.1 ZipFile Objects  (2006-08-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1545836  opened by  Taco

array.array borks on deepcopy  (2006-08-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1545837  opened by  Václav Haisman

PyString_FromString() clarification  (2006-08-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1546052  opened by  Christian Walther

bcannon secure branch issues  (2006-08-24)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1546203  opened by  Jim Jewett

subprocess.Popen can't read file object as stdin after seek  (2006-08-25)
       http://python.org/sf/1546442  opened by  GaryD

String methods don't support explicit None arguments  (2006-08-25)
       http://python.org/sf/1546585  opened by  Nick Coghlan

urlparse.urljoin odd behaviour  (2006-08-25)
       http://python.org/sf/1546628  opened by  Andres Riancho

Bugs Closed
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Python 2.5 svn crash in _elementtree.c  (2006-08-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1534630  closed by  effbot

bug in python 2.4.3 for windows?  (2006-08-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1541566  closed by  gbrandl

Compiler command percent-sign causes format string error  (2006-08-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1541642  deleted by  mdcowles

Incorrect example calls to PyObject_SetItem  (2006-08-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1541682  closed by  gbrandl

global variable: multiple id()-addresses   (2006-08-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1542166  closed by  gbrandl

Bug in definition of PyImport_ImportModuleEx macro  (2006-08-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1542693  closed by  nnorwitz

tarfile in mode w|gz adds padding that annoys gunzip  (2006-08-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1543303  closed by  nnorwitz

Operator precedence inconsistent for complex literal  (2006-08-20)
       http://python.org/sf/1543347  closed by  gbrandl

md5 sums are different between Solaris and Windows XP SP1  (2006-08-21)
       http://python.org/sf/1543801  closed by  sunmountain

Bad result of calculation  (2006-08-22)
       http://python.org/sf/1544381  closed by  gbrandl

bcannon secure branch issues  (2006-08-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1546203  closed by  bcannon

New / Reopened RFE
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Optimizations for cgi.FieldStorage methods  (2006-08-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1541463  opened by  Bob Kline

wsgi.org link in wsgiref  (2006-08-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1542920  opened by  Ian Bicking

RFE Closed
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extend strptime to understand logging timestamps  (2004-08-10)
       http://python.org/sf/1006786  closed by  bcannon




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