Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

[Kurt B. Kaiser]

Patch / Bug Summary
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Patches :  413 open ( -7) /  3521 closed (+11) /  3934 total ( +4)
Bugs    :  946 open ( +2) /  6400 closed ( +9) /  7346 total (+11)
RFE     :  248 open ( -1) /   246 closed ( +1) /   494 total ( +0)

New / Reopened Patches
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Auto-completion list placement  (2006-12-23)
       http://python.org/sf/1621265  opened by  Tal Einat

normalize namespace from minidom  (2006-12-23)
       http://python.org/sf/1621421  opened by  Paul Pacheco

Allow __class __ assignment for classes with __slots__  (2006-12-28)
       http://python.org/sf/1623563  opened by  TH

fast subclasses of builtin types  (2006-12-28)
       http://python.org/sf/1624059  opened by  Neal Norwitz

Patches Closed
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add direct access to MD5 compression function to md5 module  (2003-03-16)
       http://python.org/sf/704676  closed by  akuchling

pty.fork() compatibility code wrong?  (2003-08-04)
       http://python.org/sf/783050  closed by  akuchling

for i in range(N) optimization  (2003-05-15)
       http://python.org/sf/738094  closed by  gvanrossum

Add --remove-source option to setup.py  (2003-08-22)
       http://python.org/sf/793070  closed by  akuchling

SimpleHTTPServer directory-indexing "bug" fix  (2003-10-21)
       http://python.org/sf/827559  closed by  akuchling

Remove unncessary NLST from ftp transfers  (2004-10-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1045783  closed by  akuchling

add Bunch type to collections module  (2005-01-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1094542  closed by  akuchling

HMAC hexdigest and general review  (2005-04-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1182394  closed by  akuchling

tarfile.py: ExFileObject\'s tell() is wrong after readline()  (2005-06-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1230446  closed by  gustaebel

tarfile: fix for bug #1257255  (2005-08-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1262036  closed by  gustaebel

Patch for 1496501 tarfile opener order  (2006-06-10)
       http://python.org/sf/1504073  closed by  gustaebel

New / Reopened Bugs
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minor inconsistency in socket.close  (2006-12-22)
       http://python.org/sf/1620945  opened by  Jonathan Ellis

IDLE crashes on OS X 10.4 when "Preferences" selected  (2006-12-23)
       http://python.org/sf/1621111  opened by  Mick L

random import works?  (2006-12-23)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1621367  opened by  Msword

this module (Zen of Python) docs list broken URL  (2006-12-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1621660  opened by  Calvin Spealman

Tcl/Tk auto-expanding window  (2006-12-25)
       http://python.org/sf/1622010  opened by  Fabian_M

null bytes in docstrings  (2006-12-26)
       http://python.org/sf/1622533  opened by  Fredrik Lundh

language reference index links are broken  (2006-12-26)
       http://python.org/sf/1622664  opened by  Drew Perttula

Exception when compressing certain data with bz2  (2006-12-27)
       http://python.org/sf/1622896  opened by  Alex Gontmakher

preferred diff format should be mentioned as "unified".  (2006-12-27)
       http://python.org/sf/1623153  opened by  Raghuram Devarakonda

module docstring for subprocess is wrong  (2006-12-28)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1623890  opened by  Neal Norwitz

updating a set in a list of sets will update all of them  (2006-12-29)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1624534  opened by  Amir Reza Khosroshahi

webbrowser.open_new() suggestion  (2006-12-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1624674  opened by  Imre Péntek

Bugs Closed
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gethostbyaddr lag  (2002-07-19)
       http://python.org/sf/583975  closed by  nnorwitz

CGIHTTPServer does not handle scripts in sub-dirs  (2003-05-13)
       http://python.org/sf/737202  closed by  akuchling

MacOS9: test_uu fails  (2003-07-23)
       http://python.org/sf/776202  closed by  akuchling

Mode argument of dumbdbm does not work  (2003-09-07)
       http://python.org/sf/802128  closed by  akuchling

random import works?  (2006-12-23)
       http://python.org/sf/1621367  closed by  rhettinger

tarfile local name is local, should be abspath  (2005-08-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1257255  closed by  gustaebel

Dictionary ordering docs are too unclear of dangers  (2006-12-09)
       http://python.org/sf/1612113  closed by  sf-robot

logging %(module)s reporting wrong modules  (2006-11-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1605110  closed by  sf-robot

array.array borks on deepcopy  (2006-08-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1545837  closed by  twouters

tarfile.py: dict order dependency  (2006-05-28)
       http://python.org/sf/1496501  closed by  gustaebel

module docstring for subprocess is wrong  (2006-12-28)
       http://python.org/sf/1623890  closed by  nnorwitz

updating a set in a list of sets will update all of them  (2006-12-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1624534  deleted by  amir_reza

Immediate Crash on Open  (2006-11-20)
       http://python.org/sf/1599931  closed by  sf-robot

python-logging compatability with Zope.  (2006-12-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1614460  closed by  sf-robot

RFE Closed
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Promote list comprehensions to Language Integrated Query?  (2006-12-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1618676  closed by  jettlogic