Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

Kurt B. Kaiser kbk at shore.net
Thu Jul 20 00:55:00 EDT 2006


Patch / Bug Summary
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Patches :  398 open ( +5) /  3334 closed (+19) /  3732 total (+24)
Bugs    :  904 open ( -4) /  6011 closed (+36) /  6915 total (+32)
RFE     :  222 open ( -1) /   231 closed ( +2) /   453 total ( +1)

New / Reopened Patches
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Fix for #1513611 and #1511497; xml.sax imports  (2006-07-10)
       http://python.org/sf/1519796  opened by  Žiga Seilnacht

telnetlib.py change to ease option handling.  (2006-07-10)
       http://python.org/sf/1520081  opened by  Ernest ter Kuile

Support for PyGetSetDefs in pydoc, inspect, and types  (2006-07-10)
       http://python.org/sf/1520294  opened by  Barry A. Warsaw

Distutils bugfix: Read $AR from the environment/Makefile.  (2006-07-11)
       http://python.org/sf/1520877  opened by  Douglas Greiman

make install change: Allow $DESTDIR to be relative  (2006-07-11)
       http://python.org/sf/1520879  opened by  Douglas Greiman

Fix tests that assume they can write to Lib/test  (2006-07-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1520904  opened by  Douglas Greiman

Don't produce core file in test_subprocess.py  (2006-07-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1520905  opened by  Douglas Greiman

Extra configurability for doctest TestCases  (2006-07-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1521051  opened by  Russell Keith-Magee

--help and --version long options  (2006-07-12)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1521179  opened by  Georg Brandl

smtplib login fails with aol smtp server  (2006-07-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1521196  opened by  Peter

Reintroduce index checking in 1-element ctypes arrays  (2006-07-13)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1521817  opened by  Thomas Heller

Fix grammatical errors in Doc/howto/doanddont.tex  (2006-07-13)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1521874  opened by  Collin Winter

Give Cookie.py its own _idmap  (2006-07-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1521882  opened by  Collin Winter

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

Remove operator.truth() and operator.abs()  (2006-07-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1522059  opened by  Collin Winter

Improve docs for filter()  (2006-07-13)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1522211  opened by  Collin Winter

irda socket support  (2006-07-14)
       http://python.org/sf/1522400  opened by  ÇñÓ¢²¨

Tix.Grid patch  (2006-07-14)
       http://python.org/sf/1522587  opened by  klappnase

XML Test Runner for unittest module  (2006-07-14)
       http://python.org/sf/1522704  opened by  Sebastian Rittau

(partial?) fix for Misc/python-config.in  (2006-07-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1523356  opened by  M. Levinson

Var-default patch undid part of backtick to repr() patch  (2006-07-18)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1524429  opened by  Graham Horler

Fix Tkinter Tcl-commands memory-leaks  (2006-07-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1524639  opened by  Graham Horler

Fix --without-threads build error  (2006-07-18)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1524724  opened by  Matt Fleming

ConfigParser: accept leading whitespace on options+comments  (2006-07-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1524825  opened by  Ken Lalonde

Patches Closed
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Patch for bug 1441486: bad unary minus folding in compiler  (2006-03-10)
       http://python.org/sf/1446922  closed by  nascheme

OpenVMS patches Modules directory  (2006-07-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1516912  closed by  nnorwitz

Rough documentation for xml.etree.ElementTree  (2006-06-10)
       http://python.org/sf/1504046  closed by  nnorwitz

turtle.py: correcting begin_fill  (2006-07-09)
       http://python.org/sf/1519566  closed by  loewis

pdb: fix for #1472251('run/runeval' commands bug)  (2006-04-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1472257  closed by  jakamkon

urllib2 redirection fix  (2006-07-01)
       http://python.org/sf/1515745  closed by  nnorwitz

Python long option support  (2006-05-03)
       http://python.org/sf/1481112  closed by  gbrandl

--help and --version long options  (2006-07-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1521179  closed by  gbrandl

Reintroduce index checking in 1-element ctypes arrays  (2006-07-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1521817  closed by  theller

Fix grammatical errors in Doc/howto/doanddont.tex  (2006-07-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1521874  closed by  gbrandl

Improve docs for filter()  (2006-07-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1522211  closed by  rhettinger

python / pythonw replacement in C  (2004-10-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1056561  closed by  etrepum

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

update the binhex module for Mach-O  (2005-06-14)
       http://python.org/sf/1220874  closed by  etrepum

Remove dependencies on the sets module  (2006-06-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1500609  closed by  gbrandl

ColorDelegator - Several bug fixes  (2006-04-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1479219  closed by  kbk

Var-default patch undid part of backtick to repr() patch  (2006-07-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1524429  closed by  loewis

zipfile: support for ZIP64  (2006-03-09)
       http://python.org/sf/1446489  closed by  ronaldoussoren

Fix --without-threads build error  (2006-07-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1524724  closed by  tim_one

New / Reopened Bugs
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Cannot use high-numbered sockets in 2.4.3  (2006-05-24)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1494314  reopened by  anthonybaxter

Incorrect lineno's in code objects  (2006-06-26)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1512814  reopened by  twouters

AttributeError in the shelve module  (2006-07-09)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1519786  opened by  Martin Kelly

Proxy does not work in 2.4.3  (2006-07-10)
       http://python.org/sf/1519816  opened by  Michal Niklas

non-uniform behavior in  'startswith' / 'endswith'  (2006-07-10)
       http://python.org/sf/1520176  opened by  Milind

__missing__ does not get called  (2006-07-11)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1520327  opened by  Milind

fcntl.ioctl fails to copy back exactly-1024 buffer  (2006-07-11)
       http://python.org/sf/1520818  opened by  Mark Eichin

urrlib2 max_redirections=0 disables redirects  (2006-07-11)
       http://python.org/sf/1520831  opened by  rus_r_orange

unpack list of singleton tuples not unpacking  (2006-07-11)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1520864  opened by  Anthony Tuininga

time.strftime breakage in 2.4/2.5  (2006-07-11)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1520914  opened by  Skip Montanaro

ctypes test overwrites /dev/null  (2006-07-12)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1521375  opened by  Scot Doyle

file.seek() influelce write() when opened with a+ mode  (2006-07-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1521491  opened by  Lior

isinstance failure in 2.6 Beta 2  (2006-07-13)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1521726  opened by  Nick Maclaren

possible bug in mystrtol.c with recent gcc  (2006-07-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1521947  opened by  Marien Zwart

shlex.split() does not tokenize like the shell  (2006-07-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1521950  opened by  Dan Christian

filter() doesn't use __len__ of str/unicode/tuple subclasses  (2006-07-13)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1522016  opened by  Collin Winter

RPM build fails for Py2.5b2  (2006-07-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1522046  opened by  Stefan Behnel

_threading_local.py logic error in _localbase __new__  (2006-07-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1522237  opened by  Tony Nelson

Patch #1388073 is not mentioned in NEWS  (2006-07-14)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1522771  opened by  Collin Winter

incorrect tcp checksum  (2006-07-15)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1523136  opened by  ecir hana

threading.Thread  Traceback  (2006-07-16)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1523465  opened by  roee88

PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords potential core dump  (2006-07-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1523610  opened by  Eric Huss

2.4.2 file.read caches EOF state  (2006-07-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1523853  opened by  Jarkko Torppa

logging using the SysLog handler fails if locale is set  (2006-07-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1524081  opened by  Mihai Ibanescu

os.listdir doesn't check error code from FindNextFile  (2006-07-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1524310  opened by  Roger Upole

configure --without-threads fails to build  (2006-07-18)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1524317  opened by  Ram Bhamidipaty

MemoryError with a lot of available memory - gc not called  (2006-07-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1524938  opened by  Mark Matusevich

Webserver TypeError: expected read buffer, NoneType found  (2006-07-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1525343  opened by  jbet

Build fails on OS X with case sensitive fs  (2006-07-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1525447  opened by  gideon may

SimpleXMLRpcServer still uses sys.exc_value and sys.exc_type  (2006-07-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1525469  opened by  Russell Warren

Document additions from PEP 302  (2006-07-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1525549  opened by  Brett Cannon

Malloc, memory error, failmalloc, low memory.  (2006-07-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1525589  opened by  Rene Dudfield

ldap get_option(0) causes segfault  (2006-07-19)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1525590  opened by  Sean Burford

exec and eval allocate lots of memory and do not free it  (2006-07-20)
       http://python.org/sf/1525678  opened by  Connelly

Bugs Closed
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yet another svn head compiler change  (2006-03-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1441486  closed by  nascheme

Cannot use high-numbered sockets in 2.4.3  (2006-05-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1494314  closed by  anthonybaxter

Incorrect lineno's in code objects  (2006-06-26)
       http://python.org/sf/1512814  closed by  nnorwitz

Incorrect lineno's in code objects  (2006-06-26)
       http://python.org/sf/1512814  closed by  nnorwitz

c_void_pointer should accept a long pointer > 0x7fffffff  (2006-07-06)
       http://python.org/sf/1518190  closed by  theller

ImportWarning should be removed  (2006-06-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1515169  closed by  nnorwitz

test_ctypes fails on OSX 10.3  (2006-04-10)
       http://python.org/sf/1467450  closed by  theller

AttributeError in the shelve module  (2006-07-10)
       http://python.org/sf/1519786  closed by  gbrandl

inspect.py: still infinite recursion inspecting frames  (2006-07-03)
       http://python.org/sf/1516184  closed by  pje

AttributeError in upload_file on interrupted connection  (2006-03-23)
       http://python.org/sf/1457312  closed by  pje

subprocess test cases fail with noexec-mounted /tmp  (2006-03-06)
       http://python.org/sf/1444408  closed by  astrand

subprocess.CalledProcessError uses errno incorrectly  (2005-12-08)
       http://python.org/sf/1376309  closed by  astrand

subprocess.py abuse of errno  (2005-06-20)
       http://python.org/sf/1223937  closed by  astrand

__missing__ does not get called  (2006-07-11)
       http://python.org/sf/1520327  closed by  gbrandl

unpack list of singleton tuples not unpacking  (2006-07-11)
       http://python.org/sf/1520864  closed by  nnorwitz

time.strftime breakage in 2.4/2.5  (2006-07-11)
       http://python.org/sf/1520914  closed by  bcannon

ctypes test overwrites /dev/null  (2006-07-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1521375  closed by  theller

isinstance failure in 2.5 Beta 2  (2006-07-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1521726  closed by  gbrandl

filter() doesn't use __len__ of str/unicode/tuple subclasses  (2006-07-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1522016  closed by  rhettinger

msvccompiler.py using VC6 with Python 2.5a2  (2006-06-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1508010  closed by  loewis

incorrect locale.strcoll() return in Windows  (2006-07-08)
       http://python.org/sf/1519069  closed by  loewis

Patch #1388073 is not mentioned in NEWS  (2006-07-14)
       http://python.org/sf/1522771  closed by  gbrandl

IDLE fails to launch after 46272 (2.4 with 2.5 IDLE)  (2006-06-27)
       http://python.org/sf/1513617  closed by  kbk

ext/win-cookbook.html has a broken link to distutils  (2006-07-07)
       http://python.org/sf/1518772  closed by  quiver

PIL binary package missing jpeg support (pimp)  (2003-07-23)
       http://python.org/sf/776600  closed by  etrepum

IDE needs easy access to builtin help()  (2003-03-29)
       http://python.org/sf/711991  closed by  etrepum

Raise IDE output window over splash screen on early crash  (2003-03-26)
       http://python.org/sf/710374  closed by  etrepum

IDE stdin doesn't have readlines  (2003-03-26)
       http://python.org/sf/710373  closed by  etrepum

Mac IDE behaviour (output to console)  (2002-06-24)
       http://python.org/sf/573174  closed by  etrepum

incorrect tcp checksum  (2006-07-15)
       http://python.org/sf/1523136  closed by  loewis

threading.Thread  Traceback  (2006-07-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1523465  closed by  tim_one

"as" keyword sometimes highlighted in strings  (2005-10-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1325071  closed by  kbk

email.Utils.py: "'" in RFC2231 header  (2005-06-10)
       http://python.org/sf/1218081  closed by  bwarsaw

Incorrect RFC 2231 decoding  (2005-01-15)
       http://python.org/sf/1102973  closed by  bwarsaw

link path probs on OSX re: Tcl, Tk & fink's /sw  (07/13/05)
       http://python.org/sf/1237697  closed by  sf-robot

termios.c in qnx4.25  (09/19/05)
       http://python.org/sf/1295179  closed by  sf-robot

IDLE bug - changing shortcuts - Shift-Tab broken!  (2005-04-08)
       http://python.org/sf/1179168  closed by  kbk

expat crash python  (2005-09-20)
       http://python.org/sf/1296433  closed by  bcannon

configure --without-threads fails to build  (2006-07-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1524317  closed by  tim_one

ldap get_option(0) causes segfault  (2006-07-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1525590  closed by  nnorwitz

Getting an error message import site failed -v traceback.  (07/05/06)
       http://python.org/sf/1517370  closed by  sf-robot

New / Reopened RFE
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support all of strftime(3)  (2006-07-11)
       http://python.org/sf/1520662  opened by  Toni Mueller

RFE Closed
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Add syntax coloring to Mac IDE  (2002-08-07)
       http://python.org/sf/592047  closed by  etrepum

Enhance PackageManager functionality  (2003-07-28)
       http://python.org/sf/779160  closed by  etrepum




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