Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

Kurt B. Kaiser kbk at shore.net
Sun Jul 9 15:55:43 EDT 2006


Patch / Bug Summary
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Patches :  393 open (+15) /  3315 closed (+17) /  3708 total (+32)
Bugs    :  908 open (+22) /  5975 closed (+49) /  6883 total (+71)
RFE     :  223 open ( -1) /   229 closed ( +2) /   452 total ( +1)

New / Reopened Patches
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test_grp.py doesn't skip special NIS entry, fails  (2006-06-22)
       http://python.org/sf/1510987  opened by  Mat Martineau

socket.gethostbyaddr fix for machines with incomplete DNS  (2006-06-23)
       http://python.org/sf/1511317  opened by  Charles Schwieters

Speed up decimal object construction  (2006-06-25)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1511853  opened by  Nick Coghlan

ast branch changed interactive module name  (2006-06-25)
       http://python.org/sf/1512007  opened by  Jp Calderone

Improves an error message from setattr  (2006-06-26)
       http://python.org/sf/1512942  opened by  Alexander Belopolsky

[FIX][Bug 1512695] cPickle.loads seg. faults  (2006-06-27)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1513206  opened by  Faik Uygur

Remove reduce()  (2006-06-27)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1513249  opened by  Collin Winter

Clean up usage of map() in the stdlib  (2006-06-27)
       http://python.org/sf/1513299  opened by  Collin Winter

new turtle module  (2006-06-28)
       http://python.org/sf/1513695  opened by  Lingl

docs for xturtle.py  (2006-06-28)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1513699  opened by  Lingl

Move reduce() to functools  (2006-06-28)
       http://python.org/sf/1513870  opened by  Collin Winter

mailbox (Maildir): avoid losing messages on name clash  (2006-06-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1514543  opened by  David Watson

mailbox: use fsync() to ensure data is really on disk  (2006-06-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1514544  opened by  David Watson

proposal for a new circle method  (2006-06-29)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1514737  opened by  Lingl

1515163 fix - traceback and str exc  (2006-06-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1515343  opened by  Jim Jewett

urllib2 redirection fix  (2006-07-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1515745  opened by  Petr Gladkikh

tarfile.py fix for #1471427 and updates  (2006-05-09)
       http://python.org/sf/1484695  reopened by  gustaebel

tarfile.py fix for #1471427 and updates  (2006-05-09)
       http://python.org/sf/1484695  reopened by  gustaebel

Remove deprecated functions from operator  (2006-07-03)
       http://python.org/sf/1516309  opened by  Collin Winter

Module uuid: reduce pickle footprint  (2006-07-03)
       http://python.org/sf/1516327  opened by  Michael Amrhein

Module uuid: functions for retrieving MAC addres  (2006-07-03)
       http://python.org/sf/1516330  opened by  Michael Amrhein

Remove sys.exitfunc  (2006-07-03)
       http://python.org/sf/1516375  opened by  Collin Winter

OpenVMS patches Modules directory  (2006-07-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1516912  opened by  Piéronne Jean-François

Fix for Lib/test/crashers/gc_inspection.py  (2006-07-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1517042  opened by  Collin Winter

Patch to commands.py to enable callback support   (2006-07-05)
       http://python.org/sf/1517586  opened by  Brad Doctor

Patch for ctypes to enable custom objects in function calls  (2006-07-05)
       http://python.org/sf/1517790  opened by  Thomas Heller

Patch for bug #1514451  (2006-07-06)
       http://python.org/sf/1517891  opened by  Thomas Lee

assert for NULL in Py_INCREF Py_DECREF  (2006-07-06)
       http://python.org/sf/1517947  opened by  Rene Dudfield

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

New ver. of 1102879: Fix for 926423: socket timeouts  (2006-07-07)
       http://python.org/sf/1519025  opened by  Tony Nelson

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

Patches Closed
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MS Toolkit Compiler no longer available  (2006-06-20)
       http://python.org/sf/1509163  closed by  loewis

Patch for 1506758 - popen2/subprocess MAXFD MemoryErrors  (2006-06-15)
       http://python.org/sf/1506760  closed by  astrand

Speed up decimal object construction  (2006-06-25)
       http://python.org/sf/1511853  closed by  ncoghlan

[FIX][Bug 1512695] cPickle.loads seg. faults  (2006-06-27)
       http://python.org/sf/1513206  closed by  gbrandl

Remove reduce()  (2006-06-27)
       http://python.org/sf/1513249  closed by  collinwinter

docs for xturtle.py  (2006-06-28)
       http://python.org/sf/1513699  closed by  loewis

Make thread stack size runtime tunable  (03/20/06)
       http://python.org/sf/1454481  closed by  sf-robot

proposal for a new circle method  (2006-06-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1514737  closed by  loewis

1515169 fix (ImportWarning flood)  (2006-06-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1515361  closed by  nnorwitz

Alternative fix for ImportWarning (fix for 1515169)  (2006-07-01)
       http://python.org/sf/1515609  closed by  nnorwitz

telnetlib timeout fix (bug 822974)  (2003-10-17)
       http://python.org/sf/825417  closed by  loewis

UUID module for Python  (2005-11-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1368955  closed by  gbrandl

IDLE L&F on MacOSX   (2006-05-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1491759  closed by  ronaldoussoren

'import foo as bar' not checking for 'as'  (2006-07-07)
       http://python.org/sf/1518569  closed by  twouters

Fix for 926423: socket timeouts + Ctrl-C don't play nice  (2005-01-15)
       http://python.org/sf/1102879  closed by  gbrandl

New / Reopened Bugs
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Setting category fails with -W switch  (2006-06-22)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1510580  opened by  A.M. Kuchling

logging fileConfig swallows handler exception   (2006-06-18)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1508253  reopened by  tdir

method format of logging.Formatter caches incorrectly  (2006-06-06)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1501699  reopened by  blorbeer

CSV regression in 2.5a1: multi-line cells  (2006-04-06)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1465014  reopened by  andrewmcnamara

2.5b1 windows won't install or admit failure  (2006-06-22)
       http://python.org/sf/1510984  opened by  Jim Jewett

codec_getstreamcodec passes extra None  (2006-06-24)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1511381  opened by  Hye-Shik Chang

xml.sax.expatreader is missing  (2006-06-23)
       http://python.org/sf/1511497  opened by  Wummel

Python gettext doesn't support libglade (again)  (2006-06-24)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1511736  opened by  Shmyrev Nick

vague xref in description of sorted() builtin  (2006-06-24)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1511911  opened by  rurpy

Can't use sockets in 2.5b1  (2006-06-24)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1511964  opened by  Bryan O'Sullivan

Glitches in What's New for beta 1  (2006-06-25)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1511998  opened by  Nick Coghlan

OSX: debugger hangs IDLE  (2006-06-25)
       http://python.org/sf/1512124  opened by  Aahz

mailbox (2.5b1): locking doesn't work (esp. on FreeBSD)  (2006-06-25)
       http://python.org/sf/1512163  opened by  David Watson

builtin enumerate overflows  (2006-06-26)
       http://python.org/sf/1512504  opened by  James Harlow

Install on Windows Vista locks up  (2006-06-26)
       http://python.org/sf/1512604  opened by  Michael Lucas

cPickle.loads() seg.faults when interrupted with keyboard  (2006-06-26)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1512695  opened by  Faik Uygur

module wave does no rounding  (2006-06-26)
       http://python.org/sf/1512791  opened by  Greg Kochanski

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

'make install' failure on FreeBSD 5.3  (2006-06-26)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1513032  opened by  David Watson

socket close() hangs client if used without prior shutdown()  (2006-06-27)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1513223  opened by  Irmen de Jong

xml.sax.ParseException weirdness in python 2.5b1  (2006-06-27)
       http://python.org/sf/1513611  opened by  Marien Zwart

os.access reports incorrect write permissions in Windows  (2006-06-27)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1513646  opened by  Yi S. Ding

Change the name of a variable causes an exception  (2006-06-28)
       http://python.org/sf/1513802  opened by  Arun

mimetools message's To field can't be changed  (2006-06-28)
       http://python.org/sf/1513913  opened by  Albert Strasheim

Typo in signal.alarm() description  (2006-06-29)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1514404  opened by  Stephen Shirley

Missing module code does spurious file search  (2006-06-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1514420  opened by  Nick Maclaren

NaN comparison in Decimal broken  (2006-06-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1514428  opened by  Nick Maclaren

zipfile "append" mode should create a file if not present  (2006-06-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1514451  opened by  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

String Methods 2.3.6.1 not in TOC  (2006-06-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1514540  opened by  Terry J. Reedy

radians() doesn't work correctly  (2006-06-29)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1514685  opened by  Lingl

setup in Pen.__init__()  (2006-06-29)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1514703  opened by  Lingl

turtle.py: setup() call in Pen.__init__()  (2006-06-29)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1514725  opened by  Lingl

turtle.py docs out of date  (2006-06-29)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1514730  opened by  Lingl

site.py can break the location of the python library  (2006-06-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1514734  opened by  Mike Meyer

sgmllib should recover from unmatched quotes  (2006-06-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1515142  opened by  Sam Ruby

traceback now masks some string exceptions  (2006-06-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1515163  opened by  Jim Jewett

version says beta  (2006-06-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1515164  opened by  Jim Jewett

ImportWarning should be removed  (2006-06-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1515169  opened by  James Y Knight

wrong handling of character buffers in stringobject  (2006-07-01)
       http://python.org/sf/1515471  opened by  Georg Brandl

Exponential behavior in regular expression  (2006-07-02)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1515829  opened by  Erik Demaine

socket timeout inheritance on accept  (2006-07-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1515839  opened by  Jari Kirma

2.3.6.4 Mutable Sequence Types clarification  (2006-07-02)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1515932  opened by  Alan

bdist_msi fails (egg-info)  (2006-07-02)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1515998  opened by  Paul Moore

Under OS X, compiling against local readline fails  (2006-07-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1516068  opened by  Nelson Arzola

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

Decimal should allow leading or trailing spaces.  (2006-07-03)
       http://python.org/sf/1516613  opened by  Ronaldo Francisco Maia

warnings.py still refers to OverflowWarning  (2006-07-04)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1516910  opened by  John Machin

test_logging fails with reference count-checking  (2006-07-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1516995  opened by  Collin Winter

Getting an error message import site failed -v traceback.  (2006-07-05)
       http://python.org/sf/1517370  opened by  brijesh kumar

memory leak threading or socketserver module  (2006-07-05)
       http://python.org/sf/1517495  opened by  Ids van der Molen

filter() implementation does not match docs  (2006-07-05)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1517509  opened by  Collin Winter

Interpreter crash: filter() + gc.get_referrers()  (2006-07-05)
       http://python.org/sf/1517663  opened by  Collin Winter

IDLE on macosx keybindings need work  (2006-07-06)
       http://python.org/sf/1517990  opened by  Ronald Oussoren

IDLE: config-main.def contains windows-specific settings  (2006-07-06)
       http://python.org/sf/1517993  opened by  Ronald Oussoren

IDLE (macosx): Class and Path browsers show Tk menu  (2006-07-06)
       http://python.org/sf/1517996  opened by  Ronald Oussoren

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

cookielib doku  (2006-07-06)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1518346  opened by  Christoph Zwerschke

re '\' char interpretation problem  (2006-07-06)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1518406  opened by  ollie oldham

'\' problem in re.sub  (2006-07-06)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1518453  opened by  ilan29

'import foo as bar' not checking for 'as'  (2006-07-07)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1518569  opened by  Thomas Wouters

Website updating part of PEP101/102 out of date  (2006-07-07)
       http://python.org/sf/1518617  opened by  Johannes Gijsbers

optparse.parse_args() ret value seems to be a dict but isn't  (2006-07-07)
       http://python.org/sf/1518621  opened by  rhunger

import_as_name and dotted_as_name fail to validate syntax  (2006-07-07)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1519018  opened by  Scott Dial

incorrect locale.strcoll() return in Windows  (2006-07-07)
       http://python.org/sf/1519069  opened by  Brian Matherly

too many files?  (2006-07-09)
       http://python.org/sf/1519452  opened by  Joe Brown

turtle.py Docs still incomplete  (2006-07-09)
       http://python.org/sf/1519571  opened by  Lingl

Unmatched Group issue  (2006-07-09)
       http://python.org/sf/1519638  opened by  Bobby Xiao

Bugs Closed
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Setting category fails with -W switch  (2006-06-22)
       http://python.org/sf/1510580  closed by  bcannon

logging fileConfig swallows handler exception   (2006-06-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1508253  closed by  vsajip

Logging doesn't report the correct filename or line numbers  (2006-04-14)
       http://python.org/sf/1470422  closed by  vsajip

method format of logging.Formatter caches incorrectly  (06/06/06)
       http://python.org/sf/1501699  closed by  sf-robot

method format of logging.Formatter caches incorrectly  (2006-06-06)
       http://python.org/sf/1501699  closed by  vsajip

CSV regression in 2.5a1: multi-line cells  (2006-04-05)
       http://python.org/sf/1465014  closed by  goodger

If MAXFD too high, popen2/subprocess produce MemoryErrors  (2006-06-15)
       http://python.org/sf/1506758  closed by  astrand

IP6 address parsing i sgmllib  (2003-12-03)
       http://python.org/sf/853506  closed by  fdrake

codec_getstreamcodec passes extra None  (2006-06-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1511381  closed by  perky

Python gettext doesn't support libglade (again)  (2006-06-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1511736  closed by  loewis

vague xref in description of sorted() builtin  (2006-06-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1511911  closed by  akuchling

Can't use sockets in 2.5b1  (2006-06-24)
       http://python.org/sf/1511964  closed by  bos

Glitches in What's New for beta 1  (2006-06-25)
       http://python.org/sf/1511998  closed by  akuchling

package manager page outdated link  (2004-03-24)
       http://python.org/sf/922690  closed by  ronaldoussoren

"-framework Python" for building modules is bad  (2004-01-29)
       http://python.org/sf/887242  closed by  ronaldoussoren

PackageManager does not clean up after itself  (2003-11-07)
       http://python.org/sf/838144  closed by  ronaldoussoren

PackageManager maintainer missing documentation  (2003-07-28)
       http://python.org/sf/779154  closed by  ronaldoussoren

IDE preferences cleanup  (2003-06-22)
       http://python.org/sf/758566  closed by  ronaldoussoren

cPickle.loads() seg.faults when interrupted with keyboard  (2006-06-26)
       http://python.org/sf/1512695  closed by  nnorwitz

'make install' failure on FreeBSD 5.3  (2006-06-26)
       http://python.org/sf/1513032  closed by  nnorwitz

socket close() hangs client if used without prior shutdown()  (2006-06-27)
       http://python.org/sf/1513223  closed by  loewis

os.access reports incorrect write permissions in Windows  (2006-06-28)
       http://python.org/sf/1513646  closed by  loewis

OS/X on i386 framework build  (03/16/06)
       http://python.org/sf/1451717  closed by  sf-robot

Typo in signal.alarm() description  (2006-06-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1514404  closed by  quiver

sgmllib should allow angle brackets in quoted values  (2006-06-11)
       http://python.org/sf/1504333  closed by  fdrake

radians() doesn't work correctly  (2006-06-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1514685  closed by  loewis

setup in Pen.__init__()  (2006-06-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1514703  closed by  loewis

turtle.py: setup() call in Pen.__init__()  (2006-06-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1514725  closed by  loewis

turtle.py docs out of date  (2006-06-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1514730  closed by  loewis

incorrect LOAD/STORE_GLOBAL generation  (2006-06-06)
       http://python.org/sf/1501934  closed by  nascheme

Exponential behavior in regular expression  (2006-07-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1515829  closed by  tim_one

2.3.6.4 Mutable Sequence Types clarification  (2006-07-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1515932  closed by  akuchling

bdist_msi fails (egg-info)  (2006-07-02)
       http://python.org/sf/1515998  closed by  loewis

float/atof have become locale aware  (2006-01-29)
       http://python.org/sf/1417699  closed by  loewis

Bug in dbm - long strings in keys and values  (2003-10-21)
       http://python.org/sf/827760  closed by  loewis

Telnet.read_until() timeout parameter misleading   (2003-10-13)
       http://python.org/sf/822974  closed by  loewis

Python segfaults when freeing "deep" objects  (2004-04-01)
       http://python.org/sf/927248  closed by  loewis

warnings.py still refers to OverflowWarning  (2006-07-04)
       http://python.org/sf/1516910  closed by  gbrandl

2.5 rev 45972 fails build on Mac-Intel  (2006-05-11)
       http://python.org/sf/1487105  closed by  nnorwitz

filter() implementation does not match docs  (2006-07-05)
       http://python.org/sf/1517509  closed by  rhettinger

zipfile appends broken in 2.5b1  (2006-07-06)
       http://python.org/sf/1517887  deleted by  krumms

sqlite3.dll only installed with Tcl/Tk  (2006-07-05)
       http://python.org/sf/1517388  closed by  loewis

cookielib doku port cookie-attribute  (2006-07-06)
       http://python.org/sf/1518346  closed by  gbrandl

re '\' char interpretation problem  (2006-07-06)
       http://python.org/sf/1518406  closed by  niemeyer

'\' problem in re.sub  (2006-07-07)
       http://python.org/sf/1518453  closed by  gbrandl

import_as_name and dotted_as_name fail to validate syntax  (2006-07-07)
       http://python.org/sf/1519018  closed by  nnorwitz

New / Reopened RFE
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Add Windows 9x/ME (lack of) support information to README.TX  (2006-06-22)
       http://python.org/sf/1510853  opened by  ajaksu

RFE Closed
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Add some dicts to datetime module  (2006-06-14)
       http://python.org/sf/1506340  closed by  nnorwitz

Add str.partition  (2006-01-08)
       http://python.org/sf/1399936  closed by  nnorwitz




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