[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

[Skip Montanaro]

Bug/Patch Summary
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222 open / 2377 total bugs (-18)
97 open / 1409 total patches (+2)

New Bugs
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SMTPLib sendmail fails on hyphenated adr (2002-03-31)
	http://python.org/sf/537484
packing double yields garbage (2002-04-02)
	http://python.org/sf/538361
Python open w/ MSVC6: bad error msgs (2002-04-03)
	http://python.org/sf/538827
Using the lib index mechanically (2002-04-03)
	http://python.org/sf/538961
resolver not thread safe (2002-04-04)
	http://python.org/sf/539175
asyncore file wrapper & os.error (2002-04-04)
	http://python.org/sf/539444
os.mkdir() handles SETGID inconsistently (2002-04-05)
	http://python.org/sf/539942
Framework.mainloop() - multiple threads (2002-04-05)
	http://python.org/sf/539990

New Patches
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ae* modules: handle type inheritance (2002-04-02)
	http://python.org/sf/538395
Support PyChecker in IDLE (2002-04-03)
	http://python.org/sf/539043
Webbrowser.py and konqueror (2002-04-04)
	http://python.org/sf/539360
Unicode fix for test in tkFileDialog.py (2002-04-04)
	http://python.org/sf/539392
build info docs from sources (2002-04-04)
	http://python.org/sf/539486
build info docs from tex sources (2002-04-04)
	http://python.org/sf/539487
dict.popitem(key=None) (2002-04-05)
	http://python.org/sf/539949
Remove PyMalloc_* symbols (2002-04-06)
	http://python.org/sf/540394

Closed Bugs
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readline() of codecs.StreamReader doesn't work for"utf-16le" (2000-11-14)
	http://python.org/sf/222395
popen('python -c"...."') tends to hang (2000-12-24)
	http://python.org/sf/226766
popen on Win9x isnt smart enough about finding w9xpopen.exe (2001-01-13)
	http://python.org/sf/228685
urllib2: AbstractHTTPHandler limits flexible client implemen (2001-03-11)
	http://python.org/sf/407783
popenx() argument mangling hangs python (2001-08-31)
	http://python.org/sf/457466
test_commands fails on SGI (2001-09-11)
	http://python.org/sf/460613
Integrate "What's new in Python x.y" (2001-12-26)
	http://python.org/sf/496922
test_commands assumes ls is in /bin (2001-12-27)
	http://python.org/sf/497160
Short-cuts missing for All Users (2001-12-30)
	http://python.org/sf/497854
urllib.py: open_http() host problem (2002-01-13)
	http://python.org/sf/503031
pprint should (optionally) use str (2002-01-17)
	http://python.org/sf/505152
array module has undocumented features (2002-02-17)
	http://python.org/sf/518767
posixmodule.c fails Tru64 (stat macro) (2002-03-01)
	http://python.org/sf/524600
tty shipped in win32 distribution (2002-03-03)
	http://python.org/sf/525121
Potential AV in vgetargskeywords (2002-03-24)
	http://python.org/sf/534347
new.instance() breaks with new classes (2002-03-26)
	http://python.org/sf/535170
super() broken with classmethods (2002-03-26)
	http://python.org/sf/535444
xml.sax memory leak with ExpatParser (2002-03-26)
	http://python.org/sf/535474
threading.Lock().acquire bug (2002-03-27)
	http://python.org/sf/536017
pydoc getopt fails (2002-03-28)
	http://python.org/sf/536449
module array:  C type descriptions wrong (2002-03-28)
	http://python.org/sf/536469
Docs for "es" and "et" confusing (2002-03-28)
	http://python.org/sf/536516

Closed Patches
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socketmodule ssl: server & thread (2001-08-17)
	http://python.org/sf/452110
On the update_slot() behavior (2002-02-07)
	http://python.org/sf/514662
Explict proxies for urllib.urlopen() (2002-02-27)
	http://python.org/sf/523415
PEP 285 - Adding a bool type (2002-03-09)
	http://python.org/sf/528022
Comprehensibility patch (typeobject.c) (2002-03-28)
	http://python.org/sf/536407
pymalloc for types and other cleanups (2002-03-29)
	http://python.org/sf/536909