[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

Sun, 11 May 2003 07:00:24 -0500

Bug/Patch Summary
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415 open / 3632 total bugs (-7)
137 open / 2144 total patches (+2)

New Bugs
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bsddb.*open mode should default to 'r' rather than 'c' (2003-05-05)
	http://python.org/sf/732951
Need an easy way to check the version (2003-05-06)
	http://python.org/sf/733231
kwargs handled incorrectly (2003-05-06)
	http://python.org/sf/733667
PackMan recursive/force fails on pseudo packages (2003-05-07)
	http://python.org/sf/733819
Function for creating/extracting CoreFoundation types (2003-05-08)
	http://python.org/sf/734695
telnetlib.read_until: float req'd for timeout (2003-05-08)
	http://python.org/sf/734806
pyxml setup error on Mac OS X (2003-05-08)
	http://python.org/sf/734844
Lambda functions in list comprehensions (2003-05-08)
	http://python.org/sf/734869
Mach-O gcc optimisation flag can boost performance up to 10% (2003-05-09)
	http://python.org/sf/735110
urllib2 parse_http_list wrong return (2003-05-09)
	http://python.org/sf/735248
FILEMODE not honoured (2003-05-09)
	http://python.org/sf/735274
Command line timeit.py sets sys.path badly (2003-05-09)
	http://python.org/sf/735293
urllib / urllib2 should cache 301 redirections (2003-05-09)
	http://python.org/sf/735515
cStringIO.StringIO (2003-05-09)
	http://python.org/sf/735535
libwinsound.tex is missing MessageBeep() description (2003-05-10)
	http://python.org/sf/735674

New Patches
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build of html docs broken (liboptparse.tex) (2003-05-04)
	http://python.org/sf/732174
Docs for test package (2003-05-04)
	http://python.org/sf/732394
Allows os.forkpty to work on more platforms (Solaris!) (2003-05-04)
	http://python.org/sf/732401
Make Tkinter.py's nametowidget work with cloned menu widgets (2003-05-07)
	http://python.org/sf/734176
time.tzset documentation (2003-05-08)
	http://python.org/sf/735051
Python2.3b1 makefile improperly installs IDLE (2003-05-10)
	http://python.org/sf/735613
Python makefile may install idle in the wrong place (2003-05-10)
	http://python.org/sf/735614
Pydoc.py fixes links (2003-05-10)
	http://python.org/sf/735694

Closed Bugs
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textwrap has problems wrapping hyphens (2002-08-17)
	http://python.org/sf/596434
httplib HEAD request fails - keepalive (2002-10-11)
	http://python.org/sf/622042
new.function ignores keyword arguments (2003-02-25)
	http://python.org/sf/692959
Mention gmtime in Chapter 6.9 "Time access and conversions" (2003-03-05)
	http://python.org/sf/697983
Clarify timegm documentation (2003-03-05)
	http://python.org/sf/697986
Clarify daylight variable meaning (2003-03-05)
	http://python.org/sf/697988
Clarify mktime semantics (2003-03-05)
	http://python.org/sf/697989
Problems building python with tkinter on HPUX... (2003-03-17)
	http://python.org/sf/704919
OpenBSD 3.2: make altinstall dumps core (2003-03-29)
	http://python.org/sf/712056
cPickle fails to pickle inf (2003-04-03)
	http://python.org/sf/714733
urlopen(url_to_a_non-existing-domain) raises gaierror (2003-04-18)
	http://python.org/sf/723831
textwrap.wrap infinite loop (2003-04-23)
	http://python.org/sf/726446
use bsddb185 if necessary in dbhash (2003-04-24)
	http://python.org/sf/727137
email parsedate still wrong (PATCH) (2003-04-25)
	http://python.org/sf/727719
Tools/msgfmt.py results in two warnings under Python 2.3b1 (2003-04-26)
	http://python.org/sf/728277
setup.py breaks during build of Python-2.3b1 (2003-04-27)
	http://python.org/sf/728322
Long file names in osa suites (2003-04-27)
	http://python.org/sf/728574
ConfigurePython gives depreaction warning (2003-04-27)
	http://python.org/sf/728608
Unexpected Changes in list Iterator (2003-04-30)
	http://python.org/sf/730296
HTTPRedirectHandler variable out of scope (2003-05-01)
	http://python.org/sf/730963
urllib2 raises AttributeError on redirect (2003-05-01)
	http://python.org/sf/731116
IDE "lookup in documentation" doesn't work in interactive wi (2003-05-02)
	http://python.org/sf/731643
GIL not released around getaddrinfo() (2003-05-02)
	http://python.org/sf/731644

Closed Patches
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textwrap.dedent, inspect.getdoc-ish (2002-08-21)
	http://python.org/sf/598163
release GIL around getaddrinfo() (2002-09-03)
	http://python.org/sf/604210
Allow more Unicode on sys.stdout (2002-09-21)
	http://python.org/sf/612627
MSVC 7.0 compiler support (2002-09-25)
	http://python.org/sf/614770
Port tests to unittest (2003-01-05)
	http://python.org/sf/662807
Optimize dictionary resizing (2003-01-20)
	http://python.org/sf/671454
Dictionary tuning (2003-04-29)
	http://python.org/sf/729395
assert from longobject.c, line 1215 (2003-04-30)
	http://python.org/sf/730594