[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

Skip Montanaro skip@mojam.com
Sun, 18 May 2003 07:00:26 -0500


Bug/Patch Summary
-----------------

403 open / 3646 total bugs (-11)
141 open / 2161 total patches (+6)

New Bugs
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Problem With email.MIMEText Package (2003-05-12)
	http://python.org/sf/736407
allow HTMLParser error recovery (2003-05-12)
	http://python.org/sf/736428
markupbase parse_declaration cannot recognize comments (2003-05-12)
	http://python.org/sf/736659
forcing function to act like an unbound method dumps core (2003-05-13)
	http://python.org/sf/736892
CGIHTTPServer does not handle scripts in sub-dirs (2003-05-13)
	http://python.org/sf/737202
os.symlink docstring is ambiguous. (2003-05-13)
	http://python.org/sf/737291
need doc for new trace module (2003-05-14)
	http://python.org/sf/737734
Failed assert in stringobject.c (2003-05-14)
	http://python.org/sf/737947
Interpreter crash: sigfpe on Alpha (2003-05-14)
	http://python.org/sf/738066
Section 13.3: htmllib.HTMLParser constructor definition amen (2003-05-15)
	http://python.org/sf/738090
pdb doesn't find some source files (2003-05-15)
	http://python.org/sf/738154
crash error in glob.glob; directories with brackets (2003-05-15)
	http://python.org/sf/738361
csv.Sniffer docs need updating (2003-05-15)
	http://python.org/sf/738471
On Windows, os.listdir() throws incorrect exception (2003-05-15)
	http://python.org/sf/738617
urllib2 CacheFTPHandler doesn't work on multiple dirs (2003-05-16)
	http://python.org/sf/738973
array.insert and negative indices (2003-05-17)
	http://python.org/sf/739313

New Patches
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Mutable PyCObject (2001-11-02)
	http://python.org/sf/477441
Improvement of cgi.parse_qsl function (2002-01-25)
	http://python.org/sf/508665
CGIHTTPServer execfile should save cwd  (2002-01-25)
	http://python.org/sf/508730
rlcompleter does not expand on [ ] (2002-04-22)
	http://python.org/sf/547176
ConfigParser.read() should return list of files read (2003-01-30)
	http://python.org/sf/677651
DESTDIR improvement (2003-05-12)
	http://python.org/sf/736413
Put DEFS back to Makefile.pre.in (2003-05-12)
	http://python.org/sf/736417
Trivial improvement to NameError message (2003-05-12)
	http://python.org/sf/736730
interpreter final destination location (2003-05-12)
	http://python.org/sf/736857
docs for interpreter final destination location  (2003-05-12)
	http://python.org/sf/736859
Port tests to unittest (Part 2) (2003-05-13)
	http://python.org/sf/736962
traceback module caches sources invalid (2003-05-13)
	http://python.org/sf/737473
minor codeop fixes (2003-05-14)
	http://python.org/sf/737999
for i in range(N) optimization (2003-05-15)
	http://python.org/sf/738094
fix for glob with directories which contain brackets (2003-05-15)
	http://python.org/sf/738389
Add use_default_colors support to curses module. (2003-05-17)
	http://python.org/sf/739124

Closed Bugs
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Regular expression tests: SEGV on Mac OS (2001-04-16)
	http://python.org/sf/416526
CGIHTTPServer crashes Explorer in WinME (2001-05-31)
	http://python.org/sf/429193
MacPy21: sre "recursion limit" bug (2001-06-29)
	http://python.org/sf/437472
provide a documented serialization func (2001-10-02)
	http://python.org/sf/467384
Security review of pickle/marshal docs (2001-10-16)
	http://python.org/sf/471893
Improvement of cgi.parse_qsl function (2002-01-25)
	http://python.org/sf/508665
CGIHTTPServer execfile should save cwd (2002-01-25)
	http://python.org/sf/508730
metaclasses and 2.2 highlights (2002-02-08)
	http://python.org/sf/515137
bsddb keys corruption (2002-02-25)
	http://python.org/sf/522780
test_pyclbr: bad dependency for input (2002-03-12)
	http://python.org/sf/529135
Wrong exception from re.compile() (2002-04-18)
	http://python.org/sf/545855
regex segfault on Mac OS X (2002-04-19)
	http://python.org/sf/546059
rlcompleter does not expand on [ ] (2002-04-22)
	http://python.org/sf/547176
os.spawnv() fails with underscores (2002-06-30)
	http://python.org/sf/575770
Print line number of string if at EOF (2002-07-04)
	http://python.org/sf/577295
Build error using make VPATH feature (2002-10-22)
	http://python.org/sf/626926
Have exception arguments keep their type (2003-01-27)
	http://python.org/sf/675928
No documentation of static/dynamic python modules. (2003-03-12)
	http://python.org/sf/702157
Distutils documentation amputated (2003-04-01)
	http://python.org/sf/713722
datetime types don't work as bases (2003-04-13)
	http://python.org/sf/720908
_winreg doesn't handle NULL bytes in value names (2003-04-16)
	http://python.org/sf/722413
add timeout support in socket using modules (2003-04-17)
	http://python.org/sf/723287
Minor /Tools/Scripts/crlf.py bugs (2003-04-20)
	http://python.org/sf/724767
rexec not listed as dead (2003-04-29)
	http://python.org/sf/729817
Clarification of "pos" and "endpos" for match objects. (2003-05-04)
	http://python.org/sf/732124
telnetlib.read_until: float req'd for timeout (2003-05-08)
	http://python.org/sf/734806
cStringIO.StringIO (2003-05-09)
	http://python.org/sf/735535
libwinsound.tex is missing MessageBeep() description (2003-05-10)
	http://python.org/sf/735674

Closed Patches
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xmlrpclib: Optional 'nil' support (2002-10-24)
	http://python.org/sf/628208
Remove type-check from urllib2 (2002-11-15)
	http://python.org/sf/639139
urllib2.Request's headers are case-sens. (2002-12-06)
	http://python.org/sf/649742
has_function() method for CCompiler (2003-04-07)
	http://python.org/sf/717152
DESTDIR variable patch (2003-04-09)
	http://python.org/sf/718286
socketmodule inet_ntop built when IPV6 is disabled (2003-04-30)
	http://python.org/sf/730603
make threading join() method return a value (2003-05-02)
	http://python.org/sf/731607
exit status of latex2html "ignored" (2003-05-04)
	http://python.org/sf/732143
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
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