[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

[Skip Montanaro]

Bug/Patch Summary
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641 open / 4495 total bugs (+128)
231 open / 2529 total patches (+45)

New Bugs
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Scripts need platform-dependent handling (2004-01-04)
	http://python.org/sf/870479
Standardize on systemwide bgenlocations INCLUDEDIR (2004-01-05)
	http://python.org/sf/870972
bgenlocationscustomize: per-user configuration of bgen (2004-01-05)
	http://python.org/sf/870997
PyOS_snprintf segfaults on missing native snprintf (2004-01-05)
	http://python.org/sf/871026
Py_SequenceFast can mask errors (2004-01-06)
	http://python.org/sf/871704
sys.exec_prefix does not work (2004-01-06)
	http://python.org/sf/871747
README build instructions for fpectl (2004-01-06)
	http://python.org/sf/872175
fpectl module needs updating (2004-01-07)
	http://python.org/sf/872265
Finding X11 fails on SuSE Opteron (2004-01-07)
	http://python.org/sf/872392
Python 2.3.3 test_tempfile test_mode() fails on AIX 5.2 (2004-01-07)
	http://python.org/sf/872686
Python 2.3.3 urllib proxy support fails (2004-01-07)
	http://python.org/sf/872736
os.access() documentation should stress race conditions (2004-01-07)
	http://python.org/sf/872769
How to pass the proxy server use socket (2004-01-07)
	http://python.org/sf/872815
platform module needs update (2004-01-08)
	http://python.org/sf/873005
Wrong URL for external documentation link (Lib ref 11.9) (2004-01-08)
	http://python.org/sf/873205
Platform module not documented (2004-01-09)
	http://python.org/sf/873652
wrong answers from ctime (2004-01-09)
	http://python.org/sf/874042
ConfigParser's get method gives utf-8 for a utf-16 config... (2004-01-10)
	http://python.org/sf/874354
Errors testing python 2.3.3 (2004-01-10)
	http://python.org/sf/874534
httplib fails on Akamai URLs (2004-01-11)
	http://python.org/sf/874842

New Patches
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make test_urllib2 work on Windows (2004-01-04)
	http://python.org/sf/870606
optparse int, long types support binary, octal and hex forma (2004-01-05)
	http://python.org/sf/870807
add link to DDJ's article (2004-01-05)
	http://python.org/sf/871402
trace.py: simple bug in write_results_file (2004-01-08)
	http://python.org/sf/873211
Marshal clean-up (2004-01-08)
	http://python.org/sf/873224
list.__setitem__(slice) behavior (2004-01-08)
	http://python.org/sf/873305
email/Message.py: del_param fails when specifying a header (2004-01-08)
	http://python.org/sf/873418
Bluetooth support for socket module (2004-01-09)
	http://python.org/sf/874083

Closed Bugs
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Configure error with 2.3.3 on AIX 5.2 using gcc 3.3.2 (2003-12-31)
	http://python.org/sf/868529

Closed Patches
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tests and processors patch for urllib2 (2003-12-02)
	http://python.org/sf/852995