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2261 open (+58) / 14206 closed (+37) / 16467 total (+95)
Open issues with patches: 763
Average duration of open issues: 699 days.
Median duration of open issues: 2499 days.
Open Issues Breakdown
open 2242 (+57)
pending 19 ( +1)
Issues Created Or Reopened (97)
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Remove mimetools usage from the stdlib 12/06/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue2848 reopened brett.cannon
patch
improve linecache: reuse tokenize.detect_encoding() and io.open( 12/12/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4016 reopened benjamin.peterson
patch
Deprecated python 2.x syntax in "HOWTO Use Python in the web" 12/05/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4550 created jcsalterego
patch
The python 2.6.1 source distribution is missing Doc/tools/sphinx 12/05/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4551 created andreask
Doc/tools/sphinxext not included in the 2.6.1 tarball 12/05/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4552 created doko
Results from os.path.islink and os.stat S_ISLNK do not match 12/05/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4553 created npatters
Missing make altframeworkinstall for Mac OS X 12/06/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4554 created christian.heimes
Smelly exports 12/06/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4555 created christian.heimes
cmp() function erroneously noted as gone in "What's New" 12/06/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4556 created mwatkins
array('c') in python 3.0 produces error, doc says it is ok 12/06/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4557 created lopgok
with_stdc89 12/06/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4558 created christian.heimes
patch, patch
Whats new recommendation error 12/06/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4559 created lregebro
"Flouted", not "flaunted" 12/06/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4560 created jdf
Optimize new io library 12/06/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4561 created christian.heimes
patch
zip() documentation was not updated 12/06/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4562 created mchouza
Wrong formatting of contributor list in About page 12/06/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4563 created salty-horse
bytearray.fromhex doesn't respect bytearray subclass 12/06/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4564 created pitrou
io write() performance very slow 12/06/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4565 created ialbert
2.6.1 breaks many applications that embed Python on Windows 12/06/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4566 created craigh
Registry key not set if unattended installation used 12/06/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4567 created stuaxo
Improved optparse "varargs" callback example 12/06/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4568 created gregg.lind
patch
Segfault when mutating a memoryview to an array.array 12/07/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4569 created pitrou
Bad example in set tutorial 12/07/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4570 created jmarter
write to stdout in binary mode - is it possible? 12/07/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4571 created lopgok
add SEEK_* values to io and/or io.IOBase 12/07/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4572 created gumpy
zsh-style subpattern matching for fnmatch/glob 12/07/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4573 created erickt
patch
reading UTF16-encoded text file crashes if \r on 64-char boundar 12/07/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4574 created sjmachin
patch
Py_IS_INFINITY defect causes test_cmath failure on x86 12/07/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4575 created marketdickinson
patch
"Defining new types" little outdated 12/07/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4576 created exe
distutils: -3 warnings (apply) 12/07/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4577 created srittau
patch
compiler: -3 warnings 12/07/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4578 created srittau
patch
.read() and .readline() differ in failing 12/07/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4579 created eggy
patch, needs review
slicing of memoryviews when itemsize != 1 is wrong 12/07/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4580 created pitrou
patch, needs review
failed to import module from lib-dynload 12/07/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4581 created legerf
type of __builtins__ changes if in main module or not 12/07/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4582 created nnorwitz
segfault when mutating memoryview to array.array when array is r 12/07/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4583 created gumpy
doctest fails to display bytes type 12/07/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4584 created msyang
Build failure on OS X 10.5.5: make: *** [sharedmods] Error 1 12/07/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4585 created marketdickinson
"Extending Embedded Python" documention uses removed Py_InitModu 12/07/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4586 created blakemadden
Need to rework the dbm lib/include selection process 12/08/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4587 created skip.montanaro
patch, needs review
Need a way to make my own bytes 12/08/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4588 created lopgok
'with' loses ->bool exceptions 12/08/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4589 created jyasskin
patch
2to3 strips trailing L for long iterals in two fixers 12/08/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4590 created aronacher
patch, needs review
32-bits unsigned user/group identifier 12/08/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4591 created sjoerd
patch, needs review
Embedding example does not add created module 12/08/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4592 created blakemadden
patch, needs review
Documentation for multiprocessing - Pool.apply() 12/08/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4593 created beazley
easy
Can't compile with -O3, on ARM, with gcc 3.4.4 12/08/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4594 created metageek
new types example is out of date 12/08/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4595 created blakemadden
2to3 does not fail as early as possible. 12/08/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4596 created LambertDW
EvalFrameEx fails to set 'why' for some exceptions 12/10/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4597 reopened amaury.forgeotdarc
patch
IDLE not opening 12/08/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4598 created ec2929
Strings undisplayable with repr 12/08/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4599 created mfoord
__class__ assignment: new-style? heap? == confusing 12/08/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4600 created tjreedy
directory permission error with make install in 3.0 12/08/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4601 created legerf
patch
2to3 drops executable bit with --write 12/08/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4602 created dato
patch
3.0 document tab interpretation change 12/08/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4603 created tjreedy
close() seems to have limited effect 12/09/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4604 created skip.montanaro
patch
3.0 documentation mentions using maketrans from within the strin 12/09/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4605 created suicideducky
Passing 'None' if argtype is set to POINTER(...) doesn't always 12/09/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4606 created robertluce
patch
uuid behavior with multiple threads 12/09/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4607 created mortenab
urllib.request.urlopen does not return an iterable object 12/09/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4608 created jwilk
Allow use of > 256 FD's on solaris in 32 bit mode 12/09/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4609 created pajs at fodder.org.uk
Unicode case mappings are incorrect 12/09/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4610 created alexs
Small error in "Extending Python with C or C++" 12/09/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4611 created jakamkon
PyModule_Create() doesn't add/import module 12/09/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4612 created blakemadden
Can't figure out where SyntaxError: can not delete variable 'x' 12/09/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4613 created marduk
patch
Document PyModule_Create() 12/09/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4614 created brett.cannon
needs review
de-duping function in itertools 12/10/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4615 created thomaspinckney3
tarfile does not set the creation date and time of the extracted 12/10/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4616 created throbi
SyntaxError when free variable name is also an exception target 12/10/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4617 created amaury.forgeotdarc
patch, needs review
print_function and unicode_literals don't work together 12/10/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4618 created exarkun
Invalid Behaviour When a Default Argument is a Mutable Object 12/10/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4619 created rhr
Memory leak with datetime used with time.strptime 12/10/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4620 created sebegue
zipfile returns string but expects binary 12/10/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4621 created francescor
SequenceMatcher bug with long sequences 12/10/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4622 created eliben
IDLE shutdown if I run an edited file contains chinese 12/11/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4623 created bianpeng
Can not import readline on python3.0 (ubuntu 8.04) 12/11/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4624 created xxiao
IDLE won't open anymore, .idlerc unaccessible 12/11/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4625 created skcheng
compile() doesn't ignore the source encoding when a string is pa 12/11/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4626 created brett.cannon
Add Mac OS X Disk Images to Python.org homepage 12/11/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4627 created carlj
No universal newline support for compile() when using bytes 12/11/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4628 created brett.cannon
getopt should not accept no_argument that ends with '=' 12/11/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4629 created wangchun
patch
IDLE no longer respects .Xdefaults insertOffTime 12/11/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4630 created mark
urlopen returns extra, spurious bytes 12/11/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4631 created dato
Wrong fix for range(42)[::-1] 12/11/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4632 created theller
file.tell() gives wrong result 12/11/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4633 created yavuz164
2to3 should fix "import HTMLParser" 12/11/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4634 created mastrodomenico
no reference for optparse methods 12/11/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4635 created techtonik
bdist_wininst installer with install script raises exception 12/11/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4636 created theller
Binary floating point and decimal floating point arithmetic 12/11/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4637 created Retro
1 is 1 is allways true while 1.0 is 1.0 may sometimes be true 12/12/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4638 created nassrat
Build failure on OpenBSD 4.4-current regarding lstat() 12/12/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4639 created vext01
optparse - dosn't distinguish between '--option' and '-option' 12/12/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4640 created kszawala
optparse - dosn't distinguish between '--option' and '-option' 12/12/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4641 created kszawala
optparse - dosn't distinguish between '--option' and '-option' 12/12/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4642 created kszawala
cgitb.html fails if getattr call raises exception 12/12/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4643 created amc1
Minor documentation fault in 2to3 script 12/12/08
http://bugs.python.org/issue4644 created amc1
Issues Now Closed (74)
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gdbm/ndbm 1.8.1+ needs libgdbm_compat.so 449 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1167 ocean-city
patch
Victor Stinner's GMP patch for longs 328 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1814 marketdickinson
patch
Python fails silently on bad locale 291 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2173 marketdickinson
patch
Full precision summation 214 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2819 marketdickinson
patch
Incorrect rounding in floating-point operations with gcc/x87 198 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2937 marketdickinson
math test fails on Solaris 10 173 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3167 marketdickinson
patch
Multiprocessing Array and sharedctypes.Array error in docs/imple 165 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3206 amaury.forgeotdarc
patch
BufferedWriter not thread-safe 129 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3476 wplappert
patch
expm1 missing 123 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3501 marketdickinson
test_math: math.log(-ninf) fails to raise exception on OpenBSD 108 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3682 marketdickinson
math.log(x, 10) gives different result than math.log10(x) 98 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3724 marketdickinson
patch
_lsprof: clear() should call flush_unmatched() 79 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3952 haypo
patch
tokenize.detect_encoding(): raise SyntaxError on codecs.lookup() 70 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4021 benjamin.peterson
patch, patch, needs review
Decimal.max(NaN, x) gives incorrect results when x is finite and 63 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4084 marketdickinson
patch
ihooks incompatible with absolute_import feature 35 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4244 georg.brandl
Update pydoc URLs 36 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4259 loewis
smtplib.py initialisation defect 28 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4302 ocean-city
patch
state_reset not called on 'state' before sre_search invoked 16 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4416 amaury.forgeotdarc
String allocations waste 3 bytes of memory on average. 9 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4445 marketdickinson
patch
__import__ documentation obsolete 9 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4457 georg.brandl
patch
parameters of PyLong_FromString() are not checked for NULL 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4461 marketdickinson
patch
Windows installer crash 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4481 tjreedy
Error to build _dbm module during make 6 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4483 skip.montanaro
patch, easy
Python Documentation not Newb Friendly 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4488 georg.brandl
Compiler warnings in longobject.c 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4497 marketdickinson
patch
3.0 test failure on Mac OS X 10.5.5 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4507 marketdickinson
Decorators should have an index entry 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4511 georg.brandl
problem with str.join - should work with list input, error says 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4534 lopgok
webbrowser.UnixBrowser should use builtins.open 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4537 amaury.forgeotdarc
A defect in <The Python Tutorial>-<Python Scopes and Name Spaces 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4549 georg.brandl
Deprecated python 2.x syntax in "HOWTO Use Python in the web" 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4550 georg.brandl
patch
The python 2.6.1 source distribution is missing Doc/tools/sphinx 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4551 georg.brandl
Doc/tools/sphinxext not included in the 2.6.1 tarball 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4552 georg.brandl
Results from os.path.islink and os.stat S_ISLNK do not match 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4553 christian.heimes
cmp() function erroneously noted as gone in "What's New" 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4556 georg.brandl
array('c') in python 3.0 produces error, doc says it is ok 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4557 georg.brandl
Whats new recommendation error 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4559 lregebro
"Flouted", not "flaunted" 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4560 georg.brandl
zip() documentation was not updated 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4562 georg.brandl
bytearray.fromhex doesn't respect bytearray subclass 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4564 amaury.forgeotdarc
Segfault when mutating a memoryview to an array.array 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4569 pitrou
Bad example in set tutorial 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4570 rhettinger
write to stdout in binary mode - is it possible? 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4571 christian.heimes
"Defining new types" little outdated 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4576 georg.brandl
failed to import module from lib-dynload 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4581 loewis
type of __builtins__ changes if in main module or not 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4582 loewis
doctest fails to display bytes type 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4584 georg.brandl
Build failure on OS X 10.5.5: make: *** [sharedmods] Error 1 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4585 marketdickinson
"Extending Embedded Python" documention uses removed Py_InitModu 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4586 georg.brandl
Need a way to make my own bytes 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4588 loewis
'with' loses ->bool exceptions 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4589 amaury.forgeotdarc
patch
2to3 strips trailing L for long iterals in two fixers 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4590 aronacher
patch, needs review
Embedding example does not add created module 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4592 georg.brandl
patch, needs review
EvalFrameEx fails to set 'why' for some exceptions 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4597 jyasskin
patch
IDLE not opening 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4598 loewis
Strings undisplayable with repr 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4599 loewis
2to3 drops executable bit with --write 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4602 benjamin.peterson
patch
PyModule_Create() doesn't add/import module 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4612 amaury.forgeotdarc
tarfile does not set the creation date and time of the extracted 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4616 lars.gustaebel
Invalid Behaviour When a Default Argument is a Mutable Object 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4619 loewis
Memory leak with datetime used with time.strptime 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4620 skip.montanaro
Can not import readline on python3.0 (ubuntu 8.04) 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4624 benjamin.peterson
Wrong fix for range(42)[::-1] 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4632 benjamin.peterson
file.tell() gives wrong result 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4633 QuantumTim
2to3 should fix "import HTMLParser" 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4634 benjamin.peterson
Binary floating point and decimal floating point arithmetic 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4637 gvanrossum
1 is 1 is allways true while 1.0 is 1.0 may sometimes be true 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4638 tim_one
Proto 2 pickle vs dict subclass 1873 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue826897 benjamin.peterson
Python interpreter stalled on _PyPclose.WaitForSingleObject 1708 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue928332 amaury.forgeotdarc
Fix for #777597 - socketmodule.c connection handling incorec 1647 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue965036 amaury.forgeotdarc
patch
distutils' dry-run wants to create some real build dirs 1545 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1030250 amaury.forgeotdarc
patch
correct/clarify documentation for super 1363 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1163367 rhettinger
sys.settrace cause curried parms to show up as attributes 796 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1569356 loewis
thread + import => crashes? 292 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1720705 forest
Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
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42 Get rid of more refercenes to __cmp__ 57 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue1717
23 slicing of memoryviews when itemsize != 1 is wrong 5 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4580
17 Make conversions from long to float correctly rounded. 174 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3166
13 Optimize new io library 6 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4561
12 bugs in array.array with exports (buffer protocol) 9 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4509
11 Whats new recommendation error 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4559
11 Error to build _dbm module during make 6 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4483
10 with_stdc89 7 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4558
9 tarfile does not set the creation date and time of the extracte 2 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4616
9 'with' loses ->bool exceptions 3 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4589