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2190 open (+34) / 15527 closed (+29) / 17717 total (+63)
Open issues with patches: 861
Average duration of open issues: 645 days.
Median duration of open issues: 394 days.
Open Issues Breakdown
open 2156 (+33)
pending 33 ( +1)
Issues Created Or Reopened (63)
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os.path.walk fails to descend into a directory whose name ends w 04/24/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5832 created linuxelf
readline update 04/24/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5833 created jrevans1
patch
The word "error" used instead of "failure" 04/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5834 created kurtmckee
Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd 04/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5835 created eric.smith
Clean up float parsing code for nans and infs 04/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5836 created marketdickinson
support.EnvironmentVarGuard broken 04/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5837 created doerwalter
easy
Test issue 04/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5838 created ajaksu2
RegOpenKeyEx key failed on Vista 64Bit with return 2 04/25/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5839 created makursi
"Thread State and the Global Interpreter Lock" section of the do 04/25/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5840 created exarkun
patch
add py3k warnings to commands 04/25/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5841 created dsm001
patch
Move test outside of urlparse module 04/25/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5842 created Merwok
Possible normalization error in urlparse.urlunparse 04/25/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5843 created Merwok
internal error on write while reading 04/25/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5844 created dsm001
patch
rlcompleter should be enabled automatically 04/25/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5845 created cben
Deprecate obsolete functions in unittest 04/25/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5846 created michael.foord
IDLE/Win Installer: drop -n switch for 2.7/3.1; install 3.1 as i 04/26/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5847 created kbk
Minor unittest doc patch 04/26/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5848 created michael.foord
patch, patch, easy, needs review
Idle 3.01 - invalid syntec error 04/26/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5849 created r2d2floyd
Full example for emulating a container type 04/27/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5850 created yaneurabeya
Add a stream parameter to gc.set_debug 04/27/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5851 created nicdumz
can't use "glog" to find the path with square bracket 04/27/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5852 created winterTTr
mimetypes.guess_type() hits recursion limit 04/27/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5853 created djc
logging module's __all__ attribute not in sync with documentatio 04/27/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5854 created flub
easy
Perhaps exponential performance of sum(listoflists, []) 04/27/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5855 created sjohn
Minor typo in traceback example 04/27/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5856 created nielsdevos
patch
Return namedtuples from tokenize token generator 04/27/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5857 created mallyvai
needs review
Make complex repr and str more like float repr and str 04/27/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5858 created marketdickinson
Remove implicit '%f' -> '%g' switch from float formatting. 04/27/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5859 created marketdickinson
patch
TextIOWrapper: bad error reporting when write() is forbidden 04/27/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5860 created pitrou
test_urllib fails on windows 04/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5861 created ocean-city
multiprocessing 'using a remote manager' example errors and poss 04/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5862 created r.david.murray
bz2.BZ2File should accept other file-like objects. 04/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5863 created MizardX
format(1234.5, '.4') gives misleading result 04/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5864 created marketdickinson
patch
mathmodule.c fails to compile due to missing math_log1p() functi 04/28/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5865 created alanh
cPickle defect with tuples and different from pickle output 04/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5866 created jelle
No way to create an abstract classmethod 04/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5867 created della
mimetypes.MAGIC_FUNCTION initialization not thread-safe in Pytho 04/28/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5868 created apoirier
100th character truncation in 2.4 tarfile.py 04/28/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5869 created neville.bagnall
patch
subprocess.DEVNULL 04/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5870 created MrJean1
email.header.Header allow to embed raw newlines into a message 04/28/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5871 created jwilk
New C API for declaring Python types 04/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5872 created larry
patch
Minidom: parsestring() error 04/29/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5873 created naf305
distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is locale-sensitive 04/29/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5874 created georg.brandl
test_distutils failing on OpenSUSE 10.3, Py3k 04/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5875 created ShuaibKhan
__repr__ returning unicode doesn't work when called implicitly 04/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5876 created liori
Add a function for updating URL query parameters 04/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5877 created mrts
Regular Expression instances 04/29/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5878 created ecasbas
multiprocessing - example "pool of http servers " fails on windo 04/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5879 created ghum
Remove unneeded "context" pointer from getters and setters 04/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5880 created larry
patch
Remove extraneous backwards-compatibility attributes from some m 04/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5881 created larry
patch
__repr__ is ignored when formatting exceptions 04/29/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5882 created ellisj
detach() implementation 04/29/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5883 created benjamin.peterson
patch
pydoc to return error status code 04/30/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5884 created mixmastamyk
uuid.uuid1() is too slow 04/30/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5885 created wangchun
curses/__init__.py: global name '_os' is not defined 04/30/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5886 created andrix
patch
mmap.write_byte out of bounds - no error, position gets screwed 04/30/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5887 created bmearns
mmap ehancement - resize with sequence notation 04/30/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5888 created bmearns
Extra comma in enum - fails on AIX 04/30/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5889 created srid
Subclassing property doesn't preserve the auto __doc__ behavior 04/30/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5890 created gsakkis
strange list.sort() behavior on import, del and inport again 05/01/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5891 created dstemmer
strange list.sort() behavior on import, del and inport again 05/01/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5892 created dstemmer
Add support to pydoc to output .rst restructured text 05/01/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5893 created gregory.p.smith
Lookup of localised language name by ISO 639 language code and r 05/01/09
http://bugs.python.org/issue5894 created pander
Issues Now Closed (104)
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pyvm module patch 515 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1522 benjamin.peterson
patch
Bad OOB data management when using asyncore with select.poll() 514 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1541 georg.brandl
patch
str.format() wrongly formats complex() numbers (Py30a2) 505 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1588 eric.smith
patch
sqlite3 docs should mention utf8 requirement 434 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2127 georg.brandl
patch, easy
aifc cannot handle unrecognised chunk type "CHAN" 419 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2245 r.david.murray
easy
float compared to decimal is silently incorrect. 34 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2531 jdunck
patch
3.0 pickle docs -- what about old-style classes? 385 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2572 georg.brandl
PyString_FromStringAndSize() to be considered unsafe 384 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2587 iankko
Python does not accept unicode keywords 375 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue2646 ajaksu2
26backport
ctypes defines global symbols 316 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3102 theller
patch
Wish: disable tests in unittest 304 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3202 benjamin.peterson
patch
various doc typos 291 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3320 georg.brandl
patch
file.readline: bad exception recovery 260 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3521 benjamin.peterson
patch, easy
Tuple comparison masking exception 226 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3829 rhettinger
idle should be installed as idle3.0 220 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3896 ajaksu2
smtplib cannot sendmail over TLS 217 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue3921 ajaksu2
patch, easy
Python 2.6 Doc/tools folder bigger than in 2.6rc2 205 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4013 georg.brandl
C/API documentation: request for documentation of change to Py_s 196 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4129 asmodai
patch
Email example should use SMTP.quit() rather than SMTP.close() 181 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4239 asmodai
ctypes could include data type limits 145 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4538 theller
Need to rework the dbm lib/include selection process 144 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4587 doko
patch, needs review
Idle for Python 3.0 is default even without doing make fullinsta 129 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4693 ajaksu2
failure in test_httpservers 101 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4951 tarek
patch
Incorrect title case 98 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue4971 loewis
Specifying common controls DLL in manifest 97 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5019 robind
ctypes unwilling to allow pickling wide character 90 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5049 theller
patch
Inadequate documentation of the built-in function open 91 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5061 georg.brandl
IDLE improve Subprocess Startup Error message 91 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5065 ajaksu2
Avoid redundant call to FormatError() 88 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5078 theller
patch
indentation in IDLE 2.6 different from IDLE 2.5, 2.4 or vim 82 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5129 kbk
patch, 26backport
wrong paths for ctypes cleanup 78 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5161 theller
setting __class__ in __del__ is bad. mmkay. negative ref count! 67 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5283 benjamin.peterson
patch
email/base64mime.py cannot work 67 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5304 ajaksu2
easy
ctypes configuration fails on mips-linux (and probably Irix) 41 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5507 theller
test_math.testFsum failure on release30-maint 26 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5593 marketdickinson
file "<stdin>" on disk creates garbage output in stack trace 26 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5668 ajaksu2
shutils test fails on ZFS (on FUSE, on Linux) 27 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5676 benjamin.peterson
patch
inspect.findsource() should look only for sources 13 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5742 ajaksu2
patch
idle pydoc et al removed from 3.1 without versioned replacements 11 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5756 kbk
IDLE cannot find windows chm file 8 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5783 kbk
patch, 26backport
Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower / ... uses throughout Py 8 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5793 eric.smith
easy
test_distutils fails - sysconfig._config_vars is None 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5810 tarek
Fix five small bugs in the bininstall and altbininstall pseudota 3 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5818 benjamin.peterson
patch
Documentation: mention 'close' and iteration for tarfile.TarFile 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5821 georg.brandl
patch
new unittest function listed as assertIsNotNot() instead of asse 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5826 michael.foord
Invalid behavior of unicode.lower 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5828 loewis
patch
heapq item comparison problematic with sched's events 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5830 rhettinger
os.path.walk fails to descend into a directory whose name ends w 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5832 potten
The word "error" used instead of "failure" 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5834 georg.brandl
Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5835 eric.smith
Clean up float parsing code for nans and infs 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5836 marketdickinson
support.EnvironmentVarGuard broken 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5837 doerwalter
easy
Test issue 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5838 marketdickinson
add py3k warnings to commands 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5841 georg.brandl
patch
Minor unittest doc patch 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5848 georg.brandl
patch, patch, easy, needs review
Idle 3.01 - invalid syntec error 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5849 doerwalter
Full example for emulating a container type 2 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5850 rhettinger
can't use "glog" to find the path with square bracket 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5852 amaury.forgeotdarc
mimetypes.guess_type() hits recursion limit 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5853 pitrou
logging module's __all__ attribute not in sync with documentatio 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5854 vsajip
easy
Perhaps exponential performance of sum(listoflists, []) 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5855 pitrou
Minor typo in traceback example 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5856 georg.brandl
patch
Return namedtuples from tokenize token generator 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5857 rhettinger
needs review
Remove implicit '%f' -> '%g' switch from float formatting. 4 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5859 marketdickinson
patch
TextIOWrapper: bad error reporting when write() is forbidden 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5860 benjamin.peterson
mathmodule.c fails to compile due to missing math_log1p() functi 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5865 marketdickinson
mimetypes.MAGIC_FUNCTION initialization not thread-safe in Pytho 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5868 pitrou
100th character truncation in 2.4 tarfile.py 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5869 neville.bagnall
patch
Minidom: parsestring() error 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5873 georg.brandl
distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is locale-sensitive 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5874 tarek
Regular Expression instances 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5878 georg.brandl
__repr__ is ignored when formatting exceptions 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5882 benjamin.peterson
curses/__init__.py: global name '_os' is not defined 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5886 amaury.forgeotdarc
patch
Extra comma in enum - fails on AIX 1 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5889 srid
strange list.sort() behavior on import, del and inport again 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5891 loewis
strange list.sort() behavior on import, del and inport again 0 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue5892 loewis
Fix for bugs relating to ntpath.expanduser() 210 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue957650 gjb1002
patch
urllib2 http auth 1689 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1025540 gregory.p.smith
endianness detection fails on IRIX 5.3 1617 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1070140 ajaksu2
proposed patch for tls wrapped ssl support added to smtplib 1417 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1217246 ajaksu2
patch
MSI installer does not pass values as SecureProperty from UI 1311 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1298962 ajaksu2
Integer bit operations performance improvement. 1073 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1492860 marketdickinson
easy
test_float segfaults with SIGFPE on FreeBSD 6.0 / Alpha 1066 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1496032 marketdickinson
Use dynload_shlib on newer HP-UX versions 1026 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1516897 ajaksu2
Allowing multiple instances of IDLE with sub-processes 1004 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1529142 kbk
patch
Tracing and profiling functions can cause hangs in threads 999 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1531859 ajaksu2
patch
Tru64 make install failure 954 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1558802 ajaksu2
Install on WinXP always goes to C:\ 943 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1565468 ajaksu2
Modules/readline.c fails to compile on AIX 4.2 891 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1597798 ajaksu2
Would you mind renaming object.h to pyobject.h? 844 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1626545 ajaksu2
patch
Python 2.5 gets curses.h warning on HPUX 824 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1642054 ajaksu2
proxy_bypass in urllib handling of <local> macro 821 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1648102 orsenthil
patch, easy
HP-UX: compiler warnings: alignment 815 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1649011 ajaksu2
Python package support not properly documented 715 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1719423 georg.brandl
Document effects of PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN on argument parsing 693 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1729742 loewis
Solaris 64 bit LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64 needs to be set 687 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1733484 ajaksu2
Modules/ld_so_aix needs to strip path off of whichcc call 687 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1733509 ajaksu2
zlib configure behaves differently than main configure 687 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1733513 ajaksu2
HP shared object option 687 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1733523 ajaksu2
HP automatic build of zlib 687 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1733532 ajaksu2
HP 64 bit does not run 687 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1733544 ajaksu2
AIX shared object build of python 2.5 does not work 687 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1733546 ajaksu2
Fast path for unicodedata.normalize() 688 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1734234 pitrou
patch
Python - Operation time out problem 628 days
http://bugs.python.org/issue1768858 ajaksu2
Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
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28 str.format() wrongly formats complex() numbers (Py30a2) 505 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1588
12 support.EnvironmentVarGuard broken 0 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5837
10 mathmodule.c fails to compile due to missing math_log1p() funct 0 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5865
10 format(1234.5, '.4') gives misleading result 3 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue5864
9 Invalid behavior of unicode.lower 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5828
9 IDLE cannot find windows chm file 8 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5783
8 failure in test_httpservers 101 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4951
7 mimetypes.guess_type() hits recursion limit 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5853
7 C/API documentation: request for documentation of change to Py_ 196 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4129
6 detach() implementation 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue5883