[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

Fri Jul 18 18:07:19 CEST 2008

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (07/11/08 - 07/18/08)
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 1967 open (+38) / 13262 closed (+25) / 15229 total (+63)
Open issues with patches: 619
Average duration of open issues: 705 days.
Median duration of open issues: 1617 days.
Open Issues Breakdown
 open 1939 (+38)
pending 28 ( +0)
Issues Created Or Reopened (63)
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IDLE - use enumerate instead of zip(count(), ...) 07/11/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3344 created taleinat 
 patch 
Patch for CGIHTTPServer.is_cgi function documentation 07/11/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3345 created tebeka 
 patch 
test_ossaudiodev fails 07/12/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3346 created cartman 

urllib.robotparser doesn't work in Py3k 07/12/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3347 created mgiuca 
 patch 
Cannot start wsgiref simple server in Py3k 07/12/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3348 created mgiuca 
 patch 
search for 'patch' produces roundup error 07/12/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3349 created techtonik 

multiprocessing adds built-in types to the global copyreg.dispat 07/13/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3350 created alexandre.vassalotti 

Python crashed 07/14/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3351 created yiyuan 

Deficiencies in multiprocessing/threading API 07/14/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3352 created ncoghlan 

make built-in tokenizer available via Python C API 07/14/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3353 created effbot 

Improve error reporting for the argument parsing API 07/14/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3354 reopened benjamin.peterson 

Display bug in :show-inheritance: for class with standard docstr 07/14/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3355 created kumar303 

some tests fail in debug mode (test_distutils, test_set) 07/14/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3356 created pitrou 

A bug in the __doc__ string of the sys module 07/14/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3357 created cheDu 

2to3 Iterative Wildcard Matching 07/15/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3358 created nedds 
 patch 
add 'rbU' mode to open() 07/15/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3359 created techtonik 

Inconsistent type-deduction of decimal floating-point 07/15/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3360 created richyk 

pypi issue tracker link (python.org) 07/15/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3361 created tds333 

locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.1 07/15/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3362 created cfr 

python version incorrectly reported in crash reports on Mac OS X 07/15/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3363 created cfr 

An ortographical typo in Zen of Python text 07/15/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3364 created cheDu 

in module math, PI value seems to be wrong after digit 17th 07/15/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3365 created TanaT 

Add gamma and error functions to math module 07/15/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3366 created tjreedy 

Uninitialized value read in parsetok.c 07/15/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3367 created krisvale 
 patch, patch, easy 
Memory leak in import.c 07/15/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3368 created krisvale 
 patch, patch, easy 
memory leak in floatobject.c 07/15/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3369 created krisvale 
 patch, patch, easy 
importing with_statement causes exec to raise syntax error on bl 07/15/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3370 created mccredie 

2to3 fails in Python 2.6 07/16/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3371 created benjamin.peterson 

socket.setsockopt() is broken for multicast TTL and Loop options 07/16/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3372 created niallo 

sys recursion limit a lot shorter on trunk? 07/16/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3373 created esrever_otua 

Bisect upgrades: key/cmp/reverse, parameterized handedness 07/16/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3374 created dan.uznanski 
 patch 
_multiprocessing.so build problems 07/16/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3375 created barry 

Use Python 3 lexer for 3.0 docs 07/16/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3376 created georg.brandl 

Invalid child node access in ast.c 07/16/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3377 created krisvale 

Memory leak in pythonrun.c 07/16/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3378 created krisvale 
 patch, patch 
Option to not-exit on test 07/16/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3379 created pupeno 
 patch 
documentation for ElementTree is unusable 07/16/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3380 created jrw at pobox.com 

`./configure --enable-framework --enable-universalsdk` fails bec 07/16/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3381 created trentm 

Make '%F' and float.__format__('F') convert results to upper cas 07/17/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3382 reopened eric.smith 
 easy 
ctypes.util fails to find libc in some environments 07/16/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3383 created exarkun 
 patch 
Documentation for re.findall and re.finditer lacks "ordering" in 07/16/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3384 created jkugler 

cPickle to pickle conversion in py3k missing methods 07/16/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3385 created jnoller 

[PATCH] distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument broke 07/16/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3386 created pjenvey 
 patch 
undefined array passed to CryptGenRandomBytes 07/16/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3387 created krisvale 
 patch, patch, easy 
With keyword not mentioned in Input Output tutorial 07/16/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3388 created segfaulthunter 
 patch 
[PATCH] Allow custom logging Handlers in logging config files 07/16/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3389 created pjenvey 
 patch 
[PATCH] replace last has_key in unittest by in operator 07/17/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3390 created grubert 
 patch 
Idle uses old showwarning signature 07/17/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3391 created schuppenies 
 patch 
subprocess fails in select when descriptors are large 07/17/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3392 created yorick 

`cd Mac && make installmacsubtree` fails on Mac OS X < 10.5 beca 07/17/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3393 created trentm 

zipfile.writestr doesn't set external attributes, so files are e 07/17/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3394 created swarren 
 patch 
typo in test_multiprocessing.py: should _debugInfo be _debug_in 07/17/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3395 created marketdickinson 
 easy 
rlcompleter can't autocomplete members of callable objects 07/17/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3396 created pitrou 

Mac 3.0 build cannot find cachersrc.py 07/17/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3397 created barry-scott 

mac build 3.0 no MacOS module 07/17/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3398 created barry-scott 

Memory corruption in multiprocessing module, OS X 10.5.4 07/17/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3399 created marketdickinson 

dis module: undocumented new bytecodes 07/17/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3400 created tjreedy 

wsgiref can't handle unicode environments 07/17/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3401 created benjamin.peterson 

test_nis is hanging on Solaris 07/18/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3402 created benjamin.peterson 

Unexpected default arguments behaviour 07/18/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3403 created SukkoPera 

wrong precision in float formatting or doc error 07/18/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3404 created hagen 

Add support for the new data option supported by event generate 07/18/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3405 created gpolo 
 patch 
LocaleTextCalendar and LocaleHTMLCalendar break without a locale 07/18/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3406 created WoLpH 

Issues Now Closed (67)
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Add a factorial function 121 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2138 georg.brandl 

parser module chokes on unusual characters 122 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2280 benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
isinstance is 4x as slow as in 2.5 because the common case raise 119 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2303 gregory.p.smith 
 patch 
decide what to do with gettext API 107 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2512 benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
pickling of large recursive structures crashes cPickle 21 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2702 facundobatista 
 patch 
Clean up undoc.rst 62 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2828 brett.cannon 
 easy 
Remove plat-mac from 3.0 55 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2910 benjamin.peterson 

Test_imports fails in 2.6 52 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2969 benjamin.peterson 

Let bin/oct/hex show floats 21 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3008 marketdickinson 
 patch 
Windows online help broken when spaces in TEMP environ 41 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3045 georg.brandl 
 patch 
Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output for str.fo 34 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3083 eric.smith 

test_multiprocessing hangs intermittently on POSIX platforms 16 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3088 tebeka 
 patch 
ARCHFLAGS parsing/concatenation in unixccompiler.py breaks when 34 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3090 jnoller 
 patch 
implement PEP 3134 exception reporting 31 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3112 benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
os.listdir randomly fails on occasions when it shouldn't 32 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3115 georg.brandl 
 patch 
sys.getsizeof() gives an AttributeError for _sre objects. 30 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3122 schuppenies 
 patch, patch 
sqlite leaks on error 23 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3153 alexandre.vassalotti 

bytes type has inconsistent methods (append, insert) 26 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3156 georg.brandl 
 patch 
function annotation for builtin and C function 19 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3208 bhy 

SystemError: Parent module 'foo' not loaded on import statement 16 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3221 schmir 

can't install on OSX 10.4 18 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3226 benjamin.peterson 

ctypes assertion failure in trunk 13 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3258 theller 

Py_CLEAR(tmp) seg faults 10 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3274 alexandre.vassalotti 

Use Py_XDECREF() instead of Py_DECREF() in MultibyteCodec and Mu 10 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3305 georg.brandl 
 patch 
Out-of-date example 3.0b1 Tutorial Classes page, 'issubclass' 10 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3310 georg.brandl 
 patch 
bugs in _sqlite module 9 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3312 georg.brandl 
 patch 
dlopen() error with no error message from dlerror() 8 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3313 theller 
 patch 
Proposal for fix_urllib 8 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3316 brett.cannon 
 patch 
duplicate lines in zipfile.py 5 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3317 alanmcintyre 
 patch 
Documentation: timeit: "lower bound" should read "upper bound" 9 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3318 georg.brandl 

various doc typos 4 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3320 benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
Broken link in online doc 8 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3324 georg.brandl 

subprocess lib - opening same command fails 4 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3335 benjamin.peterson 

datetime weekday() function 5 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3336 georg.brandl 

dummy_thread LockType.acquire() always returns None, should be T 2 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3339 brett.cannon 
 patch 
Tracebacks are not properly indented 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3342 brett.cannon 
 patch 
Py_DisplaySourceLine is not documented 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3343 amaury.forgeotdarc 

Patch for CGIHTTPServer.is_cgi function documentation 5 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3345 georg.brandl 
 patch 
search for 'patch' produces roundup error 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3349 techtonik 

Python crashed 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3351 loewis 

A bug in the __doc__ string of the sys module 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3357 benjamin.peterson 

add 'rbU' mode to open() 2 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3359 techtonik 

Inconsistent type-deduction of decimal floating-point 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3360 marketdickinson 

pypi issue tracker link (python.org) 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3361 loewis 

An ortographical typo in Zen of Python text 2 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3364 goodger 

in module math, PI value seems to be wrong after digit 17th 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3365 marketdickinson 

2to3 fails in Python 2.6 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3371 benjamin.peterson 

socket.setsockopt() is broken for multicast TTL and Loop options 2 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3372 gpolo 

Bisect upgrades: key/cmp/reverse, parameterized handedness 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3374 rhettinger 
 patch 
_multiprocessing.so build problems 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3375 gvanrossum 

Invalid child node access in ast.c 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3377 jhylton 

documentation for ElementTree is unusable 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3380 facundobatista 

`./configure --enable-framework --enable-universalsdk` fails bec 2 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3381 trentm 

With keyword not mentioned in Input Output tutorial 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3388 georg.brandl 
 patch 
[PATCH] Allow custom logging Handlers in logging config files 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3389 vsajip 
 patch 
`cd Mac && make installmacsubtree` fails on Mac OS X < 10.5 beca 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3393 trentm 

typo in test_multiprocessing.py: should _debugInfo be _debug_in 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3395 jnoller 
 easy 
Mac 3.0 build cannot find cachersrc.py 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3397 benjamin.peterson 

mac build 3.0 no MacOS module 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3398 benjamin.peterson 

Unexpected default arguments behaviour 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3403 georg.brandl 

wrong precision in float formatting or doc error 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3404 georg.brandl 

LocaleTextCalendar and LocaleHTMLCalendar break without a locale 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3406 gpolo 

rlcompleter add "(" to callables feature 2535 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue449227 pitrou 
 patch, easy 
re.split emptyok flag (fix for #852532) 1467 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue988761 georg.brandl 
 patch 
Move firewall warning to "about" menu 716 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1529018 taleinat 
 patch 
Sloppy error checking in listdir() for Posix 590 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1608818 georg.brandl 
 patch, easy 
robotparser.py fixes 327 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1778443 benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
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 18 threading module can deadlock after fork 1650 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue874900 
 13 _multiprocessing.so build problems 1 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3375 
 11 `./configure --enable-framework --enable-universalsdk` fails be 2 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3381 
 10 sys recursion limit a lot shorter on trunk? 3 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3373 
 9 locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4. 3 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3362 
 9 Deficiencies in multiprocessing/threading API 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3352 
 9 Proposal for fix_urllib 8 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3316 
 9 Let bin/oct/hex show floats 21 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3008 
 8 Memory corruption in multiprocessing module, OS X 10.5.4 1 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3399 
 8 2to3 Fix_imports optimization 21 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3218 