[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

Fri Jul 25 18:06:29 CEST 2008

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (07/18/08 - 07/25/08)
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 1951 open (+29) / 13318 closed (+11) / 15269 total (+40)
Open issues with patches: 615
Average duration of open issues: 710 days.
Median duration of open issues: 1621 days.
Open Issues Breakdown
 open 1937 (+28)
pending 14 ( +1)
Issues Created Or Reopened (44)
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function annotation for builtin and C function 07/21/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3208 reopened amaury.forgeotdarc 

`./configure --enable-framework --enable-universalsdk` fails bec 07/21/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3381 reopened georg.brandl 
 patch 
test_urllib2_localnet fails on MacOS X 10.4.11 (Intel) 07/18/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3407 created MrJean1 

urllib incomplete and urllib2 does not exist 07/18/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3408 created vizcayno 

ElementPath.Path.findall problem with unicode input 07/18/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3409 created qual 
 patch 
platform.version() don't work as expected in Vista in portuguese 07/18/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3410 created portella 

str.format() on negative floats 07/18/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3411 created hagen 

Fraction and Decimal in the Tutorial 07/18/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3412 created segfaulthunter 

typo in Mac/Makefile.in breaks installing IDLE 07/19/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3413 created erickt 

frameworkinstall doesn't create Python.app, which breaks python 07/19/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3414 created erickt 

Interpreter error when running a script under debugger control 07/19/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3415 created nirai 

Wrong inherit in PickleHTMLBuilder 07/19/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3416 created is 

make the fix_dict fixer smarter 07/19/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3417 created benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
heavy resource usage with string functions 07/19/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3418 created mgogoulos 

multiprocessing module is racy 07/19/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3419 created cartman 

2to3 fails to run on Mac OS X 10.4 PPC 3.0b2 07/20/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3420 created barry-scott 

Test failure in test_math::testSum 07/20/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3421 created georg.brandl 

sphinx.doc.autodoc: Hook for changing argspec 07/20/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3422 created pv 
 patch 
DeprecationWarning message applies to wrong context with exec() 07/22/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3423 created ghazel 

imghdr test order makes it slow 07/22/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3424 created biny 

posixmodule.c always using res = utime(path, NULL) 07/22/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3425 created oskar86 

os.path.abspath with unicode argument should call os.getcwdu 07/22/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3426 created saturn_mimas 

urllib documentation: urlopen().info() return type 07/22/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3427 created ThomasH 

httplib.HTTPMessage undocumented 07/22/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3428 created ThomasH 

urllib.urlopen() return type 07/22/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3429 created ThomasH 

httplib.HTTPResponse documentations inconsistent 07/22/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3430 created ThomasH 

multiprocessing uses Pickler.dispatch which isn't in 3.0 _pickle 07/23/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3431 created georg.brandl 

Mac, 2.6 framework install error 07/24/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3432 created robind 

Mac, 3.0 framework install error with fink cp 07/24/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3433 created robind 

Mac, 3.0 framework install, Python.app not created 07/24/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3434 created robind 

trace.py tries to get coverage data from non Python files 07/24/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3435 created Gustavo 
 patch 
csv.DictReader inconsistency 07/24/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3436 created mishok13 
 patch 
robotparser.py missing one line 07/24/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3437 created mbloore 

PyCF_DONT_IMPLY_DEDENT can be used to activate the with statemen 07/24/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3438 created gpolo 
 patch 
math.frexp and obtaining the bit size of a large integer 07/24/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3439 created fredrikj 
 patch 
Starting Python as a subprocess fails when subprocess.Popen has 07/24/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3440 created kermode 

Regression in "module as a script" command-line option 07/25/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3441 created richard 

wsgiref.validate.InputWrapper.readline does not accept optional 07/25/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3442 created xaka 

crash on badly initialised AttributeError 07/25/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3443 created scoder 

add warnings for intra-package imports 07/25/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3444 created benjamin.peterson 

functools.update_wrapper bug 07/25/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3445 created Antoine d'Otreppe 

center, ljust and rjust are inconsistent with unicode parameters 07/25/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3446 created ignas 

list(obj) can swallow KeyboardInterrupt 07/18/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1242657 reopened georg.brandl 

long(float('nan'))!=0L 07/21/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1481296 reopened georg.brandl 
 patch 
Issues Now Closed (61)
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python 2.4.4 fails on solaris (sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880) 264 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1363 georg.brandl 

os.system() fails for commands with multiple quoted file names 237 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1524 likes 

socket functions that should return unsigned int return signed i 203 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1711 georg.brandl 

PythonLauncher not working correctly on OS X 10.5/Leopad 180 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1905 georg.brandl 

UnboundLocalError when trying to raise exceptions inside execfil 126 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2378 amaury.forgeotdarc 
 patch 
[py3k] Integer floor division (//): small int check omitted 128 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2417 facundobatista 
 patch 
Py3.0a4 wsgiref simple_server failed to start 109 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2566 pitrou 

setuptools gets site-packages wrong on Mac 96 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2641 georg.brandl 

2to3 discards comments before import statements 64 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2894 georg.brandl 
 patch 
idlelib/EditorWindow.py uses xrange() 61 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2913 georg.brandl 
 patch 
urlgrabber.grabber calls setdefaulttimeout 66 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2916 georg.brandl 

Wrong unicode size detection in pybench 40 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3092 pitrou 
 patch 
overzealous garbage collector (dict) 37 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3104 georg.brandl 

Document exception chaining 35 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3113 georg.brandl 

ConfigParsers are classic classes 27 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3181 georg.brandl 
 patch 
re.compile fails with some bytes patterns 24 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3231 pitrou 
 patch 
segfault on gettext(None) 13 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3302 georg.brandl 
 patch 
invalid ref count on locale.strcoll() error 14 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3303 georg.brandl 
 patch 
invalid check of _bsddb creation failure 12 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3307 jcea 
 patch 
pystone.main(10) causes ZeroDivisionError 11 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3319 georg.brandl 
 patch 
bugs in scanstring_str() and scanstring_unicode() of _json modul 11 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3322 georg.brandl 
 patch 
Clarify __slots__ behaviour when inheriting 10 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3323 georg.brandl 

webbrowser module doesn't correctly handle '|' character. 10 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3330 georg.brandl 

Possible inconsistency in behavior of list comprehensions vs. ge 9 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3331 georg.brandl 

2to3 looses indentation on import fix 9 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3334 georg.brandl 
 patch 
test_ossaudiodev fails 6 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3346 benjamin.peterson 

urllib.robotparser doesn't work in Py3k 6 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3347 jhylton 
 patch 
Display bug in :show-inheritance: for class with standard docstr 4 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3355 georg.brandl 

add 'rbU' mode to open() 10 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3359 amaury.forgeotdarc 

Memory leak in import.c 4 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3368 georg.brandl 
 patch, patch, easy 
memory leak in floatobject.c 6 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3369 marketdickinson 
 patch, patch, easy 
Memory leak in pythonrun.c 3 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3378 georg.brandl 
 patch, patch 
`./configure --enable-framework --enable-universalsdk` fails bec 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3381 trentm 
 patch 
Documentation for re.findall and re.finditer lacks "ordering" in 3 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3384 jkugler 

undefined array passed to CryptGenRandomBytes 5 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3387 amaury.forgeotdarc 
 patch, patch, easy 
[PATCH] replace last has_key in unittest by in operator 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3390 georg.brandl 
 patch 
rlcompleter can't autocomplete members of callable objects 4 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3396 facundobatista 

dis module: undocumented new bytecodes 3 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3400 georg.brandl 

urllib incomplete and urllib2 does not exist 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3408 georg.brandl 

str.format() on negative floats 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3411 eric.smith 

typo in Mac/Makefile.in breaks installing IDLE 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3413 benjamin.peterson 

frameworkinstall doesn't create Python.app, which breaks python 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3414 georg.brandl 

Interpreter error when running a script under debugger control 2 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3415 amaury.forgeotdarc 

Wrong inherit in PickleHTMLBuilder 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3416 georg.brandl 

heavy resource usage with string functions 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3418 loewis 

multiprocessing uses Pickler.dispatch which isn't in 3.0 _pickle 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3431 alexandre.vassalotti 

Mac, 3.0 framework install, Python.app not created 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3434 georg.brandl 

Regression in "module as a script" command-line option 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3441 benjamin.peterson 

wsgiref.validate.InputWrapper.readline does not accept optional 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3442 pje 

pydoc.Helper.topics not based on docs 2096 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue628258 georg.brandl 

test_htmlparser -- more robust SCRIPT tag handling 2003 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue674449 georg.brandl 
 patch 
copy_reg globals in cPickle 1804 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue787077 georg.brandl 

SimpleHTTPServer reports wrong content-length for text files 37 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue839496 georg.brandl 
 patch, easy 
(ref-manual) position docstrings in source not documented 1572 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue926501 georg.brandl 

tp_subclasses grow without bounds 1485 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue980092 georg.brandl 

Make Generators Pickle-able 1299 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1092962 georg.brandl 

Add proxies arg to urllib.urlretrieve 1170 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1197207 georg.brandl 
 patch 
floating point literals don't work in non-US locale in 2.5 935 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1391872 georg.brandl 

64-bit Universal Binary build broken 578 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1619130 georg.brandl 

terminalcommand doesn't work under Darwin 513 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1666952 georg.brandl 

sqlite3.dll cannot be relocated 409 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1733134 georg.brandl 

Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
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 10 add 'rbU' mode to open() 10 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3359 
 10 function annotation for builtin and C function 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3208 
 9 Add gamma and error functions to math module 10 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3366 
 9 Clean up usage of map() in the stdlib 759 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue1513299
 8 make the fix_dict fixer smarter 6 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3417 
 7 bugs in scanstring_str() and scanstring_unicode() of _json modu 11 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3322 
 7 bsddb/test/test_replication.py bus error, segfault, assertion e 62 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue2960 
 7 Crash in PyObject_Malloc 370 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue1758146
 6 binary buffered reading is quadratic 116 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue2523 
 5 math.frexp and obtaining the bit size of a large integer 1 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3439 