[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

Fri Jun 13 18:06:27 CEST 2008

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (06/06/08 - 06/13/08)
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 1899 open (+36) / 13028 closed (+15) / 14927 total (+51)
Open issues with patches: 574
Average duration of open issues: 713 days.
Median duration of open issues: 1464 days.
Open Issues Breakdown
 open 1873 (+35)
pending 26 ( +1)
Issues Created Or Reopened (54)
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merge pickle and cPickle in 3.0 06/12/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2917 reopened benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
Implement PEP 371: multiprocessing module 06/11/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3050 reopened benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
heapq change breaking compatibility 06/09/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3051 reopened rhettinger 
 patch 
test_disutils fails 06/06/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3054 created ronaldoussoren 
 patch 
test_list on 64-bit platforms 06/06/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3055 created ronaldoussoren 

Simplify the Integral ABC 06/07/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3056 created rhettinger 
 patch 
2.6 abc fixes 06/07/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3057 created georg.brandl 
 patch, 26backport 
Let SimpleXMLRPCServer pass client_address to called functions. 06/07/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3058 created cloverprince 

Removing .decode calls from Lib/calendar.py 06/07/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3059 created gpolo 
 patch 
Warn about tuple parameters 06/08/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3060 created benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
time.strftime() always decodes result with UTF-8 06/08/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3061 created georg.brandl 

Turtle speed() function has no effect under Mac OS X 06/08/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3062 created delroth 

memory leak in random number generation 06/08/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3063 created gtang 

new turtle module for Python 3.0 06/08/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3064 created gregorlingl 
 patch 
Fix pickling bug of collections.namedtuple 06/08/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3065 created alexandre.vassalotti 
 patch, patch 
FD leak in urllib2 06/09/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3066 created bohdan 

setlocale Tracebacks on unicode locale strings 06/09/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3067 created vincent.chute 

IDLE - Add an extension configuration dialog 06/09/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3068 created taleinat 
 patch 
Let set.union and set.intersection accept multiple arguments 06/09/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3069 created arno 
 patch 
Wrong size calculation in posix_execve 06/09/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3070 created Rhamphoryncus 

The ValueError raised by failing to unpack sequence should have 06/10/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3071 created jml 

Assignment to list of lists gives incorrect result 06/10/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3072 created stesteve 

Cookie.Morsel breaks in parsing cookie values with whitespace 06/10/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3073 created rhymes 

test_asyncore is failing 06/10/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3074 created benjamin.peterson 

make minidom.toxml() encoding argument useful 06/10/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3075 created janssen 
 easy 
test_xmlrpc_net fails 06/10/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3076 created cartman 

h2py char literal doesn work 06/11/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3077 created grossetti 
 patch 
tokenize.py improvements 06/11/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3078 created Indy 
 patch 
sys.exit() called from optparse - bad, bad, bad 06/11/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3079 created skip.montanaro 
 easy 
Full unicode import system 06/11/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3080 created amaury.forgeotdarc 

Py_(X)SETREF macros 06/11/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3081 created pitrou 
 patch 
test_multiprocessing broken 06/11/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3082 created gregory.p.smith 

Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output for str.fo 06/11/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3083 created eric.smith 

sys.exit() called from optparse - bad, bad, bad 06/11/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3084 created skip.montanaro 

chapter 17.1.3.5 'Replacing os.popen*' in the Python library ref 06/11/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3085 created afoo 

sys.maxsize not available by using the latest Win32 build 06/12/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3086 created giampaolo.rodola 

Clean up Demos and Tools 06/12/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3087 created benjamin.peterson 
 easy 
test_multiprocessing hangs on OS X 10.5.3 06/12/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3088 created barry 

All 3.0 buildbots are red 06/12/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3089 created barry 

ARCHFLAGS parsing/concatenation in unixccompiler.py breaks when 06/12/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3090 created jnoller 
 patch 
Can't build datetime or time on py3k (r64171) 06/12/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3091 created skip.montanaro 

Wrong unicode size detection in pybench 06/12/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3092 created pitrou 
 patch 
Namespace polution from multiprocessing 06/12/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3093 created Rhamphoryncus 

By default, HTTPSConnection should send header "Host: somehost" 06/12/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3094 created steven.wong 
 patch 
multiprocessing initializes flags dict unsafely 06/12/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3095 created Rhamphoryncus 
 patch 
sphinx: sort warnings by filename 06/12/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3096 created mgedmin 
 patch 
sphinx: config option for exclude_dirnames 06/12/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3097 created mgedmin 

sys.sizeof test fails with wide unicode 06/12/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3098 created benjamin.peterson 

On windows, "import nul" always succeed 06/13/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3099 created amaury.forgeotdarc 

weakref subclass segfault 06/13/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3100 created Rhamphoryncus 
 patch 
global function _add_one_to_C 06/13/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3101 created loewis 

ctypes defines global symbols 06/13/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3102 created loewis 

sqlite defines a few global symbols. 06/13/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3103 created loewis 

overzealous garbage collector (dict) 06/13/08
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3104 created GreaseMonkey 

Issues Now Closed (53)
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Crash on Windows if Python runs from a directory with umlauts 229 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1342 amaury.forgeotdarc 
 patch 
Thread local storage and PyGILState_* mucked up by os.fork() 174 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1683 benjamin.peterson 

test_crasher in test_struct uses 8 GB memory on 64 bit systems 114 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2137 gregory.p.smith 
 patch, 64bit, easy 
Add a factorial function 83 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2138 rhettinger 

Update PEP 3000 with new release schedule 85 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2330 georg.brandl 

Py3K warn against assigning to True/False 83 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2349 benjamin.peterson 
 patch, 26backport 
Remove all IRIX dependant modules from aifc module 85 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2419 georg.brandl 

No way to disable socket timeouts in httplib, etc. 72 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2451 facundobatista 
 patch 
Remove unused constants from optimized code objects 78 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2493 rhettinger 
 patch 
Exception state lives too long in 3.0 29 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2507 benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
itertools.permutations docstring is misleading 69 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2536 georg.brandl 

Unpickling of range objects fail in Py3k 63 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2582 alexandre.vassalotti 
 patch 
Descriptor instance attributes not interpreted consistently 62 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2605 gvanrossum 

Tile module: Add support for themed widgets 58 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2618 benjamin.peterson 

repr() should not escape non-ASCII characters 59 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2630 ishimoto 
 patch 
__exit__ silences the active exception 30 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2833 benjamin.peterson 

Remove cl usage from aifc 25 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2847 georg.brandl 
 patch 
Remove mimetools usage from the stdlib 30 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2848 benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
Remove usage of rfc822 from the stdlib 30 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2849 benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
rewrite test_struct as a unittest 24 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2911 benjamin.peterson 
 patch, easy 
let platform.uname try harder 26 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2912 benjamin.peterson 
 patch, easy 
merge pickle and cPickle in 3.0 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2917 alexandre.vassalotti 
 patch 
Merge StringIO/cStringIO in 3.0 23 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2918 alexandre.vassalotti 
 patch 
test_pydoc fails in trunk 15 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2976 benjamin.peterson 

PyNumberMethods has left-over fields in Py3 10 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2997 benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
disutils fails with GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.18.50.20080523 12 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3013 georg.brandl 
 patch, easy 
Lexical exception handlers 10 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3021 benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
tokenize module: normal lines, not "logical" 6 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3028 noam 

free list management - list, dict, set 5 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3029 gregory.p.smith 
 patch, patch 
Add PEP 8 compliant aliases to threading module 6 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3042 benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
Some 3k sizeof tests fail 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3049 loewis 

Implement PEP 371: multiprocessing module 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3050 jnoller 
 patch 
Mac Modules failing to compile 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3052 benjamin.peterson 

2.6 abc fixes 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3057 georg.brandl 
 patch, 26backport 
Removing .decode calls from Lib/calendar.py 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3059 georg.brandl 
 patch 
Warn about tuple parameters 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3060 benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
memory leak in random number generation 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3063 tim_one 

new turtle module for Python 3.0 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3064 loewis 
 patch 
Fix pickling bug of collections.namedtuple 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3065 rhettinger 
 patch, patch 
Assignment to list of lists gives incorrect result 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3072 loewis 

test_asyncore is failing 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3074 josiahcarlson 

test_xmlrpc_net fails 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3076 benjamin.peterson 

test_multiprocessing broken 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3082 gregory.p.smith 

sys.exit() called from optparse - bad, bad, bad 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3084 skip.montanaro 

sys.maxsize not available by using the latest Win32 build 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3086 benjamin.peterson 

Can't build datetime or time on py3k (r64171) 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3091 skip.montanaro 

multiprocessing initializes flags dict unsafely 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3095 Rhamphoryncus 
 patch 
sphinx: sort warnings by filename 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3096 georg.brandl 
 patch 
SimpleHTTPServer reports wrong content-length for text files 1677 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue839496 gagenellina 
 patch 
winerror module 725 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1505257 giampaolo.rodola 
 patch 
__unicode__ breaks for exception class objects 645 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1551432 davidfraser 

urlparse.urlunparse forms file urls incorrectly 387 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1722348 georg.brandl 

"%d" format handling for long values 353 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1742669 pixelbeat 
 patch 
Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________
 24 Implement PEP 371: multiprocessing module 0 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3050 
 17 let platform.uname try harder 26 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue2912 
 17 Error when printing an exception containing a Unicode string 74 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue2517 
 14 test_multiprocessing hangs on OS X 10.5.3 1 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3088 
 14 heapq change breaking compatibility 4 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3051 
 12 Remove mimetools usage from the stdlib 30 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue2848 
 10 New class special method lookup change 2027 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue643841 
 10 weakref subclass segfault 1 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue3100 
 9 memory leak in random number generation 0 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3063 
 9 Lexical exception handlers 10 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue3021 