[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

Fri Apr 24 18:07:29 CEST 2009

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (04/17/09 - 04/24/09)
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 2227 open (+32) / 15427 closed (+17) / 17654 total (+49)
Open issues with patches: 865
Average duration of open issues: 641 days.
Median duration of open issues: 395 days.
Open Issues Breakdown
 open 2175 (+31)
pending 52 ( +1)
Issues Created Or Reopened (51)
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Builtin round function is sometimes inaccurate for floats 04/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue1869 reopened marketdickinson 
 patch 
logging to file + encoding 04/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5170 reopened shamilbi 

IDLE cannot find windows chm file 04/17/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5783 created rhettinger 
 patch 
raw deflate format and zlib module 04/17/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5784 created phr 

Condition.wait() does not respect its timeout 04/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5785 created Kjir 

len(reversed([1,2,3])) does not work anymore in 2.6.2 04/19/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5786 reopened rhettinger 

object.__getattribute__(super, '__bases__') crashes the interpre 04/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5787 reopened alexer 

datetime.timedelta is inconvenient to use... 04/18/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5788 created bquinlan 
 patch 
powerset recipe listed twice in itertools docs 04/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5789 created stevenjd 
 easy 
itertools.izip python code has a typo 04/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5790 created stevenjd 

title information of unicodedata is wrong in some cases 04/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5791 created cfbolz 

Enable short float repr() on Solaris/x86 04/19/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5792 created marketdickinson 
 easy 
Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower / ... uses throughout Py 04/19/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5793 created marketdickinson 
 easy 
pickle/cPickle of recursive tuples create pickles that cPickle c 04/19/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5794 created cwitty 

test_distutils failure on the ppc Debian buildbot 04/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5795 created pitrou 

test_posix, test_pty crash under Windows 04/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5796 created pitrou 
 patch 
there is en exception om Create User page 04/20/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5797 created nabeel 

test_asynchat fails on Mac OSX 04/20/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5798 created cartman 

Change ntpath functions to implicitly support UNC paths 04/20/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5799 created larry 
 patch 
make wsgiref.headers.Headers accept empty constructor 04/20/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5800 created tarek 
 easy 
spurious empty lines in wsgiref code 04/20/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5801 created tarek 

The security descriptors of python binaries in Windows are not s 04/20/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5802 created kindloaf 

email/quoprimime: encode and decode are very slow on large messa 04/20/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5803 created dmbaggett 

Add a "tail" argument to zlib.decompress 04/21/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5804 created krisvale 
 patch 
Distutils (or py2exe) error with DistributionMetaData 04/21/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5805 created varash 

MySQL crash on machine startup.... 04/21/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5806 created plattecoducks 

ConfigParser.RawConfigParser it's an "old-style" class 04/21/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5807 created ZeD 

Subprocess.getstatusoutput Fails Executing 'dir' Command on Wind 04/21/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5808 created mrwizard82d1 

"No such file or directory" with framework build under MacOS 10. 04/21/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5809 created creachadair 

test_distutils fails - sysconfig._config_vars is None 04/22/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5810 created srid 

io.BufferedReader.peek(): Documentation differs from Implementat 04/22/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5811 created trott 

Fraction('1e6') should be valid. 04/22/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5812 created marketdickinson 
 patch 
Pointer into language reference from __future__ module documenta 04/22/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5813 created ncoghlan 

SocketServer: TypeError: waitpid() takes no keyword arguments 04/22/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5814 created arekm 

locale.getdefaultlocale() missing corner case 04/22/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5815 created rg3 
 patch 
Simplify parsing of complex numbers and make	complex('inf') vali 04/22/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5816 created marketdickinson 
 patch 
Right-click behavior from Windows Explorer 04/23/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5817 created Mkop 

Fix five small bugs in the bininstall and altbininstall pseudota 04/23/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5818 created larry 
 patch 
Add PYTHONPREFIXES environment variable 04/23/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5819 created larry 
 patch 
Very small bug in documentation of json.load() 04/23/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5820 created pcshyamshankar 
 patch 
Documentation: mention 'close' and iteration for tarfile.TarFile 04/23/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5821 created bennorth 
 patch 
inconsistent behavior of range when used in combination with rem 04/23/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5822 created zero79 

feature request: a conditional "for" statement 04/23/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5823 created zero79 

SocketServer.DatagramRequestHandler Broken under Linux 04/23/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5824 created jimd 

Patch to add "remove" method to tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile 04/24/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5825 created tebeka 
 patch 
new unittest function listed as assertIsNotNot() instead of asse 04/24/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5826 created mrooney 

os.path.normpath doesn't preserve unicode 04/24/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5827 created mgiuca 
 patch 
Invalid behavior of unicode.lower 04/24/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5828 created jarek 

float('1e500') -> inf, complex('1e500') -> ValueError 04/24/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5829 created marketdickinson 
 easy 
heapq item comparison problematic with sched's events 04/24/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5830 created kfj 

Doc mistake : threading.Timer is *not* a class 04/24/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5831 created maxenced 
 easy 
Issues Now Closed (50)
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Use shorter float repr when possible 495 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1580 marketdickinson 
 patch 
Builtin round function is sometimes inaccurate for floats 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1869 marketdickinson 
 patch 
Idle, some Linuxes, cannot position Cursor by mouseclick 329 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2995 gpolo 

Make conversions from long to float correctly rounded. 303 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3166 marketdickinson 
 patch 
Exception for test_urllib2_localnet 246 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3584 r.david.murray 

float.fromhex discrepancy under Solaris 240 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3633 marketdickinson 
 patch, needs review 
patch for review: OS/2 EMX port fixes for 2.6 221 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3868 aimacintyre 
 patch, patch 
logging to file + encoding 2 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5170 vsajip 

Allow auto-numbered replacement fields in str.format() strings 68 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5237 eric.smith 
 patch 
Add test.support.import_python_only 58 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5354 ncoghlan 

'n' formatting for int and float handles leading zero padding po 35 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5515 eric.smith 

bad repr of itertools.count object with negative value on OS X 1 18 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5657 ronaldoussoren 

Fix BufferedRWPair 8 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5734 pitrou 
 patch 
Typo in documentation of print function parameters 7 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5751 georg.brandl 

Documentation error for Condition.notify() 7 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5757 georg.brandl 

__getitem__ error message hard to understand 3 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5760 georg.brandl 

SA bugs with unittest.py at r71263 2 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5771 benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using n 6 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5772 eric.smith 
 easy 
marshal.c needs to be checked for out of memory errors 5 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5775 eric.smith 

unable to search in python V3 documentation 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5777 georg.brandl 

_elementtree import can fail silently 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5779 benjamin.peterson 

test_float fails for 'legacy' float repr style 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5780 marketdickinson 
 patch 
Legacy float repr is used unnecessarily on some platforms 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5781 marketdickinson 
 easy 
',' formatting with empty format type '' (PEP 378) 5 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5782 eric.smith 
 easy 
Condition.wait() does not respect its timeout 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5785 benjamin.peterson 

object.__getattribute__(super, '__bases__') crashes the interpre 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5787 benjamin.peterson 

powerset recipe listed twice in itertools docs 3 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5789 rhettinger 
 easy 
itertools.izip python code has a typo 2 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5790 rhettinger 

title information of unicodedata is wrong in some cases 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5791 loewis 

test_distutils failure on the ppc Debian buildbot 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5795 tarek 

test_posix, test_pty crash under Windows 2 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5796 r.david.murray 
 patch 
Distutils (or py2exe) error with DistributionMetaData 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5805 loewis 

MySQL crash on machine startup.... 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5806 plattecoducks 

ConfigParser.RawConfigParser it's an "old-style" class 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5807 benjamin.peterson 

Subprocess.getstatusoutput Fails Executing 'dir' Command on Wind 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5808 benjamin.peterson 

Fraction('1e6') should be valid. 2 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5812 marketdickinson 
 patch 
Pointer into language reference from __future__ module documenta 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5813 georg.brandl 

Simplify parsing of complex numbers and make	complex('inf') vali 2 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5816 marketdickinson 
 patch 
Very small bug in documentation of json.load() 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5820 georg.brandl 
 patch 
inconsistent behavior of range when used in combination with rem 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5822 zero79 

feature request: a conditional "for" statement 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5823 zero79 

No sleep or busy wait 2093 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue780602 gpolo 

ConfigParser non-string defaults broken with .getboolean() 1771 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue974019 draghuram 
 patch, easy 
ctrl-left/-right works incorectly with diacritics 1707 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1012435 gpolo 

not enough information in SGMLParseError 1625 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1063229 ajaksu2 

Frame does not receive configure event on move 1562 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1100366 gpolo 

Let shift operators take any integer value 1436 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1205239 marketdickinson 

Allow thread(ing) tests to pass without setting stack size 994 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1533520 aimacintyre 
 patch 
import deadlocks when using PyObjC threads 898 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1590864 abaron 

object.__init__ shouldn't allow args/kwds 763 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1683368 KayEss 

Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
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 18 Add DTrace probes 194 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4111 
 15 IDLE cannot find windows chm file 7 days
pending http://bugs.python.org/issue5783 
 9 len(reversed([1,2,3])) does not work anymore in 2.6.2 6 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue5786 
 8 Use shorter float repr when possible 495 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1580 
 7 Fraction('1e6') should be valid. 2 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5812 
 7 datetime.timedelta is inconvenient to use... 6 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue5788 
 7 logging to file + encoding 2 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5170 
 7 Builtin round function is sometimes inaccurate for floats 0 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1869 
 6 Simplify parsing of complex numbers and make	complex('inf') val 2 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue5816 
 6 locale.getdefaultlocale() missing corner case 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue5815 