ACTIVITY SUMMARY (03/06/09 - 03/13/09) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue number. Do NOT respond to this message. 2388 open (+38) / 14920 closed (+16) / 17308 total (+54) Open issues with patches: 837 Average duration of open issues: 658 days. Median duration of open issues: 399 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2359 (+37) pending 29 ( +1) Issues Created Or Reopened (56) _______________________________ 2to3 wrong for types.StringTypes 03/08/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5425 reopened hagen patch cmpfunc in Python 3.0.1 windows installer 03/10/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5431 reopened Nigel Galloway plistlib contains unescaped hex sequence in doc string 03/06/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5432 created jim.correia Excessive optimization in IncrementalNewlineDecoder 03/06/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5433 created pitrou patch datetime.MonthDelta 03/07/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5434 created jess.austin patch test_httpservers on Debian Testing 03/07/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5435 created zamotcr test_distutils fails with official Mac OS X Installer Disk Image 03/07/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5436 created oefe Singleton MemoryError can hold traceback data and locals indefin 03/08/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5437 created pitrou patch test_bigmem.test_from_2G_generator uses more memory than expecte 03/08/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5438 created pitrou string.strip behaves strangly 03/08/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5439 created dwjang string.strip behaves strangly 03/08/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5440 created dwjang Convenience API for timeit.main 03/08/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5441 created ncoghlan easy [3.1alpha1] test_importlib fails on Mac OSX 10.5.6 03/08/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5442 created cartman trivial typo in itertools documentation 03/10/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5443 reopened donlorenzo patch .chm build process on Windows doesn't use the right filename 03/08/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5444 created gagenellina patch codecs.StreamWriter.writelines problem when passed generator 03/08/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5445 created dlesco doc building progress on Windows doesn't show any color 03/08/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5446 created gagenellina patch future unicode literals and r'\u' 03/08/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5447 created pooryorick patch Add precision property to decimal.Decimal 03/08/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5448 created dlesco bug fix to prevent io.BytesIO from accepting arbitrary keyword a 03/08/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5449 created erickt patch test_tcl testLoadTk fails if DISPLAY defined but connect fails, 03/09/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5450 created bitdancer patch patch to make io.StringIO consistent with open with respect to n 03/09/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5451 created erickt patch Documentation for io.StringIO has wrong info for arguments 03/09/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5452 created erickt pydoc -k fails (release30-maint patch) 03/09/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5453 created dariusp patch pydoc -k fails (py3k patch) 03/09/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5454 created dariusp patch csv module no longer works as expected when file opened in binar 03/09/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5455 created skip.montanaro io.StringIO's universal newlines support is broken in 3.0.1 03/09/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5456 created erickt ZipFile writes incorrect modification time (second is off-by-one 03/09/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5457 created ctheune threading.Thread.join() documentation: missing 'from version' fo 03/09/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5458 created eyal.gordon msiexec not creating msvcr90.dll with python -2.6.1.msi 03/09/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5459 created cjlesh Python 3.0 grammar is ambiguous with the addition of star_expr 03/09/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5460 created fabioz python3 symlink 03/09/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5461 created dripton Pythonwin Vista Compatibility 03/09/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5462 created jearls Compiler warning get_ulong is never used 3.x 03/09/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5463 created andreas.schawo patch msgfmt.py does not work with plural form 03/09/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5464 created steve_geo No edit in IDLE in right click context menu 03/10/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5465 created ESlim Tix.Balloon causes TCLError: unknown color name "{#ffff60}" in P 03/10/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5466 created andrewp22 tools\msi\merge.py is sensitive to lack of config.py 03/10/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5467 created tim.golden patch urlencode does not handle "bytes", and could easily handle alter 03/10/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5468 created dmahn Reference paragraph about the constructs that bind names needs u 03/10/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5469 created MLModel MSI installer misses zipdir.zip file in Lib\test 03/10/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5470 created tim.golden patch os.path.expanduser('~') doesnt works correctly when HOME is '/' 03/10/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5471 created pancake patch distutils.test_util fails to restore os.uname; causes test_platf 03/10/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5472 created tim.golden patch round(float, ndigits<0) sometimes rounds to odd 03/10/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5473 created dingo distutils produces invalid RPM packages of prerelease python pac 03/11/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5474 created Rudd-O patch urllib2.getproxies not documented 03/11/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5475 created timmie datetime: timedelta(minutes = i) silently fails with numpy.int32 03/11/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5476 created barronh Typo in itertools documentation 03/11/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5477 created thomasguest document mistake xml.dom.minidom.Element 03/12/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5478 created hsmtkk Add an easy way to provide total ordering now that __cmp__ is de 03/12/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5479 created mrts ".egg-info" => ".pkg-info" 03/12/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5480 created zooko Expand Decimal.__format__() support to include "n" 03/12/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5481 created rhettinger RFC: improve distutils bdist_rpm so it builds pure python module 03/13/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5482 created Rudd-O [PATCH]Add FastDbfilenameShelf: shelf nerver sync cache even whe 03/13/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5483 created zhigang patch subprocess.call() fails for .bat files on Windows, if executable 03/13/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5484 created sandberg pyexpat has no unit tests for UseForeignDTD functionality 03/13/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue5485 created exarkun patch Issues Now Closed (36) ______________________ Update PEP 3135 (super()) 360 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2312 gvanrossum patch string representation of range and dictionary views 335 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2610 benjamin.peterson patch tkSimpleDialog Window Flashing 325 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2638 gpolo patch test issue 309 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2771 ajaksu2 Remove DeprecationWarning in _warnings about 'line' 200 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3652 brett.cannon patch test_bigmem broken 193 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3700 pitrou patch 2.6rc1: test_threading hangs on FreeBSD 6.3 i386 179 days http://bugs.python.org/issue3863 bms patch Issue with RotatingFileHandler logging handler on Windows 77 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4749 neyro PythonCmd in Modules/_tkinter.c should use the given "interp" pa 65 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4792 gpolo patch Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string 25 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5193 gpolo patch Enhance 3.1 IDLE to exec IDLESTARTUP/PYTHONSTARTUP on restart 25 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5234 gpolo patch Distutils in trunk does not work with old Python (2.3 - 2.5) 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5394 tarek patch Core dumps on the Solaris buildbot 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5429 pitrou patch Excessive optimization in IncrementalNewlineDecoder 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5433 pitrou patch string.strip behaves strangly 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5439 loewis string.strip behaves strangly 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5440 loewis doc building progress on Windows doesn't show any color 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5446 benjamin.peterson patch Add precision property to decimal.Decimal 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5448 dlesco patch to make io.StringIO consistent with open with respect to n 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5451 erickt patch Documentation for io.StringIO has wrong info for arguments 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5452 benjamin.peterson pydoc -k fails (py3k patch) 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5454 loewis patch io.StringIO's universal newlines support is broken in 3.0.1 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5456 benjamin.peterson ZipFile writes incorrect modification time (second is off-by-one 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5457 loewis threading.Thread.join() documentation: missing 'from version' fo 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5458 georg.brandl Pythonwin Vista Compatibility 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5462 benjamin.peterson No edit in IDLE in right click context menu 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5465 loewis distutils.test_util fails to restore os.uname; causes test_platf 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5472 tarek patch Typo in itertools documentation 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5477 rhettinger ".egg-info" => ".pkg-info" 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5480 zooko configure argument --libdir is ignored 1859 days http://bugs.python.org/issue891930 matejcik __name__ available during class dictionary build 1244 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1324261 amaury.forgeotdarc ScrolledText hungs up in some conditions 1169 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1390086 amaury.forgeotdarc Proper locking with asynchronous callbacks. 1140 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1412632 amaury.forgeotdarc patch Unicode IOError: execfile(u'\u043a\u043a\u043a/x.py') 1130 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1422398 amaury.forgeotdarc filterwarnings('error') has no effect 925 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1548371 brett.cannon symbol conflict for 'readahead' 692 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1701192 amaury.forgeotdarc Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 13 csv fails when file is opened in binary mode 67 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue4847 11 Add named tuple reader to CSV module 425 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue1818 8 Allow auto-numbered replacement fields in str.format() strings 29 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue5237 7 Regexp 2.7 (modifications to current re 2.2.2) 332 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue2636 6 test_tcl testLoadTk fails if DISPLAY defined but connect fails, 5 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue5450 6 codecs.StreamWriter.writelines problem when passed generator 5 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue5445 5 Add an easy way to provide total ordering now that __cmp__ is d 1 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue5479 5 distutils produces invalid RPM packages of prerelease python pa 3 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue5474 5 csv module no longer works as expected when file opened in bina 5 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue5455 5 test_httpservers on Debian Testing 6 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue5435