[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

Fri Mar 20 18:08:09 CET 2009

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (03/13/09 - 03/20/09)
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 2392 open (+27) / 14957 closed (+14) / 17349 total (+41)
Open issues with patches: 836
Average duration of open issues: 661 days.
Median duration of open issues: 402 days.
Open Issues Breakdown
 open 2362 (+25)
pending 30 ( +2)
Issues Created Or Reopened (44)
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PATCH: Armin's attribute lookup caching for 3.0 03/14/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1568 reopened pitrou 
 patch 
merge json library with latest simplejson 2.0.x 03/17/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue4136 reopened pitrou 
 patch 
profile doesn't support non-UTF8 source code 03/20/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue4282 reopened haypo 
 patch, needs review 
doc copyedits 03/13/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5486 created dsm001 
 patch 
Parts of Tkinter missing (but not when running from IDLE) 03/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5487 created oc 

nb_inplace_divide slot is missing in docs 03/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5488 created donlorenzo 
 patch 
Broken DLL 03/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5489 created JCoder 

Broken DLL 03/14/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5490 created JCoder 

Clarify contextlib.nested semantics 03/15/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5491 created ncoghlan 

Error on leaving IDLE with quit() or exit() under Linux 03/15/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5492 created gerluijten 

Rephrasing the doc of object.__nonzero__ 03/15/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5493 created ezio.melotti 

Failure in test_httpservers on Linux 03/15/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5494 created gerluijten 

ValueError exception of tuple.index(x) gives imprecise error mes 03/15/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5495 created Retro 
 patch 
codecs.lookup docstring is misleading 03/15/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5496 created exarkun 

openssl compileerror with original source 03/17/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5497 created ocean-city 
 patch 
Can SGMLParser properly handle <empty/> tags? 03/17/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5498 created once-off 

only accept byte for getarg('c') and unicode for getarg('C') 03/17/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5499 created haypo 
 patch 
tarfile: path problem in arcname under windows 03/17/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5500 created ellioh 

Update multiprocessing docs re: freeze_support 03/17/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5501 created bcorfman 

io-c: TextIOWrapper is faster than BufferedReader but not protec 03/18/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5502 created haypo 

multiprocessing/connection.py wrong pipe name under win32 03/18/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5503 created jqcn2003 

ctypes should work with systems where mmap can't be PROT_WRITE a 03/18/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5504 created agoode 
 patch 
sys.stdin.read() doesn't return after first EOF on Windows 03/18/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5505 created r_mosaic 

io.BytesIO doesn't support the buffer protocol 03/18/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5506 created pitrou 

ctypes configuration fails on mips-linux (and probably Irix) 03/18/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5507 created doko 

maximum recursion depth exceeded in __subclasscheck__ 03/18/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5508 created gangesmaster 

cPickle - module object has no attribute 03/18/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5509 created ntroutman 

patches for Modules/socketmodule.c for NetBSD 03/18/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5510 created yesmar 
 patch 
zipfile - add __exit__ attribute to make ZipFile object compatib 03/18/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5511 created petruchio 

Streamline integer division 03/18/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5512 created marketdickinson 
 patch 
"What's New" should say VERY CLEARLY that the type file	is gone 03/18/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5513 created MLModel 

Darwin framework libpython3.0.a is not a normal static library 03/18/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5514 created jhowarth 

'n' formatting for int and float handles leading zero padding po 03/19/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5515 created eric.smith 

equality not symmetric for subclasses of datetime.date and datet 03/19/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5516 created jess.austin 

2to3 haven't convert buffer object to memoryview 03/19/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5517 created bhy 

cPickle produces inconsistent output 03/19/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5518 created rb 

Deletion of some statements in re documentation 03/19/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5519 created MLModel 

refactor test_datetime.py 03/19/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5520 created jess.austin 
 patch 
sqlite3.h missing 03/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5521 created mendell 

HTTPRedirectHandler documentation is wrong 03/20/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5522 created jkugler 

Python bug tracker won't let you edit your profile 03/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5523 created jkugler 

execfile() removed from Python3 03/20/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5524 created haypo 
 patch 
Problem with email.MIME* library, using wrong new line 03/20/09
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5525 created lclement 

Local variables unavailable for operation of list comprehension 03/20/09
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue5526 created evan.greensmith 

Issues Now Closed (43)
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Test issue 563 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1064 loewis 
 patch 
locale.format bug if thousand separator is space (french	separat 535 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1222 eric.smith 
 patch 
doctest.testmod gets noisy if called more than once per SystemEx 456 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1611 ncoghlan 

Implement __format__ for Decimal 270 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2110 marketdickinson 
 patch 
float compared to decimal is silently incorrect. 352 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue2531 jdunck 
 easy 
Python 3.0b3 doesn't start on German Win XP SP3/SP2 185 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue3820 pitrou 

float(0.0) singleton 168 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue4024 rhettinger 
 patch 
traceback attribute error 166 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue4034 haypo 
 patch, needs review 
open(): use keyword only for arguments other than file and mode 157 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue4121 haypo 
 patch, patch, needs review 
struct.pack('L', -1) 140 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue4228 marketdickinson 
 patch 
Use 30-bit digits instead of 15-bit digits for Python integers. 136 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue4258 marketdickinson 
 patch 
Idle - incorrectly displaying a character (Latin capital letter 126 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue4281 vbr 

PyUnicode_FromWideChar incorrect for characters outside the BMP 108 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue4474 marketdickinson 
 patch 
exception traceback sometimes slow 101 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue4503 pitrou 

Issue with RotatingFileHandler logging handler on Windows 81 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue4749 neyro 

IDLE startup file .Idle.py not documented 28 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5276 georg.brandl 
 patch 
optparse special usage tokens conflict with formatting character 20 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5374 andybuckley 
 patch 
json needs object_pairs_hook 20 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5381 rhettinger 
 patch 
stack overflow after hitting recursion limit twice 13 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5392 pitrou 
 patch 
os.read not handling O_DIRECT flag 18 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5396 exarkun 

2to3 wrong for types.StringTypes 10 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5425 benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
cmpfunc in Python 3.0.1 windows installer 3 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5431 tjreedy 

Reference paragraph about the constructs that bind names needs u 5 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5469 georg.brandl 

round(float, ndigits<0) sometimes rounds to odd 3 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5473 marketdickinson 

document mistake xml.dom.minidom.Element 4 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5478 georg.brandl 

Expand Decimal.__format__() support to include "n" 5 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5481 marketdickinson 

doc copyedits 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5486 georg.brandl 
 patch 
Parts of Tkinter missing (but not when running from IDLE) 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5487 loewis 

nb_inplace_divide slot is missing in docs 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5488 georg.brandl 
 patch 
Broken DLL 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5489 ocean-city 

Broken DLL 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5490 loewis 

Clarify contextlib.nested semantics 1 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5491 georg.brandl 

Rephrasing the doc of object.__nonzero__ 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5493 georg.brandl 

ValueError exception of tuple.index(x) gives imprecise error mes 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5495 benjamin.peterson 
 patch 
codecs.lookup docstring is misleading 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5496 georg.brandl 

cPickle - module object has no attribute 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5509 benjamin.peterson 

2to3 haven't convert buffer object to memoryview 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5517 benjamin.peterson 

sqlite3.h missing 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5521 benjamin.peterson 

Python bug tracker won't let you edit your profile 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5523 benjamin.peterson 

Local variables unavailable for operation of list comprehension 0 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5526 benjamin.peterson 

dir() should only return strings 1603 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1056293 haypo 
 patch 
Use \r\n, not \n for HTTP headers 849 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1597000 pitrou 
 easy 
if something as x: 678 days
 http://bugs.python.org/issue1714448 mrabarnett 
 patch 
Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
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 12 Allow auto-numbered replacement fields in str.format() strings 36 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue5237 
 11 "What's New" should say VERY CLEARLY that the type file	is gone 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue5513 
 11 RFC: improve distutils bdist_rpm so it builds pure python modul 7 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue5482 
 10 Streamline integer division 2 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue5512 
 10 contextlib.nested inconsistent with, well, nested with statemen 35 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue5251 
 10 if something as x: 678 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1714448
 9 rewrite of minidom.Node.normalize 391 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue2170 
 8 merge json library with latest simplejson 2.0.x 3 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue4136 
 7 mmap: read_byte/write_byte and object type 20 days
open http://bugs.python.org/issue5391 
 7 locale.format bug if thousand separator is space (french	separa 535 days
closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1222 