Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

From: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk_at_shore.net)
Date: 10/20/04


Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:36:28 -0400 (EDT)
To: python-dev@python.org, python-list@python.org

Patch / Bug Summary
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Patches : 240 open ( +0) / 2661 closed ( +6) / 2901 total ( +6)
Bugs : 772 open ( +6) / 4528 closed (+14) / 5300 total (+20)
RFE : 155 open ( +0) / 131 closed ( +0) / 286 total ( +0)

New / Reopened Patches
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typo in liblocale.tex (2004-10-15)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1047577 opened by George Yoshida

fileinput.py fixed clobbering behavior and added encodings (2004-10-15)
       http://python.org/sf/1048075 opened by Chris Connett

subprocess documentation (2004-10-16)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1048341 opened by Fredrik Lundh

Bug fixes and cleanup for decimal.py (2004-10-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1048728 opened by Neal Norwitz

adding bool support to xdrlib.py (2004-10-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1049151 opened by Lars Gustäbel

PyOS_InputHook inconsistency on Windows (2004-10-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1049855 opened by Michiel de Hoon

Patches Closed
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Bad test for HAVE_UINTPTR_T in PC/pyconfig.h (2004-09-01)
       http://python.org/sf/1020042 closed by loewis

typo in liblocale.tex (2004-10-15)
       http://python.org/sf/1047577 closed by nnorwitz

Buffer overwrite in PyUnicode_AsWideChar (2004-10-14)
       http://python.org/sf/1047269 closed by lemburg

subprocess documentation (2004-10-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1048341 closed by effbot

Implementation for PEP 318 (Guido's version) (2004-03-31)
       http://python.org/sf/926860 closed by nnorwitz

rfc822.parsedate returns a tuple (2003-04-01)
       http://python.org/sf/713599 closed by nnorwitz

New / Reopened Bugs
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Turtle.py hangs Idle (2004-10-15)
       http://python.org/sf/1047540 opened by Taro Ogawa

Turtle.py hangs Idle (2004-10-15)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1047549 opened by Taro Ogawa

stat documentation is incorrect (2004-10-16)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1048234 opened by libber ator

Memory leaks? (2004-10-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1048495 opened by Roman Mamedov

SystemError with deque (2004-10-17)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1048498 opened by George Yoshida

Add pythonX.dll to KnownDlls (2004-10-17)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1048681 opened by Miki Tebeka

Doc typo (2004-10-17)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1048756 opened by Scott David Daniels

test_subprocess 2.4b1 fails on FreeBSD 5.2 (2004-10-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1048808 opened by Shalabh Chaturvedi

C-k does not work for curses.textpad.Textbox (2004-10-17)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1048816 opened by Stefan Heimann

Only "Overwrite" mode possible with curses.textpad.Textbox (2004-10-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1048820 opened by Stefan Heimann

unexpected floating point exponent behaviour (2004-10-17)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1048864 opened by Ruwen Hahn

codecs.StreamReader.readlines() broken (2004-10-17)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1048865 opened by Thomas Waldmann

call arg of lambda not updating (2004-10-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1048870 reopened by kquick

call arg of lambda not updating (2004-10-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1048870 opened by Kevin Quick

shutil.copytree copies stat of files, but not of dirs (2004-10-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1048878 opened by Thomas Waldmann

Registry not updated by 2.4b1 installer (2004-10-17)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1048900 opened by B Sizer

strptime doesn't work with %U (2004-10-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1045381 reopened by bcannon

os.rmtree error handling was always broken (2004-10-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1048941 opened by Guido van Rossum

Install-time module compilation fails with 2.4b1 (2004-10-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1049003 opened by Tony Meyer

Solaris: EINTR exception in select/socket calls in telnetlib (2004-10-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1049450 opened by Mike Brauwerman

smeared title when installing (2004-10-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1049615 opened by Jim Jewett

test_socket PORT conflict with boa-constructor (2004-10-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1049816 opened by Simon Dahlbacka

zlib module documentation wrong version (2004-10-19)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1049826 opened by Wolfgang Langner

rfc822.parseaddr is broken, breaks sendmail call in smtplib (2004-10-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1050268 opened by Scott Dossey

Bugs Closed
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Turtle.py hangs Idle (2004-10-15)
       http://python.org/sf/1047549 closed by tso

Error in the given example (2004-10-14)
       http://python.org/sf/1046800 closed by facundobatista

stat documentation is incorrect (2004-10-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1048234 closed by jlgijsbers

Docs for os, popen2 omit list argument to popen2() et al (2004-03-01)
       http://python.org/sf/907457 closed by jlgijsbers

Unable to install Docs - Linux (2004-10-11)
       http://python.org/sf/1044872 closed by jlgijsbers

distutils.util.get_platform() should include sys.version[:3] (2004-09-27)
       http://python.org/sf/1035703 closed by etrepum

SystemError with deque (2004-10-16)
       http://python.org/sf/1048498 closed by rhettinger

textReader: reading after close is a seg fault (2004-09-30)
       http://python.org/sf/1038013 closed by nnorwitz

Add pythonX.dll to KnownDlls (2004-10-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1048681 closed by loewis

Doc typo (2004-10-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1048756 closed by nnorwitz

C-k does not work for curses.textpad.Textbox (2004-10-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1048816 closed by akuchling

unexpected floating point exponent behaviour (2004-10-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1048864 closed by tim_one

codecs.StreamReader.readlines() broken (2004-10-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1048865 closed by perky

call arg of lambda not updating (2004-10-17)
       http://python.org/sf/1048870 closed by rhettinger

Registry not updated by 2.4b1 installer (2004-10-18)
       http://python.org/sf/1048900 closed by loewis

strptime doesn't work with %U (2004-10-12)
       http://python.org/sf/1045381 closed by bcannon

zlib module documentation wrong version (2004-10-19)
       http://python.org/sf/1049826 closed by akuchling

warning '"_POSIX_C_SOURCE" redefined' when include Python.h (2004-10-13)
       http://python.org/sf/1045893 closed by loewis



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