Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary



Patch / Bug Summary
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Patches : 416 open (-14) / 3463 closed (+16) / 3879 total ( +2)
Bugs : 930 open ( +8) / 6333 closed (+17) / 7263 total (+25)
RFE : 244 open ( -1) / 244 closed ( +3) / 488 total ( +2)

New / Reopened Patches
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tkSimpleDialog freezes when apply raises exception (2006-11-11)
http://python.org/sf/1594554 opened by Hirokazu Yamamoto

Iterating closed StringIO.StringIO (2005-11-18)
http://python.org/sf/1359365 reopened by doerwalter

Cross compiling patches for MINGW (2006-11-16)
http://python.org/sf/1597850 opened by Han-Wen Nienhuys

Patches Closed
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`in` for classic object causes segfault (2006-11-07)
http://python.org/sf/1591996 closed by loewis

askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox (2005-11-08)
http://python.org/sf/1351744 closed by loewis

PyErr_CheckSignals returns -1 on error, not 1 (2006-11-07)
http://python.org/sf/1592072 closed by gbrandl

make pty.fork() allocate a controlling tty (2003-11-08)
http://python.org/sf/838546 closed by loewis

Add missing elide argument to Text.search (2006-11-07)
http://python.org/sf/1592250 closed by loewis

mailbox: use fsync() to ensure data is really on disk (2006-06-29)
http://python.org/sf/1514544 closed by akuchling

mailbox (Maildir): avoid losing messages on name clash (2006-06-29)
http://python.org/sf/1514543 closed by akuchling

Fix struct.pack on 64-bit archs (broken on 2.*) (2004-10-02)
http://python.org/sf/1038854 closed by loewis

Cross building python for mingw32 (2003-11-13)
http://python.org/sf/841454 closed by loewis

httplib: allowing stream-type body part in requests (2004-11-12)
http://python.org/sf/1065257 closed by loewis

support whence argument for GzipFile.seek (bug #1316069) (2005-11-12)
http://python.org/sf/1355023 closed by loewis

fix for 1067728: Better handling of float arguments to seek (2004-11-17)
http://python.org/sf/1067760 closed by loewis

ftplib transfer problem with certain servers (2005-11-17)
http://python.org/sf/1359217 closed by loewis

bdist_rpm still can't handle dashes in versions (2005-11-18)
http://python.org/sf/1360200 closed by loewis

Fix the vc8 solution files (2006-08-19)
http://python.org/sf/1542946 closed by krisvale

Practical ctypes example (2006-09-15)
http://python.org/sf/1559219 closed by theller

New / Reopened Bugs
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Unfortunate naming of variable in heapq example (2006-11-08)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1592533 opened by Martin Thorsen Ranang

gettext has problems with .mo files that use non-ASCII chars (2006-11-08)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1592627 opened by Russell Phillips

replace groups doesn't work in this special case (2006-11-06)
http://python.org/sf/1591319 reopened by tomek74

readline problem on ia64-unknown-linux-gnu (2006-11-08)
http://python.org/sf/1593035 opened by Kate Minola

No IDLE in Windows (2006-11-09)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1593384 opened by A_V_I

No IDLE in Windows (2006-11-09)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1593407 opened by A_V_I

No IDLE in Windows (2006-11-09)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1593442 opened by A_V_I

site-packages isn't created before install_egg_info (2006-09-28)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1566719 reopened by loewis

Modules/unicodedata.c contains C++-style comment (2006-11-09)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1593525 opened by Mike Kent

No IDLE in Windows (2006-11-09)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1593634 opened by A_V_I

poor urllib error handling (2006-11-09)
http://python.org/sf/1593751 opened by Guido van Rossum

small problem with description (2006-11-09)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1593829 opened by Atlas

Word should be changed on page 3.6.1 (2006-11-11)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1594742 opened by jikanter

Make docu for dict.update more clear (2006-11-11)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1594758 opened by Christoph Zwerschke

make install fails, various modules do not work (2006-11-11)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1594809 opened by Evan

doctest simple usage recipe is misleading (2006-11-12)
http://python.org/sf/1594966 opened by Ken Rimey

smtplib.SMTP.sendmail() does not provide transparency (2006-11-12)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1595045 opened by Avi Kivity

texinfo library documentation fails to build (2006-11-12)
http://python.org/sf/1595164 opened by Mark Diekhans

User-agent header added by an opener is "frozen" (2006-11-13)
http://python.org/sf/1595365 opened by Björn Steinbrink

parser module bug for nested try...except statements (2006-11-13)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1595594 opened by Kay Schluehr

SocketServer allow_reuse_address checked in constructor (2006-11-13)
http://python.org/sf/1595742 opened by Peter Parente

read() in windows stops on chr(26) (2006-11-13)
http://python.org/sf/1595822 opened by reson5

KeyError at exit after 'import threading' in other thread (2006-11-14)
http://python.org/sf/1596321 opened by Christian Walther

HTTP headers (2006-11-15)
http://python.org/sf/1597000 opened by Hugo Leisink

Reading with bz2.BZ2File() returns one garbage character (2006-11-15)
http://python.org/sf/1597011 opened by Clodoaldo Pinto Neto

Can't exclude words before capture group (2006-11-15)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1597014 opened by Cees Timmerman

sqlite timestamp converter bug (floating point) (2006-11-15)
http://python.org/sf/1597404 opened by Michael Salib

"Report website bug" -> Forbidden :( (2006-11-16)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1597570 opened by Jens Diemer

Modules/readline.c fails to compile on AIX 4.2 (2006-11-16)
http://python.org/sf/1597798 opened by Mike Kent

atexit.register does not return the registered function. (2006-11-16)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1597824 opened by Pierre Rouleau

Python/ast.c:541: seq_for_testlist: Assertion fails (2006-11-16)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1597930 opened by Darrell Schiebel

Top-level exception handler writes to stdout unsafely (2006-11-16)
http://python.org/sf/1598083 opened by Jp Calderone

Bugs Closed
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Unfortunate naming of variable in heapq example (2006-11-08)
http://python.org/sf/1592533 closed by gbrandl

gettext has problems with .mo files that use non-ASCII chars (2006-11-08)
http://python.org/sf/1592627 closed by avantman42

problem building python in vs8express (2006-11-06)
http://python.org/sf/1591122 closed by loewis

No IDLE in Windows (2006-11-09)
http://python.org/sf/1593384 closed by loewis

No IDLE in Windows (2006-11-09)
http://python.org/sf/1593407 deleted by akuchling

mailbox.Maildir.get_folder() loses factory information (2006-10-03)
http://python.org/sf/1569790 closed by akuchling

No IDLE in Windows (2006-11-09)
http://python.org/sf/1593442 deleted by gbrandl

site-packages isn't created before install_egg_info (2006-09-28)
http://python.org/sf/1566719 closed by pje

Modules/unicodedata.c contains C++-style comment (2006-11-09)
http://python.org/sf/1593525 closed by doerwalter

No IDLE in Windows (2006-11-09)
http://python.org/sf/1593634 deleted by gbrandl

small problem with description (2006-11-09)
http://python.org/sf/1593829 deleted by bauersj

Word should be changed on page 3.6.1 (2006-11-11)
http://python.org/sf/1594742 closed by gbrandl

Make docu for dict.update more clear (2006-11-11)
http://python.org/sf/1594758 closed by gbrandl

make install fails, various modules do not work (2006-11-11)
http://python.org/sf/1594809 closed by loewis

gzip.GzipFile.seek missing second argument (2005-10-07)
http://python.org/sf/1316069 closed by loewis

smtplib.SMTP.sendmail() does not provide transparency (2006-11-12)
http://python.org/sf/1595045 deleted by avik

parser module bug for nested try...except statements (2006-11-13)
http://python.org/sf/1595594 closed by gbrandl

Can't exclude words before capture group (2006-11-15)
http://python.org/sf/1597014 closed by gbrandl

"Report website bug" -> Forbidden :( (2006-11-16)
http://python.org/sf/1597570 closed by gbrandl

atexit.register does not return the registered function. (2006-11-16)
http://python.org/sf/1597824 closed by gbrandl

quoted printable parse the sequence '= ' incorrectly (2006-10-31)
http://python.org/sf/1588217 closed by gbrandl

Python/ast.c:541: seq_for_testlist: Assertion fails (2006-11-16)
http://python.org/sf/1597930 closed by gbrandl

New / Reopened RFE
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"".translate() docs should mention string.maketrans() (2006-11-08)
http://python.org/sf/1592899 opened by Ori Avtalion

base64 doc Python 2.3 <-> 2.4 (2006-11-16)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1597576 opened by Jens Diemer

RFE Closed
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wsgi.org link in wsgiref (2006-08-18)
http://python.org/sf/1542920 closed by akuchling

Move gmtime function from calendar to time module (2003-03-05)
http://python.org/sf/697985 closed by akuchling

base64 doc Python 2.3 <-> 2.4 (2006-11-16)
http://python.org/sf/1597576 closed by gbrandl

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