Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary



Patch / Bug Summary
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Patches : 357 open ( +8) / 3745 closed ( +8) / 4102 total (+16)
Bugs : 958 open (+19) / 6657 closed ( +9) / 7615 total (+28)
RFE : 251 open ( +2) / 280 closed ( +2) / 531 total ( +4)

New / Reopened Patches
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Help with Python codebase (2007-04-11)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1698723 opened by Munawar

Update to Macintosh library documentation (2007-04-11)
http://python.org/sf/1698768 opened by Kevin Walzer

ZipFile.printdir fix (2.5) (2007-04-11)
http://python.org/sf/1698915 opened by Alan McIntyre

ZipFile.printdir fix (2.6) (2007-04-11)
http://python.org/sf/1698917 opened by Alan McIntyre

Bastion and rexec message out-of-date (2007-04-12)
http://python.org/sf/1698951 opened by Gabriel Genellina

getstate/setstate for incremental codecs (2007-04-12)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1698994 opened by Walter Dörwald

replacing char* with const char* in sysmodule.c/.h (2007-04-12)
http://python.org/sf/1699259 opened by sebastinas

Armin's method cache optimization updated for Python 2.6 (2007-04-13)
http://python.org/sf/1700288 opened by Kevin Jacobs

VC6 build patch for trunk (2007-04-14)
http://python.org/sf/1700463 opened by Hirokazu Yamamoto

stack size of python_d.exe on VC6 (2007-04-14)
http://python.org/sf/1700467 opened by Hirokazu Yamamoto

link_objects in setup.cfg crashes build (2007-04-18)
http://python.org/sf/1703178 opened by Markus Schatten

silenced a compiler warning (2007-04-18)
http://python.org/sf/1703268 opened by Alexander Belopolsky

missing declaration in readline.c (2007-04-18)
http://python.org/sf/1703270 opened by Alexander Belopolsky

bug fix: ctypes truncates 64-bit pointers (2007-04-18)
http://python.org/sf/1703286 opened by Alexander Belopolsky

fixes non ansi c declarations in libffi (2007-04-18)
http://python.org/sf/1703300 opened by Alexander Belopolsky

Refactor test_frozen.py to use unittest. (2007-04-18)
http://python.org/sf/1703379 opened by Jerry Seutter

Patches Closed
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Fix test_urllib on Windows buildbots (2007-04-07)
http://python.org/sf/1695862 closed by zseil

Don't block on Queue get/put when time is moved back (2007-03-29)
http://python.org/sf/1690578 closed by loewis

struct.pack() on 64bit architectures (2004-03-30)
http://python.org/sf/925932 closed by zseil

bug# 1607041: Condition.wait timeout fails on clock change (2006-12-01)
http://python.org/sf/1607149 closed by loewis

Add IllegalStateError (2007-03-21)
http://python.org/sf/1685642 closed by gvanrossum

Help with Python codebase (2007-04-11)
http://python.org/sf/1698723 closed by gbrandl

getstate/setstate for incremental codecs (2007-04-12)
http://python.org/sf/1698994 closed by doerwalter

Change *args from a tuple to list (2006-05-31)
http://python.org/sf/1498441 closed by collinwinter

New / Reopened Bugs
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README is referencing obsolete? http://starship.python.net (2007-04-09)
http://python.org/sf/1696740 opened by Jiri Navratil

package.pth file name not used as described. (2007-04-09)
http://python.org/sf/1697169 opened by cfk

winreg module for cygwin? (2007-04-09)
http://python.org/sf/1697175 opened by Zooko O'Whielacronx

Property with -> annotation triggers assert (2007-04-09)
http://python.org/sf/1697248 opened by Guido van Rossum

types.InstanceType is missing but used by pydoc (2007-04-10)
http://python.org/sf/1697782 reopened by gbrandl

types.InstanceType is missing but used by pydoc (2007-04-10)
http://python.org/sf/1697782 opened by Christian Heimes

__getslice__ still used in built-in types (2007-04-10)
http://python.org/sf/1697820 opened by Torsten Bronger

Segfaults on memory error (2007-04-10)
http://python.org/sf/1697916 reopened by gbrandl

Segfaults on memory error (2007-04-10)
http://python.org/sf/1697916 opened by STINNER Victor

msgfmt cannot cope with BOM (2007-04-10)
http://python.org/sf/1697943 opened by Christoph Zwerschke

xml.etree document element.tag (2007-04-11)
http://python.org/sf/1698167 opened by paul rubin

wrong % of params for format string in ZipFile.printdir() (2007-04-11)
http://python.org/sf/1698398 opened by Szabolcs Berecz

dtdparser discards last line (2007-04-11)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1698944 opened by L. Peter Deutsch

shlex fails to parse strings correctly (2007-04-12)
http://python.org/sf/1699594 opened by Collin Winter

pickle example contains errors (2007-04-13)
http://python.org/sf/1699759 opened by Mark Edgington

locale.getlocale() output fails as setlocale() input (2007-04-13)
http://python.org/sf/1699853 opened by Bernhard Reiter

import and capital letters (2007-04-13)
http://python.org/sf/1700132 opened by omsynge

pydoc.help samples sys.stdout and sys.stdin at import time (2007-04-13)
http://python.org/sf/1700304 opened by James Lingard

ctypes Fundamental data types (2007-04-14)
http://python.org/sf/1700455 opened by hg6980

Carbon.Scrap.PutScrapFlavor (2007-04-14)
http://python.org/sf/1700507 opened by dingus9

PCbuild8/pcbuild.sln is missing "_socket" sub-project (2007-04-14)
http://python.org/sf/1700865 opened by Raghuram Devarakonda

questionable results from IDLE, Windows, & several built-in (2007-04-15)
http://python.org/sf/1700912 opened by bavantgarde314

symbol conflict for 'readahead' (2007-04-15)
http://python.org/sf/1701192 opened by ajrh

svnversion_init assertion failed (2007-04-15)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1701207 opened by ajrh

utf-16 codec problems with multiple file append (2007-04-16)
http://python.org/sf/1701389 opened by Iceberg Luo

Segfault in c_char_p of ctypes (2007-04-16)
http://python.org/sf/1701409 opened by sebastien Martini

documentation bug in profile module (2007-04-16)
CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1701449 opened by Keith Briggs

Feature request: Comparing regexps (2007-04-16)
http://python.org/sf/1701452 opened by Thomas Dybdahl Ahle

Turtle isn't thread-safe (crashes) (2007-04-17)
http://python.org/sf/1702036 opened by lomm

distutils sdist does not exclude SVN/CVS files on Windows (2007-04-18)
http://python.org/sf/1702551 opened by Guy Dalberto

Incorrect example for add_password() (2007-04-18)
http://python.org/sf/1703110 opened by Bob Kline

Bugs Closed
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logging.handlers.SocketHandler.makeSocket() blocks app (2007-04-07)
http://python.org/sf/1695948 closed by vsajip

asyncore DoS vulnerability (2007-03-21)
http://python.org/sf/1685000 closed by josiahcarlson

compiler package needs better documentation. (2000-11-27)
http://python.org/sf/223616 closed by facundobatista

types.InstanceType is missing but used by pydoc (2007-04-10)
http://python.org/sf/1697782 closed by gbrandl

Segfaults on memory error (2007-04-10)
http://python.org/sf/1697916 closed by haypo

dead link in tkinter documentation (2007-03-11)
http://python.org/sf/1678710 closed by fdrake

Condition.wait timeout fails when system clock changes (2006-12-01)
http://python.org/sf/1607041 closed by rhettinger

dtdparser discards last line (2007-04-12)
http://python.org/sf/1698944 closed by loewis

svnversion_init assertion failed (2007-04-15)
http://python.org/sf/1701207 closed by nnorwitz

documentation bug in profile module (2007-04-16)
http://python.org/sf/1701449 closed by quiver

New / Reopened RFE
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audioop module - request to add a note (2007-04-15)
http://python.org/sf/1700821 opened by ncryptor

Prevent textwrap from breaking words at hyphens (2007-04-17)
http://python.org/sf/1702681 opened by Matt Kraai

RFE Closed
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make slices pickable (2005-04-28)
http://python.org/sf/1191699 closed by rhettinger

'str'.translate(None) => identity translation (2005-04-30)
http://python.org/sf/1193128 closed by rhettinger

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