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 1976 open (+67) / 13495 closed (+21) / 15471 total (+88)

Open issues with patches:   626

Average duration of open issues: 717 days.
Median duration of open issues: 1688 days.

Open Issues Breakdown
   open  1963 (+67)
pending    13 ( +0)

Issues Created Or Reopened (92)
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Can't pickle partial functions                                   08/15/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue1398    reopened alexandre.vassalotti      
                                                                               

Operator precedence misdocumented                                08/19/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3558    reopened tjreedy                   
                                                                               

Windows installer should add Python and Scripts directories to t 08/15/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3561    created  jasonspiro                
                                                                               

Intermitent failure in test_multiprocessing.test_number_of_objec 08/15/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3562    created  pitrou                    
                                                                               

fix_idioms.py generates bad code                                 08/16/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3563    created  hawking                   
       patch                                                                   

making partial functions comparable                              08/16/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3564    created  erickt                    
                                                                               

array documentation, method names not 3.0 compliant              08/16/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3565    created  mgiuca                    
       patch                                                                   

httplib persistent connections violate MUST in RFC2616 sec 8.1.4 08/16/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3566    created  cananian                  
                                                                               

test_ossaudiodev fails when run with -bb                         08/16/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3567    created  pitrou                    
                                                                               

list enumeration corrupt when remove()                           08/16/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3568    created  jacek                     
                                                                               

Glitch in eval() doc                                             08/16/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3569    created  tjreedy                   
                                                                               

str.find docstring typo                                          08/16/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3570    created  andyharrington            
                                                                               

test_closerange in test_os can crash the test suite              08/16/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3571    created  pitrou                    
       patch                                                                   

with closed file descriptor #2 (stderr), py3k hangs when trying  08/16/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3572    created  pitrou                    
                                                                               

IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(ies 08/16/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3573    created  gpolo                     
       patch, needs review                                                     

compile() cannot decode Latin-1 source encodings                 08/17/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3574    created  brett.cannon              
       patch, needs review                                                     

[py3k] tell() fails in some situation                            08/17/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3575    created  ocean-city                
       patch                                                                   

Demo/embed builds against old version                            08/17/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3576    created  mgiuca                    
       patch                                                                   

Interpreter name: python vs. python-3.0                          08/17/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3577    created  jjlee                     
                                                                               

'dictionary changed size' error in test_multiprocessing          08/17/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3578    created  marketdickinson           
                                                                               

Faites Attention en Utilisant Cette Merveille!                   08/17/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3579    created  MrJean1                   
                                                                               

failures in test_os                                              08/17/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3580    created  pitrou                    
       patch                                                                   

failures in test_uuid                                            08/17/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3581    created  pitrou                    
                                                                               

thread_nt.c update                                               08/17/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3582    created  krisvale                  
       patch, patch                                                            

test_urllibnet.test_bad_address() fails when using OpenDNS       08/17/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3583    created  brett.cannon              
                                                                               

Exception for test_urllib2_localnet                              08/17/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3584    created  jimhermann                
                                                                               

pkg-config support                                               08/18/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3585    created  ClintonRoy                
       patch                                                                   

pwd.getpwnam('nobody') produces incorrect results if sizeof(uid_ 08/18/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3586    created  marketdickinson           
                                                                               

Bad parsing of compiling regex with re.MULTILINE                 08/18/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3587    created  misha                     
                                                                               

sysconfig variable LINKFORSHARED has wrong value for MacOS X fra 08/18/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3588    created  khinsen                   
                                                                               

Misleading names for multiprocessing "convenience" functions     08/18/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3589    created  ncoghlan                  
                                                                               

sax.parser considers XML as text rather than bytes               08/18/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3590    created  edreamleo                 
                                                                               

elementtree tests do not include bytes handling                  08/18/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3591    created  pitrou                    
                                                                               

Patch to add imp.get_codingspec()                                08/18/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3592    created  brett.cannon              
       patch, patch                                                            

subprocess + stdout redirection + wait + svn= hang               08/18/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3593    created  tebeka                    
                                                                               

PyTokenizer_FindEncoding() never succeeds                        08/19/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3594    created  brett.cannon              
       patch, needs review                                                     

Windows base64 Decode                                            08/19/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3595    created  ahirreddy                 
                                                                               

Provide a way to disable SSLv2 (or better yet, disable by defaul 08/19/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3596    created  heikki                    
                                                                               

Allow application developers to select ciphers, and default to s 08/19/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3597    created  heikki                    
                                                                               

multiprocessing.Pool windows/linux behaviour difference          08/19/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3598    created  mark                      
                                                                               

test_pydoc after test_urllib2 causes exception in Popen.__del__  08/19/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3599    created  benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

Include Tcl/Tk 8.5.4 in the windows binary for the upcoming beta 08/19/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3600    created  gpolo                     
                                                                               

test_unicode.test_raiseMemError fails in UCS4                    08/19/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3601    created  benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

Move test.test_suport.catch_warning() to the 'warnings' module   08/19/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3602    created  brett.cannon              
                                                                               

trivial typo in Include/pymath.h                                 08/19/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3603    created  sgala                     
                                                                               

broken link in curses module docs                                08/19/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3604    created  mattb                     
                                                                               

Py_FatalError causes infinite loop                               08/19/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3605    created  rupole                    
                                                                               

2to3: commands varible replaced by subprocess                    08/19/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3606    created  haypo                     
                                                                               

test_multiprocessing failure (Unserializable message)            08/19/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3607    created  pitrou                    
                                                                               

memoryview constructor has no deallocator                        08/19/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3608    created  rupole                    
                                                                               

does parse_header really belong in CGI module?                   08/20/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3609    created  janssen                   
                                                                               

Fix gdbinit for Python 3.0                                       08/20/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3610    created  haypo                     
       patch                                                                   

invalid exception context                                        08/21/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3611    reopened benjamin.peterson         
       patch, needs review                                                     

Add some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes                  08/20/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3612    created  ocean-city                
       patch                                                                   

base64.encodestring does not actually accept strings             08/20/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3613    created  ddvoinikov                
                                                                               

typo in xmlrpc.client                                            08/20/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3614    created  ddvoinikov                
                                                                               

Expect methods for testing.                                      08/20/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3615    created  pupeno                    
       patch                                                                   

shutil.rmtree() fails on invalid filename                        08/20/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3616    created  haypo                     
                                                                               

Add MS EULA to the list of third-party licenses in the Windows i 08/20/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3617    created  lemburg                   
       easy                                                                    

possible deadlock in IO library (Lib/io.py)                      08/20/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3618    created  haypo                     
       patch                                                                   

A more informative message for ImportError                       08/20/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3619    created  ktenney                   
       patch                                                                   

test_smtplib is flaky                                            08/20/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3620    created  benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

it would be nice if installers made by bdist_wininst stored an E 08/20/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3621    created  jasonspiro                
                                                                               

Slight documentation quirk for random.random                     08/20/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3622    created  amc1                      
                                                                               

_json: fix raise_errmsg(), py_encode_basestring_ascii() and line 08/20/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3623    created  haypo                     
       patch                                                                   

Null byte \0 not listed as a possible escape sequence            08/20/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3624    created  voket                     
                                                                               

test issues on 64bit windows                                     08/21/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3625    created  mhammond                  
       patch, patch, 64bit                                                     

python3.0 interpreter on Cygwin ignores all arguments            08/21/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3626    created  yselkowitz                
       patch                                                                   

apple security patches need to be forward ported to py3k         08/21/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3627    created  nnorwitz                  
                                                                               

IDLE does not run with Py30b3                                    08/21/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3628    created  mark                      
                                                                               

Py30b3 won't compile a regex that compiles with 2.5.2 and 30b2   08/21/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3629    created  mark                      
                                                                               

Unable to inherit bytes: bytes.__init__() doesn't accept argumen 08/21/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3630    created  haypo                     
                                                                               

Improve gdbinit of Python 2.6                                    08/21/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3631    created  haypo                     
       patch                                                                   

use string_print() in gdb                                        08/21/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3632    created  haypo                     
       patch                                                                   

float.fromhex discrepancy under Solaris                          08/21/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3633    created  pitrou                    
       patch, needs review                                                     

invalid result value of _weakref.__init__()                      08/21/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3634    created  haypo                     
       patch                                                                   

pickle.dumps cannot save instance of dict-derived class that ove 08/21/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3635    created  msyang                    
                                                                               

Managing dual 2.x and 3.0 installations on Windows               08/21/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3636    created  richard_b_martin          
                                                                               

2to3 refactoring                                                 08/21/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3637    created  benjamin.peterson         
       patch                                                                   

tkinter.mainloop() is meanling less and crash: remove it         08/21/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3638    created  haypo                     
       patch                                                                   

segfaults calling warnings.warn() with non-string message        08/21/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3639    created  dalcinl                   
       patch                                                                   

test_cpickle crash on AMD64 Windows build                        08/21/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3640    created  mhammond                  
       64bit                                                                   

Builtin ascii() function from future_builtins includes leading " 08/22/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3641    created  tav                       
                                                                               

Objects/obmalloc.c:529: warning: comparison is always false due  08/22/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3642    created  christian.heimes          
       64bit, needs review                                                     

Add more checks to testcapi                                      08/22/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3643    created  haypo                     
       patch                                                                   

``make htmlview`` for docs fails on OS X                         08/22/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3644    created  brett.cannon              
                                                                               

readline module Crashs on OpenBSD/amd64                          08/22/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3645    created  henry.precheur            
       patch, needs review                                                     

MacOS X framework install to non-standard directory fails        08/22/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3646    created  khinsen                   
                                                                               

urlparse - relative url parsing and joins to be RFC3986 complian 08/22/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3647    created  orsenthil                 
       patch                                                                   

'ascii' shoud be range(256) or just set another default encoding 08/22/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue3648    created  electronixtar             
                                                                               

threading module can deadlock after fork                         08/17/08
       http://bugs.python.org/issue874900  reopened benjamin.peterson         
       patch                                                                   

Tkinter.Menu.delete doesn't delete command of entry              08/16/08
CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue1342811 reopened gpolo                     
       needs review                                                            



Issues Now Closed (67)
______________________

[CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module                336 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue1179    gvanrossum                
       patch                                                                   

New SSL module doesn't seem to verify hostname against commonNam  254 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue1589    janssen                   
                                                                               

class attribute cache failure (regression)                        212 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue1878    gvanrossum                
                                                                               

Add migration step for DictMixin -> collections.MutableMapping    199 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue2012    benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

Long object free list optimization                                195 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue2013    gregory.p.smith           
       patch                                                                   

Memory leak in os.rename?                                         167 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue2222    ocean-city                
       patch                                                                   

cygwinccompiler.py fails for latest MinGW releases.               167 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue2234    jlt63                     
       patch, easy                                                             

__eq__ / __hash__ check doesn't take inheritance into account     167 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue2235    ncoghlan                  
       patch                                                                   

Reorganize the 3.0 Misc/NEWS file                                 153 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue2310    gvanrossum                
                                                                               

sys.exc_{type,values,traceback} needs a 2to3 fixer                157 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue2357    benjamin.peterson         
       patch, 26backport, needs review                                         

get rid of warnings in regrtest with -3                           156 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue2402    benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

Backport ctypes support for buffer protocol to Python 2.6 (ref i  156 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue2404    theller                   
                                                                               

2to3 is rather slow                                               155 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue2431    benjamin.peterson         
       patch                                                                   

urllib2 can't handle http://www.wikispaces.com                    147 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue2464    gregory.p.smith           
       patch                                                                   

_Py_ForgetReference crash when called from _PyUnicode_New on Mem  128 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue2629    gregory.p.smith           
                                                                               

email/message.py [Message.get_content_type]: Trivial regex hangs  115 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue2676    pitrou                    
       patch                                                                   

c_char doesn't implement py3k buffer interface                    109 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue2764    theller                   
                                                                               

urllib2.urlopen() gets confused with path with // in it           102 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue2776    facundobatista            
       patch                                                                   

re.IGNORECASE not Unicode-ready                                   100 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue2834    pitrou                    
       patch                                                                   

Test_imports takes a long time to run                              89 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue2968    benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

test_list uses unreasonable amounts of memory on 64-bit Linux      69 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3107    pitrou                    
                                                                               

test_multiprocessing seems fragile                                 66 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3109    jnoller                   
                                                                               

2to3 can't find fixes_dir                                          63 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3131    benjamin.peterson         
       patch                                                                   

bytearrays are not thread safe                                     62 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3139    cartman                   
       patch                                                                   

2to3 Slight Patch                                                  59 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3182    benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

urllib.quote and unquote - Unicode issues                          45 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3300    mgiuca                    
       patch                                                                   

missing lock release in BZ2File_iternext()                         42 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3309    gregory.p.smith           
       patch, easy                                                             

Documentation: timeit: "lower bound" should read "upper bound"     43 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3318    unutbu                    
                                                                               

sys recursion limit a lot shorter on trunk?                        37 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3373    gvanrossum                
                                                                               

imghdr test order makes it slow                                    25 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3424    benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

In function call, keyword arguments could follow *args             20 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3473    benjamin.peterson         
       patch                                                                   

Using functools.reduce() does not stop DeprecationWarning when u   18 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3474    benjamin.peterson         
       patch                                                                   

distutils fails with mingw binutils 2.18.50.20080109               15 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3496    amaury.forgeotdarc        
       patch                                                                   

Python 2.6 requires pre-installed Python to build                  11 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3499    benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

ast.NodeTransformer bug                                             8 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3530    benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

Building an MSI installer crashes                                   5 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3542    loewis                    
       patch                                                                   

ctypes.wstring_at and string_at call Python API without the GIL     5 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3554    theller                   
                                                                               

test_raiseMemError consumes an insane amount of memory              3 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3556    pitrou                    
       patch                                                                   

redundant "base" field in memoryview objects                        4 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3560    pitrou                    
       patch                                                                   

Windows installer should add Python and Scripts directories to t    0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3561    loewis                    
                                                                               

test_ossaudiodev fails when run with -bb                            0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3567    pitrou                    
                                                                               

list enumeration corrupt when remove()                              0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3568    tjreedy                   
                                                                               

str.find docstring typo                                             1 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3570    benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

test_closerange in test_os can crash the test suite                 0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3571    pitrou                    
       patch                                                                   

with closed file descriptor #2 (stderr), py3k hangs when trying     0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3572    pitrou                    
                                                                               

[py3k] tell() fails in some situation                               0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3575    ocean-city                
       patch                                                                   

Demo/embed builds against old version                               1 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3576    benjamin.peterson         
       patch                                                                   

Faites Attention en Utilisant Cette Merveille!                      0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3579    benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

Bad parsing of compiling regex with re.MULTILINE                    0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3587    pitrou                    
                                                                               

multiprocessing.Pool windows/linux behaviour difference             0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3598    mark                      
                                                                               

trivial typo in Include/pymath.h                                    1 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3603    benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

memoryview constructor has no deallocator                           1 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3608    georg.brandl              
                                                                               

typo in xmlrpc.client                                               1 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3614    amaury.forgeotdarc        
                                                                               

shutil.rmtree() fails on invalid filename                           0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3616    pitrou                    
                                                                               

Slight documentation quirk for random.random                        0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3622    amaury.forgeotdarc        
                                                                               

Null byte \0 not listed as a possible escape sequence               0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3624    georg.brandl              
                                                                               

Unable to inherit bytes: bytes.__init__() doesn't accept argumen    0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3630    pitrou                    
                                                                               

float.fromhex discrepancy under Solaris                             1 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3633    benjamin.peterson         
       patch, needs review                                                     

Builtin ascii() function from future_builtins includes leading "    0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3641    benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

'ascii' shoud be range(256) or just set another default encoding    0 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue3648    pitrou                    
                                                                               

thread unsafe file objects cause crash                           1785 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue815646  gregory.p.smith           
       patch                                                                   

help(obj) should use __doc__ when available                      1738 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue843385  benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

symtable module not documented                                   1647 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue896052  benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

symtable.Symbol.is_global() is strange                           1650 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue896061  benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

symtable module crashes w/ coding declaration                    1646 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue898271  benjamin.peterson         
                                                                               

glob doesn't return unicode with no dir in unicode filename      1481 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue1001604 lcantey                   
       patch                                                                   

Tkinter.Menu.delete doesn't delete command of entry                 5 days
       http://bugs.python.org/issue1342811 schuppenies               
       needs review                                                            



Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
______________________________

 35 invalid exception context                                          1 days
open    http://bugs.python.org/issue3611   

 21 Deficiencies in multiprocessing/threading API                     39 days
open    http://bugs.python.org/issue3352   

 16 os.listdir can return byte strings                                59 days
open    http://bugs.python.org/issue3187   

 12 float.fromhex discrepancy under Solaris                            1 days
closed  http://bugs.python.org/issue3633   

 11 redundant "base" field in memoryview objects                       4 days
closed  http://bugs.python.org/issue3560   

 10 sax.parser considers XML as text rather than bytes                 4 days
open    http://bugs.python.org/issue3590   

 10 [Py3k] Finish the memoryview object implementation               157 days
open    http://bugs.python.org/issue2394   

 10 Tkinter.Menu.delete doesn't delete command of entry                5 days
closed  http://bugs.python.org/issue1342811

  9 test_raiseMemError consumes an insane amount of memory             3 days
closed  http://bugs.python.org/issue3556   

  8 Move test.test_suport.catch_warning() to the 'warnings' module     3 days
open    http://bugs.python.org/issue3602   



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