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<title>[issue3475] _elementtree.c import can fail silently</title>
<description>Brian Harring &amp;lt;ferringb@gmail.com&amp;gt; added the comment: At this point, this affects 2.5, 2.6, and 3.1 (and the normal 1.0.5 release of cElementTree); w</description>
<pubDate>07 Nov  2009 23:37:28 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/786261</link>
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<title>[issue7286] odd exec() behavior or documentation</title>
<description>New submission from Peter Mawhorter &amp;lt;pmawhorter@gmail.com&amp;gt;: The behavior of the built-in exec() function differs in Python3.1 from the behavior in Py</description>
<pubDate>07 Nov  2009 22:39:06 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/786259</link>
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<title>[issue7285] multiprocessing module, example code error</title>
<description>New submission from Kouki Hashimoto &amp;lt;hsmtkk@gmail.com&amp;gt;: Example codes on multiprocessing module occur errors. I attached the patch to fix these error</description>
<pubDate>07 Nov  2009 18:32:00 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/786240</link>
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<title>[issue7284] optparse - display version in usage by default</title>
<description>New submission from anatoly techtonik &amp;lt;techtonik@gmail.com&amp;gt;: It would be useful if optparse could display version right in usage help before command</description>
<pubDate>07 Nov  2009 16:56:22 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/786214</link>
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<title>[issue7283] test_site failure when .local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages hasn&amp;#039;t been created yet</title>
<description>Changes by Antoine Pitrou &amp;lt;pitrou@free.fr&amp;gt;:  ---------- title: test_site failure when Python gets installed along a symbolic link -&amp;gt; test_site failur</description>
<pubDate>07 Nov  2009 16:51:38 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/786213</link>
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<title>[issue7283] test_site failure when Python gets installed along a symbolic link</title>
<description>New submission from Antoine Pitrou &amp;lt;pitrou@free.fr&amp;gt;: On that buildbot, /var/lib/buildbot is a symlink to /home/buildbot and I get the following failu</description>
<pubDate>07 Nov  2009 16:27:14 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/786210</link>
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<title>[issue7282] RLocks leak references when used in raw threads</title>
<description>New submission from Antoine Pitrou &amp;lt;pitrou@free.fr&amp;gt;: When you use an RLock from a thread which wasn&amp;#039;t created through the high-level `threading` API</description>
<pubDate>07 Nov  2009 16:00:40 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/786184</link>
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<title>[issue7187] importlib/_bootstrap.py write_bytecode raises an IOError if it can&amp;#039;t open the .pyc file for writing</title>
<description>Brett Cannon &amp;lt;brett@python.org&amp;gt; added the comment: Committed to py3k in r76146 and r76147 for 3.1. Thanks for the detailed report, Dave! ----------</description>
<pubDate>07 Nov  2009 15:57:59 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/786183</link>
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<title>[issue7281] copysign() with NaN arguments on OpenSolaris</title>
<description>New submission from Stefan Krah &amp;lt;stefan-usenet@bytereef.org&amp;gt;: Sorry to report so many obscure corner cases. With the combination Opensolaris/suncc/Py</description>
<pubDate>07 Nov  2009 12:41:39 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/786167</link>
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<title>[issue7280] PCBuild instruction says to use nasmw.exe but it no longer exist</title>
<description>New submission from Baptiste Lepilleur &amp;lt;blep@users.sourceforge.net&amp;gt;: PCBuild requires nasmw.exe but it no longer exists in the latest version of nasm</description>
<pubDate>07 Nov  2009 12:18:53 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/786148</link>
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<title>[issue7279] decimal.py: == and != comparisons involving NaNs</title>
<description>New submission from Stefan Krah &amp;lt;stefan-usenet@bytereef.org&amp;gt;: I&amp;#039;m not sure this is a bug, but I am trying to understand the rationale for mimicking I</description>
<pubDate>07 Nov  2009 02:43:52 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/786097</link>
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<title>[issue7278] decimal.py: New instance vs. new reference</title>
<description>New submission from Stefan Krah &amp;lt;stefan-usenet@bytereef.org&amp;gt;: In the following case, Decimal() and int() behave differently. I wonder if this is inte</description>
<pubDate>07 Nov  2009 01:51:28 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/786093</link>
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<title>[issue7277] online docs out-of-sync with sources and distributed .chm files</title>
<description>New submission from Gabriel Genellina &amp;lt;gagsl-py2@yahoo.com.ar&amp;gt;: The online version of the 2.6.4 documentation, at http://www.python.org/doc/2.6.4/ref</description>
<pubDate>06 Nov  2009 20:08:24 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/786064</link>
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<title>[issue5707] IDLE will not load</title>
<description>GUO, Chen &amp;lt;gcd0318@hotmail.com&amp;gt; added the comment: Modification to &amp;quot;customer key set&amp;quot; would make IDLE fail to start To re-produce: 1, Start IDLE, an</description>
<pubDate>06 Nov  2009 12:31:44 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/786010</link>
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<title>[issue6508] expose setresuid</title>
<description>Travis H. &amp;lt;travis+w-python.org@subspacefield.org&amp;gt; added the comment: So this patch is done and tested, but no movement on it since 18 September. Is</description>
<pubDate>06 Nov  2009 12:17:24 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/786009</link>
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<title>[issue7276] UnboundLocalError scoping problem with nested functions</title>
<description>New submission from Ole Laursen &amp;lt;olau@iola.dk&amp;gt;: This works: def outer(name):   tmp = name   def inner():     print(tmp)   return inner ou</description>
<pubDate>06 Nov  2009 11:23:17 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785982</link>
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<title>[issue7275] CoverageResult fails to merge input file with non-empty callers in trace.py (patch)</title>
<description>New submission from Christian Glinsvad &amp;lt;glinsvad@hotmail.com&amp;gt;: CoverageResults expects arguments in the order &amp;quot;counts, calledfuncs, infile, callers..</description>
<pubDate>06 Nov  2009 10:12:01 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785979</link>
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<title>[issue7274] json module apparently fails regression found at http://json.org/JSON_checker/test.zip.</title>
<description>New submission from Douglas Shawhan &amp;lt;doug.shawhan@gmail.com&amp;gt;: Environment: Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Linux thebadpipsissewah 2.6.28-16-server #55-Ubuntu SMP</description>
<pubDate>06 Nov  2009 10:11:43 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785978</link>
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<title>[issue858809] Use directories from configure rather than hardcoded</title>
<description>Changes by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis &amp;lt;Arfrever.FTA@GMail.Com&amp;gt;:  ---------- nosy: +Arfrever _______________________________________ Python</description>
<pubDate>06 Nov  2009 08:46:11 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785941</link>
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<title>[issue7273] struct.pack adding extra &amp;#039;\x00&amp;#039; character in very specific case</title>
<description>New submission from Caleb Madrigal &amp;lt;caleb.madrigal@gmail.com&amp;gt;: struct.pack(&amp;quot;17scBH&amp;quot;, &amp;#039;a&amp;#039;*17, &amp;#039;c&amp;#039;, 255, 65535) produces &amp;#039;aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaac\xff\x00\xf</description>
<pubDate>06 Nov  2009 08:16:36 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785917</link>
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<title>[issue7272] test_multiprocessing fails consistently with &amp;#039;signal 12&amp;#039; on FreeBSD 6.2 buildbot.</title>
<description>New submission from Mark Dickinson &amp;lt;dickinsm@gmail.com&amp;gt;: The x86 FreeBSD buildslave is consistently aborting the test run with a &amp;#039;Signal 12&amp;#039; failure</description>
<pubDate>06 Nov  2009 07:57:14 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785914</link>
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<title>[issue7271] Typo in turtle module documentation.</title>
<description>New submission from Mark Dickinson &amp;lt;dickinsm@gmail.com&amp;gt;: Reported on c.l.p. by Lawrence D&amp;#039;Oliveiro: &amp;lt;http://docs.python.org/library/turtle.html&amp;gt; --</description>
<pubDate>06 Nov  2009 05:32:26 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785885</link>
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<title>[issue7270] Tests for synchronization primitives</title>
<description>New submission from Antoine Pitrou &amp;lt;pitrou@free.fr&amp;gt;: Here is a patch adding unit tests for synchronization primitives in threading.py (Lock, RLock, E</description>
<pubDate>06 Nov  2009 03:26:29 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785859</link>
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<title>[issue6450] normpath() sometimes maps unicode to str</title>
<description>Kuang-che Wu &amp;lt;kcwu@csie.org&amp;gt; added the comment: see issue 5827, it includes a patch fixing this issue. ---------- nosy: +kcwu _____________________</description>
<pubDate>06 Nov  2009 02:37:34 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785858</link>
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<title>[issue7269] Windows buildbot occasional DBFileExistsError failures in test_bsddb3</title>
<description>New submission from R. David Murray &amp;lt;rdmurray@bitdance.com&amp;gt;: The windows buildbot occasionally fails with tracebacks like this: ====================</description>
<pubDate>05 Nov  2009 18:58:52 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785807</link>
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<title>[issue3001] RLock&amp;#039;s are SLOW</title>
<description>Changes by Antoine Pitrou &amp;lt;pitrou@free.fr&amp;gt;:  ---------- assignee: -&amp;gt; pitrou components: -Interpreter Core stage: patch review -&amp;gt; needs patch versio</description>
<pubDate>05 Nov  2009 16:57:42 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785783</link>
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<title>[issue7268] 2to3 execfile conversion changes behavior</title>
<description>New submission from flashk &amp;lt;flashk@gmail.com&amp;gt;: I recently ran 2to3 on some of my scripts and noticed a change in behavior. I had a script that used</description>
<pubDate>05 Nov  2009 16:08:56 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785740</link>
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<title>[issue1294959] Problems with /usr/lib64 builds.</title>
<description>Éric Araujo &amp;lt;merwok@netwok.org&amp;gt; added the comment: If I understand correctly, using lib32 or lib64 is a kludge. Debian and Ubuntu want to come up wi</description>
<pubDate>05 Nov  2009 11:23:08 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785701</link>
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<title>[issue1182143] making builtin exceptions more informative</title>
<description>Changes by Raymond Hettinger &amp;lt;rhettinger@users.sourceforge.net&amp;gt;:  ---------- assignee: rhettinger -&amp;gt;  _______________________________________ Python</description>
<pubDate>05 Nov  2009 10:46:22 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785698</link>
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<title>[issue7077] SysLogHandler can&amp;#039;t handle Unicode</title>
<description>Vinay Sajip &amp;lt;vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk&amp;gt; added the comment: No adverse feedback on fix, so closing. ---------- status: pending -&amp;gt; closed _____________</description>
<pubDate>05 Nov  2009 09:53:12 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785685</link>
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<title>[issue7267] format method: c presentation type broken</title>
<description>New submission from Walter Dörwald &amp;lt;walter@livinglogic.de&amp;gt;: The c presentation type in the new format method from PEP 3101 seems to be broken: Pyth</description>
<pubDate>05 Nov  2009 08:22:48 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785683</link>
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<title>[issue7266] test_lib2to3 failure under Windows</title>
<description>New submission from Antoine Pitrou &amp;lt;pitrou@free.fr&amp;gt;: test_lib2to3 fails deterministically on the Windows buildbots: test test_lib2to3 failed -- Trac</description>
<pubDate>05 Nov  2009 07:06:31 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785660</link>
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<title>[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch</title>
<description>Carey &amp;lt;carey.metcalfe@gmail.com&amp;gt; added the comment: I also had the same problem in Windows 7 64 bit. I unhid the file and everything works now -----</description>
<pubDate>05 Nov  2009 05:47:01 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785639</link>
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<title>[issue7265] IDLE not working</title>
<description>New submission from Carey &amp;lt;carey.metcalfe@gmail.com&amp;gt;: IDLE will not open in windows 7 64 bit My debug log is as follows:  Microsoft (R) Windows Deb</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 20:51:12 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785590</link>
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<title>[issue4722] _winreg.QueryValue fault while reading mangled registry values</title>
<description>Brian Curtin &amp;lt;curtin@acm.org&amp;gt; added the comment: The attached patch will return &amp;quot;&amp;quot; in the case that Alex describes. However, I haven&amp;#039;t been able to r</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 19:40:26 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785577</link>
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<title>[issue4199] add shorthand global and nonlocal statements</title>
<description>Changes by Antoine Pitrou &amp;lt;pitrou@free.fr&amp;gt;:  ---------- priority: critical -&amp;gt; normal _______________________________________ Python tracker &amp;lt;report@</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 14:46:02 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785535</link>
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<title>[issue6509] re.py - &amp;lt;compiled byte-object regular expr&amp;gt; encounter unexpected str-object</title>
<description>Antoine Pitrou &amp;lt;pitrou@free.fr&amp;gt; added the comment: Here is a patch. ---------- keywords: +patch nosy: +effbot stage: -&amp;gt; patch review Added file: ht</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 14:39:43 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785534</link>
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<title>[issue5774] _winreg.OpenKey() is documented with keyword arguments, but doesn&amp;#039;t take them</title>
<description>Brian Curtin &amp;lt;curtin@acm.org&amp;gt; added the comment: Attached is a patch against trunk r76107 which fixes OpenKey to take keyword arguments as the docume</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 14:27:15 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785533</link>
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<title>[issue3754] minimal cross-compilation support for configure</title>
<description>Changes by Roumen Petrov &amp;lt;bugtrack@roumenpetrov.info&amp;gt;:  Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15260/python-trunk-20091104-CROSS.patch _____________</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 14:04:31 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785516</link>
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<title>[issue2499] Fold unary + and not on constants</title>
<description>Antoine Pitrou &amp;lt;pitrou@free.fr&amp;gt; added the comment: Folding UNARY_POSITIVE was done by Raymond in r75601. ---------- nosy: +pitrou _________________</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 14:02:06 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785515</link>
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<title>[issue3881] IDLE won&amp;#039;t start in custom directory.</title>
<description>Changes by Sridhar Ratnakumar &amp;lt;sridharr@activestate.com&amp;gt;:  ---------- nosy: +srid _______________________________________ Python tracker &amp;lt;report@bug</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 13:33:44 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785511</link>
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<title>[issue7264] test_threading_local sometimes hangs when run with -R</title>
<description>New submission from Antoine Pitrou &amp;lt;pitrou@free.fr&amp;gt;: If I run something like:  ./python -m test.regrtest -R3:2: test_threading_local Python sometim</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 12:04:17 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785485</link>
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<title>[issue7144] imp.load_module in thread causes core dump on OSX 10.6</title>
<description>Adam Doherty &amp;lt;dohertywa@gmail.com&amp;gt; added the comment: Hello: Having the same issues in a web app I&amp;#039;ve written. Tested with the default 2.5 and 2.6 o</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 10:28:45 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785484</link>
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<title>[issue6292] Fix tests to work with -OO</title>
<description>Brian Curtin &amp;lt;curtin@acm.org&amp;gt; added the comment: I&amp;#039;ve attached a patch against trunk (r76107) which I think implements more of what Antoine is lookin</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 10:15:53 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785466</link>
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<title>[issue7263] Fix set.intersection docstring</title>
<description>New submission from Alexander Belopolsky &amp;lt;belopolsky@users.sourceforge.net&amp;gt;: &amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot; intersection(...)   Return the intersection of two sets as a new s</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 08:24:39 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785459</link>
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<title>[issue7217] IDLE Subprocess Startup Error {Solved}</title>
<description>ali &amp;lt;mr.dalba@gmail.com&amp;gt; added the comment: {Solved} Thanks for following up Amaury But my problem was solved yesterday. There was a few programs in</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 07:57:53 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785443</link>
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<title>[issue7262] codecs.open() + eol (windows)</title>
<description>New submission from shamilbi &amp;lt;shamilbi@gmail.com&amp;gt;: different eol when writing to fp = codecs.open(.., &amp;#039;w&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;cp866&amp;#039;) (windows, python-2.6.4) def writ</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 06:13:30 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785420</link>
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<title>[issue7261] Document 2.x -&amp;gt; 3.x round changes in &amp;quot;What&amp;#039;s New&amp;quot; documents.</title>
<description>Changes by Mark Dickinson &amp;lt;dickinsm@gmail.com&amp;gt;:  ---------- title: Document 2.x -&amp;gt; 3.x round changes in &amp;quot;Whats New&amp;quot; documents. -&amp;gt; Document 2.x -&amp;gt; 3.x</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 02:35:51 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785399</link>
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<title>[issue7261] Document 2.x -&amp;gt; 3.x round changes in &amp;quot;Whats New&amp;quot; documents.</title>
<description>New submission from Mark Dickinson &amp;lt;dickinsm@gmail.com&amp;gt;: The round builtin function changed in three fairly significant ways between 2.x and 3.x: (1</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 02:33:13 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785398</link>
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<title>[issue4652] IDLE does not work with Unicode</title>
<description>Jean-Christophe Helary &amp;lt;jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com&amp;gt; added the comment: I&amp;#039;ve installed Python 3.1.1 on OSX today. 1) When I use the Japanese inp</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 01:52:13 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785393</link>
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<title>[issue7260] SyntaxError with a not-existing offset for unicode code</title>
<description>New submission from Noam Raphael &amp;lt;noamraph@gmail.com&amp;gt;: Hello, This is from the current svn: &amp;gt; ./python Python 3.2a0 (py3k:76104, Nov 4 2009, 08:49</description>
<pubDate>03 Nov  2009 23:04:59 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785363</link>
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<title>[issue7259] Documentation update for operator module</title>
<description>New submission from Gabriel Genellina &amp;lt;gagsl-py2@yahoo.com.ar&amp;gt;: This patch fixes some issues with the documentation of the operator module: - docst</description>
<pubDate>03 Nov  2009 21:23:39 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785346</link>
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<title>[issue7258] test_multiprocessing leaves a temporary directory</title>
<description>New submission from Antoine Pitrou &amp;lt;pitrou@free.fr&amp;gt;: On my buildbot, test_multiprocessing, although it succeeds, leaves an empty temporary directory</description>
<pubDate>03 Nov  2009 17:17:55 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785307</link>
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<title>[issue4969] mimetypes on Windows should read MIME database from registry (w/patch)</title>
<description>Changes by Timothy Farrell &amp;lt;tfarrell@swgen.com&amp;gt;:  ---------- nosy: +tercero12 _______________________________________ Python tracker &amp;lt;report@bugs.py</description>
<pubDate>03 Nov  2009 14:25:28 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785280</link>
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<title>[issue5094] datetime lacks concrete tzinfo impl. for UTC</title>
<description>Changes by Brett Cannon &amp;lt;brett@python.org&amp;gt;:  ---------- assignee: brett.cannon -&amp;gt;  _______________________________________ Python tracker &amp;lt;report@bu</description>
<pubDate>03 Nov  2009 11:20:55 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785207</link>
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<title>[issue7257] Improve documentation of list.sort and sorted()</title>
<description>New submission from Ole Laursen &amp;lt;olau@iola.dk&amp;gt;: On my Python 3.1, help() for sorted returns sort(...)   L.sort(key=None, reverse=False) -- stable</description>
<pubDate>03 Nov  2009 10:03:22 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785161</link>
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<title>[issue3244] multipart/form-data encoding</title>
<description>Changes by Thomas Guettler &amp;lt;guettli@thomas-guettler.de&amp;gt;:  ---------- nosy: +guettli _______________________________________ Python tracker &amp;lt;report@b</description>
<pubDate>03 Nov  2009 03:58:42 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785097</link>
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<title>[issue7256] parse_qs and parse_qsl in urlparse are not documented as New in version 2.6</title>
<description>New submission from Jeroen Habraken &amp;lt;vexocide@gmail.com&amp;gt;: The parse_qs and parse_qsl functions in the urlparse module seem to be new since version 2</description>
<pubDate>03 Nov  2009 03:36:01 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785096</link>
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<title>[issue7255] &amp;quot;Default&amp;quot; word boundaries for Unicode data?</title>
<description>New submission from daniel mccloy &amp;lt;bangalore.online@gmail.com&amp;gt;: Regarding UTS #18 (Unicode Standards for RegEx Engines), which can be found at: http:</description>
<pubDate>02 Nov  2009 20:22:03 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785047</link>
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<title>[issue6377] distutils compiler switch ignored</title>
<description>Changes by Tarek Ziadé &amp;lt;ziade.tarek@gmail.com&amp;gt;:  ---------- nosy: +dalcinl _______________________________________ Python tracker &amp;lt;report@bugs.pyth</description>
<pubDate>02 Nov  2009 14:23:34 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/785003</link>
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<title>[issue6492] xml.etree does not escape CR, LF and TAB characters within attribute values</title>
<description>Ezio Melotti &amp;lt;ezio.melotti@gmail.com&amp;gt; added the comment: Closing as duplicate of #7139. ---------- nosy: +ezio.melotti resolution: -&amp;gt; duplicate sta</description>
<pubDate>02 Nov  2009 14:05:19 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784980</link>
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<title>[issue7254] Class members not properly initialized if declared outside of function</title>
<description>New submission from Vlad &amp;lt;vladc6@yahoo.com&amp;gt;: If a class member is declared outside of a function, it&amp;#039;s creation is _not_ repeated with every new inst</description>
<pubDate>02 Nov  2009 13:55:36 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784979</link>
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<title>[issue7076] Documentation add note about SystemRandom</title>
<description>Shawn Ligocki &amp;lt;sligocki@gmail.com&amp;gt; added the comment: I rewrote the description, mostly using the claims form urandom, so that we don&amp;#039;t claim somethi</description>
<pubDate>02 Nov  2009 12:29:52 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784967</link>
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<title>[issue4356] Add &amp;quot;key&amp;quot; argument to &amp;quot;bisect&amp;quot; module functions</title>
<description>Milko Krachounov &amp;lt;python@milko.3mhz.net&amp;gt; added the comment: I&amp;#039;ve been bugged by the lack of key= argument for bisect for some time now, and today I g</description>
<pubDate>02 Nov  2009 09:42:53 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784920</link>
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<title>[issue7253] AssertionError Tree is insane with *args and reduce</title>
<description>New submission from Jason R. Coombs &amp;lt;jaraco@jaraco.com&amp;gt;: Create a file with a single line of code: def x(arg): return reduce(sum, []) On Python 3.1</description>
<pubDate>02 Nov  2009 09:13:47 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784918</link>
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<title>[issue7139] ElementTree: Incorrect serialization of end-of-line characters in attribute values</title>
<description>Moriyoshi Koizumi &amp;lt;mozo+python@mozo.jp&amp;gt; added the comment: Looks like a duplicate of #6492 ---------- _______________________________________ Pytho</description>
<pubDate>02 Nov  2009 08:12:49 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784890</link>
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<title>[issue7252] list().index() should provide better error reporting</title>
<description>New submission from djc &amp;lt;dirkjan@ochtman.nl&amp;gt;: &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; a = &amp;#039;b&amp;#039; &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; [].index(a) Traceback (most recent call last):  File &amp;quot;&amp;lt;stdin&amp;gt;&amp;quot;, line 1, in &amp;lt;module&amp;gt; Va</description>
<pubDate>02 Nov  2009 03:59:13 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784839</link>
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<title>[issue7251] Mark expected failures of test_math, test_cmath and test_round as such.</title>
<description>New submission from Mark Dickinson &amp;lt;dickinsm@gmail.com&amp;gt;: There are some buildbot failures due to platform-specific bugs that need to be marked as exp</description>
<pubDate>02 Nov  2009 01:43:05 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784824</link>
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<title>[issue7250] wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler caches os.environ, leaking info between requests</title>
<description>New submission from Brandon Bloom &amp;lt;snprbob86@gmail.com&amp;gt;: This issue came up while doing Google App Engine development. Apparently the default wsgi h</description>
<pubDate>01 Nov  2009 23:34:05 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784811</link>
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<title>[issue6873] posix_lchown: possible overflow of uid, gid</title>
<description>Changes by Gregory P. Smith &amp;lt;greg@krypto.org&amp;gt;:  ---------- assignee: -&amp;gt; gregory.p.smith nosy: +gregory.p.smith ____________________________________</description>
<pubDate>01 Nov  2009 22:47:35 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784808</link>
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<title>[issue7249] Consider allowing io.BytesIO sizes to be passed as &amp;#039;long&amp;#039; in 2.6</title>
<description>New submission from Ryan Leslie &amp;lt;rylesny@gmail.com&amp;gt;: py&amp;gt; StringIO.StringIO(&amp;quot;foo&amp;quot;).read(long(1)) &amp;#039;f&amp;#039; py&amp;gt; io.BytesIO(&amp;quot;foo&amp;quot;).read(long(1)) Traceback (m</description>
<pubDate>01 Nov  2009 19:50:44 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784780</link>
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<title>[issue7248] test_importlib uses a fixed name in /tmp</title>
<description>New submission from Antoine Pitrou &amp;lt;pitrou@free.fr&amp;gt;: test_importlib uses fixed names in /tmp (e.g. /tmp/pkg), which will make the tests fail is such</description>
<pubDate>01 Nov  2009 14:41:20 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784732</link>
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<title>[issue7247] test_fcntl_64_bit from test_fcntl.py fails in Python 2.6.4</title>
<description>Changes by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis &amp;lt;Arfrever.FTA@GMail.Com&amp;gt;:  ---------- title: 2.6.4 fnctl test failure -&amp;gt; test_fcntl_64_bit from test_f</description>
<pubDate>01 Nov  2009 14:34:17 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784731</link>
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<title>[issue1115] Minor Change For Better cross compile</title>
<description>Gregory P. Smith &amp;lt;greg@krypto.org&amp;gt; added the comment: Thanks for the patch! applied in trunk r76028/r76029. py3k r76030/r76032 There are more of t</description>
<pubDate>01 Nov  2009 13:11:54 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784689</link>
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<title>[issue6665] fnmatch fails on filenames containing \n character</title>
<description>Gregory P. Smith &amp;lt;greg@krypto.org&amp;gt; added the comment: release26-maint r76023 to appear in Python 2.6.5. release31-maint r76024 to appear in Python 3.</description>
<pubDate>01 Nov  2009 12:37:15 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784686</link>
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<title>[issue1008086] socket.inet_aton returns 8 bytes on LP64 platforms</title>
<description>Gregory P. Smith &amp;lt;greg@krypto.org&amp;gt; added the comment: Fixed in release26-maint r76022. This will appear in Python 2.6.5. I&amp;#039;m leaving release30-main</description>
<pubDate>01 Nov  2009 12:30:05 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784685</link>
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<title>[issue7247] 2.6.4 fnctl test failure</title>
<description>New submission from Tony Vroon &amp;lt;tony@vroon.org&amp;gt;: chainsaw@prometheus ~ $ python2.6 /usr/lib64/python2.6/test/test_fcntl.py struct.pack: &amp;#039;\x01\x00\x</description>
<pubDate>01 Nov  2009 11:20:06 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784671</link>
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<title>[issue7246] getpass raises IOError when several returns are in stdin before getpass was called</title>
<description>Changes by Gregory P. Smith &amp;lt;greg@krypto.org&amp;gt;:  ---------- assignee: -&amp;gt; gregory.p.smith components: +Library (Lib) nosy: +gregory.p.smith priority:</description>
<pubDate>01 Nov  2009 09:47:05 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784651</link>
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<title>[issue7246] getpass crashes when several returns are in stdin before getpass was called</title>
<description>New submission from Avihu Turzion &amp;lt;avihu@turzion.com&amp;gt;: When I have the following code: blah.py ======= import getpass nothing = getpass.getpass(&amp;quot;bl</description>
<pubDate>01 Nov  2009 08:46:28 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784648</link>
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<title>[issue1006238] cross compile patch</title>
<description>Garrett Cooper &amp;lt;yanegomi@gmail.com&amp;gt; added the comment: I&amp;#039;m trying to resolve this issue on: 2.6-releasemaint trunk 3.1-releasemaint py3k first by r</description>
<pubDate>31 Oct  2009 15:53:05 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784539</link>
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<title>[issue6896] Intermittent failures in test_mailbox</title>
<description>Antoine Pitrou &amp;lt;pitrou@free.fr&amp;gt; added the comment: Looking at the frequent buildbot failures, they always seem to happen in TestMaildir. Therefore, i</description>
<pubDate>31 Oct  2009 15:21:50 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784536</link>
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<title>[issue6748] test_debuglevel from test_telnetlib.py fails</title>
<description>Changes by Ezio Melotti &amp;lt;ezio.melotti@gmail.com&amp;gt;:  ---------- nosy: +ezio.melotti priority: -&amp;gt; normal _______________________________________ Pytho</description>
<pubDate>31 Oct  2009 14:19:14 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784521</link>
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<title>[issue7245] better Ctrl-C support in pdb (program can be resumed)</title>
<description>New submission from Ilya Sandler &amp;lt;ilya.sandler@gmail.com&amp;gt;: Currently, pressing Ctrl-C in pdb will terminate the program and throw the user into post-</description>
<pubDate>31 Oct  2009 12:37:57 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784518</link>
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<title>[issue5972] Failing test_signal.py on Redhat 4.1.2-44</title>
<description>Mark Dickinson &amp;lt;dickinsm@gmail.com&amp;gt; added the comment: I think this failure may now be fixed in svn: see issue #7042. dmauldin, are you in a positi</description>
<pubDate>31 Oct  2009 09:56:27 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784490</link>
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<title>[issue7042] test_signal fails on os x 10.6</title>
<description>Mark Dickinson &amp;lt;dickinsm@gmail.com&amp;gt; added the comment: I&amp;#039;ve fixed test_itimer_virtual and test_itimer_prof to use a timeout instead of an xrange/ran</description>
<pubDate>31 Oct  2009 03:42:18 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784430</link>
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<title>[issue6603] Compilation error if configuref --with-computed-gotos</title>
<description>Mark Dickinson &amp;lt;dickinsm@gmail.com&amp;gt; added the comment: Applied to 2.7, 2.6, 3.2, 3.1 in r75982 through r75985. ---------- stage: patch review -&amp;gt; com</description>
<pubDate>31 Oct  2009 03:23:07 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784428</link>
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<title>[issue7244] itertools.zip_longest behaves strangely with an iterable class</title>
<description>New submission from Daniel Urban &amp;lt;urban.dani+py@gmail.com&amp;gt;: I&amp;#039;m trying to write an iterable class, and it behaves strangely with itertools.zip_longes</description>
<pubDate>31 Oct  2009 02:07:59 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784418</link>
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<title>[issue1739118] Investigated ref leak report related to thread regrtest.py</title>
<description>Hirokazu Yamamoto &amp;lt;ocean-city@m2.ccsnet.ne.jp&amp;gt; added the comment: This issue seems to be fixed in r75958. ---------- resolution: -&amp;gt; duplicate statu</description>
<pubDate>30 Oct  2009 20:32:22 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784400</link>
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<title>[issue5510] patches for Modules/socketmodule.c for NetBSD</title>
<description>Thomas Klausner &amp;lt;tk@giga.or.at&amp;gt; added the comment: Attached is the patch fixing this problem from pkgsrc; it was written by Iain Hibbert &amp;lt;plunky@NetB</description>
<pubDate>30 Oct  2009 14:34:26 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784354</link>
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<title>[issue3864] 26.rc1: test_signal issue on FreeBSD 6.3</title>
<description>R. David Murray &amp;lt;rdmurray@bitdance.com&amp;gt; added the comment: Does anyone know what version of FreeBSD the FreeBSD buildslave is running? This problem</description>
<pubDate>30 Oct  2009 13:01:28 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784319</link>
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<title>[issue4698] Solaris buildbot failure on trunk in test_hostshot</title>
<description>Changes by R. David Murray &amp;lt;rdmurray@bitdance.com&amp;gt;:  ---------- keywords: +buildbot _______________________________________ Python tracker &amp;lt;report@b</description>
<pubDate>30 Oct  2009 12:48:47 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784318</link>
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<title>[issue3892] bsddb: test01_basic_replication fails on Windows sometimes</title>
<description>Changes by R. David Murray &amp;lt;rdmurray@bitdance.com&amp;gt;:  ---------- keywords: +buildbot _______________________________________ Python tracker &amp;lt;report@b</description>
<pubDate>30 Oct  2009 12:47:16 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784317</link>
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<title>[issue6462] bsddb3 intermittent test failures</title>
<description>Changes by R. David Murray &amp;lt;rdmurray@bitdance.com&amp;gt;:  ---------- keywords: +buildbot _______________________________________ Python tracker &amp;lt;report@b</description>
<pubDate>30 Oct  2009 12:46:37 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784316</link>
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<title>[issue7243] mac binary download link for 2.6.4 broken</title>
<description>New submission from Jonathan Beard &amp;lt;jt.beard@gmail.com&amp;gt;: the mac binary download link for python 2.6.4 is broken: http://python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/</description>
<pubDate>30 Oct  2009 08:29:56 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784248</link>
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<title>[issue4359] at runtime, distutils uses buildtime files</title>
<description>Andrew McNabb &amp;lt;amcnabb@mcnabbs.org&amp;gt; added the comment: I&amp;#039;ve noticed this, too, and I agree with Toshio&amp;#039;s observations. Tarek, do you have any opinio</description>
<pubDate>30 Oct  2009 08:21:31 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784247</link>
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<title>[issue7242] Forking in a thread raises RuntimeError</title>
<description>New submission from Zsolt Cserna &amp;lt;zsolt.cserna@morganstanley.com&amp;gt;: Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Oct 29 2009, 12:00:12) [C] on sunos5 On my sunos5 syste</description>
<pubDate>30 Oct  2009 03:58:02 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784206</link>
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<title>[issue7241] tkinter fails to import</title>
<description>New submission from Jebagnanadasa &amp;lt;jebagnanadas@gmail.com&amp;gt;: import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk I&amp;#039;m using pytho</description>
<pubDate>29 Oct  2009 23:30:57 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784182</link>
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<title>[issue7240] subprocess.Popen.stdout.flush fails os OS-X 10.6.1</title>
<description>New submission from Peter Gibson &amp;lt;petehere@gmail.com&amp;gt;: subprocess.Popen.stdout.flush() fails on OS-X 10.6.1 under the bundled Python 2.6.1 and 2.6.3</description>
<pubDate>29 Oct  2009 22:15:49 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784154</link>
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<title>[issue5437] Singleton MemoryError can hold traceback data and locals indefinitely</title>
<description>Antoine Pitrou &amp;lt;pitrou@free.fr&amp;gt; added the comment: Here is a patch preallocating a freelist of MemoryErrors. To Alexandre: yes, PyExc_RecursionError</description>
<pubDate>29 Oct  2009 14:22:45 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/784072</link>
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<title>[issue7239] Error when running a code</title>
<description>New submission from MN &amp;lt;mauronilson@gmail.com&amp;gt;: Process:     Python [12980] Path:      /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Re</description>
<pubDate>29 Oct  2009 12:07:30 -0800</pubDate>
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