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  r61239 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-03-05 01:44:41 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Add more items; add fragmentary notes
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  r61240 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-03-05 02:50:33 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 13 lines

  Issue#2238: some syntax errors from *args or **kwargs expressions
  would give bogus error messages, because of untested exceptions::

      >>> f(**g(1=2))
      XXX undetected error
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
      TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable

  instead of the expected SyntaxError: keyword can't be an expression

  Will backport.
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  r61241 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-05 06:10:48 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Remove the files/dirs after closing the DB so the tests work on Windows.
  Patch from Trent Nelson.  Also simplified removing a file by using test_support.
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  r61242 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-05 06:14:18 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Get this test to pass even when there is no sound card in the system.
  Patch from Trent Nelson.  (I can't test this.)
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  r61243 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-05 06:20:44 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Catch OSError when trying to remove a file in case removal fails. This
  should prevent a failure in tearDown masking any real test failure.
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  r61244 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-05 06:38:06 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 5 lines

  Make the timeout longer to give slow machines a chance to pass the test
  before timing out.  This doesn't change the duration of the test under
  normal circumstances.  This is targetted at fixing the spurious failures
  on the FreeBSD buildbot primarily.
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  r61245 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-05 06:49:03 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Tabs -> spaces
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  r61246 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-05 06:50:20 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Use -u urlfetch to run more tests
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  r61247 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-05 06:51:20 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  test_smtplib sometimes reports leaks too, suppress it
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  r61248 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-03-05 07:19:56 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 5 lines

  Fix test_socketserver on Windows after r61099 added several signal.alarm()
  calls (which don't exist on non-Unix platforms).

  Thanks to Trent Nelson for the report and patch.
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  r61249 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-05 08:10:35 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix some rst.
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  r61252 | thomas.heller | 2008-03-05 15:53:39 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  News entry for yesterdays commit.
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  r61253 | thomas.heller | 2008-03-05 16:34:29 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Issue 1872: Changed the struct module typecode from 't' to '?', for
  compatibility with PEP3118.
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  r61254 | skip.montanaro | 2008-03-05 17:41:09 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 4 lines

  Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple
  versions.
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  r61255 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-05 20:31:44 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  #2239: PYTHONPATH delimiter is os.pathsep.
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  r61256 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-05 21:59:58 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  C implementation of itertools.permutations().
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  r61257 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-05 22:04:32 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Small code cleanup.
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  r61260 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-03-05 23:24:31 +0100 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  cd PCbuild only after deleting all pyc files.
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  r61261 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-06 02:15:52 +0100 (Thu, 06 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Add examples.
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  r61262 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-03-06 02:36:27 +0100 (Thu, 06 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Add two items
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  r61263 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-06 07:47:18 +0100 (Thu, 06 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  #1725737: ignore other VC directories other than CVS and SVN's too.
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  r61264 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-03-06 07:55:22 +0100 (Thu, 06 Mar 2008) | 4 lines

  Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
  permission to create files in the root directory.
  Will backport to 2.5.
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  r61269 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-06 08:19:15 +0100 (Thu, 06 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Expand on re.split behavior with captured expressions.
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  r61270 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-06 08:22:09 +0100 (Thu, 06 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Little clarification of assignments.
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  r61271 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-06 08:31:34 +0100 (Thu, 06 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Add isinstance/issubclass to tutorial.
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  r61272 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-06 08:34:52 +0100 (Thu, 06 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Add missing NEWS entry for r61263.
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  r61273 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-06 08:41:16 +0100 (Thu, 06 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  #2225: return nonzero status code from py_compile if not all files could be compiled.
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  r61274 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-06 08:43:02 +0100 (Thu, 06 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  #2220: handle matching failure more gracefully.
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  r61275 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-06 08:45:52 +0100 (Thu, 06 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Bug #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more gracefully.
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  r61278 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-03-06 14:49:47 +0100 (Thu, 06 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Rely on x64 platform configuration when building _bsddb on AMD64.
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  r61279 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-03-06 14:50:28 +0100 (Thu, 06 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Update db-4.4.20 build procedure.
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  r61285 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-06 21:52:01 +0100 (Thu, 06 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  More tests.
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  r61286 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-06 23:51:36 +0100 (Thu, 06 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 2246:  itertools grouper object did not participate in GC (should be backported).
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  r61288 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-07 02:33:20 +0100 (Fri, 07 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Tweak recipes and tests
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  r61289 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-03-07 07:22:15 +0100 (Fri, 07 Mar 2008) | 5 lines

  Progress on issue #1193577 by adding a polling .shutdown() method to
  SocketServers. The core of the patch was written by Pedro Werneck, but any bugs
  are mine. I've also rearranged the code for timeouts in order to avoid
  interfering with the shutdown poll.
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  r61290 | nick.coghlan | 2008-03-07 15:13:28 +0100 (Fri, 07 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Speed up with statements by storing the __exit__ method on the stack instead of in a temp variable (bumps the magic number for pyc files)
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  r61298 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-03-07 22:09:23 +0100 (Fri, 07 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Grammar fix
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  r61303 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-08 10:54:06 +0100 (Sat, 08 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  #2253: fix continue vs. finally docs.
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  r61304 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2008-03-08 11:01:43 +0100 (Sat, 08 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Add new name for Mandrake: Mandriva.
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  r61305 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-08 11:05:24 +0100 (Sat, 08 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  #1533486: fix types in refcount intro.
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  r61312 | facundo.batista | 2008-03-08 17:50:27 +0100 (Sat, 08 Mar 2008) | 5 lines


  Issue 1106316. post_mortem()'s parameter, traceback, is now
  optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is currently
  being handled.
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  r61313 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-03-08 19:26:54 +0100 (Sat, 08 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Add tests for with and finally performance to pybench.
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  r61314 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-03-08 21:08:21 +0100 (Sat, 08 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix pybench for pythons < 2.6, tested back to 2.3.
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  r61317 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-03-08 22:35:15 +0100 (Sat, 08 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Well that was dumb. platform.python_implementation returns a function, not a
  string.
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  r61329 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-09 16:11:39 +0100 (Sun, 09 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  #2249: document assertTrue and assertFalse.
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  r61332 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-09 20:03:42 +0100 (Sun, 09 Mar 2008) | 4 lines

  Introduce a lock to fix a race condition which caused an exception in the test.
  Some buildbots were consistently failing (e.g., amd64).
  Also remove a couple of semi-colons.
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  r61344 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-11 01:19:07 +0100 (Tue, 11 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Add recipe to docs.
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  r61350 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-03-11 22:18:06 +0100 (Tue, 11 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Fix the overflows in expandtabs().  "This time for sure!"
  (Exploit at request.)
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  r61351 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-11 22:37:46 +0100 (Tue, 11 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Improve docs for itemgetter().  Show that it works with slices.
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  r61363 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-13 08:15:56 +0100 (Thu, 13 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  #2265: fix example.
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  r61364 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-13 08:17:14 +0100 (Thu, 13 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  #2270: fix typo.
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  r61365 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-13 08:21:41 +0100 (Thu, 13 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  #1720705: add docs about import/threading interaction, wording by Nick.
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  r61366 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-03-13 12:07:35 +0100 (Thu, 13 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Add class decorators
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  r61367 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-13 17:43:17 +0100 (Thu, 13 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Add 2-to-3 support for the itertools moved to builtins or renamed.
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  r61368 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-13 17:43:59 +0100 (Thu, 13 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Consistent tense.
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  r61369 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-13 20:03:51 +0100 (Thu, 13 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 2274:  Add heapq.heappushpop().
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  r61370 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-13 20:33:34 +0100 (Thu, 13 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Simplify the nlargest() code using heappushpop().
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  r61371 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-13 21:27:00 +0100 (Thu, 13 Mar 2008) | 4 lines

  Move test_thread over to unittest. Commits GHOP 237.

  Thanks Benjamin Peterson for the patch.
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  r61372 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-13 21:33:10 +0100 (Thu, 13 Mar 2008) | 4 lines

  Move test_tokenize to doctest.

  Done as GHOP 238 by Josip Dzolonga.
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  r61373 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-13 21:47:41 +0100 (Thu, 13 Mar 2008) | 4 lines

  Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to unittest.

  Patch from GHOP 294 by David Marek.
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  r61374 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-13 22:02:16 +0100 (Thu, 13 Mar 2008) | 4 lines

  Move test_gdbm to use unittest.

  Closes issue #1960. Thanks Giampaolo Rodola.
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  r61375 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-13 22:09:28 +0100 (Thu, 13 Mar 2008) | 4 lines

  Convert test_fcntl to unittest.

  Closes issue #2055. Thanks Giampaolo Rodola.
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  r61376 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-14 06:03:44 +0100 (Fri, 14 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Leave heapreplace() unchanged.
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  r61378 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-03-14 14:56:09 +0100 (Fri, 14 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Patch #2284: add -x64 option to rt.bat.
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  r61379 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-03-14 14:57:59 +0100 (Fri, 14 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Use -x64 flag.
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  r61382 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-14 15:03:10 +0100 (Fri, 14 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove a bad test.
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  r61383 | mark.dickinson | 2008-03-14 15:23:37 +0100 (Fri, 14 Mar 2008) | 9 lines

  Issue 705836: Fix struct.pack(">f", 1e40) to behave consistently
  across platforms:  it should now raise OverflowError on all
  platforms.  (Previously it raised OverflowError only on
  non IEEE 754 platforms.)

  Also fix the (already existing) test for this behaviour
  so that it actually raises TestFailed instead of just
  referencing it.
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  r61387 | thomas.heller | 2008-03-14 22:06:21 +0100 (Fri, 14 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Remove unneeded initializer.
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  r61388 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-03-14 22:19:28 +0100 (Fri, 14 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Run debug version, cd to PCbuild.
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  r61392 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-15 00:10:34 +0100 (Sat, 15 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove obsolete paragraph. #2288.
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  r61395 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-15 01:20:19 +0100 (Sat, 15 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix lots of broken links in the docs, found by Sphinx' external link checker.
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  r61396 | skip.montanaro | 2008-03-15 03:32:49 +0100 (Sat, 15 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  note that fork and forkpty raise OSError on failure
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  r61402 | skip.montanaro | 2008-03-15 17:04:45 +0100 (Sat, 15 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  add %f format to datetime - issue 1158
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  r61403 | skip.montanaro | 2008-03-15 17:07:11 +0100 (Sat, 15 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  .
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.. _reporting-bugs:
************************
Reporting Bugs in Python
************************
Python is a mature programming language which has established a reputation for
stability. In order to maintain this reputation, the developers would like to
know of any deficiencies you find in Python.
If you find errors in the documentation, please use either the "Add a comment"
or the "Suggest a change" features of the relevant page in the most recent
online documentation at http://docs.python.org/.
All other bug reports should be submitted via the Python Bug Tracker
(http://bugs.python.org/). The bug tracker offers a Web form which allows
pertinent information to be entered and submitted to the developers.
The first step in filing a report is to determine whether the problem has
already been reported. The advantage in doing so, aside from saving the
developers time, is that you learn what has been done to fix it; it may be that
the problem has already been fixed for the next release, or additional
information is needed (in which case you are welcome to provide it if you can!).
To do this, search the bug database using the search box on the top of the page.
If the problem you're reporting is not already in the bug tracker, go back to
the Python Bug Tracker. If you don't already have a tracker account, select the
"Register" link in the sidebar and undergo the registration procedure.
Otherwise, if you're not logged in, enter your credentials and select "Login".
It is not possible to submit a bug report anonymously.
Being now logged in, you can submit a bug. Select the "Create New" link in the
sidebar to open the bug reporting form.
The submission form has a number of fields. For the "Title" field, enter a
*very* short description of the problem; less than ten words is good. In the
"Type" field, select the type of your problem; also select the "Component" and
"Versions" to which the bug relates.
In the "Change Note" field, describe the problem in detail, including what you
expected to happen and what did happen. Be sure to include whether any
extension modules were involved, and what hardware and software platform you
were using (including version information as appropriate).
Each bug report will be assigned to a developer who will determine what needs to
be done to correct the problem. You will receive an update each time action is
taken on the bug.
.. seealso::
`How to Report Bugs Effectively <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html>`_
Article which goes into some detail about how to create a useful bug report.
This describes what kind of information is useful and why it is useful.
`Bug Writing Guidelines <http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Bug_writing_guidelines>`_
Information about writing a good bug report. Some of this is specific to the
Mozilla project, but describes general good practices.