Sorry, this list does not claim completeness. If I fixed a bug immediately upon receiving the first complaint I usually did not nother to make an ehtry in this file, unless it was a serious bug (core dump or infinite loop). ==> Status indicators: (-) not fixed; (?) fix proposed but not confirmed; (*) fixed. ====================================================================== BUGS found in 1.0.3 ------------------- (-) unwanted entries in stack trace if err_clear() clears an error that also set a stack trace (-) i, x[i] = a, b assigns b to x[a] rather than to x[i] as expected (if we don't fix this, it should be documented with a warning!) (-) various memory leaks (see purify report from anthony.baxter@aaii.oz.au) (*) etags no longer supports -t flag (-) compile.c:com_argdefs() references unalloc'ed memory for def f(a=1,): ... (-) Syntax errors are reported in a silly way if multi-line tokens are involved. (-) SyntaxError exception for compile('...') are reported wrongly (lineno is always zero and offset is offset into the whole string). (-) If you have a python binary in your path like /ufs/guido/bin/sgi/python then the default prefix option computed by the configure script is bogus! (-) Make rule for making lib*.a should remove the lib*.a file first. (*) vars() error message is wrong (copied from dir() obviously). (*) socket.gethostname() is undocumented. (*) rfc822.py: getfirst* dies when multiple headers occur (-) urllib caching is wrong (should use date from Expires header) (*) On a related matter: regexpr.c still has two malloc()s the results of which are not tested for being NULL (lines 1253 and 1530). There are also some in rgbimagemodule.c. Am I overlooking something or is this a crasher? (*) strop.rindex('abc', '') returns 0 instead of 3 (*) sunaudiodevmodule.o is too long! (-) need newer DOS binary (16 bit version doesn't do default args) (-) toplevel README needs new text on PC and Mac builds (*) long(0x80000000) has wrong value! ====================================================================== Bugs found in 1.0.2 and not yet fixed ------------------------------------- (-) compiler warnings about argument type of uname() on ULTRIX machines (-) syntax error for interactive input prints garbage instead of last source line on some systems (e.g. AIX) (?) (maybe) a bad .pyc file (with old magic number) causes the .py file to be ignored (-) Sunos4.0.2 / 386 configure bugs: - timelocal instead of mktime - unistd.h doesn't declare some functions Bugs found in 1.0.2 and fixed in 1.0.3 -------------------------------------- (*) nasty bug in string formatting (see test_types.py, search for %) (*) if a triple-quoted string ends in a quote followed by a newline (followed immediately by the terminating 3 quotes) then a syntax error or system error ensues (*) bug in socket.listen: clipping backlog to >= 1 doesn't work (*) two bogus XDEL's in Modules/regexmodule.reg_dealloc() (*) Parser/myreadline.my_fgets: #endif EINTR misplaced (*) new IP address for ftp.cwi.nl !!! (*) typing vars() to interactive prompt runs into infinite loop because of '_' (*) tokenizer/tok_nextc() runs into infinite loop when file does not end in linefeed (*) Sunos4.0.2 / 386 configure bugs: (*) - use size_t at some places without including sys/types.h (*) - missing clock_t (*) - uses SEEK_SET in some places that don't include unistd.h ====================================================================== Bugs found in 1.0.1 and not yet fixed ------------------------------------- (-) modsupport.c(vmkvalue): on systems where va_list is an array, the calls to do_mkvalue and do_mktuple don't want an "&" before va. (?) threads are slow on Solaris 2 (?) threads cause myreadline.c's readline() to think it sees an EOF. (-) min() on PC version generates wrong result (i.e. same as max()) [this happens on SoftPC -- don't know about other systems] (-) flp.py cache bug: if the cache only contains one form, asking for all forms returns only the cashed form Bugs found in 1.0.1 and fixed in 1.0.2 -------------------------------------- (*) core dump when parser.parsefile() called (*) man page contains a mess before -d option (*) threads don't work on IRIX 4 (*) wrong cast of svideo_getattr in svmodule.c (*) bad return value in runpython.c's run_tty_1() (*) creating dict of 100,000 objects gets MemoryError or dumps core (*) freeze script doesn't work ====================================================================== BUGS found in 1.0.0 and not yet fixed ------------------------------------- (?) On NeXT, need to define _POSIX_SOURCE. (?) there appears to be something wrong with gcc and -ldl on some SunOS 4.1.3 systems (-) jredfords reports core dump with float literals BUGS found in 1.0.0 and fixed in 1.0.1 -------------------------------------- (*) On SGI IRIX 4 using cc, compilation errors in md5module.c. (*) In cdmodule.c, getattr initialized with (destructor)! (*) Lib/tzparse.py runs test() on import (*) Lib/filewin.py belongs in Lib/stdwin (*) lib and man install targets don't use $(srcdir) (*) Modules/rgbimgmodule.c: exception name contains comma instead of dot (*) The FAQ still references misc/EXTENDING and misc/DYNLOAD etc (*) The FAQ still describes how to work around a problem in 0.9.9 exec() (*) Lib/aifc.py, returns float rate, should be int (*) Lib/sunau.py, incorrectly cumputes byte count from frame rate (*) README should mention possibility of passing OPT=-g to make (*) dynamic loading on sunos 4.1.3 must call dlopen(..., 1) (*) use of vs. should depend on HAVE_STDARG_PROTOTYPES, not on HAVE_STDARG_H (*) Doc/README refers to Misc/FTP which in fact does not exist any more (*) filter(None, 'abcdefg') dumps core (*) once you interrupt time.sleep(), there is no interrupt handler! ====================================================================== end of file