This BUGS list hasn't been updated since the release of Python 1.2!

It is useless.  My real bugs database is currently being maintained
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BUGS

-THIS LIST DOES NOT CLAIM COMPLETENESS.
-
-==> Status indicators: (-) not fixed; (*) fixed; (?) not sure.
-
-======================================================================
-
-Problems that are difficult to solve
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-
-(-) "f()=0" generates syntax error msg without line number
-
-(-) tkinter seems to leave an exception around sometime which breaks
-unmarshalling code objects [hard to reproduce, have added a trap to
-marshal.c to catch it]
-
-(-) destroying all modules may destroy __builtin__ (or other modules)
-while destructors of other modules may still need it [hard to fix --
-could maintain a list of all modules in order of importation so we can
-destroy them in reverse order???  really hopeless -- would have to
-destroy objects in a module in reverse order too...]
-
-(-) doneimport() should be called *before* the Py_AtExit code is
-called [problem: what if other threads are still active?]
-
-Known portability problems
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-
-(-) arraymodule doesn't compile under Ultrix (FPROTO macro)
-
-(-) makesetup assumes CCC is the C++ compiler -- not portable
-
-(-) "make depend" assumes mkdep exists -- not portable
-
-(-) regen calls h2py which isn't defined by default
-
-(-) HP doesn't compile out of the box (needs LIBS=-ldld or
-LIBS=/usr/lib/libdld.sl) [hard to test without a HP machine handy]
-
-======================================================================
-BUGS present in 1.1.1 and fixed in 1.2
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-
-(*) extraneous fclose() in run_script() in pythonrun.c for .pyc file
-
-(*) __str__ is called if it exists (and then fails) when applying
-str() to a class
-
-(*) mem leaks in inittime() in timemodule.c
-
-(*) mem leak in optimize() in compile.c
-
-(*) mem leak in func_dealloc() in funcobject.c
-
-(*) missing DECREF for result of run_string in exec_statement() in
-ceval.c
-
-(*) missing INCREF in RAISE_EXCEPTION case after gettupleitem() in
-ceval.c
-
-(*) posix.utime gives problems on problems on platforms where struct
-utime members are bitfields
-
-(*) leak in regex module.c:reg_dealloc() -- should free compiled pattern
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-(*) many uses of macros from <ctype.h> fail with signed characters
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-(*) compilation on NeXT requires manual editing of the Makefile
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-(*) tkinter should cast malloc() result
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-(*) marshal.c (w_object()) triggers GCC bug on DEC Alpha
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-(*) int/long size bug in range() and xrange() on DEC Alpha
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-(*) memory leaks in dbm and gdbm modules
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-(*) refcnt bug in select.select([f], [f], [f])
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-(*) Should fflush(stdout) before printing traceback to stderr
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-(*) Linux uses GNU getopt by default which is broken
-
-(*) make sharedinstall references to machdep directory but doesn't
-create it
-
-(*) a file with unmatched triple quotes causes a loop in the scanner
-
-(*) [X]DECREF can cause the interpreter to be called recursively (for
-__del__ disciplines) -- so list and dict implementation calls doing
-DECREF can cause recursive calls to methods of the object being
-modified.  Other files too.
-
-(*) if __getattr__ or __repr__ prints something, calling repr(x) from
-cmd line forgets a newline
-
-(*) C-level coerce() doesn't call __coerce__ when it should (and
-similar for __cmp__)
-
-(*) struct module assigns unaligned doubles when compiled with -DDEBUG
-on sparc
-
-(*) memory leak (namebuf) in initmodule2
-
-(*) hash() of float values returns bogus values
-
-(*) pow(int, int, long) does wrong series of DECREF() calls.
-
-(*) flushline() may clear the exception condition so shouldn't be
-called before print_error()
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-(*) Everything else that uses err_get() should use err_fetch()
-
-(*) sockets aren't thread safe (address of static struct returned,
-some calls aren't thread safe)
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-(*) threadmodule.c leaks LOTS of memory at thread exit
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-(*) shared install in Modules still doesn't work for empty list
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-(*) threadmodule.c leaks 'res' in t_bootstrap
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-(*) errors.c shouldn't declare strerror() on NT
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-(*) DECREF can cause the interpreter to be called recursively (for
-__del__ disciplines) -- so list and dict implementation calls doing
-DECREF can cause recursive calls to methods of the object being
-modified.  Other files too.  (Only partially fixed.)
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-(*) tkinter dereferences NULL if timer callback raises an exception
-
-(*) must link with -lieee for linux
-
-(*) if a timer handler routine raises an exception, the interpreter
-dereferences NULL
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-(*) __getattr__ doesn't clear error
-
-(*) '%s' % a, where a is a class instance, fails
-
-(*) "make test" won't find freshly built dynamically loaded modules --
-should add ./Modules to TESTPATH
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-(*) lshift calls __rshift__ instead of __rlshift__
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-(*) memory leak in creation of sys.builtin_module_names
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-(*) Bugs in instance_dealloc(): (a) memory leak for exception
-type+value; (2) should save+restore traceback as well
-
-(*) 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.
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-======================================================================
-BUGS found in 1.1 and fixed in 1.1.1
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-
-(*) printing name of lambda in traceback dereferences NULL
-
-(*) A built-in function using getargs() and expecting >= 1 argument
-may dump core when called without arguments
-
-(*) newgetargs() dumps core in compat mode when NULL is passed in but
-max is >0
-
-(*) pow() should be declared varargs since it uses newgetargs
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-(*) newmodule.c doesn't compile on SunOS 4.1.3 due to non-K&R backslashes
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-(*) some typos in tut.tex
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-(*) test for broken static forward is not strong enough
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-(*) Doc/Makefile assumes . is in $PATH in call to whichlibs
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-(*) math module misses hypot() function
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-(*) structmember.h should include stddef.h (for offsetof macro)
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-(*) gdbmmodule.c frees the wrong structures
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-(*) makesetup script misses some dollars and backslashes
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-(*) getargs.obj missing from NT makefile
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-(*) sorting class instances broken if no __cmp__ defined
-
-======================================================================
-BUGS found in 1.0.3 and fixed in 1.1
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-
-(*) 2 specific leaks: 1 PYTHONPATH; 2 reading code from .pyc
-
-(*) If class C doesn't define __cmp__, cmp(a,b) will return -2 and
-[a,b].sort() will fail
-
-(*) 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).
-
-(*) freeze script needs major rewrite to cope with multiple extensions
-(Jack seems to have fixed it now -- where is it?)
-
-(*) 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
-(documented with a warning in ref6.tex!)
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-(*) etags no longer supports -t flag
-
-(*) compile.c:com_argdefs() references unalloc'ed memory for def
-f(a=1,): ...
-
-(*) 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).
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-(*) socket.gethostname() is undocumented.
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-(*) rfc822.py: getfirst* dies when multiple headers occur
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-(*) 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
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-(*) sunaudiodevmodule.o is too long!
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-(*) toplevel README needs new text on PC and Mac builds
-
-(*) long(0x80000000) has wrong value!
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-======================================================================
-Bugs found in 1.0.2 and not yet fixed
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-
-(?) compiler warnings about argument type of uname() on ULTRIX
-machines (don't know what to do about it) [could be fixed by fix for
-bitfields in struct uname]
-
-(?) syntax error for interactive input prints garbage instead of last
-source line on some systems (e.g. AIX) (impossible to test/reproduce)
-[I think I've found this one -- a missing INCREF in print_error]
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-(?) (maybe) a bad .pyc file (with old magic number) causes the .py
-file to be ignored [should be fixed by rewrite of import.c]
-
-(?) Sunos4.0.2 / 386 configure bugs:
-	- timelocal instead of mktime
-	- unistd.h doesn't declare some functions
-(don't know what to do about this)
-
-Bugs found in 1.0.2 and fixed in 1.0.3
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-
-(*) 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()
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-(*) Parser/myreadline.my_fgets: #endif EINTR misplaced
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-(*) 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
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-======================================================================
-Bugs found in 1.0.1 and not yet fixed
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-
-(?) threads are slow on Solaris 2
-(so what?)
-
-(*) threads cause myreadline.c's readline() to think it sees an EOF.
-(I *think* I've fixed this, by testing for EINTR)
-
-(?) min() on PC version generates wrong result (i.e. same as max())
-    [this happens on SoftPC -- don't know about other systems]
-(can't find the reason -- may be SoftPC bug)
-
-(*) flp.py cache bug: if the cache only contains one form, asking for
-all forms returns only the cached form
-
-Bugs found in 1.0.1 and fixed in 1.0.2
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-
-(*) core dump when parser.parsefile() called
-
-(*) man page contains a mess before -d option
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-(*) threads don't work on IRIX 4
-
-(*) wrong cast of svideo_getattr in svmodule.c
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-(*) bad return value in runpython.c's run_tty_1()
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-(*) creating dict of 100,000 objects gets MemoryError or dumps core
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-(*) freeze script doesn't work
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-======================================================================
-BUGS found in 1.0.0 and not yet fixed
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-
-(*) On NeXT, need to define _POSIX_SOURCE.
-
-(?) there appears to be something wrong with gcc and -ldl on some
-SunOS 4.1.3 systems
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-(?) jredfords reports core dump with float literals
-
-BUGS found in 1.0.0 and fixed in 1.0.1
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-
-(*) On SGI IRIX 4 using cc, compilation errors in md5module.c.
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-(*) In cdmodule.c, getattr initialized with (destructor)!
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-(*) Lib/tzparse.py runs test() on import
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-(*) Lib/filewin.py belongs in Lib/stdwin
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-(*) lib and man install targets don't use $(srcdir)
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-(*) Modules/rgbimgmodule.c: exception name contains comma instead of dot
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-(*) The FAQ still references misc/EXTENDING and misc/DYNLOAD etc
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-(*) The FAQ still describes how to work around a problem in 0.9.9 exec()
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-(*) Lib/aifc.py, returns float rate, should be int
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-(*) Lib/sunau.py, incorrectly cumputes byte count from frame rate
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-(*) README should mention possibility of passing OPT=-g to make
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-(*) dynamic loading on sunos 4.1.3 must call dlopen(..., 1)
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-(*) use of <varargs.h> vs. <stdarg.h> should depend on
-    HAVE_STDARG_PROTOTYPES, not on HAVE_STDARG_H
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-(*) Doc/README refers to Misc/FTP which in fact does not exist any more
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-(*) filter(None, 'abcdefg') dumps core
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-(*) once you interrupt time.sleep(), there is no interrupt handler!
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