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- Add proposal for categorization according to Laura. 

- Use sf redirector URLs.
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@ -26,6 +26,29 @@ Introduction
also acceptable to move large feature requests directly from the bugs
database to a separate PEP.
This PEP should really be separated into four different categories
(categories due to Laura Creighton):
1. BDFL rejects as a bad idea. Don't come back with it.
2. BDFL will put in if somebody writes the code. (Or at any rate,
BDFL will say 'change this and I will put it in' if you show up
with code.)
(possibly divided into:
2a) BDFL would really like to see some code!
2b) BDFL is never going to be enthusiastic about this, but
will work it in when it's easy.
)
3. If you show up with code, BDFL will make a pronouncement. It
might be ICK.
4. This is too vague. This is rejected, but only on the grounds
of vagueness. If you like this enhancement, make a new PEP.
Core Language / Builtins
@ -33,13 +56,13 @@ Core Language / Builtins
uses internally. Apparently mxTools has a sizeof function that
returns the size of the object struct itself.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110835&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/210835
- Add C API functions to help Windows users who are building
embedded applications where the FILE * structure does not match
the FILE * the interpreter was compiled with.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110821&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/210821
See this bug report for a specific suggestion that will allow a
Borland C++ builder application to interact with a python.dll
@ -53,13 +76,13 @@ Core Language / Builtins
current compiler can overflow the C stack if the nesting is too
deep.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=115555&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/215555
- Non-accidental IEEE-754 support (Infs, NaNs, settable traps, etc).
Big project.
pickle lacks float('inf')
http://sf.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=445484&group_id=5470&atid=355470
http://www.python.org/sf/445484
- Windows: Trying to create (or even access) files with certain magic
names can hang or crash Windows systems. This is really a bug in the
@ -67,7 +90,7 @@ Core Language / Builtins
the symptoms are very confusing.
Hang using files named prn.txt, etc
http://sf.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=481171&group_id=5470&atid=355470
http://www.python.org/sf/481171
Standard Library
@ -76,19 +99,19 @@ Standard Library
This is a reminder to people that more regression tests are
needed.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&group_id=5470&bug_id=110819
http://www.python.org/sf/210819
- The urllib module should support proxies which require
authenication. See SourceForge bug #110619 for information:
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110619&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/210619
- Use objects with attributes in place of tuples of values for
return values in several places in the library. Two specific
APIs which could use this treatment include os.stat() and
os.statvfs(); see SourceForge bug #111481:
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=111481&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/211481
which shows very specifically why this approach is better than
the tuple approach: additional attributes can be added as needed
@ -99,7 +122,7 @@ Standard Library
boundaries by copying the file over and removing the original.
Linux is one system that requires this treatment.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=112317&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/212317
- signal handling doesn't always work as expected. E.g. if
sys.stdin.readline() is interrupted by a (returning) signal
@ -108,7 +131,7 @@ Standard Library
changes would have to applied to all places that can do blocking
interruptable I/O. So it's a big project.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110599&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/210599
- Ensure that all .py files in the std library use 4-space indents and
no hard tabs. This was actually a PEP200 precondition for the
@ -116,45 +139,45 @@ Standard Library
tabnanny not complain. Tim Peters will do this now, but, since about
250 files are affected, will wait until after 2.0final is released.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=114557&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/214557
- Port the Python SSL code to Windows.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110683&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/210683
- Extend Windows utime to accept directory paths.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=114245&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/214245
- Extend copy.py to class, module & function types.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=114553&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/214553
- Better checking for bad input to marshal.load*().
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=114754&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/214754
- Generalize eval to accept any mapping objects for locals and globals.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=115126&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/215126
- Add a portable implementation of time.strptime() that works in
clearly defined ways on all platforms.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=115146&group_id=5470
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=112244&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/215146
http://www.python.org/sf/212244
- rfc822.py should be more lenient than the spec in the types of
address fields it parses. Specifically, an invalid address of
the form "From: Amazon.com <delivers-news2@amazon.com>" should
be parsed correctly.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110678&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/210678
- cgi.py's FieldStorage class should be more conservative with
memory in the face of large binary file uploads.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110674&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/210674
There are two issues here: first, because
read_lines_to_outerboundary() uses readline() it is possible
@ -166,17 +189,17 @@ Standard Library
The second issue was related to the self.lines attribute, which
was removed in revision 1.56 of cgi.py (see also):
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=119806&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/219806
- urllib should support proxy definitions that contain just the
host and port
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110849&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/210849
- urlparse should be updated to comply with RFC 2396, which
defines optional parameters for each segment of the page.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110834&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/210834
- The exceptions raised by pickle and cPickle are currently
different; these should be unified (probably the exceptions
@ -188,7 +211,7 @@ Standard Library
and then do the usual %HH conversion. But this is not the only
one!
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=116716&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/216716
- There should be a way to say that you don't mind if str() or
__str__() return a Unicode string object. Or a different
@ -204,35 +227,35 @@ Standard Library
- Killing a thread from another thread. Or maybe sending a
signal. Or maybe raising an asynchronous exception.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=121115&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/221115
- The debugger (pdb) should understand packages.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110631&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/210631
- The cmath library should be rewritten in Python.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110838&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/210838
- Could use a more comprehensive email module. (But then again,
that may be better done as a 3rd party project.)
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=121208&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/221208
- every built-in function or method (including all core
extensions) that accepts a string, dict, or list, should also
accept a UserString, UserDict, or UserList. (The latter two
should more generally accept all mappings, all sequences.)
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=132493&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/232493
- Fatter math module docs and docstrings.
http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=426539&group_id=5470&atid=105470
http://www.python.org/sf/426539
- New math module radians() and degrees() functions.
http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=426539&group_id=5470&atid=105470
http://www.python.org/sf/426539
- Jim Fulton suggested the following:
@ -246,7 +269,7 @@ Standard Library
Then the cgi module (and other apps) could use this thing in a
uniform way.
http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=415692&group_id=5470&atid=355470
http://www.python.org/sf/415692
- Jim Fulton pointed out that binascii's b2a_base64() function
restricts the length of its input to 57 characters for no good
@ -264,7 +287,7 @@ Standard Library
- possibly special-case None as the delimiter string to avoid
adding the pad bytes too???
http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=415694&group_id=5470&atid=355470
http://www.python.org/sf/415694
Tools
@ -273,26 +296,26 @@ Tools
be done properly, scripts will have to be run in a separate
process.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110841&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/210841
- Python could use a GUI builder.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110820&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/210820
- IDLE's key bindings should be revised. Some of the advertised
bindings don't even work!
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110659&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/210659
- IDLE has deep problems running threaded programs. Re-architect.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=121963&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/221963
- Would be nice if IDLE showed which structure was being closed upon
typing one of "})]". Heck, a string too, for that matter.
The bug report also says something about TAB I didn't grok.
http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=404444&group_id=5470&atid=105470
http://www.python.org/sf/404444
Building and Installing
@ -300,14 +323,14 @@ Building and Installing
- You should be able to configure and build Python with a
cross-compiler.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110836&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/210836
- Modules/makesetup should make sure the 'config.c' file it
generates from the various Setup files, is valid C. It currently
accepts module names with characters that are not allowable in
Python or C identifiers.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=116326&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/216326
- There's a name conflict on case insensitive filesystems (in
particular Mac OSX) between the directory "Python" and the key
@ -316,7 +339,7 @@ Building and Installing
causes the binary to be *installed* as python.exe). What should
be the solution?
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=122215&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/222215
- Building from source should not attempt to overwrite the
Include/graminit.h and Parser/graminit.c files, at least for
@ -324,12 +347,12 @@ Building and Installing
or snapshots. Some people find this a problem in unusual build
environments.
http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=119221&group_id=5470
http://www.python.org/sf/219221
- There should be at least an option to build Python as a shared
library.
http://sf.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=400938&group_id=5470&atid=305470
http://www.python.org/sf/400938
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