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‎BUGS‎

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*** See the ChangeLog file for bugs fixed since 1.2 BETA 2 ***
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Sorry, this list does not claim completeness. If I fixed a bug
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immediately upon receiving the first complaint I usually did not
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nother to make an entry in this file, unless it was a serious bug
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(core dump or infinite loop).
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THIS LIST DOES NOT CLAIM COMPLETENESS.
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(-) "f()=0" generates syntax error msg without line number
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Known BUGS in 1.2 BETA 1, fixed in 1.2 BETA 2
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(*) list slice assignment contains reantrancy bug
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(*) range() and xrange() break on Alpha's
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(*) interactive use of vars() gives barrage of output due to recursive
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inclusion of '_'
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(*) configure.in contains bogus name to check for inet library
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Known BUGS in 1.1.1 and 1.2 BETA 3
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(-) still a memory leak in threads when thread.exit_thread() is used
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Problems that are difficult to solve
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Problems in 1.1.1 that are difficult to solve
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(-) "f()=0" generates syntax error msg without line number
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(-) tkinter doesn't seem to see any declaration of malloc on sunos
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(*) extraneous fclose() in run_script() in pythonrun.c for .pyc file
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(*) __str__ is called if it exists (and then fails) when applying
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str() to a class
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(*) mem leaks in inittime() in timemodule.c
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(*) mem leak in optimize() in compile.c
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(*) mem leak in func_dealloc() in funcobject.c
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(*) missing DECREF for result of run_string in exec_statement() in
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ceval.c
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(*) missing INCREF in RAISE_EXCEPTION case after gettupleitem() in
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ceval.c
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(*) posix.utime gives problems on problems on platforms where struct
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utime members are bitfields
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(*) 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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machines (don't know what to do about it) [could be fixed by fix for
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[I think I've found this one -- a missing INCREF in print_error]
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‎ChangeLog‎

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Thu Apr 6 16:34:28 1995 Guido van Rossum <[email protected]>
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* Objects/classobject.c (instancemethod_compare): change the way
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* Objects/object.c: move counting of free'd objects (#ifdef
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* Include/object.h (_Py_ForgetReference()): add counting of free'd
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Tue Apr 4 13:53:47 1995 Guido van Rossum <[email protected]>
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* Objects/frameobject.c (newframeobject): changed dictlookup()
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string (Sjoerd)
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Fri Mar 31 12:26:03 1995 Guido van Rossum <[email protected]>
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* irix5/tmp/lib/python/lib/frozenmain.c: carried through renaming
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phase 3
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Thu Mar 30 11:44:23 1995 Guido van Rossum <[email protected]>
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* README: added warning about bash bug in certain Slackware Linux
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version
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* Doc/lib*.tex: reorganized into more subject-related chapters;
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* Doc/myformat.sty: define \dfn{} as \em instead of \sl
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* Modules/config.c.in: moved decl of realmain() out of #ifdef
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* Python/pythonrun.c (print_error): added fflush(stdout) to
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* Modules/selectmodule.c: fix subtle refcnt bugs with fd2obj
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arrays (R Lindsay Todd)
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* Python/sysmodule.c (sys_checkinterval): initialize to 10 as
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* Modules/cdmodule.c: use newgetargs; removed sbtoa() and
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