Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 75959
Python 2.2.2 is released :-)
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:47:35 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: Please upgrade python 2.2.1 to 2.2.2 2.2.1 contains some nasty bugs, that under some circumstances, can cause a segfault. Distributing 3rd party products, that expose this bug, to RH8.0 users will be a pain otherwise :-P It's a bugfix only release, so please upgrade. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. . 2. . 3. . Additional info:
Do you have examples of ways 2.2.1 is broken? If there are compelling reasons to release python, sure, will do.
Haven't check, if this really got fixed in Python 2.2.2, but if your file contains non-english UTF-8 characters ... [jylitalo@shoes photos]$ python Python 2.2.1 (#1, Aug 30 2002, 12:15:30) [GCC 3.2 20020822 (Red Hat Linux Rawhide 3.2-4)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import xml.dom.minidom >>> doc = xml.dom.minidom.parse("/home/jylitalo/public_html/photos/catalog.phojo") >>> print doc.toxml() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128) >>>
This _thread_ describes a bug in 2.2.1, that does happen in RH8.0 python2.2.2 too. It causes python to segfault. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zodb-dev/2002-September/003254.html Other problems with 2.2.1 are here; https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=636029&group_id=15628&atid=115628 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=531607&group_id=15628&atid=115628
Typo. Happens in that does happen in RH8.0 python2.2.1, not 2.2.2
Not exactly the same thing, but rawhide should have 2.2.2 packages available. Until rawhide catches up, here's a link where you can test these pacakges: ftp://people.redhat.com/misa/fixes/python
Python 2.2.2 also includes enhanced MIME handling in the email package of the standard library that is not in 2.2.1. I've already run into a program that failed to run on RH8.0 because of this. Specifically it imported the email.MIMEMultipart module, which is new in 2.2.2.
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