http://cia.vc/stats/author/labrat5 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #9640 roundup labrat Improved doctest REPORT_*DIFFs with ELLIPSIS and/or NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE Here's my patch, or pull from my Mercurial repository http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~wking/code/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/python/rev/6638df20c1a4 http://bugs.python.org/issue9640 1282215964 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #9640 roundup labrat Improved doctest REPORT_*DIFFs with ELLIPSIS and/or NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE [new] I had been struggling to find the failure-causing mismatch in a doctest with lots of output. REPORT_UDIFF gave lots of false mismatches bec ... http://bugs.python.org/issue9640 1282215850 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #5752 roundup labrat xml.dom.minidom does not escape CR, LF and TAB characters within attribute values And while we're at it, we should also .replace('&', '&amp;').replace('"', "&quot;").replace('<', '&lt;') which would have to go at the be ... http://bugs.python.org/issue5752 1280831523 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #5752 roundup labrat xml.dom.minidom does not escape CR, LF and TAB characters within attribute values As a workaround until the patch gets included, you can import this monkey patch module. http://bugs.python.org/issue5752 1280767643 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #6612 roundup labrat 'import site' fails when called from an unlinked directory I just fixed it myself ;). As I said before, not really a big deal, but it was an easy fix. I've attached a patch, or you can merge my hg branch ... http://bugs.python.org/issue6612 1280440001 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #6612 roundup labrat 'import site' fails when called from an unlinked directory [new] I don't imagine this comes up very often, but: $ mkdir /tmp/a; cd /tmp/a; rmdir /tmp/a; python -c 'import site'; rmdir: removing directo ... http://bugs.python.org/issue6612 1249034006