PEPs 273+302 have landed.

New ideas:

  - Add reST?

  - Fix new-style pickling

  - Remove __safe_for_unpickling__

pep-0283.txt

@@ -40,16 +40,27 @@ Open issues
 
     - Set API issues; is the sets module perfect?
 
+      I expect it's good enough to stop polishing it until we've had
+      more widespread user experience.
+
     - A nicer API to open text files, replacing the ugly (in some
       people's eyes) "U" mode flag.  There's a proposal out there to
       have a new built-in type textfile(filename, mode, encoding).
       (Shouldn't it have a bufsize argument too?)
 
+      Ditto.
+
     - Fredrik Lundh's basetime proposal:
       http://effbot.org/ideas/time-type.htm
 
+      I believe this is dead now.
+
     - New widgets for Tkinter???
 
+      Has anyone gotten the time for this?  *Are* there any new
+      widgets in Tk 8.4?  Note that we've got better Tix support
+      already (though not on Windows yet).
+
 
 Completed features for 2.3
 
@@ -140,6 +151,15 @@ Completed features for 2.3
       may be tweaking the API during the alpha test period, I consider
       this module basically complete -- except for its documentation.
 
+    - PEP 273  Import Modules from Zip Archives             Ahlstrom
+
+      Implemented as a part of the PEP 302 implementation work.
+
+    - PEP 302  New Import Hooks                             JvR
+
+      Implemented (though the 2.3a1 release contained some bugs that
+      have been fixed post-release).
+
 
 Planned features for 2.3
 
@@ -152,18 +172,50 @@ Planned features for 2.3
     feedback to python-dev@python.org; I hope to maintain this for the
     life of the 2.3 development process.
 
+    - reST is going to be used a lot in Zope3.  Maybe it could become
+      a standard library module?
+
+    - I really, really, really would like to improve pickling of
+      new-style classes.
+
+      I've finally come to the conclusion that any solution to making
+      pickled new-style class instances (and hence pickled datetime
+      objects) more efficient will require adding new codes to the
+      pickle protocol.
+
+      We can do that in Python 2.3.  Because this is backwards
+      incompatible, I propose that you have to request this protocol
+      explicitly.  I propose to "upgrade' the binary flag to a general
+      "protocol version" flag, with values:
+
+        0 - original protocol
+        1 - binary protocol
+        2 - new protocol
+
+      The new protocol can contain an explicit pickle code for the new
+      datetime objects.  That's about all the thinking I've done so
+      far.  We need to decide on the new format, but first we must
+      figure out ways how to efficiently pickle and unpickle subclass
+      instances of (picklable) built-in types, preferably without
+      having to copy all the data twice, and instances of new-style
+      classes with slots.  And we need to implement these twice: in
+      Python for pickle.py and in C for cPickle.py.
+
+    - I'd also like to get rid of __safe_for_unpickling__ and all
+      other pseudo security features.  Attempting to unpickle pickles
+      from an untrusted source is insane, and nothing can help us
+      there; I'd rather make the marshal protocol bulletproof (all it
+      needs is a few more checks for inconsistent data and a little
+      better error handling).
+
     - For a class defined inside another class, the __name__ should be
       "outer.inner", and pickling should work.
 
-    - PEP 273  Import Modules from Zip Archives             Ahlstrom
 
-      There's a patch at http://www.python.org/sf/492105; an updated
-      patch at http://www.python.org/sf/645650; but my expectation is
-      that this will be subsumed by the PEP 302 work.
+Ongoing tasks
 
-    - PEP 302  New Import Hooks                             JvR
-
-      This looks very promising.  See http://www.python.org/sf/652586
+    The following are ongoing TO-DO items which we should attempt to
+    work on without hoping for completion by any particular date.
 
     - Documentation: complete the distribution and installation
       manuals.