- updates to reflect the current state of affairs

- small typo fixes

pep-0283.txt

@@ -116,16 +116,14 @@ Completed features for 2.3
       This has now been checked in.
 
     - A new command line option parser.  Greg Ward's Optik package
-      (http://optik.sf.net) has been adopted, convert to a single
+      (http://optik.sf.net) has been adopted, converted to a single
       module named optparse.  See also
       http://www.python.org/sigs/getopt-sig/
 
     - A standard datetime type.  This started as a wiki:
       http://www.zope.org/Members/fdrake/DateTimeWiki/FrontPage .  A
       prototype was coded in nondist/sandbox/datetime/.  Tim Peters
-      has finished the C implementation and checked it in.  While we
+      has finished the C implementation and checked it in.
-      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
 
@@ -139,10 +137,18 @@ Completed features for 2.3
     - A new pickling protocol.  See PEP 307.
 
     - PEP 305 (CSV File API, by Skip Montanaro et al.) is in; this is
-      the csv package.
+      the csv module.
 
     - Raymond Hettinger's itertools module is in.
 
+    - PEP 311 (Simplified GIL Acquisition for Extensions, by Mark
+      Hammond) has been included in beta 1.
+
+    - A new PyArg_Parse*() format code that returns an unsigned C long
+      int that receives the lower LONG_BIT bits of the Python
+      argument, truncating without range checking.  (SF 595026; Thomas
+      Heller did this work.)
+
 
 Planned features for 2.3
 
@@ -158,16 +164,8 @@ Planned features for 2.3
     - I plan to integrate the new version of IDLE from the IDLEfork
       project (http://idlefork.sf.net).
 
-    - We need a new PyArg_Parse*() format code that returns an
-      unsigned C long int that receives the lower LONG_BIT bits of the
-      Python argument, truncating without range checking.  (SF
-      595026; Thomas Heller is working on this.)
-
     - The import lock could use some redesign.  (SF 683658.)
 
-    - PEP 311 (Simplified GIL Acquisition for Extensions, by Mark
-      Hammond) is expected to go into beta 1.
-
 
 Ongoing tasks
 
@@ -180,7 +178,8 @@ Ongoing tasks
     - Documentation: complete the documentation for new-style
       classes.
 
-    - Look over the Demos/ directory and update where required.
+    - Look over the Demos/ directory and update where required (Andrew
+      Kuchling has done a lot of this)
 
     - New tests.