Assorted updates in 200. Repaired PEPTzar's conservatism in 223.

pep-0200.txt

@@ -177,12 +177,43 @@ Open items -- should be done/fixed
     Decide what to do about os.path.commonprefix.  Then do it.
     [19-Aug-2000 tim
      Guido msg on Python-Dev:
-     - restore the old behavior on all platforms
+     - restore the old behavior on all platforms - Skip volunteered for this
      - add to the docs that to get the common directory you use dirname()
      - add testcases that check that this works on all platforms
      - don't add commonpathprefix(), because dirname() already does it
     ]
 
+    2.0b1:  Get all patches out of Open.
+
+    2.0b1:  Get all patches out of Accepted.
+
+    2.0b1:  Decide on a license.
+
+    2.0b1 Windows:  Look for registry info in HKCU before HKLM - Mark
+    Hammond.
+
+    2.0b1 Windows installer:  If HKLM isn't writable, back off to HKCU (so
+    Python can be installed on NT & 2000 without admin privileges).
+
+    2.0b1 Windows installer:  Install w9xpopen.exe only under Win95/98.
+
+    2.0b1 Windows ME:  Don't know anything about it.  Will the installer
+    even run?  Does it need the w9xpopen hack?
+
+    2.0b1 Win98 Guido:  popen is hanging on Guido, and even freezing the
+    whole machine.  No clue yet.
+
+    2.0:  Decide on a license.
+
+    2.0:  Finish writing the PEPs for the features that went out
+    with 2.0b1(! sad, but realistic -- we'll get better with practice).
+
+    2.0:  Major effort to whittle the bug database down to size.  I've (tim)
+    seen this before:  if you can keep all the open bugs fitting on one
+    screen, people will generally keep it that way.  But let it slobber
+    over a screen for a month, & it just goes to hell (no "visible
+    progress" indeed!).
+
 
 Open items -- completed/fixed
 
@@ -209,6 +240,12 @@ Accepted and completed
       what reprs are advertised as doing.  It also makes the xrange
       objects obvious when working in the interactive interpreter.
 
+    * Extended print statement - Barry Warsaw
+      PEP 214
+      http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0214.html
+      SF Patch #100970
+      http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=100970&group_id=5470
+
 
 Accepted and in progress
 
@@ -253,19 +290,15 @@ Accepted and in progress
       for normal slices as well as for extended ones. First step: use
       getitem if there is no getslice.
 
-    * Extended print statement - Barry Warsaw
-      PEP 214
-      http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0214.html
-      SF Patch #100970
-      http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=100970&group_id=5470
+    * Change meaning of \x escapes - PEP 223 - Fredrik Lundh?  Tim Peters?
+
+    * Add \U1234678 escapes in u"" strings - Fredrik Lundh?
 
 
 Open: proposed but not accepted or rejected
 
     * Tim O'Malley's cookie module -- but need different license
 
-    * test harness for C code - Trent Mick
-
     * Extended slicing on lists - Michael Hudson
       Make lists (and other builtin types) handle extended slices.
 
@@ -291,6 +324,8 @@ Postponed
 
       - http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/1999-August/002252.html
 
+    * test harness for C code - Trent Mick
+
 
 Rejected
 

pep-0223.txt

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ PEP: 223
 Title: Change the Meaning of \x Escapes
 Version: $Revision$
 Author: tpeters@beopen.com (Tim Peters)
-Python-Version: 2.1
+Python-Version: 2.0
 Status: Draft
 Created: 20-Aug-2000
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