Known updates to Py2.4 plans.

pep-0320.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 PEP: 320
 Title: Python 2.4 Release Schedule
 Version: $Revision$
-Author: Barry Warsaw
+Author: Barry Warsaw and Raymond Hettinger
 Status: Incomplete
 Type: Informational
 Created: 29-Jul-2003
@@ -16,11 +16,8 @@ Abstract
     beta release.  Bugs may be fixed until the final release.
 
     There will be at least two alpha releases, two beta releases, and
-    one release candidate.  Other than that, no claims are made on
-    release plans, nor what will actually be in Python 2.4 at this
-    early date.  There were 19 months between the Python 2.2 final and
-    Python 2.3 final releases.  If that schedule holds true for Python
-    2.4, you can expect it some time around February 2005.
+    one release candidate.  The release date is not yet fixed but a
+    rough target is June or July of 2004.
 
 
 Release Manager
@@ -30,11 +27,29 @@ Release Manager
 
 Completed features for 2.4
 
-    None
+    PEP 218 Builtin Set Objects
+    
+    PEP 322 Reverse Iteration
+
+    Encapsulate the decorate-sort-undecorate patten in a keyword for
+    list.sort().
+
+    Added a classmethod called list.sorted() which may be used in
+    expressions.
+
+    The itertools module has two new functions, tee() and groupby().
+    
 
 
 Planned features for 2.4
 
+    PEP 289 Generator expressions.
+
+    PEP 292 Simpler String Substitutions to be implemented as a module
+    or codec.
+
+    A Decimal package for fixed precision arithmetic.
+
     Deprecate and/or remove the modules listed in PEP 4 (posixfile,
     gopherlib, audioop, pre, others)
 
@@ -82,29 +97,17 @@ Carryover features from Python 2.3
 
     - The import lock could use some redesign.  (SF 683658.)
 
-    - 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.
-
     - 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).
 
-    - Fredrik Lundh's basetime proposal:
-      http://effbot.org/ideas/time-type.htm
-
-      I believe this is dead now.
-
     - PEP 304 (Controlling Generation of Bytecode Files by Montanaro)
       seems to have lost steam.
 
@@ -132,11 +135,6 @@ Carryover features from Python 2.3
       covered yet (e.g. string.whitespace and types.TracebackType).
       It seems we can't get consensus on this.
 
-    - Deprecate the buffer object.
-      http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-July/026388.html
-      http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-July/026408.html
-      It seems that this is never going to be resolved.
-
     - PEP 269  Pgen Module for Python                       Riehl
 
       (Some necessary changes are in; the pgen module itself needs to
@@ -156,11 +154,7 @@ Carryover features from Python 2.3
       has made a little progress with a new compiler, but it's going
       slow and the compiler is only the first step.  Maybe we'll be
       able to refactor the compiler in this release.  I'm tempted to
-      say we won't hold our breath.  In the mean time, Oren Tirosh has
-      a much simpler idea that may give a serious boost to the
-      performance of accessing globals and built-ins, by optimizing
-      and inlining the dict access:
-      http://tothink.com/python/fastnames/
+      say we won't hold our breath. 
 
     - Lazily tracking tuples?
       http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-May/023926.html