diff --git a/pep-0042.txt b/pep-0042.txt index e5d5a20a8..0504baca7 100644 --- a/pep-0042.txt +++ b/pep-0042.txt @@ -234,6 +234,53 @@ Standard Library http://www.python.org/sf/665572, http://bugs.debian.org/175590 + - It would be nice if the built-in SSL socket type could be used + for non-blocking SSL I/O. Currently packages such as Twisted + which implement async servers using SSL have to require third-party + packages such as pyopenssl. + + - reST as a standard library module + + - The import lock could use some redesign. + + http://www.python.org/sf/683658 + + - 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?) + + - Support new widgets and/or parameters for Tkinter + + - For a class defined inside another class, the __name__ should be + "outer.inner", and pickling should work. (GvR is no longer certain + this is easy or even right.) + + http://www.python.org/sf/633930 + + - Decide on a clearer deprecation policy (especially for modules) + and act on it. + + http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-April/023165.html + + - Provide alternatives for common uses of the types module; + Skip Montanaro has posted a proto-PEP for this idea: + + http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-May/024346.html + + - Use pending deprecation for the types and string modules. This + requires providing alternatives for the parts that aren't + covered yet (e.g. string.whitespace and types.TracebackType). + It seems we can't get consensus on this. + + - Lazily tracking tuples? + + http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-May/023926.html + http://www.python.org/sf/558745 + + - Make 'as' a keyword. It has been a pseudo-keyword long enough. + Too much effort to bother. + C API wishes