Various status updates.

pep-0283.txt

@@ -84,14 +84,16 @@ Planned features for 2.3
       Skip Montanaro has posted a proto-PEP for this idea:
       http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-May/024346.html
 
-    - Extended slice notation for all built-in sequences.  Raymond
-      Hettinger is working on this.
+    - Extended slice notation for all built-in sequences.  A patch by
+      Michael Hudson has solved this, mostly; there's an open issue
+      about slice assignments where the source has a different length
+      than the destination, as in L[:5:] = range(10).
 
     - An iterator tools module featuring goodies from SML and Haskell?
       http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-May/024418.html
 
     - Speed up list iterations by filling tp_iter and other tweaks?
-      http://www.python.org/sf/560736
+      http://www.python.org/sf/560736  (This is done; also for xrange.)
 
     - Fix the buffer object???
       http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-May/023896.html
@@ -102,11 +104,13 @@ Planned features for 2.3
 
     - Timeoutsocket.  Work in progress.
       http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-May/024077.html
-      http://www.python.org/sf/555085
+      http://www.python.org/sf/555085  (Most of this is done, but we
+      still need to add a global timeout option.)
 
     - Making None a keyword.  Can't be done right away, but a warning
       would be a first step.
       http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-April/023600.html
+      Ditto for 'as', which has been a pseudo-keyword long enough.
 
     - Stage 2 of the int/long integration (PEP 237).  This mostly
       means warning about situations where hex, oct or shift of an int
@@ -123,7 +127,8 @@ Planned features for 2.3
 
     - Write a pymemcompat.h that people can bundle with their
       extensions and then use the 2.3 memory interface with all
-      Pythons in the range 1.5.2 to 2.3.  (Michael Hudson.)
+      Pythons in the range 1.5.2 to 2.3.  (Michael Hudson has done
+      this; it's in Misc/pymemcompat.h.)
 
     - PEP 262  Database of Installed Python Packages        Kuchling
 
@@ -140,7 +145,7 @@ Planned features for 2.3
       though).
 
     - Warn when an extension type's tp_compare returns anything except
-      -1, 0 or 1.  http://www.python.org/sf/472523
+      -1, 0 or 1.  http://www.python.org/sf/472523  (This is done.)
 
     - A standard datetime type.  An implementation effort is under way:
       http://www.zope.org/Members/fdrake/DateTimeWiki/FrontPage
@@ -152,11 +157,11 @@ Planned features for 2.3
       and act on it.  For a start, see this message from Neil Norwitz:
       http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-April/023165.html
 
-    - Add a new concept, "silent deprecation", with associated warning
-      SilentDeprecationWarning.  This warning is normally suppressed,
-      but can be enabled by a suitable -W option.
+    - Add a new concept, "pending deprecation", with associated
+      warning PendingDeprecationWarning.  This warning is normally
+      suppressed, but can be enabled by a suitable -W option.
 
-    - Use silent deprecation for the types and string modules.  This
+    - 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).