From de40a0f6d85431e62b38216fb40b5fee7c7693f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 18:17:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update open issues a bit.

---
 pep-0253.txt | 28 ++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pep-0253.txt b/pep-0253.txt
index c422eaade..e7045bd31 100644
--- a/pep-0253.txt
+++ b/pep-0253.txt
@@ -890,13 +890,11 @@ XXX To be done
 
       - built-in names for built-in types (object, int, str, list etc.)
 
-      - __dict__ and dictoffset
+      - __dict__ and __dictoffset__
 
       - __slots__
 
-      - __dynamic__
-
-      - the HEAPTYPE and DYNAMICTYPE flag bits
+      - the HEAPTYPE flag bit
 
       - GC support
 
@@ -910,20 +908,9 @@ XXX To be done
 
       - open issues:
 
-        - performance
+        - do we need __del__?
 
-        - pickling, __reduce__
-
-        - do we need __coerce__, __del__?
-
-        - should we return to the old __getattr__ semantics, and
-          introduce a new name (__getallattr__?) for the new semantics?
-          or introduce a new name (__getattrhook__?) for the old
-          semantics?
-
-        - whether __dynamic__ should be default
-
-        - assignment to __class__, __dict__, __bases__
+        - assignment to __dict__, __bases__
 
         - inconsistent naming
           (e.g. tp_dealloc/tp_new/tp_init/tp_alloc/tp_free)
@@ -938,9 +925,10 @@ XXX To be done
 Implementation
 
     A prototype implementation of this PEP (and for PEP 252) is
-    available from CVS, and in the series of Python 2.2 alpha releases.
-    For some examples of the features described here, see the file
-    Lib/test/test_descr.py and the extension module Modules/xxsubtype.c.
+    available from CVS, and in the series of Python 2.2 alpha and beta
+    releases.  For some examples of the features described here, see
+    the file Lib/test/test_descr.py and the extension module
+    Modules/xxsubtype.c.
 
 
 References