Withdraw 288 in favor of 343.

pep-0000.txt

@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ Index by Category
  S   284  Integer for-loops                            Eppstein, Ewing
  S   286  Enhanced Argument Tuples                     von Loewis
  I   287  reStructuredText Docstring Format            Goodger
- S   288  Generators Attributes and Exceptions         Hettinger
  S   294  Type Names in the types Module               Tirosh
  S   297  Support for System Upgrades                  Lemburg
  S   298  The Locked Buffer Interface                  Heller
@@ -205,6 +204,7 @@ Index by Category
  SD  269  Pgen Module for Python                       Riehl
  SR  270  uniq method for list objects                 Petrone
  SR  271  Prefixing sys.path by command line option    Giacometti
+ SR  288  Generators Attributes and Exceptions         Hettinger
  SR  295  Interpretation of multiline string constants Koltsov
  SR  296  Adding a bytes Object Type                   Gilbert
  SR  308  If-then-else expression                      GvR, Hettinger
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ Numerical Index
  SF  285  Adding a bool type                           GvR
  S   286  Enhanced Argument Tuples                     von Loewis
  I   287  reStructuredText Docstring Format            Goodger
- S   288  Generators Attributes and Exceptions         Hettinger
+ SR  288  Generators Attributes and Exceptions         Hettinger
  SF  289  Generator Expressions                        Hettinger
  I   290  Code Migration and Modernization             Hettinger
  I   291  Backward Compatibility for Standard Library  Norwitz

pep-0288.txt

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Title: Generators Attributes and Exceptions
 Version: $Revision$
 Last-Modified: $Date$
 Author: python@rcn.com (Raymond D. Hettinger)
-Status: Draft
+Status: Withdrawn
 Type: Standards Track
 Created: 21-Mar-2002
 Python-Version: 2.5
@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ Abstract
     raising exceptions and sharing data with running generators.
 
 
+Status
+
+    This PEP is withdrawn.  The exception raising mechanism was extended
+    and subsumed into PEP 343.  The attribute passing capability
+    never built a following, did not have a clear implementation,
+    and did not have a clean way for the running generator to access
+    its own namespace.
+
 
 Rationale
 
@@ -49,7 +57,7 @@ Specification for Generator Attributes
     the reference.  For example:
 
         def mygen(filename):
-            self = mygen.get_instance()
+            self = sys.get_generator()
             myfile = open(filename)
             for line in myfile:
                 if len(line) < 10: