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PEP: 356
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Title: Python 2.5 Release Schedule
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Version: $Revision$
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Last-Modified: $Date$
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Author: Neal Norwitz, GvR, Anthony Baxter
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Status: Draft
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Type: Informational
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Created: 07-Feb-2006
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Python-Version: 2.5
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Post-History:
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Abstract
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This document describes the development and release schedule for
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Python 2.5. The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sized
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items. Small features may be added up to and including the first
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beta release. Bugs may be fixed until the final release.
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There will be at least two alpha releases, two beta releases, and
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one release candidate. The release date is planned for
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12 September 2006.
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Release Manager
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Anthony Baxter has volunteered to be Release Manager.
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Martin von Loewis is building the Windows installers,
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Ronald Oussoren is building the Mac installers,
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Fred Drake the doc packages and
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Sean Reifschneider the RPMs.
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Release Schedule
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alpha 1: April 5, 2006 [completed]
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alpha 2: April 27, 2006 [completed]
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beta 1: June 20, 2006 [completed]
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beta 2: July 11, 2006 [completed]
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beta 3: August 3, 2006 [completed]
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rc 1: August 18, 2006 [planned]
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final: September 12, 2006 [planned]
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Completed features for 2.5
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PEP 308: Conditional Expressions
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PEP 309: Partial Function Application
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PEP 314: Metadata for Python Software Packages v1.1
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PEP 328: Absolute/Relative Imports
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PEP 338: Executing Modules as Scripts
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PEP 341: Unified try-except/try-finally to try-except-finally
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PEP 342: Coroutines via Enhanced Generators
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PEP 343: The "with" Statement
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(still need updates in Doc/ref and for the contextlib module)
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PEP 352: Required Superclass for Exceptions
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PEP 353: Using ssize_t as the index type
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PEP 357: Allowing Any Object to be Used for Slicing
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- ASCII became the default coding
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- AST-based compiler
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- Access to C AST from Python through new _ast module
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- any()/all() builtin truth functions
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New standard library modules
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- cProfile -- suitable for profiling long running applications
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with minimal overhead
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- ctypes -- optional component of the windows installer
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- ElementTree and cElementTree -- by Fredrik Lundh
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- hashlib -- adds support for SHA-224, -256, -384, and -512
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(replaces old md5 and sha modules)
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- msilib -- for creating MSI files and bdist_msi in distutils.
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- pysqlite
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- uuid
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- wsgiref
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Other notable features
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- Added support for reading shadow passwords (http://python.org/sf/579435)
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- Added support for the Unicode 4.1 UCD
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- Added PEP 302 zipfile/__loader__ support to the following modules:
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warnings, linecache, inspect, traceback, site, and doctest
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- Added pybench Python benchmark suite -- by Marc-Andre Lemburg
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- Add write support for mailboxes from the code in sandbox/mailbox.
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(Owner: A.M. Kuchling. It would still be good if another person
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would take a look at the new code.)
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- Support for building "fat" Mac binaries (Intel and PPC)
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- Add new icons for Windows with the new Python logo?
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- New utilities in functools to help write wrapper functions that
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support naive introspection (e.g. having f.__name__ return
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the original function name).
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- Upgrade pyexpat to use expat 2.0.
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- Python core now compiles cleanly with g++
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Possible features for 2.5
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Each feature below should implemented prior to beta1 or
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will require BDFL approval for inclusion in 2.5.
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- Modules under consideration for inclusion:
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- Add new icons for MacOS and Unix with the new Python logo?
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(Owner: ???)
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MacOS: http://hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/python/prettified-py-icons.png
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- Check the various bits of code in Demo/ all still work, update or
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remove the ones that don't.
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(Owner: Anthony)
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- All modules in Modules/ should be updated to be ssize_t clean.
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(Owner: Neal)
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Deferred until 2.6:
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- bdist_deb in distutils package
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http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/060926.html
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- bdist_egg in distutils package
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- pure python pgen module
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(Owner: Guido)
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- Remove the fpectl module?
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- Make everything in Modules/ build cleanly with g++
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Open issues
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- Bugs that need resolving before release, ie, they block release:
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None
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- Bugs that ought to be resolved before release (all exist in 2.4):
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http://python.org/sf/1534630 - potential crash in cElementTree
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http://python.org/sf/1475523 - gettext.py bug (owner: Martin v. Loewis)
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http://python.org/sf/1467929 - %-formatting and dicts
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- The PEP 302 changes to (at least) pkgutil, runpy and pydoc must be
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documented.
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- test_zipfile64 takes too long and too much disk space for
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most of the buildbots. How should this be handled?
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It is currently disabled.
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- should C modules listed in "Undocumented modules" be removed too?
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"timing" (listed as obsolete), "cl" (listed as possibly not up-to-date),
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and "sv" (listed as obsolete hardware specific).
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Copyright
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
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