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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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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 19 August 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, Barry Warsaw, and Neal Norwitz volunteered
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to assist Anthony as Release Manager.
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Martin von Loewis is building the Windows 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 1, 2006 [planned]
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alpha 2: April 29, 2006 [planned]
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alpha 3: May 27, 2006 [planned]
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beta 1: June 24, 2006 [planned]
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beta 2: July 15, 2006 [planned]
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rc 1: August 5, 2006 [planned]
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final: August 19, 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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(should PEP 314 be marked final?)
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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 is 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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- Add support for reading shadow passwords (http://python.org/sf/579435)
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- any()/all() builtin truth functions
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- new hashlib module add support for SHA-224, -256, -384, and -512
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(replaces old md5 and sha modules)
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- new cProfile module suitable for profiling long running applications
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with minimal overhead
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- Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree and cElementTree
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- Add ctypes to the standard library, make it an optional component
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in the windows installer. Thomas Heller will maintain it.
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- Add support for the Unicode 4.1 UCD
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- Add msilib module for creating MSI files and bdist_msi in distutils.
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There are no docs yet.
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Planned features for 2.5
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Each feature below should implemented prior to alpha2 or
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will require BDFL approval for inclusion in 2.5.
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- SyntaxWarnings for the following proposed keywords:
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- 'do'? (PEP 315)
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- 'super'
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- 'interface' and 'implements'? (PEP 245)
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- 'switch' and 'case'? (PEP 275)
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- 'True' and 'False'?
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- Add builtin @deprecated decorator?
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- Add @decorator decorator to functional, rename to functools?
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- Remove the fpectl module?
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- Modules under consideration for inclusion:
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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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- setuptools to the standard library
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- wsgiref to the standard library
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(Phillip Eby has volunteered to maintain it.)
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- pure python pgen module
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Deferred until 2.6:
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- None
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Open issues
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- xmlplus/xmlcore situation wrt ElementTree needs resolution
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http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058752.html
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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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- Move GeneratorExit in hierarchy? (make special like KeyboardInterrupt)
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http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-March/062635.html
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Copyright
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
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