Python 2.5 Schedule

[Peter Hansen]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> "Ant" <antroy at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:1142932219.908449.315920 at g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> 
>>Looks like some good new stuff coming along. Does anyone know what's
>>happened to the path PEP (http://www.python.org/doc/peps/pep-0355/) - I
>>thought I'd seen somewhere that that was originally planned for 2.5...
> 
> It is still being discussed and has not been accepted.  Latest revision was 
> just 2 weeks ago and open issues are at bottom.  There is the broad problem 
> that it mostly just rearranges existing functionality (even if for the 
> better) and would create two ways to do everything it does, since the 
> existing modules and functions could not disappear until 3.0.

And for those who are frustrated with others not seeing that it is 
precisely the current (scattered) arrangement of the existing 
functionality that is the issue, I say just use Jason Orendorff's 
path.py as-is.  It's simple, it works, it's available now.

-Peter