status of Programming by Contract (PEP 316)?

[Aahz]

In article <1188349440.309634.182800 at z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
Russ  <uymqlp502 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
>
>I just stumbled onto PEP 316: Programming by Contract for Python
>(http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0316/). This would be a great
>addition to Python, but I see that it was submitted way back in 2003,
>and its status is "deferred." I did a quick search on comp.lang.python,
>but I don't seem to see much on it. Does anyone know what the real
>status is of getting this into standard Python? Thanks.

The way to get this into Python is to get people to use it as a
stand-alone module.  It's already in PyPI, so now it's time for some
marketing.
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