status of Programming by Contract (PEP 316)?

[Steven Bethard]

Russ 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.

PEP's with "deferred" status typically aren't going into Python any time 
soon, if ever.  Since the due date for all Python 3 core changes is long 
past due, you won't even be seeing it in Python 3.

Steve