[Python-checkins] peps: move range literals and unicode database to postponed

georg.brandl python-checkins at python.org
Wed Mar 23 21:27:35 CET 2011


http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/3732caa0d9df
changeset:   165:3732caa0d9df
user:        Jeremy Hylton <jeremy at alum.mit.edu>
date:        Tue Aug 29 15:01:34 2000 +0000
summary:
  move range literals and unicode database to postponed
rearrange the sections a bit

files:
  pep-0200.txt |  139 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
  1 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)


diff --git a/pep-0200.txt b/pep-0200.txt
--- a/pep-0200.txt
+++ b/pep-0200.txt
@@ -92,6 +92,68 @@
     ---------         --------    -------------
     [None currently failing.]
 
+Open items -- Need to be resolved before 2.0b1 release
+
+    Add popen2 support for Linux -- Fred Drake
+
+    Get all patches out of Open.
+
+    Get all patches out of Accepted.
+
+    Fix bug 112558
+    https://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=112558&group_id=5470
+
+    Fix all other bugs with priority 7 or higher
+
+    Review performance and frequency of garbage collection scans.
+
+    Decide on a license.
+
+    Windows installer:  If HKLM isn't writable, back off to HKCU (so
+    Python can be installed on NT & 2000 without admin privileges).
+
+    Windows installer:  Install w9xpopen.exe only under Win95/98.
+
+    Windows ME:  Don't know anything about it.  Will the installer
+    even run?  Does it need the w9xpopen hack?
+
+Open items -- Need to be resolved before 2.0 final release
+
+    Update Tools/compiler so that it is compatible with list
+    comprehensions, import as, and any other new language features. 
+
+    Improve code coverage of test suite.
+
+    Decide on a license.
+
+    Finish writing the PEPs for the features that went out with
+    2.0b1(! sad, but realistic -- we'll get better with practice).
+
+    Major effort to whittle the bug database down to size.  I've (tim)
+    seen this before: if you can keep all the open bugs fitting on one
+    screen, people will generally keep it that way.  But let it
+    slobber over a screen for a month, & it just goes to hell (no
+    "visible progress" indeed!).
+
+Accepted and in progress
+
+    * PyErr_Format - Fredrik Lundh
+      Make this function safe from buffer overflows.
+
+    * Change meaning of \x escapes - PEP 223 - Fredrik Lundh
+
+    * Add \U1234678 escapes in u"" strings - Fredrik Lundh
+
+    * Integrated gettext module - Barry Warsaw
+      wrapper around standard internationalization libraries
+
+Open: proposed but not accepted or rejected
+
+    * Extended slicing on lists - Michael Hudson
+      Make lists (and other builtin types) handle extended slices.
+
+    * Problems reported with Tkinter, Tk 8.3.2, and Unicode (?)
+
 Previously failing test cases
 
     If you find a test bouncing between this section and the previous one,
@@ -173,75 +235,6 @@
         ]
 
 
-Open items -- Need to be resolved before 2.0b1 release
-
-    Add popen2 support for Linux -- Fred Drake
-
-    Get all patches out of Open.
-
-    Get all patches out of Accepted.
-
-    Fix bug 112558
-    https://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=112558&group_id=5470
-
-    Fix all other bugs with priority 7 or higher
-
-    Review performance and frequency of garbage collection scans.
-
-    Decide on a license.
-
-    Windows installer:  If HKLM isn't writable, back off to HKCU (so
-    Python can be installed on NT & 2000 without admin privileges).
-
-    Windows installer:  Install w9xpopen.exe only under Win95/98.
-
-    Windows ME:  Don't know anything about it.  Will the installer
-    even run?  Does it need the w9xpopen hack?
-
-Open items -- Need to be resolved before 2.0 final release
-
-    Update Tools/compiler so that it is compatible with list
-    comprehensions, import as, and any other new language features. 
-
-    Improve code coverage of test suite.
-
-    Decide on a license.
-
-    Finish writing the PEPs for the features that went out with
-    2.0b1(! sad, but realistic -- we'll get better with practice).
-
-    Major effort to whittle the bug database down to size.  I've (tim)
-    seen this before: if you can keep all the open bugs fitting on one
-    screen, people will generally keep it that way.  But let it
-    slobber over a screen for a month, & it just goes to hell (no
-    "visible progress" indeed!).
-
-
-Open: proposed but not accepted or rejected
-
-    * Extended slicing on lists - Michael Hudson
-      Make lists (and other builtin types) handle extended slices.
-
-    * Problems reported with Tkinter, Tk 8.3.2, and Unicode (?)
-
-Accepted and in progress
-
-    * Compression of Unicode database - Fredrik Lundh
-      SF Patch 100899
-
-    * PyErr_Format - Fredrik Lundh
-      Make this function safe from buffer overflows.
-
-    * Range literals - Thomas Wouters
-      SF Patch 100902
-
-    * Change meaning of \x escapes - PEP 223 - Fredrik Lundh
-
-    * Add \U1234678 escapes in u"" strings - Fredrik Lundh
-
-    * Integrated gettext module - Barry Warsaw
-      wrapper around standard internationalization libraries
-
 Open items -- completed/fixed
 
     [23-Aug-2000 jeremy - tim reports "completed recently"]
@@ -306,6 +299,14 @@
 
 Postponed
 
+    * Compression of Unicode database - Fredrik Lundh
+      SF Patch 100899
+      At least for 2.0b1.  May be included in 2.0 as a bug fix.
+
+    * Range literals - Thomas Wouters
+      SF Patch 100902
+      We ended up having a lot of doubt about the proposal.
+
     * Eliminated SET_LINENO opcode - Vladimir Marangozov
       Small optimization achieved by using the code object's lnotab
       instead of the SET_LINENO instruction.  Uses code rewriting

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