[Python-Dev] Python 2.3a1 release status

[Just van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> If you know of other pending changes that haven't been committed,
> either check them in (only if they're stable, tested and documented,
> of course!) or let me know ASAP.

One thing I completely forgot to persue because of PEP 302 was the plan
to move Tools/freeze/modulefinder.py to Lib/. I would love for this to
be in 2.3a1, but nor Thomas Heller nor I have written the needed
documentation for it yet. If you allow it to go into 2.3a1, I promise to
submit documentation well before 2.3a2.

There's also a patch from me for modulefinder.py sitting on sf which
would be nice to make it in at the same time:
  http://www.python.org/sf/643711
It vastly reduces the number of false warnings about missing submodules.
Additionally it adds a new API for getting info about missing modules
which distinguishes between "surely missing" and "maybe missing".

Just