[Python-Dev] release plan for 2.5 ?

[Brett Cannon]

On 2/7/06, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/7/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > what's the current release plan for Python 2.5, btw?  I cannot find a
> > > relevant PEP, and the "what's new" says "late 2005":
> > >
> > but I don't think that anyone followed up on this.  what's the current
> > status ?
>
> Guido and I had a brief discussion about this.  IIRC, he was thinking
> alpha around March and release around summer.  I think this is
> aggressive with all the things still to do.  We really need to get the
> ssize_t branch integrated.
>
> There are a bunch of PEPs that have been accepted (or close), but not
> implemented.  I think these include (please correct me, so we can get
> a good list):
>
>  http://www.python.org/peps/
>
>  SA  308  Conditional Expressions
>  SA  328  Imports: Multi-Line and Absolute/Relative
>  SA  342  Coroutines via Enhanced Generators
>  S   343  The "with" Statement
>  S   353  Using ssize_t as the index type
>
> This one should be marked as final I believe:
>
>   SA  341  Unifying try-except and try-finally
>

Supposedly Guido is close on pronouncing on PEP 352 (Required
Superclass for Exceptions), or so he said last time that thread came
about.

-Brett