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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thanks for opening those initial bugs Vernon!&nbsp; I&#8217;ve
gone ahead and created the full list of 2.6 feature based upon the 2.6 what&#8217;s
new document.&nbsp; If anyone sees anything I missed feel free to open the bug and/or
respond to this thread.&nbsp; And please vote on your favorite issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19522: 2.6: from __future__ import print_function (PEP 3105)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19522">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19522</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19521: 2.6: from __future__ import unicode_literals (PEP 3112)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19521">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19521</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19534: 2.6: with statement available by default<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19534">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19534</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19535: 2.6: exception handling, &quot;except TypeError as
ex&quot; (PEP 3110)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19535">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19535</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19536: 2.6: Class decorators (PEP 3129)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19536">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19536</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19537: 2.6: hasattr shouldn't catch all errors, shouldn't catch
KeyboardInterrupt / SystemExit<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19537">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19537</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19538: 2.6: make it legal to provide keyword arguments after a
*args argument to a function call.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19538">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19538</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19539: 2.6: add getter, setter, deleter to properties <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19539">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19539</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19540: 2.6: Abstract Base Classes (collections renamed
_collections, __subclasscheck__, __instancecheck__) (PEP 3119)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19540">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19540</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19541: 2.6: add __package__ attribute to modules<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19541">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19541</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19542: 2.6: implement _multiprocessing<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19542">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19542</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19543: 2.6: Advanced string formatting (PEP 3101)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19543">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19543</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19544: 2.6: Byte literals, bytearray (PEP 3112)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19544">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19544</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19545: 2.6: New io module (implement _fileio module) (PEP 3116)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19545">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19545</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19546: 2.6: Integer literal support &amp; syntax (support for 0b
or 0B binary numbers) (PEP 3127)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19546">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19546</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19547: 2.6: **kw splatting should support any mapping object<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19547">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19547</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19548: 2.6: new built-in next(iterator, [default]) returns next
item from an iterator<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19548">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19548</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19551: 2.6: add index, count methods to tuple<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19551">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19551</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19550: 2.6: improve slicing support for built-in types<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19550">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19550</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19549: 2.6: update set methods to accept multiple iterables:
intersection(), intersection_update(), union(), update(), difference() and
difference_update()<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19549">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19549</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19552: 2.6: floating point features
(http://bugs.python.org/issue1635)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19552">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19552</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19553: 2.6: math module updated for NaN support
(http://bugs.python.org/issue1640)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19553">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19553</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19554: 2.6: floating point to hex support
(http://bugs.python.org/issue3008)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19554">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19554</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19557: 2.6: __hash__ = None support to hide parents hash<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19557">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19557</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19555: 2.6: deprecate message on Exception objects in favor of
args according to PEP 352<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19555">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19555</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19556: 2.6: GeneratorExit should be a subclass of BaseException<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19556">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19556</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19558: 2.6: Add gi_code to generator objects pointing to their
code object<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19558">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19558</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19559: 2.6: compile should support keyword arguments<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19559">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19559</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19560: 2.6: complex(repr(cplx)) should round trip values<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19560">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19560</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19561: 2.6: str.translate can accept None and do identity
translation<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19561">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19561</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19562: 2.6: __self__ and __func__ on method in addition to
im_self and im_func<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19562">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19562</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19563: 2.6: locals() in class no longer returns free variables<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19563">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19563</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19564: 2.6: Implement new warnings module (no longer written in
Python)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19564">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19564</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19565: 2.6: implement members of struct that used to be written
in Python<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19565">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19565</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19566: 2.6: Support IRONPYTHONIOENCODING environment variable<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19566">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19566</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19567: 2.6: Support new functions in cmath (polar, rect, phase,
isnan, isinf)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19567">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19567</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19568: 2.6: support maxlen on deque object<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19568">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19568</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19569: 2.6: datetime.strftime supports %f format code for
microseconds zero padded left to six places<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19569">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19569</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19571: 2.6: reduce is available in functools<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19571">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19571</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19572: 2.6: Implement itertools izip_longest, product,
combinations, permutations, chain.from_iterable<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19572">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19572</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19570: 2.6: implement operator.methodcaller<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19570">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19570</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19574: 2.6: operator.attrgetter accepts dotted names<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19574">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19574</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19573: 2.6: implement nt.closerange<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19573">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19573</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19575: 2.6: nt.environ.clear should use unsetenv in addition to
clearing the keys<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19575">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19575</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19576: 2.6: support pickling of random objects<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19576">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19576</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19577: 2.6: struct support for C99 _Bool type<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19577">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19577</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19578: 2.6: add sys.float_info, sys.flags, getsizeof,
getprofile, gettrace<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19578">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19578</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19579: 2.6: warnings.formatwarning / showwarning get line
optional arg, add warnings.catch_warnings<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19579">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19579</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19580: 2.6: add future_builtins module<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19580">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19580</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19581: 2.6: implement _json module (encode_basestring_ascii,
scanstring)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19581">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19581</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19582: 2.6: add ioctl to socket objects<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19582">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19582</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19583: 2.6: add _winreg.ExpandEnvironmentStrings,
DisableReflectionKey(), EnableReflectionKey(), and QueryReflectionKey()<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19583">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19583</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19584: 2.6: collections.deque.__init__ clears existing contents<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19584">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19584</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19585: 2.6: object.__init__ should not accept arbitrary
arguments (http://bugs.python.org/issue1683368)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19585">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19585</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19586: 2.6: __import__ shouldn't allow filenames<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19586">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19586</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19587: 2.6: socket.error should inherit from IOError<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19587">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19587</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19588: 2.6: Exception class should warn when accessed using
slicing or indexing<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19588">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19588</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>19589: 2.6: warn when comparing objects which don't implement
comparisons<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19589">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19589</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Vernon Cole<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 13, 2008 6:13 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Discussion of IronPython<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [IronPython] Wishlist for next version: from __future__
import print_function<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Done.<br>
Everyone go vote:<br>
<a href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19521">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19521</a><br>
<a href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19522">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=19522</a><br>
--<br>
Vernon<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Curt Hagenlocher &lt;<a
href="mailto:curt@hagenlocher.org">curt@hagenlocher.org</a>&gt; wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>These sound good.&nbsp; Can you
file them on CodePlex, please?<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Vernon Cole &lt;<a
href="mailto:vernondcole@gmail.com" target="_blank">vernondcole@gmail.com</a>&gt;
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Some time back contributors to
this forum were invited to suggest which Python3k and Python 2.6 functions were
most important to implement in the next IronPython.<br>
<br>
I downloaded Python 2.6 and Python3.0RC2 today and started hacking at making
adodbapi work in Python 3.&nbsp; (Now that it works in Iron, py3k seems like
the next logical thing.)&nbsp; Conversion to Python2.6 is the first baby
step.&nbsp; Roger Upole has already done some of the work, so I picked up his
branch off CVS. <br>
<br>
I quickly discovered that the first thing I need for each module is to add:<br>
<br>
from __future__ import print_function<br>
from __future__ import unicode_literals<br>
<br>
This makes IronPython immediatly error out, of course.<br>
<br>
The unicode_literals would be a simple &quot;pass&quot; statement for
IronPython, which already defaults that way. <br>
The convertion of &quot;print&quot; from a statement to a function affects
every Python program down to &quot;Hello, World&quot;. IMHO it would be the
most important thing to implement.<br>
--<br>
<span style='color:#888888'>Vernon Cole<br>
<br>
</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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