March 9, 2009
7:22 p.m.
Benjamin Peterson wrote:
You might also want to collect a list of serious changes that you want in this release; I know I/O in C is on the list (and without it I wouldn't consider it worth releasing) but there may be others. The developers of such features ought to be on board with delivering their code before the first beta.
I've started a list on the release PEP [1].
Please add "auto-numbered replacement fields in str.format() strings" <http://bugs.python.org/issue5237> Guido wrote today "Please go ahead and finish this. I'm glad this is going in!" Eric Smith says he should have a final patch ready by the end of PyCon or so.