"Guido" == Guido van Rossum <guido@cnri.reston.va.us> writes:
Guido> There are several other things I can think of now that were Guido> planned for 1.6: revamped import, rich comparisons, revised Guido> coercions, parallel for loop (for i in L; j in M: ...), Guido> extended slicing for all sequences. I've also been Guido> thinking about making classes be types (not as huge a Guido> change as you think, if you don't allow subclassing Guido> built-in types), and adding a built-in array type suitable Guido> for use by NumPy. I've also received a conservative GC Guido> patch that seems to be fairly easy to apply and has some of Guido> Tim Peters' blessing. All very cool things that could easily wait until 1.7. After all, what's in a number? If, as Andrew puts forth, getting a stable Python release with Unicode is very important for Python's future positioning, then I say let's go with his more modest list, mainly Unicode, sre, and Distutils. We've already got string meths, tons of library improvements, and sundry other things. That's a good enough laundry list for the next release.