While reading through the "Extending/Embedding Python" tutorial (no snickering; I need to implement a type from scratch for my thesis and I figured I might as well read the tutorial for once), I noticed a mention of Demo/embed/demo.c . Having heard the comments about how outdated the Demo directory was(I think the last thread was by AMK), I decided to poke around. Some of it is fairly old. The README, for instance, mentions a Contrib directory for stuff. And the classes/Date.py file mentions the creation of a generator... using __getitem__ (took me a second to realize that I was not going nuts in not noticing a 'yield' statement). Maintenance of the directory has come up before and has seems to die every time (which I don't blame anyone for; I myself never stepped forward to help). But if it is going just site there, perhaps we should consider getting rid of it? Cool snippets of code can be grabbed from all over the Net (take the Cookbook, for instance), and so having it with the code is not as important as I am sure it was when the directory was created. Or at least we could prune it down. I can see usage from Demo/newmetaclasses/ since metaclasses can be hard to grasp without example code. But couldn't we remove the Demo/metaclasses/ directory for instance? I am partially doing this so as to see if people care enough to bother putting an announcement in the python-dev Summary (maybe even python-announce) to try to get the community as a whole to help update the files. Maybe everyone on this list could adopt one module and bring it up to date or something. Just seems like something should happen with it, and if it is just going to sit we could at least prune it. -Brett