I've taken a look at the following patches and made comments on the associated tracker items: patch [977553] Speed up EnumKey call Looks like a good idea, but needs some cleanup and at least one test case. I think I know enough about the Windows registry functions to finish this one up if the original author doesn't have time. patch [1075147] Flush stdout/stderr if closed (fix for bug 1074011) Looking at current sysmodule.c shows that this change (plus some error checking) has already been made, and the referenced bug has already been closed. patch [1104111] setup.py --help and --help-commands altered. Simple, helpful changes; got one 1+ and no negative comments over on distutils-sig: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2005-January/004378.html patch [1107973] tarfile.ExFileObject iterators Doesn't break anything and makes ExFileObject more file-like, so I'm for it. Passes regression tests. patch [1110248] patch for gzip.GzipFile.flush() related to bug 1110242 Seems reasonable & is simple. Passes regression tests. ---------------------------------------------------------------- I would appreciate it if somebody could have a look at my patch: [1121142] ZipFile.open - read-only file-like obj for files in archive Another patch related to mine: patch [992750] zipfile and big zipped file This is the patch that I looked at before I submitted patch 1121142; if my patch is accepted (or rejected, I guess :-), this one should probably be closed since they implement the same idea. Thanks, Alan