Please forgive me if anything I say has already been mentioned.  I am certainly in support of a moratorium on Python core and switch the focus to Python libraries.  I'm sure others have noticed that as of late many proposals have been of lower quality or are the same old ideas that keep getting requested.

My only concern would be that the technology field is always changing and some great new technologies may come up during the moratorium.  To alleviate this concern I propose that the primary Python core developers either meet once a year, or at the halfway point of the moratorium.  They would then discuss whether or not any changes within the field are major enough to warrant a change within Python core.