> > Anything else that needs to go into 1.6 and isn't ready yet? > > No one seems to have found time to figure out the mmap module support. I wasn't even aware that that was a priority. If someone submits it, it will go in -- alpha 1 is not a total feature freeze, just a "testing the waters". --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)