[Python-Dev] draft 3.1 release schedule

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Would whoever is responsible for IDLE please take a look at the patches
> I submitted for Python 2 & 3 [tracker IDs 5233 and 5234 respectively].
> These change the behavior of IDLE so that IDLESTARTUP or PYTHONSTARTUP
> files are executed with each restart. This allows loading frequently
> used packages, personal utilities, etc. automatically at each restart. I
> consider this a very important problem in IDLE, especially when using it
> to teach. 

Just to put this into perspective: I personally don't see that as a very
important problem. I didn't know IDLESTARTUP existed, and I use
PYTHONSTARTUP only for the command line (to setup readline and history).
I think there are many more open issues that are *way* more important.

This is not to say that the patch should not applied - I haven't even
looked at it. It's just a warning that, if no other committer feels this
is as important as you fell it is, it may not be committed reviewed and
committed before 3.1.

Regards,
Martin