[Python-Dev] draft 3.1 release schedule

[Terry Reedy]

Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>
>> You might also want to collect a list of serious changes that you want
>> in this release; I know I/O in C is on the list (and without it I
>> wouldn't consider it worth releasing) but there may be others. The
>> developers of such features ought to be on board with delivering their
>> code before the first beta.
> 
> I've started a list on the release PEP [1].
> 
> [1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0375/

Please add "auto-numbered replacement fields in str.format() strings"
<http://bugs.python.org/issue5237>

Guido wrote today "Please go ahead and finish this. I'm glad this is 
going in!"

Eric Smith says he should have a final patch ready by the end of PyCon 
or so.